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iiBeverlyCleary EllenTebbits ILLUSTRATED BY Tracy Dockray viiiContents 1. Ellens Secret 1 2. The Biennial Beet 39 3. Leave It to Otis 68 4. Ellen Rides Again 85 5. The Twins 115 6. The Substitute Rat 134 7. Dusty Erasers 167 About the Author Other Books by Beverly Cleary Credits Cover CopyrightAbout the Publisherviii1 Ellens Secret Ellen Tebbits was in a hurry. As she ran down Tillamook Street with her ballet slippers tucked under her arm, she did not even stop to scuff through the autumn leaves on the sidewalk. The reason Ellen was in a hurry was a secret she would never, never tell. Ellen was a thin little girl, with dark hair and brown eyes. She wore bands on her teeth, and her hair was scraggly on the left side of her face, because she spent so much 1 time reading and twisting a lock of hair around her finger as she read. She had no brothers or sisters and, since Nancy Jane had moved away from next door, there was no one her own age living on Tillamook Street. So she had no really best friend. She did not even have a dog or cat to play with, because her mother said animals tracked in mud and left hair on the furni- ture. Of course Ellen had lots of friends at school, but that was not the same as having a best friend who lived in the same neighbor- hood and could come over to play after school and on Saturdays.Today, however, Ellen was almost glad she did not have a best friend, because best friends do not have secrets from one another. She was sure she would rather be lonely the rest of her life than share the secret of why she had to get to her dancing class before any of the other girls. 3The Spofford School of the Dance was upstairs over the Payless Drugstore. When Ellen came to the entrance at the side of the building, she paused to look anxiously up and down the street.Then, relieved that she saw no one she knew, she scampered up the long flight of steps as fast as she could run. There was not a minute to waste. She pushed ope