by Scot McAtee
Delfino
The Weirdest Day
A dark October night, Deflfino and Anthony were in the garden. Delfino discovered bite marks in his pumpkin and knew someone was eating it. He hid in the tree to see it come out. It was Anthony. I told him to stop eating my pumpkin but he told me he was a clone. Then he stopped. He stopped but my pumpkin was destroyed. But there was a bigger one left.
Angelica
A Pumpkin Mystery
One dark October night two friends came when Angelica called, because Angelica found something ate her pumpkin. Then she went into her garden with Gabby and Makina, then she found a big fox. Then she made a giant gate, then the fox was sad. Then she got up and asked the fox why she was eating her pumpkin. He apologized and said “I’m very, very sorry.” Then he didn’t do it again. She won the pumpkin contest. Then the fox came back and he asked Angelica if she could have one little pumpkin and she said yes, because he said please. Then they became friends, even Gabby and Makina. The End.
Nicholas
A dark October night, something is eating your pumpkin! Hide in the tree with your food you and you see the thing come out. What do you do?
Zeke
The Missing Pumpkin
One night something was eating pumpkin! So I went to get Alex and asked if he wanted to help and he said yes. So we went to the garden. We saw a bear and I said “stop it that is my pumpkin.” So he stopped and said “sorry, I was so hungry.” So me and Alex went home, but the bear was eating the pumpkin again. So I went to get Alex again and we went back to the garden and caught the bear and we said “stop eating the pumpkins!” So we watched the bear go home so we slept in the garden. The bear never came back. Then the next day the bear came back.
Jillian
A dark October, Jillian, Olivia, and Sophia will spy on the one that is eating my pumpkins. Hide in the in the tree, your friend and you see the thing come at me. What do you do? The squirrel said, “I am sorry.” “It’s okay, please don’t eat them again.”
Sophia
Something Ate my Pumpkin
On a dark October night, something ate my pumpkin. I do not know who ate my pumpkin. It probably was an animal or a person. Probably at night when Jillian and I were sleeping in our beds, it came out and ate it. I looked out my window…to be continued.
Alyssa
The Pumpkin Stealer
It was a dark October night when I saw something eating my pumpkins! I hid in a tree. I saw the thing come out! I shine my flashlight on the thing. It was a bear! I tell the bear to stop eating my prized pumpkin please. The bear stopped. I was amazed! It was like the bear could understand what I was saying! One month later I brought Kaitlyn to the pumpkin contest fair! Kaitlyn and I won the contest! After that, everyone was happy even the bear! We danced and we sang it was a happy day it was!! The end.
Michelle
The Mystery of the Missing Pumpkin
I wake up in the morning and I find out here was a pumpkin missing, so I stayed in the tree with Kelly and Kenya. We heard something behind us. It was a fox. We said, “Stop eating our pumpkin!!” The fox said, “I am sorry for eating your pumpkin.”
THE END
Ella
Something Has Eaten My Pumpkins
Suri, Alasya, Kelly, and I were trying to catch a skunk who was eating my prized pumpkins. Kelly, Suri, Alasya, and I hide in the big tree. Then the skunk came out. Then we catch the skunk! The skunk said sorry.
Suri
The Dark and Scary Night
One dark October night, I heard something in my pumpkin garden! I was up in a tree with Ella. It was a big fox. I lost my breath! I almost fell out of the tree. My flashlight fell. The fox looked at me! I screamed loudly. I said, “Please stop!” He said, “I’m sorry that I’m eating your pumpkins. I was so hungry.” So I gave him some. I went to my house.
THE END
Jilly
The Two-Sided Key
One morning, I was enjoying my cereal, and then a key came from the box. It said, “Think Small!” The next thing I knew was that I was in my spoon. I got out of it and looked around. As I was walking I tripped over the handle of the spoon and flew into the cereal. I landed in the cheerio just like the position I would be if I was on a float in the lazy river. I heard loud stomps and my brother flew in. He went to pick up the spoon and take a bite.
