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quiet and calm. A streak of light eased in from the east and the sky brightened.
    It was morning.
    That’s when Liz and her friends noticed that something else was happening, too.
    â€œHey, the grass,” Mike cried. “Look!”
    Liz looked down to see the overgrown grass beneath their feet slither silently back into the earth. At once, the jungle trees, bushes, moss, and vines sank back into the ground where they had come from.
    â€œMy house!” shouted Principal Bell. “My green house! I see it!”
    His house, all their houses.
    And all the buildings and streets, cars and bikes, streetlights and telephone poles of Grover’s Mill came back into view as the jungle slipped quietly away.
    The waters receded and the desert around town was dry again. Grover’s Mill was not an island anymore. It was back to normal.
    â€œTo work!” boomed Principal Bell, forming his grass necklace into a bow tie. Miss Lieberman followed him down the hill. “School starts in just seventy-one-point-three days. Ah, math!”
    Liz, Mike, Holly, Jeff, and Sean walked back to town and up Main Street together. Everyone was doing their usual stuff. Opening shops, eating at restaurants, buying groceries, having X rays.
    Liz looked around. The town was messed up a little, especially her own house. But, everybody would help rebuild. You couldn’t stop Grover’s Mill that easily. No way.
    â€œThe whole thing is amazing,” Holly muttered. “Almost as if it never happened.”
    â€œWeird is the word,” said Liz. “But if there’s one thing we learned, it’s that Grover’s Mill has been weird for a long time.”
    â€œPretty much since the beginning,” said Mike. “It’ll probably stay that way, too.”
    Jeff tossed his baseball cap in the air. Sean caught it, laughed, and started to run with it.
    Mike turned to Liz. “Looks like it’s going to be nice today. What do you want to do?”
    Liz smiled. “Why don’t we just wait? I’m sure something will happen. After all—”
    Bong! went the big donut clock, the sun shimmering off its glazed coating.
    â€œâ€”we do live in—”
    Sssss! went the big pancake pan, a stream of smoke hissing into the golden air.
    â€œâ€”The Weird Zone!”

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    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
    Copyright © 1997 by Robert Abbott
    Cover design by Connie Gabbert
    ISBN: 978-1-4804-8658-4
    This edition published in 2014 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
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