Karate Katie (7 page)

About a half hour later, Katie was sitting on Suzanne’s bed. Suzanne was happily eating a bowl of chocolate ice cream. Mrs. Camilleri had dropped Katie off at Suzanne’s house with a whole pint of it.

“So then, Kevin turned and kicked this kid really hard, right in the stomach,” Katie told Suzanne. “It was a good thing they both had all this padding on. I didn’t know Kevin was so strong.”

He only won a silver medal, though, right?
Suzanne wrote on her pad.

Katie rolled her eyes. “A silver medal is a huge deal, Suzanne,” she said. “You don’t have any medals.”

Suzanne shrugged.

“It’s a cool medal. You should see it. It’s really heavy, too. Kevin let us all try them on,” Katie continued.

Suzanne looked a little sad.
You know,
she wrote,
this is the first time you knew about something before I did. I’m usually the one who knows about everything that’s going on.

Katie thought about that. It wasn’t exactly true. Suzanne didn’t know about the magic wind. She didn’t know that Katie had turned into people like Jeremy, Lucille, Mr. Kane, and one time, even Suzanne herself.

But Katie sure wasn’t going to tell her that. She couldn’t! Besides, Suzanne already felt bad enough. Why let her know that there were plenty of things going on that she had no idea about?

I’ll be back after I have my tonsils out. Then things will go back to normal
, Suzanne wrote.

Well, sort of normal
, Katie thought.
As normal as things can be when there’s a magic wind around!

Here’s the recipe for the yummy tomato sauce Katie and her friends in the cooking club cooked up. Make some yourself, and then pour it over your favorite pasta.

Make sure that you, like Katie, have a grown-up around to help with the chopping and cooking.

This recipe makes 4 servings of sauce.