Alexander ploppe
Nikki.
“Your dad is so
“And his pj’s ma
“Yeah, yeah,” sa
The three friends
as the bus left the
“Yikes,” said Ni
old hospital is real
The bus drove
building.
“Look at our ne
“It’s so clean and
“And not smashe
“At least, not yet.”
“It’s song time!”
from up front. “He
school.” He took a
CHAPTER The
9
SCORP
The room was big
came from an eno
floor. Colorful bann
“Okay,” said Mr.
bags over by the gi
looking soldier sta
The st
face the
“Funny business?!
Plunkett. “And with
here — wait!” He
Hoarsely?”
The students star
“Oh, brother,” sai
wandering off. Let’s j
BONG! CUCKOO!
Mr. Plunkett looke
Ms. Sargent gave
lettuce. “Fine,” she
“Follow me.”
She led the grou
was empty except fo
the scorpion-shaped
move in the twinkli
“Oooooh,” everyone
for a closer look.
“Has anyone ever
asked Alexander’s
“Impossible!” said
by my special secu
She turned off
red light crisscrossed
Scorpion. “To steal
have to get around
anything touches a
KRICKLE-KRICKLE!
Alexander’s eyes
crinkling sound I hea
KRICKLE!
The sound was
Alexander tried to
like everyone else,
scorpion.
KRICKLE-KRICKLE!
The hand skitte
“You’re not gettin
time!” Alexander
He dashed down th
He skidded to a
beneath a stone
archway.
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10
case
“AUGHGHH!” Alex
“EEP! Don’t hur
ghostly figure insid
Alexander stopped
“Mr. Hoarsely? What
Mr. Hoarsely was
“That guard spooked
down here and gu
what?! The mumm
CHAPTER Don’t
11
guard
Alexander, Rip, a
their class.
“Some people s
a
“Someone got pa
the guard. She shi
in Mr. Plunkett’s eye
working here for y
zero funny busin
But on the night
class arrives, our g
treasure goes miss
Ms. Sargent sw
CHAPTER TICKTO
12
“She can stop re
stop monster thieve
Alexander.
They searched a
triceratops skeleton,
stagecoach.
A beam of light
throwing long shado
“STAY WHERE Y
voice. “AND NO
“It’s Ms. Sargent!
They scrambled to
three friends ducked
door shaped like a
“Let’s hide in the
TICKTOCK, TICKTOC
“I know that
Nikki! Duck!”
“Huh?” said Rip
“It’s not a duck
She jerked Rip away
Alexander, Nikki
Rip tumbled into a
room. They could
loud gears whirring
all around them.
“Where are we?”
“Nik
powers
“Uh
CHAPTER hickory
13
dickory
against
Alexander s
was piled high with
his eye. “Hey!” he
“And my skates!”
“And my mom’s
there’s Hoarsely’s du
KRICKLE-K
“IT HEL
SHINIEST TRE
a squeaky voice
clockworks.
A lumpy figure
chain.
“That’s the mumm
The mummy’s f
twisted into an an
scowl. “WHAT?! I
diaper!” it said. “A
mummy!”
The monster dri
wrapped in some k
with little plastic
“A bubble-wrap
CHAPTER BUBBL
14
TROUB
Alexande
clock gears
boxes and
“Yes!” s
“You humans are s
wrap to protect yo
when you no longer
hurts, you know?! I
“Exactly,”said the
skates and trumpe
I needed bigger, sh
your teacher talking
So I built an a
from your junk!”
“But why are you
Mummy?” asked R
“To blend in!”
It scampered u
leg, and snapped itse
arm.
CHAPTER A
15
SQUEE
OOF!” THE BUBBL
warrior barreled
The monster un
noodle made of h
wrap. Then it beg
faster and faster, ri
tornado. A gia
m
The
even fa
Chains
barely sta
He saw N
Rip crouch
Alexander
thing — the
cuckoo. He held
“Gotcha!” said t
Another arm rea
up the
CHAPTER POP
16
YOU
Together, the thr
Then they pointed i
“Hey, bubbles!”
birdie!”
He pulled a latch
BOING!
The bird delivere
the monster’s nose.
The rest of its long
The friends snuck
down to the basem
coast was clear. The
and climbed into t
“Toddlers, wake
into the lobby. “I
a bunch of other ju
Ms. Sargent dum
floor. The students
“Dad!” said A
“Look!”He handed h
the Reflecto-900.
“Woo-hoo!” cried
Then he leaped up
another front-porch
“Ha-ha!” said Nikk
“You mean, what
vacation!” said Rip
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