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Trang 1Sandwich Brigade
by Jason Lublinski
illustrated by
Genre Comprehension
Skills and Strategy Realistic
fi ction
• Character and Plot
• Theme
• Prior Knowledge
Suggested levels for Guided Reading, DRA, ™
Lexile, ® and Reading Recovery ™ are provided
in the Pearson Scott Foresman Leveling Guide.
ISBN 0-328-13564-X ì<(sk$m)=bdfgeg< +^-Ä-U-Ä-U
Scott Foresman Reading Street 5.5.1
The
Sandwich Brigade
by Jason Lublinski
illustrated by
Genre Comprehension
Skills and Strategy Realistic
fi ction
• Character and Plot
• Theme
• Prior Knowledge
Suggested levels for Guided Reading, DRA, ™
Lexile, ® and Reading Recovery ™ are provided
in the Pearson Scott Foresman Leveling Guide.
ISBN 0-328-13564-X ì<(sk$m)=bdfgeg< +^-Ä-U-Ä-U
Scott Foresman Reading Street 5.5.1
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1 Describe Herb’s attitude at the beginning of the story
and at the end of the story Give examples using a chart like this one:
2 What did you know about volunteer programs before
you read this book? How did this prior knowledge help you understand what you read?
3 A spectacle is something seen or viewed Spectacles
are eyeglasses What do the two words have in common?
4 Why do you think Herb gets more satisfaction from
the Sandwich Brigade than from any of the other activities he tries?
Herb’s Attitude
Herb’s Attitude
by Jason Lublinski
The Sandwich Brigade
illustrated by Don Dyen
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1
Bored with Nothing to Do 4
Chapter 2
The Element of Surprise 7
Chapter 3
No Luck with Hamlet 11
Chapter 4
Free Lunch 15
Chapter 5
The Sandwich Brigade 20
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Something Special Happens 25
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Bored with Nothing to Do
Herb Battleby was bored Not just a little bored
He was bored out of his skull He had been that way
for three months, ever since he’d retired
Herb was sixty-five years old He had spent most
of his adult life reviewing movies for a chain of
newspapers, but now he rarely saw any movies at all
He and his wife, Eden, had moved to Benderville, her
hometown in upstate New York The nearest movie
theater was ten miles away Herb didn’t like to drive
much, and because they had lived in New York City,
Eden had never had to learn
Returning from a walk one morning, he ran into
Bob Becker “What’s doing?” Herb said Bob was a
small man about three years older than Herb
“Not much,” said Bob “A couple of errands for
Dolores.” Bob’s wife, Dolores, was a lawyer She
continued to work, although Bob had retired a year
ago “I putter around a lot these days.”
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“Crazy, isn’t it?” Herb said “When you’re working, retirement seems like this marvelous goal
Then you get there, and ”
“And you wonder how to use your time Medicine was my life Now it’s gone Maybe the Internet has some answers The Chamber of Commerce Web site lists weekly activities.”
“It can’t hurt,” Herb said
Down in Bob’s basement, they logged onto the Chamber of Commerce Web site They found that Rick’s Karate Studio was offering special self-defense classes for senior citizens
“Karate!” said Bob “Now there’s something I’ve always wanted to learn.”
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themselves from, but he said, “Let’s try it It’s nearby,
at the intersection of Sullivan Street and Third
Avenue.”
Bob turned back to the screen
“Clay!” he said
“What?” asked Herb
“A pottery class! What a gas!”
When Herb didn’t protest, Bob kept scrolling
“We ought to find one more activity,” Bob said “The
others may not work out.”
He scrolled down the page “Hey, the public
library has a discussion group.”
“What do they discuss?”
“Literature, of course Next Thursday they’re
tackling Hamlet.”
“Now that’s more up my alley,” said Herb
Bob shut down the computer “Do you mind if
Pete Lichtner comes along?” he asked “He’s been at
loose ends since Janice died.”
“Janice? His wife? She died?”
“Yes, it happened last year,” Bob said “Pete has
been hanging around the house doing nothing
ever since His interest in everything seems to have
withered.”
“Okay,” Herb said “Let’s bring in Pete The three
of us are in the same boat, and if it sinks, we might
as well go under together.”
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Chapter 2
The Element of Surprise
On Monday morning, the three men met at Sensei Rick’s Karate Studio wearing sweatsuits About thirty seniors crowded the main work-out room Herb noticed a frail man who wore a hooded sweatshirt
with the word IOWA on it.
“What could a guy like that do?” Herb whispered
to Bob “He looks so weak.”
“Cool it,” Bob whispered back
The instructor was a trim man with an enormous black mustache “Hello, everyone!” he said “My name is Rick Elbone, but everyone calls me Sensei Rick Has anybody here studied the martial arts before?”
Trang 6The man in the Iowa sweatshirt raised his hand
“Yeah, right,” Herb whispered
“One hand—that’s great,” said Sensei Rick “Don’t
worry if you’re new to this This is a beginners’ class,
and we’ll start at the beginning Choose a partner,
and we’ll run through some simple drills.”
