Considering the Circumstances 🏠

Sleep Tight Stories - Bedtime Stories for Kids

After a tiring gym class, Mia returns home to find her house has mysteriously floated into the treetops, becoming a massive treehouse. Despi

Key takeaways

• Mia's hunger is driven by an intense gym class and a lack of emergency snacks.
• The family home has transformed into the largest treehouse in history, floating above the treetops.

Main topics

• Magical realism
• Sibling dynamics

Notable quotes

Considering the circumstances, I figured you'd understand.

Conclusion

A whimsical tale that celebrates finding stability and comfort even wh

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:01) My name's Wesley. And my name's Aline. And welcome to Sleep Tight Stories. Speaker 2 (0:22) Mia is starving and cannot wait to get home. She is super hungry after gym class and doesn't have her emergency granola bar in her bag. Her friend, Avon, tries to give her suggestions of people she can ask for a snack, but Mia says no. She really wants the cheesy crackers that are in her cupboard at home, if her brother hasn't eaten them already. Speaker 1 (0:56) Considering the circumstances. Speaker 2 (1:06) Mia was bent over, holding her stomach on the bus ride home from school. She wasn't sick or anything like that. Today was gym class, and gym class always made her hungry. You look like you're going to puke, said Avon, who sat beside her. Avon was her best bus friend and lived near her house, so they sometimes hung out together after school. Though lately, they both had too much homework to do, which is not as fun as sitting around talking about Alex and his booger friends. If you are, can you point it at Alex over there? He's been bugging me all day. Speaker 2 (1:55) I'm not going to puke. I'm just like really hungry all of a sudden. Stupid gym class. Mia straightened up. And my emergency granola bar supply has run out and I forgot to ask mom for more. Oh, I ate my last snack while we were waiting on the bus. You could ask Jason. He always has food in his bag. I think he has a whole grocery store in there sometimes. Speaker 2 (2:29) I'll be fine once my stomach stops growling. We're almost at my stop anyway, and if my brother hasn't eaten everything, there should be cheesy crackers in the cupboard. Oh, processed cheese snacks. Avin made an extremely serious face. My favorite. Before long, the bus slowed and its lights started flashing. Mia got up. See you tomorrow at school. Bye. Mia's bus stop was just around the corner from her house, which suited her fine. Except in winter, when she had to not only walk to the bus stop, but sometimes wait there for what seemed like hours in the freezing cold. Whenever she complained, her dad would just bring up some silly story about how he had to walk to school in winter in bare feet, carrying three bags of books and eating a bowl of yucky oatmeal or something. He just didn't understand the hardships of being a kid. She walked along the street, past Peter's house. He was in seventh grade now, so wouldn't play basketball with her as much. And then Trish's house, which was the house with the basketball hoop they used to use. She was like seven feet tall and played on the high school basketball team. Mia thought she was the coolest person alive. Mom wouldn't let her color her hair red like Trish yet. Speaker 2 (4:15) As she walked past old man Wither's house, he gave the best candy at Halloween and was their next next door