There once was a rabbit named Miguel. His curiousness always got him in trouble. One day he smelled an unbearable essence of fresh dandelion, lettuce, and pieces of mint all smothered in acorn sauce. Miguel couldn’t take it, and ran as fast as his feeble legs could carry him to the direction of the smell. But once he got there he fell down a six foot pit, full of darkness. His scream was so loud it could shatter a human’s glass window. A wolf came up and said “Ooh, a nice plump one, I usually get skinny, bony ones. After that the wolf laughed liked a maniac. Miguel thought “Here is my chance!” He felt the energy pump through his blood and forced it to it feet and leaped! Once he hit the ground he ran home like there was no tomorrow.

When Miguel came home, he was in a sweat. When his mother, Rose, saw him she kept on asking motherly questions like “Where were you Miguel!” and “Oh, are you sick, you’re sweating!” Miguel quickly told his mother about the wolf before she put a spoon of disgusting medicine into his mouth. He shouldn’t have told her about the wolf because her worrying turned into hard, loud sobbing. Then she cried “ You could of ended up like your father!!” This caught him off guard. His mom didn’t usually talk about dad which name was Brian. He died by not paying his side of a bargain with some squirrel gangsters. Miguel pulled himself back into reality. Then he told his crying mother about his plan. She was just about to say it was too dangerous when Miguel said” It’s what father would do.” and gathered his friends into the center of Sherwood, his village.

Miguel told his friends Rocky the badger, Lightning the squirrel, Remy the rabbit, and Tuck the turtle about his brilliant plan or so Miguel said. After Miguel talked Tuck asked “ How are we going to get the fresh meat?” “ We’re going to the Sugarmen house.” This wasn’t suprising to the party of friends. They had been there when they were around six to seven years old. When they were rushing to the huge house Miguel thought “Will this work?”

When they got there , Remy asked if Rocky could open the door. Fortunetly the strong and huge badger opened the door with no difficulty. Lightning looked as cute as possible for a distraction. The others opened the freezer as quietly as they could and took a big piece of lamb chop and the escaped through the window. Lighting had no trouble escaping, he bit the family’s hands and went through the window like his friends.

When they got back to Sherwood they went back to their parents for hot supper and a colossal nap. But when Miguel came home instead of being dead beat he was full of life. He told his mom that they completed most of his plan. They had a celebration with food like roasted lettuce, sizzling corn and some fresh dandelion.

In the morning the four friends woke up very early and dug a immense hole as big as a rhino. They put the huge piece of meat cautiously into the pit. At the wolf’s cave he smelled the meat and exclaimed “ Mmm, smells good!” and took off. Just like Miguel the wolf fell down screeching all the way down. But when he jumped, instead of getting out he fell flat on his behind. Miguel and his friends all thought of a single word,”Yes!!” The friends all told everybody in the village about what had happened. Sherwood would now be safe with joy for now.

andre

The story above was written by my 4th grader nephew Andre. His story is entitled “Miguel’s Adventure!”. I thought he did a super job so I figure I’d post it as a way to show him that I’m proud of him and his work.

Andre must be super proud since he even signed the email with his full name (I didn’t even know his middle name till now). 🙂

Hi Uncle,
Look at this story I wrote all by myself.
What do you think? Good, huh?

Your only nephew,
Andre Alexander Tan