Marina Royale

by Apricot Banks, Maaja Wentz (Illustrator)

Overview

Hubert is losing his best friend to a bully.

Meet Rainbow Reef's fabulous fish kids: Emma and Aiden, the panicky pufferfish twins, Sparky the doggone friendly dogfish, Olga the eight-legged bully, Sturgeon the (wannabe) Surgeon, and Hermit, a tiny hermit crab with sky-high ambitions.

Hubert wants to play cards with his best friend Sparky the dogfish. Too bad Sparky's other friend, Olga Octopus, thinks Hubert is too small to play. When Hubert accuses Olga of cheating, she carries him out past the drop-off and abandons him where the sea monsters live. Can Hubert outwit hungry sharks to get home safely?

Lost and stripped of his protective shell, Hubert has to dig deep - into the sand - uncovering a cave with a surprising secret.

Marina Royale is the first book in the Saltwater Spy School series. If you're looking for fantastic sea creatures and laugh-out-loud adventures both kids and adults will enjoy, you will love these fast-paced stories from Apricot Banks.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781777686406
Publisher:	Loon Lake
Publication date:	04/19/2021
Series:	Saltwater Spy , #1
Edition description:	Large Type
Pages:	110
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.23(d)
Age Range:	5 - 9 Years

About the Author

Apricot Banks writes fun books for kids that adults like too. A teacher-librarian, she loves sharing funny, adventurous, imaginative books. Her chapter books for kids aged 5-9 were written to inspire a love of reading. Apricot Banks is the juvenile fiction pen name for Maaja Wentz, an award-winning writer of quirky speculative fiction. "Inside of a Dog," appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. "You," won a short story prize in the national Norma Epstein Foundation competition for Creative Writing, University of Toronto. Maaja's first novel, Feeding Frenzy: Curse of the Necromancer, received over 141 000 reads on Wattpad before being published. Chosen as a "Featured Story," it went on to win the coveted HQ Love Watty award.

Table of Contents

Soccer Ball Shell 1

It's in the Cards 11

Shark Bait 24

Shell We Begin? 35

It's a Bird! It's a Shell! 39

Water You Doing Here? 53

Vroom! 64

In Too Deep 67

Games & Thanks 80

Extras 82

Go Fish 83

My Ship Sails 88

Ocean Riddles 90

More Adventures 96

Saltwater Spy School Series 98