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Smells Like Dog

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by Suzanne Selfors


  Not only did Homer desire this membership, but he also needed it. He’d promised his late uncle Drake that he’d continue the quest for the most famous pirate treasure of all time—the lost treasure of Rumpold Smeller. But Homer was twelve years old, so he’d need help organizing and funding such a grand quest. That help could come from L.O.S.T.—but only if Homer was granted membership.

  “Whatcha looking at?” A little boy popped his head around the corner of the house. The boy was Squeak, Homer’s little brother. He clutched the handle of a red wagon. A baby goat lay in the wagon, nestled on Squeak’s favorite blanket. Since most farms in Milkydale were goat farms, baby goats had been popping out all month like weeds in a carrot patch.

  “It’s a letter for me,” Homer told him.

  “I like letters,” Squeak said. “I’m naming this goat Butter, ’cause she looks like butter.” He leaned over and rubbed his freckled face against the goat’s back. “She smells like butter, too.”

  “That’s nice,” Homer said, only half listening as he pulled out a single sheet of plain white paper.

  A bolt of excitement darted up his back.

  “What’s it say?” Squeak asked.

  Four words that meant everything to Homer. Four words that would be the beginning of his destiny.

  Your time has come.

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  CONTENTS

  Front Cover Image

  Welcome

  Dedication

  Epigraph

  PART ONE: THE PUDDING FARM

  1. Breakfast with the Puddings

  2. The Untimely Passing of Uncle Drake

  3. A Snooty Delivery

  4. Droopy Dog

  5. The Horrid Howl

  PART TWO: MILKYDALE

  6. To School

  7. Weird Cloud

  8. Paint Milkshake

  9. The Unexpected Invitation

  10. Ajitabh the Cloud Man

  11. The Library at Midnight

  12. The Worst Thing That Ever Happened in Milkydale

  PART THREE: THE CITY

  13. The Runaways

  14. An Elongated Lady

  15. Tomato Soup Girl

  16. Misters T. and C. Snooty

  17. The Soup Warehouse

  18. The Tortoises of City Park

  PART FOUR: THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

  19. A Party for Very Important People

  20. The Cave of Brilliance

  21. The Realm of Reptiles

  22. Beneath the Microscope

  PART FIVE: THE TOWER IN THE SKY

  23. Clouds, Clouds Everywhere

  24. Conqueror of the Sky

  25. Another Letter

  26. Secrets and Syrup

  27. The Most Treasured Possession

  PART SIX: THE EVIL LAIR

  28. A Friend’s Deception

  29. Return to The City

  30. Swallowed Alive

  31. Inside the Lair

  32. The Monster in the Pool

  33. A Gentleman’s Agreement

  34. The Shape of a Hero

  35. Some Final Things

  Acknowledgments

  The Most Famous Treasure Hunters of All Time

  A Preview of Smells Like Treasure

  Also by Suzanne Selfors

  Copyright

  Copyright

  The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

  Copyright © 2010 by Suzanne Selfors

  All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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  Second e-book edition: November 2011

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  ISBN 978-0-316-08913-5

 

 

 


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