Nana's
Magic Tea Berries
Nana's Magic Tea Berries: Nessy
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Author: Marlys Rold
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Nana's Magic
Tea Berries Print ISBN 13: 978-1-933090-61-0
Eight year old
Kimberly Hudson discovers a world where dreams come true. While
rummaging through her grandmother's attic she finds a drawer full of
small jars of different kinds of tea--some berries, some leaves--but
all are magical, although she doesn't realize this at first.
It is only after drinking a mug of the berry tea that she realizes the
stunning truth. Invisible now, she scrutinizes the jar and
finally reads the tiny label on the bottom that explains the berries
are only for emergencies and those who believe in magic.
Kimberly is a believer.
Chapter 1 Page 1 excerpt
Eight year old Kimberly Hudson turned over
and opened her eyes, as the first fine rays of dawn came creeping
softly into her room from the window beside her bed. A smile
lifted the corners of her mouth. A sunny day was a perfect day
to explore. Another day filled with adventure. A day that
would suit her just fine, thank you very much, no matter what her
brothers thought.
It was the family's second
week at her mother's old family home. They came to visit Kimberly's
grandmother and explore the tiny town of Shelby on the southern coast of
California for the first time since she'd been born.
Yesterday, to her delight, Kimberly found treasure in the cluttered, dusty
attic. Once she talked her mother into letting her explore the
rambling upper section of the three-story house, she spent the day opening
old steamer trunks, trying on antique cloths from the early nineteen
hundreds, opening lacy parasols, and reading yellowed love letters.
Sweet letters her grandfather had sent her grandmother.
Kyle and Scotty, her younger brothers, were not interested in a bunch of
“dusty old junk”, so Kimberly had the attic all to herself, which proved
to be a very good thing indeed.
Nana's Magic Tea Berries: Nessy Print ISBN 13: 978-1-61633-049-1; 1-61633-049-X
Kimberly drinks three cups of the magic tea and is disappointed when she sees no change when looking into a mirror. She falls into a large trunk and out the bottom. Surprised, she lands on lush green grass next to a loch in Scotland--Loch Ness--where she meets the "Monster".
Chapter 1 Page 1 excerpt of NESSY
“Well, bummer. I can still see you, and you haven’t shrunk
even a little bitty-bit. Flap your arms and see if you can fly,” Kyle urged his
sister Kimberly.
“Oh, for goodness sakes wait a
minute.” She stood and walked to the large mirror. “Huh, I guess you’re right.
Nothing’s changed. I look just the same as before I drank the tea.”
“Yeah,” Kyle agreed. “But you didn’t
flap your arms—try that.”
Kimberly held her arms out at shoulder
height and waved them up and down. Disappointment clouded her face. “Darn, I
couldn’t even lift an inch off the ground. I guess you’re right, this
tea isn’t magic.”
“Well, since it isn’t magic I’m going
out to see if our fort is still there, ‘cause I don’t like plain old tea. Come
on Scotty.”
“Yeah, I don’t want mine neither,
‘cause I hate plain old tea!” Scotty grumbled. “You comin’ out with us?”
Hands on her hips, Kimberly glanced
from the boys, on their way to the ladder that would take them down to the
second floor of the house, and then back to the two mugs of tea they hadn’t
touched.
“No, not now. Guess I’ll stay here and
look in that other old trunk.” Sounding disappointed as the boys, she pointed
to a steamer-type flat bottom trunk in a dim corner.
“Well, if you change your mind, we’ll
let you help with the fort,” Kyle generously volunteered.
“Yeah, help with the fort,” Scotty
repeated Kyle’s words, as he almost always did when they reached the stairs.
“Okay, maybe later. Bye.” She waved
them away.
“Bye.” Both boys noisily climbed down the
ladder.
Kimberly turned to stare at the last
trunk to be investigated, wondering if she’d have more fun with Kyle and Scotty
at the fort.
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