The 65-Story Treehouse: Time Travel Trouble! (Treehouse Books) - Softcover

Griffiths, Andy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250102472 ISBN 13: 9781250102478

Verlag: Square Fish, 2018

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New York Times bestselling author Andy Griffiths invites readers to come hang out with him and his friend Terry in their 65-Story Treehouse--the fifth book in the illustrated middle-grade series filled with Andy and Terry's signature slapstick humor!

Andy and Terry live in a 65-Story Treehouse. (It used to be 52 stories, but they keep expanding.) It has a pet-grooming salon, a birthday room where it's always your birthday (even when it's not), a room full of exploding eyeballs, a lollipop shop, a quicksand pit, an ant farm, and a time machine...which is going to be really, really useful now, since Terry messed up (again) and the treehouse just FAILED it's safety inspection. Join Andy and Terry on a whirlwind trip through time as they try to stop the treehouse from being demolished!

Praise for the Treehouse series:

"Anarchic absurdity at its best. . . . Denton's manic cartooning captures every twist and turn in hilarious detail." --Publishers Weekly, starred review on The 13-Story Treehouse

"Will appeal to fans of Jeff Kinney and Dav Pilkey . . . The wonderfully random slapstick humor is tailor-made for reluctant readers . . . A treat for all." --Booklist on The 13-Story Treehouse

"Middle-grade boys in particular will get a huge chortle out of this book, and there is enough going on to support classroom discussion about physics, chemistry and other physical sciences. The story is simplistic enough to appeal to reluctant readers, but amusing enough to hold better readers' interest." --Children's Literature on The 52-Story Treehouse

Read the whole series!
The 13-Story Treehouse
The 26-Story Treehouse
The 39-Story Treehouse
The 52-Story Treehouse
The 65-Story Treehouse

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Andy Griffiths is the New York Times bestselling author of The Day My Butt Went Psycho!, Zombie Butts from Uranus!, and Butt Wars! The Final Conflict, as well as the Treehouse Series and Killer Koalas from Outer Space. In 2007, he became the first Australian author to win six children's choice awards in one year for Just Shocking! He is passionate about inspiring a love of books in his young readers, and works as an ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Project, which provides books and literacy resources to remote indigenous communities around Australia. Andy is a big fan of Dr. Seuss and of cauliflower. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, and is Australia's most popular children's writer.

Terry Denton is known for his humorous illustration style and has worked with Andy Griffiths on the Treehouse series and the JUST! books among others. He lives by the sea in Australia with his wife, three kids, and a pop-up toaster that only toasts on one side.

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The 65-Story Treehouse

By Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton

Feiwel and Friends

Copyright © 2015 Backyard Stories Pty Ltd.
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-250-10247-8

Contents

Title Page, 
Copyright Notice, 
Chapter 1: The 65-Story Treehouse, 
Chapter 2: Attack of the Ants!, 
Chapter 3: Jill to the Rescue, 
Chapter 4: Inspector Bubblewrap, 
Chapter 5: Prehistoric Pond Scum, 
Chapter 6: Dancing with Dinosaurs, 
Chapter 7: Stone Age Art School, 
Chapter 8: Mummy Madness, 
Chapter 9: Bin-Hur, 
Chapter 10: The Future, 
Chapter 11: The Future's Future, 
Chapter 12: Back to the Present, 
Chapter 13: The Last Chapter, 
About the Author and Illustrator, 
Copyright, 

CHAPTER 1

THE 65-STORY TREEHOUSE

Hi, my name is Andy. This is my friend Terry.

We live in a tree.

Well, when I say "tree," I mean treehouse. And when I say "treehouse," I don't just mean any old treehouse — I mean a 65-story treehouse! (It used to be a 52-story treehouse, but we've added another 13 stories.) So what are you waiting for? Come on up!

We've added a pet-grooming salon (run by Jill), a birthday room (where it's always your birthday, even when it's not), an un-birthday room where the longer you stay, the younger you get (so don't stay too long or you'll end up like a little baby), a cloning machine, a room full of exploding eyeballs, TREE-NN (Treehouse News Network): a 24-hour TV news center, featuring regular updates on all the latest treehouse news, current events, and gossip, a lollipop shop run by a lollipop-serving robot called Mary Lollipoppins (she serves every type of lollipop in the world — past, present, and future), a screeching balloon orchestra, an owl house with three wise owls (we don't always know what they mean, but that's because they're so wise), an invisible level, an ant farm (with 65 chambers), a quicksand pit, and a bow and arrow level.

As well as being our home, the treehouse is also where we make books together. I write the words and Terry draws the pictures.

As you can see, we've been doing this for quite a while now.

Living in a treehouse may not be for everybody ... but it suits us just fine!

ATTACK OF THE ANTS!

If you're like most of our readers, you're probably wondering whether we have a building permit for our treehouse. Well, of course we do. Terry organized it. "Didn't you, Terry? Terry?! Where are you?"

