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See that car driving over the bridge? Inside it are some Pebbles.

I don’t mean pebbles like stones. What I mean is a family called The Pebbles.

This is what they look like:

Sorry if you’re listening to an audiobook, by the way.

The Pebbles were driving from Hokum City towards a completely round island.

On one side of the island, three huge clumps of earth had fallen into the sea, making it look like a giant fish had taken a bite out of it or something.

‘Donut Island here we come!’ grinned Deirdre Pebble, peering into the rear-view mirror. ‘Looking forward to your new life, kids?’

Swirling black thunderclouds rumbled in the sky above and lightning flickered like a half-broken bulb.

‘Nope,’ said Violet Pebble, who was the oldest and most annoying of the two. ‘I don’t see why I have to leave all my friends behind just because you got a stupid new job.’

‘Violet!’ cried Norman Pebble in his trying-to-be-a-dad voice. ‘Your mother’s new job is NOT stupid.’

Melvin Pebble, who was sitting next to his big sister, wiggled his bum in its seat. ‘I can’t wait,’ he said.

Violet rolled her eyes. ‘It’s alright for you,’ she said. ‘Your friends are all complete losers.’

‘Violet!’ snapped her mum. ‘Melvin’s friends are NOT losers.’

Melvin peered out his window at the storm. ‘It’s okay, Mum,’ he said. ‘Vi’s right. My friends ARE losers. And so am I.’

He held a finger up. ‘But not any more,’ he said. ‘Pebble family, I have an important announcement to make.’

A bolt of lightning shot out of a cloud, striking the middle of the island with an enormous . . .

‘WAAAHHH!!!’ screamed the Pebbles, as the car swerved left and right.

‘So, my announcement,’ said Melvin, once they’d all settled down again. ‘I have decided that from now on I’m gonna be the coolest kid in town.’

Violet laughed. ‘Oh per-lease,’ she said. ‘You couldn’t be cool if you were stuck inside a fridge. With sunglasses on. And gel in your hair. Wearing a t-shirt that said I AM COOL on it.’

‘Oh yeah?’ said Melvin. ‘Well I wouldn’t even be able to fit inside a fridge. Unless you took out all the shelves. But even then it’d be a squeeze. So who’s laughing now?’

‘Not me,’ said Violet, yawning as the car trundled off the bridge, past an enormous billboard.

This is what it said:

Violet stared through her rain-splattered window at the billboard. ‘The boringest town in the universe,’ she grumbled.

Of course, she’d never’ve said that if she’d known what was going to happen in the rest of this book.