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Pinky and Jewel  

By:Stella Bocketti

Once there were two pink marshmallows.  Their names were: Pinky and Jewel.  Jewel recently just got a phone, she is obsessed with it.  Pinky is the younger sister, so she doesn’t have a phone yet.  Pinky likes to be around people, she also likes to play lots of things.  Pinky’s parents have to work every single day.  So the only marshmallow that is left is Jewel.  They used to play together all the time, but now that Jewels has a phone they haven’t played together for awhile.  (Jewel’s nickname is Jewels and Pinky’s nickname is Bubbles).  Anyway you might be wondering, Pinky is also a marshmallow that lives in a pantry.  There are plenty of other foods, but Pinky can’t play with them.  They are all spicy foods, especially the Hot Doritos.  So Pinky is kind of stuck with Jewels everyday.  Her personality has changed a lot ever since she got a phone.  Pinky’s favorite color is pink, Jewels’ is black.  Pinky’s favorite food is sprinkles, Jewels’ is crackers.  But here is the worst part: they're both fashion designers, that is Pinky’s favorite hobby.  But now Jewels’ favorite hobby is Social Media.  Jewels is trying her hardest to get really famous.  Jewels always uses Pinky in her pictures because apparently ”Pinky is so adorable”.  Pinky also worries about everything, for example that everybody is going to fall on the dirty pantry floor.  She knows it is also bad to be on your phone all the time. So today Pinky went into Jewels’ room and asked her if she would play with Pinky.  She would just reply,”come get in my picture!  ”Pinky went in Jewels’ room for the rest of the week and asked her to play with Pinky, Jewels yelled,“No!” everytime.  She was too busy trying to get famous on Social Media.  So finally it was a month later and they were going family “grocery shopping”.  All Pinky and Jewels ever eat are sweet things.  So Pinky and Jewels went to the “grocery store”and there were no sweet things!  The whole isle is empty!  So they had to go to the scary “grocery store”, on the very top shelf of the pantry.  Pinky and Jewel went in.  It was scary,dusty and gross.  But Pinky and Jewel got what they needed and went down to their own shelf.  Bust as they were going down the shelves to get back home, Jewels was on her phone, not even paying attention.  Jewels bumped Where's the tape I just saw the tape on him he probably moved it examples of fine with it I know it says jewels in there because that's her nickname what did you do what did you doJewels ran to go get her phone but then fell.  Bubbles reached out and grabbed Jewels’ leg,just before she fell off the top shelf of the pantry.  Her phone was now cracked and broken on the dirty pantry floor ,she was so sad for days.  A week later Jewels apologized to Bubbles for leaving her out and promised to never act like that again.  She was just happy to get her sister back.

 “Mr.Franken Ear’s Secret”

