S K O O B E N O T J S O Y E K N N Y Dan doesn’t believe Shelly’s story about being abducted by an alien. Who would? He quickly Z U changes his mind when he is abducted, too! C The two teenagers introduce their new alien friend, K Zot, to earthling music and fashion. Now Dan and E R Shelly need to convince their teacher of the visitor from outer space before they end up in big trouble! A I looked up and came face to face with an alien. L I He was sitting on the other side of the table. E N He was about my size with big, flat ears, very round eyes, and long, thin fingers. A B “Hi,” he said. “Welcome to my spaceship. My name D is Zot.” U C T I O N 010-014 RL: 2.4 GUIDED READING LEVEL: J ISBN-13: 978-1-59889-090-7 ISBN-10: 1-59889-090-5 REINFORCED LIBRARY BINDING STONE ARCH Science Fiction by Jonny Zucker illustrated by Paul Savage Librarian Reviewer Joanne Bongaarts Educational Consultant MS in Library Media Education, Minnesota State University, Mankato Teacher and Media Specialist with Edina Public Schools, MN, 1993–2000 Reading Consultant Elizabeth Stedem Educator/Consultant, Colorado Springs, CO MA in Elementary Education, University of Denver, CO First published in the United States in 2007 by Stone Arch Books, 151 Good Counsel Drive, P.O. Box 669, Mankato, Minnesota 56002. www.stonearchbooks.com Originally published in Great Britain in 2002 by Badger Publishing Ltd. Original work copyright © 2002 Badger Publishing Ltd Text copyright © 2002 Jonny Zucker The right of Jonny Zucker to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zucker, Jonny. [Abducted by an Alien] Alien Abduction / by Jonny Zucker; illustrated by Paul Savage. p. cm. — (Keystone Books.) Originally published as: Abducted by an Alien. Summary: When Shelley tells the class that she was abducted by an alien, Dan does not believe her until the same alien abducts him. ISBN-13: 978-1-59889-090-7 (hardcover) ISBN-10: 1-59889-090-5 (hardcover) ISBN-13: 978-1-59889-243-7 (paperback) ISBN-10: 1-59889-243-6 (paperback) [1. Extraterrestrial beings—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction.] I. Savage, Paul, 1971–, ill. II. Title. PZ7.Z77925Al 2007 [Fic]—dc22 2006004054 1 2 3 4 5 6 11 10 09 08 07 06 Printed in the United States of America Ta ble of Contents Chapter 1 Shelly’s Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Chapter 2 Up and Away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Chapter 3 The Spaceship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Chapter 4 New Shoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Chapter 5 Big Trouble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Chapter 6 Serves Him Right. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Shelly s Story When Shelly told our teacher, Mr. Tann, that she’d been abducted by aliens, he laughed. He said, “Now, now, Shelly,” and “I don’t think so,” and “It must have been a dream.” Shelly wouldn’t take that for an answer. “It was on my way home, yesterday after school,” she told him. 4 “I was walking through the mall parking lot when there was a big flash of light. Suddenly, I was in the air being sucked into this alien spaceship. I bumped my head when I got inside.” 5 “What did they look like?” asked Mr. Tann. “Were they green? Did they each have three heads?” “There was only one of them,” Shelly told him. “He said his name was Zot.” “Well, what did you talk to Zot about?” Mr. Tann asked her. He tried to hide his smile. 6 “I told him all about my cat, Sam,” said Shelly. “Zot said he wanted to learn how to dance, so I showed him a few steps. Then I was dropped back into the parking lot and I bumped my head again on the way out of the ship,” said Shelly. At the end of the story, Mr. Tann walked away, smiling to himself, but I stayed and talked with Shelly. The more she told me about the alien spaceship, the more it sounded real. But wait a minute! Aliens? Spaceships? That was all stuff from TV and not real life. “I want to believe you, Shelly,” I said, “but it just sounds like you made it up.” 7 Shelly made a face at me. “Okay, Dan,” she said, “Let’s go home through the mall parking lot today and see what happens.” “I can’t today,” I lied. To tell the truth I was a little scared. “All right then,” said Shelly. She grinned. “Tomorrow.” “Okay,” I said, trying not to show the fear in my eyes, “we’ll do it tomorrow.” 8 Up and Away The next day in school I kept thinking about the alien spaceship. Shelly must have made up the story, but what if it was true? Mr. Tann was asking me something, but I was looking out of the window up into the sky. “Well, Dan,” said Mr. Tann, “what do you think?” 9