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asked her.
    “Oh, no,” Carrie told her. “I wouldn’t hurt any animal. This is a humane trap. The raccoon just gets stuck in this little cage. Then I’ll take it far out in the woods.”
    After a few more minutes, Katie heard footsteps moving away from the hollow log. When she was certain everyone was gone, she poked her little head out of the log.
    Sure enough, the smell of peanut butter was wafting through the air. But this time Katie was too smart to go after it. She knew where the peanut butter was hidden. It was in that little cage.
    She couldn’t get caught in that. After all, Katie wasn’t really a raccoon. She was a fourth-grade girl in a raccoon’s body. Suppose she was stuck in that cage when the magic wind came back to turn her into Katie again?
    The real Katie would never fit in that tiny cage.
    And the real Rocky wouldn’t like it very much in there, either.

Chapter 10
    Katie hopped out of the log and scampered up to a branch on a nearby tree—well out of the reach of any traps or counselors. She needed time to think.
    Katie knew she had to get away from there before Shannon and the kids came back. But if she ran off into the woods, she was liable to get lost.
    What if she got lost in the woods forever, walking around and around in circles and never finding her way back to camp? She could be stuck here forever. She’d never see Cherrydale again.
    Suddenly Katie was very homesick.
    If Katie were a human she might have started to cry. But raccoons didn’t cry. They could, however, feel scared and alone. And that was exactly how Katie felt.
    Just then Katie felt a cool breeze blowing on her back. Her whiskers twitched slightly. There was a change in the air.
    It was actually getting kind of chilly. Now that was weird for summer. Katie leaped out of the tree and started back toward the hollow log. At least she would be warmer there.
    But a log was no match for this wind. This was the magic wind. And before Katie could crawl into the hole in the log, it began blowing wildly—only around Katie! The tornado circled fiercely now. She shut her little raccoon eyes and dug her claws into the log, holding on tight—trying not to get blown out into the deep, dark woods.
    And then it stopped. Just like that.
    Katie Carew was back. And so was Rocky. He was standing a few feet from her, with his head up in the air.
    Katie watched as he sniffed at the air for a moment and then began running toward the smell of the peanut butter.
    “Rocky, no!” she shouted out. “It’s a trap!”
    The sound of Katie’s voice startled Rocky. He jumped slightly and scampered up a tree—away from the trap.
    Rocky was safe now. But Katie knew that wouldn’t last long. Sooner or later the smell of that yummy peanut butter would be too much for him. He would come down and try to get it. And then he would be trapped.
    Katie couldn’t bear the thought of Rocky being stuck in a cage—even if it was just for a little while. Wild animals didn’t belong in cages— ever .
    She glanced over at Rocky. He looked so confused, as if he had no idea what had been happening to him.
    Which of course he didn’t. The people (and animals) Katie turned into never did.
    But if Rocky was confused now, imagine how he would feel if Carrie took him someplace where he’d never been before. He would be lost and alone.
    Maybe forever.
    That wasn’t fair at all! Katie was going to have to find a way to get Rocky to a safe place where he would be happy.
    But how?
    This mess was too big for Katie to fix on her own. She knew that. She would need assistance.
    There was only one person who could help her: someone who wasn’t afraid of animals. Someone who liked animals almost as much as she did.
    Quickly Katie ran off toward the nature shack. There wasn’t a moment to spare.
     
     
    “I know we were wrong,” Katie apologized to Carrie after she explained about leaving food for Rocky.
    “Yes, you were,” Carrie told her.
    “But he was so tiny and all