                                          By:  Lillianna Demars

Ever since Mr. Franken Ear was born. He was always mad and he would try to bite and bark at people. He was born in 1958, so that means he was 64 years old. When he was born, he would always question, “Where are we going?” but it seemed as if his “owner” would never listen. The older he got, the less he asked, until he turned 50. When he turned 50, he knew he would never answer. The rest of his life, he would always wonder, “What can I do to get away from him?” So he thought until he thought and hated his life. Then he thought about distracting his owner. So, when his owner was at work, he swung and swung his legs until his owner noticed. He itched his ear, “Are you serious?” he yelled. His owner fell asleep and so he did too. The morning came, “Why, why, why?” he cried out. But then he heard nothing. The day was very quiet. Every five minutes, he would listen for a noise, but the only noise he heard that morning was when he yawned. When he heard no sounds, he felt so happy. Then the next morning came, “That was the loudest walk I ever had in my life!” he exclaimed. He was so surprised how loud it was because the day before that it was so quiet. He got so annoyed that he got ear plugs. Another morning, he tried again to annoy him, but his owner only looked in the mirror and the owner only saw his own reflection. Just then, he saw that he was a mole on the ear, he thought he was the ear! He kept thinking about how he was a mole. He thought, “How can I be a mole? I am an ear.” He could not sleep after knowing he was not an ear. Then he saw a paper from the doctor with his signature on it, then he fell asleep. He woke up instantly screaming, “Oh man, oh man, oh man, what am I going to do?” His owner got in the car. He passed out until they got to the hospital, he passed out again for three hours. When he woke up he was in a plastic bag, he got out of the plastic bag and tried to get onto his owner, but when he got up there he was gone. He found a window and he climbed out of it and found a little hole. He went into it and it was so peaceful that he took a quick nap. In the morning there was a baby mouse. She was a friendly mouse and he got an idea. It was a good idea. He asked the mouse, “Can you bring me to my owner’s house?” The mouse replied, “Yes.”  So the two of them went flying past all of the trees, cars, and people. When they got to a stop light, Mr. Franken Ear forgot how to get home. He tried so hard but he could not remember, until he saw his next door neighbor’s car go by. He quickly woke up the mouse and they followed the car all the way back. They made it halfway there then the mouse got super tired. They tried and tried to find the neighbor’s car, but then the mouse had an idea. She whispered, “Come with me I want you to meet some people.” The mole went with the mouse. They walked over a highway, through a cave, and then they went into a small hole and saw the mouse’s family. She asked if they could keep him. They smiled, “Of course we will.” After that, the mouse asked the mole, “Why do you want to go back to the person who got rid of you?’ The mole replied, “I don’t know why!” Then he told the mouse, “ Well, actually, can I live here? It feels like home whenever I come in here.” The mouse stared at the mole and questioned, “Sure but what about your owner?” He looked down and told her, “Well my owner left me, obviously he didn’t want me at all, so why keep trying?” The mouse agreed with the mole, so he stayed and enjoyed it. He loves the mouse family. One morning he woke up and it was his birthday, he was so happy because they celebrated him. The mole asked, “ How do you know it is my birthday?” and the mouse replied, “You told me when we first met, remember?” And he has had so much fun ever since.

 The Sweet Adventure

By Madison Ernst

  There is an island called Sweet Tooth Island. It can only be located under the “T” in Atlantic Ocean. Only there lives treats and sweets. The dirt is Oreo crumbs and chocolate pudding, the grass is green frosting, animals are jelly beans, trees are chocolate structures, and people are all sorts of delicious, edible things, but the children are cute little gumdrops. How about this, we go there and I'll tell you a story that took place there. 

Once upon a time, on Sweet Tooth Island, there were two donuts, and they were twins, but they weren’t alike at all. They had some similarities and a lot of differences. One is Kate, she has pink frosting and rainbow sprinkles, she has a unicorn horn because she's obviously a unicorn! But she doesn't  know how to do spells with it yet. On the other hand, there’s Emma, she loves her life and she likes high ponytails. She has purple frosting and orange sprinkles. Both of the twins were doing a magic trick for the gumdrops and the gumdrops, “Oohed and ahhed.” Then one of the gumdrops asked, “ What if we learned how to use your horn, Kate?” and the other gumdrops agreed with him. So they all went to the library and found a book with anything you could ever imagine about unicorns. They flipped through the pages and saw a diagram with a unicorn and a tall, funny looking creature. Can you guess it?  It’s a human. The donuts knew what it was, but  they didn’t want them to know that the human is their predator. A different gumdrop asked, “What is that very tall creature?” Kate claimed, “A dinosaur,” and Emma remarked, “A giraffe, ” at the same time.  All 4 gumdrops sighed. One questioned, “ Well which is it?” Kate looked at Emma and she murmured, “ That is called a human. Humans love candy and treats. They don't think that we are cute, they think we are tasty and delicious. That's why they are not safe and we can't leave this island. A different gumdrop questioned, “Well can we still learn to use your horn, Kate?” “Fine but nothing dangerous, okay?” Emma started reading. Here she exclaimed, 

“To use a unicorn’s horn, you say their name, and then say what the spell does for example: Penny, make my hair wet. Or, Stephanie, make me fly. But if you are the unicorn trying to do spells you say what you want your horn to do,  for example: Put syrup on my waffles. Or, fill my water bottle up.” 

