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together.”
    “We’re almost done, Mr. Weir,” Mandy said. “There’s just this one big bone left.”
    Katie took the bone from Mandy. Quickly, she used it to attach the dinosaur to its tail. “Finished,” she said, taking a deep breath.
    “It looks pretty good,” Kevin said. “Almost like the real thing.”
    “Almost?” Katie asked nervously.
    “It’s not like the picture,” Kevin told her.
    Katie looked at the picture. Oh, no! Kevin was right. In the picture, the dinosaur’s tail was pointing down to the ground. Now, its tail was pointing straight out.
    “Maybe no one will notice,” George suggested.
    “Are you kidding?” Kevin asked. “Who could miss that?”
    Beep. Beep. Beep. Before Katie could say anything, she heard a strange noise coming from her shirt pocket.
    Startled, Katie looked down. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a small, black pager. She looked at the words on the screen.
    COME TO YOUR OFFICE. DR. MUFFINSTOFFER HAS ARRIVED.
    Katie gulped. Dr. Muffinstoffer was the famous scientist Mr. Weir was supposed to meet with. Now, Katie was going to have to be the one to show him around the museum.
    But Katie didn’t know anything about the museum!
    This was so not good.

Chapter 9
    “Um, I have to go,” Katie nervously told the kids.
    “You can’t just leave us here,” Suzanne said.
    “I’ll be right back,” Katie said as she raced into the hall. “Don’t move until I get here. And, whatever you do, don’t touch that dinosaur !”
    Katie had no idea where Mr. Weir’s office could be. For a moment, she thought about asking one of the guards how to get there. But she looked like Mr. Weir now. Mr. Weir would surely know the way to his own office. If she asked for directions, the guard would surely think that Mr. Weir was weird.
    Katie wandered around the museum until she came to what seemed to be a row of offices. Maybe this was where Mr. Weir worked. Quickly, Katie opened the first office door and stepped inside.
    Oops. This was definitely not Mr. Weir’s office. Instead of a desk and books, the room was filled with mops, pails, and cleaning supplies. Katie was in the janitor’s closet!
    She reached for the doorknob. But before she could open the door, Katie felt a cool breeze blowing on the back of her neck. There were no windows in the closet and the door was shut tightly. Katie knew right away that this was no ordinary wind. This was the magic wind.
    The magic wind grew stronger and stronger. It whirled around Katie like a tornado. Faster and faster it blew, until the wind was so strong that Katie could barely breathe.
    And then it stopped. Just like that. The magic wind was gone.
    Slowly, Katie opened her eyes and looked down at her feet. Her purple sneakers were back. So were her jeans. And there wasn’t even a trace of sweat on her tank top.
    She was Katie Carew again!
    Katie knew she should find her way to the library and wait for her class. But Katie wanted to be with the rest of her class in the Hall of Dinosaurs. Unfortunately, she had no idea how to get back there.
    But the real Mr. Weir certainly did.
    As Katie stepped out into the hall, she found him standing outside an office door. He was staring at his beeper.

    “Mr. Weir,” Katie said. “What are you doing here?”
    “I don’t know,” he mumbled. “One minute, I was in the Hall of Dinosaurs and the next thing I knew, I was standing outside of my office.” He stared at Katie for a moment. “What are you doing here?”
    “Um, I came to get you,” Katie said quickly.
    Mr. Weir didn’t ask her why. He just kept staring at his beeper. “Dr. Muffinstoffer is supposed to be in my office. But I don’t remember hearing my beeper or walking over here. And Dr. Muffinstoffer isn’t here.”
    Katie didn’t know what to say. She wasn’t sure why Dr. Muffinstoffer had disappeared. She just hoped that it wasn’t her fault. Too many things had been her fault today.
    “How about we go back to the