The Soccer Game

I thought soccer was not for me

just for who played with ease

The more I played the better I got

Now I have improved a lot.

Now I'm ready, I'm gonna fight

I believe in me, I see the light.

Its like eating from a chocolate tin

And there is victory because we win.

James and the Giant Peach - by Roald Dahl

Summary

There was a boy named James Henry Trotter. He had a happy life until he was four years old. His mom and dad went away to travel and called James's aunts to baby sit him. He had two aunts and their names were Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. James had a horrible life when his Aunts baby sit him. He had to cut all the wood, he had to do all the chores while Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge were relaxing.

James went to the woods and met a man. The man gave him a jar of crocodile tongues. He said you must put all these crocodile tongues in a jar of water and drink it up and it will give you all the magic . I know your horrible aunts make you do all the work. He cautioned James not to drop the jar, otherwise the other green stuff would go and after a while something will grow big and you might even see insects, ladybugs, grasshoppers and more , and dear boy, you wont get the magic.

James ran to his house to get a jug of water and drink it up, as he went by he tripped on a rock and planted his face on the ground.

The jar of crocodile tongues fell onto the ground near a peach where there were many insects. Oh No !! what am I going to do?  The peach tree got all the magic and a humongous peach appeared. Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge saw this. They wanted charge people money for a bite of the giant peach.

Aunt Spiker said, "Lets do it tomorrow". James went to the peach and noticed a hole. He went inside  and noticed some friendly insects. The insects greeted James and told him that they were waiting for him. The insect told James that they were going to get away from his Aunts. The insects were of the size of James. It was very dark in the peach and glow-worm had to light up inside the peach. James and his insect friends were now in the peach floating on the ocean with tons of sharks. The sharks saw them and were in a mood to eat them all. But James and his crew were on the humongous peach and felt safe there. James threw the webs at birds which started to pull the peach into the air.

The soon flew to a group of cloud-men. Everybody was quite. They passed the cloud-men and then started to rain. Gaint peach sailed through the sky for day and days until they reached the USA.  James introduced himself. He soon became living in a famous house and the owner of that house was soon became James Henry Trotter. The grass hopper was there singing tunes and all you got to do to make friends with Henry Trotter was knock at his door and ask him.  Every day thousands of kids came to famous house. The others went to see his famous monument, the Giant Peach.

The Man in the Moon by William Joyce

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Summary

There was a little child later to be known as "The Man in the Moon (MiM)" and he had a devoted little friend named Nightlight. Nightlight took care of the baby when the parents were sleeping. MiM was safer from Nightmares when he was watched over by Nightlight.

The King of nightmares came to the moon. He heard of the boy who never had a nightmare. He wanted to turn MiM into prince of nightmares. King of nightmares attacked everything that got in his way. MiM parents knew the perfect place to hide MiM. It was called Earth. Nightlight defeated Pitch with the diamond dagger but not before MiM's parents was killed by Pitch. MiM searched for his parents, but all he found was many stars shimmering around him. His mother and father was there, far away as stars.

MiM grew up and is not longer a child, become to known as Man in the Moon. His made friends in Earth. Lost balloons from earth floated up to the moon, and MiM could hear hopes and dreams of the kids who lost them. He realized that kids are afraid of dark and had nightmares. He started kicking rocks spreading dream sand around the moon. His friend joined him and it made the moon hundred times brighter. For the children in Earth, night is not dark anymore.

The End.

The magic finger - by Roald Dahl

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Gregg's neighbor has a magic finger. Whenever she gets red and cross she points her magic finger at the one who made her mad. She already used it before in Kindergarten when she was asked to say the letters of the word "Cat". She replied "Kat". The teacher said "You are a stupid girl".  She got angry and Red and Cross, and pointed her magic finger at the teacher. "!!!Kazzam Kazooom!!!!" the teacher grew whiskers. Then the teacher grew some cat shaped ears. Then the teacher grew a tail. The whole class was laughing with laughter. The teacher said , "Why are you laughing at me !!!! ?". 

Few years passed by. 

Now the Gregg family was hunting each day.I told them to stop but they refused not to listen.One day they carried a dead beautiful deer!the girl grew cross and red and pointed her magic finger on the      whole      Gregg   family!!!!The next day Mr. Gregg was the first to wake up. Mr. Gregg found out  that he had wings. Mrs. Gregg was the second to wake up. She looked in her mirror and saw that she has wings like Mr. Gregg too. Mr. Gregg and Mrs. Gregg decided to call the children. Mr. Gregg, Mrs Gregg and the children decided to find a perfect tree to make a nest. Mrs. Gregg woke up finding a surprise. She woke up Mr. Gregg and told, "we got a surprise". Mr. Gregg saw too for the surprise was four ducks with guns in their hands except one duck. Mr. Gregg and Mrs. Gregg said, "please don't shoot". "You don't want to shoot our children, do you?", they said. The duck without a gun said, "you shot all sixteen of my children so we are going to shoot your children". Mr and Mrs Gregg said "please don't shoot our children, we will never ever shoot you or your children again". The duck said,"would you promise not to shoot the deers and many other wild animals". Mr. Gregg said," I promise you that I would break the guns and never ever shoot again". The duck said ," are you sure". Mr. Gregg said," I am extremely sure".The duck said," ok duck buddies, drop your guns".The sun set came. Mr. Gregg and Mrs. Gregg and their children found themselves to be normal back again. Mrs. Gregg grew many pretty flowers and put the graves for the ducks who have died. Mr. Gregg was busy breaking the guns and the children were off feeding the ducks at the pond. The girl with magic finger decided to pay a visit to the Gregg family."Hello Mr. Gregg,what are you doing with those guns?"  "I am breaking the guns of course""and by my honored feathered friends. Therefore you should call me "Mr.Egg". Mrs.Gregg said "You should call me Mrs.Egg".

