The Sword in the Grotto by Angie Sage & Jimmy Pickering

Author:Angie Sage & Jimmy Pickering [Sage, Angie & Pickering, Jimmy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, General, Supernatural, Action & Adventure, Humorous Stories, Chapter Books, Readers, Body; Mind & Spirit, Horror & Ghost Stories, Ghost stories, Ghosts, Haunted houses, Aunts, Adventure and adventurers, Children's stories, Horror
ISBN: 9780060774844
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2006-07-13T16:35:35+00:00

“Mushrooms.You onl

mush-

y stepped on a

room,” I told Wanda, annoyed.

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Wanda looked down at her feet. “Oh,” she said. Then she said, “Well, it was a giant mushroom, actually, Araminta. Look—

they’re huge. You try stepping on a whole heap of monster mushrooms in a horrible, dark, smelly tunnel and see what you feel like.”

“I just did,” I told Wanda, “and I felt fine.

And I didn’t go screaming in someone’s ear, nearly making them deaf, either.”

Wanda didn’t reply. I thought maybe I should try to cheer her up a bit, so I said,

“Well, at least we know where we are now.”

“No we don’t,” said Wanda gloomily.

“Yes we do. These mushrooms must have escaped from the mushroom farm. I bet we

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are underneath it right now.Which means we are nearly there. Come on, Wanda. It will all be worth it when we find the sword.”

“If we find the sword,” Wanda muttered.

We didn’t say much after that except for,

“left,” “right,” “left—no, right,” and “oh, I don’t care, you choose.” The trouble was, the tunnel just kept splitting off into different directions, and we had no idea which one would take us to the cave. It was like being in a maze—a horrible mushroom maze, as the whole time we were stepping on mushrooms. At first I felt sorry for them getting squashed, but after a while they just got annoying. They were really slippery, too.

We kept on hoping that any minute we would find the grotto with the sword in it.

But we didn’t. All we kept finding was the

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green string, so we knew we were back to where we had been before. Again.

After a while Wanda said, “It’s no good.

We’re just going around in circles.”

For once she was right.

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