Free SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Junior Novel by Nickelodeon Publishing

said, “Well, I guess THIS is where that horrible smell was coming from!”
    They tunneled their way into a sand castle and climbed up to the top, where they met a little girl.
    â€œWhoa!” said the surprised girl when she saw the five friends.
    â€œExcuse me,” SpongeBob said. “Do you know where we can get a Krabby Patty around here?”
    A shadow fell over the sand castle. The girl’s big brother had arrived. When he saw the four sea creatures and Sandy, he yelled, “Invaders!”
    â€œUh-oh,” SpongeBob said.
    â€œYou get out of my sister’s sand castle!” the boy shouted. He kicked the castle, sending the friends flying in different directions.
    Patrick landed on a little girl’s ice cream. To him, it was a GIANT ice cream cone! “Where have you BEEN all my life?” he asked. Then he dove into the ice cream, eating his way through it.
    Squidward landed on the slippery, oily back of a sunbather. He tried to walk up her back, but he keptsliding in the suntan oil.
    The little girl spotted Patrick in her ice cream cone. “GROSS!” she cried, flinging the cone away with Patrick still in it. The cone hit Squidward and knocked him off the sunbather’s back. He and Patrick landed in the sand several feet away. “Hey, Squidward!” Patrick said happily, ice cream still around his mouth.
    SpongeBob and Sandy landed on an umbrella. “Sandy!” SpongeBob said. “The Krabby Patty! I think I see where the Krabby Patty smell’s coming from!” He tried to run off the umbrella, but it collapsed on the man underneath it. When the man opened the umbrella, SpongeBob and Sandy flew through the air and landed in a postcard rack next to Mr. Krabs.
    Patrick and Squidward climbed up the rack to join them. “Hey, SpongeBob!” Patrick called. “Did you find the giant ice cream?”
    SpongeBob climbed to the very top of the rack and sniffed the air. “Hey, team!” he said. “I smell Krabby Patties! I think they’re THAT way!”
    He led them onto a sidewalk. But then they looked up and SCREAMED!
    A bunch of bicyclists, skaters, pedestrians, and skateboarders were speeding right toward them!

T he team scrambled out of the way just in time.
    â€œNow what?” SpongeBob asked.
    â€œWe’re never gonna make it!” Squidward groaned.
    SpongeBob looked around for a solution and spotted … a bicycle!
    With SpongeBob and Patrick working the pedals and Sandy, Mr. Krabs, and Squidward on the handlebars, they were able to make the bicycle glide right along. To humans on the sidewalk, the bicycle looked like it was moving without a rider.
    When a mother with a baby stroller saw the bike, she stopped and stared. Mr. Krabs frantically rang the bike’s bell—
BERING BERING! BERING BERING!
—but the mother didn’t budge. So Mr. Krabs jumped from one bike handle to the other, tipping the bike just enough to make it swerve and miss the woman with the stroller.
    Unfortunately, that sent the bike straight toward a surfboard leaning against a truck. The bike zoomed upthe surfboard and flipped upside down!
    â€œYAHOO!” Patrick whooped.
    They all flew off the bike and landed in a toy wagon.
WHUMP!
The five team members peered up over the edge of the wagon and saw …
    â€¦ BURGER BEARD’S BURGERMOBILE!
    A sign read HOME OF THE KRABBY PATTY. A long line of customers snaked away from the little order window.
    â€œWhat the …?” Mr. Krabs exclaimed.
    â€œâ€˜Home of the KRABBY PATTY’?” SpongeBob read in utter disbelief.
    The customers eagerly devoured the burgers as fast as they were served up. Mr. Krabs read a smaller sign. “Eight ninety-nine for a Krabby Patty? Why didn’t
I
think of that?”
    Inside the Burgermobile, Burger Beard was grilling up Krabby Patties, happily humming to himself. He heard a voice say “YOU!” accusingly.
    It was Mr. Krabs. He