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    Frankie Sparks and the Lucky Charm
    Frankie Sparks and the Lucky Charm
    Frankie Sparks and the Lucky Charm
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    Frankie Sparks and the Lucky Charm

    By Megan Frazer Blakemore and Nadja Sarell

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    Frankie Sparks uses her inventing skills to trap a leprechaun in this fourth chapter book in the STEM inspired Frankie Sparks, Third-Grade Inventor series.

    It’s springtime in Ms. Cupid’s class, and the entire class is excited to build their very own leprechaun traps. Maybe, if they catch one, they will all get the gift of good luck!

    And after a few magical clues, it looks like there might be a leprechaun on the loose in Frankie Sparks’s house! Her best friend, Maya, is convinced the leprechaun exists, but Frankie has her doubts—especially when it feels like every trap she designs fails! Will Frankie and Maya find their lucky charm, or figure out how to create some luck all on their own?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateFeb 18, 2020
    ISBN9781534430549
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    Megan Frazer Blakemore

    Megan Frazer Blakemoregrew up in a college town in New Hampshire much like the one in her book Very in Pieces. She attended Columbia University, where she earned a degree in English. After brief stints in the Peace Corps and the television industry, she pursued a master's in library science at Simmons School of Library and Information Science. She has over ten years' experience as a librarian and has taught writing to students in elementary through graduate school. She lives in Maine with her husband, two children, a cat, and two hives of bees. She is the author of books for teens and young readers, including Secrets of Truth & Beauty, an Indie Next Kids' Pick; The Water Castle, which was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year; The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill; and Good and Gone.

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      Frankie Sparks and the Lucky Charm - Megan Frazer Blakemore

      CHAPTER 1

      Dog Tricks

      ARF! ARF!

      When Frankie Sparks heard the dog, she smiled. She walked to Maya’s house and into the backyard. Maya’s dog, Opus, bounded around on the lawn. When he saw her, he barreled toward her and almost knocked her over.

      I’m teaching him to do tricks! Maya explained. She stood in the center of the yard, holding a Hula-Hoop.

      Is the trick to knock down your best friend? Frankie asked with a laugh.

      Frankie and Maya had been best friends forever, and Frankie loved Maya’s dog almost as much as she loved her own pet, a rat named Buttercup. Opus stopped and gave Frankie a good sniff before starting to sprint again.

      He’s supposed to jump through the hoop, Maya said with a shrug. But mostly he runs around me and around in the yard.

      Frankie called Opus to her. He skidded to a stop at her side. Maybe if you hold the hoop, and I call him from the other side, he’ll jump through it. She told Opus to stay and then crossed Maya’s lawn so that Maya and the hoop were between her and Opus. It was early spring, and the ground beneath her feet was squishy soft.

      Ready? Frankie asked Maya.

      Maya nodded.

      Here, Opus! Here, boy! Frankie called.

      Opus’s ears pricked up. Arf! He ran toward Frankie. Frankie clapped and called him again. She was certain Opus was going to jump right through the hoop.

      Faster and faster Opus ran, right up to the hoop, and then—swish—Opus veered to the right, ran around the hoop, and then turned back toward Frankie. No, Opus! Frankie said. Not like that.

      He’s been doing that all afternoon. Just when I think he’s going to do it—boom! He goes off in the other direction.

      This sounded like a challenge, and there were few things that Frankie liked more than a challenge. Hmm, she said. Maybe if I were a little closer to the hoop.

      They tried again with Frankie standing closer to the hoop. Opus ran and ran and… skidded right under the hoop.

      No, Opus, Maya moaned.

      Opus looked back at them with a confused expression on his face.

      It’s okay, Frankie said. You’re a good dog. She turned to Maya. He just doesn’t know what we want him to do.

      Let’s show him, then! Maya said with a giggle.

      Oh no. Frankie knew where this was going.

      Come on, Frankie! Maya called. Go through the hoop!

      Woof! Frankie said. She jogged up to the hoop and stepped through.

      Good girl! Maya said, and patted her on the head.

      Arf! Opus said.

      But when they called him through again, he just went around the girls. He sat down behind them. Arf!

      Opus! The girls laughed.

      Then Frankie snapped her fingers. I’ve got it! It really felt like a light bulb turning on when she got a good idea. Sometimes the light came on all at once, as if with a flick of a switch. Other times it was more like someone was turning up the light slowly, slowly, slowly. This idea came on all at once. Hold the hoop on the ground, she said. Then he can just walk right through. Then you can slowly raise it up until he’s jumping through.

      Brilliant! Maya said.

      Brilliant was just about Frankie’s favorite word.

      Opus, though, had other

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