The Adventures of Ella Bella

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Ella is a modern girl, she is thirteen years old. she likes skating and riding a bike. she has got two friends Ann and Erik. she has also a very special friend a black little mouse called Tip. Ella lives with her granny ,a very vital and youthful woman who is always ready to accompany her on thousand adventures. Ella’s parents live and work in Africa as Emergency doctors. therefore she often goes to the city port and looking at the sea she feels closer to her parents.

Ella has got a safe house: an old and huge crane. Ella is very sporty and she often climbs the ladder with steel roof, gets on the cabin of the crane and stays in her secret hideaway. Here she loves reading, listening music by her ipod, writing letters or simply she is deep in thought, in the company of the seagulls which she shares the crane with. Even her best friends Anna and Eric don’t know her safe house.

One day while she was riding a bike at the docks, she noticed a lot of people coming and going, curiously she came up and saw that operations were ongoing for the landing of illegal immigrants such as those ones she had watched on tv several times.

There were coast guards rescuers and volunteers for the Red cross close to a very dilapidated boat at sea.

Hundreds of children, women, men were first brought to shore and then taken care of.

Medical workers brought them to medical tents first to take care of emergencies. Then they gave the tired and scared immigrants blankets and water. Ella was amazed and worried about what was happening. She remembered what her parents told her about field hospital and tends with camp beds with sleeping bag and blanket. She started asking more information and a volunteer told her that the boat left from Syria and those people on the boat had escaped from an horrible war.

While Ella was passing among those unlucky people wondering how she could be useful, she noticed a boy who was alone, crouched down in a secluded corner. So she got off her bike and approached him. then she tried to start a conversation making some questions in English and in French, but the scared boy didn’t answer.

Ella kept on speaking and at long last, the guy answered in an uncertain English that he and other people fell into the sea from the old boat too small for the huge number of people. he was happy to be alive but he burst into tears when Ella asked him about his parents. After talking together for a while, the boy introduced himself. His name was Yusuf and Ella took him to the tend where the other immigrants were waiting for being accompanied somewhere.

Here a medical worker took care of him ad after a while Yusuf and the other guests got on the bus to reach the reception centres of the town. Yusuf went to a reception centre for unaccompanied minors, since his parents had gone missing without trace. Ella didn’t leave her new friend not even for a second, she followed the bus to the centre, then she said goodbye to her friend promising him to come back the following days.

The day after Ella spoke with her friends Anne and Eric about Yusuf and .they couldn’t wait to meet him.

At the weeked Ella went and met the boy bringing him a cake: a typical sweet of Arabic cuisine. It was Yusuf’s favourite one as well.

Ella made the cake following the recipe found on the internet. In the afternoon they talked a lot. Ella wanted to know everything about Yusuf’s country and about the war.

In the following days Ella, Eric and Ann went and met Yusuf and they became close friends. Yusuf tought them some Syrian words and they told him stories about Catania: Ella invented quirky stories to make them laughing.

Sometimes it happened that Yusuf became suddenly sad because he hadn’t heard about his parents since his arrival and every passing day the hope to hold them again grew a little dimmer.

Like the other guys his age, Yusuf had to go to school, but what school he could attend wasn’t clear yet. He would have wanted to go to his new friends’ school ,maybe it would have been easier to fit in. Ella had an idea on how to help him. She asked her granny to speak to her school headmaster. He was her granny’s dear friend and she could have convinced him more easily. The granny was agree with her and called the headmaster Bendidio at once.

Two days later while Ella was at school the headmaster came into the classroom and introduced three new special classmates. One of them was right Yusuf. They had a very warm welcome and Anne, Eric and Ella were so excited!!

But, meanwhile, there weren’t news about Yusuf’s parents, as result he began keeping to himself, although they were making everything to make his days enjoyable. At this point Ella decided to involve herself directly in searches and started to call every reception centre in Sicily, but nobody could give reliable information about.

Finally she had a new idea:she called the biggest reception centre in Sicily and introduced herself as the prefect of police’s daughter from Catania.

The operator who answered on the phone told her that as soon as possible she would give her news about the people she looked for.

She was ashamed of lying but she knew that it was a lie for a good purpose.

Some days later Ella finally had news about her friend’s parents. They were alive and they stayed in a reception center in Syracuse. Six days later Yusuf was reunited with his parents and he was very grateful to his new friend .Ella carries on helping friend’s family finding a job to his father.

