Karen's Plane Trip by Ann M. Martin

Author:Ann M. Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2016-11-08T05:00:00+00:00

Popcorn and Potatoes

At five o’clock on Saturday afternoon, the doorbell rang. I had just come in from the garden. I had been working hard. I was gigundo glad I had bought the overalls and the hat. When you work on a farm, you need those things badly.

I raced for the front door. There stood Tia. She was wearing a backpack. Her bicycle was parked by the porch.

“Ready for the sleepover?” I asked her.

“Ready!”

Tia and I had a lot to do. First we went back to the garden. I let Tia carry the basket. We picked vegetables for another salad. (We did not need help. We could do that by ourselves.)

We were on our way back to the house when Granny called, “Karen! Tia! Would you pick six ears of corn, please?”

So we did. Then we ate dinner outside at a picnic table: salad, corn on the cob, and chicken. After dinner, Granny said, “How would you girls like to make popcorn?”

“Yes!” we cried. Granny brought out a jar of corn kernels. They were not plain old yellow kernels. They were lots of different colors — red and green and blue. When they had popped, they looked like a fluffy cloud and a rainbow all mixed together.

“Cool,” I said.

“Yeah, cool,” agreed Tia.

We took the popcorn upstairs. We ate it while we made another board game. This one was called Going to Hollywood.

“You know what?” I said to Tia after she had won the game.

“What?” asked Tia.

“I am making a surprise for Granny. It’s because she has been so nice. Because she taught me how to garden and knit.”

“What are you making?”

“I’m knitting her a whole long scarf. Pink and purple stripes. When it is finished, I am going to wrap it up. I think I will even make the wrapping paper.”

“Do you know how to make potato-print paper?” asked Tia. I told her I did not. “Then I can show you,” she said.

Tia and I went to the kitchen. We found a potato. Tia asked Granny to cut it in half. “This is for a secret,” I told Granny. Granny left the kitchen.

Tia found a fork. She used it to press a crisscross design in one potato half. Then she made polka dots in the other potato. She used the end of a crayon for that.

“There,” said Tia. “Now, all you do is pour some paint into a saucer. Then you dip the potato design in the paint — very lightly — and you stamp it all over a piece of paper. You can use white paper or colored paper.”

“Tia,” I said. “I wish you lived in Connecticut. Then we could always be friends.”

“I wish you lived in Nebraska,” Tia replied.

“Maybe we can be pen pals,” I suggested.

“Maybe you could visit your grandparents every year.”

“Maybe you could come to Connecticut sometime.”

“Girls?” called Grandad. “Karen? Tia? It’s bedtime.”

“Boo,” I said.

But then Grandad came into the kitchen. He said, “It’s extra hot tonight. How would you like to sleep on the porch? The porch will be much cooler than the bedroom.

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