DC Super Hero Girls #3
Page 16
“Oh, Dad…,” Batgirl said, choking back tears. “I should have known. I had you all wrong.”
“No…I was wrong,” Commissioner Gordon admitted, welling up a little himself. “I guess what I’m saying is—”
“I can stay at Super Hero High?!” she asked.
“You can stay at Super Hero High…Batgirl,” he said.
She hugged her father again. More than the award, she had gotten what she had been truly wishing for.
Her father had called her Batgirl.
“Where’s the cake?” Cheetah asked. “Someone said there would be cake!”
“Katana was supposed to get it from Capes and Cowls,” Supergirl said. “I’ll go check to see if she needs help. Be right back.”
A moment later, Supergirl returned. She looked shaken.
“What is it?” Wonder Woman asked.
Supergirl swallowed and said, “Steve Trevor told me that Katana picked up the cake over an hour ago.”
“Then where is she?” Cheetah growled. “I’m hungry!”
It was Bumblebee who stated the obvious. “This is totally unlike her. Katana is never late to anything. Something must be terribly wrong….”
Lisa Yee’s debut novel, Millicent Min, Girl Genius, won the prestigious Sid Fleischman Humor Award. With nearly two million books in print, her other novels for young readers include Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time; Absolutely Maybe; Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally); Bobby the Brave (Sometimes); Warp Speed; The Kidney Hypothetical: Or How to Ruin Your Life in Seven Days; and American Girl’s Kanani books, Good Luck, Ivy, and the 2016 Girl of the Year books. Lisa has been a Thurber House Children’s Writer-in-Residence, and her books have been named an NPR Best Summer Read, a Sports Illustrated Kids Hot Summer Read, and a USA Today Critics’ Pick, among other accolades. Visit Lisa at LisaYee.com.
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