The Little Shop of Big Dreams: Book 2

By CC McGuire

Identical twin girls fall into another world and quickly learn that while they are alike, they are also very different. They find that even though they look alike, they have different talents and skills.
From the Quick Sugar Mud Pit to the Great Canyon Rat, they face many challenges during their journey. It is only when they work together that they overcome those and other problems, including a test to put a smile on the face of a grumpy king.
The two girls are changed forever by their experience -- growing and maturing as they seek to find their own identities.

• Language: English
• Publisher: CC McGuire
• Release date: Apr 12, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370401321

CC McGuire

The author has written numerous novels, many of which are trilogies or multi-volume sets, and span many different types of book genre from fantasies and murder mysteries to children’s stories and allegories. He has been cited for his creativity and fresh approach in each of the book categories for which he has written. For this series of novels, the author has used CC McGuire as the pen name. The author uses a unique pen name for each genre – one that is most fitting to that style writing. The author has a family and lives with them in Chicago.

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The Little Shop

of Big Dreams

BOOK II

This time, identical twins

search to find out who they really are ...

by CC McGuire

Blue M Publishing, LLC - CHICAGO

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-publication data

Names: McGuire, C.C.

Title: The Little Shop of Big Dreams (Book II)| Description: First edition | Blue M Publishing - Chicago, IL [2017] | Series: Book two of multi-volume set | Contents: Book Two | Summary: Two little girls enter a world where they are challenged to entertain a king. When they can't, they are sent on a journey to find a way. Their journey makes them learn much about themselves and they return wiser and more aware. | Audience Note: Recommended for readers eight to fourteen |

Identifiers: ISBN (ePub)

Subjects: LCSH: sh85047117 Fantasy fiction, American | BISAC: FIC061000 FICTION / Magical Realism | FICTION / Fantasy Contemporary | GSAFD: 00000cz a2200037n 45 0 155 Fantasy fiction | 455 Fantastic fiction | Genre/Form terms: gf2014026333 Fantasy fiction/Heroic fantasy fiction.

Classification: LCC PS370-380 | DDC 813/--dc23

McGuire, C.C.

The Little Shop of Big Dreams (Book II) Contents: About two girls who find out who they are after falling into another world.

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Rating: G* for all audiences.

Copyright © 2017 by C. C. McGuire

All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

*Rating is provided by the author as a parental guide and is not based on any established rating systems.

Contents

Little Shop of Big Dreams - Book II

Book Summary

CH 1

CH 2

CH 3

CH 4

CH 5

CH 6

CH 7

CH 8

CH 9

CH 10

CH 11

CH 12

About the Author

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The Little Shop of Big Dreams

Book II

Book Summary

Identical twin girls fall into another world and quickly learn that while they are alike, they are also very different. They find that even though they look alike, they have different talents and skills.

From the Quick Sugar Mud Pit to the Great Canyon Rat, they face many challenges during their journey. It is only when they work together that they overcome those and other problems, including a test to put a smile on the face of a grumpy king.

The two girls are changed forever by their experience -- growing and maturing as they seek to find their own identities.

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CH 1 Little Shop

Lilliput was a small town next to a bigger city. Everyone from Lilliput knew about Aunt Polly’s Little Fabric Shop, but few had heard of it. The store was kind of a secret, and that was just fine with Aunt Polly. She wasn’t doing it to make a lot of money – she was doing it to make dreams come true for her little customers.

Aunt Polly had lots of little customers too, and they all had one thing in common - all needed her help in picking fabric and designing a costume for their dance contest, their gymnastics routine or a play at school. Most little girls and many little boys were in classes or clubs that taught these things, and recitals or competitions were just part of the deal.

Hello? came the voice near the doorway.

Aunt Polly finished cutting some cloth she thought, for sure, would be just right for one of her customer's little girls. Yes, I'm here, said Aunt Polly moving toward the front door of the shop.

Standing there were a woman and two little girls Aunt Polly had not seen before - in her store or in town. The woman was tall and slim and had the same blonde hair as her daughters, except it was cut short to her shoulders. Her face was long, and she had pretty, blue eyes and a small, straight nose. In her ears, she wore a pair of dangling, gold-hoop earrings, far larger than the rosy cheeks they bounced against. Behind the woman were twin girls, both blonde and wearing identical white dresses with yellow sunflowers covering them. Each girl had a canary yellow belt and a matching hair band holding back her long locks. Even their shoes - black, patent leathers with bright yellow socks -- were identical. Familiar with little girls, Aunt Polly judged them to be no more than ten years old.

Hi, I'm Rosalyn, said the tall woman, extending her long, thin arm. She spoke with self-confidence in a forceful and direct voice. I'm hoping you can help me find something for my two girls. This is Lillie and this is Millie, she said, as if introducing a new washer and dryer. They are on the dance team at their school, and they have a competition coming up in two weeks. Can you help us find material for costumes?

Lillie and Millie stood side-by-side smiling up at Aunt Polly. It was hard for the store owner to tell the difference between them. They looked alike, they dressed alike and they acted alike. Both had curly blonde hair down their backs. Both had small, but brilliant blue eyes like their mother. Both had faint dimples and straight, perfect noses. And both had pierced ears with bead-sized white pearls in each.

Of course, I can help you, said Aunt Polly, watching the two young girls out of the corner of her eye as they ran off into the store. What exactly were you thinking about?

While Rosalyn began talking about her ideas for her girls' costumes, Lillie and Millie began wandering through the store, just looking at all the things Aunt Polly had stashed on shelves and on counters.

Besides the rows of fabric bolts -- cardboard panels wrapped with every possible color of cloth you could imagine -- there were other things that made the store fun and showy. There were buttons of every color too, besides the old standards of red, orange, yellow, green, purple, blue, white and black. The store had ever color in between - from the deepest cranberry red to the lightest sky blue. There were also sequins, clips,