Mason Elementary School, Duluth, GA - 1st Grade

The Story of the Missing Story

You don't often hear an adventure about a missing adventure, but that's what happened.

Gabe was a short kid who LOVED to read.  His favorite book contained a long adventure story that was very exciting.  Gabe had already read the very thick book twice and was reading it again.  He was a very smart student and he always had a book with him, but lately he only carried his favorite book.

You can imagine how upset he was when the book disappeared!  Gabe was on the playground and when he came back to the classroom, it was gone!  It was not in his desk, or on the floor or on any of his friends' desks.  It was not anywhere in the classroom.

Gabe did not know that while he was outside a bad guy came into the classroom and took the book because he thought it might be worth a lot of money.  When the bad guy got to his car, he looked up the book on the Internet and found out that it was a great story, but that the book was only worth $20.  He threw the book out the window and drove away from the school.

As he drove away, Bobby, a 5th grader that everyone knew was a good helper, found the book and picked it up.  Bobby was kind of famous for rescuing people who were in trouble, so rescuing a book was kind of fun!  Bobby did not know who had lost the book and did not know how to find the owner.

Gabe was worried about his book.  He asked Alex a nice girl from his class to help him find it.  Alex and her pet lizard made posters that said, "MISSING BOOK!  Please Call Gabe if you find it!"  the poster included a drawing of the cover of the book and Gabe's phone number and his teacher's name so anyone who found it could bring it to his class.

Bobby saw the poster, brought the book to Gabe's teacher and Gabe got his book back.  He went to find Bobby and thank him for being a good guy and Gabe and Alex and Bobby became good friends.  They even became friends with Alex's lizard.

Why don't you write a story about one of Bobby's adventures rescuing someone?  The story would be very exciting, and it could have danger, a mystery and a big adventure!