The Sasquatch Escape (The Imaginary Veterinary) by Selfors Suzanne

Author:Selfors, Suzanne [Selfors, Suzanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction / Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Dragons, Unicorns & Mythical, Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic, Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure - General, Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories, Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues - Friendship
ISBN: 9780316225687
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2013-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

“Whoa,” Ben said. “That’s the same sound the whistle made.”

“Only the whistle was a million times louder.” Pearl gawked at the little gray faces. “They must think we have a giant squirrel in here. Maybe they think it’s the squirrel queen.”

It made sense. It made crazy sense.

“How do we get rid of them?” Ben asked. The window began to fog with hot little puffs of squirrel breath.

“Maybe they’ll go away. We should just wait,” Pearl said.

But they didn’t go away. A few cars stopped. Some neighbors peeked over the fence. When the squirrel queen didn’t make an appearance, the squirrels began to explore the yard. They drank from the birdbath, then overturned it. They chased Barnaby out of the tree and took over the branches, eating all the acorns and tossing the shells aside. Their little claws dug through the grass, looking for other things to eat. Chirt, chirt, chirt.

“That sound is really annoying,” Pearl said as eighteen pairs of beady eyes stared at her through the glass. Chirt, chirt, chirt.

“Yeah, and they’re making a huge mess.” Ben didn’t want his grandfather to come home and find a huge mess in his yard. “We have to do something.”

It took Pearl and Ben the rest of the afternoon to get rid of the squirrels. Armed with brooms and rakes, they pushed them out of the tree and chased them down the street. Eventually, not a single gray-haired varmint remained. They set the birdbath, garbage cans, and mailboxes upright. Then Ben raked acorn shells while Pearl wiped squirrel paw prints off the window.

Just as they finished, Grandpa Abe’s phone rang. Ben answered it. It was Pearl’s mother, reminding Pearl to come home and finish her chores. A shipment from China had arrived, and all the merchandise needed to be put on the Dollar Store shelves.

“Can you come back later?” Ben asked. “So we can look in the forest?”

“We eat dinner after we close the store, and then it gets dark, and there’s no way my mom will let me walk around the woods in the dark,” Pearl said. “Guess we’ll have to wait until tomorrow.”

Ben agreed. The forest at night sounded a bit…scary.

Back in his bedroom, they collected the net, tranquilizer dart, blowpipe, chocolate bar, fog bomb, guidebook, and whistle and returned them to the Sasquatch Catching Kit. Before Ben could stop her, Pearl locked the kit.

“You keep the box, I’ll keep the key. That way, neither one of us will do something we shouldn’t.” She smiled knowingly. “Like blow the whistle again.”

“I wasn’t going to blow the whistle,” Ben said, though he had been wondering what sort of sound would emerge if he gave it a try. Would a swarm of bees appear, or maybe a sloth of bears?

“Come to the Dollar Store as soon as you can in the morning,” Pearl said. “I’ll wake up extra early and get all my chores done. Then we can go to the woods.”

“Let’s hope Mr. Tabby was right when he said the sasquatch won’t hurt anyone and that it’ll probably just sleep in the woods.

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