He videos it while it eats a dead cricket. She tells her dad about the lizard, he bandages her cut, and Kate, Freddy and their father go to see the lizard. While cleaning the mess the egg left, Kate feels the shell bounce in her hand and sees a tiny lizard that looks like a hairy bee. Kate and her father are heartbroken and Adele leaves. Kate's father shows them the real egg and then sneezes while holding it, causing the egg to fall again and smash. The egg cracks on the floor, but Kate’s father comes in and explains that he switched that egg with an egg from the fridge as a prank he was going to pull later. Kate agrees to let her hold it, but her hand slips when she takes it out of the glass case in the hatching room in her house. After getting scared by Kate’s father’s macaw, Screech, Adele wants to hold it to see if it’s actually a lizard egg. Kate invites Adele to come over to her house to prove to her that the egg isn’t fake. A girl named Adele Bender, who is always trying to turn everything into a competition between her and Kate, says that the egg is a fake. When they return to Middle Village, Kate shows pictures of the lizards in Australia and the egg to her science class. Clegg’s lab assistant, Miss Morris, warns Kate not to buy the egg, but her parents buy it anyway. Before offering to sell them an egg, he claims the egg will hatch the lizard that he showed them. Clegg shows them a very rare and unique Tasmanian cobra lizard. The family goes to the Queens Park Wildlife Reserve in Queensland, Australia to buy lizards, and a man named Dr. Unfortunately, this idea wasn’t a success and the family was going broke, so they came up with a new idea: to buy lizards to form a lizard attraction zoo. Her parents’ latest idea was to quit their jobs and buy twelve miniature horses to form a petting zoo. The family lives in a town called Middle Village. She feels like she’s the grown-up in the family since her parents are always pulling pranks on her and her ten-year-old brother, Freddy, leaving her to be the sensible one. Kate Lipton thinks her parents are crazy. Will Kate and her family be able to survive this Lizard of Oz? She can't help but notice certain changes around her house. It feels like it's taking forever! But when it does, strange things start to happen.
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Who doesn't love lizards? The whole family takes a trip to Australia to find the most exciting and rare species. Her dad is convinced that their family should be running a farm for lizards. Kate Lipton's family has some strange ideas.