Ella Bella isn’t a common girl. She is eleven years old, she is tall and thin. Ella always wears socks of different colours and her hair are coloured like a rainbow. Her specialty is skating, in fact she never separates from her rollerblades. Her pet is a black mouse.

Her parents are scientists and are often abroad, leaving Ella with her grandmother. Unfortunately, her grandmother fell ill and had to go to the hospital, therefore the girl can’t go to school and lives alone in an attic with sight on the city and next to nature.

Emma and Erik are her best friends and every time that Ella Bella faces an adventure, they are always ready to go with her.

One of Ella’s merits, is generosity, she is very curious too, therefore when she sees someone in difficulty she immediately runs to help him trying to understand the cause.

As I said, her parents are scientists, that means they learn a lot of money, so Ella doesn’t lack of anything.

Anyway, when one day she found out her grandmother had a serious illness whose therapy was still unknown, she decided to raise funds to research a remedy for this illness.

She didn’t want to use all her family money so she chose to get the money herself with the help of Emma and Erik.

One morning the children went to the nearest square, loaded with sacks stuffed with clothes and toys; once arrived they took out a large cloth from one of the sack, laid it on the ground and started to display on it the content of the sacks. Lots of people walked by but nobody was interested in buying those stuffs so they got increasingly discouraged. But Ella wasn’t disheartened and she did all her best to get people to buy something.

Suddenly she came across a boy who was with his mum, she took a small plane and started to play with it as if she were only alone in that square. In that moment, she felt free to show that child how to have real fun even with a lousy plane.

The child began to play with her and then asked the mother to buy it. He was so harassing that the mother couldn’t say ‘no’ and so the child went back home happy with his new toy. In this way, Ella Bella succeeded in selling almost all the toys and the clothes that her friends and she had made available.

This small market went on for about three days. On the fourth day one of those bullies arrived who usually bothered Emma and her friends. Anyway, the three friends didn’t let themselves be discouraged from the boy’ s insults, they lined up like a wall opposite him, they stared at him with an expression of disregard on their face showing how few they cared about what he said.

Notwithstanding the bully went on, he showed himself courageous but Emma knew well the guys like him and she knew well that if someone challenged him, he would take to his heels.

Ella Bella then said: “Hey you, yes I’m talking to you, you that speak nonsense, shooting the insults adults tell, without even knowing what they mean...tell me, since you do so much the brave one, what do you think if I call my other friends and we talk about this together? Come on, even you can understand that everyone is free to go where he wants, who he wants with, when he wants, to do what he wants, without minding the

envious persons like you, that instead of playing with a ball, prefer playing with others’ feelings… but I repeat you, if you want I call my friends and you can play together…”

Without having even given to Ella the time to end the sentence, the bully escaped away as forecasted.

“Luckily!” said Emma, “Thanks Ella!”.

Ella Bella was happy to see her friends smile again and said with calm: "Thanks God indeed Emma! I didn't have the palest idea of how to continue that discourse, and then my friends and I will never hurt anybody.

After about a week the three friends took the money they had earned thanks to the small market to the Research National Institute so that they could try to understand the cause and the remedies for her poor granny’s illness.

The researcher told her that in a couple of months they would find the solution. They very soon had understood that the cause was the environment, the air all of them breathed was polluted from smoke, gas, and other substances dangerous for the body, especially for aged people like her grandmother.

The only solution for the moment was trying to keep her alive and having lots of patient and most of all love.

However Ella, Emma and Erik didn’t throw in the sponge and one day they papered the city with posters where was written “IF YOU HOLD YOURSELF DEAR, PUT DOWN THE CIGARETTE, SO YOU WILL STAND!”, “IF YOU WANT TO LIVE WELL, HELP THE OTHERS WITHOUT SMOKING!”…they wouldn’t believe it but two days after you could breathe a better air …they were sure now gramma would recover, and without any doubts, thanks to Ella’s courage and determination her gramma would be not the only one to stay well but her friends grandparents too…she was sure that with a bit of courage and optimism EVERYTHING would be possible.

Hello everybody, I'm Ella Bella and I live in Catania, just near the sea: you should see it! You know, it's great to wake up with the birds’ twit and the sound of the waves crashing against the rocks. I live in a wonderful house: it's huge, there are five bathrooms, twelve bedrooms, three big living rooms, a big kitchen.

