Forty on a Spoon, Snow in the Kitchen
It's spring fair week in Kayseri, and twins Eddie and Ella have to fit forty dumplings onto a single soup spoon! Eddie's dumplings are as big as walnuts, Ella won't let anyone else lift a finger, and their dad's "secret recipe" turns into a dough that grows bigger every time they try to fix it. Before Saturday comes, will you uncover the secret of the dough, or train your hands to fold just right? You decide!
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8 Minutes
4 Endings
11-12
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About This Story
“Forty on a Spoon, Snow in the Kitchen” is an interactive educational story for children aged 11-12, about 8 minutes long. The reader decides how it goes at 5 choice points, and there are 4 different endings. It is free to read on Kitapz, with no account needed.
- Age range
- 11-12 years
- Reading time
- about 8 minutes
- Genre
- Educational
- Format
- Interactive · 5 choice points · 4 endings
- Language
- English, Turkish
- Access
- Free, no account needed
- Characters
- Ella, Eddie, Zoe, Craig, Chef Sadie, Fay
- Collections
- Educational stories, Stories for ages 11-12
- Reading support
- dyslexia-friendly font, bionic reading, color-blindness filters
An Excerpt from the Story
Ella set the red kitchen timer and put it on the counter.
Ella:
“On Saturday, Chef Sadie will set a timer too. Forty dumplings, one soup spoon! Don't touch the flour, you'll mess up my squares.”
The contest at the school's spring fair was just two days away, and the twins were on the same team. Eddie squeezed in at the end of the counter. Ella had mixed a stiff dough by eye, and while she measured it with a ruler and cut it with a zigzag pastry wheel, Eddie folded up the leftover scraps from the edges. Every one came out as big as a walnut.
When the timer rang, Eddie lined his dumplings up on the spoon. By the seventh, the spoon was full. Ella's dumplings didn't come anywhere close to forty either, because the dough was too thick.
A laugh drifted in through the open balcony door. On the balcony across the way, their classmate Zoe was practicing with her own teammate.
Zoe:
“Eddie! Are those dumplings or meatballs? Don't worry, we can't fit forty on our spoon yet either!”
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