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The Great Gallardos BooksA Reading AZ Level U Leveled BookWord Count:2,063Visit www.readinga- for thousands of books and materials.The Great Gallardos BOOKSwww.readinga-Written by Lori PolydorosIllustrated by David CockcroftLEVELED BOOK UThe Great Gallardos BOOKSWritten by Lori PolydorosIllustrated by David Cockcroftwww.readinga-24Glossaryawe(n.)feelings of wonder and respect(p.12)biography(n.)a true story about a persons life written by someone else(p.8)breeches(n.)pants,especially short pants that end around the knee(p.13)confetti(n.)small bits of colored paper thrown in celebration(p.6)contraptions(n.)interesting,unfamiliar devices(p.15)crater(n.)a hole or hollow formed by an impact often made by a meteor(p.17)high-tech(adj.)technologically complex(p.15)intimate(adj.)most personal,private(p.10)laboratory(n.)a place where experiments are done (p.15)lasso(v.)to throw a rope or leather strip tied with a slipknot to catch animals(p.12)perilous(adj.)dangerous(p.9)plastered(v.)fastened on or pasted on to cover(p.7)resort(v.)to seek relief(p.10)sagebrush(n.)a woody shrub with silvery leaves found in the dry,western United States(p.12)science fiction fiction having to do with some actual or(n.)imagined scientific phenomenon(p.15)skeleton key a key with teeth filed away so that it can(n.)open different,simple locks(p.7)transported(v.)carried from one place to another(p.10)western(n.)a story about life in the western United States,particularly in the late 1800s (p.11)24The Great Gallardos Books Level U23“Why didnt you tell me?”“Maybe I was waiting for the right time.”Miguels mom winked.“You know the most magical thing about him?”Miguels heart raced.“What?”“He loved to read more than anything else.”Miguel smiled.His mom smiled back.Thanks to The Great Gallardos books,maybe Miguel did too.He couldnt wait to find more adventures in the glittery black chest in the loft.The Great Gallardos BooksLevel U Leveled Book Learning AZWritten by Lori PolydorosIllustrated by David CockcroftAll rights reserved.www.readinga-Note:The Great Gallardos Books is the first in a continuing series written by Lori Polydoros.Travel with Miguel Ventura and his family as they experience classic adventures.Fountas&PinnellReading RecoveryDRACorrelationLEVEL UQ404023The Great Gallardos Books Level U3Table of ContentsOne Boring Saturday .4The Loft .6Benjamins Bathtub.8Under the Cowboys Hat.11The Creature from Copernicus Crater.15Great-Grandpa George.21Glossary .24Reading is an Adventureby Miguel Ventura Reading is truly an adventure.Biographies can teach us unusual things about peoples lives.Westerns are full of rootin tootin cowboys and cowgirls.And science fiction can bring us face-to-face with scary,out-of-this world creatures!22Miguel finished his outline and read it to his mom.“Not bad for someone who thinks reading is boring,”she said.“I found some stuff up in the loft back there .”“Your great-grandpas stuff?”his mom said.“Great-Grandpa George?”“Yes,he was a magician called the Great Gallardo!”“Really?”“He performed all over the world,”she said.“And he ran his magic shop right here.”Reading is an Adventureby Miguel Ventura Reading is truly an adventure.Biographies can teach us unusual things about peoples lives.Westerns are full of rootin tootin cowboys and cowgirls.And science fiction can bring us face-to-face with scary,out-of-this world creatures!4One Boring SaturdayRaindrops splattered the asphalt like a million exploding firecrackers.Miguel lined up toothpicks in the shape of a rocket ship on the counter.Working at his familys sandwich shop was not Miguels idea of an exciting Saturday afternoon.Neither was doing homework.He had an essay due on Monday,and,of course,he hadnt even started!The Great Gallardos Books Level U21Great-Grandpa GeorgeMiguel slumped over onto the chest.Science fiction was terrifying and thrilling all at the same time!he thought.The shop would be closed soon,and Miguel knew that after his mom locked the doors,she would ask to see his essay.He put the books back,leaving the key in the lock.When he got down from the loft,Miguel picked up his pencil.It felt good in his hand.Ideas were fresh in his mind,so Miguels words flowed easily,like pouring syrup on pancakes.The Great Gallardos Books Level U5“Its slow now,”Miguels mom said.“Go start your essay.”“Its too hard.”Miguel munched the last pickle from the jar.“I cant write an essay about Reading Is an Adventure.”“That doesnt sound so bad,”Miguels mom said.“It does to me.”“Peel these,”she slid a box of cucumbers over to him,“or start your essay.”Not much of a choice,Miguel thought.