The 13-Storey Treehouse

* Australian
* American
* British

**The 13-Storey Treehouse** is the 1st book in the Storey Treehouse series.

## Synopsis

Andy and Terry live in a treehouse. But it's not just any old treehouse, it's the most amazing treehouse in the world!

This treehouse has thirteen stories, a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a secret underground laboratory, and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and automatically shoots marshmallows into your mouth whenever you are hungry.

Life would be perfect for Andy and Terry if it wasn't for the fact that they have to write their next book, which is almost impossible because there are just so many distractions, including thirteen flying cats, giant bananas, mermaids, a sea monsters pretending to be mermaids, enormous gorillas, and dangerous burp gas-bubblegum bubbles!

These are some of the original editions to the treehouse:

1. A bowling alley
2. A see-through swimming pool
3. A tank full of man-eating sharks
4. Swinging vines
5. A games room
6. A secret underground laboratory
7. A lemonade fountain
8. A vegetable vaporizer
9. A marshmallow machine (it shoots marshmallows into your mouth when you're hungry)
10. An observation deck
11. A giant catapult
12. A kitchen
13. A bathroom

## Plot

The story begins with Andy introducing himself and his friend Terry. He says that they live in a 13-story treehouse, which has a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of man-eating sharks, vines you can swing on, a games room, a secret underground laboratory, a lemonade fountain, a vegetable vaporizer, and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and automatically shoots marshmallows into your mouth whenever you're hungry. Andy says that as well as the treehouse being his and Terry's home, it is also where they make books together. Andy writes the words and Terry draws the picture.

One day, a day starts off normally with Andy waking up and going down to eat breakfast. Terry was already in the kitchen. He was painting their neighbor Jill's cat Silky yellow. Andy asks Terry what he is doing, and Terry says that he is turning Silky into a canary. Andy doesn't believe him and starts telling him that you can't turn a cat into a canary just by painting it yellow, but Terry disagrees and carries Silky, dripping, to the observation deck. Andy doesn't dare to watch, but Silky develops wings and flies away. As they watch Silky fly away into the distance, the doorbell rings. Jill was at the front door. She was looking for Silky. Andy and Terry decided to hide, but Jill saw them anyway. She hangs up a missing cat poster on their tree. As she leaves, Andy is determined to find Silky when their 3D video phone rings. Mr. Big Nose, their publisher was calling. He was very angry. He yelled at the duo about their book not being on his desk, and Andy promised that he'll get it there on time. Terry says that he can't write the book because he had a lot of "To Dos" and "To Don'ts". Andy tells him that if they don't get their book done on time, they'll end up in the monkey house. Terry freaks out over this and the duo heads straight to the kitchen.

