What's worse than a blue Monday? For Richard "Beast" Best, it's a purple Monday spent climbing a fat brown rope with fat brown knots.

Beast wishes he could climb up that rope like Emily Arrow and Matthew Jackson. Just looking at it hanging down from the gym ceiling makes him dizzy

Beast is afraid and hopes his friends won't find out. But Mrs. Miller, the meanest substitute teacher in the whole school, finds out his secret and tells him to meet her in the gym after school. Miller the Killer. What will she do to him?


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The Kids of the Polk Street School

The Kids of the Polk Street School is a 13-book series with 13 primary works first released in 1982 with contributions by Patricia Reilly Giff.

#1
The Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room
#2
Fish Face
#3
The Candy Corn Contest
#4
December Secrets
#5
In the Dinosaur's Paw
#7
Lazy Lions, Lucky Lambs
#8
Snaggle Doodles
#9
Purple Climbing Days
#10
Say Cheese
#11
Sunny Side Up
#12
Pickle Puss
#15
Monster Rabbit Runs Amuck!

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