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<p>This week’s quarantine edition of<i> Story Seeds</i> brings together two super imaginative Jersey girls: Tracey Baptiste (New York Times bestselling author of MINECRAFT: THE CRASH, as well as the creepy Caribbean series THE JUMBIES) and Amalia Tsampalis (age 12). </p><p>Tracey helps Amalia grow this story idea:</p><p><i>An athletic 12 year old girl loves to climb trees. Maybe this tree she loves to climb is in her backyard. It's really tall and there's not a lot of branches left. The personality of the tree is old and wise, and it's purposely losing its branches because it wants to create a challenge for the girl. </i></p><p>Follow this adventure as Story Seeds creator Sandhya Nankani sits in for Betsy Bird to host Tracey and Amalia’s virtual collaboration via video chat where:</p><ul><li>They explore the power of nonverbal communication and brainstorm ideas for a wise tree character</li><li>They create an athletic, strong, girl character</li><li>They discover they both have Trinida...