Pete and Bob teamed up with each other, leaving
Herb to find a partner elsewhere He felt a finger jab
him in the back It was the Iowa sweatshirt
“Ready for some fun?” asked the withered little
man
“Not really,” Herb said “Are we partners?”
“You bet we are,” the man said, extending his
hand “Call me Bent That’s short for Bentley.”
“I’m Herb Go easy on me.” He didn’t mean it
Clearly Bent was too weak to do him any damage
The class practiced basic punches, basic blocks,
and even a few kicks There was no body contact,
and Herb was surprised to discover he was enjoying
himself Then Sensei Rick had them move on to
simple self-defense exercises
“Let’s practice the basic throw,” he said
“Basic what?” Herb asked
“Throw,” Bent said, and before Herb knew what
had happened, he was lying flat on his back on the
floor “Sensei!” Herb yelled “Call him off! He’s trying
to kill me!”
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wrong here?”
“Something wrong?” Herb said “This guy’s
dangerous!”
“He threw you?”
“You bet he did,” snapped Herb “Without
warning.”
“Surprise is an important element of martial arts,”
said the instructor
“Of murder, too,” said Herb
“I’ll tell you what, gentlemen Forget the basic
throw Try the shoulder throw It’s much more
effective anyway.”
“The shoulder throw?”
Sensei Rick pondered the question, wondering
how to respond “It’s easy,” he said finally, pulling
Herb to his feet “I’ll show you.”
An hour later, Pete and Bob helped Herb out onto
the street A nasty bruise was causing a severe pain
in his left thigh “I feel like I’ve been beaten up by a
gang of thugs,” he said
“But it was just one little 82-year-old guy,” Pete
said with a laugh “I guess he wasn’t so weak after
all.”
Herb glared at him
“Okay, that’s it for karate,” Bob said “Tomorrow,
we try pottery.”
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Chapter 3
No Luck with Hamlet
Pottery was a fiasco Herb’s pottery wheel spun out of control, and he ended up with a big clump
of clay stuck to his face The loudest laughter came from Pete It was an act of treason Herb promised himself he would never forgive
“If it weren’t for Bob,” he told Eden after he got home, “I’d have gotten up and slugged Pete I really would.”
“Hold still, dear,” Eden told him as she combed dried clay out of his eyebrows “This won’t hurt.”
Herb wanted more sympathy “It’s easy for you,”
he told her “You’re a social worker, and you have a job to go to everyday.”
“Herb,” she said “Hold still!”
“I am.”
“Maybe the book club will work out on Thursday
night,” Eden said “You always said Hamlet was your
favorite Shakespearean play.”
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Trang 8But the reading group ended badly, too Very
badly
The moderator was a perky librarian named Betty
Drago She began by asking for a volunteer to give a
one-sentence summary of the plot
A woman about Herb’s age raised her hand “It’s
about a Danish prince named Hamlet who goes crazy
trying to decide whether or not to kill his father’s
murderer.”
A boy around eleven years old raised his hand
His large spectacles made him look like a very young
scientist
“Yes, John,” Betty said
“Sally forgot to say that the murderer is Hamlet’s
uncle and also his mother’s husband Weird, huh?”
“Phew!” Pete laughed “No wonder Hamlet loses
it!”
“Who wants to comment on the play?” Betty
asked
John raised his hand “I do,” he said “This is a
ridiculous play Who cares about a guy who spends
his time wringing his hands? He should have been
wringing his uncle’s neck!”
“You wanted more action?” Betty asked
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“More anything,” John said
“I’d like a little plain English,” a young woman chimed in “What’s the sense of Shakespeare trying
to impress us with big words?”
Herb couldn’t hold his tongue “That’s idiotic,” he said “Shakespeare is one of the greatest playwrights
of all time!”
“So what?” said the young woman “Einstein must have had bad days, too.”
Herb looked up at Betty, hoping she would intervene She didn’t, so he let himself go “And
Hamlet is one of the greatest plays of all time!”
“Sir, that may be true,” John said “But it just doesn’t click with some of us What if James Bond just sat around wondering what to do next? Boring, right?”
Herb erupted “I’ve never seen so much stupidity packed into one room!” he said
“Mr Battleby,” Betty said sternly “You must control yourself!”
“Control myself? When I’m surrounded by idiots?”
“I can’t believe you got us thrown out of a book discussion group,” said Pete as he drove Bob and Herb home
“Ah, it was a dumb group, anyway,” said Herb
“Gentlemen,” Bob said, “three strikes and we’re out What do we do now?”
“I have an idea,” said Pete “We’ve been focused
on what would be fun for us How about if we did something that would be good for somebody else?”
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Trang 9“I’m not following you,” said Herb
“I mean, let’s figure out how we can fill our spare
time helping others,” said Pete
“Doing what?” Herb asked
“I don’t know,” said Pete “I mean, I don’t know
who needs help around here But there’s always
somebody, isn’t there?”
