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  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 sighed. “We’ve got to get out there right away and see what it is.”

  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

  Magic Tree House® Research Guides

  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

  FICTION

  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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  www.AndrewLost.com

  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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