The End

Our Solar System - by Seymour Simon

SUN  

Inner planets are Mercury, Venus , Earth , Mars

Outer planets - Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus , Neptune. Outer planets are mostly made of gas.

Beyond Neptune - 1000's of dwarf planets orbit the sun. (Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake).

Between Mars and Jupiter - 1000's of asteroids orbit the sun (Ceres, Pallas,Vesta,...)

Sun can contain 1.3 million earths if it was hollow.

Sun's fuel - Hydrogen. Uses 4million tons of Hydrogen every second.

Mercury

Smallest planet. Revolve quickly around sun, but rotates very slowly on its axis. So a day is two months on earth. Mercury has many craters like moon. Temperature is above 800F during day. Night time, temperature drops to -300F. No atmosphere to trap the heat.

Venus

Venus has no moons. Venus has clouds made of sulfuric acid. Venus atmosphere traps the heat making it the hottest planet in solar system with temperature near to 900F.

Earth

Earth has large amount of water. Earth is surrounded by atmosphere that keeps the temperature steady. Atmosphere made of gases Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon dioxide and tiny particles of dust and water. we live in the bottom layer of atmosphere called troposphere.  Earth is covered by layers of rocks called crust. 

Mars

Mars has very cold, thin atmosphere. Millions of years ago, Mars had water on its surface. Scientists think that Mars was much like earth with oceans and rivers and thicker atmosphere.

Jupiter

Jupiter can contain 1300 earths if it was hollow. Jupiter is a gas planet made of hydrogen and helium. Jupiter's cloud made of frozen ammonia crystals. Jupiter has four major moons (Io,Europa,Ganymede, Callisto)  and at least 63 minor moons. 

Saturn

Saturn can contain 750 earths if it was hollow. Gas planet made of hydrogen and helium. Saturn rings contain dust and rocks. Saturn rings are 17,000 miles across but less than 3 miles thick. Saturn as 1 large moon and 6 medium moons.

Uranus

Uranus is a ringed planet made up mostly on gases. If Uranus was hollow , it can hold upto fifty Earths. Uranus has 5 large moons and 22 small moons.

Neptune

Neptune is a ringed gas planet. Methane in the atmosphere absorbs the red light from sun but reflects the blue light back into space. Neptune is blue due to this. Neptune has 2 bright outer rings Neptune has 2 large moons and 11 small moons. Biggest moon is called Triton.

Pluto

Pluto was demoted as a dwarf planet because , "A planet must clear other smaller rocks out of its way when it orbits around the sun", which Pluto was unable to do.

Asteroids

Asteroids orbits sun between Mars and Jupiter in a region called Asteroid belt.Asteroids likely caused dinosaurs to die.

The 13-STORY TREEHOUSE by Andy Griffiths

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Summary:

The 13-STORY TREEHOUSE - 

There are two boys. One is named Andy and other is Terry. Andy and Terry made the most amazing thing in the world. A 13-Story Tree House. They write books. Andy writes and Terry draws. The 13-Story Treehouse Andy and Terry made have lemonade fountain, vegetable vaporizer, secret underground lavatory, a games room , see-thru swimming pool, a bowling ally and a marshmallow machine the follows you around and automatically shoots marshmallows into your mouth whenever you are hungry.

The Flying Cat - 

Andy gets up and goes downstairs in the kitchen for breakfast. Terry was already in the kitchen and he was painting a cat, A real cat. Andy asked Terry why he was painting a cat yellow. Terry said "because, I am going to turn it into canary". Andy said even if you paint the cat, it won't turn into a canary. Terry ignored what Andy said. Terry dropped the cat off the tree. Andy thought the cat was going to fall on the floor. But it didn't. Two tiny wings popped out of its back and flew safely away.

The Missing Cat -

Andy and Terry had a friend named Jill. Jill came to Andy's treehouse and asked if they seen Silky? Andy was alarmed. Terry turned Silky into a canary. Jill was so worried because Silky was her favorite pet. Andy said a lie. He said "I didn't see Silky". Jill said "I know you are hiding Silky". Andy said "Its not my fault". Terry tuned Silky into a canary. Jill was happy. She said "I wanted a bird, but Silky would chase it. Silky being a canary is the best pet ever. Can you turn all of my cats into canaries?". 

