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Olive lives in Beansville, Texas.   She 

lives with her Mom, Dad, and dog 

Charlie.   Their town is famous for their 

beans! They were so soft on the inside 

and helped everyone grow strong and 

tall.   Olive was smaller than the other 

kids because she hated the beans!   She 

just didn't like the way they looked.

Every night at dinner the bowl of beans were 

passed around the table and every night Olive 

refused to eat them.   She didn't like the way 

they looked, or the way they smelled.   Even 

though she had never tried them Olive did not 

want to try something and end up not liking it.

Her best friends Levi and Molly both loved the 

beans they ate at dinner, and they were both 

so tall and strong!   When the three of them 

played monkey-in-the-middle, Olive was 

always stuck in the middle from how small she 

was.   In Tag she could never run as fast as the 

others.

One day in school a mean kid, Spencer, 

pointed out how small Olive was.   Olive got so 

sad about this.   Her face began to get red and 

she could feel herself get very very upset.  

Mrs. Wlison, the teacher, came over to help 

with the problem.   She told Spencer that it’s 

not nice to point things out.   She also told 

Olive that when she was a little kid, she was 

smaller too and what helped her grow was the 

beans!

After school Olive went to her room to play 

with her toys.   She began thinking about what 

would happen if she never eats beans in her 

life.   Will she become smaller than her toys?  

Will her parents lose her from how tiny she 

gets? What’s going to happen to her when 

she's an adult?   Will anyone be able to see 

her?

The next morning Olive had her Dad mark how 

tall she was compared to last year.   She 

shrunk!   She was a whole inch shorter than a 

year ago!   Her worst fear was becoming true 

and she didn't know what to do about it. Olive 

didn’t want to be small forever! She wanted to 

be able to win monkey-in-the-middle, she 

wanted to be able to run as fast as her friends.

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