Cheese by Sarah Weeks

Author:Sarah Weeks [Weeks, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2016-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Oggie didn’t have time to think about Donnica’s birthday party anymore that morning. He had to work on a history report, which was due the following week. The topic he’d chosen for his report was famous inventors, which was no big surprise since Inventor was among the top ten things Oggie thought he might like to be when he grew up.

In the library, Oggie found a book called Whose Idea Was It? that looked promising. He sat down, opened it up to the table of contents, and began to run his finger down a list of famous inventors.

Alexander Graham Bell

George Washington Carver

Thomas Edison

Henry Ford

Benjamin Franklin

Samuel Morse

Elisha Otis

Oggie stopped.

“Who’s Elisha Otis?” he wondered aloud. He flipped through the pages until he found the chapter describing how, in 1854, Elisha Otis had demonstrated the new elevator he had invented by ascending to a dizzying height in front of a crowd of people at a state fair and then having his assistant cut the ropes to prove that the brakes he had fashioned out of two wagon springs would keep the elevator from plummeting to the ground.

“Prrrrr-ip! Prrrrr-ip!” Oggie found that very exciting.

Donnica, who was sitting at a nearby table, gave Oggie a dirty look.

“Must you make that annoying sound?” she whined.

“I can’t help it,” Oggie told her excitedly. “I never knew who invented elevator brakes before.”

“Shhh,” said Ms. Hepper, the school librarian, pressing a long pale finger to her lips. “Do I need to remind you that the library is a quiet place, Oggie?”

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