“No, no, don’t eat me!” I shouted. My brother stopped what he was doing and picked me up by my legs.
“What happened?” he asked.
“Long story short!” I said as he put me on the key. As I read it again, I realized it said something different than it did. It said, “Think Big!” Then the next thing I noticed was that I was normal size again.
Evelyn Scharer
I Thought Small
“Think small,” I thought and suddenly I noticed I was shrinking, faster and faster by the second. By the time I stopped, I was sitting in my spoon like it was an armchair. I looked up at my milk-filled cereal bowl as big as a swimming pool. Then my dog walked by, bumping the bowl right off of the table along with the spoon I was sitting in. My mom walked in the kitchen as soon as Salvester ran outside. She thought that I spilled the cereal and didn’t clean it up. She yelled my name so I answered, but she must not have heard me because she yelled once more. I didn’t bother answering because I knew she wouldn’t hear me. My mom wiped up the milk with a mop and wiped up the Fruity Pebbles with a paper towel that I landed in and threw it in the trash. After my mom made lunch she took out the trash and I got picked by the garbage truck that was heading to the dump. After the garbage trick dumped me into a big pile of trash I broke out of the bag and saw a key just like the one in my cereal. This one said “Think Big!” so I did. I returned to normal size and I ran home hoping never to shrink again.
Zachary Craig
When Carter was eating his breakfast, he found a key saying ‘Think Small’ then her grew small! When he grew small, he heard his little sister coming, “Ooh, cereal!” then he survived and his mother, Lucie put the bowl in the dishwasher and Carter got in the sewer. He came out of the sewer, and he was dirty.
An owl came and said, “Think Big” and a drone made him bigger and he was all clean.
The End
Jayden Matthews
No More Cereal!!
It was morning, and I was devouring my cereal so fast, I almost didn’t catch the silver key in my bowl. I picked it up; it read ‘Think Small!’ Then I started to… shrink!
After I had stopped, I heard Ava, Hannah, and Lana; I saw Hallie and Daisy touch the key. They shrank too! Lana grabbed the bowl that we were stuck on, and stuck it on the counter. Jackson ran up, “Jackson!” we screamed.
After he ran passed us, we got very depressed. Just then, Jackson came back, so we jumped onto him. Well, we passed one of mom’s posters, it read, ‘Think Big!’ Then we turned big, so never ever… ever doubt your mom’s posters.
Sinai Aguibra
The Key
As I was eating breakfast one morning, I was trying to find my prize in my cereal box. I was because the box read “Prize Inside”. So I decided to look inside. I then gave up so I started eating my breakfast. I then yelled, “ow!” I opened my mouth and out came a Silver Key. I started looking at it and then spotted a small word, probably the size of an ant. “Think Small” I said to myself. It kept repeating over and over in my head. “Think Small.” I then realized I was shrinking really small. I landed in my cereal bowl. I was wet! I then said,”EW!” then took a sip of milk, “but still quite delicious.” I saw a big big fruit loop almost the size of an elephant! I took a bite out of it. “I can have this for breakfast, lunch and dinner!” I felt the milk bowl move. I saw my mom grab the bowl, “MOM! DOWN HERE!” She couldn’t hear me. Next thing I knew, I was in the dishwasher! I then yelled, “NOOOOO!” Just as my mom was about to close and turn on the dishwasher, my dog started barking to distract my mom. I found another key on the floor.
I tried to get to it so I jumped off and out of the dishwasher and landed on the floor and read the key. “Think big.” I suddenly woke up and realized it was all a dream.
Kevin
The Surprise In My Cereal
My name is kevin and we were at home and eating breakfast. We are eating cereal with my friends and they had 20,000 dollars. Me and my dad and my brothers and my friends were going to Lafayette going in home debt. And getting many windows for the kitchen, 28 chairs and 58 tables we cut down the tree and then we did build the restaurant.
