Emily Jenkins: Lemonade in Winter

Text copyright © 2012 by Emily Jenkins

Illustrations copyright © 2012 by G. Brian Karas

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jenkins, Emily. Lemonade in winter : a book about two kids counting money /

Emily Jenkins ; illustrated by G. Brian Karas. —1st ed. p. cm.

Summary: Pauline and her brother John-John set up a stand to sell lemonade, limeade, and lemon-limeade one cold, wintry day, then try to attract customers as Pauline adds up their earnings.

ISBN: 978-0-375-98773-1 (ebook)

[1. Lemonade—Fiction. 2. Winter—Fiction. 3. Brothers and sisters—Fiction.

4. Addition—Fiction. 5. Moneymaking projects—Fiction.] I. Karas, G. Brian, ill.

II. Title. PZ7.J4134Lem 2012 [E]—dc22 2010024135

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An empty street.

Outside, a mean wind blows.

Icicles hang from the windowsills.

Inside, Pauline presses her nose to the frosted glass.

“I know!” she says.

“Let’s have a lemonade stand.”

Mom shakes her head.

“Nobody will be on the street,” she says. “Don’t you see it’s freezing?”

“We could still have a lemonade stand,” cries Pauline, skipping with her idea.

“Lemonade and limeade—and also lemon-limeade!”

Dad wrinkles his brow.

“Nobody will want cold drinks,” he says. “Don’t you hear the wind?”

But Pauline is jumping with her idea now.

“Lemonade and limeade—and also lemon-limeade! Doesn’t it sound yum?”

John-John jumps, too.

“Yum YUM!” he cries. “Can I help? Please?”

Pauline and John-John collect quarters.

They empty piggy banks and search pockets.

“Each time you get four quarters, that’s a dollar,” says Pauline.

“Four quarters, that’s money!” says John-John.

Pauline and John-John at the corner store in hats and mittens.

Four lemons cost a dollar.

Four limes cost a dollar, too.

Two dollars for sugar.

Two dollars for cups.

“We have twenty-four quarters, and that’s six dollars,” Pauline tells John-John as she counts out the money.

They run through the bitter air with a large paper bag.

Mom says, “Nobody will be on the street.”

Dad says, “Nobody will want cold drinks.”

Pauline and John-John are too busy to hear.

Squeezing lemons.

Squeezing limes.

Measuring sugar.

Pouring water.

Lemonade and limeade—and also lemon-limeade!

Outside, that mean wind blows.

Icicles hang from the windowsills.

“Maybe nobody is on the street,” says Pauline, after a bit. “Maybe nobody will want cold drinks.”

“I’m on the street,” says John-John. “I want them.” He grabs a cup of limeade.

“Don’t drink too much,” Pauline warns. “It’s fifty cents a cup.”

And still, an empty street.

Pauline thinks.

“Maybe we should advertise.”

Shouting wildly, both together:

Harvey walks down the block with Milou, Mischa and Mungo.

“Cold drinks on a day like today?” he laughs. “Love it.”

He pays, drinks a lemonade and takes a limeade back home.

“Fifty cents, that’s two quarters,” Pauline tells John-John. “Two drinks is four quarters—and that’s a dollar.”

She puts the money in a green plastic box.

But after that, an empty street.

Pauline thinks.

“Maybe we need entertainment.”

“I can cartwheel!” John-John leaps up.

“Good idea,” she tells him. “I’ll drum.”

Ms. Gordon stops on her way into the building, holding Devon and Derek by the hands. “Let’s see that cartwheel again, you,” she says, a smile in her voice.