Trussville Library

Fast Cars, Fast Cows

by the Trussville team of writers

One night, in the suburbs, there were two cows. One was a big, mean, green cow named Bellum. She loved fast cars, and she loved one fast, blue race car more than any other.

The other cow was named Milkie, and she was brown and liked to argue. Milkie was waking around just north of Birmingham, when she got an idea. She wasted to go to Trussville to see some of the kids who had signed up for the Summer Reading Program.

This would have been a very long walk, and she was not looking forward to it. Then, it happened. She looked in Milkie's driveway, and she saw Milkie's race car. It was blue. It was fast. And it was right there!

She hopped in the car (which is a funny sight to see!) and drove off. Bellum heard the engine fire up and was shocked when she looked out her window at the rear of her race car speeding away!

She had been texting her BFF Fred when this happened, so she sent a message that said, "Help! Car gone. ROTFC" (which means, of course, Rolling on the Floor, Crying).

Fred was a really nice cow, and he went on a search for the missing car. He saw Milkie as she returned to town from the neighborhood, and when he started to chase her, she stopped, hooped out of the car (which is even funnier than watching her hop in) and ran away, never to be seen or heard from again.

Fred took Bellum to pick up her car, and she was so happy! They raced back home and parked the car in the garage, and locked it up, so this would not happen again.

The end.

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Lena Cagle Library in Bridgeport, AL

A Flowery Mystery
by the very imaginative kids at the Lena Cagle Public Library

(On a personal note, we are very excited about what happened after this story was written. Mrs. Brown, the librarian at the LCPL, presented Roosevelt Rat and Claudia the Hippo with their very own library cards! We will post a photo soon! Thanks!)

And then it happened! Daffodil awoke and wondered why it was suddenly so extremely cold. She shivered as she rolled over and tried to cover up. Imagine her surprise when she opened her eyes and discovered that her shell was missing!
Daffodil was a very nice turtle who looked a little like a troll. Her shell, however was BEAUTIFUL! It was black and had pictures of gorgeous flowers painted on every section of the shell.

Crockadolly, a silly alligator who lived next door to Daffodil in their apartment building in downtown Atlanta, saw how pretty the shell was and wanted it for her own. So she waited until Daffodil was asleep and carefully slid the shell off our turtle friend, and took it home to try it on.

When Daffodil discovered the reason for her chilliness, she called Samantha, a very feathery chicken who managed their apartment building and told her about the incident. Everyone thought that Sam was very very nice, so they were quite shocked when she found the shell in Crockadolly's apartment, pecked the alligator until she let it go, and then - GASP! - ran off with the shell, leaving her job, her friends, and a very cold turtle behind.

As of this moment, Samantha the chicken has not been located and no one knows what has become of the shell, but there is a rumor that it has been seen on eBay. (Really! type in Painted turtle shell and you'll see!)

The End

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Sewell Library in Bowdon, GA

Sherlock Holmes Rides the Range

by the Bowdon Readers

In 1811, in a small town in Canada, there was a girl named McKenzie, and she LOVED ghost stories. She loved to hear them, she loved to tell them, and she loved to make them up. But most of all, she loved to read them. Her favorite book of ghost stories was Scary Stories to Tell After Dark by Alvin Schwartz.

Everyone in town knew of her love for scary ghosts stories, even the bad guys in town. John Wilkes Boothe (a rascal and an evildoer, even when he was young) broke into McKenzie's house and took her favorite book, just to be mean. He wasn't even going to read it!

Next door to McKenzie's house was a little bed and breakfast where the famous cowboy detective Sherlock Holmes was spending a few days on vacation. Like most small towns, everyone knows everything that happens in town, and it wasn't long before Sherlock was on the case. (He later moved to England and got a job with Scotland Yard.)

Sherlock followed the clues and discovered that mean old Boothe had taken the book, but Boothe would not tell anyone where he hid it. He went to jail and did not get out until early 1865.

McKenzie was quite sad about her lost book until she went to a friends of the library sale and found More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by the same author! She now had a new favorite book and she lived happily (and a little scarily) ever after.

The end.

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Northside Branch Library, Atlanta, GA

That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles

by the Northside Library Writers

There was a chair that thought she was special. Her name was Laura, and she was pink, soft, fluffy, and very comfortable. Her favorite thing to have on her table was a big plate of huge, warm, delicious chocolate chip cookies.

