miranda and maude THE SERIES Book One The Princess and the Absolutely Not a Princess Book Two Banana Pants Book Three Recess Rebels
1 WITHOUT SWINGS SCHOOL WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY DREADFUL Not long ago during recess at Mountain River Valley Elementary a princess named Miranda Rose Lapointsetta and an absolutely not a princess princess named Maude Brandywine Mayhew Kaye were swinging
Swinging is the best part of school Maude hollered as they soared through the air Without swings school would be absolutely dreadful Maude was shouting so Miranda could hear her Although they tried to swing at the exact same time the laws of motion made that impossible impossible Sometimes Maude’s words flew over Miranda’s ears Other times Miranda’s words flew under Maude’s head Miranda nodded pretty sure she’d understood understood Swinging with Maude was definitely the best part of the day Of course there were other things at school the girls liked most especially their teacher Miss Kinde Miss Kinde was so amazingly wonderful that not long ago for two whole weeks she’d let their class 3B put on a play called Banana Pants instead of taking tests The play hadn’t been perfect Costumes had ripped lines were mumbled and one dance routine was completely forgotten But the class had come together and worked extremely hard which Miss Kinde had said made it a successful 2
creative endeavor and most importantly a wonderful experience Unfortunately now that the curtain had closed on Banana Pants 3B was back to taking a preposterous number of Mandatory National Reading and Writing and Math Exam practice practice exams because Mountain River Valley Elementary School’s principal Principal Fish thought they were extremely important Neither Maude nor Miranda liked practice exams Other things they didn’t like music class PE and school lunches Also the girls thought that the school day was very long there were too many rules and they had to be quiet a lot Actually Miranda didn’t mind being quiet A lot of the time she was a quiet person Maude was not quiet She was often loud with lots to say Right now she was saying I just don’t get tag She pointed at the playground where kids from their class were running around screaming Not It Miranda who was afraid of heights looked down quickly She watched Donut leap past 3
