The Next Level by Jackson Pearce

Author:Jackson Pearce
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781681195223
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

“I don’t know,” Kit said thoughtfully, twirling her hair around her fingers.

“You didn’t know a thing about engineering when we met,” Ellie pointed out.

Kit frowned. “That’s true. And neither did Toby. But Toby and I wanted to learn about engineering. I don’t know that Mrs. Curran does. Oh—wait, let me grab her foot.”

The foot in question belonged to Miss Penelope, Kit’s pet sheep. Kit’s dad and sister were allergic to dogs, so they’d gotten her a sheep for her last birthday. Sheep, as it turned out, made pretty good pets. Even if they couldn’t be potty-trained, they could be trained to spin in circles, jump over broomsticks, and not steal carrot sticks right out of your hand. Miss Penelope was trying very hard to eat a patch of dandelions in Kit’s yard, but Ellie and Kit were trying equally as hard to get a dog harness through her legs. Kit caught the sheep’s foot and tucked it through the harness, then clipped the harness shut.

They were in the process of building a saddle for Miss Penelope’s back—one that the dolls Ellie and Kit had gotten from Mrs. Curran could ride in together. The project was trickier than it sounded, since Miss Penelope (and, Ellie supposed, all sheep) sort of pranced when she walked. The prancing had made the saddle sway back and forth on Miss Penelope’s back until the dolls jostled right out of their first few saddle attempts. Ellie had decided some research was in order—research was very, very useful for engineers, and so when the first few saddles hadn’t worked, she’d looked up other sorts of saddles on Kit’s mom’s phone. Research was also sometimes very, very surprising, because the saddle that Ellie thought would work best for Miss Penelope was the type people used on elephants.

“All right, how do we build this elephant saddle?” Kit asked, plopping down on the ground as Ellie opened up her notebook.

“I was thinking something like this,” Ellie said, and drew as fast as she could.

“See this piece here?” Ellie asked, pointing to the X-shaped bit at the bottom of the saddle. “I’m not sure what to build it out of, but I think that’s the thing that keeps the saddle steady when an elephant or a Miss Penelope is moving or prancing or jumping.”

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