“You know,” Bob said, “helping people is what
I’ve been missing since I stopped practicing medicine
I’d like to start again.”
“I hate to say it,” said Herb “But you’re right,
Pete Instead of worrying about ourselves, we ought
to be worrying about someone else.”
Pete grinned “Now all we’ve got to do is figure
out who needs help.”
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Chapter 4
Free Lunch
Eden was the one who gave them direction As
a social worker for the County Board of Health, she was aware of a lot of people who needed help “We don’t have any homeless people here,” she said to Herb over breakfast the next morning “But we have
a lot of old and disabled people who live alone and could use some tender loving care.”
Herb telephoned Bob after breakfast “Eden says
a lot of shut-ins need help,” he said
“How many?” Bob asked
“Let’s call around and find out,” Herb said “I’ll call Pete and tell him what we’re up to
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Trang 10Bob got the names of about fifty shut-ins by
calling all the doctors in town Eden collected more
than thirty from the Board of Health
After a day of phone calls, they had the names
of eighty-eight people who lived alone and were
either disabled, having trouble getting to a store
or cooking, just plain lonely, or all three “I read in
a medical journal that more than half of all elderly
patients who are hospitalized are suffering from
poor nutrition,” Bob said “Let’s find a way to enable
our elderly to eat better.”
“Why not start a free lunch service?” Pete said “A
way to get nutritious food to them?”
“Bingo,” said Herb “I believe we’ve found a way
to fill our days.”
The next morning, the men met for a late
breakfast at the Benderville Diner “What we’ve got
to create is a charity,” said Pete “First, we have to
recruit and train volunteers Second, we have to find
a way to manufacture the product—the sandwiches
Finally, we have to raise the money to pay for it all.”
“I’ll go after the money,” Bob said “I’ll contact
religious groups, the city, and businesses I can’t see
why they’d turn us away.”
“I’ll see what kind of discounts we can get on
food,” Pete said
“That leaves the job of finding and training
volunteers,” Herb said “I’ll take it.”
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Over the next few weeks, Bob got the city government and local businesses to fund part of the effort The newspaper committed to sponsoring an annual fund drive “So far,” Bob reported to Pete and Herb, “I’ve only got I.O.U.’s But I expect the money to begin to flow in about a month.”
Pete had good news, too “Both supermarkets
in town will sell us all the supplies we need at a big discount,” Pete said “The Congregational Church will let us use their kitchen as a sandwich factory
Now all we need are the worker bees.”
“That’s my department,” said Herb “I’ve signed
up thirty-six volunteers so far I have an idea of how
to get more.”
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Trang 11He held up a flier he had printed up “Join the
Sandwich Brigade!” it said in big type “Benderville’s
Homebound Citizens Need You!” Two paragraphs
explained the program Herb had put his telephone
number and e-mail address at the bottom of the
page
“Great idea,” said Bob
“What are we waiting for?” said Pete, taking off
his spectacles “A month from today is April 24 Let’s
make that our D-day, the day we get the Benderville
Sandwich Brigade up and running.”
Herb had thought of dropping off fliers at the
library weeks before Its snug, quiet rooms made it
his favorite place in town, but he had been avoiding
it since the night he was ejected from the discussion
group Yet he decided he couldn’t avoid it It was the
perfect place to recruit retirees who had some spare
hours for volunteer work
He entered the library in the late afternoon As
he had feared, Betty sat at the information desk But
she let him off with a smile “Mr Battleby,” she said,
as if she had been looking for him “I’m so glad to
see you! I was worried that you’d stay away forever,
and I know how much books mean to you.”
“Well, I deserve to stay away,” he said sheepishly
“Oh, I know how hard it is to listen to people
criticize something you care a lot about.”
“Thanks, Betty, but I was really out of line There’s
nothing more disruptive than an old man with
nothing to do.”
“Mr Battleby! You’re not an old man, and you
know it And that bundle you’re carrying tells me
you’ve got something to do.”
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“Yes, I finally do,” he said He explained his mission, and she put the flyers on the checkout desk where borrowers would see them “I’ll also mention
it to the book group tonight,” she said “I know there are a few people there with time on their hands.”
“Oh, don’t do that After the way I misbehaved, I doubt anyone would want to join me in anything.”
“Nonsense The Sandwich Brigade is a wonderful idea, and I bet no one in Benderville realized it was needed until now Everyone should know about it.”
“You know,” Herb told Eden when he got home that night, “there’s a lot more to do in this town than
I thought Just getting acquainted with the people here, that’s a pleasure in itself There’s a warmth in Benderville that I didn’t feel when we lived in New York City, as much as I loved the place The world moves more slowly here I think I’m liking it.”
The next two weeks were frantic Herb spent hours on the phone, speaking with housebound seniors and volunteers He spent four days just driving around the city to find out where the Brigade’s clients lived He wanted to match them and the volunteers by neighborhood when it was possible He put a big map of Benderville on the wall
of his basement office Yellow pins showed where the seniors lived, and blue pins indicated where the volunteers lived He was finally ready to make assignments
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