TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 POLAR PROBLEMS CHAPTER 2 GEARING UP CHAPTER 3 THE HERITAGE CENTER CHAPTER 4 LUCKY LUKIE CHAPTER 5 TROUBLED WATERS CHAPTER 6 WHITEOUT CHAPTER 7 SHELTER CHAPTER 8 STRANGE LIGHTS CHAPTER 9 SLURPY AND POKEY CHAPTER 10 WILD RIDE CHAPTER 11 RAT RACE CHAPTER 12 SAFE AND SOUND
CHAPTER 1 POLAR PROBLEMS Zoe hit ENTER on the keyboard in front of her I finished before you did Zoe bragged to her twin brother Ben Zoe’s test score flashed up on the screen She read it aloud Animal print identification 49 out of 50 Congratulations WILD operative Zoe Woodward Ben finished his test a few seconds after Zoe You may have finished first he said pointing at his screen but I got all fifty questions correct Ben glanced at Zoe’s results So you couldn’t tell which print was from a moose’s hoof he asked That was a difficult question Zoe said All the prints looked the same so I had to guess
Ben grinned So did I he said Ben pushed his chair back and looked around at the WILD Education Center’s row of computer terminals Next to them was a huge reference area filled with books and manuals maps and charts This place is so cool he said In fact everything we’ve done here at WILD HQ has been awesome The climbing wall was the best Canoeing was my favorite said Zoe Ben and Zoe weren’t normal teenagers They were the youngest operatives in WILD a top-secret environmental organization The head of the organization was their uncle Dr Stephen Fisher He had invited them to spend summer vacation at WILD The headquarters were hidden deep underground in a remote island Lately they’d been doing a series of exercises to improve their physical and mental skills for future WILD missions They did endurance challenges tracking practices and several brain-bending puzzles and tests