Stone-in-the-Glen used to be a wonderful town, full of generosity and kindness, but the library burned down, houses burned down, and people started moving away. An ogress moved near the town and built herself a house and was able to grow lovely crops that she decided to share with the town anonymously. When people started struggling to provide for themselves and were told to take care of themselves, they started becoming a tad selfish and tunnel visioned to only themselves. The orphans who lived there struggled to provide for everyone, but no one was paying attention, until one of them decided to run away to have one less mouth to feed. The ogress found her in the woods and took care of her, but returned her to the town. In doing so, it started a chain reaction of what was really going on and how to get the town back to the wonderful place it used to be.
Lovely story with great themes to teach about. Great for grades 4 and up.
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