“Fine,Ill do the essay.”He dragged himself to the back room and plopped down on a box.He stared at the lines on his paper.His mind was empty,like the pickle jar.How could reading be an adventure?20Miguel tapped all the buttons on the door panel,finally opening the door.He slipped through just in time!As Miguel stumbled in,he accidentally activated his radio communicator.“Mission Control.”“Something tried to kill me!”Miguel gasped.But before anyone could answer,the Exit Room walls blurred.Miguel closed his eyes and was happy to feel the soft,warm couch beneath him.6The LoftA tall,red ladder stood along the wall and Miguel wandered over to it.Miguels mom used the ladder to reach the high boxes in the storage room.The ladder was so old that strips of red paint peeled off the wooden rungs.Miguel put his foot on the first rung and looked upa loft hed never noticed!Miguel tugged himself quickly up the ladder.Crack!The topmost rung snapped.Miguel began to slide.His heart raced.Red paint chips fluttered down onto his hair like confetti.Miguel caught his foot on a rung and pushed off hard,leaping up into the loft.He made it!The Great Gallardos Books Level U19Bulging,laser-like eyes glowed from the fleshy face of a creature almost as white as the moon.Miguel threw his body forward,hop-skipping out of there as fast as he could.Red laser eye-shots whizzed passed Miguel.He lunged for the lunar outpost in a panic.His breath fogged his visor.He tripped on a rock and tumbled forward,doing a complete somersault in the air.The creature groaned,its gooey arms almost upon him.The Great Gallardos Books Level U7Miguel found dusty boxes stacked to the ceiling,old magazines and newspapers littering the ground,and a sagging,purple couch.Old posters plastered the wallsposters that even in their faded condition,screamed with color and interesting designs.One read The Great Gallardo!It showed a hooded figure beneath an arch of shooting stars.A glittery black chest with a lock fit snugly up against the couch.Tiny pictures carved into the wood seemed to dance across the lidships sailed,horses trotted,and stars twinkled.Miguel looked down at his feet and found an old skeleton key.Its shape and shine had almost worn away,but a golden letter G still beamed through its dullness.Miguel kneeled next to the chest.He cleared cobwebs from the keyhole and turned the key in the lock.It clicked!18Then Miguel sensed a dark shape moving toward him.He turned,and something struck him from behind,sending him sailing through the air like a helium balloon that had been cut free.He couldnt stop!Miguel floated past a tower,clung to the side,and shimmied down to the ground.There,Miguel came face to face with the ugliest creature hed ever seen!8Benjamins BathtubMiguel lifted the lid to the old chest,hoping to find gold coins,jewels,or swords inside.He peeked inside,and his heart sank.The chest was full,not with treasure,but with books.“Who would keep old books in such a cool trunk?”he asked himself,picking up a thick,black book with fancy lettering:The Story of Benjamin Franklin.“Ugh,”he muttered,“a boring biography.”He tried to put the book back,but for some reason he felt he had to open it.He focused on the words,Chapter Eight:Benjamins Bathtub,when his moms voice distracted him.“Miguel,what are you doing?”she called out from the diners front counter.“Reading.”“Really?”his mom asked.“Yeah,really.”He glanced back down at the words:During the American Revolution .but they became strangely fuzzy and danced around on the page.asked Benjamin to Franklin France.was to Congress go byThe Great Gallardos Books Level U17“Colonel Chan?”a woman said.“This is Mission Control.”Miguel pressed the red button and tried to sound official.“This is Colonel Chan.”“This is Colonel Lundy,”she said.“We need you to get outside now and investigate some strange activity near the crater.”Miguel gulped.Being on the moon alone would be terrifying!“Get out there now,and report back what you find.”Colonel Lundy said.I can do it,he told himself as he tried to figure out how to work the spacesuit.After all,Im an astronaut now.He put on his helmet,engaged the door,and stepped out onto the moon .The sky was deep black.Miguel stepped forward and hopped into the air.Lunar gravity made him as light as a feather!I must weigh less than twenty pounds!he thought.He leaped and jumped across the silvery gray hills,leaving boot marks in the dust.He looked up and stopped dead in his tracks.There in the sky hung a crescent-shaped Earth!The Great Gallardos Books Level U9Miguel squeezed his eyes shut.His balance shifted,as if the floor moved beneath him.Salty air stung his eyes and tingled his tongue.Miguel no longer smelled the dusty,old loft .“Im an old man of seventy,”a mans voice called out,“on a perilous journey to France.”Miguel opened his eyes to find himself aboard a ship on the ocean,sitting on a wooden lid that covered a .a bathtub!One end of the lid was open,and out popped an old mans head.16“Lunar rocks?”Miguel whispered.