"Ah, there you are," I say. "I was telling the readers how you got a permit for the treehouse." "GRRRR!" says Terry.

"Terry," I say, "quit messing around." "GRRRRR!" He looks kind of weird. And I think I know why. He's covered in ants!

"Have you been playing in the ant farm again?" I say.

But Terry doesn't answer. He just reaches out and grabs me by the throat. "TERRY?!" I gasp.

Just when I can hardly breathe a moment longer, another Terry rushes in.

"Don't worry, Andy," says the second Terry. "I'll save you!"

The second Terry whacks the first Terry with a badminton racket. WHAP!

And all of a sudden the air is filled with ...

There are ants everywhere (which is bad). But I'm not being strangled anymore (which is good). "Are you okay, Andy?" says Terry. "Yes," I say. "I think so, but what's going on? Why did you attack me like that?"

"That wasn't me," says Terry. "It was the ants pretending to be me. I accidentally left the ant-farm gate open and they escaped. I tried to get them all back in but they made themselves into a fake me and knocked me out. Then they must have come after you."

"But why?" I say. "I didn't do anything to them!" "Me neither," says Terry. "All I know is that now they've turned into a giant foot and are about to stomp on us! Run!"

"What are we going to do?" says Terry. "There's only one thing we can do," I say. "Become dog poop, of course!" "Dog poop?" says Terry. "But I hate dog poop!" "So do feet," I say. "They will do anything to avoid stepping in it." "Okay," says Terry. "How do we do it?" "Simple," I say. "Just make yourself soft, squishy, and really stinky."

"How's this?" says Terry. "Stinky enough for you?" "Perfect," I say. "Perfectly disgusting." And, sure enough, the ant foot stops stomping and just hovers cautiously in the air above us.

"It's working!" says Terry. "They can't squash us now!" "No," I say, "not unless they change shape again."

"Oh no," says Terry. "They are changing shape again — into a giant pooper-scooper!"

"No problem," I say. "We'll just change ourselves into a puddle of water."

"We'll be safe now," I say. "Pooper-scoopers can scoop up poop ... but they can't scoop up water!"

"We really fooled those ants," I say. "Yeah," says Terry. "Ants may be smart, but we're even smarter."

"But maybe not quite smart enough," I say. "Now the ants are becoming a giant paper towel. They're going to absorb us!"

"But I like being water!" says Terry. "I don't want to be absorbed." "Me neither," I say. "But we will be unless we change back into us ... right now!"

We change back. We don't get absorbed (which is good). But we do get scrunched up (which is bad).

"If only we had some fire," says Terry, "we could burn the paper."

"I've got a match," I say, "but I don't have a matchbox." "That's too bad," says Terry. "Because I've got a matchbox, but I don't have a match."

"Hmmm," I say.

"Hmmm," says Terry.

"Hmmm."

"Hmmm."

"Hmmm."

"Hmmm."

"Hey," I say, "I've got a great idea!" "What?" says Terry. "Why don't we put my match and your matchbox together?" "That sounds dangerous," says Terry. "It might start a fire." "Exactly!" I say. "Take that, ants!"

"It's working!" says Terry. "The paper towel is burning up!" "Yes," I say. "But I think we're burning up, too!" "Yeah," says Terry. "My head is getting quite hot." "That's probably because your hair is on fire," I say. "So is yours," says Terry. "AAAGGGGHHHH!" we scream.

But we don't scream for long, because next thing we know the ants turn into a giant hose and start blasting us and themselves with cool, fresh, fire- quenching ant-water!

They blast and they blast and they keep on blasting until we are trapped at the top of a gushing geyser of angry ants. "What do we do now?" says Terry. "Call for help," I say, "and hope like crazy that Jill hears us."

CHAPTER 2

JILL TO THE RESCUE

"Help!" I yell. "Help!" yells Terry.

"Andy?" says a familiar voice. "Terry? What are you doing up there?" It's Jill! "The ants went crazy and turned into a hose!" I say. "Can you turn the tap off so we can get down?" says Terry. "Sure thing," says Jill.

Jill turns the hose off (at the ant-tap) ... and Terry and I fall to the ground with a loud THUMP!

"What did you do to upset the ants?" says Jill. "They appear to be very agitated." "It's Terry's fault," I say. "He left the ant-farm gate open and all the ants got out and started attacking us." "I only left it a little bit open," says Terry. Jill frowns. "When it comes to ants," she says, "a little can be a lot. I'd better have a talk with them." She gets down on her knees, makes her fingers into pretend antennas, and wiggles them around.

"It's not working," she says. "I'm too big. I need to be ant-size. Can you draw me smaller, Terry?"

"Sure, Jill," says Terry. "One ant-size you coming up!"

Soon Jill is deep in conversation with the ants — which...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Square Fish
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1250102472
• ISBN 13: 9781250102478
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zeichner: Denton Terry
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar