Jennifer+Murdley's+Toad

What would happen if you wore your brother’s underwear to school, was humiliated, and eventually became a toad? Well, when Jennifer Murdley, a fifth grader who thought of herself as “ The kid in the plain brown wrapper,” found out all of her underwear was in the wash, she ended up doing just that. She didn’t think of herself as pretty. Jennifer thought that everyone noticed her small eyes, pudgy cheeks, and clump of a nose. That day, after her friend Ellen had told the world, Sharra the Snobette’s gang chased her leading Jennifer on a street called Beach Street. This is no ordinary one though. That one street lead her into more adventure than she could ever have imagined. This started with buying Bufo, a talking toad at a magic shop owned by Mr. Elives. Jennifer soon found out that when her toad Bufo kissed Sharra, she became a toad. As the kiss got passed on with the one that was turned into a toad becoming a human after the kiss, and the person kissed becoming a toad, it finally got to her. When she lets her little brother Brandon be a toad for a while, only bad can happen of course. So when Sharra looses sight of him while talking to a beautiful lady, he had vanished. Soon enough though, they find out who has Brandon. This isn’t a typical person, it’s a witch. She’s otherwise known as Bufo’s mother who is over five hundred years old! When Bufo is traded for Brandon, the witch plans to take The Jewel of Perfect Happiness out of his forehead, and he may be changed forever. She is willing to trade the beauty Jennifer always longed for, for Bufo. Will Jennifer’s loyalty to Bufo last, or will she take the Barbie-perfect mirror image and leave Bufo to the witch to shatter him forever? Jenna Loefer



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