Katie Tsang - Sam Wu is NOT Afraid of Sharks!

aquarium. ‘Did you see me wrangle that

stingray?’

Bernard blinked. ‘You mean when the

guide put your hand in the water?’

‘I touched it too!’ said Zoe.

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‘Yeah, but I think the one I touched was

the scariest one,’ I said. ‘Definitely the

ringleader of the group.’

‘I don’t think stingrays have leaders,’ said

Bernard.

‘These ones do,’ I said. ‘I could just tell.’

Bernard frowned. ‘I’ll have to look it up

later.’ Bernard loves to look things up. It is

kind of his superpower – being smart and

knowing facts. Zoe’s super power is being

super fast. My super power is being SUPER

BRAVE, obviously.

We turned the corner and in front of

us was the biggest tank we’d seen yet.

THE SHARK TANK.

Maybe the stingrays weren’t the scariest thing in the aquarium.

‘Gather in close,’ said Betty. ‘But don’t rap on the glass – we don’t

want to bother the sharks.’

‘Of course we don’t want to bother

the sharks,’ I said to Zoe. ‘Who would

want to bother A SHARK?’

Then I saw who was rapping on the glass.

Ralph. Of course. If anyone was going to annoy a shark it would be him.

‘Did you know that sharks are older

than dinosaurs?’ said tour-guide Betty.

‘They’ve been around for over FOUR

HUNDRED MILLION YEARS.’

Bernard gasped. As I said, he loves facts.

He raised his hand. ‘Does that mean that

they are like dinosaurs that live in the sea?’

‘Kind of!’ said Betty. ‘But unlike the

dinosaurs, they’ve managed to survive all

these years. Masters of survival!’

And then I saw one. My very first shark

sighting. It was NOT going to be my last.

It looked just like the sharks in the

movies but BIGGER and MEANER. It

had big black eyes and rows and rows of

razor-sharp teeth. And I was sure it was

looking right at me.

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‘Whoa,’ said Zoe.

‘Whoa,’ said Bernard.

I didn’t

say anything. I

couldn’t believe that

I was staring at a REAL

LIVE SHARK. Which could EAT ME.

A few other sharks swam by too, but the

first one – the one staring me

down – was definitely the

scariest one. NOT that

I was scared of it. But

everyone else probably

was because it was a

very scary shark.

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‘And we arrived just in time for the feeding!’ said Betty.

Oh no! The FEEDING! With all of the excitement, I’d forgotten about the FEEDING.

Ralph cheered. ‘This is going to be the best!’ he said to his friends. ‘I can’t wait to see the shark DESTROY something.’ Then

he bared his teeth like a shark.

‘Ralph,’ said Regina. ‘Please calm down.’

But she looked excited too. Everyone looked excited. I didn’t get it! How could you be excited when we still didn’t know WHAT or WHO was going to get fed to the sharks?

In one episode of

they

went to Shark Planet, which was run by

the Evil Shark Lord, and he almost tricked

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Spaceman Jack into being his dinner!

Doesn’t everyone know that sharks are evil masterminds? How else do you think they have survived for MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of years?

The sharks were swimming faster now –

all of them except the big one. The big one just kept moving in slow circles, going slower every time it passed me, Zoe and Bernard. It was looking at me. I was sure of it. Every time it

swam by, its eyes fixed on me. Even Bernard said, ‘Why is that shark looking at us?’

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‘It’s not looking at us,’ scoffed Zoe. ‘How

can you even tell what it’s looking at? Its

eyes are on either side of its head! It’s

looking everywhere!’

‘Well, if it is looking everywhere then that

also means it is looking at us,’ said Bernard.

‘So I’m technically right.’

‘The shark isn’t looking at us,’ repeated

Zoe.

And then, as if the shark was LISTENING

(which it probably was, because, as I said,

they are SNEAKY MASTERMINDS), it

slowly turned and came right at us!

We all took a step back from the tank.

Even Zoe.

‘Now can you admit it is looking at us?’

I whispered.

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Then the shark . . .

UNHINGED ITS GIANT

JAWS AND SHOWED

US ALL ITS TEETH. AND

IT WAS STILL COMING

TOWARDS US.

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