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Gingerbread Diary

By Diamond H, 6th Grade, Loyola Park After School Program
Dialogues Holidays Winter Holidays That's Weird, Grandma

Please do not read percenal. I am a ginger bread girl have many friends. Yesterday I went to see my friend the ginger bread man when is he going to learn he is not as fast as he thinks. To day while I was walking a man and a woman tried to eat me. Why am I so dilishouse (delicious). After school my mom and I went to the store I got a new gumdrop coat. Us ginger bread people love to look our best. After that I went to get some thing to eat. I had a very sweet chocolaty drink that my mom shared with me. When I got to my house me and my brother played swords with my peppermint stick. Before I went to bed I read a book about people. Then I began to go to sleep. I had a night meer that people were chasing me they wanted to dip me in milk so I get soggy right before they ate me I woke up.

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Crazy Topic

By Leondro, Loyola Park After School Program

Hello my name is crazy topic I heard your new world and it seems totally awesome and I am so totally thinking about your world but let me tell you about me.
I work at Slik Johnnys house of blues but the most god thing is that I’m cool but yeah I’m so happy so now I want to go badly like I wouldn’t die if I couldn’t go but I wonder if I could take friends once in a while they are dumb but they are cool so yeah I want to go and well this is bye bye.

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The Big Green Leaf

By Monique S, Chalmers
That's Weird, Grandma

Characters: Big Leaf, Big Bug

BB: Hey leaf, can I eat you?
BL: No you can’t. I want to live.
BB: But I’m hungry. (trying to eat the leaf)
BL: If you eat me I’m gonna die.
BB: I didn’t know that. I will eat a ant.
BL: OK, don’t eat the other leafs.
BL: Hey I thought I told you to not eat the others.
BB: You told me to eat them.
BL: You crazy bug, you ate all my brothers and sisters.
BB: Well…sorry for eating them (climbing on the big leaf).
BL: Maybe some humans can plant another tree and they can be my family.
(and the humans planted another tree and the big leaf was happy)

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The Man Who Wanted to Be an Artist

By Frank M, 4th Grade, Dewey School
That's Weird, Grandma

The man was at the museum and he look at the picture and he wanted to be a artist and one day he painted a picture and he put it in the museum and he took his son and his wife to the museum they said wow you are good painter said his wife and his son said dad can I be a artist he said maybe son if you be artist you will be fine son. The End

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The Shark

By Jalin L, 3rd Grade, New Sullivan
That's Weird, Grandma

Once upon a time a shark was eating other animals and other types of food. He got too big to float. Instead he wiggled at the bottom of the atlantic ocean. He tried to wiggle and move so other sharks could push him up so he could try to float the other sharks told him get on a diet. They told him to eat seaweed. Only seaweed. He didn’t like it.

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