When Andy realizes that Terry has only done two drawings, he is disappointed. He asks if Terry expects him to do all the work, including the drawings. Terry says that he can't draw. This leads to a drawing competition. Terry's drawings were all better than Andy's. Angrily, he grabs the giant banana Terry made in the secret underground laboratory to whack him over the head, but Terry gets hold of it and whacks Andy instead. His POV goes black. Then Terry saves him by pouring a bucket of water over him. After that was dealt with, Andy finds out that he has only written four words and four pages, much to his dismay. Right around then, Terry's favorite show, Barky the Barking Dog. Andy finds it really dumb, but he watches it with Terry anyway. After the episode finishes, he is about to watch his second-favorite show, Buzzy the Buzzing Fly, when Andy stops him by picking up the TV and throwing it out the window. It landed with a crash on the ground before and narrowly misses Bill the Postman. He says that he has a special delivery for Terry. It was a package of sea monkeys. He rushes down to get it and promises Andy that he'll go to the secret underground laboratory and will be back in an instant. Andy waits for a really long time before heading down to the lab. Terry had just finished building the apparatus that will dispense the exact amount of water the sea monkeys need, This takes a while, and Terry says that he needed to purify the water, which would take 24 hours. Andy says that was a whole entire day. He tells Terry to skip the purifying step or else he'll shove a jar on his head so hard that it'll be stuck there for the rest of his life. Terry says yes and goes straight to feeding the sea monkeys. However, one of them ate all the food before the others could get it. Terry tried again, but this time, the sea monkey ate all the food AND all the other sea monkeys. Then it began multiplying in size. Andy and Terry ended up taking it to their bathtub in their bathroom. When the sea monkey had finished growing, it became a mermaid. Terry was devastated as mermaids are for girls. After that, the mermaid introduces herself to Terry and ignores Andy. The mermaid's name is Mermaidia. The two quickly fell in love and got married by kissing. Mermaidia suggested that they live in her 13-story sandcastle under the sea. Terry liked that idea and left the bathroom to say goodbye to Andy. He quickly hid behind the door before Terry left. Meanwhile, inside the bathroom, Mermaidia revealed her true identity as a sea monster. Andy heard strange noises and opened the door. He was shocked after seeing what was happening and recorded it. In the kitchen, the marshmallow machine was feeding Terry marshmallows. Andy shows Terry the horrifying clip, and then Mermaidia shows up behind them. Andy and Terry frantically take the elevator down to the lab. Then Terry turns his banana enlarger into a banana shrinker. Sure enough, Mermaidia arrives in the lab in a short amount of time. Terry opens fire on her and she begins to shrink. Finally, she was no larger than a jelly bean, and Andy flushes her down the toilet. Terry, depressed, refused to do his work as his "wife" was gone. So Andy suggests that they pop popcorn with the lid off. Popcorn flies everywhere and they eat until they're full. Then they head to the lemonade fountain. The two burp very loudly afterward. Terry climbs out of the lemonade fountain and chews a really long roll of bubble gum. He burped and chewed and blew and burped into his bubble. Pretty soon, the bubble was so large that it surrounded Terry. He began to float away. Andy tried to rescue him by practicing his golf swing. It took four attempts before he could pop Terry's bubble. The bad news was that he was plummeting downward with nothing to protect him. Luckily, the marshmallow machine came at the last second and began firing marshmallows at the ground at supersonic speed to form a marshmallow trampoline. Terry landed safely and he and Andy return to work. They come up with a superhero called Superfinger. For the story Andy and Terry wrote about Superfinger, click here. After they finish, Bill returns and has another package. It was a box of replacement sea monkeys. Terry rushed to the door to retrieve his package. He quickly hatched the eggs in the secret underground laboratory and started work on his next book with Andy when there was a loud crash coming from the lab. The duo ran down to see what was all the commotion. It turned out that the sea monkeys were REAL monkeys and they were destroying the laboratory. Not long after, they got into the elevator and Andy panics that the monkeys will invade the rest of the treehouse. He was right about that, as the monkeys created total chaos on every level of the treehouse. Several monkeys riding the marshmallow were firing marshmallows at the duo. Another bunch of monkeys swinging on a vine crashed into the marshmallow machine, causing it to explode. But that didn't stop their crazy rampage. The monkeys started pelting the duo with whatever they could get their paws on. Terry picks up the giant banana and begins whacking the debris away. Then he began whacking the monkeys out of the tree. The monkeys reentered the tree, but not to resume the disaster. They sat down and simply watched Terry swing the banana around. This caused the monkeys to be mesmerized. Andy and Terry led the monkeys to the giant catapult. They launched away the monkeys along with the banana. The duo returned to work when the treehouse began shaking wildly. The two head over to the edge of the deck to see a giant gorilla shaking the tree. Andy says he knows what might've happened. The banana landed on a faraway tropical island. The banana happily ate the banana and loved it so much that it made a boat out of its peel and used its nostrils to track down where the banana came from. Andy suggests using the banana enlarger to produce more giant bananas, but Terry says that the banana enlarger has been destroyed by the monkeys. Then, a white stretch limousine pulls over at the front door. A chauffeur wearing a fancy suit rang the doorbell. He was here to tell Terry that he won first place in the Barky the Barking Dog drawing competition. Then the chauffeur let Terry met Barky. Barky began barking at the gorilla, but it stomped on him. After that, the chauffeur scooped up an injured Barky and carried him back into the limo and drove away. Now without Barky, the treehouse was at risk of total destruction. Andy and Terry panicked. Right when things couldn't get any worse, 13 flying cats (now catnaries; one of them was Silky) appeared. The catnaries formed a menacing circle above the tree to lure the gorilla up. That's when the catnaries began fighting the gorilla. Eventually, the gorilla got dizzy and landed on the ground with a loud THUD! The catnaries lifted up the gorilla and dropped it on the tropical island. Then the doorbell rang. Terry ran to the door, and Andy followed along, trying to stop Terry in case Bill was there to deliver even more replacement sea monkeys. But it was Jill. She saw Silky flying away with her friends and found the situation questionable. She was able to make Andy confess and tell her what Terry did. But Jill wasn't mad at all. In fact, she appreciated what Terry did. After she left, Andy said that they still haven't written their book yet. Stressed out, Andy sat down at the kitchen table to work. Terry said that they should just write down what happened that day, and Andy loved that idea. So they used it. The next day, it was 4:45 PM when they finished their book. The only problem was that they had no way to get their book delivered to Mr. Big Nose on time. Then Jill showed up at the deck, sitting in a stroller flown by Silky and her friends. Andy and Terry got in and the stroller was driven to Mr. Big Nose's office. Andy threw his book in the office, and Mr. Big Nose published it. The book was distributed to libraries, bookstores, and other places where you can read books. And then you read it and they all lived happily after ever. The duo's new book, The 13-Story Treehouse, was added to their book pile.

## Characters

* Andy Griffiths (Main Protagonist)
* Terry Denton (Secondary Protagonist)
* Jill
* Mr. Big Nose
* Silky
* Mermaidia
* Monkeys
* Giant Gorilla
* Flying Catnaries

## Chapters

1. The 13-Story Treehouse
2. The Flying Cat
3. The Missing Cat
4. The Big Red Nose
5. The Drawing Competition
6. The *Barky the Barking Dog Show*
7. The Monster Mermaid
8. The Big Bubble
9. The Adventures of Superfinger
10. The 13-Story Monkey House
11. The Giant Gorilla
12. The Day Silky Saved the Day
13. The End

## Trivia

* This is the only book where the 13th chapter isn't called 'The Last Chapter'.