Tale of Treeo: Chapter 6     

Eli: So Nellie and her friends decided to play around at a bake sale while I raked more leaves and talked to Zaidy Zee.

Nellie: Play around? We were having fun while we raised money! It was a win-win!

Squizzle: And Eli and I found a mysterious map, which is one step closer to the treehouse. I also ate some cookies — don’t tell Nellie!

The bake sale is a smashing success, if Nellie does say so herself. Once she’d managed to stop Kivi from running off with all the cookies, they’d sold loads of cookies and brownies to kids in the neighborhood. A few cars had stopped by, too, and the adults who’d bought cookies were much more generous. One of them had given Nellie a whopping 20 dollars for a single cookie and told her to keep the change.

“One hundred and twelve dollars,” Nellie exclaims triumphantly, carefully placing the final bills and coins onto the dining room table. Her friends have left, and Eli is on the couch in the living room, eating a cookie and reading a book as thick as the brownie pan. “That’s our grand total,” she announces proudly.

Eli scrunches up his nose. “So you spent the whole afternoon on the bake sale and only managed to make forty dollars? Doesn’t sound worth it to me.”

Nellie chuckles. Eli remains focused on his book and swiftly snatches a cookie from the table and pops it in his mouth. “Mhmmm.”