I’ve got a great bedroom where I play hide and seek with my little mouse called Brother. But at this point I am sure you would like to know who I am: as I have already told you, my name is Ella Bella, I am eleven years old and I go to XX Settembre school. I'm tall and thin, I have long hair, dressed in a rainbow pony tail, I always wear sporty clothes and always go around with the roller blades. I am very good at school and I always have what I want because I behave well, but others consider me a bit odd. Nevertheless, I met two friends who really love me. They are Emma and Erik. We go to the same school and spend a lot of time together. After school and after homework we often play hide-and-seek and when the weather is fine we love going to the seaside. I have known Emma and Erik since the nursery school. The first time I met them, they were nice and we had many adventures together as when we did a scuba dive with our toy submarine pretending to find a lost treasure (the diving mask Of Erik).

I had a rather sad childhood, because my parents were often away for work. I’ve grown up with my grandmother but unfortunately, she has recently had an accident and she is in hospital. I really feel alone without her in my big house! Luckily there are Emma and Erik who keep me company. I have not forgotten my parents and I love them a lot and I hope that they love me as well. I hope I’ll see them soon.

One day the Italian teacher asked me to describe my relationship with my parents. His request arose great emotion in me, my teacher noticed my uneasiness and comforted me. I asked her to write about something

else and I decided to write about what I had done on the previous Sunday. That's my story

A few days ago, passing in front of the garden of a children’s home, I saw children sitting at old tables waiting for lunch; unfortunately, there was not enough food for everyone. So, I thought about helping them.

I knocked on the gate, I got in and asked the kids what they thought about coming to my house. Everyone was happy. On lunch day, I got up early to prepare delicious dishes. Emma helped me to cook lots of things, Erik and Brother were the tasters. When the guests arrived, I was still wearing my dirty apron. When I was about to welcome them, I remembered not having closed the kitchen door. So, I run to close it because I wanted it to be a big surprise. When I opened the kitchen door and the children saw the table decked with all pasta dishes, meat, chips and cakes they gaped. At the table everyone ate and, I hope, they liked it. At the end of the lunch, my friends thanked me affectionately. At that moment, I realized I had helped someone and felt less sad. When the children were about to leave a terrible storm blew out so they stayed a bit longer.

We spent the afternoon playing and telling stories and jokes. That was fun! I prepared a nice hot chocolate for everyone, then together we baked cookies and we ate them until we were on the point of bursting! They were delicious! When the thunderstorm was over it was too late, so I thought about hosting the kids for the night. What a wonderful pyjamas party! The next morning, I accompanied them to the children’s home and greeted them with the promise to see us again very soon. Then I went to school but unfortunately, I arrived a little late and the professor rebuked me but when I told her the reason of my delay she payed me her compliments for having given those children such a great joy.

When you help the others you not only make the others happy but you make happy yourself too.

When the I gave the Italian teacher the story she had asked me, I felt guilty for not having written about my parents and I started crying. I explained her everything and she was surprised and told me that I was a special person. At my age, you don’t have so often the chance to help people in need. I think I have done nothing remarkable, I acted following my heart and I will remember that Sunday as one of the most beautiful ones. I think that children will remember all the moments they lived together, games, stories and extemporary snacks prepared together with my friends.

After that Sunday, the house was a mess. Anna and Erik helped me to clean up the whole house and then we started

planning

Emma's

birthday

for

the

next

Saturday.

When the day arrived, we prepared cakes and blew up balloons. We invited lots of friends and their parents.

But there was a great surprise: the children of the children’s home arrived with their teacher. They brought some sweets prepared by them. For Anna that was the most beautiful gift!

THE EARTHQUAKE Class 2^A Ella Bella is not a common girl; she is not the typical thirteen-year-old girl: make up, boyfriends, who likes behaving like an adult and doing whatever she likes .... well she doesn’t bother about all this stuff. She is exactly the other way round: she’s lively, instinctive, stubborn, ready to face and deal with dangerous and complicated situations. However, she is also thoughtful, sensitive, generous. She loves nature and having long walks, playing with Brother, the rat she keeps in the front pocket of her pullover; but above all she enjoys spending her time with her only friends, Anna and Eric, who, unlike her, have a quiet life because they have parents looking after them: a bossy mum and a dad, he’s a dentist by the way. But she can easily take them into incredible places and situations!

