White House White-Out by Ron Roy

Author:Ron Roy [Roy, Ron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307477835
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2008-08-12T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

The five kids got up on their knees and listened.

“There it is again!” Ruth Rose said. “Hear it?”

“I do!” KC said.

“We’re rescued!” Josh crowed.

All five kids scrambled out the door. Dink turned on the flashlight and began waving it toward the sky.

They stood in a circle, looking up and listening.

Nothing.

“I know I heard it,” KC said.

“Maybe it’ll come back,” Dink said. He shut off the flashlight.

Wind blew snow into their faces. Their boots made squeaking noises on the frozen snow.

“There it is again!” KC said.

“I hear it!” Dink said, switching the flashlight back on. “It sounds like a helicopter!”

“I hear it, too!” Ruth Rose said.

Then they all heard it. But Marshall was the first to see it. “Over there!” he yelled.

They all saw tiny blinking lights moving across the sky. They might have been fireflies except for the thud-thud of blades.

“It is a helicopter!” KC said. “It’s the president looking for us!”

“Do you think they can see us?” KC asked.

“I don’t know,” Dink said. He waved the light wildly over his head.

“We need more light!” Josh said. “Let’s make a bonfire!”

“With what?” Dink asked. “And we don’t have any matches.”

“Look inside the van,” Marshall suggested. “Some of that florist stuff should burn.”

“Guys, we need matches,” Dink said again.

Josh raced to the van’s passenger door and tore it open. He found some papers Dink had left on the seat.

“Any matches in there?” Dink asked.

“No, but there is a cigarette lighter,” Josh said. He punched it in and waited, then it popped out. “It works!”

“Why don’t we burn that wooden crate?” KC suggested. “We could break it apart!”

The kids worked frantically. They tugged the crate out the van’s rear door. Dink grabbed some tools from a shelf, and they were able to smash the crate into boards.

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