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Entertaining adventures that will thrill you … even if you’re in a black hole in space By the Creative Kids of Mr. Kobelka’s Class

Copyright © 2020 The Writers’ Exchange This book was created by Division 9, Mr. Kobelka’s grade 3 class, at Cook Elementary in the winter of 2020.

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CONTENTS 2

The Evil Puppy by Aleynna

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The Zombie Story by Sonia

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Stoopsy Loo and the Attack of the Brain Bots by Matthew

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South Flower Farms in Mystic Forest by Miles

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The Friends Who Loved Hockey by Sammi

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The Snow King by Ethan S.

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The Mystery Cactus by Shurman

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Steve’s End Adventure by Yaj

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Jelly Volcano Explosion by Austan

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The Sonic Hedgehog by Mark

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A Dog Who Had a Magic Friend by Julia

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The Famous Model by Kayla

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I’m Stuck in Meme Land in the Future by Sophie

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The Amazing Adventure of the Champion by Kevin

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Deadpool vs. Hobbs by Liam

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Greek Gods by D.M.

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Super Jake vs. Zombies by K.M.

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Undertale Problem by Sophia

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The Princess by Suzan

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Minecraft Story by Ethan M.

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Skatemoon by Brendan

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Pizza Party by Marina

The Evil Puppy

By Aleynna

There once was a girl who wanted to be a ninja, so she became one.

Then her friends became ninjas too. But there was a puppy there, and the puppy was jealous of them because she had no friends and it made her mad. So she became an evil puppy. She kidnapped one of the ninjas—that ninja was a robot girl. The evil puppy got a new rocket from the evil madness shop, then the puppy put the robot in the rocket ship.

In one hour, the robot was on the moon. The two ninja girls made their own rocket ship and went inside it. In one more hour the ninja girls were on the moon too. They rescued the robot girl and they left on their rocket.

Later, when the puppy and the ninja girls were at school, the ninja girls went to the park to play tag. They called over to the puppy and the puppy said, “What?” A ninja girl said, “Why are you like this?” and the puppy said, “Because I don’t have any friends.” Then they all became friends.

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The Zombie Story

By Sonia

Somewhere in Roblox there was a noob named Sonia. One day, a little light flashed and Sonia was suddenly in another world. Sonia met Nina and they became friends. When they were older, they travelled to Canada and met Leona. Leona was an ordinary girl, but she was also a wizard and she could make a potion that turned people into zombies. One day, a kid named Brandon was playing soccer. He knocked into the potion and turned into a zombie. He kept coughing and making other people sick, so Leona made a cure. They put the cure into an airplane and shot it everywhere, and the people who got it became normal.

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Stoopsy Loo and

the Attack of the Brain Bots

By Matthew

GET Y HOT DOOUR GS!

Brainblushkob mastermind

Loopsy Stoopsy Loo

Brain Bot

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Chapter 1: The Meet of the Hot Dog One fine morning Stoopsy was just chilling out with his sidekick Loopsy when someone shouted, “Who wants hot dogs?” When they heard him they were super hyped, so they ran down from their big house and got there before he left. Then, they heard something... it was a clicking noise.

They went down into the sewers to find it and saw bots, small bots.

There was, like, a billion of them—they were just robots, but they all had red eyes. Stoopsy and Loopsy were so confused about why the robots were there, so they did some research. The research showed them that the robots weren’t just bots, they were brain bots—that means they suck people’s brains. And these bots were actually Brainblushkob’s brain bots. When they learned that, they got even more confused, because Brainblushkob never reveals his evil plans.

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South Flower Farms in Mystic Forest

By Miles

Jasper L acy Bunbu

6

n Flash

Once, at South Flower Farms, there lived Lacy, who was a little dog, Bunbun, who was a very smart bunny, Flash, who was a chubby hamster and Jasper, who was a fast horse. One warm sunny morning at 8 a.m., Flash said, “Let’s go to Mystic Forest.” Lacy, Bunbun and Jasper said, “Sure.”

They opened the door and the four friends ran off to Mystic Forest.

