Stink and the Freaky Frog Freakout (Book #8) Read Online Free PDF Page A

favorite color is
green
,” said Sophie. “Yipes! We gotta do something. Before you start
glowing.”
    “We better go talk to Jasper,” said Stink. “Stat.”
    “Huh?” said Webster.
    “Huh?” said Sophie.
    “That means pronto, super-quick, right away!”
    “Do you think your mom or dad will take us?” asked Webster.
    “Let’s ask,” said Sophie.
    “Tally ho!” said Stink, just like Peter Parker.
    *   *   *
    Stink told Mom he had an A-1 super-important frog mission. Mom dropped Stink and his friends off at the nature center.
    Jasper O’Farrell told Stink he’d seen his share of frogs. He’d seen two-toed and three-legged frogs. He’d seen frogs with extra legs and frogs with extra eyes and frogs with no legs and frogs with only one eye. He’d seen frogs with shrunken heads and frogs with kinked tails. He’d even seen albino frogs.
    But never-ever-ever in his long-legged life had Jasper O’Farrell seen a true blue frog up close and personal.
    He squinted at the blue frog from every angle. He scratched his little beard. He peered at the frog with a magnifying glass.
    “Well?” Stink rocked back and forth on his feet.

Jasper scratched his tiny beard some more.
    “What do you think?” asked Stink. “Is he a mutant? Is he radioactive?”
    “If the frog is radioactive, and the frog licked Stink, is Stink going to start glowing in the dark?” asked Sophie.
    “Are we going to have to start calling Stink
Smurf
?” asked Webster.
    “I have to say, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Jasper.
    “Freak of nature!” said Webster.
    “Maybe he’s a rare blue poison dart frog,” said Stink. “Who hopped all the way here from South America.”
    “Nope. I don’t think so. I don’t want to leap to conclusions, but —”
    “
Leap
to conclusions. I get it!” said Stink.
    “I’m almost sure this guy’s a mutant. My professor taught me about abnormal colors in frogs. I bet this froggy’s color got messed up. He’s probably missing his yellow.”
    “Huh?” asked Stink.
    “Okay. Think of art class,” said Jasper. “If you mix blue and yellow paint, it looks green, right?” All three kids nodded. “It’s the same for a frog. They have three kinds of pigment cells, and the top one is yellow. If they’re missing the yellow, they look blue to us.”
    “Cosmic,” said Stink.
    “Thanks for bringing him in, Stink. This is better than a barking tree frog! I’d like to show him to my professor. Then we’ll see if we can release this little guy safely back into the wild.”
    “Sure,” said Stink. He looked at the Frog Logs all over Jasper’s desk. “Hey, did we count a lot of frogs last night?”
    “We sure did,” said Jasper. “More than I thought. That’s the good news. The bad news is that there are three kinds of chorus frogs, and we only heard two kinds.”
    “Bummer,” said Stink. “Should we count again?”
    “We were going to wait till next year,” said Jasper. “But now we just might have another frog count this summer.”
    “Sweet,” said Stink. “That’s only eighty-something days away.”
    Jasper laughed.
    “Plus,” said Stink, “It gives me time to knock on doors and get the neighbors to stop using fertilizers and stuff that’s messing up the frogs.”
    “Good thinking,” said Jasper, tapping the side of his head.
    “We’ll help you, Stink,” said Sophie.
    “Yeah, we want to save the frogs, too,” said Webster.
    Jasper walked Stink and his friends to the door. “Bye, King Otto the Third,” Stink and his friends called.
    “Be careful he doesn’t lick you,” Sophie warned Jasper.
    “Yeah,” said Stink. “You might suddenly start eating raisins or get the urge to make mud pies or sleep in the basement or go swimming in the sink.”
    Jasper raised one eyebrow at Stink.
    “I’m just saying.”
    Stink turned to leave. “Bye, Jasper. If you start to glow in the dark, call me.”



The next day, when Sophie and Webster came over, Stink