The Exploded Dune Buggys

Hi. My name is Frank. There's something terrible that happened to my dune buggy. (The buggy I rode in that dune buggy race.) But any way, the remaining ingredients that caused the terrible dune buggy thingy was a buggy crash, a broken engine-and-exhaust system, fire, and a huge explosion. Hint: you might now what happened, so I'll put the answer in small letters so you can't read it. (A:My buggy exploded.). So, anyway, I'll tell you what happened. Today was Saturday, and we made up a race. Everyone watched from the side fence. Cars gathered up without driving. (And you know cars can't drive cars, but this is a fiction book; anyway; btw) "On your marks..." said Security. "get set..." "Go!!!" We sped off the street. (The cars aren't driving around today; btw; for the race;) First we drove through Car Island, then around Car Island, then back. Things didn't go all that seriously because I didn't win the race. I'll explain it to you. When racing through Car Island, I accidentally pushed a dune buggy hard and overtook it. A few minutes later, it was a dead heat. I went too fast; I wanted to be the 1st one to reach the next race but I crashed into buggy. The crash caused 960% of fuel loss, one disconnected alarm in one buggy, a hot wired engine in another, and burning fire in the buggy engines. (That looks like a job for--- fire engines!) And kaboom to go; an one-hundred-and-eighty degree explosion (a very big explosion). The cars weren't killed; but the road was ruined and me and Aron's buggy's were broken down. But anyway, a road paving machine fixed the road in a hurry, and my Grandpa Ed built us new buggy's; anyway.
Later that day, me and Andy decided to have a talk with it. "Gee, I guess I shouldn't go obsessing about winning the race. Right, Andy?" I said. "Yep." said Andy. "Like the old saying always says: ' " Don't go obsessing about winning a race like Lightning McQueen.' "

Epilogue: That evening, Car Island International News (CIIN) reported two exploded dune buggys.

Epilogue 2: The crowd booed at the exploded dune buggys.

The Case of the Disappearing Honeybees, Part 6

Things were different later that day. News 8 (which Andrew kept calling it Eyewitness News) was on TV. "How very smart the boys are." said a reporter. "Yeah.'' said another reporter. "I hated it when Rastko's plan didn't work, but Alan is lucky to have a better plan!" A third reporter said: "Its a great thing that you spotted a disappearing honeybee, Harold." "Yep." said all the 5 boys. "Maybe we make a great team!'' said Andrew. After Andrew said the word "team", reporters started to arrive with their cameras, taking pictures and everything. FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! "May we have your autograph?" said one of the reporters. "Have you solved any other mystery's?" said another reporter. "Do you really make a great team?" said a third reporter. Finally, all of the people at home watching the story on Eyewitness News, as well as the people watching the story on Channel Ten KUSI News, decided that the 5 friends really were a great team. So they all watched some more of the story.

To be continued...

This is Part 6, Eyewitnessing a Disappearing Honeybee Mystery. Remember that now.

The Case of the Disappearing Honeybees, Part 5

At school the next morning, when it was recess time, I was writing clues for the disappearing honeybee mystery when a honeybee flew by. I quickly ran to Alan, Andrew, Rastko, and Cameron. "Psst... I just saw a honeybee!" The 5 friends ran after the bee fast and speedy. I got a storage bag from my pants pocket. Then I caught the bee and closed the zipper all the way quickly. At 2:30, when class dismissed, all the students of Carmel Creek Elementary had gone home. At my house, I put the bee into a beehive my dad made. The next day, before school, me and Alan stopped for a look at the newspaper. Alan saw that he, me, Andrew, Cameron and Rastko were famous. "5 Smart Dectetives Age 6 Solve Honeybee Mystery? Great!" he exclaimed. Later in the afternoon, me and Alan told Rastko, Andrew, and Cameron about the newspaper. They could not belive it. Soon, the news was passed from one person to another.

To be Continued...
This is Part 5: The First Time They'd Be On The News And Catch A bee. Remember that now.

