Santillan, Suzanne

Jessie's ball gets stuck in Grandma's prized pear tree, so Jessie asks his relatives for help in getting it down before Grandma sees it and gets mad, but as each person's suggestion becomes more outlandish, Jessie wonders if it would have been better to tell Grandma what happened. Text is presented in English and Spanish.

When Jessie loses his soccer ball in his grandmother's pear tree, even though he promised to stay away from it, he asks other members of his busy farm family for help, but their suggestions only make matters worse.