The Big Red Nose -

Mr. Big Red Nose is Andy's publisher. He wants each adventure that Andy and Terry have been into a book on his desk by Friday. 

The Drawing Competition -

Even though Andy writes, he tells Terry he could draw. Terry decides a drawing competition. Terry won. Andy was so mad. When they were drawing a banana, he picked a real banana and said "This is a real banana". Andy smacked Terry with a huge banana Terry made earlier. 

The Barky the Barking Dog Show -

Andy says "Lets write the book for Mr.Big Red Nose". Terry said "But its time for my favorite show "Barky the Barking Dog". Terry says "You can write when I watch". "No I can't" -answered Andy. Then "watch with me" said Terry. Andy threw the TV out of the Tree house.

The Monster Mermaid -

Bill the postman said "That almost landed on my head". "Sorry Bill" Andy said. "That's alright". Said Bill. "Delivering mail to the 13-storyhouse is always and adventure". Terry sprinted down to the ground and got his mail. Terry said "Finally I got my sea-monkey packet". He opened it.  He put them in water, gave them the food, but one ate all the food before others could get enough.  The sea-monkey that ate all the food, ate the other sea-monkeys and grew larger. Andy kept her in the bathtub. Out of the bathtub came a mermaid. She said Hi to Terry and Andy. The mermaid said "You look handsome enough to stay with me in my under-water 13-story water castle".  Terry got out of the bathroom and couldn't wait to be in the under-water castle. Andy peeked into the bathroom. The mermaid was no more a mermaid. It was a sea-monster. He recorded this scene. He told Andy that the mermaid is not a mermaid. Terry said "You are just jealous".  Andy showed the video to Terry. Terry got scared. The sea-monster smudged toward Terry and Andy. Terry and Andy jumped into the elevator and went into their secret underground laboratory. The sea-monster followed them into the laboratory. Andy told Terry to use the shrinker. Terry shot at the sea-monster. 

The Big Bubble -

Andy told Terry "Lets write the story for Mr.Big Red Nose". Terry said "I don't feel like it". Andy said "We could pop the popcorn with the lid off". Terry said OK. Terry and Andy waited and waited , When they thought it will never pop, it just popped. Terry and Andy opened their mouths. Popcorn flew into their mouths. Terry and Andy were full. Terry said "I am thirsty". Andy said "Lets go to the lemonade fountain then". When they were full of lemonade, Terry burped and then Andy burped even louder. Terry burped again. Terry said "I feel much better, just some bubblegum". Terry burped and chewed. He blew a bubble so big he got into it. Terry floated in the bubble.Andy's only way of saving Terry's life was doing golf. Andy hit the golf ball with the golf bat and popped the bubblegum ball. Terry flew down without a crash helmet. Luckily the marshmallow machine activated a soft pillow of marshmallows and Terry landed softly. 

The Adventures of Superfinger -

Andy and Terry wrote a story called Superfinger its when there's a finger that saves the world. 

The 13-Story Monkey House-

Terry got his order as a replacement for his sea-monkeys , but instead when they grew, they were monkeys , not sea-monkeys. They got hypnotized by the great banana that Terry was waving and sat in the catapult and shot into the new world. 

The Giant Gorilla -

A gorilla came chopping the treehouse with his hands. The treehouse almost fell.

The Day Silky Saved the Day-

Silky hold the Gorilla to its world.

The End

Judy Moody Saves the World! - Megan McDonald

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Summary:

Judy Moody saves the world by not taking her lunch in a paper bag, not brushing her teeth, making her dad not drink coffee, and making her mom not wear lipstick. At school, Judy Moody hides all the pencils and writes with a pen. Judy Moody's teacher named Mr. Todd says "Get your pencils to do the report". Judy Moody says "Uh Ohh". Her classmate Bred called Judy Moody "The Pencil Thief". Judy Moody said "OK, I may have hid the pencils to save the trees". Mr. Todd said "Class, what do you think?". Bred said, "We just want our pencils back". Mr. Todd told the class that people have to cut a football field of trees to make tons of pencils. Judy Moody's little brother Stink said "I think we should save the trees". Judy Moody  does a speech in front of the classes. Judy Moody won a Giraffe Medal for recycling every single bottle in the lunch room, so they could make enough money to buy a hundred trees.

The  End.

LIKE BUG JUICE ON A BURGER - by Julie Sternberg

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Summary:

Eleanor is a girl who gets a surprise from her grandma Sadie. She has trouble at first, then she gets used to doing the activities at camp. Even-though she has problems in each activity she recovers somehow.She really missed her parents as she made friends.She had her parents have someone to take care of her named Joplin.  Joplin took good care of Eleanor.  Joplin told Eleanor how to swim and stroke correctly. Eleanor finally met her parents. Her parents saw the goat named cornelius. Then Eleanor finally went home.

The  End