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    Guys Read: Best of Friends: A Short Story from Guys Read: Funny Business
    Guys Read: Best of Friends: A Short Story from Guys Read: Funny Business
    Guys Read: Best of Friends: A Short Story from Guys Read: Funny Business
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    Guys Read: Best of Friends: A Short Story from Guys Read: Funny Business

    By Mac Barnett, Adam Rex and Jon Scieszka

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    Ernest is annoying. Ernest is awkward. Ernest is…Ernest. And Dean wants nothing to do with him, until Ernest wins the most spectacular trip in the history of America – and is allowed to bring one friend. A short story from the acclaimed collection Guys Read: Funny Business, edited by Jon Scieszka.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 21, 2011
    ISBN9780062111500
    Guys Read: Best of Friends: A Short Story from Guys Read: Funny Business
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    Mac Barnett

    Mac Barnett is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than thirty languages. His picture books include two Caldecott Honor–winning collaborations with Jon Klassen: Sam & Dave Dig a Hole and Extra Yarn. Among his other popular books are I Love You Like a Pig, illustrated by Greg Pizzoli, and The Magic Word, illustrated by Elise Parsley. He lives in Oakland, California. You can visit him online at macbarnett.com.

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      Guys Read - Mac Barnett

      Best of Friends

      By Mac Barnett

      A Short Story from

      Guys Read: Funny Business

      Volume 1 of the Guys Read Library of Great Reading

      Edited by Jon Scieszka

      With an illustration by Adam Rex

      Contents

      Cover

      Title Page

      BEST OF FRIENDS

      Guys E-Read

      Biographies

      Back Ad

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

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      BEST OF FRIENDS

      BY MAC BARNETT

      Ernest was a nerd, but it was fourth grade: we were all nerds. Even the best of us were shackled to some fatal flaw. James, who was the fastest kid in the class, was also the last one to carry a lunch box. Jean-Pierre had already started cutting the sleeves off his gym shirts, but he hadn’t yet started going by J.P.: even little Tim Houston wasn’t afraid to put on a French accent and say "Jean-Pierre, oui oui" when they stood next to each other in line. And me? I was terrible at sports, last picked for everything. At recess I hung out on the sidelines of the basketball court and bet kids quarters that they couldn’t make free throws. (I usually cleared a few bucks a week.) It was there, on the sidelines, that I would sometimes talk to Ernest.

      Ernest looked more ninety than nine. He had thick-lensed glasses that were attached snugly to his face by a cloth band that wrapped around his head. Our school had uniforms, and he was the only kid to opt for the cardigan instead of the sweater. Twin deposits of dried spit lined either side of his mouth; he

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