New Shark in Town

A QUIX Book

Davy Ocean, Aaron Blecha

• Publisher: Aladdin
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781534455115
• eBook ISBN: 9781534455139

In the first book of a Shark School series spin-off, young hammerhead shark Harvey Hammer has his first day at school!

It’s Harvey Hammer’s first day at Kelpmentary School. Harvey dreams of being just like King Krusher, his comic book hero, but as the new shark in town, he worries he’ll sink before he swims with the rest of the kids.

1 First Day, Worst Day

King Krusher, the Super Crime-Fighting Crab, and his sidekick, Hammer-Boy, were dodging bolts of electricity.

FZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTTT…

KER-CLACK. KER-CLACK.

ZZZZZZZ-TTTTT-FFFFF-ZAMMMMMMMM…

I looked down at the King Krusher versus Dr. Eel-O-Stun comic I’d been drawing. Dr. Eel-O-Stun, the baddest of bad guys in all the ocean, fired the bolts. He was on the steps outside the Sand-Bank—which he’d just robbed of A MILLION CLAM$.…

ZAP. FZZZZZZZZZTTT.

One of the electric bolts was headed for Hammer-Boy.

What was our hero going to do…?

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“Harvey! For the last time, please put that pencil fish down and get ready for school.”

PLAPAPAPAPAPLAP… SPLAT…

Squiddy the inkpot had been so startled by Dad’s voice that a huge blot of ink had popped out of his bottom onto the page. And Paul the pencil fish had scribbled over it in fright.

I turned toward Dad. “Dad, now my comic is ruined!”

Dad was holding my baby brother, Finn, out in front of him, as if Finn were about to explode from both ends. Half of Dad’s hammerhead was coated in white, stinky baby throw-up.

“Sorry about that, Son,” said Dad. “But it’s your first day at Kelpementary School, and the whalebus is almost here. If you’re not on that bus, Mom will have both our fins.”

We used to live in Shark Point but moved to Coral Cove because Mom got an important new job. She had already left for work earlier this morning. I wasn’t about to tell my dad, but I felt pretty scared to be starting a new school.

Yes, my parents are sharks. So am I. A hammerhead. That means I have a head shaped like a hammer. I don’t know how weird your Leggy-Air-Breather head is, but mine is pretty weird. Luckily for me, it’s only the second-weirdest shark head in the sea.

List of Weird Shark Heads

• Goblin sharks. They could win gold, silver, and bronze in the Strange O-swim-pics. They can push their jaws outside their mouths when they bite. ICK.
• Hammerheads. That’s us.
• Saw sharks. Their noses are so sharp and toothy, they could eat lunch and build a table at the same time.

“I don’t want to have to tell you again, Harvey,” Dad said in his mega-serious voice. “Put away your things. NOW.”

“Okay,” I said, clenching my jaw. I opened my pencil case so Paul and Squiddy could swim inside. Squiddy still looked shaken. I hoped he didn’t poop all over Snakey, my sea snake ruler, and Eric, my erazor clam.

I wasn’t even at school yet, and my day had gotten off to an awful start. Could it get any worse?

2 Pacific-fier Panic

“Hey! Let’s get a move on, Harvey.”

I turned around and gave a snarl. Hettie, my older sister, barged past.

I’m only a young hammerhead, so my shark-snarl is more like a goofy grin. It makes Hettie laugh in my face.

As usual, Hettie was totally ready for school. She is never late and always has her bag packed. She was carrying her sea bass guitar under her fin like she was a member of a famous pop group rather than a fish signing up for a Kelpementary School band.

It was her first day of middle school, but she was as cool as a sea cucumber.

I was just about to give Hettie a second snarl when a wriggling baby was plonked into my fins.

“Hold him, Harvey,” Dad said, ducking under the kitchen table. “Finn’s dropped his Pacific-fier.”

Dad’s tail fl...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Cast of Characters
• Chapter 1: First Day, Worst Day
• Chapter 2: Pacific-fier Panic
• Chapter 3: Rocky Ride
• Chapter 4: Class Dis-fished
• Chapter 5: Squid Goals
• Chapter 6: Surprise
• Chapter 7: In Shame
• Word List
• Questions
• About the Author and Illustrator
• Copyright