The Rumor

By Emma
4^th Grade

Tom was my friend. He had the smell of grass. Every time I thought of him he made me think of nature. He was a tall boy, very skinny, and always wore mud on his shirt, a warm smile, tennis shoes, and glasses. I enjoyed him, but a deep voice came from deep down inside him, which made me feel skittish. “Homeless,” people called him, though I didn’t think he was. One day a rumor went around, saying, “The skinny bean, Tom, is stupid and helpless.” He even got a sock in the nose. Nobody will ever talk to him again. Oh poor Tom.

Don’t Call Me That

By Michael
3rd Grade

Tom T. Turdle is a boy named after his great-great grandpa, named Thompson. Every kid laughs at his name. They say that “T” stands for “The.” All his classmates call him Tom The Turtle because he doesn’t have a single friend. Day after day, Tom is always treated like a turtle, but one day he is so frustrated that he wants to explode!

He suddenly gets off his chair and shouts, “I’m not a turtle, okay? My last name is Turdle, not Turtle, understand?”

The next day the kids don’t call him Tom the Turtle again. But no one even talks to him a single word. Tom wonders if he has misunderstood somebody. Tom doesn’t know what to do. “Just ignore it,” he says to himself.

So no one talks to him the rest of the year.

 

 

 

The Game

By Nicholas
3^rd Grade

After that day, nobody would speak to her.

It was the night of the big football game, and everybody was getting so excited. Last year she lost the game for them, but they still believed in her because she was amazing.

Sooner or later, both of the teams were coming out to the field, and the captains of the teams were going to the coin toss. The names of the two teams were the Separatists and the Spartans. Most of the crowd was rooting for the Spartans, because the MVP of the year was on that team. Her name was Naomi.

When the kickoff came, the game had started.

In the middle of the game, the score was 21 to 21. It was amazing, until the last play came. There were 10 seconds left and Naomi was sure to get the ball. She was the MVP!

The quarterback hiked the ball, and it took a while but what do you know? Naomi was wide open in the end zone…and soon enough the ball was flying. There was so much pressure on her, she dropped it.

After that day, nobody would speak to her.

The Problem with Invisibility

By Ella
4^th Grade

There was a girl named Joy who was as sweet as a snickerdoodle. She loved the mall. She always shopped at Cherry Creek Mall. When she came home she had 50 bags, and half of the 50 bags were ripping. One day she found a store with a sign that said, “Bob’s Wizardry Madness Lounge.” She went inside and found an invisibility potion and went home and tried the potion, then went to bed wondering why the potion didn’t work.

The next morning she was invisible, and she wondered why everyone was ignoring her. Then she thought really hard. She remembered the invisibility potion. She yelled, “Stupid Bob’s Wizardry Madness!” She slammed her door.

She thought, “Oops.”

The End

The Cave

By Memphis
4th Grade

One day a girl went to the forest behind her house and discovered a cave. Once she cleaned it and furnished it, it was almost a small home. In the winter she did not go to her second home. When she went back after the winter, her little home had changed. It had been destroyed.

Things Change

By Amielia
3^rd Grade

Once I had a blue jacket. When I went to my room and opened the door, I looked on my bed and it was gone. I looked everywhere. I even looked in the alleyway dumpster. I could not find it.

When I went back to my room again, it was there. But something was different about it. It was pink and orange in an ugly pattern.

“Arggghhh!” I yelled. “Grrr!”

My sister came in and said, “Shhh!”

The End

Math Wiz

By Joyce
3^rd Grade

There was a good girl that was good at math, but her math was so good that only her friend would play with her. A boy in her class asked her to teach him how to do math. But soon his math was good, and he thought of himself as the only person in the world that could do math. After that, no one would play with him anymore. Soon the girl that was good at math had lots and lots of friends.

Bird Bath

By Raphael
3^rd Grade

A bird had diarrhea and was on the toilet and never got up and could not get up. His mom wanted to take a bath, but the baby bird got in the bath for two hours. His mom called 9-1-1 and got a ticket because she was dreaming and sleepwalked and dialed 9-1-1. She could not pay the ticket because she had no money.

