The Invisible Island Page 4

  Josh shook his head. “That’s a terrible name. If you were short, would you want to be called Shorty?”

  “Josh is right,” Dink said. “We can come up with a better name than that.”

  But when Josh’s parents came home an hour later, the kids still hadn’t picked a name.

  When Josh finally got permission to keep the dog, he still had no name.

  Later that night, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose drifted off to sleep in their bedrooms.

  The short-legged dog with droopy ears snored at the end of Josh’s bed.

  But he still had no name.

  Text copyright © 1999 by Ron Roy

  Illustrations copyright © 1999 by John Steven Gurney

  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

  Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Roy, Ron.

  The invisible island/by Ron Roy; illustrated by John Steven Gurney.

  p. cm.—(A to Z mysteries)

  “A Stepping Stone book.”

  Summary: While picnicking on Squaw Island, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose find a

  hundred-dollar bill, and when they return to explore further they find an entire

  cave full of money. eISBN: 978-0-307-53293-0

  [1. Islands—Fiction. 2. Counterfeits and counterfeiting—Fiction.

  3. Mystery and detective stories.] I. Gurney, John, ill. II. Title. III. Series:

  Roy, Ron. A to Z mysteries. PZ7.R8139In 1999 [Fic]—dc21 99-18346

  RANDOM HOUSE and colophon and A TO Z MYSTERIES are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. A STEPPING STONE BOOK and colophon and the A TO Z MYSTERIES colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

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