As they ran, they all saw fantastic things, like colourful flowers, snowy grass and more wonderful things. Living nearby was a rough hedgehog.

The friends went stomp, stomp, stomp as they went by, and the hedgehog fell off his bed and woke up. He marched out quietly and hid under a mushroom, but first he blamed Lacy and hurt her feelings.

Lacy asked, “Is there a tissue and a feelings doctor?” Flash said, “I’m a feelings doctor and I’m going to look in my secret pocket for a tissue.”

Bunbun said, “Wow!” Flash found a tissue and went to talk to Lacy while Bunbun and Jasper talked to the hedgehog.

After, they met up and walked home to South Flower Farms and drifted asleep.

“Now we are all ready for our next stunning adventure! We’ll never forget our amazing adventure in Mystic Forest,” said Flash.

“Well, not for me,” said Lacy. “Let’s go to the Burnished Lake.”

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The Friends Who Loved Hockey

By Sammi

It was October 23, 2053, and it was the first game of the 2053 hockey season. It was the first NHL season for Bob, Fred and George. They were all so excited! Bob was drafted first, then George, and finally Fred was drafted. One day, Bob was getting dressed for the game. He realized that he forgot his stick in Canada! So Fred let him use his bent stick. But then Bob had a different problem! He was too nervous to go on the ice. His team took him to the roof to watch the sun set. But that did not work. So they took him to the beach to play, and, luckily, that worked amazingly.

They all ended up being amazing hockey players. Bob’s mom wanted to send him his stick. But she didn’t know where he was, so she called him.

Bob said he was in Hawaii, so then she was able to send the stick to him.

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The Snow King

By Ethan S.

The snow king was a very strong and good-looking person, but he was mean. He was the ruler of the Antarctic. Everyone did not like the snow king, even though the snow king was the ruler of the Antarctic. The yetis kept disobeying the snow king’s every command, and the snow king started getting really mad. One day, the snow king said to the yetis, “When you make me mad I will throw one of you into lava, and I will never see you again.” But the next time the yetis made him mad, the snow king did not throw a yeti in lava. Instead, the yetis threw the snow king in lava.

And that was the last time they would see the snow king.

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The Mystery Cactus

By Shurman

The Cactus Wizard

One time there was a ninja walking through the forest. Somehow, a wizard cactus appeared. He zapped the ninja’s eyes. When the ninja woke up, the wizard cactus had escaped and was gone. Six hours later, the ninja took a plane to Egypt to find the cactus. He found the wizard cactus and tried to defeat it. The ninja threw a ninja star. The cactus got mad and sent a fire charge. The ninja deflected the fire charge with a katana. The ninja succeeded. He joined with his friends and started digging around the cactus. They cut its roots off.

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Steve’s End Adventure

By Yaj

LY FUL E E P HO SAF I'M

One night in a blocky land, a young man named Steve made an end portal. He entered it, feeling worried about getting attacked. After a few seconds, he arrived at the other side of the portal. Steve walked around, trying not to look in the eyes of the ender man who was there. Then, a dragon spotted him. The dragon swooped down and targeted the young explorer, but Steve saw the dragon before it attacked. He swung, stabbed and swiped, but it did not do a thing. But Steve never, ever gave up. When he realized he was not doing any damage, Steve got an idea!

He ran to an end crystal and touched it, making it explode. The explosion was so strong that the dragon died and it dropped another end crystal.

Steve picked up the prized object, exited the end portal and went home to sleep, just as if everything was okay. But across the end portal, there were two ender dragon eggs, and‌ they hatched.

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Jelly Volcano Explosion

By Austan

Dicer and Leatherhead Billy were on Pluto at midnight. There was a bad guy there named Horn Head. Horn Head exploded a jelly volcano and the jelly flooded the city. The people there were running for their lives.

But Billy opened a sewer drain and all the jelly went into it and out to the ocean. It turned the ocean into a jelly ocean.

