Behold, The Answer!
Dawn TaylorLittle Timmy Baxter tossed his duffle bag into the back of his family’s station wagon. Summer vacation. His chance to escape his two annoying sisters and spend a week with his favorite grandpa. Timmy loved Grandpa John’s practical jokes and gags as long as he was not the intended victim. Grandpa John acted like a big kid, an adult with no rules. Visiting the countryside was comparable to a trip to Disneyland, and Timmy was more than anxious to arrive at the farm.
On the third day of vacation, it had rained and imprisoned Timmy indoors. Grandpa John suggested digging through a trunk labeled Bored Games—a pun wasted on the ten-year-old—could relieve Timmy’s boredom. Timmy had decided on checkers when he noticed a mysterious black ball the size of a small melo
