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had wandered off without asking Mr. G. for permission. Now he was probably worrying about her—or even mad at her.
    But it hadn’t been her fault. It was the magic wind’s fault that she wasn’t with her class outside the tank.
    Of course, she couldn’t explain that to Mr. G. He wouldn’t believe her anyway. Katie wouldn’t have believed it, either—if it didn’t keep happening to her.
    I wonder if they can see me in here, Katie thought. Swishing her fins, she swam toward what seemed to be the glass wall of the aquarium. Her fish eyes allowed her to look in all directions except right behind her. But she couldn’t see very clearly. In fact, she could only see a few feet ahead of herself.
    The closer she got to the wall, the more she could see. She couldn’t make out any faces, but she was pretty sure that there were people on the other side of the glass. Maybe they were her friends.
    “Hey, look at me!” Katie tried to shout out as she flicked her tail up and flipped over in the water. “I’m just clown-fishing around!”
    But of course, no actual sounds came out of Katie’s fish face—just a bunch of bubbles.
    “I can stand on my head!” Katie tried to say, moving so her head was facing the ground. “And I can do a triple twist!” she continued, turning her fish body round and round like a whirlpool.
    Wow! This sure was fun.
    Then suddenly, a dark shadow fell over Katie. She looked up just in time to see a huge nurse shark. And even with her fish eyes, she could clearly see those giant teeth—fish-eating teeth—heading right for her!
    Katie gulped. This was soooooo not good!

Chapter 8
    Any second now, Katie was going to become the shark’s main course. It was swimming faster now, its big mouth wide open. Man, those teeth looked sharp.
    Katie wanted to scream for help. But she was a fish. She couldn’t scream.
    The shark came closer.
    Katie swished her fins as fast as she could. But the big fish was much faster than she was.
    The shark came closer, still.
    Just then, Katie’s fish eyes spotted a big white sea anemone just a few inches away. A safe base, just like in the game .
    Quickly, Katie burrowed herself deep into the anemone’s white tentacles. The shark swam right by without even stopping.
    “It works!” Katie shouted out with excitement. Of course, no sounds actually came out of her mouth. But a whole lot of water bubbles blew all around her.
    Katie’s little fish heart was pounding. That had been so scary. Suddenly, she didn’t want to do any more twists or somersaults in the water. She didn’t want to play tag with the other clown fish.
    She just wanted to be Katie Kazoo again—a ten-year-old girl who was on the other side of the tank.
    But for now, she was a clown fish. And she couldn’t hide in the sea anemone forever. Katie didn’t know if sea anemones could get mad, but just in case, she didn’t want to overstay her welcome.
    Katie poked her head out to make sure the shark was gone. Once she was certain it was safe, she swam back out into the open water. Then she looked around for the other members of the clown fish school. She didn’t see any of them. She was all alone in this part of the tank.
    Just then, something else caught her eye. Something bright and shiny. Right there, on the bottom, near a pretty starfish. What was it?
    Katie the clown fish swam over to investigate. Now the shiny object became clear to her. A shiny rock, attached to a gold circle. It took a moment before her little fish brain understood what she was looking at. The object was a ring. And not just any ring!

    It was Ms. Sweet’s engagement ring.
    Katie began whirling and twirling excitedly in the water. She’d found Ms. Sweet’s ring. She knew exactly where it was. This was so great.
    Or was it?
    Sure, Katie knew where the ring was. But she couldn’t tell anyone. As long as Katie was a fish, Ms. Sweet’s diamond engagement ring would be buried treasure at the bottom of the sea—er,