The+Great+Race

Abby Conrad 3/4 B 11/8/09 The Great Race I click off __The Great Race,__ (my new favorite TV show, where every week a kid gets chosen and goes on this hunt. What they don’t know that they are on TV) when mom calls me to the kitchen. “The mails here” she says. “ Its from Grandpa”. I froze, because I had thought Grandpa had died last year. I got downstairs, took the letter from mom and opened it immediately. It read, My dear Shannon and Alex, This may come to a surprise, but I need you to do me a favor. I need to retrieve my wooden box you gave me, it holds my journal and other important items. This is urgent, for it will help you Here is the first clue //for Moby holds your next clue// //Go to Bramble, page 142// With love, Grandpa I finished reading just as my annoying brother Alex comes downstairs and grabs the letter from my grasp and skims the writing. “ Thats odd” said mom “Well, would you like to find the next clue?” I respond quickly with a definite yes and hoped in the car with Alex right behind me to leave for Bramble, where Grandpa had grown up. When we got to Bramble we stopped to eat and to figure out the rest of the clue. //for Moby holds your next clue// I read the letter again and thought, //Moby, Moby, MOBY DICK!!!// It all made sense now! Moby Dick was her grandpa’s favorite book, so she had to find the book and look on page 142! That is were the clue is! I tell mom and Alex and we raced to the library. We entered the library and I run to find the book. She found the shelf and the 4 copies of the book, she would have to search all of them. After a few minutes I found the clue along with a key: //go to the mail man, box 383// //turn the lock and there your clue will be// Well this one was easy, she had to go to the post office. Open mailbox 383 and the there the clue will be. I closed the book and darted to the post office. There was a problem, box 383 didn’t exist! I asked the lady at the counter and she said “ Oh! That box was removed 5 years ago, but all the mail that was in there was moved to this bin. Here it is!” I took the bin and started flipping through the letters and magazines. Finally I spotted a coffee-stained letter covered in dust. “ I found it!” I cried. I tore open the envelope and read the clue. //your last clue is hidden in the park// //hope you get there before it is dark// //count the fence posts from the gate// //your last clue is under 8// “ Lets go!” I shouted, and we drove down Main Street to Bramble City Park. As mom slowed down the car, I jumped out and ran through the gate, counting the fence posts. The wind blew against my face as I ran. When I got to number 8 I looked around it but could not find anything. Mom and Alex came rushing up and helped me look, but the clue was nowhere to be found. I was frantic! “Where could it be!” I screamed. I could not rest until I found it. All of a sudden some cameramen pop out of bushes and trees. An announcer jumps out of a nearby car and exclaims “ Shannon! You are this weeks star on __The Great Race__ !” I screamed and jumped up and down. “ Oh My Gosh!” was all I could say. “ Are you serious!” I asked the announcer. Later plopped down on the couch to watch my episode of __The Great Race,__ and I asked Mom and Alex if they knew about it. “You Betcha!” they replied, “ and you didn’t tell me? “ I asked. “ We couldn’t, it was part of the plan!” Mom said. “ Thank you so much!” I said as I hugged them both.