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 Leap Year 2008

Leap Year 2008
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     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   5.74

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     challenging words:    further, teens, presidential, orbit, currently, correction, revolution, schedule, during, fourth, actual, rule, thousand, born, improvement, longer
     content words:    United States, Summer Olympic Games

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Leap Year 2008
By Sharon Fabian 		  
1     Do you know any leaplings? Leaplings are like the rest of us in most ways - but there is one big difference. Leaplings have only one real birthday every four years. That means that 2008 was a big year for leaplings. It was their year for a birthday party. Their next real birthday won't happen until 2012.
 
2     That is because leaplings were born on February 29 - a date that occurs only once every four years.
 
3     Some people wonder why we even have leap years. It doesn't seem fair that certain people don't have a birthday for three years in a row!
 
4     And what about when it's time for a leapling to get his driver's license? If he doesn't turn sixteen in a leap year, he doesn't have a 16th birthday. Does he have to wait until March 1 for his license? How fair is that?

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