Regarding the Fountain.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)

Kate Klise, illus. by M. Sarah Klise. Avon, $14 (144p) ISBN 0-380-97538-6

What Dry Creek Middle School needs is a plain, functional drinking fountain

to replace its leaking old one. What it gets is Florence Waters, impresario

fountain designer who has in mind something with exotic birds, an ice skating

rink, geysers and chocolate milk dispensers. This rollicking story, told

entirely through letters, memos, newspaper articles and transcripts, escalates

into a hullabaloo involving a fifth-grade class, an evil school board member, a

sinister water company executive and an increasingly bewildered principal who …