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stuff, of course. But I could if I wanted to.
    Homework? Who cared about homework? That was the least of it. I could use the chip to do just about anything I wanted and nobody would ever know. I figured it was gonna be a great new year.
    KELSEY DONNELLY. GRADE 6
    We had a little Christmas party in our class. Mr. Murphy was telling stories about his years in the space program. At some point, Brenton and Snik went off in the corner, whispering to each other. It wasn’t like Snik. He’s usually the life of the party, cracking jokes and everything. Judy and I went over to see what was up. Snik just looked at us and said, “We think Ronnie found the little red light.” And Brenton said, “We’ve got to get it back.”

Chapter 5
    January
    BRENTON DAMAGATCHI. GRADE 6
    Over the holidays, I almost stopped checking my e-mail. I dreaded hearing from Milner again. The only good thing, I remember telling myself, was that if Milner kept bothering me, he didn’t know where the chip was. If Ronnie had the chip and he teamed up with Milner, there was no telling what they might do with it.
    JUDY DOUGLAS. GRADE 6
    When we returned from vacation, Mr. Murphy asked us to write about our favorite gift we got or gave. Mine was a piano! We got it for the whole family. It was used, but it sounds great. I’m going to take piano lessons soon.
    KELSEY DONNELLY. GRADE 6
    I got a worm composting bin. It is real cool. They give you a pound of red earthworms with it. Then you just throw your food scraps in and the worms eat it and turn it into rich organic compost that you can use in your garden or with your plants. So there’s less garbage going into landfills and you become a part of the circle of life.
    SAM DAWKINS. GRADE 6
    I got this rocket called “Eggscaliber.” This is the coolest rocket ever. You can actually mount an egg on the nose cone and shoot it 610 feet up in the air! I really don’t know why anybody would want to shoot an egg 610 feet in the air. But it is cool. They call the egg an “eggstronaut.”
    BRENTON DAMAGATCHI. GRADE 6
    We don’t exchange gifts in our family. It should not be necessary to give someone a material object to show that you care for them.
    RONNIE TEOTWAWKI. GRADE 6
    I got a handheld GPS. You know, one of those global positioning systems? It’s sort of like the navigation systems you see in cars, but this one is for hikers. Mine is about the size of a walkie-talkie, and it is amazing. It can pinpoint your exact location anywhere on earth, give or take twenty feet. You can’t get lost. You see yourself as a little blip like on a radar screen and you can zoom in on any part of the country. It also works as a barometric altimeter, an electronic compass, and you can download topo maps. It’s waterproof, too. The thing is amazing.
    MR. MURPHY. SIXTH-GRADE TEACHER
    Over the holidays, I finally had some time to sit down and read over that old Phoenix Gazette article Judy showed me back in November. Apparently, the Smithsonian Institute sent a man named G. E. Kinkaid to explore the Grand Canyon in 1908. He reported that he discovered a mile-long cavern far below the rim. It had tunnels radiating out like the spokes of a wheel, with hundreds of rooms inside.
    The article went on to say that Kinkaid found all kinds of artifacts in those tunnels. Swords. Copper tools. Tiny carved heads. Water vessels made from gold. Cave paintings of animals drawn with charcoal. He found a large statue, an idol,sitting cross-legged, with a flower in each hand. The face was Asian. Like a Buddha. These people obviously reached a high stage of civilization.
    And here’s the most interesting part. Along with all that other stuff, G. E. Kinkaid found a crypt with mummies, and it was surrounded by stone tablets with what looked like Egyptian hieroglyphics written on them.
    So my natural question was, what the heck were ancient Egyptians doing in the Grand Canyon long before