The Case of the Disappearing Honeybees, Part 4

(1 hour later)

"Come on.'' said Cameron. ''We need to think of more plans.'' So everybody went to Andrew's house. Andrew was ABC (American Born Chinese), so his parents spoke Chinese. The friends all zoomed upstairs to Andrew's room and shut the door so Andrew's naughty baby sister, Dora, would get in the way. Andrew obviously called his little sister Jiajia (for that was her Chinese name). The boys thought and thought and thought. They thought until 3:00. They thought until a light bulb came in Alan's head. ''That's it!'' he said. Before everybody had a chance to say "whats it ?'', Andrew sneezed. 一 吧岁！shouted Andrew's father from downstairs. Finally, everyone said: "Whats it?" "In our last book" said Alan. "We will go to the garden and yell to the bees: "Come on bees! More honey in San diego!" "Then the bees will think flower nectar extended in San Diego. Then, they will fly back!" It was a great idea. So everybody stuck to Alan's idea.

To be Continued...
This is Part 4, Plan-thinking Madness. Remember that now.

The Case of the Disappearing Honeybees, Part 3

(Sunday, 1:01 pm)

"Okay." said Alan. "I'll prove that I am correct." "Hand stack time." I said. "ONE FOR ALL..." yelled Andrew. "AND ALL FOR ONE!!!" shouted everybody. "OK." said Rastko. "Lets stick with my plan." "We'll let Harold's dad drive his car all the way to the garden in eastern California, bringing Harold's trumpet along. When we see the bees, Harold will play "Flight of the Bumblebee", the bees will listen, then fly back to San Diego. "That's a great idea!" exclaimed Andrew. So Harold's dad drove the 4 friends to the garden and there were the bees. The bees were sharing a hive with another swarm of bees. The hive was on the garden house roof. "OK." said Harold. He got out his trumpet. Then, he played "Flight of the Bumblebee" on the trumpet. Suddenly, the bees stopped collecting the nectar from the flowers. "Thats it. Its working." said Andrew. Soon, the bees looked at me, Andrew, Rastko, and Alan. Then, they went back to collecting nectar. "Rrrrats.'' said Alan. "It worked, almost.

To be Continued...
This is part 3, Mystery Clues. Remember that now.
Next adventure: Part 4, Plan-thinking Madness

Honeybees, Inc. (Book 1)

Honeybees, Inc. was the best work in Bugsville, Bug Island. All the bugs, especially the kiddie bugs, enjoyed eating Honeybees, Inc's sweet, thick, and golden honey. Every weekday, the honeybees would spend their time at Honeybees, Inc. collecting flower nectar. Worker bees put the nectar into nectar tanks that had white stripes with unbreakable glass that went from a little bit of red to a lot of red when you poured nectar in it. The worker bees put the nectar in a machine. The nectar was poured into honey containers that were empty. The nectar tanks were recycled. The nectar was sweetened, thickened and colored into a light bronze gold color. Retired seniors were hornets. Honeybees, Inc. was just like the work for beetles--- Energy Waste, Inc.--- in charge of turning waste into energy--- the best work ever! One time there were commercials for Honeybees, Inc. and Energy Waste, Inc. The commercials said that without enough nectar and waste, there wouldn't be enough energy or honey. Honey made from Honeybees, Inc. was put in a truck and shipped to the stores. Kiddie honeybees and kiddie beetles were proud of their mothers and fathers work.

The Case of the Disappearing Honeybees, Part 2

The next day at school, I sat at my desk with my 4 friends, Andrew, Alan, Rastko, and Cameron. We all thought about the mystery. "Hm, Gordon William knows that the honeybees wanted to find more nectar. Maybe, hes right! We just don't know where a bee would find a place where he thinks there is a lot of nectar in eastern California." I had a tree house in my backyard. Mostly, me and my friends would climb up the tree house ladder, go into the tree house, and solve mysteries. We called it "The 6 Year Old Club" because we were age 6 and were neighbors. (6 days later) At 10:20 in the morning, everyone reported at the clubhouse. "Well, the bees could have flew to a garden with lots of flowers." said Alan. "That's it!" said Andrew, who was very smart. "Whats it?" said me, Rastko, and Alan. "Alan was right." said Andrew. "The bees really and truly could have flown to a garden with thousands and thousands of flowers. Alan, the school brainiac definintly was right. Me and Rastko shrugged. Was Alan was right or wrong? Only one way to find out. Tune in for our next adventure, "The Case of the Disapearring Honeybees, part 3, "The Mystery Clues."
To be Continued...
This is Part 2, Solving the Mystery. Remember that now.

