Chapter 1
In the summer, Joel and his older brother Ricky went to a farm to visit their cousin Lisa.
It was a Saturday morning. Lisa's mother and father went into town for the day.
Joel and Lisa and Ricky stood outside near a barn and a fence.
"I have an idea," Lisa said. She pointed at a pond near the barn. "I want to build the biggest slingshot in the world. Then we could shoot a big rock into the water of the pond."
Joel pointed at the ducks in the pond. "What if you hit a duck?" Joel asked.
Lisa was thirteen years old. So was Ricky.
"What do you know?" Ricky asked Joel. "You are only seven years old."
"What do you know?" Lisa asked Joel. "If we use a big rock, they will see the shadow of the rock before the rock gets close. The shadow of the rock will scare the ducks. And the ducks will fly away before the rock can hit them. The rock will not hit the ducks."
"What do I know?" Joel said. "I am only seven."
So Ricky and his cousin Lisa started to build the biggest slingshot in the world.
