Instinct University: Nerville

By SS Gaylstorm and Sam White

What are animals to do when they struggle to accomplish something that comes so easily to their peers? They go to Instinct University!

In this first book of the series, Nerville, a green sea turtle, is afraid of the water. With the help of his sister, Mishelle, and all his friends, Nerville goes to Instinct University to master the skills

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gaylstorm Enterprises, LLC
• Release date: Aug 27, 2017
• ISBN: 9780997198447

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Instinct University:

Nerville

by SS Gaylestorm

Illustrations by Sam White

ISBN: 978-0-9971984-4-7

Copyright © 2017 SS Gaylestorm. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental.

Dedication

To loved ones lost and found,

near and distant:

our instinct is to cherish you

forever.

Chapter 1

The school auditorium echoed with boisterous chatter among friends and classmates...that is, until Professor Étouffée entered the room. A hush of quiet cascaded down the rows of seats as he brushed past, his large, lumpy back sliding toward the front. By the time he had reached the stage, you could hear the porcupines’ pins drop.

The Professor walked directly to the chalkboard, picked up a used white piece of chalk, and wrote on the board: Professor Étouffée (A-2-Fay). He turned, scanned the silent room, and placed his bag on the table. When a chimpanzee dropped his pencil, a small gaggle of geese nearby began to onk repeatedly.

Professor Étouffée cleared his throat, and the growly bellow erupting from his mouth made two otters in the front row clutch hands. He glared over the top of his round glasses, and silence returned quickly. When he pulled a clear plastic sheet from his bag and laid it on top of the projector, all students’ eyes stared as a crystal blue ocean projected onto the screen.

Good morning, students. It’s precisely nine a.m., and we’ll have Skill Building at ten a.m., so we’d best get started. Today, I want to talk with y’all about Chelonia mydas. Now, some of y’all might know him as green sea turtle. You might even know he can swim very, very far distances and likes to eat seaweed every day. However, I’m guessing there are a whole lot of things you don’t know about him.

Professor Étouffée placed a different plastic sheet on the projector. This one showed a tiny turtle hatchling poking his head out of the shell. For example, did you know that green sea turtles are so brave and strong that their mamas leave them on the sand in their eggs and feel confident they will find their way into the ocean all by themselves? An elephant in the back row put his feet to his face in shock, shaking his head in disbelief at the wolf spider in the next seat.

That’s even hard for me to imagine, and you best believe I’ve seen a whole lotta things, the Professor admitted. "My own mama kept me real close for, well, for quite a while that’s for sure. But sometimes green sea turtle