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When Rudy entered junior high, Cliff thought he was finally done with field trips. Wrong. Olivia's class trip to the natural history museum lacks one chaperone; provided there's no singing on the bus, Cliff agrees. His dieter's lunch is dry tuna on rice cakes. His fellow chaperone? Know-it-all neighbor Jeffrey Engels. Inside the museum, Jeffrey's high-brow explanations confuse the children. Cliff seizes the opportunity to impress them with his colorful storytelling; his description of the grizzly bear is so vivid, his young audience scatters in terror. Cliff puts a creative twist on lunch, too. After suggesting that trading sandwiches might be fun, Cliff winds up with roast beef on a roll while Olivia's friend Marlon unwraps Cliff's sandwich suspiciously. "Hey," he protests loudly, "this tuna's on coasters!"
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