Ferret in the Bedroom, Lizards in the Fridge

Bill Wallace

Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 1987 - Juvenile Fiction - 144 pages

"Good luck, Lizard!" Liz is mortified when her nickname is used in front of the cutest new boy in the sixth grade. She has been stuck with the horrible name ever since a lizard she brought to school for Show-and-Tell escaped in the classroom. Liz's zoologist father has filled their house and yard with homeless animals: two turtles, a hawk, an ibex, a playful ferret named Fred, and a porchful of lizards. Now Liz is running for class president against the beautiful and popular Jo Donna. She invites her friends over to her house to help with her campaign. But Mr. T, one of the turtles, has an accident that harms her plans and her popularity. Reluctantly, Liz realizes that she'll never get her classmates to vote for her unless she gets rid of the animals. After two more animal disasters, Liz angrily tells her father that their pets are ruining her life. Even though he loves them, Liz's father agrees to take the animals away. How Liz discovers, after a series of other humorous setbacks, that there are more important things to consider than winning a class election, makes this another winner from Bill Wallace. Book jacket.

Contents

• Boys Are Yucky: 3
• Do They Eat Dead Stuff?: 32
• Get Rid of Them: 44

About the author

Bill Wallace was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma on August 1, 1947. He received a B. S. from the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in 1971 and a M. S. in elementary administration from Southwestern State University in 1974. Before becoming a full-time author, he was a physical education instructor, a classroom teacher, and the principal for the same school he had attended as a child. His first book, A Dog Called Kitty, was published in 1980. He wrote more than 30 children's books during his lifetime including Danger on Panther Peak, Trapped in Death Cave, Red Dog, Buffalo Gal, Danger in Quicksand Swamp, Beauty, Aloha Summer, Watchdog and the Coyotes, and Coyote Autumn. He also co-wrote seven books with his wife Carol Wallace including The Flying Flea, Callie, and Me; That Furball Puppy and Me; Bub Moose; Bub, Snow, and the Burly Bear Scare; and The Meanest Hound Around. He received Oklahoma's Arrell M. Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 as well as 22 child-voted state awards. He died of cancer on January 30, 2012 at the age of 64.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ferret in the Bedroom, Lizards in the Fridge
• Author: Bill Wallace
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 1987
• ISBN: 0671632647, 9780671632649
• Length: 144 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories