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    Alien Ahoy! and Other Stories
    Alien Ahoy! and Other Stories
    Alien Ahoy! and Other Stories
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    Alien Ahoy! and Other Stories

    By Emma Laybourn

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    A starship crew meet a most unusual alien - who has a knack of getting them all into trouble! Read about their adventures in these four short, easy chapter books: Alien Ahoy, The Moon Monster, The Spooky Spaceship and The Runaway Space School.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmma Laybourn
    Release dateMar 25, 2020
    ISBN9780463121641
    Alien Ahoy! and Other Stories
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    Emma Laybourn

    I'm a qualified teacher and librarian who has had seven children's books published in traditional form in the UK and USA. I've also had about sixty short stories published in British and Australian magazines.In 2012 I set up a child-friendly website, www.megamousebooks.com, to offer free children's stories, ebooks and printable puzzles. Five years later I created my second site, www.englishliteratureebooks.com, as a home for free abridged classic novels and classic poetry ebook collections. Keeping both sites going is proving a full-time job, but a very enjoyable one!

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    Alien Ahoy! and Other Stories - Emma Laybourn

    ALIEN AHOY!

    and other stories

    Emma Laybourn

    Smashwords Edition 2018

    Alien Ahoy! Copyright 2012 Emma Laybourn

    The Moon Monster: Copyright 2013 Emma Laybourn

    The Spooky Spaceship: Copyright 2014 Emma Laybourn

    The Runaway Space School: Copyright 2015 Emma Laybourn

    Table of Contents

    Alien Ahoy

    Chapter One: The Alien Arrives

    Chapter Two: On Board

    Chapter Three: No Answer

    Chapter Four: Alien Adults

    The Moon Monster

    Chapter One: The Moons of Merzi

    Chapter Two: On the Moon

    Chapter Three: Tunnels

    Chapter Four: Monster!

    Chapter Five: A Dreadful Discovery

    Chapter Six: The Chase

    Chapter Seven: Can We Escape?

    The Spooky Spaceship

    Chapter One: Distress Call

    Chapter Two: The Deserted Ship

    Chapter Three: Exploring

    Chapter Four: There’s Something There!

    Chapter Five: Revenge

    Chapter Six: Ghosts!

    Chapter Seven: No Such Thing

    The Runaway Space School

    Chapter One: A Message Arrives

    Chapter Two: The Space School

    Chapter Three: Clang!

    Chapter Four: Thud!

    Chapter Five: Hold On…

    Chapter Six: Crunch Time

    Chapter Seven: The Big Spin

    ALIEN AHOY!

    Chapter One: The Alien Arrives

    I never believed in aliens. Not until last week…

    I live on a space-ship. A great big space-ark. My dear father is the Captain. We travel through deep space, making star maps.

    It’s a lonely life, but I like it. It’s nice and peaceful – just us and the stars.

    We thought we had the galaxy to ourselves. We never met any aliens.

    Until last week…

    I was in the school-room with my little sister, Roa. I’d just had my spelling pill.

    Now, dear child, said the teacher. How do you spell LIGHT?

    L-I-Y-W-O-Q-G-H-T?

    Hmm! I think we need to change the dose.

    Meanwhile, Roa had her maths injection.

    6 + 4? the teacher asked.

    39!

    Oh, dear. Let’s give you another jab…

    Just then there was a fizz and a thud. They came from the landing bay.

    We rushed out. There sat a little shuttle, bashed and dented.

    And out of the shuttle climbed… the alien.

    The alien took off its space-suit.

    We froze in fear.

    It took off its helmet.

    We gasped in horror.

    It was only a small alien… but it was hideous!

    For a start, where was all its fur? It hardly had any – only on its head. That was tied in two long, thin ropes, and was a weird yellow colour. Fur should be purple, like ours!

    The alien’s face was a horrible pink. And it had two eyes! Surely one is quite enough for anybody.

    It had no proper tentacles at all – just four long sticks, with five pink wigglies at each end.

    And its voice!

    I greeted it as politely as I could. We are always polite.

    Welcome to our space-ship, O rare and beautiful alien, I said. I bowed low.

    Alien? I’m not an alien! I’m a girl. I’m Belinda! snapped the alien. She had a voice like a laser knife. And a stare to match.

    Who are you? she demanded. Where am I? Take me back home at once! Right now! This minute!

    Both my mouths fell open.

    But – but where is your home? I stammered.

    Planet Earth, of course! Where else, fur-brain?

    There are no planets round here, said Roa.

    I know that! I’m not stupid, said Belinda furiously. I’m on holiday, cruising with my parents in our space-ship. I went for a ride in the shuttle by myself, and I got lost in a stupid meteor storm.

    Oh, poor you, said Roa. She actually tried to take hold of the alien’s pink wigglies! She’s brave, my sister.

    Belinda shook her away.

    Get off me, fuzz-face! Take me to your Captain. You’re going to help me find my parents.

    We are?

    "Of course you are! Or else!"

    Chapter Two: On Board

    "I said, you’ve got to fix my shuttle!"

    Belinda glared at my brave and noble father, the Captain. He took a nervous step back.

    We’re trying,

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