Lily sat next to him, swinging her feet under her chair.

“Will Principal Vance take the coins if they’re clean, Mom?” Noah asked in his soft voice.

“Only if they’re rolled in regular paper wrappers,” I said.

I wrote ninety-one thousand five hundred across the top of the yellow page.

I divided it by fifty, the standard count for a roll of pennies.

It came out to exactly eighteen hundred thirty paper wrappers.

“How many wrappers have we got in the house?” Lily asked.