Evan
The Mystery Key
Alfred rests in the spoon amazing about what just happened. Then ten minutes later his mom clears off the table and then throws the spoon and bowl in the sink and Alfred fell down the drain. Then he wakes up and he is in the sewer. He starts running to find an exit but he never sees on. Suddenly he notices a gate with a key hold. He sticks his silver key in the gate opens, he runs inside and he sees the rats ten feet away. Inside he sees a golden key and a weird circle he closes the gate just in time and he reads the and it said” Think Big.” But he didn’t want to vet. He saw a switch and it said “power” he flipped the switch and the circle lights up it looked like a portal so he jumpes in and it takes him home and his pet ferret gets out of cage and he lets him ride on his backs but as he rides him he was thinking “big” and he gets bigger and almost killed his pet ferret. He thought, “what a cool journey.”
Annabella Matthews
The Key
I tried to find my way out but it failed. When I looked back uip I saw my mom reaching for the bowl. She picked the bowl up and put in the dishwasher. When the bowl was placed I jumped out. I saw a dark figure slowly walking toward me. When the fog cleared I was a girl. She suddenly said, “I’m Ashley biggs. I saw you shrink. I also shrunk from the the key.” She told me that I had to find the key. I jumped out with Ashley following close behind. I saw the key instantly. It was on the table by the bowl. I jumped on the table and saw the words “think big” when we thought the words we grew back to normal. It was fun and I met a new friend the day.
Emily Felz
The Key To…
Once, I was eating cereal at the table in the morning. When I dumped some more cereal in my bowl, a small, silver key was floating in it. I picked it up; the key said ‘Think Small!’ “What the h—!” I started shrinking! I was getting smaller, and smaller, and smaller, and smaller. I shrunk until I was the size of my spoon.
“What do I do? What do I do?!?!?!” I was in a state of panic until I noticed my dog, Pepper (a Miniature Schnauzer) came into the kitchen. He jumped on the chair, and knocked me over; spoon and all. I climbed onto his collar, I don’t know what that key did to me but, now I could talk to my dog. He told me he knew someone who could change me back to my normal size.
We walked into a forest and found a magician. Pepper stole my dad’s wallet and gave it to the magician because we all know magic isn’t free. He waved his hands and, POOF! I was back at my house; my normal size, safe and sound, with my dog.
The End
Alexis
The Prize in the Box
Once upon a time, I found a key, and it said, ‘Think Small!’ Then my sister heard my voice say “Do not eat me!” My mom put me and the bowl in the dishwasher, and I fell down the drain; I was stinky and I saw another person. Her name was Casse and she shrank too. I realized that Casse was from my class; I remember that she loves history and all sorts of stuff like that. We saw another key, but it was not small, and it made us normal. We went home and destroyed the key. It was the scariest experience I ever had, but I made a new friend that day.
The End
Tessa Robertson
Think Small
“Prize inside,” the cereal package read. I almost finished the whole box and I didn’t find any prizes at all. I poured myself a bowl, added milk, and started my breakfast. Then, I got interested in my book I was reading that I almost missed it. There, lying in the puddle of milk at the bottom of the bowl was a small silver key. It didn’t look like the usual kind of cereal box prize. It was real silver and it seemed very, very old. I had it up to the light and squint to read the lettering across the top; Think Small.
“Think small?” I thought and suddenly I was getting smaller and smaller, faster and faster. By the time I stopped, I was sitting in my spoon like it was an armchair. I looked up at my milk-filled cereal bowl. It was as big as a swimming pool!
My brother grabs the spoon just as I leap into the bowl. My mom then takes my bowl and puts it into the dishwasher. I scramble out just before and fly onto my dog, Buster. Buster sprints outside and does his business and then runs back in. He thinks I am a flea so he scratches me off and I soar threw the sky like a bird. I landed in my spoon again. The key magically appears in my hand, and it now says, “Think Big”. I repeat the words and I grow big again. My mom told me I was just in time for school, great. I wish my adventure had lasted. Maybe tomorrow I could shrink again.
