Alexis by Erica Rodgers

Author:Erica Rodgers [Rodgers, Erica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781643521251
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2019-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

Camp Club Girls:

Alexis and the Lake Tahoe Tumult

Cat’s Out of the Bag

“Only about twenty more minutes to the hotel!” said Mr. Howell. Alexis’s dad hummed as he guided their rented car up the winding road that would take them to Lake Tahoe.

The flat, icy landscape scattered with sagebrush had turned into snowy peaks. As Alexis gazed at them, her imagination started to go wild. She decided the snowy peaks reached into the bright blue sky like the jagged teeth of a crocodile—like the crocodiles she’d seen in a documentary on the Discovery Channel earlier in the month.

And, of course, her thoughts of documentaries and the Discovery Channel made her think of the real purpose she and her friend Bailey, a fellow Camp Club Girl, had for going to Lake Tahoe with Alexis’s mom and dad and twin brothers.

“Hey, Dad?” Alexis called. “Can we go straight to the animal reserve?”

“I don’t see why not,” Mr. Howell said. “It’s too late to ski today, anyway. I’ll drop your mom and brothers off at the hotel. They can check in and hang out while I drive you out there. We’ll be back by dinner.”

Alexis yawned and closed her eyes. She thought again about those big teeth on the crocodiles.

Suddenly the car began to swerve and shake as if those crocodile teeth had gotten hold of the Howells’ car.

“What’s going on?” asked Mrs. Howell.

“Not sure!” said Mr. Howell. He was struggling to keep his hands on the steering wheel. Alexis looked out the window and realized that the car wasn’t all that was shaking.

“Dad, is this an earthquake?” she asked.

Mr. Howell didn’t answer. He was focused on dodging the rocks that had begun rolling down the hill above them.

But almost as suddenly as the bouncing of the earth had begun, it stopped. Within a matter of minutes, the car was driving smoothly again.

“What a way to start a vacation, huh?” Mr. Howell laughed nervously. “I think that was a small earthquake.”

Alexis turned to Bailey, but her fellow Camp Club Girl was fast asleep, face pressed against the window. The breath from her gaping mouth was fogging the glass. Alexis peeked into the back of the van where her little brothers were also sleeping.

There was no way Alexis could have slept, even before the earthquake. She was too excited about her documentary.

The owners at the Tahoe Animal Reserve and Rescue at Lake Tahoe had agreed to let her tour and film their facilities. Her video would be about remembering nature in the middle of our world full of cement and SUVs.

She was planning to enter the video in a contest for young amateur filmmakers. The winner of the contest would not only see the film shown on the Discovery Channel but would also receive scholarship money. And knowing how much her mother’s youngest sister was still paying on loans she’d taken out for college, Alexis knew it was never too early to start saving money for college!

So even though she was only twelve, Alex, as most of her friends called her, was going to get started.

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