Don't Call Me Toad! — Mary Francis Shura

DON'T CALL ME TOAD!...AND DON'T CALL ME FRIEND!

It only took a minute for me to decide I didn't want to be friends with Dinah Dobbins. First she jumped out of the shadows, scaring me half to death, and rudely demanded to know if I'd seen her little brother. Then she had the nerve to call me "Toad"! She was very strange, and I hoped I'd never see her again.

But I did see her again. Something even stranger was going on in our town and Dinah's little brother had stumbled right into the middle of it. By the time I helped Dinah solve the mystery of her brother, some rabbits, and a box full of money, I'd found out a lot about Dinah...and a lot about what it's like to be really terrified!