CHAPTER TWO

My awful upside down school

 

“ The looming brick building of utter and completely hard to believe that it’s legal torture” said Maya.

 

“ Icky” I say

 

“ Hello class Welcome Patrick, Welcome Maya, Welcome, Mia, Welcome Maria, and Welcome ‘Lijah”

 

“ Hello Class”

 

“Hello Mrs. Potters!”

 

“ What a beautiful morning it is today, shall we get started?”

 

“Yes!”

“All right, today we are going to practice! So go to your stations!”

 

Our stations are little rooms  not larger than a dinner table, with titanium walls. We practice our magic in them because it’s safer. While the others are in their stations I practice around the remaining space.  The classroom is really bright and cheery with one wall red, one blue, one purple, and one rainbow striped. There’s posters all around the room and our desks are each painted a different color. That color is like our name, it represents us. My color is red. Mrs. Potter’s likes it that way.  It’s pretty fun, too.  Sometimes we practice our magic, but other days we play magic games, like Melted CandyLand for the flames, and Human Chutes and Ladders for the flyers, and so on.

 

This is going to be a short chapter because I want to tell you something  really super ultra important about me.

 

Chapter Three

My secret

 

So here’s the thing, I wasn’t born a flyer.

 

When I was small, like five and a half, I had the best animal powers in all of Borj.  I could do anything with my powers that you could’ve asked. I was so little too. I went around Borj and all throughout cities and towns, it was amazing and I was so happy. Here I am this tiny little five year old with straight short brown hair and a cute little hand made dress. Touring the country. I had fans but I also had haters.

 

Franze Mccoppithagafordotten was one of my haters. He was  a Flamer and he was as Messed-up-and-tangled-around-and-around as it gets. He was jealous of me and my powers, and one day he did something about it.

 

Franze Mccoppithagafordotten took away my powers. His brother was  Francis Mccoppithagafordotten, a little known revenge seeking scientist. Francis invented a contraption to take away powers. He used it on me and gave Franze all my powers and abilities. I went to a doctor who said that I would never be an Animal whisperer again. He implanted wings on me when I was six. They were beautiful, blue and shimmery, but it wasn’t the same as whispering.  I miss it so much, I tried to teach my brother, but it was hopeless.  Franze is famous and tours the world, not just Borj, the non-magical people have accepted him and he now lives in somewhere called New York.

 

I have a bone to pick with Mr. Franze Mccoppithagafordotten

 

Chapter 4

My second introduction

 

I’m Mia Kamel, I’m 11 years old, when I was five I got my amazing Animal abilities stolen, I love red, chocolate, and my wings, I go to Clux Berry Magic school, and I’m really not in the advanced program.   

 

Chapter 5

       My Decision

“I’m sick of this!” I say as I walk into school with Maya.

 

“What do you mean?” She asks.

 

“ I want to be good at my ability’s, I want to be advanced.” I say.

 

Maya is the only one who knows about

Franze Mccoppithagafordotten besides my family and Mrs. Potters.

 

“ Mia, I do to, I really, really do, but there’s nothing I can do about it. No matter how hard we practice, we just are never going to be normal magicians, and that’s okay.”

 

“ No Maya, it’s not, follow me.”

 

We run through the school’s halls clutching our books. We finally come to the door. What’s behind this door is my favorite place. Ever.  The door is old and worn with a big sign that says THIS DOOR MUST STAY LOCKED AT ALL TIMES, but it’s always open. The door is downstairs in the basement. It’s blocked with some old materials and chairs. I shove the door open and flick on the lights.

 

The whole room is full of boxes, old boxes. To the right is an old beanie bag chair and to the left is a file cabinet.  These files belong to all the kids that have ever been in the disadvantage program in Clux Berry Magic School.

 

Maya jogs in behind me, catching her breath.  I open file number 1456 and take out the first 16 papers.

 

“ Maya, this has all the information of every student in the Disadvantaged Program at Clux Berry.”

 

“Woah.”

I give her paper’s two-eight.

“Here’s your record”, I say.

