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The Adventures of Arthur and Matt

Glorious dark purple and magenta and reddish streaks faded across the darkening sky as birdsong started to stop slowly. An owl hooted loudly while the small, cozy town of Lily-Paddle drifted off to sleep. Gradually, all of the warm white lights were switched off one by one, until only teeny-tiny tights remained. In one certain […]

Are Teenagers Too Young to Drink Coffee?

Coffee, coffee, coffee. That hot, bitter brown liquid swirling in your parents’ cups. I’m sure you see adults drinking coffee every day. Maybe your teenage siblings do, too. But are teenagers too young to drink coffee? I have discovered that teenagers are too young to drink coffee! Coffee causes negative impacts for teenagers. This may […]

Books

E-books are easy to access. E-books are on computers. But books you can get just as easily from libraries too. E-books you can scan through. E-books are like PDFs.But books actually exist for you to hold. E-books weigh nothing. E-books don’t take up room. But books always make a space more home-y!

What … is the Moon?

What … is the Moon? The Moon is a white ball on a dark blue blanket It is a Cresent-shaped smile pasted on a child’s face The Moon is a white bottle cap floating in a shallow puddle It is a semi-circle waiting to be seen with its other half The Moon is a peeled […]

The Mysterious Figure

One dangerous and dusky day To a squalid, sorrowful street Came a clattering, clanking carriage. From the clanking, clattering carriage Stepped a facinorous, false figure Carrying a casual, coarse case. The facinorous, false figure Glanced at all the distinctive and dirty houses With a sly, sharp stare. Then this sneaky and spooky someone Returned to […]

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Jesse Arthars: Alice’s Idol

Alice was a bright, linguistic girl of about eleven and had light brown hair. She loved writing and would print out all her own stories and keep them on her walls. She liked reading too and would pin up newspaper clippings. But most of all, she adored Jesse Arthars and was a fan of the […]

3 Little Pigs

In a galaxy far far away, there lived three little pig-robots with their mother on Earth 2 in an artificial forest. They lived in a colourful cottage – factory with robot arms holding pans and machines that automatically made a nice cup of coffee. Every day they would spend their time making inventions, experimenting with […]

The Pool Shapeshifter

I was Year One in 2017, February. I had a first nice month of Term One with no swimming. I hated swimming! Then March came. “From tomorrow on, we will go swimming in the school pool,” announced my teacher. But I hadn’t had any swimming lessons. I could barely blow bubbles and […]

Onepoto Domain

Billy entered Onepoto Domain , stepping onto the concrete pathways, kicking a rock and jumping into the soft grass. The yellow & gray public toilets and the busy car park were far away from Billy, but he could try walking near the lake. As he came near the shallow end, he noticed the gloopy mud […]

Complex Sentences

It was officially summer in Word Town, and Mr Conjunction met up with his friends, Noun Boy and Adjective Anteater, to visit the festival gazebo. The two twins, Independent Clause and Dependent Clause, were busy arguing over whose sentence they made was the best. “Tim Tense always chooses me. I’m totally independent and can make […]