A SNAIL starts to CHOMP through the Alphablocks’ vegetable garden. In a FLASH, it becomes large and fast. They follow its TRAIL and figure out that it needs its own GREEN patch.

Riding on a SLED, Alphablock S loses her letter. It runs off and makes her friends SLIP and SKID. At the TOP of a hill, they make it STOP and put it in the right SPOT - in S’s dome.

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — While most high school students spend their summer relaxing or working in retail, 17-year-old Melinee Patayya is spending hers behind the teller line at Addition Financial’s ...