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Thanksgiving Gumbo

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 3, 4, 5
Page count: 5

Author

Janet
Graber

Appeared in

Cricket Magazine Vol 28, Num 3, Nov 2000

Story Summary

When Jake and his mom get there eviction notice along with everyone else in their apartment, Jake goes up to see Um-Sithie, the old lady who lives upstairs. Um-Sithie gets Jake to help make Thanksgiving Gumbo the two main ingredients of which are love and a little miracle.