Yahir
The Key
My friend Cole came over and ate the cereal, but the dog distracted him, Then Yahir’s mom came and threw the cereal, but Yahir held onto the bowl. My mom put it in the dishwater. Then the dog came and distracted mom so then, I hopped on the dog, but I failed and fell on the floor. I ran to the living room but my mom was sweeping by the cabinet. I made a run for it. I made it and ran to my room but then, I flipped the key and said, “Think Big!” Then I was back to my normal size and went “WeeeeHeee!”
Malachi
In the Woods
Jan has the most perfect tree house in the world. It’s nestled in a big oak tree and we were inside. We pulled up the ladder up so no one can follow us, then we heard a noise. I saw something. Then the raccoon we saw was a playful one.
Jeronimo
The Tree House
One night in a tree house, I went camping with Radin. We heard a Bigfoot! It said stop. I finished sleeping.
Luke
Me and my best friend Sean were sleeping on my trampoline at night. I went to get a snack. I woke up my best friend Sean then it happened. We heard a spirit of fredeykooger. He took Sean and he snuck up behind me and took me. We were never seen again.
The Mystery
One night in a tree house with my friend Kaitlyn we were in our backyard. We heard noise and pointed our flashlight at the door.
“Ahhh! It was a bear! Run for your life!” Kaitlyn said.
“Stop, lets chase the bear,” I said.
“Okay.” At the end of the chase we were sure that it wouldn’t come back because we chased it pretty good.
Kaitlyn
The Night In A Tree House
I hear a noise and point my flashlight at the door to discover an animal making noises. Alyssa scared off the animal and we finished camping with our friends.
Sophia D
The Big Black Monster
We were sitting in the tree house when we heard a noise. Something was at the door. Sophia and Peyton went outside in the back yard. I caught it.
Mylee Noe
A Spooky Night In The Tree House
A dark scary night, it was 12:00. Mylee and Sophia were sleeping in the tree house in Mylee’s back yard. Then suddenly Mylee heard a noise outside. So we grabbed a flashlight. We heard something scratching at the tree house. As we pointed the flashlight at the door the cat ran away.
Yemileth Lopez
I went to a bear to scare it away, and it ran to the creek. My mom, dad and I went back the next day to see if the bear was there.
Zeke
The noise I heard in the tree house
Alex has the best tree house in the world! He built it in an oak tree. We slept in the tree house one night and he has snacks and drinks for emergency. We slept for the first night. When it was in the middle of the night when I heard a noise. I turned on my flashlight and pointed it at the door. I went to the door and opened it and saw an owl and I said s
top!
Stephanie
The crazy woman
When I was sleeping in my tree house with my BFF Kenya, we heard a noise from outside. I picked up the flashlight and Kenya opened the door. We saw nothing. Then there was a crazy woman and we chased her al night. The end.
Suri
The tree house mystery
One day my friends Ella, Kaitlyn and I were camping in my treehouse. When we fell asleep I woke up and heard digging. I pointed my flashlight and didn’t see anything because it was blending in. then I saw it! It wsa a scruffy bear! I ran out trying not to get eaten. The next morning the bear was still there. I got some help scaring it away. I ate breakfast. Then my mom picked me up.
Ella
The night we built a tree house
First we got in our tree house. In the evening when it was bedtime we heard a noise. Next we had a flashlight. We looked at the door there was nothing so Suri, Kaitlyn and I went to bed. We heard the noise again and it was our crazy brothers.
Michelle
Once upon a time my friend and I were camping in a tree house. We were trying to go to sleep but we kept hearing a noise. So we opened the door and saw a squirrel. We yelled “Go away!” but it didn’t want to go. So we chased him and he went away.
