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Jack
looked up. Annie was gone.
"Oh, brother,"
Jack said. As usual, she had left without him. Before they could even
make a plan.
Jack put the moon book
and the pencil into his pack. Carrying his notebook and backpack, he
started out the window.
Squeak! Squeak!
Jack looked back at
Peanut. The mouse was running back and forth on the M.
"Stay here and be
safe," said Jack. "We'll be back soon."
Jack swung himself over
the window sill. His feet touched the floor of the landing chamber.
"Annie!" he
called.
There was no answer.
Jack looked at his
diagram.
It showed only one way to
go. Jack walked along the curved white wall to the stairs.
He climbed the steps to a
hallway.
"Jack--hurry!"
Annie was at the end of the hallway, standing in the airlock. She peered
out a window in a giant door.
Jack hurried toward her.
Annie stepped aside so he could look out the window, too.
"Oh, man," said
Jack. What he saw took his breath away.
He stared at a rocky gray
land. The land was filled with giant craters and tall mountains. The sun
was shining. But the sky was ink-black!
"Say hi to the
moon," Annie said softly.
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