Number the Stars

Kirsti was upset because her new shoes were made from fish skin. Ellen's solution was to blacken them with ink.

"I won't!" Kirsti sputtered. "I won't ever, ever wear them! Not if you chain me in a prison and beat me with sticks!"

Annemarie and Ellen looked at the fish skin shoes. Annemarie took one in her hand and examined it. It was odd-looking; the fish scales were visible. But it was a shoe, and her sister needed shoes. "It's not so bad, Kirsti," she said, lying a little.
Ellen turned the other one over in her hand. "You know," she said, "it's only the color that's ugly." "Green!" Kirsti wailed. "I will never, ever wear green shoes!" "In our apartment," Ellen told her, "my father has a jar of black, black ink. Would you like these shoes better if they were black?"

Why was Kirsti upset when she and her mother returned from shopping? What was Ellen's solution to the problem? (Chapter 4)

She was upset beacause she got green shoes that she did not want to wear. Their solution was make them black with some ink.

Why was she upset please someone tell me was it there wasent any leather,she was too picky,her famIly couldn't afford them or she had a problem with her feet !!!!Please someone tell me!!!!

Basically she was trying to calm kristie down

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