“Maya Traburlowskin, age 11  Speeder.” Maya says

 

“Ok sure basic info about random people, can we go to class now?” She asks

 

“Ugh, Maya Traburlowskin, don’t you get it, Franze Mccoppithagafordottin went to Clux Berry, he was in the Disadvantaged program, we can use his record to find him.”

 

“Find him?, Mia Kamel, you aren’t, there are so many things that can go wrong, not to mention how you are going to get to him. Mia, don’t even think about it.”

 

“ To. Late.”

 

Chapter 6

 What have I done

 

Fifteen minutes later I’m sitting on a bench in an old smelly bus stop with my best friend and an umbrella. Bum Bum Bum Bum Beep Beep Beep, my phone is ringing.

 

“ Heeelllooo, Hi Mrs. Traburlowskin, Maya’s all tied up right now, Ok see you later, Buh Bye now”.

 

That wasn’t exactly a lie. I kinda sorta tied her up so she couldn’t move and made her come here so she would pay for our tickets in exchange for freedom.

 

“ Maya, I’m gonna let you go, do you have 15 dollars?” I say slash ask.

 

She hands me the money. I carefully and slowly untie her. We board the bus to Baksdaven, the town on the edge of Borj. It reeks on that bus.

 

Maya’s one of those fancy girls, and takes out a spray from her fringy purse. Four sprays of that and the bus suddenly smells like Caramel Apple Delight, She gingerly unfolds a piece of Razzabazzle gum and pops it in her mouth.

 

“ Want some?”  she asks

 

I take a piece.  The bus goes all the way around Kelhangad, my town and to the border of Arrplytutle when I realize something. It’s 3:00.  I’m supposed to be home in 15 minutes. What will my parents think. They’ll probably call the police who will track me down and I’ll be grounded for life. Oh. No.  I need to get to Franze, I need to get my Animal Powers back, I just… Do.  I can’t help it, I want to be normal, then I can create a  formula to make the magic of the disadvantaged amazing.

 

I take a deep breath and tell Maya I’m going to get off and go to the bathroom.

 

“Can I have your perfume?” I ask her,

 

She looks at me quizzically, but hands be the pink plastic bottle that smells like Jibbles, the department store with the perfume section the size of my house.  I go to the bathroom at the Jeller Beans Cafe.  I drench myself in the acidic liquid, scrub myself with soap and pull my crazy long wavy brown into a messy bun on the top of my head, take of my sweatshirt and spray myself a little more. Now the police won’t be able to find me, I smell like Jibbles, and I never, ever, put my hair up.

 

“ What’s up” I say as I get back to Maya.

 

“Whats up? Whats up?, you never, ever, put your hair up. You smell like the drug store across the street from the pizza place, …”

 

“Jibbles” I interrupt sheepishly.

 

“…. What ever, look, you used all of my perfume, I’ve been  on this chemical smelling  bus with my best friend going to who know’s where, for three hours. Mia, tell me where you plan to go and what you’ll be doing there or I’ll get off at the next stop and pay for a taxi.”

 

“ I’m going to go the edge of Borj, dress like a tourist, catch a ferry to New York, catch Franze and from there we’ll-”

 

“Oh no, Mia, there is no we, I’m super angry at you, you tie me up, bring me to this bus, use all my perfume, and until now, I had no idea where we where going, I’m not going to get in major trouble, risk my life, and meet this wack Franze Mcwhatever just so YOU can get better at your powers, ditch  me, and start touring the country again. You’re so selfish! I can’t believe you,…ugh!”

 

“Maya…I”

 

“Can it wait until you’re too famous to talk to me EVER again?”

 

And just like that I watched my possibly former best friend walk away from me, pay for a cab and ride away.

 

I don’t need her. I’ll be fine on my own. I tuck my wings into myself so no one can see them, then I realize something, Maya was going to pay for our ferry tickets, and our disguises. But she didn’t take her purse when she dumped me.

 

Should I use the 50$ for a cab ride home so I can apologize, or to pay my way to being advanced.

