Chapters 7-9 Summary

In Chapter 7, "Jabip," Zinkoff is delighted to discover that every day at school is as exciting as the first day was. He learns many new things and makes new friends. At dinner, his father always asks him what's new, rhyming the question with a silly word like, "Chickamoo" or "Boogaloo," which never fails to make Zinkoff laugh. He loves funny words, the best of which is one that Miss Meeks says in class one day. Trying to describe a billion basketballs, she says they would stretch from here to Jabip. This made-up place makes Zinkoff laugh so hard he falls off his chair. For the rest of the day, he giggles whenever the word pops into his head. When he tells his parents about it at dinner, his father says there is another place called Jaboop, which starts Zinkoff laughing again...