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KIRSTEN MCDONALD

Carlos and Carmen: Tooth Trouble

 

Summary:  Carmen’s keeping the tooth fairy busy.  She’s lost her two bottom teeth, and now one of her top front teeth is wiggling every which-way.  But Carlos can only get one tooth to wiggle a tiny wiggle, which means he hasn’t had a single visit from the tooth fairy.  Read the story to find out how Carlos and Carmen take care of Carlos’s tooth trouble.

 

Word Count:  1000 words

 

 

Chapter 1: Wiggles and Jiggles

 

Carmen looked in the bathroom mirror.  She wiggled her teeth with her tongue.

 

!Mira, Carlos!” she said.  “Look how loose my teeth are.”

 

Carlos watched Carmen’s teeth wiggle.  He looked at the space where she was already missing two teeth.  Then he looked in the mirror at his own teeth.  

 

He tried pushing on his teeth with his tongue.  He tried pressing on them with his fingers.  But he could not make any of his teeth wiggle.

 

“I still don’t have a loose tooth,” Carlos said sadly.

 

Carmen looked at her twin. “You can have my next diente that comes out,” she offered.

 

“Will the tooth fairy come if it’s not my diente?” Carlos asked.

 

Carmen wiggled her teeth some more and added, “Maybe so, on account of we’re gemelos.”

 

All that day, Carmen’s teeth wiggled and jiggled.  

 

When she ran, her teeth wiggled.  When she jumped, her teeth jiggled.  And when she cartwheeled, her teeth wiggled and jiggled all around.          

 

Carlos ran and jumped and rolled.  His teeth did not wiggle.  His teeth did not jiggle.  His teeth did not move even a tiny bit.

 

    

Chapter 2: Rocks

 

Chapter 3:  Pillows and Paper

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Chapter 4: Double Hooray