Introduction

Have you ever gone into your garden and found an extra bush, and then after a while it disappears? If you have, you probably thought it was just a hallucination. But what it really is, is the common house pests such as rats, mice and squirrels, trying to disguise themselves in order to steal from your garden. That's why you find that all your fruits on your trees are rotten, or that they have disappeared with no trace.

This story is about three pest burglars, (which are a rat, a mouse, and a squirrel.)a fake bush and a curious eleven year-old girl named Momo.

Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Momo. She was eleven-years old. She was also quite curious and she yearned for adventure. She would daydream all day long about solving mysteries and travelling to faraway lands.

One day, while she was playing outside, she noticed a shrub near the fence. It had not been there before, she was quite sure that she had not seen it. "Now I really can solve a mystery!" she said, excitedly.

She made her way to the bush in order to inspect it, but the tea-time bell rang at that moment, and she had to go inside. Momo would not be allowed to go back outside once the tea bell rang. Reluctantly, she put her toys away in the shed.

As soon as Momo left the garden, the strange bush was lifted up by three naughty little pests. They were, as you already know, a rat, a mouse, and a squirrel.They scrambled up a white peach tree. "Ooh, smell that? It smells like........lunch!"

said the rat. "Oh Stinkyfur, we know you're hungry. Anyway, everyone, start picking!" said Nutty, the squirrel. Stinkyfur, the rat, glared at Nutty when he was not looking. The gang of fruit theives piled up almost all the peaches on the tree in a big basket except for six rotten ones, which they decided to nibble at on the ripe side. They left the garden after they were done, and they carried the basket and the bush with them as they went back to their underground hole which was their home.

The very next day, Momo excitedly went outside to take a look at the bush, but to her surprise, it wasn't there! she searched the whole garden, but still she could not find it. " I'm going to write that down so that I don't forget it. She hurried into the house to get her notebook. She wrote down the time she had seen the bush, and she also wrote that it had disappeared the next day. She went outside again, and this was when she found that all the white peaches in the white peach tree where all gone, and all that was left was the six rotten peaches! "The peaches are all gone! How strange!" she exclaimed in horror. 'Could it be possible that the strange looking shrub had stolen the peaches?'she thought. "No, that doesn't make sense! I know! Something must have disguised themselves as a

bush! Then, when I went away, they stole all the fruits! I will go inside and keep watch from my bedroom window, no-one will see me there!" she said, in delight. she hurried upstairs to her bedroom with her book and pencil. She waited for a long time but she didn't see anything. Momo didn't give up, for she knew that having patience was part of being a detective. When the whole day passed by, she decided to stay up at night until she saw something interesting. So that night, when everybody was sleeping, Momo crept out into the garden with a flashlight. She pointed the flashlight