DIVISION 6 MADE THIS BOOK ABOUT HYBRID ANIMALS
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The Legends of Animals
This book is about legends, powers and the animals that we created with the Writers’ Exchange. They are all hybrids, made from different kinds of animals. Some of the hybrids are big, some are small and some are even ten feet tall! The stories are also big and small, and they are all very cool.
The Legends of Animals
Whalecattterfly, by Amy 1 Dolizardpuss, by Arez 2 The Happy LaLa, by Brayden 3 Nemo, by Carson 4 Wenger, by Conrad 5 Laserbear, by Diante 6 Awesomest Wolf, by Douglas 7 The Paccharson, by Jayden 8 My Happy Panda, by Jessica 9 Pandolf, by Jude 10 Mellie, by Kany 11 Berry-the-Bear-Bear, by Kelly 12 Bunny of Horror, by Leanne 13 Robot Tower, by Leo 14 The Flying Snake of Doom, by Maggie 15 Bella, by Merna 16 Master of Legend, by Nathan 17 Solliy, by Nhien 18 Meow Meow, by Saphira 19 Panda the Saver, by Serena 20 Monstotter, by Tayler 21 Biranda, by Victor 22
The Legends of Animals
By Amy
I love b ears
Once upon a time there was a Whalecattterfly walking down the street. She was little and some people stepped on her, so she began to shoot rainbows and she made people happy. She taught people to work together.
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The Legends of Animals
By Arez
Once upon a time there was fire in a building. The Dolizardpuss saw the fire, so he went to check if anybody was in there. There was a person in the building, so he saved the person. The Dolizardpuss brought him back home, then flew up into the sky and flew around. Then there was another emergency, but he did not know where it was, so he flew around to find the emergency. Then he found it and he went inside to save the person. 2
The Legends of Animals
By Brayden
Once upon a time the Happy LaLa was in a sad area. When it went outside, it made everybody happy with its healing powers and it destroyed bad people. It regenerated people when they got hurt. The regeneration power came from the hearts on its chest, and it destroyed bad people with its extra three heads. Once it used a head, another one replaced it.
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The Legends of Animals
By Carson
Nemo shoots fire lightning at everything that is maybe evil. He teaches people to be nice. He is half Iron Man.
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The Legends of Animals
By Conrad
A long time ago there was a legendary animal named Wenger. He saw that everyone was so sad because it was raining so much that it flooded. Then all of the water flew up into the air. Wenger flew over to tell everyone that he made the rain go away by controlling it. Finally, Wenger barfed out rainbows, and everyone was happy. 5
The Legends of Animals
By Diante
Once upon a time there was a bear that had laser nugget eyes and laser powers. The laser eyes turned people to dust! His belly fired energy and he had a laser crown. He lived in a cave with macaroni and cheese.
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The Legends of Animals
By Douglas
One day there was an eagle, a wolf and a killer whale. Then a sea serpent came and combined all of them into a hybrid animal because they were mean. It turned friendly, then the sea serpent came to the hybrid animal and changed it back into the three normal animals.
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The Legends of Animals
By Jayden
Once upon a time there was just a yellow head. Then it slowly started growing and being good. It had a Charizard body and . . . Sonic legs and a Pac-Man head. It could eat ghosts and go fast and fly and barf fire. It destroyed bad guys, and after it destroyed a bad guy it got a power. 8
The Legends of Animals
By Jessica
Ha Ha a H
s.p.
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s.p.
Invisible Panda Hey!
The End
Once upon a time there was a panda named My Happy Panda. She could be invisible and she could fly. One day, she saw a bad guy steal a purse from a mom. She turned invisible so she could catch the bad guy, then she got the purse. She saw her friend, and she wanted to teach her friend. She taught her friend how to fly. 9
The Legends of Animals
By Jude
His special skill was that nobody knew what was inside. He could create black holes. He could use the Aura Bomber. He had three first stages: 1. Baby, 2. Young, 3. Legendary. He also had stage 4: Mega. He got bigger and got more powers. 10
The Legends of Animals
By Kany
Once upon a time there was a cat, and its body was a butterfly and its leg was a human leg and its face was a cat face. It went to school, but everyone was laughing, and it was sad and mad. It got its powers and then it was happy, and everyone else was happy, too, because it had its powers. And they were all happy. 11
The Legends of Animals
By Kelly
Happy
Happy
Happy
Once upon a time there was a bear called Berry-the-Bear-Bear. Its power was making cute faces to turn people into babies.
