The Jar of the Strawberry Jam

By Simona Kindaraviciute and BiancaMaria Martini

Jenny is a ten-year-old girl from London: council estate. There is a storm that evening, when she is stuck is a garage. She can’t go home, until she passes three door challenge. Jenny has to enter them all and face challenges: Crystal Palace and Badger, Miss Cook and her own shadow. Nevertheless, she has a little helper: Belinda. She is supportive of a girl, when Jenny has to face her darkest fears and help other children to come home from Kingdom of Shapes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Aug 15, 2020
• ISBN: 9781716652639

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Jam

CHAPTER 1That evening, a bunch of angry autumn leaves were flying in the cold

air. They just wanted to rest on a frosty ground, but the malicious

wind had other ideas. He was laughing out loud, while blowing

everything about. Poor swings were crying and a slide

was screeching, while windows were shaking with terror. A bunch of

leaves flew towards the block of house and suddenly shot

up! One small maple leaf managed to stick to the window glass. He looked inside: there was a girl. 

Jenny lifted her head from the table. Her room window shook heavily and she curiously approached it. With a slender hand, lifted up the curtains and saw a small, yellow, leaf. She suddenly noticed: the leaf had huge big eyes and its mouth was wide open.

She froze, unable to speak, it flew away. I must be very tired- she put curtains down and went back to her homework. There was one math exercise left to solve on a notepad. She took a spare sheet of paper and tried different variations. Finally exclaimed: I've got it, I've got the answer!, put the answer down into a working sheet and closed it. At last she was allowed to go and play with her friend Rachel, who was living in an opposite apartment on the same floor. Jen pushed her chair back and was about to run out of her room, when she heard her mum’s voice. That was the moment, when everything changed:

- Ladybug, please go to the garage and get a jar of a strawberry jam? - shouted mum from the kitchen.

- But mum! You know, how scared I am to go down that garage.

- Buggy please, we talked about it many times. We have no rats in the garage. They all went to our neighbors’ Andrew's place, after we put that poison.

- But why me? - Jenny stomped the foot on the carpet.

- Jenny, please, I am making your favorite pancakes, can't leave them to burn.

- Alright, ok, but if I'm not back in five minutes, please send the fire brigade.

- I will and a helicopter too. Would you please go now?

- Fine - Jenny giggled and ran out of the apartment. She thought about a helicopter: how cool it would be if a helicopter would land on a roof and everyone could see her with