The Butter Brickle Bond
Kathy Sattem Rygg
- It’s
- 1926.
- Twelve-year-old
- Millie
- Johanson
- and
- her
- family
- have
- just
- moved
- into
- the
- Blackstone
- Hotel
- in
- Omaha
- where
- her
- father
- is
- a
- wealthy
- banker
- at
- the
- new
- Livestock
- Exchange
- Building.
- She
- meets
- Fronie
- Maude,
- whose
- mother
- is
- a
- cook
- at
- the
- hotel
- and
- whose
- father
- works
- in
- the
- stockyards.
- The
- girls
- bond
- over
- their
- secret
- dessert
- discovery—butter
- brickle
- ice
- cream.
- But
- when
- Millie’s
- mother
- forbids
- the
- friendship
- and
- threatens
- to
- move
- out
- of
- the
- hotel
- if
- Millie
- sees
- Fronie
- again,
- she
- must
- decide
- what’s
- more
- important—pleasing
- her
- mother
- or
- her
- friendship
- with Fronie.
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