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It was a bright, sunny morning in eastern New 

Jonesy. Grace saw the sunlight coming in her 

window and heard birds singing outside.

Grace woke up, rubbed her eyes, 

stretched her arms over her 

head, and gave a big yawn. 

She   went to stand up out of her 

bed and realized that her bed 

seemed too high. She ran to the 

door, only to realize that she 

couldn’t reach the handle! 

“Mom!” Grace cried. “I think I shrunk!” 

Grace’s mother took one look at Grace, and started   to 

laugh.

“Oh, Grace, didn’t I tell you that if you didn’t eat your 

green veggies you were going to shrink?” asked Grace’s 

mom.

“What do I do?” Grace shouted. 

“You have to walk 200 miles to find the 

Grower on the West Coast. He grows all 

the green veggies, and he can help you 

grow back to normal.” 

Two hundred miles was a long way for 

Little Grace to go, but she didn’t want to 

be this small forever! 

So off she went. She left New 

Jonesy and walked for a little 

while before she realized she 

had no way to know how far 

she had walked. She stopped in 

at the Mercury County 

Measuring Store. 

She said, “Excuse me, can 

anyone tell me how far it is 

from here to New Jonesy?” 

The store owner smiled and 

said, 

“Yes, it’s 47 miles to Jonesy.”

Little Grace knew she still had a long way to go, but she 

wanted to know exactly how long. She quickly pulled out 

a pencil and notebook: 

Little Grace walked and walked, and walked some 

more. After a while, Grace entered a town called 

Newberry. She saw a woman at a fruit stand and said, 

“I’ve been walking for a long time. I last stopped in 

Mercury County. How far are we from Mercury?”

The woman said, “Mercury? Oh, honey, Mercury is 92 

miles away!   I  can’t believe you walked that far!”

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