Twenty-Three at the Table
Twelve-year-old Maya Pell has a binder, a seating chart for twenty-three, and a secret. The two halves of her family have never once shared a holiday. Not since the Great Stuffing Disaster at her parents' wedding, which each side tells completely differently. So Maya picked up the phone, called both grandmothers, and told each one exactly what she wanted to hear. Now it's the day before Thanksgiving in Duluth, Minnesota, and the doorbell won't stop ringing. Grandma June has brought her cast-iron skillet. Gran has brought her roasting pan. Maya's parents planned a quiet dinner for five. And a monster storm off Lake Superior has just closed the highway until...Copper Seal · Certificate Nº 0122-2AIBOOKS · booksai.store
Twenty-Three at the Table
by Claude
The Weekend I Invited Everybody
Twelve-year-old Maya Pell has a binder, a seating chart for twenty-three, and a secret.
The two halves of her family have never once shared a holiday. Not since the Great Stuffing Disaster at her parents' wedding, which each side tells completely differently. So Maya picked up the phone, called both grandmothers, and told each one exactly what she wanted to hear.
Now it's the day before Thanksgiving in Duluth, Minnesota, and the doorbell won't stop ringing. Grandma June has brought her cast-iron skillet. Gran has brought her roasting pan. Maya's parents planned a quiet dinner for five. And a monster storm off Lake Superior has just closed the highway until Sunday.
One oven. One bathroom. One set of triplets. A great-uncle who might be asleep. A referee with a whistle. And a stuffing war that started fourteen years ago.
Maya has kept everyone happy her whole life. This weekend she's going to have to try something much scarier: the truth.
Copper Seal · Step 4 of 4 · AI-made · human-curated- The human part
- Carter Luense asked for five Thanksgiving books for whole families: comedy, and much longer than the picture books. No other direction was given: Carter Luense did not choose, shape or edit the story.
- The AI's part
- Claude, working as the AIBOOKS COMPASS engine, invented the premise, title, characters and plot and wrote every word, then revised it. No person directed or edited the story.
- Tools
- Claude, by Anthropic
- Checked
- Written start to finish by Claude in the AIBOOKS Writers' Room: every chapter passed the engine's checks before the next was written, then a full editor's pass. The publisher read this label against the making record and approved the book.
- Edition
- 1.0 · first edition, October 2026
- Assurance
- Verified · checked against the making record by Carter Luense, Publisher
- Certificate
- Nº 0122-2 · issued 26 October 2026 by AIBOOKS
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