Even her physical appearance is extravagant because she behaves and wears clothes in a very original way.

Her green eyes and her fair complexion make her unique; besides she always puts on mis-matched clothes.

Her outfits are very eccentric: in fact she often goes out wearing miniskirts on knee-leggings, short-sleeved t-shirts on long-sleeved ones and last but not least, her socks are of different colours and length.

Ella Bella is a very lucky girl. Thanks to her parents, two famous scientists, she is well-off. She lives in a spacious and comfortable penthouse in the middle of a green park in the outskirts of the town and from her big balcony she can observe all the other houses of the town, one next to the other, with no green spaces and light where people less lucky than her live. Unfortunately, she is often alone, in fact her parents travel around the world because of their job and she misses them a lot.

One day she was alone (her parents were as usual away) so she sat on the sofa with Brother, her rat, switched the TV on and started to watch the breaking news. She was shocked by what she saw: a terrible earthquake had destroyed many towns and all the buildings had been razed. Nothing was left and the survivors were wandering aimlessly. The news was broadcasting dramatic scenes, all like one another.

Suddenly she remembered that her parents had flown exactly to that part of the world to make a geological survey; frozen, she listened to the speaker’s voice echoing in the room: “The number of victims is very high, it is about 2960; still uncertain the number of hurt people, the firemen and the other groups of rescuers have taken out of the ruins about 238, still alive. The villages hit by the disaster are 18 and from four different regions”. All the main world leaders were seriously worried because these tragedies were getting increasingly common every day. It was necessary to intervene as soon as possible. She decided to go there immediately to look for her parents and to help the survivors. She tried to keep calm. She took the phone, called her administrator and asked him to get ready her plane. Then she called Eric and Anna. They immediately declared to be available and happy to help her and most of all people hit by earthquake Everything was set very quickly but Ella Bella forgot her small diary where she kept the passwords of all her parents’ credit cards.

During the journey the girl kept on thinking about the terrible scenes she had seen on TV: ruins everywhere, policemen and ordinary people moving towards the disaster area. She shut her eyes to remove those terrible images from her mind, and she thought of her dear dad and her sweet mum hoping to find them alive.

When the plane landed, she reached the disaster area but what she saw was beyond her imagination. Ella Bella was used to smelling the perfumes of the flowers in her garden, but now she felt like fainting and she couldn’t breathe: she was facing a black and white film, where all the colours had disappeared.

All around was silence, broken now and then by rolling stones from crashed walls; stray dogs wandered, the air was heavily smelling of rot and decaying bodies both of animals and people without a tomb; their relatives, soldiers, volunteers dug .... unconscious of the hot, the cold at night, the rain, the tiredness at dawn; they dug looking for the poor souls buried by the earthquake. They waited for a moan, a voice, a breath. And they went on digging, their hands like bulldozers.

They wanted to save as many lives as possible so while Ella Bella started to look around for her parents, her two friends, Anna and Eric, joined the rescuers who, helped by the nose of Brother the rat, were able to find, among the ruins, the weak moans of people still alive; meanwhile photographers took pictures and cameras filmed.

However, rescuers worked slowly and the experts were late. It was difficult to explain. It was raining on the tents while inside people were coughing, afraid of getting any disease, which is quite common under these circumstances. Medicines, vaccines, water, food were late because of the trucks stuck in the mud.

Ella Bella cried but she was not desperate, she knew she would find her parents alive. Besides she knew that the group of rescuers she had contacted would soon arrive, thanks to the huge amount of money her administrator had granted to her. However, as soon as she opened her rucksack she was panic-stricken since she couldn’t find her diary: “Gosh! the numbers of my bank accounts and the passwords of my credit cards!

They are all written there! What can I do? “she exclaimed. Time went by, time was precious; she walked across the town but her parents could not be found. She started to fear for their safety, but she did not want to give up. While she was moving quickly among the ruins, Brother came to her squeaking anxiously, forcing her to walk near the edge of the road where a weak moan could be heard, like a child’s crying. Not far from there a pale woman, her hair ruffled, shivered and wept quietly whispering softly a name: “Lulú “.

Ella Bella immediately realized that the woman could not extract her little daughter out of the ruins so she took a big stick and started to remove the biggest rocks then she dug with her own hands; finally, Eric and Anna joined her, carrying more suitable tools. They went on digging for hours, and as they got deeper the child’s cry got louder til...... miracle! they reached the child: she was dirty, scratched, covered by dust but she was alive. They all started crying out with joy and sorrow.

