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    Tales for the Peeps
    Tales for the Peeps
    Tales for the Peeps
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    Tales for the Peeps

    By Donna G. Kelley

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    Tales for the Peeps is a collection of stories written for parents to read aloud to their children or to listen as their children read the stories aloud to the parents. Family relationships and social issues represented in these stories can be discussed as a family to establish moral principles. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDonna G. Kelley
    Release dateMar 26, 2018
    ISBN9781536570069
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      Tales for the Peeps - Donna G. Kelley

      DEDICATION

      I dedicate Tales for the Peeps to my children whose characteristics gave me the ideas for some of these short stories. Having experienced children in my home, I found it easier to portray some of my protagonists.

      INTRODUCTION

      Tales for the Peeps is a collection of stories written for parents to read aloud to their children or to listen as their children read the stories aloud to the parents. Family relationships and social issues represented in these stories can be discussed as a family to establish moral principles. 

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      1 GLIMMER

      True to her nickname, the neon-clothed Glimmer flickers in the light as well as in the darkness. Clutching her cartoonish lunchbox, the petite photogenic girl with finely-chiseled features climbs the metal platform atop the sliding board. Perspiration plasters her shoulder-length ash-blond hair to her mole-spattered upper torso as she attacks her lunch.

      Sunlight filters through the branches in a curious network of shadowy patterns. Children remain unusually quiet while feeding their faces—so quiet that a cardinal settles on the rim of a trash can. On this humid afternoon, the playground portrays a scene of serenity in its shade from the tall pines...until the supervisor chastises Glimmer to descend the ladder.

      Glimmer bluffs in half-hearted rebellion as she towers above an ample selection of picnic tables. Obediently, she pushes back her bangs from her almond-shaped eyes and shuffles her belongings to the table.  Proudly, Glimmer spreads four flavor-straws out, like the span of a peacock’s tail, in her hands. As she bites the end off

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