Blaire Cooks Up a Plan (American Girl by Jennifer Castle

Author:Jennifer Castle [Castle, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2018-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

Cat loved the video, and I watched it over and over as she drove into town. As Cat and I finished setting up our booth, Thea arrived.

“Small fingers!” Thea shouted when she saw me. We watched the video together three more times. We would have kept going, but when Mom showed up, she said we had to shut off the tablet. “Go enjoy the festival,” she said, unpacking supplies for samples from the restaurant menu.

Thea and I were leaving the booth when I felt something tugging at the back of my T-shirt. I turned to see Abby and her dad.

“Abby insisted on coming to the Pleasant View Farm booth first,” Abby’s dad explained. “She wanted to see you.”

Abby smiled and pulled a piece of paper out of her pocket, then handed it to me. It was another drawing, this one of a heart with arms and legs and a face saying, THANK YOU FOR THE RECIPES, BLAIRE! in a speech bubble.

“I love it,” I said, clutching the drawing to my chest. “Which recipe did you take?”

“I took two of them: the one with the giant fingers, and the one with the soup.”

“How did they turn out?” I asked.

“The fingers came out good. They were yummy!”

Abby’s dad smiled and flashed me a thumbs-up.

“That’s Beckett’s favorite, too,” I told her. “What about the Hug-in-a-Bowl?”

“We couldn’t make that one.” Abby scrunched up her face. “They didn’t have broccoli at Helping Hands this week.”

“Hopefully next time,” her dad added.

“Oh, right,” I said, puzzling out what Abby and her dad were saying. They couldn’t always get the ingredients they need for a recipe. At my house, all I have to do is walk outside to get fresh vegetables. My friends’ families can just buy what they need at the supermarket. But some people can’t do either, I realized.

Abby shrugged it off, though. “Will you go with me into the bounce house?”

“Yeah, of course!” I said. “This is my friend Thea. Can she come, too?”

“Sure.”

Ten minutes later, Abby, Thea, and I were having a contest to see how many times we could jump high enough to touch the roof of the bounce house. Thea tried to do some of her moves from her Greek dance troupe, and I showed Abby how to do a seat drop.

After our time in the bounce house was up, we tumbled out, one after the other, our faces red from laughing so much. Abby’s dad was waiting for her.

“Hey, we’re going to grab some kettle corn. Want to come?” I asked Abby.

Abby looked hopefully at her dad, but he bit his lip and shook his head. “Maybe another time,” he said. “We’d better get going.”

Thea and I said good-bye to them and headed for the kettle corn booth. I looked back as we walked, and noticed that Abby and her dad weren’t leaving. They were at the library book sale, looking through the bin marked ONE FREE BOOK FOR EVERY CHILD!

Then I got it: Abby’s dad probably said no because they didn’t have the money to buy kettle corn.

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