CONTENTS 1 The Man in the Purple Mask 1 2 An Electric Idea 17 3 Never Sit on an Oscar 33 4 The Grandmother of the iPhone 60 5 The Boy with the Million Dollar Foot 72 6 Odorased 83 7 The Von Humboldt 99 8 Hooking a Monster 111 9 Ditching the Captain 132 10 The Trail of Pain 141 11 Laser Assassin 158 12 What Happens in Aspen 172
13 An Unexpected Return 186 14 Cheryl to the Rescue 197 15 The Sloth Lord 207 16 The Roof of the Rainforest 214 17 Darkness in the Water 221 18 Crimes against the Amazon 231 19 Out of the Dumpster 253 Twelve Mostly Essential Questions About Lost in the Jungle 261 Growth in the Rainforest An Experiment by Bill Nye 270
1 The Man in the Purple Mask The The three of us spread out across the ruined lab When we’d left the night before the space had been in perfect condition I’d even swept the floors But now early the next morning the huge room was a disaster Mechanical birds were lying shattered on the ground The insides of the self-driving car had been ripped out Wires spilled from the hood like electronic spaghetti Even our robotic pizza chef Harry was busted Cables hung down to his wheels Water was spreading across the floor from a small crack in the twenty-foot-deep submarine test tank Across the room Matt was leaning over a keyboard scanning a monitor Who could have done this he asked Ava was sitting on the floor carefully pulling a drone into her lap like it was a bird with a busted wing And why Before I could offer a guess a window exploded high above us Glass rained down on the self-driving car A black cube 1
