Kathryn Littlewood - HarperCollins Children's Books

kathryn littlewood
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Downstairs, Albert closed the shutters on all the
kitchen windows, while Purdy lit a candle. Rose imagined
that this was what it was like to be sworn into a
secret society. She stood at attention, awaiting her parents’
instructions. Ty was slouched across the rolling
chopping block, his chin in his hands, moaning with
boredom.
“We don’t want to leave you,” said Purdy, “but our
neighbors need us. We’ve asked Chip to come in fulltime
this week, but he can’t do all the baking and run
the counter, so we need you two to pitch in more than
usual.”
Rose shivered with excitement as Albert picked up
the Bliss Cookery Booke.
“First things first,” he said, opening the stainless
steel door of the walk-in refrigerator and carrying the
Booke inside.
Rose and Ty followed their father through a narrow
hallway lined floor to ceiling with cartons of ordinary
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