 Listening Library presents Nicola Berry and the Shocking Trouble on the Planet of Shubble. Book Two. By Leanne Moriarty. Read for you by Saskia Marleveld. Prologue. Two girls and a boy stood knee-deep in snow on the side of a mountain. A thousand dazzling rainbows soared above them. Beneath them a frozen sea shimmered like a giant sapphire. The shorter of the girls had curly, red-gold hair that blew in a halo around her head and dimples that dented her cheeks. She was in an extremely bad mood. Are you sure it's true? She snapped. No. I made the whole thing up just to ruin your day. The boy sighed. He was her younger brother, which explains a lot. The other girl, who had dark brown, frizzy hair and a serious pale face, didn't say anything. She was thinking, pressing her finger hard against her bottom lip. The girl with the red-gold hair blew her nose noisily. She said, I just never thought things would go this far. It's frightening. Yes, admitted the boy. But we'll fight. Of course we'll fight. What is this evil Earthling's name? The boy pulled out a sheet of paper from his back pocket and examined it. Nicola. He answered. Nicola Berry. Chapter 1. Nicola Berry had a problem. She needed to make a long-distance phone call, an extremely long-distance phone call. She needed to call someone who lived on another planet. Unfortunately, whenever Nicola's mother checked the phone bill lately, she made a sound like she had a fishbone stuck in her throat. If an intergalactic phone call appeared on the bill, she might stop breathing altogether. Nicola pondered her problem while she cut up a banana to put on top of her breakfast cereal. The house was still and silent. A shaft of summer sunlight was creeping its way across the kitchen floor. It was early Saturday morning, and her brother and parents were still sound asleep. They wouldn't be up for hours, when they would appear rubbing their eyes and saying things like, You're up already, why? While Nicola ate her cereal at the kitchen table, she frowned as she studied the newspaper clipping her dad had pinned to the notice board. The headline read, Nicola and her friends save the world. She still got the strangest feeling from seeing her name in a newspaper. Nicola read the first paragraph of the article again. Last week, Nicola Berry and a group of young friends she refers to as the Space Brigade. Sample complete. Ready to continue?