The Shackleton Sabotage by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Author:Gertrude Chandler Warner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Published: 2017-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

The next area in the exhibit was for a different kind of penguin. They had fluffy yellow feathers on their faces. Benny laughed. “It looks like the penguin has bushy yellow eyebrows!” he said.

An employee standing near the exhibit heard Benny and smiled. “These are called royal penguins,” said the woman. “Do you want to take a guess why they have those funny yellow feathers on their faces?”

Benny thought for a moment.

“I don’t know. But it does make them look different!”

“That’s exactly right,” said the woman. “Those yellow feathers help the penguins recognize each other as the same species, even when they are swimming underwater. They’re called crests. Most birds have crests, like cardinals and cockatoos. But there is one species that does not…Do you know what kind?”

The woman looked eagerly at Benny and Violet. Then Violet noticed she was wearing a purple collared shirt.

Violet asked in a whisper, “Could it be…owls?”

The woman nodded. “I have a message for you from Tricia Silverton.”

She handed Violet an envelope as Jessie and Henry walked over.

“Thank you very much,” Violet said. She put the envelope in her pocket.

They finished looking through the rest of the penguin exhibit and then went outside to find Aunt Jane. She was reading a book on the bench and looking very happy.

“Did you have a good time?” she asked when she saw them.

“Yes, and we got our next clue,” Benny said. “Also, I’m hungry! We left so early to get to the aquarium that we missed breakfast.”

“Then we had better find something to eat. It’s difficult to think on an empty stomach, isn’t it? I hear the aquarium’s cafeteria is pretty good. Shall we get brunch there?”

The cafeteria had a good menu, and, even better, an outdoor patio. They found a table with an umbrella and enjoyed croissants and orange juice looking out over the bay. While they ate, Violet opened the envelope. Everyone was eager to hear the clue to their next destination, where they hoped to return the sixth Reddimus artifact.

Inside there was a riddle that Violet read:

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