Zoe and the World Outside Zoe steps outside into air that prickles like icy pins on her skin. She’s wearing her new mask, a purple one with a platypus bill on the front. In the summer, wearing a mask was miserable but now it warms her face just like a scarf. She skips down the…
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The Takeout Girl
The Takeout Girl “I think my teacher is a robot,” I told Nicole. I’ve actually never met Nicole, but she works at my favorite Chinese restaurant. I really like Chinese food so I’ve gotten to know Nicole pretty well. I can’t tell if she is Chinese or not. She doesn’t have an accent, but there…
Dinosaur Land
Dinosaur Land It was dinner time in Dinosaur Land. Trevor the Triceratops was happily eating his favorite food: broccoli. Of course, in Dinosaur Land, everything was huge, so the broccoli was ten feet high. Suddenly, there was a roar in the bushes. A huge T-Rex burst into the broccoli clearing, its sharp teeth dripping with…
Ralph Finds the Tree
Ralph Finds the Tree A small gray bird fluttered to a landing on the upper branches of the Tree. It was a monkeypod tree, but the bird did not know that. All he knew was that it was a place to rest in the shade after more than an hour of flying. The bird was…
The Green-Walled Treehouse 