Book Synopsis
Chapter 2
Last month some girls came in to Mr. Blade’s science class to do a presentation on global warming. These Green Girls said our pollution was smoking up the skies, trapping the sunbeams, and warming the world. They said if we continued our wasteful ways, we would heat up the high heavens, the North Pole would melt, and Santa would have to swim South. Ali did not blink, “We will have to cancel Christmas! It will be Chrismissed!”
There was a ghostly gasp. Rudy had kiddie hot flashes. Josh Crans ran to the toilet and came back with one sock on. Young eyes started to water. Every breath felt borrowed.
Chrismissed? Chrismissed??
And then Ali said, “And Santa can’t swim.”
There was a pause, and then reality kicked us in the corn. The Benson twins started double crying. Marie hid under her desk, sucking both thumbs and a toe. Miles Engstrom knew he didn’t have to worry about Santa's naughty list, so he ripped a machine gun fart into his hand and threw it at his siste