Happy Holiday, Hammy the Wonder Hamster! by Poppy Harris

Author:Poppy Harris [Poppy Harris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2009-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

Bethany dashed to the rocks, with Hamilton racing across the sand beside her. ‘Sam!’ she yelled as she tapped three 9s into her phone. ‘Sam, look!’

Sam had been bending over a rock pool with his back to the sea. By the time he looked up, Hamilton had hidden behind a stone.

‘Look, Sam!’ Bethany shouted, pointing to the sea. ‘There, in the water! Go and get Nan and Grandie.’

Sam dashed away as somebody from the Emergency Services spoke to her. ‘My name’s Bethany Elliott … I’m at Kettle Bay and there’s a man in the water … His canoe’s turned over … Yes, there’s a lifebelt here … If I can reach it … yes, I’ve got it! I don’t know if I can throw it very far, but I’ll try …’ Bethany knew about lifebelts. She had been to a life-saving course after school and they had practised using lifebelts to pull each other across the hall floor, which was supposed to be the sea, but this was very different. She was sure she couldn’t throw far enough, but she’d try her best.

‘Don’t panic!’ she yelled, but she knew the man couldn’t hear her from so far away. Hamilton popped up from behind the stone and came to stand beside her. ‘I’ll throw you a lifebelt!’

Battling against the waves and spitting out seawater, Tim had seen the girl on the shore with the lifebelt, and when he shook the water out of his eyes, he was pretty sure that she was the hamster girl. He hadn’t come all this way, and come so close to that hamster, to give up the hunt now. He remembered his remote-control tracking device and tried to reach into the pocket of his shorts to get it out, but it had gone. It must be at the bottom of the sea by now.

Bethany flung the lifebelt as hard and as far as she could, but it still fell short of Tim, who didn’t even seem to notice it at first. She shouted so hard that it hurt. ‘Swim! Swim to the lifebelt!’

Splashing his way through the waves, Tim reached the lifebelt and struggled into it. Then, in a determined effort to find the tracker, he tried to duck under the water, but the lifebelt held him up. He couldn’t believe it, he couldn’t lose the tracker when he was so close to finding the hamster!

Bethany couldn’t understand why the man still wasn’t trying to swim for shore. He seemed to be looking for something all the way out there in the middle of the sea. ‘Come on!’ yelled Bethany encouragingly. ‘Come on, kick! Kick your legs harder!’

Even Hamilton, who did not like water and had no intention of being in it, knew what the man should be doing. He came out from behind his stone and kicked his legs to show the man.

Tim Taverner squinted towards the shore. Was that …? No, it couldn’t be … But right next to the girl’s foot, there appeared to be the very hamster Tim had been looking for.

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