The Naughtiest Unicorn and the School Disco. Pip Bird
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For Justin – RLO
For Pip and Lori – LB
For Tilda – David O’Connell
Cover and interior illustrations by David O’Connell
Special thanks to Rebecca Lewis-Oakes and Liz Bankes
Text first published in Great Britain in 2019 by Egmont UK Limited
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Text copyright © 2019 Egmont UK Ltd
Illustrations copyright © 2019 David O’Connell
First e-book edition 2019
ISBN 978 1 4052 9481 2
Ebook ISBN 978 1 4052 9482 9
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Contents
Chapter One: Back to Unicorn School!
Chapter Two: The School Disco Committee
Chapter Three: Glitter Fever . . .
Chapter Five: The Crystal Maze Mine
Chapter Six: Glitter Slime Gorge
Chapter Nine: Friends Together
It was a cloudy Tuesday afternoon and Mira was dancing around the kitchen with her cat, Pickles. Mira’s older sister, Rani, rolled her eyes as she finished the after-dinner washing-up (her chore for that week), and flicked water at them as they twirled past the sink.
‘Bleurgh!’ spluttered Mira as a washing-up bubble landed in her mouth.
Rani dried her hands on a tea towel and snatched Pickles off Mira. ‘My turn! Right, Pickles, you can be my unicorn,’ she said. ‘I need to practise my moves for the school disco.’
As Rani and Pickles swept past her, Mira had to admit that Rani was an annoyingly good dancer. Rani and her unicorn Angelica were annoyingly good at lots of things. The trophy shelf in their living room was full of all Rani’s medals and trophies from winning loads of Unicorn School quests and competitions. Mira had just two medals so far.
Mira and Rani both went to Unicorn School. It was a magical place where pupils were matched with their Unicorn Best Friend Forever (UBFF) and had all kinds of brilliant quests and adventures!
It was almost time to go back to Unicorn School and Mira was BEYOND EXCITED to see her UBFF Dave. He wasn’t exactly how she’d imagined her perfect unicorn to be . . . he could be a bit naughty. And greedy. And he fell asleep in all of their lessons. But they had so much fun together. And the disco was going to be the most fun EVER. She couldn’t imagine anything better in the entire world than spinning round the dancefloor with Dave!
Later that night Mira lay in bed, too excited to sleep. She took out her diary from her bedside table and started thinking about all of the awesome things she was going to do with Dave. And with Darcy and Raheem – her two human best friends at Unicorn School.
Thinking about Dave made Mira smile. He always made everything super fun, often in unexpected ways. Sure, he sometimes had to be bribed with snacks to do things. And sometimes he caused a teeny, tiny bit of havoc. And he held the Unicorn School record for farting in class. But he didn’t mean to be naughty. Dave was Mira’s UBFF and she loved