“Im on the moon!”Miguel raced out the labs door and through long,silent corridors,hoping to find a view of the moon.He followed the red lights that dotted the floor.He pushed open a door that read“Exit Room.”Something beeped in the pocket of his jumpsuit.Miguel pulled out a radio communicator.10“Temple,my grandson,America shall be free!”The man looked directly at Miguel.An image of a face on an old half-dollar that he had gotten from his own grandpa flashed before Miguel.This was Benjamin Franklin!Miguel had been transported into the biography he had flipped open,and now Ben Franklin thought Miguel was his grandson,Temple!“Ah,I do wish I were in fair health like you,”Ben said.“Then I could make my daily swim at sea.Now I must resort to these baths to soothe my aching joints.”Miguel tried not to gigglebiographies could reveal intimate details about a person.Miguel remembered learning that Ben Franklin traveled to France to ask for help in Americas fight against the British.He couldnt imagine that Franklin actually brought along a bathtub!“I have so many questions,”Miguel started.But before he could finish,Ben Franklins face blurred.Miguel shut his eyes and held his breath.The dusty smell of the loft once again tickled his nose.He was back.The Great Gallardos Books Level U15The Creature from Copernicus CraterMiguel sat down on the floor.Life was tough on the prairie,especially for women.He never imagined westerns were so interesting!It was getting late,but Miguel had to try one more book.A small book with a silver moon on the cover called The Creature from Copernicus Crater grabbed his attention.Science fiction?he thought.Thats weird,the first chapter starts on page 214.Miguel began to read,“Colonel Chan guarded the underground lunar outpost.He hadnt seen another living thing for two years until .”Suddenly the words streamed together.adangerousandmysteriouscreatureappearednearthecrater!Miguel shivered and closed his eyes.The air seeping into his nostrils smelled artificial,like the air at a hospital.Computers beeped in the distance.Miguel opened his eyes to find himself in an underground laboratory.Countertops were jammed with high-tech equipmentcameras,scanners,and other strange contraptions.Jars full of rocks,dust,and liquids filled the shelves.Miguel picked up a jar and read:Copernicus Crater Lunar Rocks.The Great Gallardos Books Level U11Under the Cowboys HatMiguel shut the biography and put it back in the chest.How could that have happened?he thought.Maybe reading biographies isn t so boring after all.A leather-bound book titled Riding Roundups sat in the row next to the Ben Franklin biography.“Must be a western,”Miguel said,looking at the cowboys on the cover.He opened the book and read.Just as Miguel turned the page to Chapter Five:Under the Cowboy s Hat,the words flipped upside down and backward.Cowboy Max could ride the roundups and knew thewildest tricks of all!14“Youre brave,”said Miguel.“Just lucky,”she said.“I get treated fairly in these parts.A lot of women ranchers dont.”Miguel had many questions,but the stars began to blur.He felt dizzy,so he shut his eyes.In an instant,Miguel found himself back at the loft.The Great Gallardos Books Level U13“Get a move on,Greenie,”Cowboy Max said,nodding his head toward Miguel.Miguel remembered that cowhands in the Old West drove longhorn cattle up trails from Texas to Kansas.Being called a“greenie”must mean that he didnt know what he was doing.Boy,are they right!he thought.Back at camp the smell of coffee and smoked meat hung in the air.Miguel watched the men sitting near the fire playing poker and telling stories.Cowboy Max removed his black hat and out fell a long gray braid tied with a red ribbon.Miguels mouth dropped.Cowboy Max was a lady!She smiled at Miguel.“Sorry,Greenie,thought you knew.”He shook his head.“They call you Cowboy Max.”“Its short for Maxine,”she said.“Some people dont like women who wear breeches and speak up for themselves.”“You still ride?”“You bet,”said Maxine.“Im my happiest when Im with my herd.”12Miguel covered his eyes with his hands.A strong wind that blew against his cheeks brought with it the smell of sweet sagebrush and stinky cow manure.Miguel was on the prairie,surrounded by a dozen cowboys and hundreds of longhorn cattle.“Lasso those horns!”a cowboy shouted at him from behind.A rope trembled in Miguels hands as he realized hed become a cowboy in the Old West.Before Miguel could take a breath,the cowboy slipped out his rope,flew past Miguel,lassoed the bulls horns,and circled his stallion around a tree.Miguel stared in awe.“Cowboy Max,”one of the other cowhands shouted,“is still as quick as lightning!”