On the Reef

by J. C. Greenburg

  • Eyewitness: Ocean by Miranda Macquitty (New York: DK Publishing, 2000). Lots of information and great pictures tell the story of the oceans—how they were made, what lives in them, and how we explore them.

  • Oceans by Seymour Simon (New York: HarperCollins Children’s Books, 1997). You’ll feel the waves when you see these pictures! Lots of great information, too. For example, there are 100 billion gallons of water in the ocean for each person on earth!

  • The Octopus: Phantom of the Sea by Mary M. Cerullo (New York: Cobblehill Books/Dutton, 1997). Want to find out more about octopuses, including how smart they are and the tricks they play on humans? Read this!

  • Sea Jellies: Rainbows in the Sea by Elizabeth Tayntor Gowell (London: Franklin Watts, 1993). Jellyfish aren’t fish. They don’t have hearts or brains or bones, but they hunt and eat and reproduce. They can be smaller than your fingernail or bigger than a washing machine. You can find out how these blobby creatures live and see lots of them in this book.

  Turn the page

  for a sneak peek at

  Andrew, Judy, and Thudd’s

  next exciting adventure—

  ANDREW LOST

  IN THE DEEP!

  Available July 2004

  Ten-year-old Andrew Dubble drove deeper and deeper into the ink-dark ocean. In the headlights, he could see huge dishy shapes swooping closer and closer.

  Those couldn’t be flying saucers, he thought. We’re underwater, so they’d have to be swimming saucers!

  The flying-saucer shapes were in front of the Water Bug’s headlights. The shapes had mouths that were open wide.

  “Cheese Louise!” said Judy. “What are those things? Their mouths are big enough to swallow us!”

  meep … “Manta ray!” said Thudd, the little silver robot in the front pocket of Andrew’s underwater suit. “Manta ray not eat people. Just eat tiny stuff. Manta mouth like big net.”

  Judy frowned. “That’s what you said about the whale, Smarty-Pants,” she said.

  Little bursts of bright blue light exploded around the Water Bug. The manta rays tumbled around the Water Bug, gobbling up the mini-fireworks.

  “Wowzers!” said Andrew. “What’s going on out there?”

  meep … “Light come from animals with light inside,” said Thudd. “Called bio- luminescence. Mean ‘living light.’ Living light help animals find same kind of animal for mate. Find prey to eat. Scare hungry predator, too. Like big camera flash in face! Ocean got lotsa living light. Look!” said Thudd, pointing outside.

  As far as they could see, the endless dark ocean twinkled with a zillion tiny lights.

  Suddenly the manta rays flapped away into the glittering blackness like a flock of flying carpets.

  Beyond the headlights of the Water Bug, Andrew made out a strange shape coming toward them.

  “Wowzers schnauzers!” said Andrew as it came closer. “It looks like a swimming chain saw!”

  Text copyright © 2004 by J. C. Greenburg. Illustrations copyright © 2004 by Jan Gerardi. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Greenburg, J. C. (Judith C.)

  On the reef / by J. C. Greenburg; illustrated by Jan Gerardi. — 1st ed.

  p. cm. — (Andrew Lost; 7)

  “A stepping stone book.”

  SUMMARY: After escaping from the belly of a whale, Andrew and his cousin Judy face more dangers from their underwater nemesis, Soggy Bob, in the Great Barrier Reef.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-53909-0

  [1. Marine animals—Fiction. 2. Inventions—Fiction. 3. Cousins—Fiction.] I. Gerardi, Jan, ill. II. Title. III. Series: Greenburg, J. C. (Judith C.), Andrew Lost; v 7.

  PZ7.G82785 Op 2004 [Fic]—dc21 2003009681

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  ANDREW LOST is a trademark of J. C. Greenburg.

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