Sea Jellies: Rainbows in the Sea by Elizabeth Tayntor Gowell (London: Franklin Watts, 1993). Jellyfish aren’t fish. They don’t have hearts or brains or bones, but they hunt and eat and reproduce. They can be smaller than your fingernail or bigger than a washing machine. You can find out how these blobby creatures live and see lots of them in this book.
Look at the next page
for a sneak peek at
Andrew, Judy, and Thudd’s
next exciting adventure—
ANDREW LOST
ON THE REEF!
Available April 2004
TRAPPED!
Now I know what it feels like to be a fish! thought Andrew Dubble.
That was because Andrew’s underwater vehicle, the Water Bug, was tangled in a huge net at the bottom of the ocean.
On the other side of the net were craggy mountains of coral and fish that looked like slices of a rainbow.
“Cheese Louise!” said Andrew’s thirteen-year-old cousin, Judy. She was sitting next to Andrew in the passenger seat. “Maybe Soggy Bob set a trap to keep us from getting to the giant squids first!”
meep … “Try Octo-Tool,” came a squeaky voice. It was Andrew’s little silver robot and best friend, Thudd. He was sitting in a pocket of Andrew’s underwater suit.
“Good idea, Thudd,” said Andrew.
He pressed a black button on the dashboard.
“Untangle Water Bug,” said Andrew into a microphone near the steering wheel.
glurp … “Will try,” came the voice of the Water Bug.
The hood of the Water Bug popped open and the gray tentacles of the Octo-Tool slithered out. They snatched at the net and tugged.
But the Water Bug wasn’t coming free. Instead, the Octo-Tool’s tentacles got tangled in the net, too!
glurp … “Alert! Alert!” said the Water Bug. “Octo-Tool trouble. Tentacles trapped!”
“Uh-oh,” said Andrew. “Looks like we’ll have to get out and do it ourselves.”
Judy groaned. “Cheese Louise! The last time we left the Water Bug, we got swallowed by a whale!”
Andrew wasn’t listening to her. “While we’re out there,” he said, “we can get the lava boogers out of the Super-Sniffer.”
“Look!” said Andrew. He pointed to a part of the net ahead of them. It was squirming. “Something else is caught in the net.”
meep … “Lotsa animals get caught in old fishing net,” said Thudd. “Seals. Turtles. Dolphins.”
Judy’s eyes got wide. “You mean a dolphin could be trapped in there?” she said.
“Yoop! Yoop! Yoop!” said Thudd.
Judy and Andrew pulled their Bubble Duds helmets over their heads. Andrew made sure Thudd’s Bubble Bag was tightly closed. Then Andrew sealed Thudd inside a front pocket of his Bubble Duds.
Andrew and Judy pressed buttons on the sides of their seats.
FLAMP!
Their seats flipped over, and they popped outside the Water Bug.
Andrew and Judy swam over to the squirming bundle in the tangled net.
Suddenly Judy stopped.
“Wait a minute,” she said. “What if it’s a shark?”
A STEPPING STONE BOOK™
Great stories by great authors …
for fantastic first reading experiences!
Grades 1-3
FICTION
Duz Shedd series
by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Park
Magic Tree House® series
by Mary Pope Osborne
Marvin Redpost series by Louis Sachar
Mole and Shrew books
by Jackie French Roller
Tooter Tales books by Jerry Spinelli
The Chalk Box Kid
by Clyde Robert Bulla
The Paint Brush Kid
by Clyde Robert Bulla
White Bird by Clyde Robert Bulla
NONFICTION
by Will Osborne and
Mary Pope Osborne
Grades 2-4
A to Z Mysteries® series by Ron Roy
Aliens for … books
by Stephanie Spinner & Jonathan Etra
Julian books by Ann Cameron
The Katie Lynn Cookie Company series
by G. E. Stanley
The Case of the Elevator Duck
by Polly Berrien Berends
Hannah by Gloria Whelan
Little Swan by Adèle Geras
The Minstrel in the Tower
by Gloria Skurzynski
Next Spring an Oriole
by Gloria Whelan
Night of the Full Moon
by Gloria Whelan
Silver by Gloria Whelan
Smasher by Dick King-Smith
CLASSICS
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
retold by Stephanie Spinner
Dracula retold by Stephanie Spinner
Frankenstein retold by Larry Weinberg
Grades 3-5
The Magic Elements Quartet
by Mallory Loehr
Spider Kane Mysteries
by Mary Pope Osborne
NONFICTION
Balto and the Great Race
by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
The Titanic Sinks!
by Thomas Conklin
Text copyright © 2003 by J. C. Greenburg. Illustrations copyright © 2003 by Mike Reed. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Greenburg, J. C. (Judith C.)
In the whale / by J. C. Greenburg ; illustrated by Mike Reed. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (Andrew Lost ; 6)
“A stepping stone book.”
SUMMARY: While trying to recover from their accidental underwater adventure, Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot are swallowed by a blue whale, the world’s largest creature.
eISBN: 978-0-307-53255-8
[1. Blue whale—Fiction. 2. Whales—Fiction. 3. Cousins—Fiction.] I. Reed, Mike, ill. II. Title. III. Series: Greenburg, J. C. (Judith C). Andrew lost ; 6.
PZ7.G82785 Ir 2003 [Fic]—dc21 2003002662
RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks and A STEPPING STONE BOOK and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc. ANDREW LOST is a trademark of J. C. Greenburg.
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