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   神祕的多倫王國04-隱形城

   系列/優文庫 20

   作者/東尼.艾伯特

   繪者/提姆.傑賽爾

   譯者/陳思因

 

 

▲學習主旨:積極面對危機的勇氣  

一扇隱藏的門

一道神奇的樓梯

將揭開多倫王國的祕密!

還記得尼爾在上一集裡,不小心被琪雅公主的咒語變成蟲子嗎?上一集的冒險落幕之後,原本大家都以為,這個咒語解除了,沒想到!在第四集裡,尼爾又莫名其妙(?)變成蟲子啦!!而且還是在搭校車的時候變身的!這可嚇壞了他的好朋友艾瑞克和茱莉,因為他們可不能讓別的同學發現尼爾這副怪模樣啊!

但話說事出必有因,尼爾突然又變成蟲子,一定和神祕的多倫王國有關,於是這三個好朋友,下了校車後,就趕忙奔進艾瑞克家中的地下室裡,利用神祕的彩虹梯前往多倫王國去尋求幫助。

彩虹梯每次都會帶他們來到一個意想不到的地方,而這次的落腳點,竟然在一艘飛船上,更可怕的是,這是邪惡的斯霸魔王的飛船!幸好在他們要被啪噠」丟下飛船的千鈞一髮之際,琪雅公主一行人過來搭救他們了。

琪雅公主看到尼爾又變成蟲子,內心充滿了歉意,不過她也替尼爾帶來了一個好消息,只要找到隱形城,就能請隱形城的保護神,解除尼爾身上的咒語。

但是問題又來了,這座傳說中的隱形城,一年只現身一次啊!而且,每次現身的時間只有一天,假如他們不趕快行動,或是來不及離開隱形城,就會跟著隱形城消失了!

時間緊迫,偏偏斯霸魔王又企圖奪取隱形城的鑽石想打造一群隱形士兵,艾瑞克、尼爾和茱莉一邊要忙著阻擋斯霸的邪惡計畫,一邊要爭取時間解除魔法、及時離開隱形城,緊湊刺激的故事情節,真的讓人在閱讀的同時,忍不住替他們捏把冷汗,不斷大叫:快點,快點,快點!

但是這三個小朋友真的很勇敢,即使知道在他們面前的是萬惡之首斯霸魔王,也可能一不小心就落得隨隱形城消失的下場,他們仍然積極地正面迎接這些危機。

小朋友你遇到困難時,是否也像故事中的三個小朋友一樣,積極面對並努力找尋解決之道呢?還是你會學駝鳥一樣,逃避問題、逃避現實呢?作者利用神祕、奇幻的冒險故事,加上輕鬆、幽默的筆觸,帶出了這樣一個嚴肅的故事主旨:逃避解決不了事情,唯有拿出勇氣積極面對危機,問題才能迎刃而解。

看完故事簡介,是否忍不住要親自翻閱了呢?書籍已於12月上市囉,千萬別錯過這套被評為是等待下一本哈利波特出現前的十大好書」。

優文庫》是唯一中文雙語分級讀物,其中多倫王國》的中文部分屬於中高年級適讀,英文部分屬於國小進階閱讀(Advanced Reading),因此接下來,要請各位小朋友訓練自己的英語閱讀能力囉。如果都看懂了,別忘了給自己掌聲哦!

   School was over for the day.

       Eric Hinkle and his two best friends, Neal and Julie, climbed onto the bus home.

       “It’s been two whole weeks since we’ve been to you-know-where,” Julie whispered as they squeezed into a seat together.

        Eric smiled. Of course he knew where.

        Droon, the totally secret and magical world of adventure that they had found under his basement.

        “It’s so strange,” Eric said when the bus started up. “We have all these amazing new friends and we can’t even talk about them.”

        “Enemies, too, don’t forget,” Neal added.

        That was true. Since their first adventure in Droon, they had met Galen Longbeard, an old and powerful wizard, and his spidery helper, Max. Khan, king of the pillow-shaped purple Lumpies, had helped them, too.

        But their special friend was Princess Keeah, a junior wizard who was trying to keep the wicked Lord Sparr and his red-faced Ninns from taking over her world.

        “I wonder what Keeah is up to,” Eric said. “I’m itching to go back.”

        “And I’m just itching!” Neal groaned, bending over suddenly to scratch his legs.

    “In fact, I’ve been doing weird stuff all day. Not to mention the tiny little voices I keep hearing…”

        That’s when it happened.

        Pop!

        “Whoa!” Eric gasped, looking under the seat. “Look at that!” He pointed at Neal’s sneaker.

        Neal bent down. His shoelaces stretched and broke, one after another. The toe burst open and something brown and shiny popped out.

        “Neal,” said Julie, “what’s with your sneaker? Is that the stuffing coming out?”

        Eric gasped. “No, that’s his foot coming out!”

        “That’s not my foot,” said Neal. “It looks like a bug … a bug…. Wait. That is m foot! I’ve got a bug foot! Oh, no! I’m a bug again!”

        The other kids on the bus turned and laughed.

        Julie dropped her backpack over Neal’s shoe before anyone saw it.

        “Holy cow!” Eric whispered. “I know what’s going on! Neal, brace yourself. It’s back.”

        Neal frowned. “What’s back?”

        “The bug spell,” he said.

        “What?” Neal moaned. “I thought that spell was over!”

        “It looks like it just came back,” said Julie.

        On their last adventure in Droon, a magic spell had gone wrong and accidently Neal had been turned into a bug.

        A baby bug, with a hard brown shell, six legs, and feelers on his head that curled and twitched.

        And now it was happening again.

        Errr! The bus stopped, and the doors swung open.

        “There’s only one place to go,” Eric said, grabbing Neal and pulling him off the bus. “To my basement. Hurry. We need to go back to Droon.”

 

 

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