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The Shocking Trouble on the Planet of Shobble

Liane Moriarty
Chapters (47)
  1. COVER
  2. ABOUT L. M. MORIARTY
  3. ALSO BY L. M. MORIARTY
  4. TITLE PAGE
  5. PROLOGUE
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COVER

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ABOUT L. M. MORIARTY

L. M. Moriarty is the author of two best-selling books for adults. The Space Brigade and the Shocking Trouble on the Planet of Shobble is the second book in the Space Brigade series.

ALSO BY L. M. MORIARTY

Also by L. M. Moriarty:

The Space Brigade and the Petrifying Problem with Princess Petronella

TITLE PAGE

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For George

PROLOGUE

Two girls and a boy stood knee-deep in snow on the side of a mountain. A thousand dazzling rainbows soared above them. Beneath them a frozen sea shimmered like a giant sapphire.

The shorter of the girls had curly red-gold hair that blew in a halo around her head and dimples that dented her cheeks even when she wasn’t smiling.

She was in a bad mood.

‘Are you sure it’s true?’ she snapped.

‘No. I made the whole thing up just to ruin your day,’ sighed the boy. He was her younger brother, which explains a lot.

The other girl, who had dark brown frizzy hair and a pale, serious face didn’t say anything. She was thinking, pressing her finger hard against her bottom lip.

The girl with the red-gold hair blew her nose noisily. She said, ‘I just never thought things would go this far. It’s frightening.’

‘Yes,’ admitted the boy. ‘But we’ll fight!’

‘Of course we’ll fight! What is this evil Earthling’s name?’

The boy pulled a sheet of paper from his back pocket and examined it.

‘Nicola,’ he answered. ‘Nicola Berry.’

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Nicola Berry had a problem.

She needed to make a long-distance phone call.

An extremely long-distance phone call.

She needed to ring someone who lived on another planet.

Unfortunately, whenever Nicola’s mother opened the phone bill lately, she made a sound like she had a fishbone stuck in her throat. If an intergalactic phone call appeared on the bill she might stop breathing altogether.

Nicola pondered her problem while she sliced a banana to put on top of her breakfast cereal. The house was still and silent. A shaft of summer sunlight was creeping its way across the kitchen floor. It was early Saturday morning and her brother and parents were still sound asleep. They wouldn’t be up for hours, when they would appear rubbing their eyes and saying things like, ‘You’re up already? Why?’

Eating her cereal at the kitchen table, Nicola studied the newspaper clipping her dad had pinned to the noticeboard. The headline read:

NICOLA AND HER FRIENDS SAVE THE WORLD!

She frowned. She still got the strangest feeling from seeing her name in a newspaper. Nicola read the first paragraph of the article again.