First Place: Stuck in a Video Game by Winston Liu (Gr. 1)
One day Curtis was playing his favourite video game Roblox. His mom yelled at him for the 700th time, “STOP PLAYING THAT VIDEO GAME”. Curtis replied, “I wish I was stuck in this video game and you too, because you could see how great it is”. All of a sudden, they looked down and they were not human beings, they were animals. Curtis was a baby dinosaur and his mom was a big dinosaur. They were stuck in the video game! They both jumped onto a house. Suddenly, a plane was flying toward them so they jumped on the plane. They ran along the plane and then held on. Another plane came toward the first plane and they were about to crash so Curtis and his mom had to quickly duck. Curtis knew what he had to do to get out, he needed to jump on the last plane and get inside, to fly out of the video game. They waited until the plane came, the plane was bright yellow. It was speeding towards them, Curtis yelled, “quick mom, jump on that plane. It will take us out of here”. They did. They made it! The plane flew right out into the normal world again. Curtis and his mom were safe and she was not mad anymore. They sat down and played Roblox together!
Second Place: Nebulon, Here We Come! By YouJia Ye (Gr. 1)
“We are gonna crash land!” yelled Rhonamus Prime.
“What coooooould I doooooooo?” said Blurr.
“ Wait Blurr! You can transform into an air ship!” said Ultra Magnus.
“Look! We are not in luck as this ship is gonna crash in 2 astro minutes! Quick, run!”
But they were out of luck. Wham! The ship crash landed.
“Ooh, Nebulon, we’re in!” said Rhonamus Prime.
The autobots became headmasters when they put their heads down. And then the nebulons climbed into their head masters.
“ Charge!” someone shouted.
“Who”? said Blurr.
“Charge!” must be the invisible Decepticon.
“Stink flake!” said Ultra Magnus.
“Oh Yes, I am!” said Stink Flake.
But then Stink Flake fainted from his own stink. The autobots celebrated by taking their heads off.
“But how are we going to build a ship? Blurr asked. “Also, there’s no energon here!”
Then Rhonamus Prime said, “You can fly and take us with you.”
“LOW ENERGY!”
“I have low energy!” said Blur.
“Restore!” said Ultra Magnus. And it worked.
Third Place: The Talking Walking Tree By Ivan Yang (Gr. 1)
A wicked witch turned a beautiful oak tree into an evil Talking Walking Tree. Because he could walk and talk, the talking walking tree began to destroy every tree in the whole world. He only spoke to evil trees, like pineapple, apple and banana trees.
The talking walking tree was tough but the two robots did not give up. One was called AT the other was called Half-Red-Black or HRB for short. AT and HRB cared about the trees because they gave everyone fresh air and fruits.
To stop the Evil Talking Walking Tree they thought of a plan; they thought, they thought and they thought.
Finally they had a plan. AT would distract the Talking Walking Tree by juggling pineapples, apples and bananas.
HRB would make the Talking Walking Tree dizzy by running in circles around him very fast.
After five hours of hard work they finally defeated the Talking Walking Tree. Hooray for the two robots!!!
Honourable Mention: Mighty Space Mouse Adventure by Ethan Lin (Gr. 1)
Ace and Spud are mighty space mice who protect Haumea, a peaceful planet that smells like fresh flowers and everywhere you look you see happy mice who like to dance, eat and party!
Dr.X, an evil alien cat and his mouse assistant Ms. XY, lived on a planet called Makemake and is full of trash! The planet smells like sewer, it’s dark and dirty and everywhere you look you see garbage. Makemake is a messy planet.
Dr.X has a plan to take over Haumea and turn it into a garbage filled planet like Makemake.
Ace and Spud learned about the wicked plan.
“Spud, we must stop Dr.X from destroying Haumea!” cried Ace.
“Maybe if we are friendly to Dr.X, he will change his mind.” said Spud.
Ace and Spud took a rocketship and blasted off to Makemake.
“We come in peace and bring you flowers,” Ace said to Dr.X.
“Catch them!” ordered Dr. X. He doesn’t like anything beautiful because he grew up in a world filled with litter.
Just as Ace and Spud offered Ms. XY cheese, she said “I never tried anything so delicious!”
“If you come visit Haumean, we can give you more good food!” said Spud.
“I’ll help you escape if I can come visit!” asked Ms. XY.
Together, Ace and Spud with Ms. XY chase Dr. X into the dumpsite!
