Katie Tsang - Sam Wu Is NOT Afraid of Ghosts!

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 8751 7

Ebook ISBN 978 1 7803 1815 8

www.egmont.co.uk

A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library

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FOR OUR PARENTS

-Katie & Kevin Tsang

CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright 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 8751 7 Ebook ISBN 978 1 7803 1815 8 www.egmont.co.uk A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library All rights reserved. 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. Stay safe online. Any website addresses listed in this book are correct at the time of going to print. However, Egmont is not responsible for content hosted by third parties. Please be aware that online content can be subject to change and websites can contain content that is unsuitable for children. We advise that all children are supervised when using the internet.

Dedication FOR OUR PARENTS -Katie & Kevin Tsang

CHAPTER 1: DON’T CALL ME SCAREDY-CAT SAM

CHAPTER 2: THE UNFORTUNATE INCIDEN THAT WILL NEVER BE MENTIONED AGAIN

CHAPTER 3: BLAST-OFF ON TWO-WHEEL TUBS

CHAPTER 4: A DANGEROUS SIDEKICK

CHAPTER 5: ALIEN CONTAMINATION

CHAPTER 6: DUCK, DUCK, TURNIP CAKE

CHAPTER 7: EVEN SPACEMAN JACK WOULD BE IMPRESSED

CHAPTER 8: LIGHTS OUT

CHAPTER 9: WORMHOLES ARE REAL (AND GHOSTS ARE TOO)

CHAPTER 10: THE MOST LOGICAL CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 11: PICKLE CASSEROLE

CHAPTER 12: ALWAYS BLAME BUTTERBUTT

CHAPTER 13: GHOST-HUNTERS AND SNAKE WRANGLERS

CHAPTER 14: THINK LIKE A GHOST

CHAPTER 15: A SHOCKING REVELATION

CHAPTER 16: BUTTERBUTT STRIKES AGAIN

CHAPTER 17: CERTIFIED GHOST-HUNTERS

CHAPTER 18: NOT AFRAID

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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My name is Sam Wu and I am NOT afraid of ghosts.

I know this for a fact because I recently had to become a genuine, certified 1ghost-hunter. Some people might try to tell you otherwise. But those people are LIARS. Do NOT listen to them. Especially do not listen to them if their name is Ralph Philip Zinkerman the Third. Ralph will tell you that I am . . . Scaredy-Cat Sam.

For the record, I am NOT a scaredy-cat. If I were a cat, I’d be like my little sister Lucy’s cat, Butterbutt. DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE NAME.

Even my Na-Na (that’s my grandma – she lives with us) is scared of Butterbutt and she is so brave that one time she wrestled an ALLIGATOR!

When I tried to explain to Ralph that:

A. I am NOT a scaredy-cat and

B. Scaredy-Cat doesn’t make sense as an insult

he just laughed at me and said I was probably scared of cats too. Which obviously ISN’T TRUE.

He’s never met Butterbutt. I bet he’d be scared of Butterbutt.

You are probably wondering why Ralph calls me Scaredy-Cat Sam.

Now listen closely, because I’m only going to tell this story ONCE. Okay? I don’t even let my best friends Zoe and Bernard talk about it. And we talk about everything. But even they know NOT to ever mention it. It isn’t a laughing matter, no matter what some people might tell you.

It should have been the best day of the year. It was the day of the class field trip to the Space Museum. It was all I had thought about for months. You see, the Space Museum had a REAL spaceship in it. The only spaceship I’d ever seen was on my favourite TV show

I was so excited, I even wore my special spaceman gear, which was carefully crafted by SPACE BLASTERS’ number one fan (i.e. me).

Unfortunately, space gear is expensive. So I had to be resourceful and make my own even better space equipment. All it took was a bike helmet, some cling film and a few flashlights (it’s dark in space). I even made a custom SPACE BLASTERS shirt with some felt tip markers.

I thought it was going to be a perfect day.

I was wrong.

It all started when I got on the bus to go to the museum. I sat down next to Zoe and Bernard, proudly wearing my SPACE BLASTERS T-shirt and specially crafted space helmet.

‘Sam,’ said Bernard, blinking at me. ‘What exactly are you wearing?’ He was holding a lightsaber and wearing a Star Wars T-shirt. A fancy one. NOT one that he had made himself.