The Story Pirates Present: Digging Up Danger by (Story Pirates) & Jacqueline West

Author:(Story Pirates) & Jacqueline West
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Ghost Stories, Juvenile Fiction, Humorous Stories, Mysteries & Detective Stories
ISBN: 9781635650921
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2019-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

Her mother gave a laugh with all the air squashed out of it. “Do I think this story might be true? Perhaps, in all the alternate universes and infinite timelines that theoretically exist, there is one where eating a berry turns a person into a dog. But I don’t believe that we are in it.”

Tommy exhaled hard. “Fine. We’ll prove it. There’s enough moonlight. Come on, Aunt Camila.”

Tommy and Mrs. Carroll—who looked extremely reluctant—headed out the workroom door. Moggie stayed beside Eliza.

“I’m not sure what we’re waiting for,” said Eliza’s mother after a moment. “Because we are not actually waiting for our hosts to turn into dogs.”

Eliza didn’t answer. A funny, tickling feeling ran up the backs of her arms. Was it a spectral presence? Mere anticipation? Before she could be sure, Moggie jumped up with a loud Woof! She barreled out the workroom door, with Eliza and her mother tagging after.

The shop lights had been turned out again. The Stahls followed Moggie through the darkness, around a rack of orchids, past the cacti, toward the silvery splotch of moonlight that fell through the front windows.

There, on the moonlit floor, one draped in baggy pajama pants and the other swamped in a pink silk robe, were two golden-eyed dogs. The dog in the robe was a Boston terrier, petite and bright faced. The dog in the pajama pants was the shaggy brown mutt Eliza and Moggie had chased through the streets the night before.

Eliza gasped.

Moggie bounded toward the dogs, snuffling their faces and bumping them off their paws.

“All right, Tommy and Camila.” Eliza’s mother folded her arms. “I don’t know where you’re hiding, or why you’ve decided to play this prank,” she said loudly and sternly. “I would guess it’s to cover up your own illegal activities involving the smuggled and now missing plant, but whatever the reason, I—”

“Oh, it’s not a prank, Rachel,” said the Boston terrier. Mrs. Carroll’s voice sounded almost natural coming out of the dog’s little mouth. “As I said, I know it seems impossible. But it’s real.”

“Science and magic,” mumbled the brown mutt.

Eliza’s mother let out a sound that Eliza had never heard her make before. “But…molecular…” She sputtered. “Can’t…physiological…berries…”

Eliza took a steadying grip on her mother’s arm. “Look at the evidence, Mom,” she whispered. “Just look.”

At that moment, a bulldog in shiny basketball shorts came trundling through the room.

“Well, looks like our secret’s out, huh?” it boomed in Mr. Carroll’s voice. “Hello, Eliza and Rachel. I was checking the greenhouse, accidentally hit a beam of moonlight, and bang—dog town.” The bulldog chuckled. “No sign or smell of any intruders, though. Whoever was here is gone.”

Eliza’s mother made a choking sound.

Eliza patted her mom on the back, hoping her smile wasn’t too smug. The natural and the supernatural were coming together right in front of their eyes!

“Well…,” her mother choked out at last. “I suppose my reaction doesn’t matter. These are the conditions. We’ll simply have to function within them.” She swayed dizzily. “The most

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