1 TWENTY QUESTIONS

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CHAPTER 1 TWENTY QUESTIONS School hadn't started yet, but Alexander was about to take a quiz. It wasn't a math quiz or a spelling quiz. It was a super-secret quiz about monsters. His two best friends, Rip and Nikki, had made it for him.

Alexander grabbed his pencil and got to work. He raced through the questions. True! False! All of the above! Don't get eaten! The quiz was totally easy, until he got to question #20. What's the stinkiest monster in the notebook? saber-toothed skunk?

DING! Rip hit a bell. "Time's up, weenie!" "Let's see how you did!" said Nikki. Rip, Nikki, and Alexander were the three members of the Super Secret Monster Patrol. They were hanging out in an old caboose in the woods: S.S.M.P. headquarters. Alexander handed his quiz to Nikki. "Nice work, Salamander," she said. "You're a grade-A monster-fighter. Or grade-A-minus, anyhow. You missed the last question." "Nuts," said Alexander. "So, which monster is the stinkiest?" Nikki held up an old notebook. It said S.S.M.P. on the cover, and its pages were full of monster drawings. She flipped it open and passed it to Alexander.

TRASH-SQUATCH Walking heap of garbage. HABITAT Out at the curb, every Tuesday

BOOHOO! Nobody ever wants to hug a trash-squatch DIET Banana peels, rotten eggs, fuzzy bread. BEHAVIOR These monsters smell like gym socks filled with ham salad. WARNING! Trash-squatches are THE STINKIEST! Anyone touched by a trash-squatch must take three baths.