No Scaredy Cat

By Ava
4^th Grade

My cat is an orange tabby named Opie. He plays across the street A LOT and comes back over without getting hurt. He is sort of fat. He is really fast for how fat he is. He’s a bird murderer, but I still adore him. He is the best cat I’ve ever had. I LOVE him.

Well, he was sharpening his claws, having a good time, when he must have gotten bored, because he ran across the street when a big monster truck with flames on the side was coming by. I thought he would make it because he is fast, but suddenly he stopped in the middle of the street. He must have been tired from all that playing, because he was lying down in the MIDDLE of the street.

Finally, he got up and started walking. “Whew!” I said. He was going to make it if the driver was paying attention. “Oh no!” I said, scared. “He’s not paying attention.” He was listening to music through headphones. I could almost hear the music through the headphones.

I had no choice but to run in the street and grab Opie. But what if I get hit? I would die so young! It was worth it.

I sprinted into the street, grabbed his soft orange fur and ran back. You would think he would be crying, but for some reason he was purring.

The Wind Storm

By Cameron
4^th Grade

Chapter 1
Let’s Go Sink

“Let’s go to Black Lake,” I said. We walked for about four minutes to get to Black Lake. It was tiring to get there, but we made it. We set up our stuff and got in the water. It was cold at first, but got warmer in time. The cool thing was that I saw some fish with cool colors and designs.

We swam farther into the lake, but then had to swim back. My sister and I were doing cannonballs in the lake. “1, 2, 3!” Then my sister and I were supposed to jump in the lake, but I did not. So just my sister did. Then she as mad an pushed me in.

“Hey!” I said. “That’s not nice.”

“You didn’t jump,” my sister said.

I was about to jump, but then went into darkness!

Chapter 2
The Storm Starts

I was running out of breath, but I made it!

My mom said, “That’s what happens when you dive like that.”

I said, “I almost drowned,” angrily speaking.

We saw some motorboats come in. We wondered why. A whole lot of fish came jumping at us, but we dodged them. A giant unstoppable wind force blew us away!

“Ahhhhhhhhhh!” we screamed as we got blown away.

I tried to keep balanced with the wind. It blew our umbrella away, and to be honest I’ve never seen a storm that strong before. I kept trying to get to the dock, but wind kept me away from land. Finally it half stopped and I got onto the dock, but my mom got blown away on the inner tube.

Chapter 3
Big Trouble

My mom was yelling loud, but I did not know what she was saying. Suddenly a boat flipped over and it was heading towards my mom! As soon as I saw that, a tree got struck with lightning and caught fire and fell over and it was back to the water for me. Luckily it stopped the boat and gave me a log to climb on and stopped part of the wind. But that meant lightning, and lightning hits water.

I saw the road, and went to it. My dad came. I hugged him. “I’m glad to see you,” I said, and he said the same.

“We have to get the inner tubes,” my sister said.

“I’ll go on the road,” I said.

So I got on the path of the road.

Chapter 4
Funny but Deadly

I ran up and down the road, but still no end. My sister came out. I ran from her because I thought it would be funny.

We saw the smallest inner tube, but a sign said, “Private Dock.” The inner tube floated away to another dock. I said, “I don’t care if this dock is private. We are getting our inner tube!” We climbed aboard. I got the first inner tube.

The sky darkened, and a loud “Boom!!!” came out of the sky. We were like speeders from Star Wars about to take on the AT-AT’s when we saw another inner tube. I was about to jump in, but my sister stopped me and said, “I’m older.” And I was mad. She jumped in. My dad came out of nowhere and we watched my sister swim.

Chapter 5
The End of the Storm

My sister was swimming and got the inner tube. Lightning was about to hit, but my sister got to land and swam to the dock. The people who owned the dock came out for their chairs and tables. We had a little talk while mom got out of the lake.

We got into the car and were squished in the car and drove back to the house.

We watched the rain, and I said, “I want an umbrella.”

My dad said, “If you want an umbrella, you need to look at the bottom of the lake.”

We all laughed. Then we played a board game.