Katharine the Almost Great: Swimming with the Sharks
CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 pg 5 Butterfl y Shmutterfl y pg 5 CHAPTER 2 pg 13 The Creature from the Blue Pool pg 13 CHAPTER 3 pg 23 Ker-plop pg 23 CHAPTER 4 Meanie Girl pg 33 CHAPTER 5 The Unsinkable Garfi nkle pg 43 CHAPTER 6 Shark Bite pg 53 CHAPTER 7 pg 63 CHAPTER 8 Stingrays Rule the Pool pg 73
chapter 1 Butterfl y Shmutterfl y I tap tap tapped the poster Did you see this Crockett Crockett shook his head I can’t see anything I squeezed the water out of one of my pigtails Of course you can’t Take off your goggles Frog Face Crockett snapped off the goggles He read the poster I jumped up and down We’re going to be Stingrays Crockett’s mouth fell open We are 5
I slipped into my fl ip-fl ops and asked Don’t you want to be a Stingray He wiped a drop of water off of his nose You can’t just be a Stingray You have to try out It’s not easy to make the team He lowered his goggles and pretended to catch a fl y with his tongue Ribbit Ribbit How hard can it be I asked Easy breezy Easy breezy boomed a voice We turned around to see a man in an Aqua Boy T-shirt He held a clipboard in one hand and a stopwatch in the other Easy breezy repeated Aqua Boy Are you sure My stomach did a fl ip-fl op belly drop Maybe not easy breezy He smiled I hope it is easy breezy for you and your friend That would 6
