A Grand Escape – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Soon they were all asleep. Marco was not sure how long they had slept—whether minutes, hours, or days, but when he woke it was still dark, the loft was lit only by moonlight, and three pairs of eyes shown from out of the shadows. He rose stiffly to a sitting position and looked around. He could just make out the shapes of Texas, Boots, and Elvis, all waiting, it seemed, all watching.

Carlotta was still asleep. He nudged Polo uneasily. Texas leaned down from the seat of the old rocker. “Well, well, well,” he said. “Are we all dry and warm and comfy? Are our tummies full?” “Yes, indeed!” said Polo, yawning. “Absolutely.” But Marco’s heart beat all the harder. “Good!” Texas Jake told them. “Because you are about to receive your First Great Mystery.” Marco swallowed. Polo snapped to attention. Carlotta stirred and opened her eyes. “Maybe you can read,” Texas Jake said, looking straight at Marco, “but to solve the Three Great Mys- teries we will give you, you also have to be fast and clever.

Are you ready?” Marco nodded. Polo nodded. The other cats crowded in closer. “The First Great Mystery you have to solve is this: What is inside Bertram the Bad’s doghouse?” Polo thought his legs were going to give out from under him. Marco himself went a little pale around the whiskers. “The boys and I,” Texas went on, “have always no- ticed how Bertram barks whenever anyone comes near his yard.

He guards his house night and day, yet none of us has ever seen what it is he protects so fiercely.” “Oh, Texas,” Carlotta said worriedly, fully awake now. “Don’t you think this is a bit dangerous?” “Nonsense. Polo is fast and Marco can read. A cat that can reeeaaad,” and here Texas drew out the word, “must be a very extraordinary cat indeed.

Qe ko Baleart CARY To Jonathan Lanman, with gratitude, and to Ulysses and Marco, with patience If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as “unsold and destroyed” to the publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this “stripped book.” This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously.

Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. or ALADDIN PAPERBACKS – An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 Text copyright © 1993 by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Illustrations copyright © 1993 by Alan Daniel All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

ALADDIN PAPERBACKS and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Also available in an Atheneum Books for Young Readers hardcover edition. Designed by Kimberly M. Adlerman The text of this book was set in Goudy Old Style. Manufactured in the United States of America First Aladdin Paperbacks edition May 2005 24 68 1OLOS Ta ool The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. The grand escape/by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor—Ist ed. p. cm. Summary: After years of being strictly house cats, Marco and Polo escape into the wonderful but dangerous outside world and are sent on three challenging adventures by a group of cats known as the Club of Mysteries.

ISBN 0-689-31722-0 (hc.) [1. Cats—Fiction. 2. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction.] I. Title. PZ7.N24Gp 1993 [Fic]—dc20 91-40816 ISBN 0-689-87407-3 (pbk.) Books by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Witch’s Sister Witch Water The Witch Herself Walking Through the Dark How I Came to Be a Writer How Lazy Can You Get?

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