Chapter 1

UNICORN ACADEMY ...Where magic happens! Phoebe and Shimmer JULIE SYRES illusteated by LUCY TRUMAN nosy crow

独角兽学院……奇迹发生的地方！《菲比和闪儿》朱莉·西瑞斯(露西·杜鲁门插图

CHAPTER ONE "You'll never guess what I just saw!" Phoebe exclaimed, bursting into Amethyst dorm. Her eyes sparkled with excitement. "Well?" she said, looking round eagerly at her dorm mates– Zara, Lily and Aisha. "Come on, guess!" "No time. You can tell us later," said Zara, pulling her hoodie over her dark-brown hair. "Yes, hurry up now, Phoebs, or we'll be late for the cross-country ride with Ms Tulip," said Lily. Aisha didn't say anything, she was too busy rummaging under her bed. "But this is important!" Phoebe protested. She wanted her friends to feel the same excitement she did. "OK, so this is what happened," she said,

第一章“你绝对猜不到我刚刚看到了什么！”菲比喊道，冲进紫晶宿舍。 她的眼睛闪烁着兴奋的光芒。 “怎么样？”她问，急切地看看她的室友——扎拉、莉莉和艾莎。 “来，猜猜看！”“没有时间了。 你可以以后再告诉我们，”扎拉说着，把她的连帽衫套在深棕色的头发上。 “是啊，菲比，现在快一点，不然我们要赶不上郁金香小姐的越野骑行了。”莉莉说。 艾莎什么也没说，她忙着在床底下翻找东西。 “但这很重要！”菲比抗议道。 她希望她的朋友们也能像她一样兴奋。 “好吧，事情是这样的，”她说，

going into what Zara teasingly called her "storytelling mode". "I was coming back from breakfast, just walking along the corridor, minding my own business when I saw Ms Rosemary and Ms Rivers whispering together outside Ms Nettles' office. They left and I heard Ms Nettles making a weird noise so I sneaked a look around the door and guess what?" Phoebe paused dramatically as she remembered what she had seen in the headteacher's office. "Ms Nettles was looking really upset and dabbing at her eyes!"

进入Zara戏称的“讲故事模式”。 “我吃完早餐回来，正沿着走廊走着，想着自己的事，突然看到罗斯玛丽女士和里弗斯女士在荨麻女士的办公室外窃窃私语。 他们走了，我听到荨麻女士发出一种奇怪的声音，所以我偷偷地从门口看了看，你猜怎么着？”菲比想起在校长办公室里看到的情景，戏剧性地停顿了一下。 “荨麻老师看上去很难过，还在揉眼睛！”

Her friends continued to get ready, not taking much notice. "She was crying!" Phoebe exaggerated, to get their attention. "Loudly, with lots of tears. Well, what do you think about that?" "Found it!" Aisha's bottom, followed by the rest of her, appeared backwards from under her bed. She was clutching a purple hoodie. "Who was sighing?" "Ms Nettles was crying," said Phoebe, looking round at her friends in exasperation. "Don't you think that was super weird? Headteachers don't cry. Something must be going on!" "The thing is, was Ms Nettles really crying, Phoebe?" Zara said, giving her a doubtful look. "Or are you just exaggerating like usual?" "No! I'm not!" Phoebe insisted. "I promise, Ms Nettles was a hundred per cent crying. She blew her nose and it sounded as loud as an elephant trumpeting!" "Oh dear, I hope she's OK," said Lily, looking concerned. Zara frowned. "I'm sure she is. There's probably a simple explanation. Her eyes could

她的朋友们继续做着准备，并没有太在意。 “她在哭！”菲比夸张，以引起他们的注意。 大声地说，含着很多眼泪。 嗯，你觉得怎么样？”“找到了!”艾莎的屁股，连同她的其余部分，从床底下露出来了。 她手里拿着一件紫色连帽衫。 “谁在叹气？”“荨麻小姐在哭，”菲比说着，恼怒地望着她的朋友们。 “你不觉得这很奇怪吗？” 校长是不会哭的。一定发生了什么事！”“菲比，问题是，荨麻女士真的在哭吗？”扎拉说，疑惑地看了她一眼。 “或者你只是像往常一样夸大其词？”“不!我不是!”菲比坚持。 “我保证，荨麻女士当时百分百哭了。 她擤了擤鼻子，声音就像大象在吹号一样响亮！”“哦，天哪，我希望她没事。”莉莉说，显得很担心。 Zara皱起了眉头。“我相信她是。 可能有一个简单的解释。 她的眼睛可以

