First published in 2018 in Great Britain by Barrington Stoke Ltd 18 Walker Street, Edinburgh, EH3 7LP www.barringtonstoke.co.uk Text Š 2018 Eoin Colfer Illustrations Š 2018 Katy Halford The moral right of Eoin Colfer and Katy Halford to be identified as the author and illustrator of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in any part in any form without the written permission of the publisher A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library upon request ISBN: 978-1-78112-770-4 Printed in China by Leo This book is in a super readable format for young readers beginning their independent reading journey.
CONTENTS 1 2 3 4
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6 7 8 9
Right and Wrong
1
Spinning Tops and Bananas
9
Day and Night
19
Anti-Matter Rays and Holes in the Fabric of Time
27
Cannons and Catapults (and mashed apple too)
35
Spiders and Stars
43
Three Days and Three Nights
55
Jumping Jacks and Snakeskins
67
New Friends and Lollipops
79
CHAPTER 1
Right and Wrong
3
There was once a girl called Mariella who was super smart and spent her days inventing. Mariella’s head was always bursting with ideas. But she was only happy when she could turn her ideas into real things. Most of the time Mariella thought that her ideas were great.
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Two examples of this were her robot SURPRISE BALL! which kept her baby brother Harrison busy for hours, and then the Jump Rope Twizzler, which was very handy if a girl only had one friend to do skipping with.
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But sometimes things did go wrong. One example of this was the toilet seat sensor, which Mariella invented to stop Buster drinking from the bowl. Mariella didn’t like to talk about that one.