National Geographic Kids USA - August 2017

DAN SIPPLE

I’ve never been more

adjective

. My baseball team, the
color noun,plural

,

was about to play the championship game. But Coach

celebrity

announced that the

official rules had changed! First, every player would

verb largenumber

times

before going to bat. We also had to wear our gloves on our

bodypart,plural

like

articleofclothing,plural

and run like a(n)

animal

. Before Coach could explain more, the umpire shouted,

“

verb

ball!” The umpire tossed me our new official bat, a(n)

tool

.

When the

typeofjob

threw the new official ball, a(n)

fruit

, it zoomed past

me and

past-tenseverb

all over the catcher. After

largenumber

tries, I finally hit the

samefruit

all the way to

farawaycity

. I started
verbendingin-ing

as fast as

I could until I slid into home base. This new game isn’t so

adjective

after all.

BY SARAH YOUNGSON

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without showing it to him or

her. Then read out loud for

a laugh.

34 AUGUST 2017

BYSARAHYOUNGSON

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