num_pages: 80
description: What's worse than a blue Monday?  For Richard "Beast" Best, it's a purple Monday spent climbing a fat brown rope with fat brown knots.Beast wishes he could climb up that rope like Emily Arrow and Matthew Jackson.  Just looking at it hanging down from the gym ceiling makes him dizzyBeast is afraid and hopes his friends won't find out.  But Mrs. Miller, the meanest substitute teacher in the whole school, finds out his secret and tells him to meet her in the gym after school.  Miller the Killer. What will she do to him?
language: English
title: Purple Climbing Days
titlecomplete: Purple Climbing Days
genres: Middle Grade, Juvenile, Childrens, Fiction
ratings_count: 68
series: The Kids of the Polk Street School
publisher: Yearling