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    Uranus and the Bubbles of Trouble
    Uranus and the Bubbles of Trouble
    Uranus and the Bubbles of Trouble
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    Uranus and the Bubbles of Trouble

    By Joan Holub, Suzanne Williams and Craig Phillips

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    A clash between the Titans and The Olympians at sea leaves Zeus and his friends shipwrecked—and in a tidal wave of trouble—in this Heroes in Training adventure.

    After an encounter with Uranus, God of the Sky (and father of the Titans), the Olympians find themselves in the middle of a battle between two big-time Titans. On Cronus’s orders, Titan Oceanus dives into the sea and causes it to turn even stormier. He’s heading straight for the Olympians’ boat, planning to capsize it, no doubt. Just when it looks like the Olympians are done for, Zeus throws his thunderbolt high and causes a huge battle in the sky between the Titans.

    As broken stars and hunks of clouds crash to earth and into the sea around the Olympians and their ship, they manage to escape—thanks to some help from Zeus’s medallion and guide, Chip—but find themselves shipwrecked. And as Uranus’s stars begin to fall in the ocean, the huge splash makes a wave of bubbles that heads for the shore of the island where the Olympians and their ship are trapped. And Zeus has a feeling those bubbles mean trouble…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateDec 1, 2015
    ISBN9781481435147
    Uranus and the Bubbles of Trouble
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    Joan Holub

    Joan Holub is the New York Times bestselling author of Mighty Dads. She is also the author and/or illustrator of over 130 other books for children, including the picture books Zero the Hero and Little Red Writing, a School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews Best Book, and is coauthor of the bestselling Goddess Girls and Grimmtastic Girls middle grade series. She has two cats named Chip and Boo. You can visit her online at www.joanholub.com.

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      Uranus and the Bubbles of Trouble - Joan Holub

      CHAPTER ONE

      The Ruler of the Sky

      Ten-year-old Zeus and his band of ten Olympians stood on an island in the Aegean Sea and craned their necks to stare upward. The sky above them had started to turn as black as night—in the middle of the day! Obviously, this was no ordinary darkness.

      Guys, this doesn’t look good, he said. The others—all kids Zeus’s own age—nodded gravely. They had been gathering coconuts and berries before setting sail in a ship they’d stolen—um, borrowed.

      Yeah, something’s not right, agreed his curly-haired brother Hades. We just went from day to night in a few minutes!

      It’s like time sped up, added their red-haired sister, Demeter.

      Besides Zeus, Hades, and Demeter, the Olympian members included another brother named Poseidon, and sisters Hera and Hestia. Onshore nearby were also Apollo and his twin sister, Artemis. With Athena, Ares, and the newest member, Hephaestus, that made eleven Olympians in all.

      Black-haired, blue-eyed Zeus was the leader of the group. Though he and the others looked like normal mortal boys and girls, they were actually immortals and their actions were mighty. And they were absolutely determined to stop their giant enemies, the evil King Cronus (ruler of the Titans) and his Crony henchmen, from taking over the world. This was an outcome every citizen in Greece lived in fear of!

      What the sudden strange sky had to do with Cronus, Zeus wasn’t sure. But he guessed there must be some connection. No sooner did he think this than a deep voice boomed from overhead.

      I am Uranus, ruler of the sky!

      Zeus froze. Because Uranus’s voice sounded oddly familiar. Also, because the sky didn’t usually talk.

      Poseidon—the god of the sea—jabbed Zeus in the shoulder with his magical three-pronged trident, jolting him from his frozen state. Which guy? Poseidon asked, confusion showing in his turquoise-blue eyes.

      Guy? What do you mean? Now it was Zeus’s turn to be confused.

      He said he was ruler of ‘this guy,’ Poseidon replied. So, which guy?

      Zeus sighed. "Ruler of the sky," he corrected Poseidon impatiently.

      Hera leaned over to them. Another Titan, do you think?

      Before anyone could reply, Uranus took shape in the darkness above them. The Olympians stared at him in awe.

      He was massive, bigger than any Titan they had ever seen. His dark-blue form filled the entire sky, arching from one end of the horizon to the other. Stars glittered across his body. He had a white face and beard, and his eyes twinkled with piercing starlight.

      Behold my grandness! For I am the greatest of your enemies, the Titans! Uranus boomed in answer to Hera’s question. The biggest, baddest daddy of them all! Fear me if you know what’s good for you.

      Zeus bravely stepped forward. You want us to fear you?

      Uranus nodded his enormous head. And I want you to fear him, too, he added, gesturing toward something beyond the Olympians.

      They whipped around to see what—or who—Uranus was talking about. Behind them on the island’s highest hill stood King Cronus!

      Butt out. I can handle this myself, Father! Cronus yelled up to Uranus in an irritated voice.

      Father?

      That’s it! Zeus snapped his fingers. I knew Uranus’s voice sounded familiar. He sounds like Cronus.

      King Cronus was Zeus’s father. Which made this amazing Uranus guy Zeus’s grandfather! They were father and grandfather to Zeus’s brothers and sisters too. But none of them knew it yet. Zeus hadn’t had the heart to tell them their enemy was also their dad!

      Poseidon was staring at Uranus. Wow! Who knew there was such a gigantic being? So should we fear him like he asked?

      Zeus gestured toward Cronus. We’ve got other, closer Titans to fear right now, don’t you think?

      I’m not sure which is worse, said Hades, eyeing both Titans.

      Yeah, a guy as big as a sky could catch us pretty fast, no matter where we run, agreed Hestia.

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