Twists and Turns—The Revenge of the Squirrels and Pringle Olympics

A CHOICE-FILLED ADVENTURE STORY

TWISTS AND TURNS—

The Revenge of the Squirrels and Pringle Olympics Written by Students of MS. WRIGHT’S 5TH GRADE CLASS at EBERWHITE ELEMENTARY

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In a strawberry-chocolate covered village, there is a tall pine tree and a sanitizer river. There is an animal shelter made out of Pringles there and a banana temple with a dark room. The squirrels have taken over this village and someone has polluted the river!

You are the high priest of the banana monks enjoying a day at the animal shelter when all of a sudden . . .

A BILLION SQUIRRELS COME IN! The squirrels are coming to save their monkey friends at the animal shelter, and they are carrying a frozen banana key in their hands. The squirrels can talk. You can either decide to talk to the squirrels to help them, or you can decide to swim across the sanitizer river to the island to escape.

If you decide to help the squirrels, turn to page 2.

If you decide to swim to the island, turn to page 3.

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You decide to talk to the squirrels. The banana key melts while you’re talking, but you have an extra key.

This one is made out of a grape that was frozen then dried in a vacuum chamber.

Then, you find a secret door in the back of the animal shelter behind a bookshelf. It leads to the monkeys the squirrels were going to get. The bookshelf is full of books about monkeys. You let the squirrels help you move the bookshelf, and then use your key to open the secret door.

Because you helped the squirrels free the monkeys, they want to help you clean the sanitizer river. Jeff, a talking llama, is the guardian of the river. You need to get a filter from Jeff. To get the filter, you have to do a task for him in Pringle Land. The task is to grab the Pringle Sword at the top of the Pringle Tower and bring it back to Jeff. The monkeys will help you because they’re so thankful you freed them.

On the way to the Pringle Land, you can take a road to the Pringle Olympics, where you’ll have to win the gold medal, or you can take the road to a cave where someone is guarding the only other Pringle Olympics gold medal. The gold medal is interlocking pieces of chips, and it gives you full access to all of Pringle Land.

Both roads smell like chips, and you can see a salsa pond from the chip dips. On the side of the road are lots of chip dip ponds. One has a chicken swimming in it. The chicken keeps following you everywhere.

The railings to the roads are made of Doritos, pickles, Twizzlers, and the casing of Pringles. It’s raining salsa.

If you decide to take the road to the Pringle Olympics, turn to page 4.

If you decide to take the road to the cave, turn to page 5.

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You decide to swim across the river and meet Spongeborb with a tennis ball named William. The albino flying squirrels follow you with exploding acorns.

Spongeborb leads you to a place to be safe from the squirrels in a dragon fruit above the sanitizer river.

The squirrels are allergic to dragon fruit.

More squirrels follow you on a ship with acorns bombs filled with sprinkles because they eat dirt and want to flavor the dirt. You can choose to fight the squirrels so you don’t get trapped, or you could go to an animal shelter and get a German Shepherd dog to chase the squirrels.

If you decide to fight the squirrels, turn to page 6.

If you decide to go to the animal shelter, turn to page 7.

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Your first event is Pringle frisbee. There are five Pringle frisbees you have to throw into Pringle cases.

Each Pringle you get into a case is a point. You have to match the Pringle to the matching flavor case. If you get a Pizza Pringle, you have to throw it in to the Pizza Pringle case. If you throw the wrong Pringle into the wrong case, you lose a point. You have to be really careful when throwing the Pringles, because your chicken really likes Pringles and might eat them. You miss one chip in the Pringle frisbee event, but the other Pringle man makes all of his. So, you lose this event, but still get a silver medal.

The stands are full of foods watching, like banana spectators. The bananas are all different sizes and colors. Some are mango-bananas. The ruler of the bananas is a supreme rainbow banana queen that wears a crown-barcode sticker on her, so everyone knows she is the ruler.

The second event is chicken racing. You can use the chicken that followed you around in this race. Your chicken is a super chicken that speeds to the finish!

After you win the race, you plop the chicken in your backpack, because it seems like a lucky chicken. The third event is Dorito surfing. You use a spicy nacho flavored Dorito to surf. You get a bronze medal in the Dorito surfing event.

You got a silver medal, a bronze medal, and a gold medal, so you have one of each kind. You combine these medals to make a rainbow medal. It is made of interlocked different flavors of Pringles. The rainbow medal gives you full access to Pringle Land.

If you decide to rule over Pringle Land, write your own ending.

If you decide to take the rainbow medal to Jeff the llama, write

your own ending.

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(start again at page 1)

You decide to take the road to the cave.

You arrive at the cave. There are pigeons with human eyes and a cat mouth that attack you. But luckily, you always bring your trusty blue 1,000,000 yard ruler. The chicken runs up the ruler and fends off the pigeons. The pigeons are mainly distracted, but some of them are still watching and trying to attack you.

While the chicken fights the pigeons, you and the monkeys sneak into the cave. There, you see a giant sock protecting the gold medal. The squirrels have acorns caps they use to unsew the sock. While you’re fighting the sock, you smell it. It smells like the gunk under your toenail. Your face bunches up and your nose crinkles. It stinks so much you can’t see anymore. While you can’t see, you wave the giant ruler around so the cave collapses between you and the entrance.

You realize, “Oh, I could just go to Target to get a filter.”

If you decide to go to Target for a filter,

write your own ending.

If you decide to continue trying to get the gold medal,

write your own ending.

5

(start again at page 1)

You take pieces off of the dragon fruit above the sanitizer river. The squirrels throw their acorns and a food fight breaks out! Some of the squirrels come and jump on top of you. You’re able to throw the flying squirrels out of the window and they glide away. You set the regular squirrels down on the coffee table. As you are brushing the squirrels off of your shoulders, you make a mental note to go get a rabies shot when all of this is over.

Calling on the divine banana power and dragon fruit brothers of the bananas, you create a dragon fruit shield. Swirling dragon fruit pieces circle around to protect you. The squirrels hit the shield and you become tired of holding it up. Your banana brothers then call upon the dragon fruit to create a dragon fruit dragon that is red and green with a white belly. Once the squirrels hit the dragon they are launched into space to squirrel world. You can choose to either visit squirrel world with the dragon or rush back to your banana temple as you collect sprinkle acorns for a cake.

If you decide to go to squirrel world, write your own ending.

If you decide to return to banana temple,

write your own ending.

6

(start again at page 1)

A German Shepard appears at the animal shelter and the squirrels run away. The GIANT German Shepard is covered in a special chocolate that is safe for dogs. The German Shepard, Clifford, is as big as a house.

Then one squirrel appears that is the size of Clifford and they begin to dance battle. The squirrel takes out a boom box, and they begin dancing to Go Noodle Disco Brain.

If you decide to be the teacher of the Giant Animal World Famous Dance team, write your own ending.

If you decide to join in as a third competitor, write your own ending.

7

(start again at page 1)

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