 

Chapter 7

     My Adventure

 

One hour later I’m one the edge of Borj, in a town to buy tourist stuff. I use high heels to get taller, some of Maya’s makeup to make myself look older, buy some sun block cream, a sundress, a disposable camera, and a pair of those sunglasses the size of dinner plates.

 

Viola!  I’m an old cheap tourist for just 15$ at the good old Bargain Mart. Ferry tickets cost just 25$ at the Ferry Rides For Less Ferries. That leaves me with enough for something in New York.

 

And no, I do not feel guilty for using Maya’s money. She cut me off before I could say something really important. I’m doing something good for the entire Country of Borj. Every Borjonian will benefit from my courageous act of generosity.

 

The ferry ride is awful. I puke, I hurl and I do every other variation of throwing up possible. Such as, I blow chunks, I vomit, I eject, and I spit up.

 

Well that is thankfully over.  Ok, um I’m in New York, on a pier, so uh now what.  I wipe of the make up and let my hair down. But then, accidentily, I let my wings slip. Thankfully no one notices.

 

I don’t really know what to do. I didn’t think it was going to work.  Maya would know what to do.  She would say,

 

“ Mia, suck it up, crying won’t fix anythin’”

 

It’s like I can hear her voice, like she’s standing right next to me. I plop down and cry.  What am I doing? This won’t work, It can’t, what would I say to Franze, Hey I’m that girl that you stole her life from, give her life back.

 

“ Mia, get yourself together, I’m not here to see you mope.”

 

“ Maya?”

 

“ Hey weirdo”

 

“ I’m sorry for being so selfish”

 

“ I never knew what it was like to be good at powers, if I did I’d want them back too, would you get up and tell me your plan.”

 

Mia’s Magic

CHAPTER ONE

 

Messed Up Magic

 

The magic in our family is all messed-up and tangled around and around. My great grandpa Herman was a Transfigurater, but it always got messed-up and tangled around and around.  He’d want to be a Squirrell, BAM he was a Koala.  My Dad controls water, sort of, he basically can lift it, but then it goes crazy. My mother is a Flamer and she can make hard boiled eggs, but not much else. My brother is a Animal Whisperer  and can scare my pets away like a natural.  Me, well I can fly.  I fly pretty ok-dokey too. I can control my Flying to an extent…but then it kinda goes messed-up and tangled around and around.

 

We make up the Kamels. We are a messed-up and tangled around and around magical family.  See, I guess I better make this clear, you are probably not magical. You most likely live on the mainland.  A long time ago magical people and non-magical people lived together, but then some great-o lunatic-butt-idiot-face-moron-head decided, well why don’t we just shove all the magic people into an country and isolate them from all human existence, and the officials said yeah that just a terrific-o idea! And so here we are in this crud bucket.  

 

We live in a nice enough house. I have the biggest room and we extended the ceiling so I could fly around. I go to a regular school on Mondays and  Tuesdays, then I go Clux Berry Magic School for the Disadvantaged And Advanced.  That means I go to a magic school for kids with messed-up and tangled around and around abilities.  My  used-to-be bestest friend in the entire world goes to the same schools I go to. She does Flaming. Her name is Abby Hele. Abby is just fine at flaming, I mean she occasionally burns things, but she has a bank account to pay for them.

 

There are some bullies in Magic School, they are in the Advanced Program. They tease us about our abilities.  In Clux Berry I am in the Disadvantaged Program.  The Disadvantaged Program in Clux Berry is very small. The Advanced Program is very big there are about 100 people in the Advanced Program.  There are five people in  the  Disadvantaged Program.  Marla is eight years old, she is a Flamer.  Flamers are supposed to generate heat from there hands and create fire from their fingertips. Marla’s problem is… She sets fire to EVERYTHING.  I’m 11 and Abby transferred to the Advanced Program last year.  When she did that I was really angry. I was stuck here in a room with five freak-os including me! Mrs. Putters is very nice. She told me that I have a lot of potential. When I’m having a bad day I’m always allowed to fly around the room until I peter out like a balloon being let loose.

