Sam Wu is NOT Afraid of Sharks!. Katie Tsang

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СКАЧАТЬ style="font-size:15px;">      have a stupid outfit for the

      aquarium too?’

      It was Ralph. Only Ralph thinks

      it’s hilarious to call me Sam Wu-ser

      because it rhymes with loser. And only Ralph

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      snorts like that. I took a deep breath and

      tried to remember what my dad had said

      to do about Ralph. His

      advice was:

      ‘Just ignore

      him.’

      NOT

      that easy!

      Ignoring Ralph is

      Ralph pushed

      his way up through the

      queue until he was right

      behind me. He started poking

      me in the back. ‘Hey! Hey!

      Sam Wu-ser! I’m talking to

      you! Hey! Hey!’

      This was, as you might

      imagine, very hard to ignore.

      ‘He doesn’t have his

      outfit on because we’re going to the

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      aquarium not the Space Museum!’ said Zoe.

      ‘OBVIOUSLY.’

      I was, in fact, wearing a

      T-shirt, because it is the best show ever.

       I made it myself. And in honour of the

       aquarium trip, I’d even drawn on space

       turtle Stephanie. I didn’t feel

       the need to point this

       out though.

      Ralph was

       quiet for all of

       FIVE SECONDS.

       But then he

       barrelled on.

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      ‘Hey. Hey, Sam. I heard there is a submarine simulator in there. Bet you are too scared

       to get in it. Especially after what happened

       at the Space Museum.’ He started

      laughing, but it wasn’t a real laugh, it was some sort of pretend villain laugh. Then

       he pushed past me, because Ralph always pushes in queues, and went to the front.

      ‘I’d like to put him in a submarine

      simulator,’ Zoe muttered. ‘And send it to the BOTTOM OF THE SEA!’

      ‘Yeah!’ said Bernard. Then he patted me on the shoulder. ‘Don’t listen to him, Sam. Everyone has forgotten about—’

      ‘Don’t say it!’ I said. ‘We don’t talk about it,

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      RemeMber?’

      ‘Sorry!’ said Bernard. Then he coughed.

      ‘But, um, you aren’t going to get into the

      submarine simulator, are you?’

      ‘Bernard might have a point,’ said Zoe,

      tugging on her ponytail.

      ‘I wasn’t planning to,’ I said. ‘But please

      can we stop taking about it?’

      They nodded. Spaceman Jack, my

      favourite character on ,

      never has to deal with this kind of thing.

      He NEVER does anything embarrassing,

      but if he did, his friends would definitely

      NEVER bring it up.

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      ‘Come along, you three, hurry up!’ It

       was our teacher, Ms Winkleworth. ‘We have

       lots to see – and we don’t want to be late

       for the feeding at the shark tank!’

      THe

      FeedIng?

      at tHe wHat?

      WHat kInD of

      FeedIng?

      Who

      is FeedI

      ng

      Who

      WHat?

      Before I had a chance to think about

       all the ways a live shark-feeding was more than a little dangerous, we were shuffled

       into the aquarium.

      It was nothing like the fish tanks in Chinatown.

      ‘See, Sam! How COOL is this?’ Bernard waved his arms around. I tried to look

       at everything all at once but it was impossible.

      It was as if we were underwater but somehow breathing air. It was like being on a spaceship in water – dark and filled with aliens! Luckily, I have lots of experience

       with aliens from watching

      so I was TOTALLY fine. But otherwise I might have been a tiny bit afraid.

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      ‘That thing isn’t a fish,’

      I spluttered, pointing at this HUGE

      PURPLE BLOB that was somehow

      floating above my head. I could hear Captain

      Jane (she’s the captain of TUBS, The

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