“Chelsea and Maddie went to the backyard of Chelsea’s home and practiced. Then they found out that the Olympics was in four days and they wanted to practice; but first they thought about each other and they thought it was nice to be friends. Then they hugged each other and then they went to work.”
“We have also cured thousands of soldiers from wounds, poisons, and a deadly type of illness that will burn you alive. Ten years later, Atlas asked me to join the spies that go around bustling cities trying to find homeless children about at least ten years old, and I said yes. So my sister became a doctor and I became a spy.”
“Sadie was watching this whole entire thing. Sadie saw Aliza running away with my necklace. In the bathroom I could hear Sadie telling Aliza to stop running away with my necklace. When I was finished with my business Sadie said, ‘Hurry Claire, we have to catch her!’ Sadie and I started running after her.”
“going to Ben and Jerry’s
with my dad
me and him
laughing”
“Gray clouds circle above my head
The sky rumbles and the specks hitting my face
turn to golf balls”
“Dad’s plan:
-Cross the border to Mexico
-If anyone finds out, go to Cuba
-If anyone finds out, go south”
“I like it when you give me belly rubs because my
Belly has bugs. When you splash me with water
I may scratch your daughter.”
“Then I went outside to check out the grunting noises. There was a massive donut eating my stick and saying, ‘BANANA WILL DIE! BANANA WILL DIE!’ This is how it looked: it was really hairy and had FANGS!”
Queen Zarfina, dead??? It can’t be. I pinch myself on the arm and blink. Nope, the headline’s the same. It was no secret that she had killed her sister Maria to be queen. Everybody thought that she would do whatever it takes to stay queen. She has dozens of the best doctors in the world working tirelessly in her research labs. But I guess karma has caught up to her.
“When I go to sleep I go to sleep
with my little Star
that cuddles me tight with love and joy.”
“Time stopped. Everyone around him stopped, even his uncle. The drums stopped. Something weird happened to his mind. It started to hurt. And he saw a picture. Then he thought, maybe it could be the future. He was like, ‘Why is everything frozen? Wait a second. Everything’s frozen! That’s awesome!’”
“The one thing he could see was a giant fist coming at him, and the next thing, darkness. When he woke up, the first thing that he did was rub the grogginess out of his eyes. It was a little blurry, but he could still make out that he was in a dark room with a giant figure looming over him.”
“That morning, I got up early. I was ready to fight back. I knew the minute Joseph wakes up, he heads straight to a fridge to help himself to a beer. So I decided to pour oil right in front of the fridge.”
“The leaves are green.
The leaves come from trees.
Swish, swish, swish.”
“Bob took his axe and chopped some wood off the Titanic, so they could make a lifeboat. They quickly made it. They got some paddles, and they lifted it off. Then they jumped in it.”
“So out and onto the roughly paved streets went he, out went the man with a heart as soft as silk and as big as an elephant. Out as a hero he would go when he was set to save the world, a feat which there is little doubt that Alexander achieved throughout his life.”
“The ogre was singing a song about loneliness and love and how she wanted to have friends. She was playing the cello.
‘Oh, how I wish I had friends, but I’m so ugly to the end. Oh, how I wish I had love, but I sigh and and eat a dove.’”
“I have to come up with a plan to get out of the farm before the horrible day, Thanksgiving. I spent all night thinking of a plan to get out of the farm. Finally, after a long time I come up with an amazing plan….”
“Back to the book: it was all ripped up, and the title was Bressling. The pages were dark, the words were light. You could tell it was a very old book. One day, during recess, Elvis was reading this book. He said that he liked this book. I sat next to him, reading my own book. Suddenly, a tornado came out of the book and sucked Elvis in.”
“The two girls came over to their pen and said, “I want those two!” Digger and Scrappy were so happy. The girls took them out of the pen and picked them up. Then their dad paid for the dogs, and they went to the car.”
“All of the teammates went inside the shop and the ice cream monster was inside. The teammate shoot the ice cream monster with a lot of ice cream and ice. It caused him to vomit ice cream. It caused him to have a broken eye and slime was going over him.”
“I then felt a pang of familiarity that disappeared as fast as it came. When the little girl ran into the small cabin the whole vision flickered into a dark, cloudy scene with demon-like arrows flying into people’s hearts, but then the beautiful landscape came back.”
“Invisible blobs
Colorful as pansies
Visible only to a giant’s ears”
“We Are
Totally
Unbelievably
Crazily
Awesomely”
“Donald Trump said, ‘You’re so fat that when you got locked in Sleepy’s, you had to sleep on the floor.’
Peaches said, ‘Shut up. Bye.’”
“In the orphanage, my life feels a video game, with someone outside the machine controlling every move I make. When the video game gets too old or out of order, I will get out. The video game of life. Obstacles here and there popping up in my face. I wish I was like someone not in an orphanage, someone who has a perfect life.”
“She betrayed me. She was no longer my friend.”
“ALAN: Don’t tell anybody, okay?
JACK: Okay, I promise.
ALAN: [whispers] I. Have. D-Y-S-L-E-X-I-A.”
“It was daytime and kind of windy. I started to run low on gas. There was still one plane next to me who didn’t believe that I had stopped daydreaming, so it passed over a tiny bit of his gas to me. I went as high as I could. I got frozen. I couldn’t control what I was doing.”
“Flew last night
Astonishing laughter
Picture”
“The Wind
dances on the clouds
and stars with joy.”
“He suddenly picked up the boys, flew out the window, and into the sky. Of course, the three kids were screaming. Mr. Goodman flew them to a giant city with massive skyscrapers, but it didn’t look like any city the boys had seen before, and since they traveled a lot, they’d seen every single city in the U.S.”
“Candy is sweet like
a cinnamon bun.”
“The sun is bright like a spotlight.
As hot as a
flame of fire.”
“Bubbles fly
up
up
up”
“An ice cream wonderland outside your window.
A 10 layer cake on your bed.”
“Space dark earth’s
Sun.
Odd little”
“Cheerful gaze
The tree
Wonder”
“Excitement
Dangerously sparkling
Morning nighttime.”
“Happy flowers corner.
Brick wall pockets.
Earth.”
“Scene 1
In a dark room with trash all over the floor.
JAKE is right outside the window of the dark room. He’s standing protectively outside of the house, so the BAKERS don’t enter.”
“When I think of the branches,
I think of the trunk
That holds the tree up
Straight and true.”
“A bat came flying in the room!
(I shouldn’t have lived so close to the dugout.)
The flower was in bloom.”