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Also by Suzanne Selfors:

  To Catch a Mermaid

  Fortune’s Magic Farm

  Smells Like Dog

  Smells Like Treasure

  CONTENTS

  Welcome

  Dedication

  Epigraph

  Preface

  L.O.S.T. Official Certificate of Membership

  PART ONE: MILKYDALE

  1. Sweet and Sour Sixteen

  2. A Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity

  3. Prisoner #90

  4. Bloomin’ Bad News

  PART TWO: THE MOCKINGBIRD HOTEL

  5. The Cleaning Lady’s Warning

  6. A Graveyard of Mockingbirds

  7. Advice from a Dead Man

  8. FOUND

  9. The Map Thief

  10. The Unpolluter

  PART THREE: FOUND HEADQUARTERS

  11. Lorelei’s Lair

  12. Prisoner #90’s Revenge

  13. Speckles the Watchdog

  14. Lost and Found

  15. The Belly of a Whale Shark

  16. Prisoner #90’s Escape

  PART FOUR: MAP OF THE MONTH CLUB

  17. Journey to the Topmost Floor

  18. The Office of Celestial Navigation

  19. Sky Dragon

  20. MacDoodle’s Secret

  21. Beneath the Glass Dome

  22. The World on a String

  23. More Bloomin’ Bad News

  PART FIVE: WATERY PLACES

  24. Go Jump In the Lake

  25. Underwater Driving

  26. Full Speed Ahead

  27. The Treasure Queen

  28. Jellyfish Traffic Jam

  29. Captain Conrad’s Chest

  PART SIX: THE LAND OF DRAGONS

  30. Rumpold’s Secret

  31. The Yellow Ball of Saliva

  32. Inside a Dragon’s Head

  33. A Bundle of Booty

  PART SEVEN: HOME

  34. Another Gentleman’s Agreement

  35. And the New President Is…

  36. The Best Birthday Present Ever

  37. The Return of Prisoner #90

  Acknowledgments

  Also by Suzanne Selfors

  Copyright

  Copyright

  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

  Copyright © 2012 by Suzanne Selfors

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  ISBN 978-0-316-21575-6