Mysteries

about the kids. You can always get another job as a principal somewhere else, like East Middle School on the east side. Now, can you unhook me from this post? My back is starting to cramp up really badly.”

So Firehead Hailey let Mr. Carney off of the pole and said, “We need to stop fighting.”

And the mystery was solved.

by Franklin Goode

once upon a time, there was a hungry cat called Captain Cat III. He looked into his crystal ball and saw a big, fat, tasty guinea pig named Sugar. That’s when he started looking up names. He saw Fat Albert, he saw Mousy the mouse, but he did not see anyone who owned a guinea pig. But then he got an idea. He thought for a second. He looked up who owned Sugar the guinea pig. He looked. It was Big Ear the elephant. He lived in Mexico.

Captain Cat III had a big trip. He stole a passenger jet and flew to Mexico and crash-landed in an office building! Captain Cat III was okay—and he had crashed into Big Ear’s house! Captain Cat III busted down the door and took Sugar. He ran to the airport and stole a jet that was as fast as a bullet. He took Sugar to his lab to find out more about her species. Five minutes later, the SWAT team and the army busted down the door and he was sent to prison. Three months later he busted out!

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by Romeo Davis

once there Was a ninJa. He was so small, he was a mini-ninja, and he had lost his mask. He thought it was his friends who had stolen it. He checked their big temple again, and it was not there. Then they found the mask in the Great Temple of Giants and Big Ninjas. They were fighting, and he decided to get their ladder and smashed them all in the head with it, and they were happy. They lived happily ever after.