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  Becca So, she got everything back?

  Kevin Yeah. She was awesome.

  Becca So, why is she out in the shed?

  Max To let off steam I guess.

  Will You should have heard her in the car. She went on and on about gangs.

  Kevin And how they’re taking over the streets.

  Lily So, what happens next Thursday?

  Becca We like having one afternoon to ourselves.

  Kevin If I can’t train I’m off the team.

  Will And if I can’t train I won’t make the team!

  Max And I need to train more or I won’t get my next Scouts badge.

  Kevin There’s more. We have to stay in on the weekends.

  Will Granny’s scared the gang will try to get us back.

  Narrator They’re going to have to do something.

  Max We’ve got to do something.

  Narrator See, I told you.

  Becca We’ll talk to Granny. Leave it with us.

  Kevin No, we’ll sort it. This needs manpower. Right?

  Narrator Right!

  Scene 4

  SORTED!

  Narrator On Saturday the girls come down for breakfast.

  Lily Well, any ideas boys?

  Narrator Max shakes raisins covered in chocolate into the girls’ hands.

  Max Throw them around the kitchen. We’ve done the rest of the house.

  Becca Why?

  Max Granny will think it’s rat poo. She’ll call in pest control.

  Kevin They’ll spray horrible stuff around and we’ll have to go out for the day.

  Narrator Just as the girls finish, Granny comes downstairs.

  Kevin Everyone hide. Max, you keep watch.

  Narrator They hide, but the plan fails.

  Max It didn’t work! Granny just picked up the raisins and told us to stop making a mess!

  Narrator Becca turns to Kevin.

  Becca Is there a chance that you and Will will think of something sensible?

  Narrator I don’t think so.

  Kevin We set a trap up last night.

  Narrator They walk into the hallway and Kevin shows them lots of hidden bits of string.

  Kevin When Granny walks along here to get her post, she’ll step on this string.

  Will It’ll pull on the other bits of string and then pull on the door knocker.

  Becca And?

  Max She’ll think someone’s knocking and she’ll open the door.

  Becca And?

  Kevin Nobody will be there but she’ll say, “What a lovely day. I think I’ll go into town and do whatever it is old people do.”

  Lily You guys aren’t apes, you’re morons.

  Kevin I can’t see anything you’ve done.

  Lily That’s because there’s nothing to see.

  Will Huh?

  Becca We’ve sorted it out by thinking smart.

  Kevin As if!

  Lily We asked Granny if she’d be home today.

  Becca She said something about cycling to meet something.

  Will And you let us do all this stuff for nothing?

  Becca Not for nothing. We wanted to see this manpower of yours!

  Narrator An engine revs. But they’re too busy arguing to notice.

  Kevin The moment Granny goes, then I’m off.

  Lily But Granny said we should stay here.

  Will She never made us promise.

  Kevin We’ll go into town.

  Becca I’m staying.

  Max What are you going to do?

  Becca Find out what’s in the shed.

  Lily Good idea. I’ve wanted to see inside the shed ever since I was little.

  Max Me too. None of us has ever been allowed in there.

  Will Where does Granny hide the spare key?

  Lily Who knows? Let’s start looking.

  Kevin I’ll see you later. Will, are you coming?

  Will Yes. But I’ll help look for the key when I get back.

  Narrator They look for two hours. The key’s not on shelves, not under cans of food, and not under Sid, the garden gnome!

  Becca I’ve found it!

  Lily Where?

  Becca On a hook by the back door.

  Max Cool! I’d never have looked there.

  Lily Let’s check out the shed before Granny gets back.

  Narrator Becca fits the key into the lock on the shed. But they all jump when they hear the back door slam open.

  Max Its okay. It’s only Kevin and Will.

  Will Guess who we saw?

  Lily That gang?

  Kevin Worse. Granny!

  Becca Oh no! Did she see you?

  Will Hard to tell … she was going so fast.

  Lily But her car’s in the garage. We saw it when we looked for the key.

  Kevin Get this. She was on a Harley!

  Becca What’s a Harley?

  Will Only an awesome motor cycle.

  Max Oh, so that explains the glove and the spanner …

  Lily And the goggles.

  Narrator Becca opens the shed door. Inside they see a tool kit, spare motor cycle parts and a small motor cycle.

  Will Wow!

  Kevin Do you think Granny will teach us to ride?

  Becca We can save our pocket money and buy a helmet.

  Lily And goggles and gloves.

  Narrator They hear the roar of an engine coming closer.

  Will That’s Granny now. We’ll go and meet her.

  Becca I’ll lock the door and put the key back.

  Max I hope she never finds out.

  Kevin Yeah, she might dump us right back home before we learn to ride.

  Narrator But although Granny was tempted -she didn’t!

  IN THE CHATROOM …

  Write an email to Max giving him some ideas. (Maybe he could ask his cousins to help him?)

  ROLE PLAY …

  Work with a partner. One person is Granny and the other person is one of the children.

  The child has to try to convince Granny that they should be allowed to watch TV and listen to music whenever they like.

  Granny has to explain her reasons against this, e.g. they need to do their homework in a quiet place, at dinner time it’s nice to talk to your family instead of watching TV, etc.

  Can both sides come to an agreement?

  FIND THE CLUES …

  Work with a partner. Pretend you are super detectives! Look back through the play and see if you can find the clues about Granny’s secret hobby.

  Talk with your partner about how you felt when you found out about Granny’s motor cycle. Were you surprised?

  Say whether you think it was a good ending or not, and why.

  ASTRO-MAN

  TOFFEE NOSE

  BURIED ALIVE!

  FOUL PLAY

  PLANE CRAZY

  YARD

  DUMPED!

  STEP WARS

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