Professor Rush and the Super Shuttle Shoes — Simon Rose

The Caramel Tree Readers Level 4 series offers delicious leveled readers for children aged 7 to 9. The diverse original stories have a word count of approximately 2,000 words and Lexile measures between 400L to 700L. The stories in this series vary with narrative in first or third person, and they have increased character dialogue, which allows students to develop character studies.
Professor Rush has invented many wonderful things, although not all of them have been so successful. He is delighted when he is to receive a special award in the city, but he misses the only train and must use his super shuttle shoes to get to the ceremony. The problem however, is that while the professor knows how to make the shoes move, he does not know how to make them stop "