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hapter 1: Replay
By Jake Maddox
Valeria Pérez stuck her pencil down her cast and scratched. Just a little farther, she thought. There! Ahh. Much better.
Mateo kicked her chair. “Don’t you get that off soon?” he asked.
Valeria turned around and flashed her best friend a smile. “Today!” she said.
“Chido!” said Mateo. “Can you meet me at the skate park later?”
Valeria stared out the window.
“Valeria? Hello?” Mateo said, waving.
Mr. Rudder, their sixth-grade English teacher, looked up and cleared his throat.
“Valeria. Mateo. Are you finished with your journal entries?” he asked.
Yeah right, Valeria thought. Writing with her cast on was so slow! Her thoughts drifted to the skateboard crash. Ever since crashing six weeks ago, she had replayed the accident over and over. She couldn’t stop thinking about it. Of course this was a bad mindset, but she couldn’t help it.
BEEP! Class was over.
“So,” Mateo pressed, “when are you gonna check out my turns? I want to make sure I’m ready for the comp this weekend.”
He was talking about the skateboarding race—the “comp,” short for “competition.”
Before Valeria could answer, Mateo kept talking. “Did you hear? The comp’s on Brayon Gulch now. It’ll be steeper and more difficult than High Valley.”
Valeria hadn’t heard. She had only ridden Brayon Gulch Road once. Usually there was too much traffic. She remembered one really steep downhill section and a few long, steady parts. High Valley was where the comp had been the last two years. Valeria had won the U14 (under fourteen) girls division both times. It was fun, but not nearly as thrilling as Brayon Gulch Road.
Mateo sat on her desk. “So?” he said. “Can you make it later?”
Valeria shoved her books into her backpack and zipped it shut. “I don’t know,” she said. “I’ll try.”
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Adapted from Longboard Letdown, by Jake Maddox, ©️ by Capstone. Reprinted with permission.
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Who is telling this story?
Valeria
Mateo
A narrator who is not in the story
Mr. Rudder
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A narrator who is not in the story
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“Her thoughts drifted to the skateboard crash. Ever since crashing six weeks ago, she had replayed the accident over and over. She couldn’t stop thinking about it.”
Based on these sentences, how do Valeria’s thoughts about her crash differ from the narrator’s?
Their thoughts are the same because Valeria is the narrator.
Valeria thinks the accident was Mateo’s fault, but the narrator disagrees.
Valeria can only think about her crash, but the narrator thinks that is not helpful.
Valeria can only think about her crash, but the narrator does not share their own opinion.
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