Everything is Frozen by Ms. Evans's Fifth Grade Class at Haisley Elementary

EVERYTHING IS FROZEN:

Haunted Adventures Behind the Waterfall

Written by Students of MS. EVANS’S FIFTH-GRADE CLASS AT HAISLEY ELEMENTARY

FIRST EDITION AN 826MICHIGAN PUBLICATION

A CHOICE-FILLED ADVENTURE STORY

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You live in a haunted house that is hidden behind a frozen waterfall. You go to brush your teeth in your broom closet and find a ghost in there. It looks like a donkey and it has long, purple hair and two extra arms, but it’s a ghost! It makes screaming goat noises at you. “RHHHHHGHNNNNNN!” It reaches out to try to catch you, but you scream back and run away to get your pet lion for protection. When you run to find your lion, you see it in a room where everything is frozen and now your lion is pink, purple, and frozen!

If you choose to run in fear and lock yourself in your room, turn to page 2.

If you choose to run to your neighbor, who is a wizard, lives in a nearby volcano, and makes potions, turn to page 3.

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When you go into your room, the ghost follows you through! You have to run again. There are two doors in your room. The first door leads to a pride of lions in a magical jungle. The lions are very hungry for lizards, because they haven’t eaten in five years. The second door leads to Mars. In order to return, you have to find five gemstones. One is a dark green, diamond-shaped gem in the leaves. One is colorful and hidden in a garden. One is saxophone-shaped in a cave underwater. One is clear with candy inside hidden in a tree. The last one looks exactly like a hot dog on a plate, but if you try to eat it, it turns into dark matter.

If you choose to open the door into the lion room, turn to page 4. If you open the door to Mars, turn to page 5.

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There are vicious turkeys that are guarding the wizard’s house, and you have to get past the turkeys to get inside the wizard’s volcano house. You threaten to eat them, and they all run away. As you walk into the wizard’s house, the first thing you notice is living potions. The living potion can make dead creatures come to life. You try to steal one, but the wizard blasts his magic at you. You use your super-cool karate moves to jump on him, and you take the potion and run. As you are running, you realize that you’re only wearing socks and start to slip on the wizard’s marble floors. Your potion falls to the floor and breaks, and suddenly, everything goes black. You open your eyes and the wizard is gone! You look to your left and see a donkey lying on the ground, and it has long purple hair and two extra arms.

If you choose to get up and heal the donkey with an extra living potion, turn to page 6.

If you choose to borrow the wizard’s magic shoes, grab another living potion, and try to make a run for it, turn to page 7.

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