Poached Stuart Gibbs Quotes

In the entire world, sharks kill fewer than ten people a year, while coconuts falling from trees take out 150.

DVD into the hard drive, then brought up the file. It was quite large—a few hours of footage from multiple cameras—so it took a while

Violence is never the answer.

What do I look like to you, an idiot?” Almost any other time I would have answered yes.

Both did their best to play dumb. Given that they were dumb, it shouldn’t have been that hard, and yet they didn’t do a very good job of it.

Teddy is ten years younger than I am,” Kristi replied coldly. “I’m not friends with any twelve-year-olds. But if you’re asking do I like the kid? Then yes, I do.

Don’t hurt Yogi!” yelled the German father, who still didn’t know who I was supposed to be.

In fact koalas spend so little time thinking, their brains actually appear to have shrunk over the last few centuries; the koala is the only known animal whose brain only fills half of its skull.

everyone claimed, was the weather, which had been

Stuart Gibbs is the author of Belly Up, Poached, Spy School, Spy Camp, Evil Spy School, and Space Case. He has also written the screenplays for movies like See Spot Run and Repli-Kate, worked on a whole bunch of animated films, developed TV shows for Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, ABC, and Fox, and researched capybaras (the world’s largest rodents.). He lives with his wife and children in Los Angeles.

and chuckled. “You’re a one-man police department, kid.” Marge glowered at me in response. The elevator doors

Motupi was a five-year-old chimpanzee with severe anger-management issues. He had recently arrived at FunJungle, and while he behaved normally most of the time, every now and then he would have massive emotional eruptions. During these, he would tear up the landscaping, threaten the other chimps, and throw anything he could get his hands on—which was usually his own poop. FunJungle employees had started calling him Furious George.

the entire world, sharks kill fewer than ten people a year, while coconuts falling from trees take out 150.

She had finally turned away and was now correcting some tourists who mistakenly believed that koalas were from Austria rather than Australia.

Don’t hurt Yogi!” yelled the German father, who still didn’t know who I was supposed to be. Now that he was outnumbered, Astros Cap wasn’t so tough anymore. He raised his hands, signaling the others to back down. “Hold on,” he said meekly. “This is all just a big misunderstanding. There’s no need to get nasty.” “Yes there is!” I yelled. “He stole my wallet!” The mob grew even angrier. “You mugged an innocent koala?” a grandmother shouted at Astros Cap.

ZooTopia,

boner.

Charlie Connor,

So the next time one of these guys comes at you,” Dad said, “you just haul off and punch him square in the nose.

Koalas used to be hunted for their fur. Today, they die from malnutrition, from being hit by cars, and from being mauled by pet dogs

She only has it in for me because I once swapped her black jelly beans with rabbit poo.

I always thought koalas were cute and all, but this one was mean. It started running around my house, squealing like a pig, knocking everything over and totally destroying the place.

Mr. Dillnut

niggled

thief

What’d you do?” Dad asked. “I put a snake in his gym bag.” Dad stared at me for a moment, then grinned. “That’s my boy,” he said.

The actors had plenty of stories about tourists discussing everything from crimes they’d committed to their secret ATM codes right in front of the mascots.

He said he could barely walk and wanted a couple million dollars to settle. But the park hired a private detective who caught him dancing at a nightclub, and the case was bounced out of court.

one of the many companies J.J. McCracken owned made high-quality surveillance cameras, so he’d given himself a deal on them.

Either they hadn’t heard the warning about the escaped lion, or they were so determined to see Kazoo that they were willing to risk being mauled to do it.

I spent

You mugged an innocent koala?” a grandmother shouted at Astros Cap.