Laurie Calkhoven - Roosevelt Banks and the Attic of Doom

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Names: Calkhoven, Laurie, author. | Palen, Debbie, illustrator. | Calkhoven, Laurie. Roosevelt Banks.

Title: Roosevelt Banks and the attic of doom / Laurie Calkhoven ; with illustrations by Debbie Palen.

Description: Egremont, Massachusetts : One Elm Books, an imprint of Red Chair Press LLC, [2022] | Sequel to Roosevelt Banks : Good-Kid-In-Training. | Interest age level: 008-012. | Summary: With a new sister on the way, Roosevelt Banks has to give up his bedroom and move into the attic, which must be haunted because of all the squeaks and groans coming from the spooky place at the top of the stairs. After his plan to move into a fort in the woods fails, and a ghost-busting exercise goes terribly wrong, Rooseveltwith the help of Tommy, Josh, and Eddie Spaghettihas to find the courage to defeat the biggest, spookiest ghouls ever and turn the Attic of Doom into a Room with a View--Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: ISBN 9781947159709 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781947159716 (ebook PDF) | ISBN 9781947159723 (ePub3-R S/L) | ISBN 9781947159730 (ePub3-R TR) | ISBN 9781947159747 (mobi TR)

Subjects: LCSH: Bedrooms--Juvenile fiction. | Attics--Juvenile fiction. | Haunted places--Juvenile fiction. | Courage--Juvenile fiction. | Friendship--Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: Bedrooms--Fiction. | Attics--Fiction. | Haunted places--Fiction. | Courage--Fiction. | Friendship--Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.C12878 Roa 2022 (print) | LCC PZ7.C12878 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021937250

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the authors imagination, and any resemblance to actual events, places, or persons, living or dead is entirely coincidental.

Main body text set in 17/24 Baskerville

Text copyright 2022 by Laurie Calkhoven

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1121 1P FRNS22

For Isaac, a super cool dude.

It was going to be the best summer ever. THE SUMMER OF DAD.

I jumped off the school bus yelling to the driver Bye, Mrs. Angela! Have a good vacation. My three best friends, Tommy, Josh, and Eddie Spaghetti, were right behind me with a chorus of goodbyes.

Bye, boys, Mrs. Angela called after us. Dont get into too much trouble.

Who, us? I asked with an innocent grin. What kind of trouble would good kids like us get into?

Eddie Spaghetti snickered behind me. His names not really Spaghetti, but once in second grade he laughed so hard at lunch that a spaghetti noodle shot out of his nose. It was the most awesome thing ever.

Mrs. Angela shook her head as the door wheezed shut and she drove off.

The smell of fresh cut grass tickled my nose. It smelled like summer. And fun.

The last day of school for almost three whole months! Josh said. Did you hear how loudly I clapped? They could hear me all over the building!

Every year on the last day of school we lined up and clapped while the fifth-graders walked the halls one last time. I guess we were supposed to be proud of them for getting promoted or some junk like that.

Next year were going to be the fifth-graders, Tommy said. Well be in charge of the whole school and well get clapped out.

Tommy had two big brotherstwins Dante and Malikwho liked to tease him and us. The idea of being in charge must have made Tommy really happy.

Ugh, lets not talk about next year, Josh said. Its summer vacationbaseball camp, soccer camp, and a whole month with my dad.

What, no basketball camp? Eddie joked.

Maybe next year. Josh pretended to sink a basket.

My dads taking the summer off, I said. Moms going to teach summer school, so Kennedys going to daycare every day. Dad and I will be home aloneits going to be THE SUMMER OF DAD.

Whenever I said or even thought the words in my brain, THE SUMMER OF DAD came out in giant capital letters and in a big booming voice. I couldnt wait to find out all the fun things Dad had planned. Some of them would be history things. He and my mom both teach American history at the college, which is why my sister and I and even our family dog are named after presidents. But Dad and I biked to the state park and camped out last month with Tommy, Eddie, Josh, and Joshs dad. I was sure wed do manly things like thatwith no Mom to remind us to change our underwear and no four-year-old girl to make us play tea party.

I started a list of fun things in a notebook I titled THE SUMMER OF DAD. I knew Dad would have more exciting things to add:

THE SUMMER OF DAD

1. Ride bikes to the state park and camp out

2. Have frog-jumping contests

3. Go to all the home games for the AAA baseball team

4. Go fishing (but dont eat fishBLECH)

5. Build a fort and live in it like mountain men

6. Go to history things BUT NO MORE THAN ONE OR TWO

7. Build a model of the Mars Rover

8. Go swimming at the lake at least once a week

Too bad youre going to be away all summer, I said to Josh. My dads going to take us fishing.

Baseball and soccer camp are both at the high school, he answered. So Ill be around on weekends. Ill be at my dads in between, though.

Im going to try out for the play at the community theater, Tommy said shyly.

Community theater? Josh asked with a laugh. Whos making you do that?

I may not get a part. Tommy stared at his shoes. Its The Sound of Music .

His cheeks were red, and I tried to make up for Josh laughing. Youll get a part. Youre a great singer!

That was true. Tommy got a pretty big part as one of Peter Pans lost boys in the school play even though he wasnt a fifth-grader.

I thought youd be able to hang out over the summer, I said.

Itll be you and me, dude! Eddie gave me a high five. Weve got our summer job.

I nodded, but being with Eddie all summer wasnt like being with Tommy. Eddie could be work . That kid loved trouble.

Thats why we had gotten our job at Mrs. Crawfords in the first place. Eddie and Millard Fillmoremy dog, not the dead presidentaccidentally on purpose knocked over our neighbors rabbit hutch, and her three bunnies nearly got eaten by the Dobermans next door.