The mice then flew back in their rocket to Haumea.
Honourable Mention: By Dinno Cheng (Gr. 2)
There was a caveman who chipped the biggest boulder that you can imagine. On his way to see his family he saw a UFO smashed and grazed on all the sides. Without thinking, he went into the UFO and he spun around until the spinning stopped. He found himself as a nomad carrying a sack of potatoes and the UFO had turned into a small UFO in his pocket!
When he touched the UFO, he instantly got back to his family’s camp. He thought, “What an extraordinary day this is! When he ran back to his boulder he saw it had turned into a big lightbulb that could talk! This was getting weirder. Next he was in the ice age and a massive beast was charging toward him. He touched the UFO and was back beside the lightbulb.
“ You have three seconds to escape or you will be sucked up into my belly.” said the light bulb. The caveman ran seventeen miles before the lightbulb counted to three. The caveman ran into a cave and saw his family inside, and said hello to his family and his family said, ” Who are you? And the caveman said, “I’m your son, family.” They finally realized that the caveman was their son because they haven't seen him for years because they had accidentally left him behind when they were leaving.
Honourable Mention: The Way Back Home By Nick Bai (Gr. 2)
Alien wanted to learn to drive the ship, but Mom and Dad wouldn't let him. He’s begged them for days and days, but the answer was no!
While they were out, Alien looked out at the front porch, contemplating just peeking inside the ship.
“It won’t hurt if I just take a look, right?” thought Alien.
Alien climbs into the spaceship. Inside there were hundreds of buttons everywhere. But there was one BIG RED BUTTON.
“hmmm...I wonder what this button does?” Alien thought to himself. Before it was too late,! Alien had pressed the button and the spaceship started to zoom.
“WOAAAAHHHHHHH!” Alien was flying 250 miles an hour!
“This is SOOOO FUN! Where should I travel to?! Maybe Mars?” said Alien, “I think it’s that way ? And he steers the ship to the left.
Suddenly the alien drove the ship too fast but suddenly stopped!!!
“GAS! I’m out of gas! What have I done?! said the Alien.
Later it was so dark that the aliens' flash light was out of batteries!
Suddenly there was a boy who crashed to the moon “ummmmmm……. hello?” said Alien
“Hi, can you help me fix my ship?” said the boy.
They found the items to fix their ship and the boy drove home.
When the boy got home he saw his parents waiting at the driveway looking angry.
“Are you serious? You could have died! Why did you take out the ship without asking?” said his father
“I was just trying to practice!” said the Alien.
“We just bought the ship! You don’t have your license yet, you don’t know how to drive! When you’re older we can teach you.”
“I’m sorry, Mom. I didn’t know I shouldn’t have done it! I won’t do it again”.
Honourable Mention: VOLCANOES FOR LIFE By Valencia Cui (Gr. 3)
“Nothing here!” Marion said as she flipped over drawers in the broken house. As always, the sun didn’t shine. The earth was cold. It had been for years.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP the computer went.
“What is it now?”
MARION, IT’S LARA, SAM, AND MISS SARAH. COME OUT, WE’RE DONE.
“That house might have taken a long time to scan,” said Sam, Marion’s brother.
“Nah, it didn’t,” said Marion, joining her brother outside the broken house. “The houses are empty though.”
“Let’s go!”
Soon Marion’s sister Lara spotted something. “Hey, look, it’s a library!”
“It’s probably been picked over,” said Miss Sarah.
“Not necessarily,” said Lara.
“Wow … that’s a LOT of books!” cried Sam as they entered the library.
“Yeah, yeah, I get it!” Lara rolled her eyes.
An hour passed as Marion sorted books with Lara.
“We’re trying to sort them by subject,” Lara told Sam.
“But I’ve already sorted them by size. It doesn’t matter!” Sam stuck out his tongue
“It does!” cried Lara.
“Uh… I’ll work the scanner to help out?” asked Marion. “Wait! What’s this book about? Fire? Heat? Earth?” Marion was getting excited. “Oh man, I definitely need to know what this book is about!”
Soon, it was morning and everybody woke up. “It’s time to go!” called Sara the teacher.
“VOLCANOES!!!!!!” Marion shouted.
“What’s a vol… key.. no?” Lara asked.
“No! Vol-CAN-oes!” Marion corrected. “Volcanoes help the earth and give life on earth. This is the solution to the coldness!”
VOLCANOES!!!!!!!!!"