Read the description of a character in a short story. The main character in the short story “Pluto Racer” is the captain of the
Starship Pluto, Marco Valdez. Marco’s parents had been space pioneers, founding colonies on worlds throughout this galaxy and into the next, and as a result, Marco felt at home visiting new planets and meeting new alien races. What kind of story is “Pluto Racer”? A. fantasy B. science fiction C. adventure D. fable
A boy is wrongfully sent to a brutal camp, where the camp warden and her staff force the children in their care to mysteriously dig holes all day long in the desert. Their rehabilitation is questioned, as they think something sinister is involved.