Unhappy ending for another little daughter: she was sleeping in her cradle when the earthquake destroyed her house in the neighbourhood and death took her away. The three friends were sad witnesses of all that death and desperation: the hope of finding Ella Bella’s parents alive was fading.

While waiting for the rescuers they decided to walk to the near field hospital where they gave a helping hand; they listened to people telling them their terrible stories: trapped underground without food nor water, hardly breathing until they heard the voice of the rescuers and they answered calling out their own names.

“It was the best word I’ve ever pronounced!”. The three friends never stopped working, following humbly the rescuers’ instructions.

Ella Bella lay on a camp bed exhausted, with her rat curled up in one of her front pockets as usual; she stretched a hand to stroke the fur of her friend and she touched unexpectedly a piece of paper .... Brother had the habit of hiding in his ‘special spot’ precious objects and clues that he found abandoned by his owner in the house. This time Brother was really helpful. She opened her eyes wide on those numbers written on a piece of paper torn from her diary. A hopeful smile lit their faces. Some hours later their hope became certainty since from the half open windows they saw a tidy queue of vans, trucks, bulldozers, and all kind of means, be it mechanical or hi-tech, useful for the search of survivors still buried under the ruins. Ella Bella, like a general, took the command of the operations. Nothing lacked: all the most modern and sophisticated devices had been bought. The different teams of workers started to do their best; helicopters flew to give their help where cars could not arrive due to the many damages occurred to the roads. Even communication was difficult because of the interrupted phone lines but luckily the powerful new-generation mobile phones and the radios brought by the rescuers solved the problem. All the efforts aimed at finding the people still trapped under the ruins. Bulldozers were needed to remove the heaps of ruins; centres for the distribution of food and basic necessities were opened. Hope was spreading everywhere but Ella Bella was still worried for her parents: no news yet. What could she do? she sat tired, prey to her sad thoughts, trying to remember all the places where they had already been and new places where they should be looking. She kept on asking herself what else she could do. Then Brother joined her to comfort her: the little pet felt guilty because he had helped many people but not Ella Bella’s parents. Suddenly they heard agitated voices and some rescuers approached her: ‘We have been digging a long tunnel where two people have been found but now we need a small-sized person to crawl inside and put in this microchip. It is very dangerous because some rocks are likely to fall .... who...?’ Ella Bella didn’t let the man complete the sentence and volunteered: who better than a little animal with a fine nose and a brave girl ready to risk anything for this enterprise? Her colourful pony tail disappeared in the mud while she plunged herself into the centre of the earth but she succeeded in her mission. soon after she fainted. She woke up in a hospital hearing the voices of her parents who were lying like her in a bed. The only thing that had kept her going on while underground was the eyes of her parents looking at her at the end of the tunnel.

A year later the family came to the opening of a new natural site dedicated to Ella Bella: caves full of stalagmites, spectacular falls, ponds. These natural attractions were an important resource for the local inhabitants and Ella Bella had financed the building of wooden bungalows to encourage tourism in that area.

A few kilometres away new houses were being built where the earthquake had destroyed everything.

From then on Ella started again to have fun with her friends, her pet, but above all with her parents who decided to be more present in their daughter’s life.

ELLA-BELLA AT THE PARK FOR KIDS Written by class 5^A Ella-Bella is a girl; she’ s ten years old. She’ s tall and thin and also very strong.

Her skin is dark, often tanned, because she lives in a house overlooking the sea and from the terrace she can enjoy the sun from morning to evening for almost every day of the year.

She has got green eyes and her hair is rainbow colored, collected in a long ponytail on the side that slips on the shoulder.

Usually, she wears a long sleeved t- shirt, a small short wide skirt and a onesie with a central pocket on the stomach, where always a black rat fit, to whom she gives the name of " My brother", because for her, which is an only child , he ‘s a company and a good lucky charm that instills confidence and courage in every situation.

It would seem a fairly normal clothing, but Ella Bella has got a wide collection of socks, and she always wears odd , of different colours on the left and on the right leg.

She skates very well, for this reason she doesn’t wear shoes, but roller skates .

She lives in Catania in a large penthouse, where she can observe a beautiful view : on one side the blue sea , the other Mt. Etna that sometimes offers spectacular images of its eruptions and explosions of volcanic lava and ash.

