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The campaign poster showed an elephant with a girl’s head on it.

A long trunk stretched out from the girl’s head. The caption read, “Vote

for Marie Cantu—she nose what to do.”

Marie admitted it was a clever idea, but she really was planning

to run for student body president, and this silly poster could hurt her

chances.

“Cute,” said Noelle. “I’ve never seen a brown-haired elephant.”

“Let me show you something really bad.” Noelle dragged Marie

down the hall to another taped-up poster. This one had a hippopotamus

with Noelle’s head on it. Noelle’s curly brown hair hung to the ground.

This campaign slogan said, “Hippo, Hippo, Hurray! Noelle Dee for

Lincoln Middle School Vice President!”

“That is bad,” Marie said. “They’re all over the school. Everyone’s

seen them!”

“Who do you think did it?” asked Noelle.

“I have no idea, but it’s someone who doesn’t want us—”

“—elected.” Noelle broke in, finishing Marie’s sentence as she often

did. The girls dropped their notebooks to take the posters down, but just

then the bell rang. School was starting. The posters would have to wait.

At morning recess, Marie and Noelle grabbed three of their

friends—Rose James, Sage Matthews, and Faith Peterson—to help take

down posters. But as they walked up and down the halls, they found that

the posters were already gone.

“Did you see them?” asked Marie.

“Everybody saw them,” said Faith.

“Thank goodness the custodian took them down.”