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    Danger Dan and Gadget Girl: The Gruesome Garden: Danger Dan and Gadget Girl, #3
    Danger Dan and Gadget Girl: The Gruesome Garden: Danger Dan and Gadget Girl, #3
    Danger Dan and Gadget Girl: The Gruesome Garden: Danger Dan and Gadget Girl, #3
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    Danger Dan and Gadget Girl: The Gruesome Garden: Danger Dan and Gadget Girl, #3

    By Monica Lim and Lesley-Anne Tan

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    Dog is lost! It's a race against time as Danny and Melody have to find him in the heart of the Botanic Gardens before the authorities get to him first. The odds are against them as Dog is ill, Melody meets her worst feathery fear, and Danny has his very own plant predicament…involving bean sprouts.

    In The Gruesome Garden, Danger Dan, Gadget Girl and Power Paws are in a leafy mess! A secret evil has taken root among the plants in 2135, causing them to have a life of their own. Join the superheroes as they untangle themselves from this overgrown problem!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEpigram Books
    Release dateApr 4, 2019
    ISBN9789814757072
    Danger Dan and Gadget Girl: The Gruesome Garden: Danger Dan and Gadget Girl, #3

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      Danger Dan and Gadget Girl - Monica Lim

      Danger Dan and Gadget Girl: The Gruesome Garden

      Danny was in his room, staring gloomily at an open ice cream tub. There wasn’t any ice cream in it. Instead, it had a thin layer of wet cotton wool and nestled in it were a few green beans.

      Bean sprouts. Danny thought there were few things as boring as trying to grow bean sprouts… which he was trying to do now because he was supposed to bring a grown plant to school tomorrow as part of his science project and had forgotten all about it. Never mind, he would just have to grow it in a day. How hard could it be?

      Danny checked his science textbook. Plants need water to grow, he read. All right, then! He ran to the bathroom and filled a cup from the tap. He carefully brought it back and poured all the water into the ice cream tub.

      Danger Dan and Gadget Girl: The Gruesome Garden

      That should do it!

      The measly little beans were now submerged. They should grow in no time at all. Danny jumped onto his bed and began playing on his phone. Half an hour later, he remembered his beans and decided to check on them. To his dismay, there was no sign of a bean sprout anywhere. The lazy beans lay in the tub, looking wet and cosy.

      Why aren’t you growing? he cried. Maybe I missed something. He checked his science textbook again. Plants…plants…there! Plants also need warmth, he read.

      Warmth? Danny didn’t know that plants felt cold too, like humans. He ran to his wardrobe and rummaged through his clothes. Aha! He found a pair of woollen socks. They had kept his feet warm when he had gone on a family holiday to Taiwan during winter. He carefully placed both socks onto the cotton wool. There you go, beanies. Nice and toasty now!

      Lunchtime, Danny! Danny heard his mother call from the dining room. On the menu was rice, pork chops…and bean sprouts. Danny wolfed down his meal. Planting beans was tiring work. He did find it a little weird that he was chomping down on bean sprouts though. An hour later, Danny returned to his room. As he walked past the ice cream tub on his desk, his heart sank. His beans had still not grown!

      What am I doing wrong? Danny desperately flipped open his science textbook. Plants need sunlight to make their own food. Oh! The plants are hungry! Sorry, beanies! I will feed you now! Danny brought the ice cream tub to the window in his room and stood there for a good five minutes. Nothing happened. Hmm…sunlight from other parts of the house could be stronger.

      To the kitchen window! Danny ran to the kitchen and put the ice cream tub on the window sill by the kitchen sink. Nothing happened. To the bathroom window! Unfortunately, that window was quite high up, almost touching the ceiling. Danny had to stand on the toilet seat and hold up the ice cream tub, as if offering his beans to the Sunshine Gods for inspection. Still nothing!

      Danger Dan and Gadget Girl: The Gruesome Garden

      Danny wanted to scream in frustration. He stepped down from the toilet seat and…

      Danger Dan and Gadget Girl: The Gruesome Garden

      Danny slipped on some water. AARRGGHH! He skidded across the bathroom floor like a clumsy ice-skater. He grabbed the towel rail to steady himself, clutching the ice cream tub tightly with his other hand. The water in the tub sloshed about.

      Danny glanced down and realised that there was a trail of water droplets leading into the bathroom. He studied his ice cream tub and noticed a crack in its side. Water was slowly leaking from the crack.

      Danger Dan and Gadget Girl: The Gruesome Garden

      Yikes! My beanies! They’re losing water! Danny rushed the beans back to his room.

      Danger Dan and Gadget Girl: The Gruesome Garden

      Danny placed the ice cream tub on his table and haphazardly plastered the crack with some masking tape. The beans were still buried in wet cotton wool, completely bean-like without any hint of becoming bean sprouts. Silly beanies!

      Desperate times called for desperate measures. It was time to implement Danny’s Emergency Bean Growth Plan! Danny poured another cup of water into the tub so that it was now almost filled to the brim. He threw his window open so that sunlight flooded the room. He switched on his desk lamp, torchlight, light stick and lava lamp, placing all of them around the beans to form a halo of light. The afternoon sun was blazing and soon, Danny’s room became very warm indeed.

      There. Lots of light, lots of water and lots of warmth. The beans should sprout any moment now.

      Hang on! Danny suddenly remembered that he was supposed to keep a journal to record his plant’s growth. He fished out a notebook from his school bag and started writing:

      10.30 am: Beans planted.

      11.30 am: Added water.

      12.00 pm: Warmed

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