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    Arrrrgh! Slimosaur!
    Arrrrgh! Slimosaur!
    Arrrrgh! Slimosaur!
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    Arrrrgh! Slimosaur!

    By Alan MacDonald and Mark Beech

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    Iggy is excited as he sets off with Dad on his first hunting trip. More so when they find a set of footprints too large even for a mammoth. Alongside are a heap of bones and a pool of slime the colour of egg white. Iggy wants to hunt the creature, but Dad is suddenly anxious to get back. Later, Iggy's Grumma tells him about the Slimosaur - a great scaly beast which coats you in slime before devouring you in one go. Many moons ago it terrorised the tribe and a dozen Urk children vanished. 'Nothing to worry about,' she says.

    The Urks have had a poor harvest and food is running very low. Chief Hammerhead calls the Elders to discuss solutions to the food shortage. It's decided that to appease the spirits one of their tribe must be sacrificed to the Slimosaur. They cast lots and to Iggy's dismay his friend Umily draws the shortest stick.

    Umily is taken to the forest and bound to a stone. She hears rustling noises. Something is coming . . . Iggy appears! He has come to the rescue! He is armed with a small catapult and a net. Hopefully he has a cunning plan.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateSep 6, 2010
    ISBN9781408811849
    Arrrrgh! Slimosaur!
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    Alan MacDonald

    Alan MacDonald has written over 150 books, including the Devil's Trade and Axel Feinstein series for Scholastic, along with titles in the Dead Famous, Pickle Hill Primary and Double Take series. He is also a regular writer for the Oxford Reading Tree and has had picture books published by Little Tiger Press. Alan MacDonald started his working life in a travelling theatre company. In addition to writing and directing plays, Alan trained as a drama teacher. He has written stories and dramas for the BBC (both television and radio), as well as many children's books. Alan lives in Nottingham.

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      Arrrrgh! Slimosaur! - Alan MacDonald

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      Chapter 1

      Boulderball

      Iggy crouched down and rubbed dirt into the palms of his hands.

      He’d been looking forward to this day for weeks, imagining it, dreaming of it: the Junior Tribal Boulderball Tournament with his team, the Elks, as champions.

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      Now they were minutes away from the final, and only one thing stood in his way: the Rhinos. The Rhinos were Junior Champions and their captain was Snark, who happened to be Iggy’s least favourite person in the world. Snark made no secret of the fact that he regarded Iggy as an annoying little pimple. Maybe it was because Iggy’s uncle happened to be High Chief of the Urks, or maybe it was because he had what his dad called ‘too many brains’; either way Snark hated him with a vengeance. That’s why the game they were about to play wasn’t just important, it was a chance to settle an old score.

      Borg was waiting for the two captains at the boulder-off spot. It was typical, thought Iggy, that the referee for the final was Snark’s dad. The ugpire was selected by the tribal elders, and Borg just happened to be Chief Elder.

      Iggy glanced over at the crowd gathered at the edge of the pitch. It looked as if the whole tribe had turned out. Some of them had climbed trees to get a better view. It was a perfect day for boulderball, with heavy black clouds and a steady drizzle. Iggy could see his mum and dad in the crowd, standing behind Chief Hammerhead and his daughter, Umily. In front of Umily was the boulderball trophy, carved in the shape of a boulder. Iggy wondered if Umily was supporting the Elks today. He wondered too if this time he would win the toss. In boulderball, everything depended on it.

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      BOULDERBALL: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE

      The Urks claim they invented the sport of boulderball, though the Bludmug tribe play a similar game using the severed heads of their enemies. The rules, like most of the players, are pretty simple . . .

      1. Two teams of six players attempt to roll the BOULDER into the opposing team’s goal. The first team to score is the winner.

      2. The boulder can be rolled by pushing, kicking or belting it with long wooden clubs called YOMPERS.

      3. Goals are marked by two upright mammoth tusks called BONEPOSTS, spaced ten to twenty paces apart (depending on who is doing the pacing).

      4. Players are permitted to BLOCK a moving boulder by putting their yomper or their body in its path. This can result in injury – or even death.

      (Dead players must be removed from the pitch before play may continue.)

      5. There are no FOULS in boulderball.

      6. Team captains TOSS THE LIZARD to decide who has choice of ends. This can prove decisive (see point 8).

      7. BOULDER OFF! A game starts with both teams standing behind their own boneposts. On the ugpire’s signal, both teams run for the boulder and try to push it towards their opponent’s goal.

      8. PITCH – Boulderball is played on a hill, giving the team who has the slope a big advantage. Records from the 50,001–50,000 bc season show that teams playing uphill lost 99 per cent of all matches.

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      Borg opened his hand to show them the small, blood-red lizard wriggling to escape.

      ‘Call,’ he said, tossing it high. Three pairs of eyes followed the red blob as it spun in the air.

      ‘Heads!’ shouted Snark.

      The lizard hit the mud, landing on its back with its legs waggling helplessly. Snark nudged it with his foot, flipping the creature over on to its belly.

      ‘Heads it is!’ he cried triumphantly.

      Iggy stared in disbelief. ‘What? It was tails!’

      Borg shook his head. ‘Heads.’

      ‘He cheated!’ complained Iggy.

      Borg picked up the lizard and pushed it under his nose.

      ‘You questioning the ugpire’s decision?’ he growled.

      Iggy swallowed. ‘No, I just –’

      ‘Good. Heads it is. Snark gets choice of ends.’

      Snark tested

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