Sacagawea's Strength
By Stacia Deutsch, Rhody Cohon and David Wenzel
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The kids have to convince Sacagawea not to give up on her dream. But they don’t know what Sacagawea’s dream is! Sure, they know that explorers Lewis and Clark mapped a route leading out West. But what does that have to do with the teenage Native American?
Can Abigail and her group find Sacagawea, figure out what her dream is, and convince her to stick with it—all in just two hours?
Stacia Deutsch
Stacia Deutsch is the author of more than fifty children’s books, including the eight-book, award-winning chapter book series Blast to the Past. She has also written the tween novel Mean Ghouls as well as books for the Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew and The Boxcar Children series. Stacia has been on the New York Times bestseller list for the novelizations of the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and The Smurfs movies. For new releases and school visit information, visit StaciaDeutsch.com.
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Sacagawea's Strength - Stacia Deutsch
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Did you hear that?
I looked around anxiously. I swear I just heard a bear growl.
What are you taking about, Abigail?
Zack asked me, making a crazy sign with his finger around his ear. He turned to his twin brother. Did you hear anything, Jacob?
I don’t think so,
Jacob replied, cupping his ear to hear better. Nope. Nothing.
I wish Abigail really did hear a bear,
Zack said with a yawn. I could see his tonsils. We could use some excitement. I’m bored,
he moaned, stretching his arms and yawning again.
Me too,
Jacob added, sighing. This isn’t how I wanted to spend the afternoon.
Usually, I love Mr. Caruthers’s assignments. Jacob and Zack are always excited by social studies too. But today’s project was cartography. And as far as I could tell, there was nothing more dull in the entire universe.
Mr. C had explained that cartography is the art of making maps. We were supposed to draw in a journal an accurate map of the shallow creek bed that runs behind our school. He told us to pay special attention to the direction of the creek and which way the water flowed.
Next to the map, we had to describe any plants and animals we saw. Mr. C even said we needed to sketch little pictures of the bugs we found.
This was definitely the most horrible project in the whole history of social studies.
There were four of us in our cartography group: Jacob, Zack, Bo, and me. Only Bo was interested in the class project. He was standing near a bush and holding the long iron chain Mr. C had given us. Abigail,
he called, would you mind holding one end of this chain against that rock over there?
Mr. C had told us the iron chain was called a two-pole chain. A pole
is a unit of measurement equal to sixteen and a half feet. Each link was 7.92 inches. The whole chain was thirty-three feet long. Bo liked using the two-pole chain. By counting the links, he could figure out exactly how far it was from the bush to the rock and then put them both on our map.
I didn’t really want to, but I went to help Bo anyway. It could be worse,
I remarked to Jacob and Zack. Looking over my shoulder, I glanced over at the rest of our social studies classmates wandering around the creek bed. Eliana Feinerman’s group didn’t even get a chain to measure stuff. They have two sticks and a bunch of rocks.
Yeah,
Jacob replied. And Shanika Washington’s group has it real bad too. They have to make a new map by copying and correcting an old one from the school library.
I picked up the end of the chain and placed it against the rock. Bo dragged the other end to the bush. Well,
I commented, watching Bo stretch the chain tight, at least Bo’s having fun.
Zack looked at Bo and joked, Yeah, well, Roberto Rodriquez is new to our school. He probably doesn’t know how to have fun.
Because he was joking, Zack winked when he used Bo’s full, real name.
Bo laughed softly and kept counting.
After another huge yawn, Zack opened our journal book and wrote in big letters: HISTORY CLUB? Zack turned the book toward me so I could see.
No clue,
I replied with a frown and a shrug.
Usually after school on Mondays, Bo, Jacob, Zack, and I have a History Club meeting. During History Club, our cool teacher, Mr. Caruthers, sends us on a time-travel mission to visit someone famous in American history.
Mr. C invented a time-travel computer. The computer looks like a handheld video game with four red buttons and a large screen. Slipping a cartridge into the back takes us to the past. Pulling out the cartridge brings us home again.
Our teacher told us that American history is in danger. He showed us a little black book full of names. For some mysterious reason, all the famous Americans in Mr. C’s book were quitting. They weren’t inventing, or speaking out, or fighting for what was right. They were giving up their dreams!
Mr. C wanted more time to focus on his newest invention, so he asked the four of us to time-travel for him. He needed us to save history from changing forever!
So far, we’d been very successful in all of our adventures. We’d managed to keep history on track. It was amazing since the computer only gave us two hours to get the job done.
We’re so good at time travel, Jacob, Zack, Bo, and I totally thought that we’d be hopping through time today on another History Club adventure. It was Monday, after all. But late last week, Mr. C blew our hopes out of the water. He announced that the entire social studies class was going on a field trip after school instead.
To be honest, I’m not sure that standing in the woodsy area behind school can be called a field trip.
There wasn’t even a bus to bring us here. We walked.
This is so depressing,
I mumbled under my breath. I watched a beetle crawl across the ground, but didn’t mention it to anyone because I didn’t want to have to draw it in our journal.
Hey, Abigail!
Bo called. Now he was standing by