The Case of the Disapearring Honeybees

PBS News (89.5 FM)

"Honeybees used to be happily collecting flower nectar and turning them into honey. This has happened for 20 days and the bees have flew to somewhere else. Scientists have tried to find out, but they couldn't figure out. After 2 days later, scientist Gordon William said he saw the bees flying away. ''The bees were flying east." he said. "They probably think that there isn't enough nectar in San Diego and flew to the other side where they think there is honey." Scientists knew that the bees flew to eastern California. Only a smart detective and solve this mystery."

I, Harold, simply liked to listen to mysterious news. Why? I'm a detective. Harold O' Brien, Private Eye. "Hmm, this could be a sign of a mystery. " I thought to myself.
To be continued...

This is Part 1: The Disappearing Honeybees. Remember that now.

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Scary Tales vol. 1

There is an old rope bridge called "The Old Timber Bridge" in Midnight Crossing. Right next to the Old Timber Bridge there is a haunted castle. A vampire lives in the castle and it is his private castle.The vampire lives with his ultra-slimy creature. There were thunderstorms during midnight everyday. One time the vampire and the slimy creature were in an old Ford Model T when the clock stroke midnight. The Old Timber Bridge was really long, and the vampire hadn't made it to the end. The vampire looked at his watch. It was 12:00 AM! The thunderstorm arrived. Lightning killed the two to death. Suddenly, a strong gust of wind caused the hubcap of a tire to fall off. The tire went wobbling. The strong gust of wind grew stronger and stung the vampires face. The car, the vampire, and the really slimy creature got blown off the bridge and into the deep, dark sea where they got stung by stingrays, attacked by squids and octupouses, and eaten by a shark. The End.

The Invention Show

I made a Squish-a-Tron 2000 with help from my dad (hes an inventor). It was a machine that squashed things. Things didn't go good, so Fred Buckley won 1st place. After assembling the C2900096 Biocapacitating versifier, the X34518926 Mechanic Chip, Squashie Squishie 100% Squashers, and a blast of motor oil in the oil tank, the Squish-a-Tron 2000 was ready. Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Frank and I am 6 years old. The next day, I was getting ready. "You think you can make it?" said Andy. (Cars don't need seats and they need ramps.) Well, this is what didn't go good. Please don't laugh okay? During 11:30am, the time when the show started, me and Andy were the first ones up. Andy said "I'd like to present an invention my friend, Frank, made with his dads help. The Squish-a-Tron 2000! I placed 2 apples on the glass screen of the machine and pressed 'Start'. Suddenly, squishers came out from small tubes. They began squishing and squashing the apples until applesauce fell on the children. SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT! The children howled with laughter. "It isn't funny!" said Fred. Fred was the next up. He showed his Gear-O-Matic 4000 to the audience. Everyone was amazed. And for some reason, he won 1st place. Epilogue: I added (cars do not need seats or ramps) because Frank and Andy were talking on the school bus.

The Adventures Of Jimmy The Dog

Jimmy wasn't always a dog, first he was his body parts and a battery canister, which made him do friendly barks at his friends and mean growls at the bullies. His bow tie used to be a strip of cloth. He was made in China. The workers put his ears on his head, then put the battery canister inside his body, put it on the side of his head, attached his feet to the bottom of his body, put his "paintbrush-like" tail on the back of his body, tied the strip of cloth around his neck, and finally stuck the tags. He was soon shipped to America in the 1900s on a big boat. Jimmy fell asleep on the way to USA and dreamed that he was with a dog family and wished that he was too. When Jimmy awoke, he found himself on a shelf in a store in San Diego, California during the present. Hundreds of Jimmy's were surrounding him, all over the shelf. In 2007, a baby took him out of the store without paying. His wish had came true--- the baby that took him out of the store liked him and he soon belonged to a dog family. he met a friend named Teddy, a teddy bear that belonged to the babys brother when he was a baby. The world soon became special for Jimmy, and became his home.