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02 juillet 2015

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9781474705639

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English

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One day, Isaac Thompson is just your average kid playing the part of a porcupine in the school play. The next, he has strayed into a mysterious underground realm that has been lurking beneath his school and launches his quest to knighthood!

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Publié par

Capstone Global Library

Date de parution

02 juillet 2015

EAN13

9781474705639

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Isaac Thompsonand the Knights of Castle School

Written by Douglas Gibson

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Contents

CHAPTER 1 lily loses her jewel gem......................................... 7

CHAPTER 2 into the boiler room.............................................. 17

CHAPTER 3 a lake,two hands and a bat................................... 29

CHAPTER 4 across the lake ..................................................... 40

CHAPTER 5 the welcoming committee..................................... 52

CHAPTER 6 rats,frogs and fireflies....................................... 58

CHAPTER 7 dining with an ear.................................................. 69

CHAPTER 8 teaming up with the furniture ............................. 83

CHAPTER 9 the park ................................................................. 92

CHAPTER 10 the wrath of shelfliver ......................................101

CHAPTER 11 under the warden’s thumb....................................108

CHAPTER 12 max saves the day.................................................119

CHAPTER 13 running for the docks ...........................................131

CHAPTER 14 my last stand........................................................137

CHAPTER 15 getting out of there.............................................148

CHAPTER 1

lily loses her jewel gem

I guess I should tell you about me. I’m Isaac Thompson, I’m eleven years old, and – honestly? –I’m nothing special. I like video games, and I get quite good marks at school, and so far neither of my parents has died tragically or gone missing. Until last November, I had led a completely ordinary life. So if you’re going to make any sense of what happened to me and my friends Max and Emma and my little sister, Lily, I’m going to have to tell you about our school first. And the first thing you should know about our school is that it’s old. It’s actually a castle. A millionaire had it brought over from Germany and put back together at the top

ISAAC THOMPSON AND THE KNIGHTS OF CASTLE SCHOOL

of Clinger ’s Hill, here in Butford, where I live. (Somehow he preferred German castles. Nobody knows why.) When he died, he donated the castle to the town, but the townspeople took one look at this creepy, drafty, damp heap of rocks with a dungeon and said, “I know! Let’s turn it into aschool.” And so our school – Castle School – was born. Even before the millionaire brought it over from Germany, this castle was known for weird stuff. It was supposed to have ghosts (including one that turned cakes into pies, another one that turned pies into cakes – and a third that turned mashed potatoes into curly fries). It was also supposed to be cursed (apparently every third person who entered the castle came out in a tutu). After it became a school, though, things got even weirder. For example, every once in a while during announcements, this creepy voice takesover the intercom and mutters, “flapjacks ... flapjacks ...flapjacks”. And sometimes all the boys’ toilets on the third-floor turn into fountains and shoot out synchronized jets of red-, white-, and blue- coloured water (I’ve heard that the jets spray in time to “Rule,

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Britannia”, but I’ve never seen them myself). And just last year, six children and a teacher got trapped in a secret chamber behind a wall in the canteen. They only got out because they managed to tie a note that read, “Help us! We’re trapped in a secret chamber behind the wall!” to the leg of a beetle. But the weirdest thing that ever happened atour school happened to me and my friends and my little sister. Our story started when the four of us stayed after school with some other pupils to rehearse the school play. (Lily wasn’tin the play, but she stayed after so Mum could pick us up at the same time.) The play wasThe Sword in the Stone, and in it King Arthur (actually Billy Rodriguez) proves he’s king by pulling a sword from an anvil set on top of a stone. (I’m pretty sure that’snotyou become how a king, but it’s not like Mrs Applebaum cares what I think. We go toCastleand the play had School, knights and stuff in it, and that was enough for her.) Old Man McTavish, our school janitor, had put together the stone/anvil/sword set-up, and nobody could get the sword out. Not Billy Rodriguez, not Mrs Applebaum. Not my best friend Max – he gave

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