Hi, my name is Erica. I'm 11 years old and in the 6th grade. I go to school in Kansas and like to write stories. Here are a few I've written so far.

Hi! My name's Sharon; that's my brother Keith over there. That's right, the one with all the glasses, suspenders and above your belly-button high pants. In case you don't know, we call that kind of a person a nerd!! Our parents might call them regular people or geniuses. "Whatever". But in a way he is kind of a genius and kind of cool. See, it all started last summer....

My brother was supposed to do a science experiment over the summer and turn it into his old science teacher. He did the experiment all right, but somehow it malfunctioned and he ended up duplicating a bunch of popcorn. It turned out to be cool but kind of a disaster.

See, our parents had left town and we were supposed to be in charge. Well he did his experiment while I watched t.v. All of a sudden the power went out and our house exploded with popcorn. We started charging addmission for people to come in and take all the popcorn they weanted. We had to clean up before our parents got home. Well it didn't work. We made $15,000.00 and we got grounded for two years and we're still not allowed to stay home by ourselves. So be careful about what experiments you do. You may never see the outside again! :)

"Where's my suitcase?" "In the closet!" Aaron was in the basement screaming at the top of his lungs. Hi, my name's Adriane. I am 13 years old, Aaron's 12. We were getting our stuff ready. We're moving to an island in the Phillipeans. We're going to have it all to ourselves.

Well, not exactly to ourselves. I have five other brothers and three more sisters. They are Andrea (12), Ashley (16), Amanda (9), Andy (24), Andrew Jr.(2 1/2), Aric (5), Steve (3 months old) and Richard (15). You might notice that all of us are A's except two; why? Because my mom and dad couldn't think of anymore A names. "Kids are you ready to go?" mom yelled from her room. "No!" we all screamed at the same time, except Andrew Jr. He can't talk so he just screamed.

I walked into what used to be the playroom. Andrew was sitting there playing with his G.I-Joes that I had just put away in the bottom of a box that we were taking with us. How he got them I don't know. "Andrew" I screamed, "How did you get those out"? "Ook" he said. He was pointing to the box; it was all ripped up. I ended up packing the box again. It took up a lot of time. "Okay kids", dad said. "Lets get going". So we got in the car and left. "Y,Y, mouse" Andrew said. "Bye, Bye, house", Aric corrected him. "Up" Andrew screamed, trying to say shut-up. "Where's Whiskers"? Andrea asked. "Oh no, we left him"! mom cried. So we drove back. Luckily Whiskers was sitting on the porch waiting. "Come on Boy" I called. He jumped up and ran to the car. We were on our way. (FINALLY!)

Soon we were at the airport. We got on our plane and we were off. In case you're wondering we're going to fly to the Phillipine airport and then take a boat to the island. "Why is the island deserted?" I asked mom while we were on the plane. " I don't know honey", mom replied. It took us 36 hours to reach the airport. I was exhausted. We decided to stay in a hotel until the next morning. The next day it was time to go to the island. The movers were already there waiting so we had to hurry. The island is named Schurke Island. "I wonder what Schurke means" I said to Andy while we were cooking dinner. Finally after a month we were done unpacking. Our house looked pretty good but not as good as our old house. "I wanna go home" whined Aric. "We are home sweetie". said mom. "Where's Andrew and Steve?" I screamed. We searched and searched but didn't find him.