Category:Cranberry Valley

Grandpa is sitting at the table across from me, waiting while mama is finishing preparing dinner. He’s waiting because I have to prick my finger to take the test for the book’s first lesson – about the book’s care. It’s not that the lesson was hard, mostly I have to do my best to keep …
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I ran upstairs to my room with the book grandpa had just given me for my eighth birthday. I hopped onto my bed and tucked my pillow under my arms just as if I was going to read one of the storybooks my parents got me last year. With the massive book where my head …
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The cake was huge, and there were tall, thin candles all over it! Mom was slowly bringing it in from the kitchen when my dad and grandpa started singing, “Happy Birthday, dear Joeseph, Happy Birthday to you!” They couldn’t do it like normal people; no, they had to make faces at me while they did …
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