The Lizard War by Jack Patton

Author:Jack Patton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2015-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

“Look out!” Max cried as the giant lizard’s tongue flicked through the air.

Max was almost thrown off Buzz’s back as the hornet swerved to the side. He clung tight to Buzz’s hairs, his legs dangling in midair as the hornet shot upward, just out of reach of the enormous lizard. As they swooped away over the army of deadly reptiles, Max felt his hands starting to slip. He couldn’t hold on anymore. “Help!” he cried.

But it was too late. Max lost his grip, and suddenly he was falling through the air. He squeezed his eyes shut as the ground raced toward him. There was no way he could survive a fall from such a great height. Any second now, he would smash into the ground and …

Thump!

His heart pounding, Max opened his eyes. He was sitting on a huge green leaf as big as his mom’s bed. Max couldn’t believe his luck—if he’d slipped a second later, he would have missed the leaf completely.

But just as he was starting to relax, a sharp breeze came whistling through the forest. The leaf swayed and dipped and immediately became a huge green slide.

“Help!” Max called as he started slipping down the shiny surface. “I’m falling!”

“Hold on!” he heard Buzz call from somewhere above.

“I can’t! There’s nothing to hold on to!”

Max picked up speed. The air rushed past his face, causing his eyes to water. He saw the edge of the leaf getting closer, and the forest floor stretched out below, crawling with deadly lizards.

“Help!” Max cried again. He was slipping and sliding and falling and—

Suddenly he was rising, being yanked up into the air by the back of his T-shirt.

Max craned his neck and saw that Buzz had somehow managed to hook one of her front legs under his shirt collar. Buzz swooped back in toward the tree and plunked Max down onto a huge branch.

“Sorry, pal,” Buzz said, landing next to him. “I thought you were a goner for a minute.”

Max took a couple of deep breaths. He’d thought he was a goner, too. It was a pretty scary existence being the size of a bug. Once his heart had stopped pounding so hard, he peered down over the edge of the branch. The forest floor was far below him. He could just make out the brown shape of General Komodo, still sitting on his rock. The branch swayed slightly in the breeze. Max felt sick.

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