A New Friend

Lucilla (Lucy) Moseart got read quickly for the first day of school.

"Lucy! Can you pour my cereal?"

"Lucilla, D.D.'s hungry!"

Her adopted sister Shang yelled. (She's from China.) Lucy rushed down the stairs. In the van, Lucy drove fasst! The first day at college seemed scary. Parents, were you afraid on your first day of college? Well, Lucy was. Lucy ran to the office to pick up her schedule.

Suddenly, Kelly Morgan ran up.

"Hi. What's your name?"

"Um...Lucilla or Lucy. That's what everyone calls me."

"Mine's Kelly."

They compared schedules.

"I think we have gym together!" Kelly squealed.

"I have voice from eleven to twelve." Lucilla said.

Parents Ask Kids...

1. What grade are you in?

2. Do you like gym class?

3. Were you nervous on your first day of school?

A New Life

Eventually, D.D. found out that the boy's name was Evan Cooper. Evan was a Christian that lived in a well stabled house. His family was very wealthy.

"Hi...um..." Evan walked up to D.D.

"Daniel Douglas Moseart."

"Oh, thanks." Evan replied. "Douglas Daniel..."

"Call me D.D." D.D. said.

"Thanks, again."

They walked up to Evan's house and sat on the porch. Evan stood. "Here, I'll show you around"

D.D. smiled. "Okay!"

Evan showed him to D.D.'s porch. "First, here's your house. Here's the stable. There's the barn. Here are the horses. This one is Copper. She's going to foal pretty soon. Here's Bella. We call her that because she sounds like one when she calls to her mates. Here's Champion. This baby's been racing since she was a filly."

He showed D.D. to the tack room. (Tack is stuff you put on a horse like a saddle or bridle.)

"Neigh!" Evan gasped. "Mom! Run to the stable! Copper's foaling!"

"What's foaling mean?" D.D. asked.

"It's when a horse gives birth." Evan answered.

Suddenly, D.D.'s mom yelled, "D.D., it's time to go to Ms. Bradley's Home for Girls!"

In the car, Lucy told D.D. that they were getting a new sister.

"How old?" D.D. asked.

"About eight." Mack replied.

When they got there, D.D. was allowed to choose which girl he wanted. He chose a girl named Shang. He knew he would love her.

Parents Ask Kids

1. Are you ever going to adopt anyone?

2. Who's your best friend?

3. Do you live on a farm?

The Move

Douglas, Jackie's brother sighed. They were in the car, driving to their new farm in Kannas, MO. It took three days to get there from Texas. Douglas Daniel Mousart (DD) looked back. He missed Aunt Laurn and Uncle Jackson already! He missed their cousins, Annie, Moses, Cooper, Kate and baby Kanga. Baby Kanga always laughed her googly laugh at his silly faces. Annie and Moses, both nine like Jackie, liked to climb trees with him. Cooper and Kate were twelve like his sister, Emma. He was always thinking how there seemed to be twins in his family. He had five siblings. (You say it sib-a-lings.)

His big brother Mack, his big sister Lucilla or Lucy, as everyone called her. His big sister Emma and twelve year old Jackie. He was eight. Finally, they drove up at Country Stables, the farm they were staying at. A boy waved. That instant, DD knew he had a friend. Douglas Daniel Mousart loved it!

Parents ask kids:

1) Do you think DD was afraid to move?

2) Do you think DD is a nice kid?

3) Do you have five or four siblings?

Do Not Lie!

Jackie sighed, relieved. "Mom, I don't want to face Ms. Anne again!"

Mom answered, "Live with it, Sweet Heart."

"Fine."

Eventually, Jackie got sick, and had to stay home. The next day, Jackie went back. Ms. Anne said, "Jackie, I heard you had a fever, yesterday."

"I actually had pneumonia." (Jackie actually just had a cold.)

Ms. Anne frowned. "I don't see how you recovered that quickly."

Jackie shrugged her shoulders. At lunch, Jackie thought, I'm sick of telling lies. I wish I didn't have that habit. Oh well.

And eventually, Jackie lied again. (No one is perfect.)

Parents ask kids...

1) Do you think your mom would let you stay home?

2) Do you wish you didn't lie?

Rabbit Act

"Make sure to put your costumes in your cubbie" Ms. Anne said. A chorus of "yes" answered her. Jackie thought, I I take my costume home, Mom can see my rabbit costume! Jackie walked to her cubbie and put the rabbit costume in to her bookbag.

"Look, Mom!" Jackie hopped over to mom on a pogo stick. "Mom. I'm a rabbit!" Jackie had put her rabbit costume on. Mom clapped. The next day Jackie hurriedly, accidentily left her costume on her bed. When she got to school, she started to unpack. Jackie looked all over her book bag for her costume. When Ms. Anne asked if everybody had their costumes, Jackie lied and said, "Yup."

"O.K., class let's go out to the stage, and do our thing. Jackie swallowed hard. "Here's your costume!" Jackie looked up to see Mom holding her costume. "Jackie, you lied to me." Ms. Anne said, disappointment in her voice. "Sorry." They walked out on to stage. Jackie played her part perfectly.

Parents, ask your kids theese questions.

1) If you were Jackie, would you lie also?

2) Would you have brought the costume home?

3) Do you know one commandment that goes with this book?

Answer: (Do not lie.)

Creature Planet

Have you heard of Creature Planet? It is a place where Snicks and Doe-Does,Aliens and Pine-Walkers live.Kiching(their king)Callboe made rules that every creature was allowed on Creature Planet. A specific creature had a place in royalty.Flimdo as King's servant,Snickey as King's guard, Alisone as small door-opener,and last but not least,Piney as King's musician. They all worked hard for the king. There was one thing that entered Creature Planet that was not a creature. It was not agua. (Spanish for water) It was a creature-wide enemy...named SPOONCK!!!! Can you guess what Spoonck was? Well if you can't guess what Spoonck was, he is a spoon. A super powerful spoon!

He thought that only HE ruled all of the planets! A few days later, an ARMY of spoons came! Next bananas! Caterpillars, small dinosaurs, even! Spoonck started taking over Creature Planet, turning it in to a disaster! Kiching Callboe was furious. Spoonck tore down hotels, restaurants, buildings and Kiching Callboe's Castle! Kiching Callboe wouldn't give up. He fought day and night. Finally, Kiching Callboe gathered a group of Do-Do's to fight Spoonck's army. Days, years, months passed. Kiching Callboe's army started giving up. "No! Don't give up! I wish you a Merry Christmas! Wait a sec, how did that come up?" Kiching Callboe said, twictching with laughter.

Spoonck didn't laugh, he attacked more! Suddenly, a butterfly wrote a message in the sky...SPOONCK STINKS!

Spoonck popped out wings and destroyed the writing. Kiching Callboe and his army told Spoonck how mean he was. Spoonck just destroyed more buildings and hotels. The teapot buildings suddenly filled with snow! Because...Kiching Callboe had a snow-globe, broke it and it snowed! Spoonck got smaller and smaller and smaller. He shrank! Spoonck melted because if his metal got wet, he would shrink. "Hurrah!" every creature rejoiced. Creature Planet was back!

THE END

A Letter to You

Those of you who have and are going to join me,thank you.I love the comments.I have written a new book, but might not be up here.Surprise! Creature Planet will come out as a book!It took a lot of work and effort to write that book,so please read it! I'm sure you'll love it. Happy New Year!

Stephanie.