The Lucky Nut

Kyurin Kim

Age 9

The Lucky Nut

There was a planet where only dogs lived.

They could stand on their feet and speak English. They did everything that humans could do on Earth.

There lived Sammy whose fur was all white, including her face.

She had a lovely red bow on her head beside her left ear.

She always wore a tutu.

One day, she got a fortune cookie, and she cracked it in half. There was a nut instead of the paper!

“What?” she said. “What is my fortune? I don’t want to eat a nut! I will just put it in my room.”

One day, she went rollerblading, and she brought the nut to eat when she got hungry.

She started to rollerblade.

Thirty minutes later, Sammy almost bumped into a tree. But instead of crashing, she went backward to a safer place!

At that moment, she found out that she had a great secret: she had a lucky nut.

After that day, she always brought the lucky nut whenever she went. She had it when she went to school, to the park, or to the playground.

Before she went to sleep, she always put the nut on the little drawer that was right next to Sammy’s bed.

But one day, when she woke up, the lucky nut was gone!

She looked everywhere in her bedroom. She looked in her closet, in her drawer, and even inside her clothing, but she had no luck.

When she went to school, there was so much bad luck!

Her shoe laces got tangled, and she spilled paint on her T-shirt.

To solve her problem, she needed help from others.

She had to tell her secret to her friends!

“Hey! Today, I need help from you guys. Also, I have to tell you my secret!” said Sammy.

Sammy told her secret and what had happened to her lucky nut.

So, her friends and Sammy made a plan together.

When school was over, they went over to Sammy’s house, and they stayed together through the night.

At night, they put a new nut that they got from Sammy’s kitchen in the drawer.

They tried not to fall asleep.

But they were too sleepy to stay awake.

Three hours later, everyone fell asleep, except her best friend, Maya.

Two more hours passed and suddenly, Maya yelled, “Follow that squirrel!”

Sammy saw one squirrel running to the window.

Sammy and the other friends all woke up and started to run after the squirrel.

They went out through the window.

The air felt like a refrigerator, and lots of fall leaves fell on the ground, and the wind whooshed some of the leaves.

The squirrel stopped and started to dig beside the tree.

They realized that it was fall, and squirrels had to collect nuts for winter!

They started to dig like the squirrel around the plum tree.

They couldn’t find the lucky nut, but they didn’t give up. They kept digging all around the tree.

The sun started to rise. Then, Sammy felt something in the dirt. She found the lucky nut!

She knew that was her lucky nut because there was the initial “S” that Sammy wrote before.

The lucky nut got muddy, so they went home and washed it.

Now, Sammy stored it inside the drawer and remembered to close the window and lock it.