have been streaming because her hay fever was playing up." Phoebe rolled her eyes. "You are so boring, Zara!" "Not boring, just sensible," said Zara, with a grin. "Seriously, there's been enough drama happening here without having to make stuff up, Phoebs. Purple tornadoes sweeping across the island, the school almost being destroyed, a strange voice in the tornado saying they're not going to be stopped…" "Aha! But maybe those things have got something to do with Ms Nettles crying," said Phoebe triumphantly. "Maybe something else has happened and she's just found out about it– maybe there's been another tornado or something even–" she paused dramatically– "worse!" "Or maybe Ms Nettles just has hay fever," said Zara again. "It is springtime after all, and there's a lot of pollen in the air." Lily threw Phoebe's hoodie at her. "Come on, Phoebs. We really have to go. We'll be in trouble with Ms Tulip if we're late." Phoebe sighed as she pulled her purple hoodie

一直在流媒体，因为她的花粉症发作了。” 菲比翻了个白眼。“你真无聊，Zara!”“不是无聊，只是明智，”扎拉笑着说。 “说真的，菲比，这里发生的闹剧已经够多了，不用编故事。 紫色的龙卷风横扫全岛，学校几乎被摧毁，龙卷风中一个奇怪的声音说他们不会被阻止……”“啊哈！“不过，也许这些事情跟荨麻小姐的哭泣有关，”菲比得意地说。 “也许发生了别的什么事，而她刚刚发现——也许又发生了龙卷风，或者甚至——”她戏剧性地停顿了一下——“更糟！”“也许荨麻女士只是得了花粉热，”扎拉又说。 “毕竟现在是春天，空气中有很多花粉。” 莉莉把菲比的连帽衫扔向她。 “来吧，菲比。我们真的得走了。 如果我们迟到了，郁金香小姐会找麻烦的。” 菲比叹了口气，一边扯着紫色连帽衫

on. She brushed her long honey-blonde hair before braiding it into plaits. She loved her three friends in Amethyst dorm but she sometimes felt they really didn't get her. She liked to make everything that happened seem as exciting as possible but they seemed to just want to know the bare truth. How boring was that? Shimmer will want to hear about Ms Nettles, she comforted herself as she got ready. A warm glow spread through her as she thought of her handsome unicorn. Shimmer loved drama and storytelling just as much as she did. He's the best, Phoebe thought happily as she followed the others to the stable block. I'm so glad Ms Nettles paired me with him. She'd never forget that first day at Unicorn Academy– arriving at the school and seeing the beautiful glass-and-marble building glittering in the sunlight, meeting the rest of her dorm and being paired with her own perfect unicorn. Students arrived at the academy in the January when they were ten, and stayed a whole year. During that year, they got to know their unicorn partner and learned all about Unicorn Island so

上。她梳理了一下她那蜜金色的长发，然后把它编成辫子。 她爱她在紫水晶宿舍的三个朋友，但她有时觉得他们真的不懂她。 她喜欢把发生的每件事都说得尽可能令人兴奋，但他们似乎只想知道真相。 那有多无聊？希默想听听关于荨麻女士的事，她一边准备一边安慰自己。 当她想到她那只漂亮的独角兽时，一股温暖的光芒传遍了她的全身。 希默和她一样喜欢戏剧和讲故事。 他是最好的，菲比高兴地想，她跟着其他人来到马厩。 我很高兴荨麻女士把我和他配对。 她永远不会忘记在独角兽学院的第一天——到达学校，看到美丽的玻璃和大理石建筑在阳光下闪闪发光，见到她宿舍的其他同学，和她自己完美的独角兽配对。 学生们在10岁那年的一月份来到学校，并在那里待了整整一年。 在那一年里，他们认识了他们的独角兽伙伴，也了解了关于独角兽岛的一切