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    Starry Skies and Fireflies
    Starry Skies and Fireflies
    Starry Skies and Fireflies
    Ebook82 pages59 minutes

    Starry Skies and Fireflies

    By Jenny Meyerhoff and Éva Chatelain

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    The fifth book in the Friendship Garden series finds Anna and her friends sleeping under the stars in the garden’s first-ever urban campout!

    Calling all campers! The Friendship Garden is having a summer sleepover under the stars! Get ready for: 1. Ooey, gooey s’mores 2. Toasty camp fires 3. Ghosts??

    Anna is excited for an end-of-summer party with her friends, but she is NOT excited for creepy stories. Anna doesn’t like the dark…or being scared! But her buddies at the Friendship Garden want to tell ghost stories and play scary games! And Anna doesn’t want to look like a ‘fraidy cat, so she decides that she’ll just skip the party instead.

    Can Anna’s friends convince her that being scared is sometimes fun? Or will she miss out on the Friendship Garden’s party of the year?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateFeb 7, 2017
    ISBN9781481470537
    Starry Skies and Fireflies
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    Jenny Meyerhoff

    Jenny Meyerhoff is author of the Barftastic Life of Louie Burger series, as well as the books Sami’s Sleepaway Summer, Third Grade Baby, and Queen of Secrets. She is also the proud planter of her very own vegetable garden. Jenny grows string beans, broccoli, and spinach, but she has never picked a purple pepper. When she’s not busy writing, she likes to hang out with her husband and three children playing Scrabble and watching movies.

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      Starry Skies and Fireflies - Jenny Meyerhoff

      Anna swung a wicker basket by her side as she skipped down the block ahead of her father and her brother, Collin. It had been four whole days since she’d been to the Friendship Garden. Up ahead, Anna could see the gate for Shoots and Leaves, the community garden that hosted her school’s garden club. Anna’s skip turned into a gallop. She couldn’t wait to get there.

      Since a garden needed tending all summer long, different families took turns weeding and watering the plants in the Friendship Garden. Then, every Monday evening, all the families would meet at the garden to pick whatever was ripe and eat a picnic dinner together. Anna called it the Picky Pickers Picnic. She liked making up names for things.

      When Anna stepped inside the gates of Shoots and Leaves, her eyes darted around until she saw a girl with glasses and wavy black hair over by the chicken coop.

      Kaya! Anna shouted, and both girls ran toward each other and spun around in a huge hug. Anna let her basket fall to the ground.

      Dios mio! Kaya’s grandmother, Daisy, said with a laugh. "You act like long lost amigas, but you just saw each other a few days ago."

      During school and camp we’re used to seeing each other every day, Kaya explained. Three days is a long time.

      Especially for best friends, Anna added, hugging Kaya again.

      Look what I found! Kaya said. I couldn’t wait to show you. She held up a shiny purple star-shaped charm, the kind found on a bracelet. It was sitting on the post of the chicken coop.

      It’s so pretty. Anna watched as the star caught a beam of sunlight and sparkled at her.

      Well, I hope you can stop hugging and chatting long enough to help us pick the cabbage and carrots. Daisy turned them both to face the garden. No dinner until the work is done!

      Kaya put her charm in her pocket, Anna picked up her basket, and both girls walked to the raised garden bed where a few people were already picking vegetables. Mr. Hoffman, Anna’s teacher from the previous school year, was picking cabbage with Maria, the president of Shoots and Leaves. Beside them, Maria’s daughter, Simone, and Simone’s best friend, Imani, helped.

      Anna and Kaya sat down near Simone and Imani to help pick the cabbage.

      First, you have to feel around the head of cabbage, Simone told them. Like this. She pressed her fingers around the dense ball of leaves.

      I’ve picked cabbage before, Anna started to say. So you don’t need to—

      When you find the stem, cut it. Simone had a tool that looked like the safety knife Anna used when carving pumpkins on Halloween. She sawed back and forth at the base of the cabbage until the head popped off.

      Then you can peel the outer leaves away, like this. Simone spoke very slowly. Be careful not to cut yourselves. She handed two safety knives to Anna and Kaya, then walked to her mother’s garden plot.

      Anna kneeled at the edge of the bed, then reached down to the base of a cabbage. We’re not babies, she pointed out to Kaya.

      Yeah, Kaya agreed, starting to saw through a cabbage of her own. Just because she’s going to start middle school in a couple of weeks, she acts like she’s a million years older than us now.

      Anna giggled. Maybe we should start calling her Granny Simone.

      Kaya started to laugh too, but just then Mr. Hoffman tapped his trowel against the edge of a flowerpot to get everyone’s attention. Anna set her safety knife on the edge

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