1 The Yard Looking into the yard you might think a school let the students out for recess Kids of all sizes and ages played in the grass Soccer balls a baseball bat a few orange cones were scattered everywhere But it wasn’t the school yard It was the Reed’s backyard and all the kids playing there were siblings Two tall blonde boys threw a football back and forth to each other One of the boys Jack caught the ball hugged it close to his stomach and started to run He pretended to break a tackle to the left and spun around to avoid a tackle to the right 7
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You can’t catch me Jack shouted He ducked low He jumped high He kept zigging and zagging trying to make it into the end zone You are so going down Trey reached out to grab at Jack determined to keep him from scoring I have you now Jack dragged Trey across the yard his brother’s toes digging into the dirt along the way He stumbled into the end zone and dropped Trey with a THUD The boys wrestled a bit rolled around in the (cid:74)(cid:85)(cid:68)(cid:86)(cid:86)(cid:3) (cid:191)(cid:74)(cid:75)(cid:87)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:74)(cid:3) (cid:82)(cid:89)(cid:72)(cid:85)(cid:3) (cid:87)(cid:75)(cid:72)(cid:3) (cid:69)(cid:68)(cid:79)(cid:79)(cid:15)(cid:3) (cid:87)(cid:75)(cid:72)(cid:81)(cid:3) (cid:74)(cid:82)(cid:87)(cid:3) (cid:88)(cid:83)(cid:3) and started all over again A huge tree with wide branches and thousands of soft green leaves stood in the middle of the yard Attached to that (cid:87)(cid:85)(cid:72)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:90)(cid:68)(cid:86)(cid:3)(cid:68)(cid:3)(cid:87)(cid:75)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:15)(cid:3)(cid:192)(cid:68)(cid:87)(cid:3)(cid:83)(cid:76)(cid:72)(cid:70)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:82)(cid:73)(cid:3)(cid:69)(cid:82)(cid:68)(cid:85)(cid:71)(cid:17)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:36)(cid:3)(cid:87)(cid:75)(cid:76)(cid:70)(cid:78)(cid:3) rope like the kind a pirate uses to hold the anchor on a ship threaded through 9
