title: Albert's Raccoon (I Am Reading)
author:  Karen Wallace 
description: Karen Wallace is the award-winning author of more than ninety books for kids.
zlib_text: MICHAEL CONEY
  
  BULLDOG DRUMMOND AND THE GRIM REAPER
  
  BOBBIE AXFORD AND THE raccoon eyed each other, separated by the thickness of
  her
  
  office window.
  
  There was an uncanny glint in the raccoon's eyes.
  
  It was a cunning glint, a knowing glint, a glint that stripped her naked. It
  was
  
  the kind of glint she used to see in the eyes of her ex-partner, ex-lover
  Bill,
  
  the treacherous rat.
  
  "Get the hell off that ledge!" she shouted. She smacked at the glass with a
  rolled-up paper. The animal stood its ground, sure-footed, hairy, blackish-
  gray,
  
  hump-backed. The office was six floors up. In the old days she'd have been
  able
  
  to open the window, and with one quick shove the disgusting brute would have
  been history. But city windows didn't open nowadays.
  
  Odd that the raccoon should have climbed up all this way. Curiosity? Death
  wish?
  
  The ceaseless quest for sexual fulfillment? Well, he wouldn't find much of the
  latter up here. The huge Axford Proximation Building contained many unusual
  thing