The Cold Box

The summer fair is coming, and last year every ice cream melted. In Grandpa Odie’s backyard Invention Shed, twins Juno and Kip hunt for a cooler without electricity. Grandpa tells about ship icehouses with sawdust and desert clay pot coolers. The twins test both ideas, chart temperatures, and make funny mistakes when Cluckwork, their wind-up tin chicken alarm, goes off. With help from the whole

This is a Level 11 book: 20-page stories with future forms and phrasal verbs. Read it with karaoke-style narration — every word lights up as it is read — then listen to it as an audiobook, record your own reading, and finish with a fun quiz.

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