Jasmine's Big Idea by Crystal Velasquez

Author:Crystal Velasquez [Velasquez, Crystal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2018-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

The next day, Jasmine’s friends were coming over to work on carnival decorations. When Jasmine rushed to answer the doorbell, she was surprised to see Madison standing there next to Sofia and Keiko.

“Hey, Jaz!” Sofia said. “Sorry we’re a little late. We stopped to pick up Madison. I thought we could use an extra set of hands.” Sofia turned to wave at her mom, who honked twice before pulling off.

Jasmine motioned for them to come in. “Definitely,” she said in a friendly voice. “Hi, Madison. How’s it going?”

“Great!” Madison cried as she walked past Jasmine and into the house. “I can’t wait to get started! This is going to be the best carnival ever.”

Jasmine hoped so.

The girls spread out all their art supplies and poster board on the carpeted floor of the living room.

“First we need to make posters to spread the word about the carnival and to advertise the pets who are up for adoption,” Jasmine explained. “Then we can decide on decorations.”

“I had an idea,” Sofia said. “Maybe we can get lots of different colors of crepe paper and twist it into multicolored streamers to hang from the trees. Since it’s a carnival theme, bright colors will work well.”

“Oh, that sounds pretty!” Madison said eagerly. “I love rainbows.”

“I can start drawing some of my dog sketches on the posters if one of you can do the lettering,” Keiko said.

“I’m not great at pictures, but I can do pretty good bubble letters,” Sofia offered.

Madison rummaged around in her backpack. “And I brought a bunch of glitter glue pens!” she said, pulling out a handful of sparkly tubes. “These will be great.”

“All right!” Keiko exclaimed as she began drawing. Soon, Keiko, Sofia, and Madison were all busily hunched over the poster boards, drawing, lettering, and glittering.

Jasmine wasn’t sure what to do. There didn’t seem to be space for her around the posters. So she took out a piece of paper and tried brainstorming ideas for other decorations.

“That looks awesome!” Madison said as Keiko handed her a poster with a drawing of a dog under Sofia’s bold lettering. “I’ll just add some glitter glue, and it will be done!”

“Nice,” Sofia said. “Everything is better with sparkles!”

Jasmine twirled her hair as she looked down at her paper, trying to come up with ideas—and trying to shake the feeling that her friends preferred hanging out with Madison to her.

“Hey, what do you all think of balloons as decorations?” Jasmine asked. “Maybe Mrs. Wallace could get a big balloon arch for the carnival entrance.”

Madison looked up from her work, her face serious.

“Balloons are fun, but if some flew off, they might end up in trees or a lake somewhere,” she said thoughtfully. “That wouldn’t be good for birds, fish, and other animals.”

“Oh! Of course!” Jasmine said quickly, her cheeks turning red. She had been so concerned with impressing her friends with her ideas that she had forgotten about the most important thing—the animals!

At that moment, Cookie wandered over to Jasmine and climbed into her lap for a snuggle.

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