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    THE QUICKSAND QUESTION
    “Wait for me!” Ruth Rose said, kicking off her sandals.
    They pushed their feet through the warm, shallow water. Dink could feel the fine sand between his toes. The water was so clear he could see the tiny pebbles on the bottom.
    Suddenly Josh stopped. He turned around with panic on his face. “I’m stuck!” he cried.
    As Dink watched, Josh started to sink. The water was up to his knees!
    “I can’t pull my feet out!” Josh yelled. “I think it’s quicksand!”

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    She screwed up her eyes, then opened them wide, but it was still there. High in the corner of the ceiling a tiny door had opened, and a creature, no more than half an inch high, had climbed through. Toots could see it as clearly as she could see the books on the bookshelves. The creature was crossing the ceiling and making its way toward the brass lamp in the center, leaving a trail of dark, smudgy footprints on the clean white paint as it did so.
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Text copyright © 2002 by Ron Roy
Illustrations copyright © 2002 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 panda puzzle / by Ron Roy ; illustrated by John Steven Gurney
p. cm. — (A to Z mysteries) “A stepping stone book.”
Summary: Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the kidnapping
of the new baby panda at the petting zoo.
    eISBN: 978-0-307-54029-4
[1. Giant panda—Fiction. 2. Pandas—Fiction. 3. Zoos—Fiction.
4. Mystery and detective stories.] I. Gurney, John, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.R8139 Pan 2002     [Fic]—dc21    2001019541
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