What makes Icky Ricky so icky? Well, there was this time, for example . . .
THE EGYPTIAN PIZZA FUNERAL
THE ONE-EYED SQUIRREL,
THE EXPLODING JUICE BOX,
and THE FEARSOME MAN-DOG!
We grabbed the pizza and ran out of the house. It was a bit dark and cloudy, but it wasn't raining. We started running down the street, but Gus said he didn't like passing the house with the freaky man-dog. It's a dog that lost some fur around his eyes, so around his eyes it's kind of skin-colored, and it looks like a man wearing a dog mask. So we turned around and went the other way. But Stew said he doesn't like going that way because of the one-eyed squirrel. There really is a one eyed squirrel that lives in a tree or something, and it's the meanest squirrel ever. Once I saw it snatch a cookie right out of a kid's hand!
We ended up taking a small path that leads between the houses. We followed the little stream back there, and finally came out on the next block. We had about six blocks to go when we saw some lightning, and then boom! There was this huge thunder explosion! Then it started raining like crazy. I held the pizza box over my head so I could stay dry. We ran to find someplace to get out of the rain.
Then Gus screamed "One-eyed squirrel!" and he pointed to something in the trees.
And I was like, "He wants the pizza!"
Stew said, "Run!"
Excerpted from Icky Ricky #2: The End of the World by Michael Rex; illustrated by Michael Rex. Copyright © 2013 by Michael Rex; illustrated by Michael Rex. Excerpted by permission of Random House Books for Young Readers, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.