The Tides Turn
First published in the USA by HarperCollins Publishers Inc in 2015
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2015
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Source ISBN: 9780007586554
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Version: 2015-02-05
FOR MOM AND DAD,
WHO HAVE READ EVERYTHING
SINCE THE VERY FIRST SENTENCE
Contents
Copyright
Chapter One: The Wrath of Yappy
Chapter Two: Twerp Perps, Snalp, and the Fat Lady
Chapter Three: The Enemy of Interesting
Chapter Four: The Barry
Chapter Five: Shard Luck
Chapter Six: Aly-Bye
Chapter Seven: Down and out in LA
Chapter Eight: The Humpty Dumpty Project
Chapter Nine: Mausoleum Dream
Chapter Ten: If it Looks Like a Hoax …?
Chapter Eleven: God of Couch Potatoes
Chapter Twelve: Biiiig Trouble
Chapter Thirteen: The Fourth Loculus
Chapter Fourteen: Escape from the Nostril
Chapter Fifteen: The Dream Continued
Chapter Sixteen: A Goat Moment
Chapter Seventeen: Battle on the Mount
Chapter Eighteen: Loser, Loser, Loser
Chapter Nineteen: Deifirtep
Chapter Twenty: In the Matter of Victor Rafael QuiÑones
Chapter Twenty One: Slipping Away
Chapter Twenty Two: Massa Island
Chapter Twenty Three: Good Enough for the Cockroaches
Chapter Twenty Four: The Illusion of Control
Chapter Twenty Five: In Hexad de Heptimus Veritas
Chapter Twenty Six: Lifeline
Chapter Twenty Seven: The Seventh Codex
Chapter Twenty Eight: His Jackness
Chapter Twenty Nine: What’s a Few Million Lives …?
Chapter Thirty: Esiole
Chapter Thirty One: The King of Toast
Chapter Thirty Two: Reunion
Chapter Thirty Three: Preposserous
Chapter Thirty Four: My Sister the Monster
Chapter Thirty Five: Goon Number Seven
Chapter Thirty Six: Pull my Finger
Chapter Thirty Seven: The Meathead Starts Over
Chapter Thirty Eight: Ambush
Chapter Thirty Nine: Fiddle and Bones
Chapter Fourty: The Labyrinth and the Tapestry
Chapter Fourty One: Is not Gorilla
Chapter Fourty Two: The Teflon King
Chapter Fourty Three: Braggart, Traitor, Deserter, Killer?
Chapter Fourty Four: The Sword and the Rift
Chapter Fourty Five: Something Much Wors
Epilogue
About the Publisher
HAVING LESS THAN a year to live doesn’t feel great, but it’s worse when you’re in a cop car that smells of armpits, cigarettes, and dog poop. “Don’t New York City cops ever clean their cars?” Cass Williams mumbled.
I turned my nose to the half-open window. Aly Black was at the other end of the backseat, but Cass was stuck in the middle. Outside, music blared from a nearby apartment window. An old woman walking a Chihuahua eyed us and began yelling something I couldn’t quite make out.
“Okay, what do we do now, Destroyer?” Cass asked.
“‘Jack’ is still my name,” I said.
“‘The Destroyer Shall Rule,’ that was the prophecy,” Aly replied. “And your mom pointed at you.”
“We were invisible! She could have been pointing at …”