I just finished reading The Bracelet by Betsy Johnson-Miller and I loved it. I can't wait until the second book comes out. This is a little about the story.

Litney Way finds a bracelet at a garage sale and finds a note inside from her own mother. She figures out that every girl in her family gets the bracelet when she's sixteen. The problem is Litney is only 14 so everyone says it's early. Her mom makes her go to her grandma's because her grandma and her mother have been through this.

The next morning Litney goes into the greenhouse and meets a boy named Dokken and he says he fell asleep in New York and woke up in the woods by the greenhouse. At first, she thinks he is crazy. As they try to leave the greenhouse they find themselves in a room with a hole in the floor and everything is dark except one little light that is coming from the bracelet. They go down the hole and find themselves outside the greenhouse.

On their way to her grandma's house their dog Bernard is acting really strange. When they get inside they see everybody having breakfast and talking but they can't hear them. When Litney tries to tap her mother, her hand goes right through her. She figures out she has to go on a crazy adventure to stop Mala. Mala is a shape shifting creature and nobody knows what animal she really is. If she gets the bracelet, she'll travel to each dimension and destroy each one.

So Litney has to go on an adventure where she has to trust animals she's never met before and figure out who she would rather save Dokken or the bracelet.

By: Tarah

Adrian was a good boy.

He had tan skin, black hair, and green glasses. He wore a brown shirt, faded jeans and worn shoes. He was quite smart but he liked to pull pranks. He was deathly afraid of caterpillars and butterflies. He lived with his parents in an old cottage. They were very poor but Adrian liked his life.

One day when he was playing with some sheep, and he felt something on his leg. He looked down and saw a caterpillar. He screamed, “Caterpillar!” but nothing happened. He kicked back and forth until it went flying off, then he ran back home and didn’t leave the house for the rest of the day.

The next day he was reading The Boy Who Cried Wolf.  It reminded him of something but he couldn’t quite put his finger on it. He decided to get his mind off caterpillars; he would pull a prank. He ran to his mother’s room and stuffed her drawers with dirty socks and when she opened it, confetti would come flying (don’t try this at home kids) out. He heard someone walking toward the room. He ran to the field so he wouldn’t get caught. Then he saw the most unpleasant surprise, a gigantic butterfly! It swarmed around him and tickled him. He was chased into the forest and was never seen again.  

Legend says he was eaten by the butterfly!

By: Tarah Rosendahl

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Told by Julianna's point of view.

It all started when King Feldewerd said nobody could use the toilet chamber during royal reading time. He also put up a toilet tax. This made the people of Classroom Ville very upset.

King Feldewerd was married to a cranky queen named Queen Izzy. Tyler the Toilet Cleaner was also very upset with King Feldewerd because he had been going to the toilet chamber very often. Part of his rage was with Cook Cole for baking King Feldewerd baked beans which was his favorite snack but made him quite gassy.

King Feldewerd referred to the citizens of Classroom Ville as the students. Everyday King Feldewerd had everyone in Classroom Ville come to the Elijah Palace. Elijah was King Feldewerd's grandfather. Elijah was 2,634,525 years old. King Feldewerd likes to have everyone in Classroom Ville come to the castle so he can teach them lessons. You see, King Feldewerd wants to be a teacher when he grows up. Oh, did I forget to mention that King Feldewerd is only 2 years old and Queen Izzy is 2 1/2? They married young.

Noah the Knight actually enjoyed the classes. Well, he kind of had to because King Feldewerd said he had to go to the classes or he'd be fired. Princess Maya was King Feldewerd's daughter and she didn't like him at all. She had recently gone to the library and read about the Boston Tea Party and King George and the colonists. She had thought her father was just like King George. Baden the Butler was very obedient, even in the hardest times, like when King Feldewerd was whining because he wants his favorite Teddy bear named Adrian.

While King Feldewerd was sleeping someone knocked on the door. He heard Baden open the creaky door and yell, "King Feldewerd!" So, I got out of bed because I knew King Feldewerd wouldn't want to be interrupted during his beauty sleep.

Hi, I'm Julianna. I'm a towns person but I was adopted by Elijah who sometimes seems like the only nice person in the palace.

But anyway, the person at the door was Ms. Emily, my personal teacher. King Feldewerd said regular school outside the palace smells like sweat and is too dirty. In the classes, Ms. Emily teaches me cursive a lot. "Class, the next subject is history so who is the greatest leader of our generation?" asked Ms. Emily. "Mr. Feldewerd. OK, done for the day." Did I forget to mention that Ms. Emily has a major crush on King Feldewerd?

Just then Elijah came walking down the hallway with Cook Cole and Baden demanding to have his Sponge Bob mac and cheese sent up to his spa room. I saw Elijah carrying Adrian. After them came Princess Abbie, a very selfish girl, arguing with Princess Maya (her sister) for using their private bathroom. Princess Maya is very generous and is probably the nicest person but I never see her because Princess Abby is always arguing with her but she just ignores her. Elijah can be pretty cranky sometimes.

Then all of a sudden, something bit me. I looked down expecting to see some hideous thing but it was just Nick, King Feldewerd's hockey playing pet turtle. But, back to the story.

Everyone got mad at King Feldewerd so they started to have a war. King Feldewerd was the only one against it. So this is what it looked like - 100 people on one side and on the other side 1 person, King Feldewerd. Just when they were about to fight, Adrian the teddy near came up and talked for the first time and he said, "Fellow citizens of Classroom Ville, King Feldewerd has agreed to be nicer and stop toilet tax." "WHAT?!" said King Feldewerd, "everyone has to pay to use the toilet. If you don't stop I'll shove you in the toilet" replied Adrian."

Afterwards, Classroom Ville got more people including Ryan, Claire, Trinity, Devin, Amber, Aiden, Carlie, Grace, Kendrick, Max, Isabel, Anna and King Jacob and it all started over again.

THE END

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