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Trapped
on Cracking Ice . . .
Another
crack rang out.
"Uh-oh,"
Annie said.
She
carefully lay back down.
The polar
bear cubs moved closer to Jack and Annie. They made little crying
sounds.
Jack wanted
to cry, too. But he took a deep breath.
"Let's see
what out book says," he said.
He reached
into his pack for the Arctic book. He took the masks out first and
handed them to Annie.
"I took
these from the igloo by mistake," he said.
As he
started to reach for his Arctic book, he heard the loudest crack of all.
CRACK!
"We're not
even moving and the ice is cracking," said Annie.
Just then,
there was a new sound--a low, snorting sound. It came from the top of
the snowbank, about fifty feet away.
Jack looked
up.
Staring down
at them was a giant polar bear.
"The polar
bear mother," whispered Annie.
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