Computer Clues by Judy Delton

Author:Judy Delton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780307800084
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2011-09-21T04:00:00+00:00

Molly pictured all the Pee Wees reading and writing in cyberspace, while she was sharpening a yellow pencil in Mrs. Peters’s basement.

She decided to give her search one more try. “Come back, come back, come back!” she yelled. It seemed as if it must be midnight, but Molly’s little alarm clock showed it was only nine. When she was just about to give up on her ESP, her dad called to her.

“Molly, are you asleep? Can you come down here a minute?”

They must know what she had done. Maybe it was her dad who had ESP, not Molly. Maybe he knew she had erased those words.

Molly went downstairs.

“Molly, one of our files is missing, and we can’t seem to get it back. We have it saved on a backup disk, so it’s not really lost. But I thought we should talk about being careful not to press the DELETE key in the wrong place when you are using the computer.”

Then they did know! They did have ESP! But if the words were on this little disk, why were they so worried?

“I did it!” cried Molly. “I wanted to get all those words off the screen and I pushed the DELETE button by mistake.”

Her dad frowned. “I’ll show you what to do when that happens,” he said. He turned the laptop on and showed Molly how to press the ESCAPE button and clear the screen without losing any important words.

“It wasn’t your fault,” said Mrs. Duff. “You can’t learn everything about computers in a few hours.”

Molly sighed. “I guess not,” she said.

“We just wanted you to know that we have the words saved on this disk,” Mr. Duff said. “We know what a worrier you are, and we were afraid you wouldn’t be able to sleep if you thought you had done something wrong.”

“I’ll be really careful next time,” said Molly, giving her parents a hug and going back to bed.

As she crawled into bed, she remembered something. Just at the moment she was concentrating the hardest on those lost words, her dad had called her downstairs to tell her about the disk that the words were on. Her concentration had paid off. She did have ESP after all!

The next morning on the way to school, Mary Beth asked Molly what her report was on.

“Barns,” said Molly. “And I’m all done with my report.”

Mary Beth didn’t seem interested in barns. And she didn’t have any questions to ask Molly about them. She probably thinks they’re boring, thought Molly.

“Ferris wheels were fun to look up,” said Mary Beth. “Lots of people get sick on them. Especially when they stop at the top.”

Once they got to school, the girls forgot about computers. School didn’t mix with Pee Wee Scouts. And it wasn’t half as much fun.

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