Trouble Next Door – The Carver Chronicles, Book Four

Calvin is pacing the floor in his room. He has a problem. He has to come up with an idea for the science fair. His topic and hypothesis are due on Wednesday,
and”he can’t think of anything. He made the mistake of putting it off even though Ms. Shelby Ortiz gave the stragglers an extra week. It turns out that Calvin and all his friends – Carlos, Richard, and Gavin (yes, even Gavin) – are in the group of stragglers. As he paces, he runs stupid ideas through his head:
how to make a rain cloud in a bottle (Rosario did that in second grade), how to keep a balloon from popping (Gavin did that one last year, and it seemed kind of like a baby project), how to keep an egg from breaking
(That was Richard’s project), and, unfortunately, he managed to break eggs during his demonstration. So that project is out of the running. Could Calvin actually do Richard’s old project when it didn’t work?). Maybe if he plays just one video game – just to relax and free his mind -an idea will pop into his
head like magic. He pulls the controller out from under his bed, turns on the TV, sets it up, and starts a quick game of Wuju Legend. While he’s playing, he listens for his father’s foot-steps on the stairs.