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Buch 1 von 10: Shark School

Ocean, Davy

 
9781481406789: Deep-Sea Disaster (Volume 1) (Shark School, Band 1)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1481406787 ISBN 13: 9781481406789
Verlag: Aladdin, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Dive into the world of Harry Hammer, a hammerhead shark with a penchant for (mis)adventure in this fin-tastic start to a chapter book series.

Harry Hammer is a hammerhead shark, although he’d rather be a great white shark, or a tiger shark—anything but himself. But when a class trip to a famous shipwreck almost ends in disaster for Harry and his pals, he realizes the importance of being exactly who he is!

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Davy Ocean is the pseudonym of a collective of writers from the creative agency Hothouse Fiction, based in London.

Aaron Blecha is an artist and author who designs funny characters and illustrates humorous books. His work includes the Shark School series and Goodnight, Grizzle Grump! Originally from Wisconsin, Aaron now lives with his family by the south English seaside.

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Deep-Sea Disaster
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I’m having my favorite dream again—the one where I’m about to be crowned Greatest Underwater Wrestling Champion of the World, Ever. I swim up to the top rope of the ring and prepare to launch.

“I think he’s going for a dropflick!” a jellyfish commentator shouts into his microphone.

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“There’s no stopping this hammerhead shark tonight,” adds his partner, a bright orange clown fish.

“Har-ry! Har-ry!” the crowd begins to chant.

One diving dropflick and the blue shark I’m fighting will be fish food and the underwater wrestling belt will be mine. I dive down from the rope and pin my opponent to the canvas.

“Har-ry! Har-ry!” The crowd’s voices get louder and louder. And louder. And then too loud. Like they are shouting right in my ear.

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“HARRY-GET OFF!”

I open my left eye and swivel it around. The wrestling ring disappears and I am in my bedroom. Next to my bed. And Humphrey, my humming-fish alarm clock, is pinned to the floor under me.

“Let me go!” he yells.

“All right, all right,” I mutter, swimming back into bed. “Why did you have to wake me up? I was having a really cool dream.”

“Don’t tell me, the one about the wrestling match?” Humphrey says grumpily.

“Yes.”

“I hate that dream.”

“Why?”

“I always end up getting hurt.”

I open my right eye and glare at him. “Only because you try to wake me up.”

Humphrey starts swimming around in circles above my head. “It’s my job to wake you up-I’m your alarm clock, and you’ve got school.”

I groan. From almost being crowned Underwater Wrestling Champion of the World to having to get ready for school, in less than ten seconds.

“So, are you awake, then?”

“Yes!”

“Cool. See you tomorrow.”

“Can’t wait.”

Humphrey swims off out the window to go and get his breakfast.

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I swivel my right eye around until I can see the huge poster of Gregor the Gnasher hanging on the rocky wall at the end of my bed. Gregor the Gnasher is the actual Underwater Wrestling Champion of the World. In the poster, he’s holding his winner’s belt high above his head and smiling so widely you can see all of his 3,017 teeth.

Gregor is a great white shark and as well as his rows and rows of razor-sharp teeth, he has a long pointed snout and a humongous body. He’s exactly what a shark should look like. And he’s scary. Super scary. Even my poster of him makes my pet catfish poop itself.

If they made a poster of me, my catfish would probably just laugh. You see, I’m a hammerhead shark, which, for those of you who haven’t already figured it out, means I have a head that’s the shape of a hammer. With goggly eyes so far apart they look like they don’t even talk to each other. It’s not a great look. Especially if you want to be taken seriously in the shark world.

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I once made a list of the five coolest sharks in existence. It went like this:

1. The great white–obviously.

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2. The blue shark– the fastest fish in the sea.

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3. The tiger shark–scary and stripy.

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4. The whale shark–its mouth is so huge it can swallow a dolphin in one gulp!

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5. The bull shark–it can swim in rivers as well as the sea, which is very handy if you’re going on vacation and stuff.

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You may have noticed that the hammerhead shark isn’t on the list. That’s because the hammerhead shark is seriously uncool. In fact, the only shark less cool than a hammerhead is the nurse shark. Nurse sharks are the girliest sharks in the ocean-which is fine if you’re a girl and everything, but I’m not.

Gregor doesn’t just look cool, he can do lots of cool stuff too. Then I have an idea. I might not look like Gregor, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be like him. I swim out of bed and over to the old treasure chest where I keep my collection of shells shaped like famous sports stars and all my lists. I once made a list of all the cool stuff Gregor can do. I take it out and study it.

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Number one is out, obviously.

1. Wrestling–he’s the Underwater Champion ten years running.

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2. Eating boats–which scares the life out of the leggy air-breathers.

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3. Looking really mean–without even trying.

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4. Swimming fast–as fast as any speedboat.

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5. Ambushing prey–they never see him coming.

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You can’t just be Underwater Wrestling Champion of the World in, like, two weeks or something. It takes years of deep-sea training: weight-lifting anchors, eating high-energy seaweed bars, and swimming laps around ocean liners.

Number two is a no-no as well. First of all, my mouth is way too small. Sometimes I find it hard swallowing a crab. Also, I’m not allowed up to the surface without one of my parents being with me. I know that sounds really lame-I mean, I’m ten years old. What do they think I’m going to do? Go sunbathing on the beach?

And I’m not going to eat any strange food dangling from fishing lines either. Everyone knows what fishermen do to sharks when they catch them. They make their fins into soup, that’s what. And there’s no way I’d risk losing my fins. Imagine what a laughingstock I’d be then, with a head like a hammer and a body like an eel!

I put on my school tie and blazer and then read number three on my list: Looking really mean. Hmm, now that sounds a bit easier. And if I looked really mean, certain sharks might not make fun of me anymore. I swim over to my mirror and scrunch my eyes shut. Then I make my meanest face. I imagine I’m giving the sort of scary scowl that Gregor makes when he’s entering the wrestling ring. It feels pretty good. I can already imagine Rick Reef and his goofy sidekick, Donny Dogfish, taking one look at the new me and speeding off to hide behind the school...

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Verlag
Aladdin
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1481406787
ISBN 13 
9781481406789
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Blecha Aaron
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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