Kelly
Night in the tree house
Night in a treehouse in your backyard. You and your friend are camping in your tree house when you hear a noise outside. You hear a noise and point a flashlight at the door to discover who or what is making the noise. I open the door and I see a bear! I said please stop.
Anthony
The Scary Night
It was night and I was in a tree house in my backyard, with my friend. We heard a noise whoever was making the noise was chasing me and my friend. And was chasing us back up the tree house, and we heard something outside. We used the flashlight and pointed it at the door. It was a monster.
Ariahi
The Monster
It was night in my tree house, and I heard a noise. I point my flash light outside… the noise stops. I discover who or what is making the noise. And it was a scary looking creature.
Jonas
I opened the door and there was nothing there, but a rock. So I went to bed and I heard the same sound, but there was a different sound to it, it sounded like a snake so I went back to bed.
Angelica
The Mystery Compout
One dark night in a tree house in the back yard, Tarlen and I heard a noise. We started to go outside when I saw a deer! I asked it to stop making the noise, but I had to chase it at first. Than Tarler planned something, it was a plan. We knew it would come back.
The end
Lilly
A person spied a creature while we camping in the treehouse in our back yard.
Then we heard a noise.it was a type of creature. It flew so we ran.
Elisabeth Henderson
Who Is Scaring Me?
One time at night in a tree house in my backyard, Elisabeth, Sasha, Paten, and Jasmine were camping in my tree house when we hear a noise and then I point a flashlight at the door. I discovered that a bear is making the noise and I chase the bear away from us, and I and my friends scared off the animals for good. I finished camping with my friends.
The End.
Jillian
You hear a noise and point a flashlight at the noises I heard. I discovered that my mom is making the noise, I asked her to stop. I screamed loud it scared off the animals and my friend, and then I finished camping with my friend.
Olivia Mittal
Tree House Scare
One night Olivia 3, her friend Jillian were camping in Olivia’s tree house, telling stories, eating snacks, and falling asleep watching movies. Then I heard a noise I woke up because it was so loud. I grabbed my flashlight and shined it at the door. I got up and walked to the door, I opened it and I saw my pet Oliver was sitting in front of my tree house. I toke him inside and it never happened again.
Sophia Lapiedra
Chasing
In the night with my friend, Jillian and Olivia. We got outside into our tree house. I wore up and I heard a noise I grabbed my flashlight. I think it’s a raccoon “I said”. And that night I never camped with my friend again because it scared me and I don’t like noises.
Nick Butt
I went to my tree house and something in the night when I went camping with my friend, I heard a noise so I grabbed my flashlight and looked what made the noise it was person. He had a piece of paper in his hand that said e-d-e-s and it had no meaning to it and that night it was awkward and never camped again.
Jonas
I woke up, rushed down stairs and there was mother who said, “We need your help,” so I rushed to my friend’s house and told them my parents are gone, and they knew because they saw it, so we went on an adventure, and it took a very, very long time.
Mylee Noe
The Missing Christmas
One Christmas morning, it was weird because there was nothing, no presents, no tree, the milk and cookies I put out were still there. I cried, “Mommy!” She came out of bed. I was cold in my pajamas. It was dark. She said, “What?” and looked. She screamed, “Everything is gone!” I know, so me and my mommy and Lacey looked for Santa, but there was deer prints on the roof so he was here. A creak came from the door. I opened the door, and we screamed, “It was the Grinch!” He said, “Hello,” at first. We thought he was just a homeless man, but I could tell what it was. Then I walked out with Lacey and we saw carrots in the front yard. We walked out. My mommy came too. We walked down the street and along the sidewalk when we saw marshmellows and big foot prints, then we heard a sound. It sounded like Santa. It was. Then, we went home, and the Grinch was there. We kicked him out.
Jeronimo
Prison
I woke up in the morning. I didn’t see my tree! Maybe Santa is… in prison!!! Maybe Chucky doesn’t like Christmas. I broke Santa out of prison.
Nick
How Could it Happen
My presents my tree gone I don’t like it at all. Nick Tray Mom Dad Eric Pa Pa brought back Christmas.
