Dalton Middle School Library

This is a story made up by the 4th Grade Vogelsang House in one Library Class period on December 16th, 2008.

We named this story:

“I’d Kill You: A True Documentary featuring Monkey & Me”

Yesterday morning, I woke up and looked out the window. There was a castle and a turtle with a dress on inside the tallest tower. There was an evil witch who cast a spell on it. Its name was Petunia. But originally the turtle was a BEAUTIFUL FROG!

The frog had spoken to a human which was not allowed. The frog’s pet monkey that loved chocolate and was always covered in cheese turned against the Frog and turned her in to the Cops.

But unfortunately the monkey already had a band named Monkey and Me. They made no money so they couldn’t go to their second outer space gig on Saturn. So, I ran outside to rescue the Frog-Turtle-Princess-Thingy with the pet monkey and his band to save them when suddenly a meteor shower of Christmas trees started falling on me.

Meanwhile, the turtle was learning how to box in prison and broke out of jail, punched the warden and started a movie called “I’d Kill You: A True Documentary.” When the meteor shower of Christmas trees stopped, the monkey found a gigantic pencil with an eraser and erased the world and changed it into a gigantic banana.

Then the fairy godmother turned the earth into a basketball by accident and it started bouncing on the Sun. All of a sudden, a giant grabbed the ball and the monkey and threw them in a cage. Then Harry Potter, Ron Weaseley and Hermione Granger came and they killed the giant.
The turtle found a rock and broke outer space and turned it into a boxing arena. Then the turtle and the monkey and his band all had a boxing match.

Then I was so excited because I loved the Harry Potter books, and I was happy to meet Hermione and fell in love with her and lived happily ever after.

Yesterday morning, I woke up and looked out the window. Then I ate cereal. My cat fell into the toilet. I tried to get him out. But I fell in, too. My neighbor and her daughter George went to save me. But they thought I was a stinky poo in the toilet, so they flushed it.

When I was going down the pipes, I got bored so I started scratching my nose. I saw some trash and I ate it. I was still hungry afterward and because the cat was scratching me, so I ate it.

I landed in the sewer: it wasn’t very pretty there. Then I saw a light in the distance and I got out and it turned out to be a pothole and I was standing in the middle of Time Square. I decided to go see a play.
I met a guy named Pat, and he said, “You smell like my wife,” and I replied, “Boosha.” Then I ran away and barfed up my cat and it was still alive so I washed him off and went home.

Then I went back to the toilet, because it was fun. Then my head fell off.

And I finally knew what it was like to talk to myself!

THE END

This is a page made by the 2008-2009 school year 4th Grade Farnsworth House at Dalton during one Library Class session. We made the story on December 17, 2008.

We named this story,

“I LOVE MCDONALDS!” (It’s really random!!)

Yesterday morning, I woke up and looked out of my window. I saw a gigantic cow that was boring. Then I fell out of the window and the cow caught me. I decided to skip breakfast. The cow started to fly and it landed on the moon.

Then some aliens abducted us. And then a dragon came and breathed fire all over everyone and they all blew up and died. Then all of the people flew up to heaven but were rejected.

Calvin and Hobbes flew by with their transmorgrifryer and Calvin said, “You know, Hobbes, this might be the future because you’re actually making sense.” Calvin and Hobbes decided that they didn’t like me and trasmorgrify me into a worm and duplicated it. Then a giant snake came and ate me.

Then Calvin and Hobbes went to hell and met Stewie Griffin. Then Brian Griffin came up and started swearing at baby Stewie like this, $##@!!%”

But then Brian and Stewie both got rejected from Hell and went to Double Hell, nicked named %$Q#R@!

It turned out that Stewie was an atomic bomb and he blew up.

THE END

This is a page made by the 2008-2009 school year 4th Grade Noble House at Dalton during one Library Class session.

We titled this:

One Morning… OR How I Killed Bush
(These two titles got equal votes from the House.)

Yesterday morning, I woke up and looked out the window.  I saw a pig and an elephant flying. They were on top of each other and they only had two wings in total.  The elephant was blue.  And they were both wearing tutus.  And the pig had a mental illness. But then, a big bird named Big Bird that was vomit colored smashed them out of the sky.

I thought, “What’s going on!” so I went out to check it out.  They fell right outside my house and made a huge crater.  The elephant’s tutu fell off.  And then there was a pig-and-elephant shaped tree in my backyard.

I was surprised because that tree grew pigs and elephants.  They all had one wing each and the pigs had mental illnesses.  I looked at the crater and saw an old man laying down.
And then another elephant hit the guy. Then the tree exploded and all the pigs and elephants went flying up.  But I caught one and ate it for breakfast.

THE END

This is a page made by the 2008-2009 school year 4th Grade Edinger House at Dalton during one Library Class session. We made the story on December 17th, 2008.

We voted and titled this story as:

The Gruesome Eagle, the Giant Hamburger and the Pony that Pooped Monsters

Yesterday morning I woke up and looked out of the window. Outside the window was my world, with fairy tale creatures. My world is only for me. There was a garden gnome running up the tree. There was a big giant eagle with a laser gun that vaporized the garden gnome.

But then, the good fairy did something bad and zapped the giant eagle into smithereens. Ummm…. Ok.

Then a black hole opened and sucked in the good fairy and she died. And then a Cyclops came and started crushing the garden. And a gigantic black dragon came and ate everything that moved for five hundred miles around and it was gruesome.

Then a big burger monster chomped up Jake’s black dragon and said, “I’m Bob.” And then and then and then a beautiful pony came and ate butterflies and pooped monsters.

Then I realized I wasn’t in my world any more, just the regular world. When I came back to my world, all I saw was death and nightmares. And it made me feel hungry so I went back to the regular world and made myself a sandwich.

Then, a big giant friendly zebra which was purple and pink came and brought all the nice things to the world and started eating cheeseburgers.

THE END

I’ve been reading… But that’s not news! I am always reading, but since I am on this Notable Books For Children Committee, I HAVE to read. Fortunately, there are so many great new books for kids published in 2008, I am having a BLAST reading them. Here are just some titles that I gave four or five stars to on my goodreads.com account. The numbers in the parentheses are the grades that I think most suited to enjoy each title.

100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson (4-6)
Airman by Eoin Colfer (5-8)
The Battle of the Labyrinthby Rick Riordan (4-6)
Chicken Feathers by Joy Cowley (3-5)
The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets: An Enola Holmes Mystery by Nancy Springer (4-6)
Diamond Willow by Helen Frost (4-6)
Forever Rose by Hilary McKay (4-7)
Horse Song: The Naadam of Mongolia by Ted and Betsy Lewin (3-5)
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (5-8)
Keeping Score by Linda Sue Park (5-7)
Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith (5-8)
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd (5-7)
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit by Nahoko Uehashi (5-8)
The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy by Diane Stanley (4-6)
The Mysterious Universe: Supernovae, Dark Energy, and Black Holes by Ellen Jackson (4-7)
Runemarks by Joanne Harris (5-8)
Six Innings by James Preller (4-6)
Sunrise over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers (6-8)
Surprises According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney (4-5)
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson (5-8)
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry (4-8)
The Year of the Rat by Grace Lin (4-5)