The Fifth Hero #1: The Race to Erase

Informationen zum Autor Bill Doyle is the author of many books for kids, including the Escape This Book! series. He has also created games for Sesame Workshop, Warner Bros., and Nerf. Bill lives in New York City, and you can find out more about him at BillDoyle.net. Klappentext Four kids with the power to speak to creatures, shake the earth, manipulate water, and control the wind, are on a mission to save the earth from the evil Calamity Corporation--and readers must make a choice in three scenarios that change the course of the adventure. Leseprobe Chapter One Vzzzt! Vzzt! The timer on the handlebars buzzed, and Jarrett felt the unicycle lurch under his butt. Uh-oh. He could still make it to a transfer spot and switch to a new guzzler. But the nearest guzzler station was in the opposite direction, way back down the empty road. Besides, Lina’s mansion must be nearby--or at least Jarrett hoped so. He didn’t dare waste time checking his phone. He was dangerously close to being late for the Climate Club meeting and, more important, Lina’s party for her eleventh birthday. The guzzler’s single tire started falling apart, like the tires always did after an hour of use. Bits of smoking rubber flew off, sizzling on the hot morning pavement. The burning smell made Jarrett’s eyes water. Time for a shortcut. He’d have to guzzle through the woods, which terrified him, but maybe the patchy grass would be softer on the fragile tire. Before he could overthink it, he veered off the road and bounced onto what looked like an animal path through the trees. A passing branch poked his arm just as the silver line of a security scanner ran over his body. He guessed he must be on Lina’s property now. Come on, guzzler, you can do it! he urged. Just a little bit farther to the mansion. You can make it! Nope. No, it couldn’t. The last strips of smoking rubber peeled off the rim, leaving scorch marks on the leaf-covered path. The guzzler’s metal wheel spun into the ground, like a giant pizza cutter, and got trapped between two rocks. The unicycle snapped back and then forward, shooting Jarrett over the handlebars and flipping him through the air. Umph! Jarrett’s body hit the ground. Luckily, his backpack cushioned the blow. Or unluckily, actually. The birthday presents inside had smashed, and as the bag burst open, plastic packing peanuts exploded around him. Not good. He lay there for a second before clambering to his feet. Of course, Jarrett didn’t bother picking up the plastic peanuts as he resealed the backpack. He’d just leave them and the busted guzzler right where they were. Earth was old anyway, and other bits of garbage were already blowing among the trees nearby. What was a little more? Hold on. Those weren’t bits of garbage bouncing here and there. They were . . . chipmunks? Jarrett froze. A frightened gasp squeaked through his clamped lips, like a balloon leaking a five-second pppptttt of air. The chipmunks might have thought the high-pitched sound was him trying to communicate. They tilted their heads, listening, all the while their little jaws chewing away. What were they chewing on? Jarrett struggled to remember. Were chipmunks omnivores? Did they eat plants and . . . People? No, that’s just silly, he told himself. Or was it? With so much wrong information out there, it was hard to know what was true anymore. In a panic, Jarrett whipped around to get away and--ooof!--ran straight into a tree. He heard one of the chipmunks chittering like that was the funniest thing it had ever seen. Jarrett brushed himself off, just in case a tree spider or another creepy bug had jumped on him. He hurried in what he hoped was the direction of the mansion. Above the treetops, birds swooped and shrieked. Were they vultures? And was that a moose (or a cow?) in the sh...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Bill Doyle
• Verlag: Yearling Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 12 Jahre
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.01.2024
• EAN: 9780593486405
• ISBN: 978-0-593-48640-5
• Seiten: 224
• Abmessung: 132 mm x 195 mm x 13 mm
• Serie: The Fifth Hero
• Thema: Kinder- und Jugendbücher