#31 Chapter 8 A few days later, Katie and Emma W. went to the Cherrydale Mall after school. Katie’s mom was the manager of the Book Nook bookstore. Katie had been coming to the mall since she was a little kid. Nearly everyone who worked there knew her. “You want to go have a pizza at Louie’s?” Katie asked Emma W. “I can ask him to make my favorite veggie pizza.” “Yum!” Emma W. exclaimed. “We can study our geography flash cards while we eat. I want to go over the Asian countries again.” Katie walked to the front of the bookstore, where her mom was hanging a poster on the wall. “We’re going to Louie’s for some pizza and studying,” Katie told her mom. “Great idea,” Mrs. Carew said. She stepped back and looked at her poster. “Does that look straight to you?” she asked the girls. Emma W. nodded. “What is a Tap-Off ?” she asked, reading the poster. “It’s an event that Miss Ricky’s dance school is having,” Katie’s mom explained. “We’re trying to get as many people as we can to tap dance in the parking lot outside the mall.
