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  What you need:

  a three-feet long piece of yarn

  a liquid measuring cup with spout

  a drinking glass

  What you do:

  1. Wet the piece of yarn. Then tie it to the handle of the liquid measuring cup.

  2. Fill the cup approximately two-thirds full of water.

  3. Place the yarn over the spout, then place the loose end in the drinking glass.

  4. Hold the measuring cup about 18 inches from the glass. Using your free hand, pull the yarn tight over the center of the glass.

  5. Slowly pour the water along the yarn. You might spill a little at first, but soon the water will seem to “stick” to the yarn. Then you can pour more quickly.

  6. As you master the trick, you can use a longer piece of yarn, and your trick will be more exciting than ever!

  Why it works: Water molecules like to stick together. When you wet the yarn in step one, you make a liquid surface for the water to cling to.

  Zeke Meeks is published by

  Picture Window Books

  A Capstone Imprint

  1710 Roe Crest Drive,

  North Mankato, Minnesota 56003

  www.capstonepub.com

  Copyright ©2012 Picture Window Books

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher.

  Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Green, D. L. (Debra L.)

  Zeke Meeks vs. the horrifying TV-Turnoff Week / by D. L. Green; illustrated by Josh Alves.

  p. cm. — (Zeke Meeks)

  Summary: It is Television-Turnoff Week, and Zeke and his friends are wondering what they will do with their time without their favorite programs and videogames.

  ISBN 978-1-4048-6804-5 (library binding)

  ISBN 978-1-4048-7220-2 (pbk.)

  ISBN 978-1-4048-7965-2 (e-book)

  1. Television and children—Juvenile fiction. 2. Recreation—Juvenile fiction. 3. Schools—Juvenile fiction. [1. Television—Fiction. 2. Recreation—Fiction. 3. Schools—Fiction. 4. Humorous stories.] I. Alves, Josh, ill. II. Title. III. Title: Zeke Meeks versus the horrifying TV-Turnoff Week. IV. Title: Zeke Meeks vs. the horrifying Television-Turnoff Week.

  PZ7.G81926Zf 2012

  813.6—dc23 2011029903

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  Book design by K. Fraser

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