Ella
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
Suri, me, and Sloan are asleep. It’s morning I shouted. We ran down the stairs as fast as we can go. But everything was gone. We ran upstairs and told my mom. My mom said: Christmas isn’t gone, I said: Go mom and look. So mom got out of bed and got dressed and went down the stairs. Mom shouted: Where’s everything! So we look at the computer and wait until it shows up. We saw Santa Clause on China St. Suri looked at me I looked at Sloan so I told Santa the problem was all over the decorations were gone. I helped Santa deliver the presents. And Santa gave me a good nice present.
Peyton
The Night before Christmas
All the presents were gone and there are no decorations what happened to Christmas is it the Grinch! No no no! Killy! Where are all of the decorations lit me go outside ok. There you are Santa what happened the Grinch kidnapped me. Me and Killy can help you. The end.
Michelle
Santa Is Gone
One day I woke up at night because I heard a noise so I went down stairs and everything for Christmas was gone! So I went to my friend’s house and woke them up and then I built a tent. We all got flashlights, then we all went back in the house and tried to look for evidence. We found a green hair and we all whispered to each other, it’s the Grinch. So we started looking for him. We found him “he was behind the table”, Kelly said. Where is Santa? “ I put him in the closet”, the Grinch said rudely. We looked in the closet and there was Santa. We said, “We can help you!.” Santa was so happy that they found him.
Kenya
What Happened to Christmas?
I was home in the living room on Christmas morning. I went down stairs to see that all of our Christmas stuff was gone! My parents, friends, and my dog gathered to find clues
to why the Christmas stuff was gone. We began to look for clues. First we should start with who doesn’t like Christmas and then find out where Santa is at. Then all of a sudden a whole bunch of crashing noises came from the closet by the kitchen. We all hurried over towards it. Once we got about five feet away from it, every little Christmas decoration and presents flung out. It was amazing how all of that fit in there. Whoever did it had to of been very strong.
Kelly
What Happened to Christmas?
It was Christmas morning; I was in the living room. Our Christmas disappeared and it was astonishing because we have so much decorations. I gathered the family crew and we I told them we need to find out where it all went. So we started to look for more clues. As we followed the clues- we were narrowing in where it all was. The only person that didn’t like Christmas was the Grinch. We need to find Santa and help him deliver presents and cookies. Also give him a nice present for all the hard work.
Sophia
The Scrooge Stole Christmas
It was Christmas. The presents are gone. What happened? The Scrooge stole Christmas. I found him. It was hard but we got them out. We still had to find Santa. It was intense, but we found him. The end.
Lauren
We’re at Christmas
Among that, was no Christmas tree? Where is Santa? I went to Emma’s house and Kerin. I found Santa. My friends and I yelled, “Let’s go find Santa!” I look for eating apples and Kris. I found Santa. I ask him if I can have a cookie, my friend and I.
Anthoney
Christmas Morning
It was Christmas morning. Most of the presents were gone. Santa was kidnapped. We need to save Santa at night who stole our presents. There was a note. “I stole the presents,” the Grinch said on the note. We need to take the presents away from the Grinch before he rips the presents. We took the presents away from the Grinch and we went home.
Suri
Crazy Christmas
When I woke up on Christmas morning, I sprang from my bed! I went downstairs, but all I saw was… Nothing! There was no tree; no Christmas stockings, no candy, and the cookies were not touched! The reindeer’s foot prints were there! I gathered my friends and we found where Santa was seen, but it was last seen at my house! I looked all around my house, but he was nowhere. One place we didn’t look was my garage! When I went to my garage I heard somebody yell, “Help me!” I followed the noise the sound and opened the door to see Santa and his reindeer! We were trying to find the one who did it. Scurvy did all of it! I nearly fainted. I helped Santa deliver the gifts and I helped him eat the cookies of course. Then I went to bed. He gave me a great present.