“That’s the information we needed.” One gumdrop squeaked, “ Kate, put jelly beans in my hands.” Kate’s horn turned purple and it started to sparkle, “ That tickles,” squealed Kate. Then jelly beans appeared in the little gumdrop’s hands. Everyone stood in shock. Then the orange gumdrop giggled, “Kate, put my rollerskates on my feet.” Kate’s horn turned purple and whizzed, and then the orange gumdrop started to float, his roller skates fastened right on by themselves and the orange gumdrop started to slowly go back down to the ground. The pink gumdrop spoke up and whispered, “Make my favorite animal appear.” A few seconds later, the cutest three toed sloth appeared.  It purred, “Urr”. The pink gumdrop squealed and gave the sloth a piggy-back ride. “Okay guys, one more and then we have to go so your parents pick you guys up. Then the green gumdrop commanded, “Kate, open a portal to a jungle,” very proudly. Kate exclaimed that doesn’t sound that safe.” Kate’s horn turned a darker shade of purple and then it shot out a laser and then a purple infinity loop circled around and around, well like forever. Then the green gumdrop marveled under his breath, “Cool!” and with a blink of an eye the green gumdrop jumped into the portal. Everyone heard him say, “ WHEEEEEEEEE!” And then all the gumdrops went in. Then the twins looked at each other and nodded. They held hands and jumped in. Then the portal closed. Next, Emma and Kate opened their eyes. It appeared as if they were on a gigantic slide Emma questioned, “Are we on a slide?” then they caught up to the gumdrops. Emma yelled, “Hold hands,” and then they were all holding hands. Kate started to fall behind, so Emma grabbed her foot,  the gumdrops held on to Emma’s foot. 

Everything was upside down and green. Emma got right side up again. Everybody was either upside down or sleeping.  Emma helped Kate up and then Kate helped gumdrops up and Emma woke some gumdrops. Kate asked Emma, “ So, How long have we been here?” “ Maybe 5 minutes,” replied Emma. “ Kate, show time,” and then the time showed up 5 minutes later. “ There it is!” exclaimed Kate. Then she screamed, “2:54? That’s what time it was when we left! I checked the clock before we jumped in!” “Wait, I don’t think the time changes here. I think it is what time it was before we jumped in, so the world must have stopped back at home. Show current location.” Then a map showed up they saw their island and then the gigantic island that they are on. Emma disgusted, “ Okay, unknown location.” The orange gumdrop was the most adventurous. He led the way. Then they came to a stream. More like a white water river. Then an alligator came out of the water and snapped his jaws, as if he was saying he was hungry. The sloth noticed a vine. He purred, “Urrr,” and then the pink gumdrop spoke up and explained, “I think Benny wants us to swing on the vine.” “ Great you named the sloth,” groaned the green gumdrop. The pink gumdrop nodded, “I’m going for it.” The purple gumdrop was confident, “If you're going I’m going.” Then the rest of the gang agreed to go with them, because they can’t let them go by themselves. So they all got on the vine and they started to swing. They went over the alligator and back over then, Plooop.

“ Quick! We’ve got to make it to the other side before we drown or get eaten for dinner!” The alligator snapped twice before they made it over to the side they actually wanted to land on. The pink and green gumdrops started coughing. Then they stopped 20 seconds later. They walked farther into the forest. CRACKLE!..........

What would you do if it was thundering and lightning when you were stuck in a magical portal? Well, this gang found an empty log cabin. (In the magical portal, lightning can only strike the ground. ) When they settled in, the green gumdrop instructed, “Kate, make a campfire.” Her horn turned purple and started to sparkle. Kate squealed, “Ooh haa,” because her horn was up 1,500° Fahrenheit. Soon her horn turned red and she touched it on some spare logs. “And there is your campfire,” presented Kate as her horn cooled down. 

