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aquarium.
    Before she could think what to do, Katie felt a sudden change in the water around her. It was moving.
    Oh no! Was another shark coming?
    The water grew cooler, almost cold, as it blew around her tail fins. Katie didn’t like the feeling at all. It was creepy—like icy fingers pounding on her little fish spine.
    Katie looked around. None of the plants around her seemed to be moving with the blowing water.
    None of the other sea creatures seemed to feel the breeze either. The starfish was still sitting quietly on the ground. And the sea anemone’s tentacles were perfectly still.
    It seemed like the wind was only blowing on Katie the clown fish. Which made sense because this was no ordinary wind. This was the magic wind.
    The magic wind was just as powerful underwater as it was outside in the air. A moment later, the wind was blowing so wildly that Katie thought her tiny fish body would be blown right out of the tank.
    She wished she could shut her eyes in fear—but she couldn’t. She had to face this tornado with both eyes wide open. Round and round it blew, circling wildly about Katie.
    And then it stopped. Just like that.
    The magic wind was gone.

Chapter 9
    And Katie Kazoo was back!
    “Katie, what’s all over your shirt?” Suzanne asked as Katie looked around a moment later.
    Katie breathed a sigh of relief as she stared into Suzanne’s face. She had never been so happy to see her best friend in her whole life! “Oh, that’s just water,” she told Suzanne. “I think it must be from the water fountain over there.”
    “Where else could it be from?” Suzanne said sarcastically. “It’s not like you took a swim in the tank or anything.”
    Katie grinned slightly to herself. Then she looked down at the school of clown fish. One of them was swimming around in circles, as if it was trying to figure out what had just happened in the tank.
    Poor little fish. There was no way Katie could explain this to them.
    Or to anybody else, for that matter . “No,” she told Suzanne. “Of course I didn’t go in there.”
    “This trip has turned out to be just awful, hasn’t it?” Becky remarked.
    “Ms. Sweet’s party is ruined,” Suzanne said.
    Ms. Sweet! Katie had almost forgotten. “Hey, I think I know where Ms. Sweet’s ring is!” Katie shouted out excitedly.
    Everyone stopped talking and stared at her.
    “Katie, this is no time for jokes,” Mr. G. warned.
    “I’m not joking,” Katie assured him. “Look. See? It’s right down there, by the starfish.”

    “Which starfish?” Suzanne asked. She sounded like she didn’t believe Katie at all. “There are, like, a million of them down there.”
    Katie pointed down toward the bottom of the tank. “The starfish near the white sea anemone where I was . . . I mean, where that orange clown fish was hiding.” Whoops. That had been a close one.
    “Show me, please,” Ms. Sweet asked Katie, grabbing her by the hand and pulling her down the ramp toward the bottom of the tank.
    The other kids and Mr. G. all hurried close behind them. In a flash, the whole fourth grade was on the ground floor of the aquarium, staring at the starfish through the glass.
    “See, over there,” Katie said, pointing right at the ring.
    “Oh my goodness, you’re right!” Ms. Sweet exclaimed. “I can see it sparkling on top of the gravel. I have to go tell that guard. He said the divers would get the ring if I knew exactly where it was. And now I do.”
    “I’ll go tell him,” Kevin assured Ms. Sweet. Katie could tell by the look on his face that he was very relieved. Now he wouldn’t be hated by all of class 4B anymore.
    “I’ll go with him,” Mr. G. added. He smiled at Ms. Sweet. “You and Katie just stay right here and keep an eye on that ring.”
     
    A few moments later, a diver in a black wet suit appeared in the tank. The kids all watched as she swam along with the fish and sharks, traveling toward where the ring was.

    “It’s right there!” Suzanne