A Sprinkle of Stardust

By Emmie B.

Lila's got a plan...
Lila Teafeather, age nine, is helping her Grandmum when she discovers a picture in the upstairs closet. Grandmum tells her about the tea parties she used to host with her friends. Struck by inspiration, Lila decides to throw a tea party like the ones her Grandmum used to, but she needs help. Baking catastrophes, new friends, and some tricky recipes leads Lila to wonder if she'll be able to restore the spark in her Grandmum's eye. Can she bring back the tea parties of old? Or will they stay a distant memory?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Emmie B.
• Release date: Oct 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781953798022

Emmie B.

Emmie B. has spent half of her life living on the island of Guam. She went to high school at Southern Christian Academy and graduated from the University of Guam in May 2018. She decided that she wanted to be a writer at age 8 and still gets a thrill when she tells people that she is an author.Emmie B. was reading from a young age (she comes from a family of readers) and sees writing as her way to give back to something that gave her so much joy. Many of the books that influenced Emmie B's perspective on life were the stories she read in her late elementary and early middle school years. Books like the Secrets of Droon, Magic Treehouse, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and the Harry Potter Series all played important roles in Emmie B's life, and still influence her writing today.If you are interested in following her on social media, just look for @emmieb.books. She updates both her Instagram and Facebook at least once a week.

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A Sprinkle of Stardust

A Sprinkle of Stardust

Emmie B.

Emma B. Books

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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To Mum.

Thanks for being my sounding board and main support beam. Without you Little Witches would not exist.

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

About the Author

Also by Emmie B.

Coming Soon!

Recipes

The Greatest Memory Cake

Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Cookies

Plain Vanilla Scones

1

The old wooden door to Grandmum’s closet creaked open when Lila Teafeather, age 9, twisted the handle. Nine was an odd and magical age for little witches like Lila. The peacock standing next to her could attest to that.

It’s dark in there. I don’t think we should go inside.

We have to. Grandmum asked us to get the broom for Mira and she keeps her house broom in here.

Why? It looks so creepy and did I mention, dark?

Lila tried not to roll her eyes as she flipped the switch just inside the door.

Better?

I suppose. Grab the broom and let’s go. You know how I feel about small spaces.

Lila did roll her eyes this time. Oscar, the peacock, was Lila’s familiar. They had a troubled meeting about a year and a half before, but now they were as thick as thieves. That tends to happen when you can talk in each others’ heads.

Lila stepped into the small closet. It smelled of old wood and spiders, a smell that she had come to associate with old untouched things. Her Grandmum must not use the house broom very often. That made sense though. Until recently, Grandmum could have just cleaned up any mess with a whistled tune, but now her magic and her memory were failing.

Lila started spending her afternoons at Grandmum’s house to take care of the things she needed and to make sure she ate dinner. Lila’s mom and dad helped look after Grandmum when they could, but they worked late into the evening most days. So, Lila persuaded Mira, Lila’s 12-year-old cousin, to babysit Lila at Grandmum’s house, leaving Lila free to help Grandmum with stuff around the place.

Lila found the old broom in the back corner of the closet stuffed behind some winter jackets and a pile of small cardboard boxes. Lila tried to move the broom around them and she thought she had done it too, until she heard a THUMP! And the box on the top of the pile fell over scattering pictures everywhere.

Well done Lila, now there’s more mess to clean