The next day, they were up and at 'em and they found a poison dart frog. The purple gumdrop could talk to animals and she instructed, “The poison dart frog wants us to follow him.” He led the gang to a cardboard sign that said, “Place things here.” The pink gumdrop got a brilliant idea, “What if we put the portal on the cardboard sign?” “Great Idea!” agreed Kate. So the green gumdrop hoped, “ Kate, open a portal back to our home on the cardboard sign.” And Kate’s horn did exactly what he requested. The whole gang jumped in  and they went on the slide again. Within seconds they were in the library and Emma instructed, “Let’s get you guys home to your families.” They proudly walked all the way home. Emma said to Kate with a smile, “I can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings to us...”

“The Ultimate Dream”

By Geno Fiacco

Ever since Dabgglammg was a little kid, he dreamed of being the Yankees mascot. And then he went to a game and then the coach spotted him in the stands cheering his brain off. Then the coach came over and stated, “How would you like to  tryout for the Yankees mascot, when  you grow up?” Then Dabgglammg shouted, “Yes!” Twenty years later he went to the tryouts the coach recognized him. He was the chosen one out of 50 people tryout for the Yankees mascot! After he got the job he knew he was going to be famous for being the best mascot ever! Before he became the mascot officially, Dabgglammg went to another game to watch the Yankees play. Gleyber Torres, his favorite player, hits a home run to win the game. Then he went to another game and got his favorite food hotdogs. Especially the Yankees ones,’’ They are the best!” he roared. Finally here comes his first game being a mascot. The game is Yankees vs the Red Sox. It’s the 9th inning and what are the odds Gary Sanchez was up and hits a double and then Gleyber Torres hits a home run to win the game. Gary Sanchez scores and Gleyber Torres scores and it is a walk off for Gleyber Torres. During that game the fans started cheering for him. He rallied the fans up after the game and he high fived the players when they came into the dugout and said, “Good job!” Dabgglammg finally got his dream by being the best baseball mascot.

P.S. His name is  Dabgglammg because I took the first letter of the name in the Yankees roster and put into a name

“War of the Robots”

By Macklin Flannery

Swoosh! The basketball went in the net. “Yeah Dan!” Dan’s brother Matt congratulated. “You won us the game.” “Let’s go back and do video games.” commented Dan...

Narrator begins talking:  “Now let me introduce you to this story. We are 7,000 years in the future and robots rule the world. There are two robots named Silver Leader and Emerald Leader. Their armies are going up against those of Ruby Leader and Gold Leader. Dan is an Emerald robot that lives with his older brother Matt. They usually do sports and video games. Now back to the story.”

 They went to their house, Building 164 floor 500 room three. After they finished, they checked messages on the 150 inch 4K TV. There was one. “Open message.” instructed  Matt. The message appeared. “We sadly inform you that both of your parents died in a tragic battle” Dan read. “Are you thinking what I’m thinking? We fight,” they declared together. One week later, they had just arrived from the hike to the training center. After months of training 20 hours a day and becoming stronger then ever, they finally got their shot. “You will be transported to a secret base on Iceland.” Their commander John informed. “There you are going to raid a ruby base in the middle of the night, and  I’ll see you on the boat.” “Okay let’s do this.” exclaimed Matt. “Yep,” Dan agreed, “Let’s get this show on the water.” 

The trip was easy and only took three hours. Once they got there they quickly ate up and got on the next boat. There they made the plan. “I see you have arrived.” John commented. “Yes,” Dan responded. “Good,” he answered. “Now let’s go to the conference room to introduce you two.” Once they made it to the room the commander proudly exclaimed, “These are Dan and Matt, you might know them better if I said their parents were war heroes Melody and Nathin and their grandparents are the original Silver Leader and Emerald Leader.” “Wow!” yelled their soon to be friend Steve. “We are going to hit land soon so we better plan up. We will parachute down” (Interruption) BEEP BEEP BEEP!  “Whoop we are going into flying mode now ” “As I was saying we will parachute down into the woods, sneak into the base and plant some energy breakers. It’s easy as pie.”  

