The Shrinking City
By Michael Dahl, Gregg Schigiel and Lee Loughridge
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Michael Dahl
Michael Dahl is the prolific author of the bestselling Goodnight, Baseball picture book and more than 200 other books for children and young adults. He has won the Association of Educational Publishers Distinguished Achievement Award three times for his nonfiction, a Teachers’ Choice Award from Learning Magazine, and a Seal of Excellence from the Creative Child Awards. Dahl currently lives in Minnesota.
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The Shrinking City - Michael Dahl
CHAPTER 1
THE STOLEN CITY
CHAPTER 2
VISITOR FROM SPACE
CHAPTER 3
ATTACK ON METROPOLIS
CHAPTER 4
BRAINIAC
CHAPTER 5
THE RED SUN
Daily Planet
Biographies
Glossary
Discussion Questions
Writing Prompts
Copyright
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Thirty years ago, in a distant galaxy, the planet Krypton was rocked by powerful earthquakes. Cities across the entire planet shook and swayed. In the gleaming city of Kandor, buildings trembled. People screamed. Fire and smoke poured through cracks in the streets.
Hax-Ur and Zan, two men from Kandor, jumped into a flyer pod. Their mission was to find Krypton’s most famous scientist, Jor-El. If anyone can explain these earthquakes,
said Zan, Jor-El can.
Jor-El, his scientist wife, Lara, and their infant son Kal-El lived in Kryptonopolis, the capital city of Krypton. Hax-Ur typed the city’s location into the flyer’s control panel. If Jor-El cannot help us, then Kandor is doomed,
he said.
Several buildings burst into flames.
There’s no time to lose,
said Zan. He waved his hand over the control panel. The flyer shot forward. It zoomed past the