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When Chocolate’s owner disappears, she sets out on a mission to find them
Chocolate licked her brown fur twice as her owner petted her and made some sounds with her mouth. Her owner made unusual sounds; humans made sounds Chocolate couldn’t make. Chocolate guessed humans made those sounds so the other humans could know how he or she felt. Today, the sounds sounded sad.
Zoe never turns down a dare—even a really dangerous one
My name is Zoe. I am ten years old. I will tell you what I remember.
I met with my friend Taylor outside my house after school. Taylor is my goofy friend who likes wearing Baby Yoda T-shirts and doing weird T-Rex dances where she holds her arms up as if she has tiny T-Rex arms. We kicked a soccer ball back and forth in the street.
A group of friends sets out to save Mother Nature from the Eternal Cloud of Doom
It was June 11, 2021 when my friends Abbie, Ella, Tucker, and I were bored at school. Suddenly, I looked out the window and saw the Eternal Cloud of Doom! There were no birds in the sky at all and I said, “That can’t be good.”
I told my friends to follow as I ran out the door toward home.
It’s the first day of sixth-grade math, and unlike his peers, Alexander can’t wait to get started
Alexander looked up at the clock. It was 8:35 a.m., and the teacher was still not present. He sighed, wondering if his sixth-grade teacher would ever come.
Alexander Gerald Louis was tall and thin and had curly black hair and blue eyes.
After her mother’s death, the narrator finds solace in nature
My pale, bare feet received tickles from the short, lime-green grass. My chocolate-brown eyes didn’t shift their gaze. The burning, fiery sun bathed my back until it hurt, but I didn’t change my speed. The large golden orb began to fall down. I looked back and started running to the grassy hill.
A walk in the woods takes an ominous turn
My heart sank as I peered around the looming forest.
The sunlight fell into gleaming ribbons on the muddy pathway as my shadow flashed under the trees. I panted, my heart beating as hard as a drum, my feet racing, touching the ground and picking up in a rhythm.
After tragedy strikes, Lemos lives a simple life with his dog
Long ago, there was a man named Lemos. Lemos was a simple man who lived in Ancient Greece during the time of the gods and monsters.
Lemos had a simple life in Greece. He lived in the city of Sparta, in a small hut a few miles off of the main villages. Lemos lived alone. Lemos was known for nothing, and nobody knew who he was.
The search for life on Mars is punishing and seemingly hopeless until one exciting day . . .
Mars, 2050.
“Just one more step. I can make it,” I told myself again and again as I walked down a seemingly endless dirt road on Mars. My space suit weighed fifty pounds on Earth, but it didn’t feel that heavy because the gravity of Mars was much weaker than that of Earth.
When his uncle returns after a long separation, Hans must protect him from his mother’s anger
I was five years old when it happened, but I remember it well. I wish I could forget it, but that is not to be. The story begins before I was born, when my ma was a girl. My ma had a brother, Ferdinand, who one day disappeared. Then my ma’s parents died and my ma married my da and had me, Hans.
A World War II veteran recalls the day he lost his best friend on the battlefield
Full of regret, heavy clouds mask the gloomy sky. The war veteran, now frail and old, enters the cemetery. In front of him, perfectly lined headstones stand to salute him, and among them . . . among them is the soldier he will never forget. A path leading to the fallen—steps acting like a stairway to heaven.