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thought.
Did I make the vegetable garden disappear too?

Chapter Eight

Vanishing Veggies
    â€œDon’t look so worried, Nancy,” Mr. Drew said with a smile. “Chip probably got a little hungry, that’s all.”
    â€œIt wasn’t Chip,” Hannah said. “I took Chip to the groomer today. The garden was like this when we got back.”
    â€œIt must have been a hungry deer, then,” Mr. Drew said. “We’re not too far away from the woods.”
    â€œAt least someone likes veggies,” Hannah said, tossing Nancy a wink.
    â€œI like veggies, Hannah!” Nancy said, trying to smile. What she didn’t like was her new wand. It may not have made Sparkle disappear,but when it came to Hannah’s veggie garden, it seemed to be guilty.
    That does it
, Nancy decided, eyeing the wand on the table.
That thing goes back tomorrow!
    â€œYou’re bringing your wand to the festival today?” Hannah asked Nancy the next morning.
    Nancy slipped the purple and silver wand into her backpack, careful not to point it at herself.
    â€œI’m returning it, Hannah,” Nancy said. “I don’t like the color.”
    â€œBut purple is your favorite,” Hannah said.
    â€œUm … I’ve got to go now, Hannah,” Nancy said. She opened the door. “Bess and George are waiting outside.”
    Nancy blew Hannah a kiss, then ran out the door. She didn’t mention the wand to Bess and George as she joined them on the sidewalk.
    All three girls were wearing their medieval costumes again that morning.
    â€œI hope we don’t have to do any running today,” Bess said, nodding down at her long skirt.
    â€œHow did girls do anything in those days?”
    â€œThey probably never did cartwheels,” George said, sighing. “Boy, am I glad it’s the twenty-first century!”
    â€œMe too,” Nancy agreed. She looked from George to Bess. “Did anyone find Toby Leo’s address last night?”
    â€œGot it!” George said. “Toby lives on Minnow Street, four blocks away. That means we can walk there before my mom picks us up.”
    â€œSweet!” Bess said.
    Nancy, Bess, and George all had the same rules. They could walk up to five blocks from their houses as long as they were together.
    Nancy and Bess lifted the hems of their skirts as they headed to Minnow Street. They found the Leo house in the middle of the block. They also found a mob of kids yelling: “We want our money back! We want our money back!”
    The girls walked over to Shelby Metcalf from their class. Shelby was the loudest yeller in the crowd.
    â€œWhat’s up, Shelby?” George asked.
    â€œToby promised his unicorn hair was good luck,” Shelby yelled into George’s face. “And all we had was
bad
luck!”
    â€œYeah!” Quincy Taylor said. “I found out my grandma is moving into my room—and she snores!”
    â€œAnd I tripped in ballet last night!” Nadine Nardo cried. “During my recital. If that isn’t bad luck, what is?”
    The girls stepped back as the kids kept shouting.
    â€œIf they all had
bad
luck,” Bess shouted above the noise, “does that mean Sparkle isn’t a real unicorn?”
    â€œNo one ever said unicorn hair was lucky,” George said with a shrug. “Just the whole unicorn.”
    A window suddenly flew up. Toby stuck his head out and yelled, “Get lost or I’ll call my dog. And you don’t want to mess with him!”
    Nancy wanted to giggle. Duncan the sheepdog with his long shaggy hair was a big friendly mush. But the kids walked away, grumbling.
    â€œWhat do
you
want?” Toby called down to the girls.
    â€œWe want to know where you got all that unicorn hair!” Nancy shouted up. “The ones you sold to those kids.”
    â€œNone of your beeswax!” Toby shouted back.
    â€œYes, it is!” Nancy insisted. “Sparkle the