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‘I think we can tie these together with a tape and make one big battery that will start
the rocket’, she said.
Bina lined up the batteries and taped them together in a bundle. She
took a piece of duct tape and connected a wire to the batteries on
each end. She then attached one to the starter, took the other wire
and ran it back up to her seat in the rocket.
duct tape ‘Here goes!’ said Bina. As she connected the wire to
the dashboard, they could hear the roar of the rocket.
Before they knew it, they were zooming back through space and
towards Earth.

‘Yippee!’ they both yelled. dashboard

Just then, Bina’s mother pulled the headphones off
her head and told her to go to sleep. It was easy for Who woke Bina
Bina to go back to sleep because she hoped she ? up and why?
could pick up her rocket ship dream from right where
she had left it!

(Source: Adapted from ‘Bill and the Boom Box Rocket’; http://www.kidsgen.com/
short_stories)

New Words

Word Meaning

headphones

navigator

rocket ship

blur

rear end

displeased

space suits

compartment

duct tape

dashboard

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