Keepers of the Sapphire

By Uma Kiran Raja

Poor Topaz just wants an ordinary life with her to best friends, Mark and Stacy. But suddenly her life is turned upside down when her parents are reported missing, and she's shipped off to Bermuda with her friends and an odd dog. Then she finds out her pals are really aliens with powers destined to protect her. On top of that an evil pricipal is chasing them, and they travel to the future. Could things get any worse?

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 30, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477233467

Uma Kiran Raja

Uma Kiran Raja was born in Manhattan, New York and currently lives in sunny South Florida with her parents, little brother and her wiener dog, Scooby. She enjoys writing poems and short stoires as well. This is her first publication and she is very excited to start her writing career. When not writing about Topaz and friends she enjoys traveling, reading, riding her bike as well as giant roller coasters, playing tennis, video games, and hanging out with her friends.

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Keepers of the Sapphire

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Uma Kiran Raja

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Published by AuthorHouse 5/24/2012

ISBN: 978-1-4567-5700-7 (sc)

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Table of Contents

Chapter Zero A Sinister Plot

Chapter One Yummy O’s and the Mind Reader

Chapter Two Some Things about Mark

Chapter Three Grandma’s Last Secret

Chapter Four A Change of Events

Chapter Five The Truth

Chapter Six Welcome to Bermuda!

Chapter Seven A Brand New Life

Chapter Eight Uncertainty

Chapter Nine Escaping an Inget

Chapter Ten The Secret Information

Chapter Eleven A Portal to the Future

Chapter Twelve Welcome to the Future!

Chapter Thirteen Bermuda, Bahamas … and a Missing Madonna.

Chapter Fourteen Pirated—and not the DVDs

Chapter Fifteen Hollywood

Chapter Sixteen Beginning to Adjust

Chapter Seventeen An Angry Old Lady

Chapter Eighteen An Interesting Couple in a Teeny, Tiny House

Chapter Nineteen Rules of the Gruel

Chapter Twenty Sleep Tight

Chapter Twenty-One A Not-so-Peaceful Stroll

Chapter Twenty-Two Anxiety

Chapter Twenty-Three Lover Aliens

Chapter Twenty-Four It’s Kind of Strange

Chapter Twenty-Five Fire in the Hole

Chapter Twenty-Six Sunrise, Sunset

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight Stacy’s New Talent

Chapter Twenty-Nine Meet Margo

Chapter Thirty Madonna Makes a Friend

Chapter Thirty-One Organized Chaos

Chapter Thirty-Two A Call from a Pop Star

Chapter Thirty-Three A Chilly Morning

Chapter Thirty-Four The Final Chapter

Hello. My name is Topaz. I used to be an ordinary sixth grader. Not anymore. My parents are enslaved. My best friend captured. I have learned lessons aplenty. The most important? You can’t trust anyone, especially yourself. But I look back at my sixth-grader life like people look at the setting sun: beauty, and then darkness—by, as some say, a natural force, carried away from our mortal eyes—but something that you can see again tomorrow. But my life isn’t natural—and on some days, I don’t know if I’ll ever see tomorrow.

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Chapter Zero

A Sinister Plot

It was after school hours, yet the man had access to the school. A chubby fellow named Paul waddled beside him.

Now, Paul, said the man, I want you to install hidden cameras in every room in this school, you hear? The cafeteria, hallways, classrooms, bathrooms—I want it all.

Paul’s nose cringed. "The bathroom? Sir that’s highly—"

"I don’t care! yelled the man. Your job is to install cameras. I want to install a camera. You listen to me!"

Paul gulped and took off down the hall, waddling.

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Chapter One

Yummy O’s and the Mind Reader

S tacy, I honestly don’t know if I can go, I said turning the code on my ugly green locker.

Aw, c’mon! You have to go! Stacy pleaded, It’ll be you and me and Mark and the Bermuda Triangle. Adventure is calling!

I started to grab my backpack and walk away. I tugged at my grandma’s necklace—the pretty one with the oval, bright-colored stone—and turned around and sighed, Stacy, get off my case, okay? This isn’t a school-related thing, there are no adults, and I really can’t trust this company! How do I know they aren’t stalkers or kid-murderers or … or … who knows what! For all we know, they’re Frankenstein or Obi-Wan Kenobi or the Wolfman or Bi—

Stacy cut me off. Or they’re the Yummy O’s cereal company who is doing a contest like I told you, and I sent away ninety-three box tops to.

I don’t know, I said, still uncertain.

"Ninety-three!"

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I never even heard of Yummy Oats!

"Yummy O’s," she corrected.

Goodbye, Stacy. See you in English class. I started to walk away.

I know you want to go! Stacy screamed, her temper rising dangerously.

Oh, Stacy, I said, "I hate it when you say things like that; it