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One late April afternoon, after

the other students had already
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gone home, Sarah returned
to school hoping to retrieve
her lunch box. She looked and
looked but couldn’t find it

anywhere in the classroom.

“My mom is going to kill me!”
Sarah cried.

Okay, think. Sarah, she said to herself. How can you fix the situation?

Sarah thought for a few minutes. Then, like magic, an idea came to
her mind. “The lost and found!” she cried. She ran back down the hall
and toward the steps leading to the lost and found.

As she was running, she noticed the elevator door was open. Sarah

had never been in the elevator but knew riding the elevator could get
her into trouble, but no one else was around. Sarah walked in and
pressed the button labelled “GR.”

Nothing happened.

She pressed the same button again. Still, nothing happened.

“What is wrong with you?” Sarah asked, as if the elevator would
answer. Frustrated, Sarah pressed the button labelled “2,” just see if

anything would happen.
Finally, the doors shut.

Once the elevator doors had closed, Sarah started moving in an

upward direction. “No!” cried Sarah, “I want to go down!” Enraged
with the elevator, Sarah decided to take the stairs, once she could get
off the elevator.

Looking up, Sarah noticed the lights of the elevator were flashing on
and off. The school building was only two stories high, and she had

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