“What’s red, white, and green all over?” asked Frank.
“The World’s Biggest Pizza!” Rocky announced. “Red sauce and white cheese with green-pepper topping!”
“No way!” everybody said.
“Yah-huh,” said Rocky. “At least it’s Virginia Dare School’s Biggest-Ever Pizza. It’s six feet wide, and we used thirty pounds of dough and thirty-six pounds of cheese.”
“That pizza weighs more than me!” shouted Judy.
“Actually,” said Frank, “the real World’s Biggest Pizza is about the size of a parking lot.”
“But this is the World’s Biggest Pizza Map!” said Rocky.
“What? Huh?”
Everybody gathered around the pizza and took a closer look. It was big and round as a world, and the cheese was piled in seven funny shapes. One for each continent. Like a map! Green peppers made a trail from North America to the tip of Asia.
“I get it! It’s a map!”
“It’s the world!”
“I see North America!”
“I see Italy! It’s the shape of a boot,” said Judy.
“Look!” said Amy Namey. “The pizza map follows Nellie Bly’s trip around the world.”
“Right — it’s all the places we went around the world in eight and a half days,” said Judy.
Amy Namey took out her clipboard. “I’m going to be first to get the big scoop,” she told Judy. “I’ll write this up for my newspaper! WORLD’S BIGGEST PIZZA MAP AT VIRGINIA DARE SCHOOL.”
“Don’t forget CLASS 3T AND 3V GO AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHT AND A HALF DAYS!” said Judy.
“Eight and a half days, two hours, thirteen minutes, and twenty-seven seconds,” said Amy, looking at both her watches.
“Check!” said Rocky and Frank, sounding like Amy Namey.
“Fantastico!” said Judy.
“Dig in!” said a lunch lady. “There’s more than enough for everybody.”
“There’s more than enough to have pizza for lunch every day for a week!” said Rocky.
“Pizza for lunch every day? Told you that could happen,” said Amy Namey.
Magnifico!
Judy and Rocky and Frank and Amy each picked up a slice. A string of ooey-gooey cheese stretched from Rocky’s to Frank’s to Judy’s to Amy’s slice of pizza.
“Hey! We’re all connected!” said Judy.
“The Eatsa Pizza Club!” said Frank.
“Double cool,” said Rocky.
“Triple yum,” said Frank.
“Quadruple check!” said Amy Namey.
And the four friends laughed themselves red, white, and green all over. Then they sat down and ate the biggest, cheesiest, most delizioso pizza in the world.
For sure and absolute positivo!
Judy Moody: Around the World in 8 1/2 Days Page 5