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Book One, Story Four
The Quiet of Nana Abena
An evening telling that stops halfway, and the children who must finish it themselves.
Ages 10–12 12 min readComing soon
Opening excerpt
Nana Abena stopped in the middle of a sentence, the way a door stops when someone is standing behind it.
"Go on," she said. "It is your story now."
This is a sample excerpt written for this build. The full story is not yet published.
Talk about it together
- How would you finish a story someone else started?
- Why might an elder choose not to give the ending?
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