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Sonya's Baby
by Laura Saretsky
Sonya was excited and nervous at the same time. Her
mother was going to have a baby. She was glad to help out with the
chores around the house. Sonya was afraid of something, though. She
was afraid that her parents would love the baby more than her.
When the baby was born, the whole family went to look
at her and take her home. When they got to the hospital, Sonya was
positive that her parents would love the baby even more. The baby was
plump with a button nose and cute little hands. She also had blond
curls and rosy cheeks. Everyone was talking about how cute the baby
was and no one was paying attention to Sonya.
When everyone got home, Sonya ran upstairs to think.
She pulled out her diary and wrote:
"Today has been pretty bad. First we went to the hospital to
see the baby and she was cute. Second, everyone was ignoring me."
Sonya sat on her bed and thought. She thought about
how baby Amy and how cute she was. She thought about what to do about
her feelings about her. After a while, she decided to tell her
parents. This was very hard for Sonya. When she tried, she couldn't
tell them about how she felt.
Then one day, her mother saw that Sonya looked down-in-the-dumps.
"What's wrong, Sonya?" she asked. Then all of a sudden,
Sonya poured it all out.
"I was really excited when I heard about the
baby, then when we went to pick her up, she looked so cute and no one paid
attention to me. It made me think that you'll love Amy
more."
Her father leaned over close and said, "Tomorrow
we'll take you out to dinner without Amy and we'll go to Fairytale
Dream Restaurant." This new restaurant looked like a castle and
had rides.
The next day Sonya dressed in her best clothes. Her
mom and dad had got Grandma to baby-sit Amy. When they had given
Grandma the doctor's phone number and the place where they were going
to be, they got into the car and drove to the restaurant. When they
got there, they had to wait in along line. When it was their turn,
they were escorted to a table by "Little Red Riding Hood."
Sonya ordered her favorite meal: ham and French fries with a coke to
drink. It was delicious. During the evening, she realized just how
much her parents loved her.
Grandma's Homemade Cake Recipe
by Lesley Thomas
Carly and her parents lived with her Grandma Victoria
in a house by the lake. One day while her parents were away at a
party, Grandma Victoria took out a special recipe for a cake.
She took out all of the ingredients that she needed,
then asked, "Carly, make a cake with me." So we put the
eggs, milk, flour and other ingredients and mixed it up. Then we put
it in the cake pan and put it in the oven to bake.
While the cake was baking, Grandma told me all about
the recipe. "This recipe is very special, because I created
it," she said. Carly heard the car drive up and ran to the door
with the recipe in her hand. She was telling her parents about it
being an original recipe, when she accidentally dropped it. She looked
frantically for the paper because this was the only copy of the
recipe! Then she noticed that a magpie had taken it up to its nest.
Everyone tried to think of a way to get the recipe down, but night
came.
The next day, Carly went back out to try and get the
recipe, but the magpie had already brought the recipe back to the back
door. Carly yelled, "Grandma, Grandma, I found the
recipe!"
From that time on, Carly, her parents, and her
Grandma, lived happily every after.
Candy Land
by Lauren Gillis
All the kids in Timber Town wanted to visit Candy Land.
Kids said that it would be like a dream come true. Adults said it was the
black lagoon kingdom. Me, Lauren Gillis, I think it's neither. I think you
have to go in to find out. Then it happened.
Whoever won the science fair at school got to go live
in Candy Land in Sweet Estates. Those houses are machines. Huge! I
knew it had to be a special project for this science fair. I decided
to make my own homemade sugar candy. To make this sugar candy, I used
brown sugar, white sugar, sprinkles, food coloring, icing sugar and,
of course, food flavoring. I wanted to make tutti frutti flavor and
tried to find a flavor. I couldn't find one, so I decided to get a
bunch of fruit flavorings and went home. I went straight to work and
grabbed the berry flavoring, the citron bottle and the surprise mix. I
mixed all the ingredients together and the syrup mixture tasted
wonderful. I just had to win!
I mixed the remaining ingredients with the tutti
frutti syrup and put them into the freezer. The next day, the mixture
had turned into little sugary candies that had an extraordinary taste.
I put them in my science project display and waited. There were
volcanoes, rockets, but I knew in my heart that the blue ribbon
project was mine. When the voting started, I was so nervous. The crowd
got quiet and then they announced the winner, "Lauren
Gillis." I had won!
I skipped home happily and told my family to pack our
bags to go to Candy Land. Tune in this December to find out what
happens to Lauren and her family.
All About My Great Grandmother
by Lauren Dietze
First thing, her name is Nanny
Seacat and she is the only Great Grandmother I know. She passed away at the age of 83 on September 5th, 1995. She was born on July 9th, 1912. I was very, very close to my Great Grandmother, Nanny
Seacat.
At Yonkinpin (that was her home), I would help shave carrots and peel green beans. We went to Yonkinpin almost every day. On September 4th we went to visit her about 8:00 p.m. That morning we got a call from the hospital and they told us that she passed away about 3:00 a.m.
She was a very special lady.
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