The family is absent : her parents are eccentric scientists and they travel around the world for their research work and grandparents would look after Ella Bella but they ended up in hospital, so Ella Bella, without family and school, lives alone and she takes care of herself but she enjoys it.

She spends most of her time observing and listening to the roaring waves of the sea or with her friends Anna and Erik.

Anna and Erik are two children and they ‘ve got the same age of Ella Bella ; they live in a wellorganized apartment near Ella Bella’s penthouse.

They are two brothers; their mother is a company manager, while their dad works in a dental office.

Unlike Ella Bella, they always behave well and they’ re careful .

Ella Bella, instead, is rebellious, impulsive, reckless, unconventional and eccentric and respect the rules in its own way.

However, she has got a good character, she’ s always generous and she shares with others their own things, because she is very rich and has got a credit card that can pay what she wants.

She’s a mix of energy and goodness and for this reason she’s a very, very special girl !!!

In fact, she always helps everyone, especially those in need or who asks her to solve a social problem.

To make you realize how Ella Bella’s generous, let me tell you one of the many positive things she did....

It is known that Catania, being an urbanized city, has few green areas and they are poorly maintained, dirty and without games for children One day, Ella Bella, sitting in her rocking chair, read a newspaper article about the closure of one of the parks for kids because the Municipality doesn’t have the funds for its maintenance.

Furious, Ella Bella goes to her friends Anna and Erik, and tells them of the fact.

The three boys start thinking about what to do; Ella Bella, thinking and thinking, cames out with conclusion: - We will go to the Municipality to protest and if the mayor will not listen us , we 'll build a beautiful park for children; what do you think?

The boys, needless to say, agree with her and the next day go to the Municipality, but the Mayor wasn’t scared by the threatening words of Ella Bella and her friends.

-What courage had these three little kids coming here to intimidate me and give me advice as if I, the Mayor of Catania, had not already sought a solution ... unfortunately there is no money in the coffers of the Municipality - thinks embittered the mayor.

The three boys decide to act : with the collaboration of everybody and the Ella Bella’s money can make come true their desire ...

The following day, Ella Bella and her friends Anna and Erik go to the park and they realize that now has become a real dump with waste of all kinds: papers, bottles and plastic bags, tins ...

Even the street sweepers, rather than sweep , throw their trash on the ground.

Ella Bella, surprised, asks them: - But why don’t you clean? Don’t you get paid for it?

But one of them flatly exclaims: - We don’ t clean it because the Municipality will not pay!

We are on strike !!!

Then, Ella Bella promises them a big reward if they help them cleaning up the park and she asks also the cooperation of the local residents, so all together, children, adults, seniors, street cleaners, go to work ...

To make matters worse, they hear strange noises in the distance: Ella Bella and her friends turn on their left and see the workers who are cutting the trees.

What a horror!!! How can you cut down the trees that are the lungs of the town ???

How to remove children the opportunity to climb over the trees or to take refuge in a magical hidden lodge between their branches !!!

How you can destroy the den and refuge for birds, insects and many other small animals !!!

Ella Bella approaches to workers and asks them to stop immediately, but nobody listens it, so she passes to the attack : take one of them and with her incredible strength sends him on a tree, while the others frightened run away .

Now they can continue their work undisturbed: Ella Bella and her friends eliminate all waste and begin to plant trees and flowers.

After tearing permission to the mayor, Ella Bella asks her wealthy parents to finance the redevelopment of the park, doing even build a skating rink and installing swimming pools, fountains, lampposts and benches.

Finally, in Catania was a real children's area, a park with pools, slides, swings, toys for the younger children, for older and for the disabled.

Ella Bella, to thank all those who helped in her business, decides to organize a big party where are offered to all ice cream, candy, cakes, cotton candy, cup cakes, in conclusion, lots of goodies and tasty things.

All the inhabitants of the town are invited, and even the Mayor and his council.

When the Mayor arrives, he just cannot believe it and make up for it , he says to the citizens these words: - Ella Bella was "great and extraordinary " and to thank her for what she had done for her city and her fellow citizens I will call this park " Villa Ella Bella� -.

At these words all they applaud and embrace enthusiastic her.

Since that day, Ella Bella and her friends go every afternoon to the park and they see kids playing, running and having fun, adults and elderly people who walk or rest in the shade of a large tree ...

