Charlie Morphs Into a Mammoth by Sam Copeland

Author:Sam Copeland [Copeland, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241346273
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
Published: 2019-11-13T00:00:00+00:00

The following morning at first break, Flora called a meeting to discuss what they had discovered at the zoo.

‘OK, so now we know a boy is involved,’ she said, as they guzzled their fruit snacks. ‘But does anybody have any ideas who has stolen these animals and why?’

‘Rustled,’ corrected Mohsen.

‘Who’s Russell?’ asked Wogan. ‘Is he the one we’re looking for? He sounds like a right desperate criminal.’

‘Not Russell. Rustled,’ Mohsen replied. ‘Rustling is the proper word for stealing animals.’

‘I wonder why,’ said Wogan, thoughtfully. ‘Maybe they rustle if you hide them under a blanket when you steal them?’

‘That’s not a bad –’

‘Anyway,’ interrupted Flora, ‘as I was saying, does anybody have any idea why these animals are being stolen?’

‘Or eaten,’ said Wogan.

‘Pardon?’

‘Just because they’re being stolen first doesn’t mean they aren’t being eaten afterwards.’

‘By a boy?’ asked Flora, despairingly. ‘A llama-eating boy? You think there’s a chinchilla-munching child stalking our town?’

Wogan looked embarrassed. ‘Maybe not.’

‘It’s much more likely somebody is stealing these animals and trying to make it look like they’re being eaten!’

‘So here’s what we do know, then,’ said Mohsen. ‘A number of animals have gone missing from the zoo and the school and people’s gardens. We know that it was a boy that took the animals from the zoo, and a bear that took the chickens from the school. So we are possibly looking for a boy who owns a bear.’

‘Or,’ said Wogan, waggling a finger in the air, ‘a boy who can change into a bear? A boy who we know changes into animals but who maybe can’t remember doing it?’

Mohsen gasped. ‘You’re saying the wild side has taken over Charlie? That the monster inside him can’t be controlled?’

Wogan nodded his head once firmly. ‘Exactly.’

‘RIGHT, THAT’S IT!’ Charlie roared. ‘I’VE HAD ENOUGH! I AM NOT A MONSTER! IN CASE YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN, THE GREAT CATSBY IS STILL MISSING! DO YOU THINK I HAVE EATEN MY OWN CAT?’

Charlie was burning with anger. Anger that his friends didn’t believe him, anger that his family was falling apart.

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