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The Sonic Hedgehog

By Mark

Once upon a time there were three friendly heroes named Sonic, Tails and Knuckles. They were taking a run. As they ran down the street they saw a villain named Shadow. Shadow wanted to attack them, but they stopped him for good with their powers. After they stopped him, Shadow went home to take a cry because he had no more powers. Sonic, Tails and Knuckles got Shadow’s powers to test out and put in their box.

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A Dog Who Had a Magic Friend

By Julia

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Ella. One day when she was at home, her mom told her to go to the store, so she went to the store with her dog. They were in the store when her dog’s collar fell off.

Her dog sprinted into the food aisle, then sprinted into the toy aisle! Ella was worried, but she remembered that she had brought dog treats in her pocket. She put the dog treats along the floor in a trail. Her dog sniffed the treats and followed the trail and found Ella. When the dog came back, they saw a magic dog with wings. Ella’s dog and the magic dog became friends. Now Ella is happy to have two dogs!

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The famous model

By Kayla

Late one evening in a cozy house there lived a famous model named Emilia. She was medium height and very rich, and her home was very neat and pretty. But she had a very bad week. The week started off as a plain day. She went to the mall and her fans took pictures of her with their cell phones and asked for her autograph. Emilia went to her favourite makeup shop, but after she finished her shopping and got home, something bad happened! She went to make herself some lunch, but forgot to turn on her security camera. Another girl saw the makeup and snuck into her house and stole it. So Emilia decided to make herself feel better by going to the spa. She had a massage, a manicure and a pedicure. She had a great time and didn’t have to worry!

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I’m Stuck in Meme Land in the Future

By Sophie

Rocky, Meme Hacker and Cacti were carpooling in the van. But they didn’t know they had gone into a future portal. They went to Meme Land in the future. They were surrounded by memes.

They saw the land was filled with memes, but didn’t know where they were. The Meme Hacker said, “This must be Meme Land! We must have gone into one of the future portals!” While they were talking, the meme maker from Meme Land came and took them and locked them up in a room. When they stopped talking, they noticed they were locked up in the room.

One solution they tried for getting themselves out of the room was to use acid barf, but it didn’t work. So they tried to think of another solution.

Cacti saw a flute in her pot, so she blew on it, and an alicorn came.

Everyone got on the alicorn.

But... where were they going?

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The Amazing Adventure of the Champion

By Kevin

From the Internet

Once upon a time, there was a war between a superhero and a villain.

The war was happening in the desert. Unfortunately, the villain won the war. But not really!

An amulet chose another human to be the new champion. This new champion had super strength and he could regenerate. He also had a sword. But the new champion had no training.

A trainer found the champion and taught him all the tricks and weaknesses of the villain. After one year, the new chosen one had completed all of his training. He went to the desert to defeat the villain at his secret lair.

To be continued...

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Deadpool vs. Hobbs

By Liam

Deadpool

Shaw

Hobbs

Deadpool rules, Hobbs & Shaw drool...

One rainy night there was a character named Deadpool. He was an antihero—he was half good and mostly bad. Also, there were two other characters who were arriving in New York, and those characters were Hobbs and Shaw.

Hobbs and Shaw were looking for Deadpool. They found him in an alleyway. Deadpool told them he was waiting for them.

“What?!” said Hobbs and Shaw. They dropped a liquid on Deadpool and he fell asleep. Hobbs and Shaw said, “Yes!” In the end, they arrested Deadpool. But he escaped, so Hobbs and Shaw are still on the chase.

To be continued...

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Greek Gods

By D.M. Poseidon and Zeus were battling each other. Zeus sent lightning that shot Earth. They rewound time back to a trillion years and the sun condensed its gases and rebuilt Earth.

S OOP

HA SORRY

I CAN'T DIE

I'M BACK

UNDERWATER

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Super Jake vs. Zombies

By K.M.

THERE WAS A HERO NAMED

ON THE MOON...

SUPER JAKE

HE HAD A TREE HOUSE

HE HE

HE TOOK DNA FROM A UFO TO MAKE...

...A PICKLE? OK! ZOMBIES ACTIVATED

UH OH, IT’S...

HA HA

AAAAAAAAA

HE TRIES TO FIND A CURE BUT FAILS

HA HA, PRANK!

