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First published in Great Britain in 2018
by Egmont UK Limited
The Yellow Building, 1 Nicholas Road, London W11 4AN
Text copyright © 2018 Katie Tsang and Kevin Tsang
Illustration copyright © 2018 Nathan Reed
Additional interior illustrations copyright © 2018 Egmont Ltd
First e-book edition 2018
ISBN 978 1 4052 8752 4
Ebook ISBN 978 1 7803 1816 5
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TO OUR SIBLINGS:
JACK, JANE AND STEPHANIE
-Katie & Kevin Tsang
CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1: MY HISTORY AS A CERTIFIED, DEFINITELY NOT AFRAID GHOST-HUNTER
CHAPTER 5: A DANGEROUS INVITATION
CHAPTER 6: SHARKS DON’T LIVE ON THE MOON
CHAPTER 7: BUTTERBUTT THE BEACH CAT
CHAPTER 8: QUARANTINE
CHAPTER 9: PRAWN CRACKERS AND PYJAMAS
CHAPTER 10: UNDERWATER SPACESUIT
CHAPTER 11: AN ATTACK IN THE POOL!
CHAPTER 12: YOU CAN’T GET CHICKEN POX TWICE
CHAPTER 13: THE EIGHT SENSES OF DOOM!
CHAPTER 14: A PARTY . . . FOR SHARKS!
CHAPTER 15: CAKE FOR HEROES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My name is Sam Wu and I am NOT afraid of sharks. Or ghosts. Or anything else, no matter what a certain someone – that someone being Ralph Philip Zinkerman the Third – might tell you. And whatever anyone tells you, I am NOT Scaredy-Cat Sam.
You might have heard about my adventures with some ghosts. They started in the
and then everything snowballed from there.1
Anyway, I’ve established that I’m NOT afraid of ghosts. NOT even the Ghost King, who is the number one bad guy in the entire universe. I know this from my favourite show,
There was a ghost in my house and we – that’s me and my friends Zoe and Bernard – had to find it and chase it out of my house. True story.2 We even have the ghost-hunter certificates to prove it.
Back to me being brave. I’m so brave that my sidekick is an actual, genuine, man-eating snake named Fang.3
I thought that by proving I wasn’t afraid of ghosts nobody would call me Scaredy-Cat Sam any more. I was wrong.
It was just the beginning of proving how NOT afraid I am.
After the INCIDENT at the Space Museum, which won’t be spoken of (it involved me, an Astro Blast Simulator and a change of trousers), I had to prove my bravery by getting a snake sidekick and becoming a certified ghost-hunter.
It’s kind of a long story. All you need to know is that I proved how BRAVE I am.
But apparently, bravery is something you have to prove over and over again.
I thought everything would go back to normal and I’d never have to hear the words
again. But then we had a school trip to the aquarium. And that was when things really went wrong.4
It should have been a perfect day. I wasn’t 100 per cent sure what to expect at the aquarium, but my best friend Bernard swore it