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Youth
May 3 - 16, 2008 A+11
SanTan Sun area kids have talent! In the fi rst issue of every month, the SanTan Sun
News prints the best entries from kids in grades kindergarten through 12th grade in a
variety of categories. Congratulations to this month’s winners!
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Note: If a great entry didn’t make it into this issue because of space considerations, we will hold it over to run in
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a future issue. Submissions are minimally edited to preserve the writer’s voice. If your submission appears in this
section, compare it to your original to help improve your writing skills.
Knockout Knockout
POEM: short story:
Silver Tongue:
I dipped into a parking garage and
The Forgotten Story
went up the steep ramps as fast as
Aria
I could. I knew that fate brought me
by Amanda Gonzalez, Conley Elementary
by Seth Jilek, Conley Elementary
here for one reason: to save the rest
of the people of Tokyo from their
Today, I was granted extreme
On the beach,
demise.
power, power unknown to the world.
In the bright and calm morning,
I reached the top, but I had to keep
I was told I could read aloud from any
The sound of waves steadily crashing into the shore
going. I closed my eyes and leaped
book and swap objects, creatures,
With the palm trees swaying so gracefully in the wind that
off the edge, landing on the back of
anything from the book to our world.
Blows over the small peaceful island
the beast. I grabbed onto him with all
But everything comes at a price.
There is a woman singing quietly to herself hoping
my might. His thick scales cut into my
For every one thing that came out of
For someone to hear her cries and to save her
hands like razors, but I had to keep
the book, something must go into the
From being lonely
climbing. It was 30 feet to his head or
book to take its place.
Slowly her voice fades away and the only sound that can
470 to the ground.
It took me a while, and I
Be heard is the calm waves
When I reached his head, warm
contemplated all the possibilities. I
blood was trickling down my arms. His
chose my book. It was not one of
scales were too thick to pierce, and I
the delicious sweets, or one of the
couldn’t reach his eyes. I did the only
great treasures. The book I chose was
Knockout
thing I could: I stood there, pleading
full of terror and despair. A horrible
POEM:
with him to stop. I told him the people
monster destroying a town was all
of Tokyo did not mean to harm him.
that awaited anyone in the book. A
Here and Now
As I did, he stopped thrashing about
creature that was indescribable, it
by Veronica Sutliff, Tarwater Elementary
and turned to walk away.
was more frightening than your worst
Everyone started to cheer, but not
nightmares.
The moon in the sky and the stars how they shine
for me. They were cheering for the
I began to read the book. The words
The wind in the trees and the birds how they chime
helicopter that came swooping in. It
came out slow and thick like warm
The sand on the beach and the fi sh in the sea
hit him with such force he toppled to
honey. The room began to quiver and
The reason our key is held by the King
the ground, and a building pierced his
shake. Men and women began to pop
And how the maze seems that it will never end
chest.
into the room, looking as though they
I’ll fi nd you right there and I’ll hold you again
The crowd became silent. No one
had just awakened from a dream,
Don’t fret, don’t fear, don’t scream and don’t cry
dared to speak.
never wishing to return.
The presence of my spirit will ever run by.
Suddenly, a voice rang out through
As I stepped forward to comfort
the desolate quiet. It was Godzilla
one woman, I realized I was beginning
himself.
to fade away. I tried to stay awake,
“The words of this boy have changed
Send us your knockout
but I drifted off.
me. But after today, ask yourselves
When I awoke, screams of terror
stories and photos!
who the real monster is, for it is not I
fi lled the air. I had only wanted to save
… not I ...”
Students in Chandler and Gilbert have the
citizens from their fate in the book,
opportunity to see their articles, stories, poems,
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I could feel my eyes fi ll with tears
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but to do so, I had to sacrifi ce myself.
editorials and illustrations in print in the SanTan Sun
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as I lay on top of the beast. Suddenly,
Kids Opportunity section. Visit
www.SanTanSun.com,
There in front of me stood a 500-foot
I was back in my room away from it
click on Youth and then Student Writer Permission
lizard, charging through Tokyo. I fi nally
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made it. I was in “Godzilla.”
parents sign it so we have their permission to print your material with your byline. our material with your byline
I tried to save someone, anyone, Then, email your submission/permission slip and writing or cartoon to Lynda@
I had to act quickly to get out of
from that book, but that day, I
SanTanSun.com as a Word fi le (if writing) or JPEG (if art) or pasted into the email.
his way. I knew what I had to do
destroyed an even greater beast – no,
If you don’t have access to email, or prefer to send your submission on disk, you
immediately. Climbing up buildings,
may send a hard copy of the form with your entry in a Word fi le or JPEG on a CD via
an even greater friend.
picking up speed, there was no time
postal mail to Lynda Exley, Kids Op Page, SanTan Sun News, P.O. Box 23, Chandler,
AZ 85244-0023. For more information on the Kids Op page, or to have SanTan Sun
to think about what I was going to
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do.
publishing, email
Lynda@SanTanSun.com.
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