Once they got there they had to wait for it to get dark. Once it got dark, the attack started. It started out easy, they each got five energy breakers. Matt and Dan did it easy but Steve was having trouble. When John hit the button to set all the energy breakers off, Steve still had one. When the energy breaker started beeping Steve panicked and threw it. Acting quickly, Dan grabbed it and threw it 30,000 MPH. When it hit the base it exploded along with the rest of the energy breakers. “Now let’s look for survivors.” John ordered. They found none. “That was a successful operation.” John said with relief . “Phew thanks Dan,”  Steve commented, “You saved my life.” “Any day Steve” From then on Matt, Dan, and Steve were best friends.

The next battle was a disaster. They had to move into the United Kingdom and Ireland. At first, it was easy, they saw no enemies anywhere. Their group was going north into the United Kingdom with two going south into Ireland and the fourth going south into the United Kingdom. The Ireland groups ran into trouble right away.  At the border they got ambushed and lost 75% in the first two battles. The south group had worse luck, they lost 90% in the first three battles. The north group had the worst luck of all. After 3 battles they only had Commander John, Steve, Matt, and Dan. Commander John had asked for backup but they had none. They had people in Emerald City and Silver City trying to recruit people but nobody was joining. All hope was lost. They decided to keep fighting. Slowly all the groups started to break in. After two gruesome weeks, all Ruby and Gold forces on the Island were gone.  

From then on things became better. Dan and Matt became co-commanders in group 3. They were also getting more troops from Emerald City and Silver Cityand working their way into Europe. Dan and Matt eventually ros to become co-general and then all the way to co-Emerald Leader. Steve rose to be Silver Leader. The war raged on. Both sides lost huge numbers.

At one point Matt, Dan, and Steve decided to try and make peace. They contacted Ruby Leader whose name was Bob, and Gold Leader whose name was Bruce.  

They agreed to meet in London where neither had control. They talked and laughed together. Finally Dan commented, “Let’s talk about this treaty”  

After a while of talking about what would happen if the treaty was signed, they signed it. This is what it read,

“We now announce the War of the Robots over. Gold, Ruby, Silver and Emerald Leaders have agreed that the war has gone on too long and must stop immediately. This is action for peace. Signed by Emerald Leaders Dan and Matt, Silver Leader Steve, Ruby Leader Bob, and Gold Leader Bruce.”

This played in Ruby City, Gold City, Emerald City, and Silver City. It also played in every battle base.

“The Coin”

By: Addison Gecewicz 4S

One day, after school, Angalina was asked by her parents to wash the pigs, and milk the cows.  When she started to milk the first cow the milk would not come out.  She tried for the second time and it still didn't come out. Then she murmured, “Third times the charm,” when she tried to milk the cow again. Then a coin fell into the bucket. “Weird,” she puzzled, then she took a closer look. She was surprised, it was a tie-dye gold and silver coin.Then she called her sister Jenna and her dog Oliver over to look at the coin. Then Jenna with surprise, “Wow, wait, it looks like there is a paper on the back. Flip it over. Oh, look, there's a coordinate. Shall we go to the mysterious place?” Then they both yelped, “YES!” Into the woods they went. As they got further into the woods, they came across a wall of prickly vines.Then Oliver barked, “How will we ever get through these vines?” Jenna looked around, then she found some saplings nearby.Then she asked, “Hey why don’t we use these saplings and bark to make a grappling hook to climb over the vines?”  Oliver said excitedly, “Sure!” Then Jenna and Anagalina went off to collect some saplings, while Oliver was chewing bark off the trees.Since Oliver was still chewing bark off the trees, Angalina and Jenna were assembling the body of the grappling hook. When Oliver brought back the bark they were finally able to finish the whole thing.They threw the grappling hook over the wall of vines and they started to climb.   When they reached the top, they looked to the other side to see a pile of leaves to cushion their fall.They walked a little farther to the mysterious place, and once they arrived they found a note on the ground that assured them, “Camp here you will be safe.”  Then they saw a glory of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, dog food, water and apple juice, along with comfy sleeping bags, pillows and a dog bed for Oliver.They all exclaimed,“This is a glory!” Then they had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and went to sleep.They woke up the next morning to find a note that said specifically to... ,“Go 2 miles north, use the compass to guide you.” “But I have no idea how to use a compass!” yelled Jenna.  “I know how to use a compass.We are studying compasses in Social Studies class,so I can tell where north is!” “That’s Ruff- Tastic!” Jenna giggled.As they went miles to their destination they talked about the mysterious coin.When they finally got 2 miles north they found a key and a note that read to really... , “Use this key WISELY!” Then Oliver barked, “Look there are two key holes. One is on the tree right in front of us, and the other is the tree next to us!” Then Jenna noticed that the tree that was in front of them had a smaller keyhole and the other tree had a bigger keyhole. Soon after, Angalina and Oliver noticed too. They started to talk about which one should they choose.Then a couple minutes later,they chose which one they should choose, they chose the 

