Flight of the Genie by Tony Abbott

Author:Tony Abbott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2015-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

The children, Max, and Hoja popped into the magical urns of Parthnoop.

“Urns of Parthnoop, roll us out of here!” said Hoja. “Please!”

Instantly — fooom! — the urns tipped over and sped across the floor, knocking down the guards as if they were bowling pins!

“Woof-woof!” More guards charged in from across the room.

“Behind us!” cried Neal.

“In that case,” yelled Hoja, wiggling his turban, “Duke Snorfo and all his guards — freeze!”

Kweeeek! At once, the guards and the duke froze in their places, as if they were statues.

The urns rolled to a stop, and the kids slid out.

Everyone rushed over to Julie.

Keeah hugged her. “Are you okay?”

Julie nodded. “Once I get out of these shoes I will be. Oh, but that was weird. I’m so mad at that brother of mine. I mean, of hers. He keeps bossing me around and he’s so snotty to me, I mean to her —”

“Julie, focus,” said Neal. He pointed to the hall. “In fact, everybody focus. Down the hall. Look!”

Eric gasped. “Holy cow. The real Dumpella!”

They turned to see a girl exactly like Julie, from her red cheeks to her pink shoes, tramp loudly into the room and over to the frozen duke.

“Snorfo, there you are! Well, your great and wonderful dukeyness of Ut, our visitor is finally here, but don’t ask me to tell you his name because when I’m wearing these tight shoes, I can hardly remember my own name —”

She stopped and stared at the duke. Then she turned to the children. “Wait a second. What’s going on here? Why is my brother all frozen up? And who are all of you? And, you, why are you wearing my clothes and — oh! — my face?”

Julie took a deep breath. “It’s a long story,” she said. “And I’m sorry I look like you, but we came to Ut to free our friend Hoja. He’s a genie.”

“We found him okay,” added Eric, “but now we need to find our wizard friend —”

“Wizard?” said Dumpella. “With all the powers? That’s who’s here now! He’s on his way to the palace to talk to my brother. But, gee, my brother is all so icy….”

Max jumped. “Galen? My master? Did you see him? Where is he?”

Dumpella chewed her lip as if she were thinking. Then she tapped her foot. Finally, she shrugged. “Does Galen wear fish fins on his ears —”

Everyone gasped.

“Holy komoly!” cried Eric. “Lord Sparr is here?”

Dumpella jumped. “That’s his name! And, boy, he brought a lot of chubby red men with him. Tell me, is he nice?”

The floor rumbled, shaking the glass cases.

“We’re wasting time!” said Hoja. “If Sparr is here, something bad is going on. I must see what I can find out.” Adjusting his turban, he darted out of the room and into the hallway.

“And I’ll scout for Galen,” said Max, scampering after him.

“Will somebody tell me what’s going on?” asked Dumpella.

Eric looked at her standing next to Julie and suddenly smiled.

“Dumpella, it’s complicated. But Sparr is not nice, and he’s in Ut for a reason.

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