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| ISBN-13: | 9780977926510 |
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| Publisher: | Bouje Publishing, LLC |
| Publication date: | 06/15/2008 |
| Series: | Future Business Leaders Ser. |
| Edition description: | BOUJE PUBLISHING, LLC |
| Pages: | 144 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d) |
| Age Range: | 8 - 13 Years |
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Chapter 1:
Port of Dacapo & the GIANT JELLYFISH
The sails were up. Giselle and Tyler had been cruising over the sea most of the day, except for the few hours they stopped to take a dip. Now the sun was high in the sky, and it was uncomfortably warm. The wind was blowing mildly. Their skin was burned and their bellies growled.
"I'm hungry. Want to go to the shore and grab something to eat?" asked Tyler.
"Great idea."
Tyler's Solve-a-matic Machine was tuck-ed under the canopy, shaded from the hot sun. With the help of the handy homework machine, they had finished the school year while they were on their trip, sailing far from Nessibus to unknown lands. But school was out now, and they were free to play.
Tyler used the boat's navigation system to find an Internet café at the nearby Port of Dacapo, so they could eat and check their e-mail. Perfect! The Dacapo Internet Café was right outside the port. Unfortunately, they would have to cross Tentacle Bay to get there, and this secretly terrified Tyler. The jellyfish in Tentacle Bay were the size of cars, and they liked to wrap their tentacles around the keels and rudders of sailboats.
But their bellies were growling, so they were eager to get to the Port of Dacapo as soon as possible. Tyler had no choice but to navigate straight through the scary bay. He decided not to tell Giselle about the giant jelly-fish. No need to scare her, he thought.
He moved the tiller and switched the sails around to point the boat toward the port. Giselle picked up her video camera to get a good shot of Tyler in action. She always liked to film her friends doing interesting things, and watching Tyler sail a boatwas really spec-tacular. The boat turned toward the shore, and they headed straight into Tentacle Bay.
Just then a huge wave splashed on board. "Oh, no! These shoes are ruined!" ex-claimed Giselle, as she tried to save her flip flops from the mini river of seawater beneath her. A baby jellyfish floating in the puddle sig-naled to Tyler that they had just reached Ten-tacle Bay. Giselle didn't notice anything but her ruined flip flops.
"They're just flip flops. They're meant to get wet," said Tyler.
"Oh, Tyler, these weren't just any flip flops. These were my only pink, satin flip flops with white beads and a feather and delicately embossed symbols for 'Fortune' on the side of each. Impossible to replace!"
They looked like regular flip flops to Tyler. He had never noticed the feather, beads, or symbols on them before now. "Do you like shoes, Giselle?"
"Love them," she confirmed, as she grab-bed for a towel to wipe her shoes.
"Maybe you should make a movie about them," Tyler teased Giselle.
"Maybe I will. Go ahead and make fun of me. But when we get to shore, I'm going to show you the movies, and you'll see how inter-esting they are. My movies tell stories, very interesting stories. In fact, I was thinking about making one to enter into the short film category of the Nessibus Movie Festival."
"The Nessibus Movie Festival -- that's huge! Don't you have to be famous to get your movie in that?"
"Of course not, silly. The Nessibus Movie Festival will help make me famous. The winning movies are played on huge plasma screens at Cine Pyramid in the center of town."
"Cool. So what's your movie about?"
"It's a surprise, but you will REALLY like it."
"How do you know?"
"Trust me. You will."
Tyler's boat carved through the lapping waves as it smoothly sailed toward the shore. Then suddenly a jellyfish tentacle the size of a telephone pole flew up over the side of the boat and grabbed one of Giselle's flip flops right out of her hand. Giselle cried out for her shoe. "Don't touch it!" Tyler yelled. "It will sting you!"
Giselle jumped back quickly. But as she did, the jellyfish rocked the boat and Giselle tumbled backwards over the side of the boat and into Tentacle Bay.
"Giseeeeeeeeeeeeeelle!" Tyler panicked. If the jellyfish got to her before he did, then their stings would certainly kill her. Calm down, he thought to himself. You have to get Giselle out of the bay. He spied a life preserver and threw it toward her. Giselle grabbed the white ring, and Tyler used all of his strength to pull her into the boat. But before he could finish pulling her to safety, the jellyfish's tentacles came for him. He ducked as they swiped over his head, but then he accidentally dropped the rope to the life preserver, and Giselle. The rope slid out of the boat and sunk into the water.
Giselle screamed, "Don't leave me, Tyler!"
Tyler performed the sailor's "man over-board" maneuver to turn the boat around and back to Giselle. Then he threw the main sail out while pushing the tiller as far away from him as he could. This brought the boat to an imme-diate halt near Giselle. He dropped the anchor into the bay, but as he did the jellyfish tenta-cle swiped over his head again. It barely missed as Tyler dove into the water to save Giselle. He found the rope and pulled her toward him.
"Hurry! Climb in," Tyler yelled.
Giselle scurried up the side ladder. Tyler quickly followed, but as he pulled himself out of the water, a piece of the jellyfish tentacle grazed his leg, stinging him.
"Ouch!" yelled Tyler. It was just a nick, so it was hardly deadly, but his leg would swell for sure.
"Let's get out of here!" Tyler said once he climbed back into the boat. He pulled up the anchor and tightened the main sail again. But when he reached for the tiller, it wouldn't move. The jellyfish had wrapped one of its tentacles around the rudder. Giselle grabbed a life jacket and used it to beat on the tentacle. The tentacle rose up out of the water, sending the flip flop soaring high into the air and back onto the boat's deck. Giselle continued to pound the jellyfish with her life jacket, and Tyler joined her in the fight. Finally, the tentacle broke into two pieces. The stunned jellyfish shuttered and then dove deep into the sea.
Giselle fell to the deck in exhaustion. Tyler wiped his brow and sighed in relief. They were safe. Tyler rubbed on his leg, which was starting to swell from the jellyfish sting.
"Can we get out of here now?" pleaded Giselle.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1: Port of Dacapo & The Giant Jellyfish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...1CHAPTER 2: The Cave of Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..12
CHAPTER 3: A Stinky Cloud Settles In. . . . . . . ....27
CHAPTER 4: The Lexis Labyrinth and The Wall of Logo Inklings . . . ...........36
CHAPTER 5: Goodbye Rumor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....49
CHAPTER 6: The Big Ear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....54
CHAPTER 7: Finding a Flakerluff . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......70
CHAPTER 8: Three Bridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...78
CHAPTER 9: Sharpina Who & The Save-a-WHAT? . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......91
CHAPTER 10: The Flakerluff Fracus . . . . . . . . . ...104
CHAPTER 11: The Playground Survey . . . . . . . ...110
CHAPTER 12: Giselle's Good News . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
CHAPTER 13: Passing the Golden Key . . . . . . ..124