The Tortoise and the Scare by Carolyn Keene

Author:Carolyn Keene
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Aladdin

Within seconds, George and Bess appeared behind Nancy. They must’ve heard Harry yelling and found her.

“I knew it,” George said, still trying to catch her breath. “Now just tell us where Rainbow is and everything will be okay. Belinda just wants her back.”

Liam’s scrunched his nose. “Rainbow?” he asked. “You mean the turtle?”

“The tortoise,” Bess corrected him. “We want her back. Now.”

Harry started laughing. “We didn’t steal her! We thought you found the mealworms.”

Once Harry started laughing he couldn’t stop. He was doubled over, and that made Liam start laughing too. It took them a while before they could even speak. “We just . . . ,” Liam tried to say. “We were going to play this really big prank. We got some mealworms from the hedgehog enclosure and we put them in a few of the girls’ backpacks.”

“I wanted to see the look on Lily’s face when she pulled out a handful of bugs!” Harry laughed.

“That’s not funny,” George said. “It’s just gross. Are you trying to impress Antonio again? He’s been doing stuff like that for years. That’s definitely not going to impress him.”

Harry and Liam didn’t seem to like that. They suddenly looked much more serious than before. “But they’re mealworms. . . .” Liam trailed off. “They’re little and weird. It is funny.”

Nancy didn’t care about the mealworms in her bag, or Liam and Harry’s silly prank. But she did care about when they’d been playing it.

“When exactly were you wandering around the wildlife center looking for mealworms? You must’ve snuck away from the group. But when?” Nancy asked.

Liam shrugged. “I don’t know. Pretty much right after we saw the fox.”

“We came back when Belinda brought that baby sloth out,” Harry added. “That was super cool. Everyone was oohing and ahhhing over all the animals. No one seemed to notice we were gone.”

Nancy raised her eyebrows at her friends. Candace and Beth had been right, the twins were wandering around the wildlife center at the same exact time Rainbow went missing. Of course they thought they’d had something to do with it.

But Nancy knew better. They weren’t suspects. . . . Harry and Liam were witnesses.

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