smaller one. Next, Jenna put the key in, it fit in. A door opened. “It looks like a tree elevator!” Oliver barked excitedly. “Everyone step into the tree elevator...I guess?” puzzled Angalina. As they went down the elevator they were holding hands and when the elevator stopped Oliver was barking crazily. It looked like the mad scientist Dr. Icy. Suddenly, he made a presentation,“Hello,my name is Dr.Icy I am the Keeper of  that coin you are holding right now, and I am an icicle crystal  

maker. I am famous for the icicle hammer that will not melt in your hand. Any questions?!” “Um, yes so this coin is yours?” asked Angalina “No the coin is basically yours because if you find this particular coin you are the keeper. But the person that finds the coin does not know it yet, so that is why we set up clues to the keeper to share this information.” informed Dr.Icy “ Now go on, you want the coin to really know you, and I have an invention to make for the whole world to soon find out about!” said Dr.Icy excitedly. Jenna, Angalina, and Oliver walked back home and they kept thinking where they should hide it. Jenna had an idea, they were going to hide it under their neighbor’s bridge. They set up the clues and a couple days later they could not find the coin...yet...

“My Best Friend Al” 

By Patrick Hester

Al is a nice dog. He is a cute, soft, and friendly dog. He likes

to go on walks and play tug of war with his stuffed animal lion. Al is a black dog he is a pitbull mixed with black lab. He loves his owner Patrick (me). My dad and my grandpa found him at the right time. He was about to go to sleep forever then my dad said wait we want him. Then we got him and now he lives with us and he is my best friend. So let's stop talking about the past, and let's talk about the present. 

From Al’s and my perspectives:

Al: “Where is boy? It has been 6 hours...Wait is that boy? It is boy.boy! 

Patrick: “Hi Al, wanna go on a walk? I ask.

Al: “Yes I do. Here is my harness and my leash . 

Patrick: “Good boy Al. Sit. Stay. 

Al: “I will boy here is my paw.” 

Patrick: “Good boy Al. 

Al: ‘Boy follow me!”

Patrick: “Al stop pulling. Let's go down the trail.’

Al: “Trail! Yay! Can I go play with Conan? Not Tug!!

Patrick:  “Tug’s outside. Go up the hill quickly!” I insist.

Al: “All Right. Come on boy run!”

Patrick: “Al run!”  I announce.

Al: “Boy can we go in the creek. Come on boy?” 

Patrick: “ Stop pulling Al.” 

Al: “Thank you boy for letting me get a bath in the creek.”

Patrick: Come on Al. Let's go home and eat.

Al “Hey boy. Let's play tug of war with my stuffed animal lion.

Patrick:  “Wanna play tug of war Al? Let's do it!” I agree. “ Al wanna play hide and seek?

Al:  All right boy, here is my harness and my leash. 

Patrick: “Come on Al into the creek.  Come and get me!” 

Al came and got me. Al barked. 

Patrick: “Good boy Al!  

Al: “Boy follow me”  

Patrick: “Allright, let's go home and eat some beef jerky.”