Crawford County ES 3rd Grade

The Case of the Missing Laptop
by the 3rd Grade

"I lost my laptop!'

Paul was crying and yelling because Alex, the meanest, grumpiest, ugliest guy you ever saw had just taken Paul's prize laptop computer. Paul's mother had told him never to lay his new computer down when he was out in public, because someone might steal it. Once again, Mom was right.

Paul was not very smart, but for a rat, he was a nice guy. He had decorated his laptop with food stickers, because he loved to eat. In fact, he loved to eat so much that he was the fattest rat around.

Paul called his friend Sally, the detective, to help him recover his computer. Sally was watching wrestling on TV when Paul called, but she turned it off to help her friend.

Sally followed the clues and when she found Alex, she hit him with a chair, just like those guys on the wrestling show always did. When Alex fell over, Sally took the laptop and returned it to Paul.

When Sally went back to arrest Alex, she found that she had not knocked him out. She had only stunned him, and he was escaping. He had hopped into an escape pod and was on his way to Mexico when she got back.

Will Alex be back? Did he learn his lesson? Is he afraid Sally will hit him with a chair again?

The End

Claudia says, "Wow! What an action packed story. Do YOU think Alex will be back? You could write a story about what might happen if he returned."