Sam the Man & the Rutabaga Plan by Frances O'Roark Dowell

Author:Frances O'Roark Dowell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books

Sam told his classmates about how vegetables got important vitamins and minerals from dirt. Dirt helped vegetables get the water and oxygen they needed to live and grow. It gave root vegetables a nice habitat. Before he met Sam, dirt had been Rudy’s best friend, Sam explained. That was why Sam was going to make a compost bin, so that Rudy could live in great dirt all his life.

“That was more a report than a story,” Emily said when Sam was done.

Mr. Pell said, “You know your rutabaga is done growing, right?”

“I know,” said Sam. “I’ve known that all week.”

Sam walked back to his desk. He wondered if Emily had been right. He’d told everyone a lot of interesting facts, but that wasn’t the same thing as telling a story. In a story, someone had to be in trouble or have a problem, and then they had to figure out how to get out of trouble or solve their problem. Sometimes in stories, a person wanted something really, really bad, but stuff kept getting in the way.

So what did Rudy want, Sam wondered? What was Rudy’s problem he needed to solve?

Rashid walked to the front of the classroom carrying the plastic container that held his tiny pumpkin. He looked sad, as though he had bad news.

“My mom says she thinks my pumpkin was pretty old when I got it on Monday,” Rashid said. “And also, maybe I should have kept my pumpkin in a cool place. So here’s the story about how my pumpkin is getting rotten spots and why I have to throw it away today or else my mom’s going to throw it away for me.”

Rashid opened up the plastic container. All of a sudden a pumpkin-y smell filled the room. It wasn’t a bad smell, Sam thought, but it wasn’t a good smell, either. It was an old mushy pumpkin smell.

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