1. Sam and the Magic Turtle
Terrified not knowing, innocent little seventh graders we all at one point were on the same level, the same thoughts were running through our heads the day we learned that we were going to be dissecting rats and frogs for a science grade or the minute we listened to our core teacher say that we were going to be memorizing the bill of rights. ...
Franklin looked into Tularecito's "mirror" and saw what Tularecito was. The Pastures views come from several directions. While one teacher sees Tularecito as a dog, needing to be trained, the other sees him as an idiot savant, needing only to be pushed into harmless fantasy. This leads a third view ...
"A person is a person, no matter how small"- Dr.Seuss once said. Her and her husband had gotten married March 9, 2009. They moved to their new base home a few days later and got settled in. A few months after settling into a married life, she realized she wanted to try for a baby. At the time, she t...
As Ronda looks at Gregorian she gave a quick point to the right. I had noticed this but nobody else had noticed it except for Gregorian. I was very disappointed in Ronda. I thought she would be a good sport and let fate do what it wanted to do to Gregorian. Now that Ronda had done this I was very upset. ...
While playing with a toy car and the animals, Dylan had decided that he was going to put one of the toy frogs inside the car. ... After only a couple of hits, the frog flew out of the car and Dylan picked it up, ran over to me and said "I did it!...
Ghost stories, they have the power to throw us into another world, leading us to not only fear for the characters within the novel but for ourselves as the ghosts seem to follow the reader around weeks afterwards. It is the mastery of description that enslaves our minds as readers. Ghost stories paint vivid pictures inside the mind as they force us to come face to face with our deepest fears. Imagining ourselves as the main characters we become a part of the story, seeing, hearing, and feeling everything that the author is courageous enough to delve into the darker side of his or her subconsci...