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    Lizard Loopy
    Lizard Loopy
    Lizard Loopy
    Ebook91 pages40 minutes

    Lizard Loopy

    By Ali Sparkes and Ross Collins

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    The mad scientist Petty Potts has a crazy new formula—a spray that can turn Josh and Danny into lizards! The boys immediately give themselves a spritz and whizz up the nearest tree. But soon, they find themselves in deep doo-doo and surrounded by owls that eye them as snacks. Will Josh and Danny make it out in time?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLerner Publishing
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781467740203
    Lizard Loopy
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    Ali Sparkes

    Before she became an author, Ali worked as a singer, journalist, magazine editor, assistant to a juggling unicyclist, and comedy columnist on BBC Radio. Ali describes herself as, at heart, an 11-year-old boy, and as a child spent a lot of time building forts, climbing trees, and digging up stuff. 

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      Lizard Loopy - Ali Sparkes

      ALLIGATOR!

      The scream echoed across the hall, filled with blood-chilling terror. Claudia Petherwaite’s eyes were glassy with horror and her pink mouth was stretched wide as the scream poured out of it.

      The alligator swung its snout round and located Claudia’s scent. It grinned at her, taking a step closer, its dim swamp-green eyes fixing on the movement as she staggered backward toward the foldaway climbing bars. Her lunchbox fell to the floor, scattering sticks of celery and carrot across the scuffed wooden surface.

      The alligator was not distracted. It smelled meat. Not veg.

      NO! NO! NO!!! screamed Claudia Petherwaite, trying to scramble up the bars but failing because her shiny shoes were too slippery and her hands were slidey with fearful sweat.

      The alligator laughed—at least it looked that way. Its snaggletoothed snout lifted and its huge mouth opened wide, getting ready to snap down on a limb.

      Shouldn’t we help her? screamed another girl, cowering by the stack of gym mats. She’s going to be eaten alive!

      It’s awful, sobbed another, just behind her. "But she was so mean to Danny in biology this morning. Maybe it’s a bit harsh . . . but I—I suppose if anyone had to get eaten alive by an alligator . . ."

      The alligator’s mouth got wider still. Rows of vicious pointed teeth gleamed in the midday sun that shafted through the tall hall windows. Its stubby clawed feet dug into the wooden floor as it raised its scaly head on a thick, muscular neck. It roared and belched, and the stink of a recently dismembered gazelle wafted up toward Claudia, who was now babbling wildly, swinging on a gym rope just inches away from the ravening reptile’s gaping jaws.

      I know—I know I was horrible to Danny, she shrieked. And it was so wrong of me to say he was stupid because he couldn’t spell crysalis. I never should have laughed at him. And now, as I’m about to be eaten alive, I just wish I could say sorry to him first . . . and tell him that he’s actually very clever and handsome and fabulous in e-every wa-a-ay . . . ayayaaaargh MY LEEEEEEG!

      And then I bite her leg off, Danny said. He made a cracking and squelching noise and followed it with a gurgling scream. He rested his elbows on the gatepost and smiled happily.

      You need help, Josh said. Professional mental help.

      What—just because I want to S.W.I.T.C.H. into an alligator and bite Claudia Petherwaite’s leg off? Danny shrugged at his twin. "Oh, come on! She’s asking to have her leg bitten off. I bet you half the kids in school would agree with me. There was never a girl so obviously in need of losing a leg to a killer reptile. It would probably make her a much nicer person. SO—come on! Let’s GO! I WANT TO BE AN ALLIGATOR!"

      Josh just folded his arms and stared at him—so Danny jumped up and down and squeaked like an over-excited toddler. Come ON! I WANT TO BE—

      Josh thwacked him on the back of the head with his hand.

      Get a grip, Josh said. You’re eight, not three!

      But I want to be an alligator, whined Danny. NOOOOOOOW!

      You’ve acting crazy again, Josh said. I’m taking you home. He grabbed his twin brother by the arm and yanked him

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