There are those who read, who sunbathes lying on the grass, who eat an ice cream or just chatting with a friend ...

Ella Bella can be satisfied, she did a very good job!

For her there is no greater joy to give to others and make them happy!

Her wish was finally realized and all children can play outdoors and in a safe place.

And she can finally skate undisturbed in a quiet place without cars and traffic lights without having to stumble in the trash!

Once again she’s got it made!

When she puts in her mind something, she doesn't stop at nothing‌

ELLA BELLA’S COURAGE- 5^C Hi, my name is Ella Bella, I’m 10 years old and my family is well-off. I am thin, tall, strong and fast.

I have two big and green eyes. I have colored and long hair grouped in a ponytail on a side of my head.

I like wearing a suit with a pocket near the stomach in which I put my friend, a mouse.

It’s like a brother for me, indeed. It trusts me.

I love rollerblading so I usually wear rollerblades. Rollerblading gives me a feel of freedom.

I might look like eccentric, reckless and maybe, I don’t respect rules but …what are rules? Many incomprehensible statements on a white paper sheet.

My parents travels a lot because of their job, they are scientists so I live alone in an attic in the center of my beautiful Catania. I haven’t got brothers and my grandparents are sick, at the moment.

So I take care of myself and it’s fantastic….I don’t have times, nobody tell me the food I have to eat, how to wear and where to go.

The only two children who respect everything are my friends Anna and her brother Erik.

They are different from me but we get on well. Our differences unite us.

Ella, as every day, is going to school with her friends Anna and Erik.

At a certain moment, she sees Andrea, her classmate, who is beating up by three classmates, Mirko, Roberto and Giovanni. They wanted his money. Ella tries to help Andrea and says:”Stop it now or I’ll call the headmaster”. So the three bullies go away.

After few days it happens again inside the school.

So Ella tells everything to the headmaster and she calls Andrea. He answeres:”I have never given money to anyone and nobody have never beaten me.

Ella understand that Andrea is not telling the truth because he is scared.

The three bullies threaten him to shut up.

So Ella decides to get some evidences in order to imbed the bullies.

One day, while Ella is coming back home, sees for the third time, Andrea while he is beating up by the bullies.

This time Ella decides to film what’s going on but the bullies sees her and she runs away.

While she is running away, one of the bullies pushes her on the ground and he steals her phone.

Ella breaks her arms and she goes to the hospital.

Andrea, seeing the courage of Bella, decides to report everything to the police.

Thanks to him, the three bullies get arrested by the police so the police find Ella’s phone inside the pocket of one of the bullies.

After those events, other guys of the school, decided to denounce every events of bullying.

The Ella’s courage has encouraged Andrea and then other children.

Nobody has the right to trample the human being. We must denounce bullying, so everyone will get through this problem.

Ella Bella was satisfied for the happy ending of that event, so she organized a big party with her friends.

Ella Bella defends a little cat- 5^D It was a fantastic day of spring and Ella Bella was going to school with Erik and Ann. Every day they across the park because she finds it relaxing: staying in contact with nature help her facing a day at school. However that day there was something strange in the park.

In a bush not far away they saw something moving.

At first, they didn’t pay attention to it but then they heard moans.

They look each other and Ella, who is brave, went to check. Moving toward the bush the moans changed into laugh and Ella Bella became angry.

Someone was hurting the cat and Ella couldn’t allow it. So she ran and found three children who were trying to pull away its moustache.

Ella turned into red and shouted. The three children told her to hush or they would be discovered, so they invited her to go away.

They also threatened her telling her that she would have the same end of the cat.

Erik and Ann were scared so they told her to forget what happened but she answered that nobody had the right to hurt another living being, even though it was only a cat.

The three children became angry so encircled Ella but she wasn’t scared.

Ella hit quickly the child’s hand, who released the cat which was scared.

The cat ran among Anna’s arms. Ella used her knowledge of martial arts to knock out the three children and she embed them in an enclosure.

The she put a cartel on their necks with a statement. “He’s only a boy, you can do whatever you want with him”!

After she continued to walk toward school but first she reported what happened to the park’s guard.

When the guard arrived, the three children asked to get punished.

The punishment consisted on 3 months of volunteering in a kennel in order to learn that animals have feelings and they suffer in the same way of us.

Ella says:� we mustn’t hurt each other or animals because a world without violence and harassment is a better world.