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    Jasper John Dooley: NOT in Love
    Jasper John Dooley: NOT in Love
    Jasper John Dooley: NOT in Love
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    Jasper John Dooley: NOT in Love

    By Caroline Adderson and Ben Clanton

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    Isabel loves Jasper, and it’s making life complicated. He just wants to play knights and dragons with Ori and Leon, but Isabel makes him play babies and tries to set up their wedding. The only good thing about Isabel is the trampoline at her house. But will the highs of their trampoline playdates be enough to cure Jasper’s girl-itis?

    Jasper John Dooley: NOT in Love is the third in a series of chapter books featuring a charismatic and funny central character. An only child with active, loving parents (and a most impressive lint collection), Jasper John Dooley is a true original.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKids Can Press
    Release dateFeb 10, 2014
    ISBN9781771381673
    Jasper John Dooley: NOT in Love
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    Caroline Adderson

    CAROLINE ADDERSON is an author of books for young readers and adults. Her picture books include Norman, Speak! (illustrated by Qin Leng) and the Pierre & Paul series (illustrated by Alice Carter). Early chapter books include the Jasper John Dooley and Izzy series, as well as Babble! And How Punctuation Saved It (illustrated by Roman Muradov). Caroline has won the Sheila Egoff Award, the Chocolate Lily Book Award and the Diamond Willow Award, among many other honors. She lives in Vancouver, B.C.

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      i received this book for free through goodreads first reads.This is a super cute mini book for kids, playful and captivating.

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    Jasper John Dooley - Caroline Adderson

    For Lucy H. — C.A.

    Text © 2014 Caroline Adderson

    Illustrations © 2014 Ben Clanton

    ISBN 978-1-77138-167-3 (epub)

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of Kids Can Press Ltd. or, in case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a license from The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). For an Access Copyright license, visit www.accesscopyright.ca or call toll free to 1-800-893-5777.

    This is a work of fiction and any resemblance of characters to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

    Kids Can Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Ontario, through the Ontario Media Development Corporation’s Ontario Book Initiative; the Ontario Arts Council; the Canada Council for the Arts; and the Government of Canada, through the CBF, for our publishing activity.

    www.kidscanpress.com

    Edited by Sheila Barry and Yasemin Uçar

    Designed by Marie Bartholomew

    Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

    Adderson, Caroline, 1963–, author

    Jasper John Dooley not in love /

    written by Caroline Adderson 
; illustrated by Ben Clanton. 


    (Jasper John Dooley ; 3)


    ISBN 978-1-55453-803-4 (bound)


    I. Clanton, Ben, 1988–, illustrator II. Title. III. Series: Adderson, 
Caroline, 1963– . Jasper John Dooley ; 3.


    PS8551.D3267J37 2014        jC813’.54        C2013-904117-6

    Contents

    Chapter One

    Chapter Two

    Chapter Three

    Chapter Four

    Chapter Five

    Chapter Six

    Chapter Seven

    Chapter Eight

    Chapter Nine

    Chapter Ten

    Chapter Eleven

    Chapter Twelve

    Chapter Thirteen

    Chapter Fourteen

    Chapter 1

    Jasper John Dooley and Ori were playing knights with Leon at lunch. They ran around in the bushes at the back of the schoolyard where the playground monitor couldn’t see them. Jasper and Ori waved sticks. They chased Leon, who didn’t have a stick. Chasing people with sticks wasn’t allowed at their school. If a real dragon showed up, they probably wouldn’t be allowed to chase it with sticks either. The principal would say it was Very Dangerous. Jasper and Ori ran after their dragon, but Leon was too fast. Hey! Jasper shouted. Slow down or we’ll never slay you!

    What’s slay? Leon shouted back.

    Kill! Ori shouted. But when you’re talking about dragons, you’re supposed to say ‘slay’!

    Leon stopped running. Jasper caught up and flicked his stick across Leon’s stomach. Leon let out a terrible roar.

    Sorry, Jasper said.

    Leon wrapped his arms around his middle. He crumpled on the ground, rolling around and roaring Agh! Rawr! Grrr!

    Finally, he stopped. Jasper and Ori peered down. Are you okay, Leon?

    No, Leon said. I’m dead.

    Jasper laughed. That’s one dragon for me, he told Ori. He told Leon, You can get up now.

    Leon didn’t get up. He lay there like he was really dead. Even when Jasper and Ori dropped their sticks and tickled Leon, he wouldn’t stop being dead. Even when they said the playground monitor was coming over, Leon wouldn’t get up. So Jasper and Ori ran off before the monitor got there and asked who slayed Leon.

    They went to climb on the jungle gym for the last ten minutes of lunch. Zoë and Isabel were on the swings. As soon as they saw the boys, they wanted them to play babies. The two girls loved playing babies, but the two boys would only play if the girls had something to pay them with. Leftover Halloween candy was good, or cookies from their lunches.

    No cookies, no babies, Jasper said.

    Isabel smiled, showing she had no front teeth. From her pocket she took two small, square packets of jam like you get in restaurants.

    The thing is, Ori said to Jasper,

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