THE END

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Once there was a super hero named Super Jake who had a tree house on the moon. He took DNA to make a pickle. The evil launched zombies. (Aaah so scary 0_0 ... Not.) Anyway, he got infected and tried to look for a cure but failed. He flew to ’s lab. “Muhaha,” said the villain.

Super Jake punched his way out of the evil ship. “Okay, time to find a cure,” he said. He found a healing needle and said, “Aha!” He stuck the needle in himself. “Now I can destroy them,” he said.

He discovered he could shoot lasers from his hands and said, “WOAH!” He saw that he had rocket boots and said, “Epic!” He found a laser fire and said, “Hahaha!” He fired the lasers and the zombies disappeared.

“Huh?” he said. The zombies were fake. “Hahaha! Pranked you!” said the pickle. He kicked the pickle out of the moon and into the sun.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...”

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Undertale Problem

By Sophia

HEY, IT'S OKAY!

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WHY DO YO FORGIVE U SO QUICKLME Y?

Once there was a skeleton whose name was Sans. Sans was a small but strong skeleton. There was another person, a person he loved, whose name was Papyrus. Papyrus was a skeleton just like Sans, but he was way taller! He liked cooking spaghetti and being with his brother, Sans.

But Papyrus was dead! How, you ask? Well, guess!

3 seconds later...

If you guessed that Papyrus was defeated by Frisk, you are on a roll! But I bet that you don’t know who Frisk is. Frisk is a human who fell into the underworld. Frisk’s only weapon was a stick! But how did Frisk defeat Sans with just a stick? Well, Frisk didn’t really battle Sans! Chara was battling Sans! Chara is another side of Frisk, the stronger side. Chara wanted to defeat Sans so she could reset.

While Chara was battling Sans, Sans realized something. “I can’t be with my brother if I’m alive and he’s dead. So I’ll just destroy myself... then I’ll be with my bro!” Sans snatched the knife out of Chara’s hand and pointed it to his soul. Right before Sans almost destroyed himself, Chara turned back into Frisk. Frisk saw what Sans was about to do, so she snatched the knife out of Sans’s hand, threw it across the judgment hall and gave Sans a hug. Sans couldn’t believe what was happening, but he accepted it and hugged Frisk back. Game over.

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The Princess

By Suzan

Once upon a time there was a girl named Jessica. She lived in a big, big, big castle with her mom and dad. Her mom was the queen and her dad was the king. It was a good family, and her puppy was in the family too.

But one day Dr. Kevin got Jessica lost in the big, big castle! She was so, so, so scared, and her puppy was not with her. “Oh no,� said Jessica.

Then the prince came! He saved her and the villain went to jail. Then Jessica and the prince had fun.

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Minecraft Story

By Ethan M.

???

WOW!

???

Once there was a boy named Ashton. Ashton always wanted to craft the enchanted rainbow sword. He saw someone who had a rainbow sword and asked where he found the enchanted book. “Underground,” the person answered. Ashton said, “What!!!?!!!!!! C-Ca-Ca-Can y-y-yoyou help me dig?” and the unknown person said, “Okay... but what’s your name?”

Ashton told him his name and asked, “What’s yours?” The person said, “Tristan. And I know someone else who can help you with us.”

Ashton asked who, and Tristan said, “Ethan. He has an enchanted bedrock pickaxe and a bedrock sword to kill ender men.”

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skatemoon

By Brendan

OM BO OOM B

I was waiting in the streets and I saw a skateboard store called Mad Dog. I realized there was a bomb about to blow up... and then it blew! BOOM! BOOM! Then the skateboard store got rebuilt and everyone was happy.

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Pizza Party

By Marina

Marina’s Pizzeria

MMMMM YUMMY

PIZZ A BOX

Tanya and JoJoSiwa were late for the pizzeria party. They didn’t know what to do. JoJoSiwa and Tanya didn’t know what to wear. Taylor Swift helped JoJo and Tanya pick out their outfits. They made it to the pizza party and ate pizza and played bowling.

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