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    See You Around, Sam!
    See You Around, Sam!
    See You Around, Sam!
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    See You Around, Sam!

    By Lois Lowry

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    Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won't let him wear his newly acquired plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 28, 1996
    ISBN9780547344751
    See You Around, Sam!
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    Lois Lowry

    LOIS LOWRY, author of over thirty novels and twice winner of the Newbery Medal for The Giver and Number the Stars,was born on the 20th of March 1937 in Hawaii. Her father was an Army dentist and the family lived all over the world. She went to Brown University, but left to get married and a raise a family of four children. She settled in Maine, and returned to college receiving a degree from the University of Southern Maine. She fulfilled a childhood dream when she started writing in the 1970s.

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      See You Around, Sam! - Lois Lowry

      Text copyright © 1996 by Lois Lowry

      All rights reserved. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1996.

      For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to trade.permissions@hmhco.com or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016.

      www.hmhco.com

      Cover art © 2016 by Katie Kath

      Cover design by Susanna Vagt

      The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

      Lowry, Lois.

      See you around, Sam! / Lois Lowry

      p. cm.

      Summary: Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won’t let him wear his new plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away to Alaska.

      [1. Runaways—​Fiction. 2. Neighborhood—​Fiction. 3. Humorous stories.] I. Title.

      PZ7.L9673Se 1996 96–1213

      [Fic]—​dc20 CIP

      AC

      ISBN: 978–0–395–81664–6 hardcover

      ISBN: 978–0–544–66856–0 paperback

      eISBN 978-0-547-34475-1

      v2.0516

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      Sam?

      Leah’s mom, sitting in the driver’s seat of the station wagon, turned to look at him. Here we are at your house. Aren’t you getting out? Need help with your seat belt? Can you open the door by yourself?

      Sam shook his head. He had already unbuckled his seat belt with no difficulty. In a minute, he said. I need to get something out of my pocket.

      There’s your mommy, at the back door, Leah said, pointing. She has a pencil sticking out of her ear.

      Sam wiggled so that he could pull the small object out of his pocket. He didn’t look up. No, he explained. "She always wears a pencil behind her ear. It’s her carrying place for pencils."

      Sam’s mom is an artist, Leah’s mom explained to Leah. So it’s probably important for her to have a pencil available all the time. Isn’t that right, Sam?

      Yeah, Sam agreed, but he wasn’t really listening. He examined the little object carefully, figuring out which was the front and which was the back. Then he ducked his head so that no one could see, and he inserted it into his mouth. It felt damp, and he realized that it was damp with his friend Adam’s spit, and that someone else’s spit might be poison. But Sam decided he didn’t care.

      Okay, he said, and opened the door of the car.

      Mrs. Krupnik had come down to the sidewalk to meet him. Her hair was tied back in a ponytail. She had a yellow pencil tucked behind one ear, as usual, and a coffee cup in one hand.

      Hi, Sam, she said. She smiled at Leah’s mom, waved through the window of the car at Leah, and took Sam’s hand as he climbed out. Hot dogs for lunch, she told him cheerfully.

      Sam waved to Leah and her mom, but he didn’t say goodbye the way he usually did. He was arranging his mouth. His mouth felt kind of uncomfortable, and it might be full of Adam’s poison spit, but Sam didn’t care. He felt like the coolest guy in the neighborhood. In the town.

      He felt like the coolest guy in the whole world.

      He held his mom’s hand and walked beside her through the yard, up the back porch steps, and across the porch to the kitchen door.

      Sam? his mom said as she unzipped his jacket in the kitchen. You’re awfully quiet today. Is everything okay?

      Sam nodded. Then, slowly, he smiled at his mother.

      She screamed.

      It was really cool to make people scream, even your own mother.

      Sam! his mother said loudly. "What is that in your mouth?"

      Fangs, Sam said happily.

      He smiled widely. He knew what he looked like, because he had seen Adam smiling just this way at show-and-tell time this morning. Adam had brought the fangs to nursery school.

      Sam knew that he looked like Dracula, because he had seen Adam looking like Dracula. Not a fake Halloween costume of Dracula, but the real Dracula, with pointy, scary teeth.

      Everyone in the nursery school circle had screamed, even the teacher, Mrs. Bennett, when Adam had stood up and smiled. Sam had screamed, too. At first, he had felt very scared. Then, after the scary feeling wore off, he had felt very jealous.

      But now he had the fangs; they were in his mouth; he had turned into Dracula. And now his mother had screamed.

      It was so cool to have fangs.

      He was surprised that he could talk when his top teeth were covered with plastic. But he could say fangs pretty well, although it sounded a little like fangsh.

      He said it again. Vampire fangsh.

      Spit, his mother said tensely. She held her hand cupped in front of Sam’s mouth.

      That was kind of weird, Sam thought. Why would his mother want him to spit into her hand? When the dentist told him to spit, there was a neat little round sink with swirling water for him to spit into.

      Anyway, it was hard to spit around the fangs. Sam tried but he didn’t manage very well.

      Sam! his mother said. She jerked her hand away, and wiped it on her denim skirt. She sounded angry now. I meant spit out the fangs.

      Oh. Well, of course he wouldn’t be able to eat his hot dog with fangs in his mouth. The hot dog smelled really good. Sam could see it there in the pan on the stove, waiting for him. And the little plastic bottle of bright yellow mustard that squirted from a nozzle—​his favorite kind; Sam didn’t like brown mustard at all—​was waiting by his place at the kitchen table.

      So Sam reached into his mouth and carefully took the fangs off of his teeth. He put them into his pocket so that he could find them right after lunch.

      Sam was planning to wear the fangs all day. He was already looking forward to greeting his sister, Anastasia, when she came home from school, and his father at the end of the day. He thought maybe his father would be so surprised that he would drop his briefcase and papers would fly all over. That would be exciting.

      And he was planning to scare his cat, too. Fangs were so cool.

      But his mother was still standing in front of him with her hand out.

      Not in the pocket, Sam, she said. Give them to me. No more fangs.

      Sam closed his hand, inside his pocket, around the fangs. I traded for them, he explained. They were Adam’s, and he gave them to me, but I have to take him my Etch A Sketch tomorrow.

      Bad trade, his mother said. Give them to me.

      Why?

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