Page 20 of Searching for Thanksgiving

Leo perked up at the idea of finding something to eat. Morah pursed her lips and watched the two boys race off into the woods. She rubbed her eyes and looked at the map again.

“Are we close to finding where Thanksgiving is?” Hope asked.

Morah sighed. “I don’t knows. We are here’s and this is where we gots to go,” she said, pointing at the picture of the little hut on the map.

Sacha peered over her shoulder. “It don’t looks far.”

Morah looked up and around at the woods. On the map it didn’t look far, but her daddy had shown her that the little line on the map meant a long ways. They had at least three of those little lines… if not more… to go before they reached the woods where Thanksgiving lived. Then, they had to find the creature and help it.

“Hey! I found some yummies!” Pearl called out.

The three girls looked up at Pearl when she stepped out of the woods. Sacha’s face lit up.

“You found Sweet Roots?” Sacha exclaimed, rising to her feet with excitement.

Pearl nodded and held up her other hand which looked wet and sticky. Morah and Hope rose to their feet, grinning. Morah’s dragon purred with approval.

“And honey,” Pearl announced. “The boys are gonna be so sorry they took off without me.”

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