steeltrap

Steel Trapp: The Challenge by Ridley Pearson ISBN: 978-1-4231-0640-7 ©2008 324 pages R.L.- Points -

Good sections to read aloud: pp. 18-22 when he approaches the lady about the briefcase she left behind

Summary: Steven “Steel” Trapp is on a train with his mother to attend the National Science Challenge in Washington, D.C. While on this train, Steel, who has a mind like a steel trap, realizes that a lady left her briefcase behind. He follows her with the briefcase off the train, but she refuses to take it saying it isn’t hers. Steel is 100% sure that it is hers because of his ability to see things once and never forget, but since she won’t take it, he turns it in to one of the conductors. Curiosity gets the best of him when he later sees it in the compartment with his dog, so he takes it back. What Steel doesn’t realize (nor does Kaileigh, a girl he meets on the train), is that this briefcase contains clues to where a lady is being held hostage until a large sum of money is paid. Steel gets himself, his mother, and Kaileigh into a big mess. Can he get them out of it AND actually make it to the Science Challenge?

YA fiction-- survival/adventure; memory; inventions;

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