Chapter Book
The Long Game
by Rao Marupudi
Ages 10–13
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About this story
Big dreams are built one small step at a time. Mateo Ferreira is going to be famous by Christmas. His science channel will have ten thousand subscribers by October, and maybe a company will send him a free microscope. Then his first video gets eleven views, four of them his own. Can a kid in a hurry learn to play the long game? A story about patience and goal setting. Ages 10-13, Grades 5-8.
- Subscriber — someone who follows your channel
- Algorithm — the rules a platform uses to decide what to show
- Milestone — an important step along a goal
- Patience — staying calm while something takes time
- Consistent — doing something the same way, again and again
- Goal — something you work toward
- Setback — something that slows your progress
- Perspective — the way you see a situation
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