Sammy Baker receives a special gift from his grandpa for his twelfth birthday: an ancient Royal typewriter. Sammy is perplexed. Why would he ever type on this thing? He has a brand-new Apple laptop But his grandfather urges him to use the typewriter to write an essay on the Great Depression-he and his family struggled through those rough years in the 1930s-for an English assignment. He suspects that Sammy will "get a feel for those hard times," and he thinks a straight A is a real possibility. Reluctantly, Sammy complies, but his grandfather's insistence bewilders him. Why must he use this...