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Seventh & Eighth Grade Authors

2015
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Hallucinations
by Taika
Amanda Cobb has lived with her grandma ever since her parent's death when she was eight. After moving to North Carolina she wants to start a new life there, but as soon as she attempts to, her plan spirals downhill and lands her in a mental hospital, where she sees visions that no one believes.


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Get My Crown Back
by Sydney
I heard the bell from a block away from my school “oh no im late for school on the first day” I think “ but at least I’m fashionably late. When i finally get to school it’s 9:10 I’m 20 minutes late. I look over my schedule and head to room 201 when i get there the English teacher is introducing what we’ll learn this year when she sees me she says Mrs.Wood its nice for you to finally be joining us. I head to the back of the class the last seat open. I zone out as she drones on and on about how tenth grade is a lot harder than ninth was, finally the bell rings onto math.When I get to math class i sit in the second row middle seat. I look around and realize none of my friends are in this class.

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The Last Soldier
by Lewis
Many galaxies away a king of his world obtained a stone. A stone so powerful that it would grant whatever the controler wanted. He loved his power and wanted every other world in his galaxy. He set out seizing control over hundreds of planets. The stone soon took over him and thought of only one thing, to take over every planet in the vast universe. The stone soon stumbled upon Earth, still in its early stages of developing and held many resources much useful that they did not even know of. The stone convinced the possessed king to send an army to capture this planet. 

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COSMOS THE FORBIDDEN PLANET
by Lawerence

East of the Web,-What’s that you say? You don’t know what the Web is? Let me explain a few things, The Web is the omniverse, a universe with all the other universes inside of it. The universes in this one universe, is connected by a network that has not yet been unlocked by any species. I was just travelling in the Arkara Galaxy, with the planet called Darsos, a planet with turquoise vegetation and a red sun and purple sky making the water a dark purple. Darsos is home of the Ardru, my species. A normal human-like head but more of a sphere with fur, a smooth coat, like that of a bear, around the perimeter of an Ardru’s head. Ardrus are either blue, red, yellow, orange, green or purple. Then they have a tail. I have blue fur I wear a golden-yellow leather jacket with one blue and one orange stripe on the chest and I wear black jeans. My home-galaxy is instead of the empty blackness, it is dark blue with star systems and comets and natural space occurrences, everything you can find in the cosmos. My parents thought it was so beautiful they named me Cosmos.

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The Legend
by Liam
The wind picked up and carried sand across the Dark Frontier as it almost always did most of the year. A large fortress stood unscathed by the wind, all that could be seen was a dark grey dome and an antenna tower rising out of the rock and sand. That was how The Hidden liked it...

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The Unexpected
by Victory
This book is about an thirteen year old girl going to camp and she goes through certain challenges.


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Again
by Kenzie
Imagine yourself in the dark with trash and rats...all ALONE. That's my situation. Just me and my two dirty socks, Fonzi and Fluffy. I guess you could call them my friends, considering I'm all alone in the tunnels of New York City.

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Clockboy
by Elizabeth
ClockBoy didn't ask to be born. He was a gorgeous mistake, and for that, the entire universe suffered. He was expelled to a tiny planet, Earth, for so many, many years, learning and forgetting everything that he knew. ClockBoy didn't remember, anything, in fact, and had no idea that at the age of twelve, over and over, he would dissolve if he hadn't solved his puzzle. What puzzle? That, dear readers, is for you to find out.

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Castle Story
by Jacob
Once upon a time the happy pappy King Randolph and his lovely wife Queen Jeff were inside Gorilla Tape Castle but all of a sudden Queen Jeff said “I going out to war tomorrow.” When King Randolph heard the news the only word he said was "Nooooooooo!" “Why are go going to war sweetie?” asked the king. “I want to protect my people and if I die I will be doing it protecting our kingdom.” Said the queen.

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Unfound
by James
A group of 20 scientists that are strangers to each other and are on an exploration to find a large pocket of electromagnetism that is in the middle of the sea. Electromagnetism is energy from magnetism. The group is a small part of a big organization called The Delta Initiative (or DI for short). The DI is trying to harness pockets of electromagnetism all over the world to use for energy like to power cars and stuff. They already have ten stations and are trying to learn more about it. The DI originally had 11 station but one disappeared to never be found again. After that happened the DI started being very careful with the stations.

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2367 FREY WAY
by Sarah
I first saw the door when I was walking down the alleyway.  It was a chilly autumn night in London, and I was taking my freedom in stride.
I knew the police would be breathing down my neck after the murder, so this was a way to lose them and clear my head. And anyway, didn’t they say I could go anywhere within the city limits?  So, this was still safe on their terms. 

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Finding Me
by Helena
Adrenaline pumping, heart racing. I'm ready to jump. 3...2...1...Go! I jump falling 10 feet doing 2 flips.

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Prometheum
by Alyssa
Andromedia Renn is conflicted when her and three hundred other teenagers are sent to Earth to stop the World War caused by terrorism and betrayal.

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Back to the Past
by Maddy
This starts out as any normal, regular, boring story. Not a once upon a time story, not a long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away story. This is one of those stories you might fall asleep listening to. JUST KIDDING! 


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New Helping Hand
by Taylor
Tense is a feeling that you will 
always probably have for the rest 
of your life,
I think it’s a sad issue for a lot of 
people that’s been through a lot of 
unhappy times.

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Moon Glint
by Emy
The metallic sheen of the young unicorn’s glowing horn glinted dimly through the bushes, where her pale gray body was hidden in the dark green leaves. A fly buzzed around her back, so the filly swatted at it with her silver tail, sending it flying off. She snorted with contempt and continued to wait. A moment later, a confident nicker rang through the trees, and she heard hooves pounding toward her. Suddenly a broad head poked through the bushes, whickering happily.
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Untitled
by Marley
“You don’t have to pretend it’s all okay, you know.” 
Lillian glanced up when Cat spoke. Cat didn’t. She kept her gaze on the bed and on the socks she was folding together, not looking up at Lillian, not sure of why but knowing that right now wasn’t the time. 
“What d’ya mean?” 
Cat kept her eyes on the bed with a little shrug. “It’s okay to be sad. I know if this happened to me I’d be sad for weeks.”
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  • Publications
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