She had been riding through Atlanta on a bus, and when she returned home, she discovered that someone or something had taken her latest plate of cookies! She was so upset. She got on the computer and sent an e-mail to her good friend Grace, a 3 year old yellow chair who was also the most helpful chair in the neighborhood.

Grace went around asking questions of the neighbors and found out that while Laura was away, one of the neighbors saw a blue chair named Ashton sneak into Laura's house and leave a few minutes later. Further inquiry determined that Ashton lived alone in a small house down the street and that he was always upset and jealous, because he thought he was the only chair that lived in that area. Ashton had heard that he had brothers and sisters, but had gotten separated from them when they were young.

When Grace went to talk to Ashton, two things happened. First Ashton discovered that he was not alone, and Grace noticed a strong resemblance between Ashton and Laura. Could it be that they were brother and sister?

After she did a little more detective work, she told Laura that she had some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that the cookies were eaten, and were gone forever. The good news? Grace had found Laura's brother! The reunion was such a happy one, that they had a party and invited all the furniture in the neighborhood to come over and celebrate!

What a happy ending! And of course the main food served at the party was - you guessed it - huge, warm, delicious chocolate chip cookies!

The End

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Heard County Library, Franklin, GA

A Really Cheesy Story

by the young readers of the Heard County Library

One morning, Bill woke up and noticed that his golden cheese was gone! Bill was a medium sized brown and purple mouse who was very kind. He had a golden piece of cheese that had purple polka dots on it, and it was made of REAL GOLD!

He loved that piece of cheese so much that he even placed it in a special display case on his table. One day while he was in another part of his mouse house, Sara, a not so smart red lion, climbed in Bill's window and took the cheese thinking it was a delicious, colorful and heavy snack.

Of course when Bill realized he had been robbed, he called Roxy, the owner of the ranch where he lived and asked for her help. Everyone around knew that Roxy was very smart and could solve lots of problems.

Roxy got in her truck and started driving around the ranch. When she saw Sara, the not so bright lion, trying to eat what looked like a piece of purple polka dotted golden cheese, she knew she had solved the mystery.

Sara went to jail for 30 days for cheese stealing, and Bill was so happy to get his cheese back that he threw a huge party, with Roxy as the guest of honor!

The End.

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Kellogg Library in Stone Mountain, GA

Party Animals

By the kids at the Kellogg/Stone Mountain Library

"It was missing!" Joseph, the boy who loved to read, was amazed and angry. Sometimes called Hot Dog by his friends, because he was as skinny as a hot dog, Joseph was telling his classmates what had happened. It seems that Umm, an evil man with a thick, black mustache, had taken Joseph's smelly donkey, named Molasses, without permission, to ride it to a party. Umm was known to everyone in town as a real party animal.

The party took place in downtown Brisbane, Australia, where Joseph and his friends lived. When Joseph discovered that Molasses was gone, he sent a text message to his friend George, who was always helpful. George was eating a banana, as always, when he came over to Hot Dog's house.

George had seen Umm on the donkey just moments earlier and thought that Joseph had loaned him the animal.

"Which way were they going?" Joseph asked.

George swallowed and said, "to the center of downtown, where all the cool parties take place."

They hurried in that direction, just in time to see Umm scream and jump off of the donkey. When they looked up, they saw what made the party animal scream. To this day, no one knows why, but a huge rhinoceros fell off the skyscraper above them and crashed right onto the donkey, killing him instantly.

Joseph was so very, very angry, he ate his friend George in one bite. (Even though he was skinny, he could eat a lot!)

The only good news in this whole story is that the rhino was okay, and Joseph got to take it home as a pet.

The End!

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The Young Explorers at Primrose School of Dunwoody Write a Story

Snack Pack: An Out of This World Dessert!

by the Primrose Riders (Writers)

Phieffer the Wolf had been swimming and when he returned to his house he was shocked to discover that his Snack Pack was gone! He loved Snack Packs, and this one was very special because it was the strawberry flavor, which is not available on Earth. Though he missed Earth, there were a few benefits of living somewhere else!

But, back to our story. While Phieffer was away, a very hungry, very grumpy rhino named Susie walked right into the wolf's den and took the Snack Pack right off the table. When the theft was discovered, Phieffer called his best friend, Umm the horse. Umm was a sweet horse but was known to be a no nonsense kind of animal. Instead of developing a plan to trick the rhino thief, Umm just went to Susie's and got the pudding back.

The wolf was happy, the horse was glad to help, and the rhino went to jail.

The end.