Take Your Last Breath. Lauren Child

      

Copyright

      First published in hardback in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2012

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      Source ISBN: 9780007334087

       Ebook Edition © SEPTEMBER 2012 ISBN: 9780007487509

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      Contents

       Title Page

Copyright

       Dedication

       Coming up for air

       An Ordinary Kid

       Chapter 1. Don’t back away or they will see you as prey

       Chapter 2. One drop could save your life

       Chapter 3. Plankton and sea cucumbers

       Chapter 4. The recurring dream

       Chapter 5. The shape of a condor

       Chapter 6. An ocean of fear

       Chapter 7. Dolphins, sharks - they’re all the same

       Chapter 8. D for detention

       Chapter 9. All out of fish

       Chapter 10. Sea Division

       Chapter 11. Seriously strange

       Chapter 12. Consequences

       Chapter 13. -... . .- - / .. - --..-- / -. --- ... -.-- / .--. .- .-. -.- . .-.

       Chapter 14. Another Twinford Bay casualty

       Chapter 15. Clutching at straws

       Chapter 16. Don’t look back

       Chapter 17. Something fearsome this way comes

       Chapter 18. White noise

       Chapter 19. Strange and old-fashioned

       Chapter 20. A real potato head

       Chapter 21. Get Zuko

       Chapter 22. No news is good news

       Chapter 23. Love without words

       Chapter 24. Just plain lucky

       Chapter 25. Once in a blue moon

       Chapter 26. Cerebral Sounds

       Chapter 27. An unblemished record

       Chapter 28. I speak the truth

       Chapter 29. A schoolboy error

       Chapter 30. The toes of the sisters

       Chapter 31. A seahorse and a golden bird

       Chapter