We Flushed it Down the Potty

By Rebecca Shelley

In the second Smartboys Club book, the Smartboys face off with a bully that flushes Vinny's heirloom ring down the toilet, but the Smartboys' creative solution to stop the bully lands them in big trouble.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wonder Realms Books
• Release date: Nov 26, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452318554

Rebecca Shelley

Rebecca Shelley writes a wide variety of books—everything from picture books to spy thrillers.She especially likes to write about fantasy creatures such as dragons and fairies.Her children’s books are written under the Rebecca Shelley name.Her thrillers and other books for adults are written under the R. L. Tyler pen name.She also has two books out under the R. D. Henham pen name—Red Dragon Codex and Brass Dragon Codex.

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We Flushed It Down the Potty

Smartboys Club Book 2

Rebecca Shelley

Illustrated by Abby Goldsmith

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2010 Rebecca Shelley

Secret Notebook Copyright 2010 Rebecca Shelley

Illustrations Copyright 2011 Abby Goldsmith

Published by Wonder Realms Books

All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any print or electronic form without permission. Permission is hereby granted for educators to print pages from the Smartboys Club Secret Notebook to distribute to their classes for educational purposes.

All characters, places, and events in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual places or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

The Smartboys Club

Book 1: Bees in My Butt

Book 2: We Flushed it Down the Potty

Book 3: I Took a Burp

Book 4: I Lost My Head

Book 5: My Stomach Explodes (coming soon)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Flushed

Chapter 2: Bullies

Chapter 3: Geology

Chapter 4: Entomology

Chapter 5: Black Widow

Chapter 6: Folktales

Chapter 7: The Curse

Chapter 8: Yellowjackets

Chapter 9: In Trouble Again

Chapter 10: One Last Chance

Chapter 11: Hidden Pictures

Chapter 12: The Truth

Secret Notebook

Secret Notebook Print Version

About the Author

Chapter 1

Flushed

Hi, my name's Monkey. Okay, it's really Johnny Lovebird, but don't tell anyone. I hate that name. Everyone at school teases me about it except for my best friends, the members of the Smartboys Club. That's Bean and I, Vinny and Art.

Okay, so Vinny isn't a boy but she's twice as smart as Bean and I. And Art isn't good at math and language arts, but he can make a basket every time he shoots the ball. Plus, he draws dinosaurs better than anyone. There are different kinds of smarts you know.

All of us together are way too smart for fourth-graders, and sometimes we have to use our brainy brains to stop all kinds of trouble. Like last week when a bunch of crazed ninjas tried to take over the school. This week we had an even bigger problem.

It started at the end of recess. Bean and I were out in the hall, arguing over the best way to measure the height of the clock tower at the train station. I said we should count up the number of tan bricks between each of the black ones, then count the number of black bricks and times by the number of tan ones. Before Bean could say his idea, we heard the toilet flush in the bathroom and Vinny scream.

Bridget, one of the other fourth-graders in Mrs. Red's class marched out of the bathroom with a fat grin on her face.

Vinny came close behind, her cheeks red and her hands balled into fists. She eyed the back of Bridget's head like she wanted to grab her long blond hair and yank it out by the roots.

Mrs. Red opened the classroom door to