 

Abby is one of the bullies. My most recent best friend Maya and I get teased the most.  Abby and her friends Leo, Anne and Le Le all tease us till we cry, and then some more. They call us glitches, fakes, and mistakes. In Borj ( Our small isolated country) there are 1,400 people with many different talents. We are all spread out around the country.  A famous scientist named Borjian Oka made up a theory; When the human race was forming, something went fluke. Therefore, now there are 1,400 people living on an island. Maya and I say one day we are going to go to the mainland and negotiate our freedom!

 

“ MIA! Get down here now!”

 

But all that freedom stuff will have to wait.

 

“ Coming”!

 

“ Mia, come take Nico to the park.”

My mother has red hair all long and wavy, she’s wearing a blue stained apron, and is holding my screaming little brother Nico ( short for Nicholas). Nico has curly brown hair and always wears his dinosaur footie pajamas.  

 

“Mom, I’m busy!”

 

“ Mia, don’t try me right now,I’ve got book club at five, and my chocolate mousse is chocolate mush, so take your brother and get rid of your so called plans”

 

“  Okay” I groan.

 

“ Nico, get on your rain boots”

 

Nico’s only three, he can get a little obnoxious.

“PARK, PARK, PARK, PARK” Nico shouts.

 

One hour later I come back covered in rain and mud. Nico is completely drenched and literally brown with dirt. I storm upstairs get Nico a bubble bath and change out of my  filthy sweater and corduroys. Flyers have trait to really love animals. I have a hamster, two guinea pigs, four rats, a bird, a rescued squirrel, two dogs, a pig, and cat. I feed Spin the hamster, KiKi the squirrel, Humphrey and Giggles the Guinea Pigs, Kettle, Pop, Shaboom, and Fiona the rats, Burples the pig, Maggie and Scout the Australian Shepards, Muffy the parakeet, and Cleo the cute little kitten. Yeah, I have a lot of pets. They all live in my huge room. Nico calls it my “Zoo”.

 

There’s something you should know about me.  It’s really important. It’s going to be the entire reason for this very book.
I will tell you in chapter three

The Tepee

   Today we interviewed the garden group because they were putting a tepee up in the garden. People that were here last year might know that we had a tepee before but we had to put it down. The reason we put it down is because wasps were making holes in the bamboo. This year the garden group has decided to use a different material so that problem will not happen again. Instead of using bamboo they will be using poles because than wasps can’t make holes in the metal.

Nolan’s Soccer Talent

Nolan’s Soccer Talent

Nolan is a 10 year old soccer player who just won’t miss a shot. He started soccer because his dad told him about it, and he enjoyed watching it a lot. His positions are striker and forward. He says he’s best at those. A couple of his favorite tricks are the rainbow and the Maradona. He started soccer at the age of 1, and was on a team at 3. He says he would one day love to be like Messi, his inspiration. So that’s a bit a bit about Nolan’s soccer talent.

The king and the witch


Once upon a time there was a king. He lived with his beautiful daughters and his Stunning wife. His wife and two daughters, Stella and Remy were as happy as can b, but he wasn’t . He hated everyone and everything, and was always grumpy. The king wasn’t grumpy by choice though, he was cursed at a young age. ‘May you seek happiness all your life but never find it’. He had heard rumors about a witch who had given and taken happiness so he decided to seek her. He wandered the woods looking for her until he came to a little cottage in the magical forest. He knocked on the door and a beautiful young woman stepped out although he was unaware it was the witch. Everything went black. When he woke up he was in his castle and he was being petted by remy and stella. He looked  in the mirror. He was a pig. A cute one too. “Awwww!”, remy and stella said. Life as a pig was great for the king. He was finally happy for the first time in his life. Everything became black again and he was a human and from that moment on he cherished his family and life with a smile on his face.

