The Trimoni Twins and the Shrunken Treasure

by Pam Smallcomb

  “It’s time to go,” Beezel said.

  On the plane, the girls found their seats and sat down. Hector took his seat across the aisle from them.

  Mimi slipped Gumdrop’s plastic container out of her pocket and peeked inside it to check on Gumdrop.

  While Mimi whispered to Gumdrop, Beezel stared out the window and thought about Wiliken. Her heart hurt in a scraped-knee way. Maybe that’s why they call it a crush, she thought. She supposed it would go away in time. But then Wiliken’s face floated in front of her. Maybe not

  She pulled her puzzle box out of her pocket and looked at it. Beezel thought about solving it and finding any hidden drawers it might have, but then she decided she wanted to save it for later. So instead, she stuffed it back down inside her pocket.

  “Excuse me.”

  Beezel and Mimi looked up. A boy about their age, with dark eyes and curly brown hair, stood grinning down at them.

  “I think you’re in my seat,” he said to Beezel. He showed her his boarding pass. “But the window seat is open.” He pointed to the empty seat next to her. “That must be your seat. Do you want me to take it?”

  “Ah … uh …” What was the matter with her? Was this going to happen every single time a boy talked to her? Stupid throat, she thought as she stood up and moved over to the window seat. “That’s okay, I’ll move over.” The boy sat down between them.

  “Hi!” Mimi said cheerily. “I’m Mimi, and this is Beezel.” Mimi chatted to him while Beezel stole glimpses of him from the corner of her eye.

  “Barend?” she heard her sister say. “That’s a nice name, isn’t it, Beez?”

  Beezel nodded at Barend and actually managed a smile. She looked out the window and listened to Mimi’s voice as she happily told Barend about life with the Trimoni Circus. Mimi wasted no time in inviting Barend to come see them perform sometime soon.

  “Right, Beezel?” Mimi said. “We can give him a backstage pass.”

  “Sure.” Beezel nodded. This was good, Mimi talking to some new boy. That was okay by her. She hoped Mimi got a big crush on Barend. The more crushes the better. Because that way, when we’re eighteen, there’s a very good chance she’ll have a crush on somebody besides Wiliken. Beezel smiled and pulled Wiliken’s puzzle box out of her pocket. She fastened her seat belt and began inspecting her gift for hidden buttons or levers.

  When she thought about it, she had plenty of things to look forward to.

  Also by Pam Smallcomb

  THE LAST BURP

  OF MAC McGERP

  THE TRIMONI TWINS AND

  THE CHANGING COIN

  Copyright © 2005 by Pam Smallcomb

  First published in the United States of America in 2005

  by Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers

  E-book edition published in 2013

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Smallcomb, Pam.

  The Trimoni Twins and the shrunken treasure / by Pam Smallcomb.—1st

  U.S. ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Two magical twin sisters help a modelmaker and a handsome

  young movie star find a lost treasure in Amsterdam.

  [1. Magic—Fiction. 2. Buried treasure—Fiction. 3. Twins—Fiction

  4. Sisters—Fiction. 5. Amsterdam (Netherlands)—Fiction. 6. Netherlands—

  Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.S63914Trr 2004 [Fic]—dc22 2005013051

  eISBN: 978-1-6196-3040-6 (e-book)

  First U.S. Edition 2005