Hello, Sparkle Friends. Welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast. Here we are in June. We are devoting June

to old school play-filled, easygoing summertime stories. We want to bring the analog, what I call

analog or old-time summertime fun, back. So I'm starting this week with a story called

Spy Team. It's a summertime story from the Martin and Sylvia collection, and it is play

filled. In the story, Martin's friend Julian is coming over, and they love to play spies. Sylvia

knows they love to play spies. But Sylvia wants to be a spy this time, too. If Sylvia's a spy,

though, who are they going to spy on? Their solution makes for a really

exciting afternoon. So listen in and find out who exactly do the spies spy on. Before I share the

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Okay, now onto the the story, Spy Team

Martin and Sylvia live in a tall house with lots of windows.

From their second-story loft bedroom, they can see their entire backyard,

with the tall maple and oak trees on one side, and the horse fence that borders the Brown's

farm on the other. In the center of their yard is their playhouse, which is sometimes a rocket ship in a distant galaxy,

sometimes a hot air balloon hovering over Africa or China, and sometimes it's a log cabin deep in the

woods of the rocky mountains. Brother and sisters spend a lot of their outside time in the

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