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Powerful waves roar Turquoise-green, salt on my tongue I go down under
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It was a regular Friday at school. At least, it was until I, Shinta Byrnes, got the strange text message. I had been tidying up – it was the end of the day – when Yusuf’s message arrived. Ding! I reached into my phone and looked at the message. It read: Come quick! I’m in…
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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…
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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…
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Swish! Adeline and her best friend, Miranda, twirled through various outfits and styles. Miniskirt? Tick! Cool-looking tie-dye T-shirt? Tick! Platform shoes? Tick! It was after school, and Adeline and Miranda were designing, making, and putting together outfits for both of them to wear in their school’s Fashion Design Fiesta, which was two weeks away! It…
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(based on “A Wish for Wings” by Robert Swindells) “Hi Mam, hi Dad.” Jenna marched through the door, took off her boots, and stomped into the living room of her house. She glanced around. “Where’s Ned?” she asked, before she realised that it was a Wednesday afternoon and Ned was at cricket. “Cricket, Jen. He’s…
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Thirteen-year-old Aurora shivered as she sat down on the deck of her mum’s house, watching the Southern Lights and her foggy breath as she breathed out. She watched as green, red, violet and misty blue danced across the the night sky dotted with stars. If only her family was as peaceful as the aurora hanging…
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The sun sank below the horizon as streaks of rose pink and plum and crimson faded into a dark indigo. Even in Towerston City, where skyscrapers blocked out the view of the sky, you could still see a sliver of the majestic sunset. It was simply too amazing to be missed. The city birds slept…
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Clarence the ridiculous clown Always was the laughingstock in town. But then Clarence fell Down a deep, deep well And after that everyone wore a frown.
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There was a girl named Miss Muffet, Who kept on eating her buffet. But then down came a spider Who drank all her cider And also ate her freshly cooked mullet.
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A foolish girl called Jane Was once stuck in the drain. An old man was accused of murder And said he, while holding a girder, “I’ll be thinking she was very insane!”
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Leaves crunching under my feet Cold, chilly wind brushing my face Wet rain soaking me The cool air nips my hands Sudden changes in weather Wearing warm clothes everywhere I go Trees almost bare from the falling of leaves Sun covered by clouds shines weakly at me Autumn
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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…
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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!
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A karoro glides with their friends in the sky. It sees human-shaped figures at po, then flies away. There are happy children making little stick people with their fingers and hair on the windows. It notices some female birds that are going to hiki a baby karoro in a new egg. In the sky, there…
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“ Boom!” There was a spaceship in the junkyard that crash-landed. Smoke swirled around the detective, who was coughing out the ashes. He hid behind a rubbish pile in case any aliens came out, but there was none. Amid all the destruction in the area, The detective slowly tiptoed past the cracks and holes to…
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The winter snow melts as spring arrives. Seedlings sprout. Flowers pop up. Everything wakes up from their eternal sleep. Squirrels scurry around. Foxes sneak. Rabbits hop about. The temperatures rise. Rain falls. Trees regain leaves lost from winter. Everything is mild, wet and sunny. Spring is here.
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In winter, gusty winds nip your fingers and toes. The air becomes more chilly and the once-cool temperatures of the autumn drop down, down, down to bitter, freezing winter temperatures. The summertime visitors have flown away and the winter wraps Earth in a cold embrace. All is waiting, waiting until the warm spring arrives. For…
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It all started the day my old pen pal came to visit my coral mansion… Oops, I forgot to introduce myself! My name is July, and I am all orange. My friend is a whale, and he is named Ash. Anyway, he came to visit my house for the first time! I had no idea…
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Blossom the spring fairy is caught in a net and two men loom over her. The fairy magics up roots to protect herself but she ends up captured and brought to the museum. In the museum, she meets an autumn fairy, Harvest. The two chat easily for a while. “ Those men called Jeff and…
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