The Ghost of Bolton’s Dungeon

By Alexa

 

    Jen, Grant ,Tess and Luke were getting lunch as Tess saw a faint figure. “What’s that” asked Tess nervously.” Probably just the lunch lady”, Grant said.” I don’t know Grant  “,Tess says. Grant, Tess, and Jen walked away as Luke went towards the shadowy figure. “Hey where did luke go” Jen asked .”I don’t know” replied Tess. Jen ran downstairs and went towards where the figure was when they were getting lunch. Luke was following the figure until he heard Jen pound down the stairs. Luke kept following the figure until Jen grabbed his arm.”Luke what were you thinking, don’t follow that thing ”, Said Jen.” Me, Tess and Grant were wondering where you were”. “Come on let’s go back” Luke and Jen were about to go back but then something clasped Jen and Luke’s arm and pulled them to the locker rooms. ”What is this place” asked Jen. “This is the school locker rooms, well it was the school locker rooms but now it’s the storage area”, someone replied. The shadow revived itself into a human form and now it was clearly seen. The shadow or who used to be the shadow pulled Jen and Luke towards the door. “Follow me”, it said. Jen, Luke and the figure went down a darker hallway and went in another room. “This is the storage room”. The storage room is a 18in by 20in room and is full of preschool toys, CD’s and records of learning programs ,old books anything that you could find in a normal storage room well except the one thing Luke and Jen thought they would never see. Tess ran down the steps and tried to find Jen and Luke. “ It’s no use”, Grant said. “No we’ve gotta keep looking. Grant and Tess almost lost hope until they heard a door creak open. “That way”. Standing right before Jen and Luke was the Bolton bobcats sign. “Wow, we used to be the bolton bobcats?”, Jen asked. “Not only we were the bobcats but before Bolton was an elementary school, Bolton used to be a middle school”. “So that’s why there were lockers and showers in the other room”, Luke said. “Exactly “, the figure replied. Tess and Grant ran in the room with the door that creaked open. “There you guys are!”, Tess said. “We thought you were taken away by the figure “, said Grant. Tess grabbed Luke’s arm and Grant took Jen’s arm and tried to pull them out the door until they saw the figure guarding it.” Why won’t you let us go?”. “There are still many rooms to explore”, replied the figure and magically the four all had flashlights in their hands. The four split in two groups. Tess and Jen and Grant and Luke. Tess and Jen went towards the other storage rooms while Luke and Grant went to the dirt room under the school. “I thought this place would be bigger” Grant said. “ Ya same”, added Luke. There was a big pile of dirt which prevented a lot of space to be given. Climbed behind the big pile of dirt. “There’s nothing here”. As Grant turned around he heard a soft grumble, then a load. Grant jumped out of the way as the dirt toppled out of its pile. He looked around but couldn’t find his way back. “Luke?,Tess?,Jen?”. Grant was stuck in the dirt room. “Tess look at this, here is the Bolton bobcats sign”. “Wow thats cool, but hey it’s 2:30, school is already out!”. Grant was yelling out to Luke until the figure came to the other side of the dirt and pulled Grant out. Luke, Tess, Grant and Jen were beginning to leave. “Thank you for bringing us to the dungeon”. “Yeah that was cool, and I never knew that Bolton used to be a middle school”, Tess said. After that the four left and they kept on with the day and they knew that they would never forget the faint figure that had led them all around the dungeon.   
You might be wondering, is the dungeon real? Well the answer is yes the dungeon is real. There are actually two dungeons. As a member of the blog me and a couple other people got to go to the dungeon for this article. I hope you liked the story. 🙂

   

SLIME

 

You’ll need

 

Glue

 

Borax

 

Shaving Cream

 

Foaming Hand Soap

Food Dye     (Optional)

 

Water

 

First, mix Glue, Shaving Cream, Foaming Hand Soap, and Food Dye in a large mixing bowl,

 

Note: It doesn’t matter how much glue you use, but it doubles when shaving cream is added.

 

Next, Add a couple of tablespoons of water
Finally, Mix 1 teaspoon of borax with 1 cup of warm water and let borax mostly dissolve, when borax is mostly dissolved add it a spoonful at a time into the Mixture and stir until it is completely together, take it out of the bowl and knead it until it doesn’t stick to your hands.