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The Legends of Animals
By Leanne
Ha ha!
Lab
Once upon a time there was a bunny that got mutated by an evil scientist called Dr. Drill Finger. And then it became Bunny of Horror. Dun, dun, dun! And it had smart spikes that shot out at people and made them turn into dust. To be continued . . . 13
The Legends of Animals
By Leo
Mad
tnt
tnt
Save me!
Once there was a whole bunch of scientists in the lab making way too many red stone torches. So they exploded! All of the torches got cloned by the boss garbage man. The garbage man got destroyed and the future of the tower was saved forever. 14
The Legends of Animals
By Maggie
The flying snake of doom could shoot lasers from her eyes. One day, she was sent to find a gemstone on top of a mountain. When she got to the mountain, she saw that the stone was in a cage with a lock, and it was guarded by lasers. The key was underground. When she got the key, the mountain lit on fire! But she was able to walk through the fire. She cut off the lasers and got the gemstone. The gemstone had magic power. When the snake got home, her owner let her keep the stone. 15
The Legends of Animals
By Merna
bella
Bella shoots stars and hearts. She is important because she makes people be happy. She teaches kindness with hugs.
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The Legends of Animals
By Nathan
The people wanted to drink water, so the Master of Legend came to the people to give them water from his head. He went back to the ocean to be camouflaged, then he went to build a house to live off of his powers and legend. He could turn into all the animals and turn into PokĂŠmon, and he could make a tornado. 17
The Legends of Animals
By Nhien
When Solliy saw a bad guy, he was mad. When Solliy saw good guy, he was happy. When Solliy saw crooks, Solliy chased them. On Saturdays, he always woke up early. When Solliy saw very bad guys, he was very mad and he destroyed them. When he ate popcorn he got the hiccups, and when he hiccupped he always needed water. When Solliy saw another bad guy, he blew a very hard wind.
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The Legends of Animals
By Saphira
Meow Meow has powers. He has fart powers. His powers make people pass out. He is important to humans because he helps their friends. He does not teach people anything. He shows you the difference between candies and fruit. He helps plants and animals. If you want him to play with you, he will try to make some time to play with you. He has some fun activities to do. The fun activities he can do with you are skating, baseball, swimming and skip-roping. He also tucks you in when it’s your bedtime. If your mom needs a babysitter, he will come and babysit you. 19
The Legends of Animals
By Serena
Panda the Saver saw a person near the park, so Panda flew down to show the person where the food was. It was an apple tree. When Panda was done, he got more seeds and put them in the grass. The plants grew very fast and the people ate when they got hungry. The next morning, Panda woke up at 7 a.m. so he could do his job. Panda the Saver had a lot of seeds in his house. They were in a bucket in his room. The next day, Panda did not have any more seeds, so he had to make more. He got 500 of the apple seeds. It took five days to put the seeds in the water. Then Panda the Saver did his work. Panda the Saver got tired, so he went home and went to bed. Panda woke up in the afternoon, then he ate an apple. Panda the Saver first got his powers when he was five years old. 20
The Legends of Animals
By Tayler
Monstotter can do everything. He is important because he fights evil. He zaps the bad guys. He teaches people to be safe.
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The Legends of Animals
By Victor
Biranda is a superhero because he teaches kids how to be safe. And he watches over the town where he was born. His powers are every single power. He visits his family for dinner. He is really different from his family because he has superpowers. But he loves his family a lot. He has one little brother and one big brother and two sisters. His favourite foods are sushi, pizza and vegetables. And he likes to save people from evil people. 22
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