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Grandma Lucia kept a notebook full of inventions that never worked: a self-buttering toaster, a hat that watered plants, a bicycle that pedaled itself downhill (which, she admitted, was just a bicycle).
"Why do you keep all your failures?" asked Nico, flipping through the smudged pages.
"They aren’t failures," she said. "They’re maps. Each one shows me a road that doesn’t go anywhere, so I don’t have to walk it twice."
On the last page was a drawing of a simple clip that held a phone to a bicycle handlebar. Beside it, in Grandma’s handwriting, was the word "PATENTED" and a date from thirty years ago. "That one paid for your mother’s college," Grandma said, smiling. "It took forty-two maps to find it."
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Free Grade 5 English worksheet (Common Core RL.5.1): read "The Inventor’s Notebook" and answer questions about key details, characters and theme. Skill: Key ideas and details in literature. Level: Grade 5 — also suits Year 6 (UK).
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Key ideas and details in literature.
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