Introduction It is a dire time in the world The evil Pillagers are conquering villages and destroying the villagers culture and libraries But far out at sea live the Book Guardians a secret group of miners and villagers helping to save the libraries precious books The Guardians bring chests of books before they can be destroyed by Pillagers to the Book Guardians hidden underwater ravine headquarters Here a small group of three families collects the books and stores them for better times for when the Pillagers are defeated While the grown-ups are checking deliveries securing books making plans and double-checking those plans the children Inky Luke and Max are meeting new friends and solving mysteries And that’s not all The dolphins were so happy for the trio’s help they gave them the Golden Dust Magic of Speaking to Creatures So yes they can talk to their underwater neighbors the underwater underwater creatures fish and squid with whom they share their new home And now the intrepid three the S Q U I D Squad are ready to take on any undersea mystery no matter how deep or treach erous Meet the S Q U I D Squad INKY Clever Enjoys organizing stuff Faced too many squid to count Knows what words like acronym mean Mostly likes to play by the rules A little rebellious Enjoys delivering a good speech Sees himself as the leader but Inky and Max have other ideas LUKE MAX Brave Leaves Inky and Luke in the dust when it comes to crafting stuff really really fast Their secret club name was his idea the Super Qualified Underwater Investigation Detective er Squad Just say S Q U I D Squad it’s easier
Meet their friends and family EMI Lives secretly in a cottage on the other side of the coral reef Has a lot of informative books about the life aquatic that Inky Luke and Max need to read like STAT SOFI Inky’s mom Redstone engineer who can spot a secret redstone door a mile off So she has ALREADY figured out that Inky Luke and Max have made their OWN secret underwater cave headquarters INSIDE OF the Book Guardian’s own secret underwater ravine headquarters She hasn’t even told anyone else about it ABS Sofi’s brother He’s really nice and can haul chests of books like you wouldn’t believe Max’s dad He goes on a lot of secret boat missions to find new villages that want to save their books ZANE NEHA Zane’s sister She’s pretty nice too PER AND JUN Luke’s mom and dad Per is fond of speeches and Jun tries to let him know when they go on too long They go out with Zane on his missions sometimes GRETA A visiting master of the combat arts
Chapter 1 The Mystery of the Overhead Shadowy Blob
