Snow White Lucks Out by Joan Holub

Author:Joan Holub
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2014-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

In spite of her late night, Snow woke up early the next morning. She checked the fake mapestry again, first thing. No, she hadn’t been dreaming. It was half finished. In fact, it was more than half finished. Had even more gotten done overnight? Weird! But Grimmlandia was a magical place. Maybe some random magic had done this for her. That was lucky!

Remembering that her clover necklace was missing, she tucked the mapestry back inside her blue bag with her GA Handbook, and then searched the whole room. When she didn’t find it, she tried scouring the Pearl Tower common room. No luck.

“Try to remember when you last saw it,” Cinda advised her at breakfast when Snow finally told her friends that her lucky necklace was missing. Then she yawned. They were all tired from last night.

Snow set down the hot cross bun she’d been nibbling on. “Well, I showed it to Prince after History class yesterday because I found out he has a lucky coin.” She thought for a minute. “And I’m pretty sure I had it during Scrying class after that.”

“I wish I could remember if you had it on while we were out on Maze Island,” Rapunzel said. “But I can’t.” No one else could recall if Snow had had it on then, either.

Red’s basket, which sat on the bench beside her, began to jiggle as if trying to get their attention. Her face lit up. “Maybe my basket can fetch it!”

“Oh, that would be so perfect!” Snow said in relief. “I can’t believe I didn’t think of asking you to try that last night.” The offer made her extra happy because it meant Red must still be her friend if she was so willing to do this favor, right?

“A tisket, a tasket, please fetch Snow’s clover necklace, basket,” Red said. She waited a few seconds before eagerly pulling down on the basket’s handles and opening its hinged lid.

Red looked in one side and Snow leaned over to look in the other side. The rolled-up mapestry was there. So was the diary the girls had taken from Mr. Hump-Dumpty’s desk. Keeping the lid low so that no one nearby could catch sight of those things, Snow stuck a hand inside the basket and poked all around for her necklace. Eventually, she gave up, hugely disappointed. “It’s not there.”

The girls let go of both sides of the lid, which then flopped down. The basket hopped toward Snow and patted her arm with one of its handles as if to say sorry.

“That’s okay. I know you tried,” Snow told it.

Red was counting on her fingers and frowning. “I don’t understand why that didn’t work. I used six words to make my request.”

Rapunzel’s forehead wrinkled. “Maybe the necklace is someplace where the basket’s magic is blocked.”

“Like where?” asked Cinda. “Oh, wait! My stepsisters hid Peter Peter’s pumpkin in my trunker to keep the library’s magic from automatically returning the pumpkin to the library, remember?”

“So maybe my basket’s magic can’t fetch things under certain conditions,” Red mused.

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