Sugar and Spice
Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Chapter One: Lamps Can’t Duck
Chapter Two: Tweet
Chapter Three: Mirror, Mirror in the Forest
Chapter Four: Once Upon a Time
Chapter Five: There Are No Lightsabers in Vegetopia
Chapter Six: We Want Cake!
Chapter Seven: Sugar Rush
Chapter Eight: Buh-Bye!
Chapter Nine: A Pail of Kale
Chapter Ten: Jumpin’ Jonahs
Chapter Eleven: Trapped
Chapter Twelve: Spinny Is the Cat’s Meow
Chapter Thirteen: Daddy-O
Chapter Fourteen: Don’t Duck
Chapter Fifteen: Impostors!
Chapter Sixteen: We Like Being Us
Chapter Seventeen: We’re Us Again!
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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Copyright
I’m gonna get you!” Jonah says with a big grin. “I’m gonna get you!”
It’s seven o’clock, we just finished dinner, and my little brother is chasing me around the living room with a ball. He’s about to throw it at me, but I jump out of the way in the nick of time — ha! Go, me!
I rule at duckball.
SMASH!
I slam my eyes shut and hope for the best.
“Oopsies,” Jonah says, his voice quiet.
I reopen my eyes to see that what was formerly our blue-and-white table lamp is now a pile of blue and white pieces on the wood floor.
“Jonah!” I cry. “Look what you did!”
“It wasn’t my fault,” he protests. “It’s too dark in here. I couldn’t see where I was throwing. We should have turned on the light!”
“Well, it’s too late for that now, isn’t it?”
This is bad. Very bad. Jonah and I are definitely not supposed to be playing duckball in the house.
Oh, you’ve never heard of duckball? First, let me assure you that it does not involve actual ducks in any way. It’s called duckball because if you don’t duck in time, you’ll get hit with the ball. It’s sort of like dodgeball. Exactly like dodgeball, actually. But in the story of Aladdin, which Jonah and I recently visited, everyone called the game “duckball” so now we do, too.
In addition to duckball, Jonah and I have learned all sorts of new stuff in the last few months. Like how to climb trees. And climb out of wells. And how to fly a magic carpet.
Yup. A magic carpet. It flew through the sky and everything. Another thing we learned in the story of Aladdin.
See, my brother and I found a magic mirror in our basement and it takes us into different fairy tales.
Sometimes we bring stuff back from the fairy tales, too. Like clothes. And a puppy. And the golden ball from The Frog Prince.
The golden ball that is right now lying next to our parents’ broken lamp.
Jonah gulps. “At least the shade didn’t break.”
I pick up a piece of blue ceramic. “When Mom and Dad see this, they’re going to —”