Sucked into a book
By Hope Forguites
Grade 4, Thomas Fleming School
It was Piper’s first day of kindergarten at
Hunnington Elementary. It was a small school,
but Piper didn’t mind. The school had red
brick walls and a beautiful garden with flowers
of all different colors and sizes, such as lavender, roses, tulips, daisies and sunflowers.
It also had a flagpole in the front and the
biggest playground ever! It had green grass
and peach trees out front by the garden.
Piper was in Mrs. Stapleford’s classroom
sitting on the brand new red rug and listening
to the lesson. When the lesson was over, Mrs.
Stapleford said, “OK, children you can now
read your fairy tales!”
As Piper got up from the rug she thought
about which fairy tale she would read. She
finally decided on “The Three Little Pigs”
and sat down to read in the corner next to the
bookshelves.
When she got to the part where the house is
blown down, she noticed there was a character missing. Piper flipped three pages back. It
was true! The middle pig was missing! Piper
thought her eyes were just playing tricks on
her, so she leaned down closer and it was not
there! The middle pig was truly missing! It
This Week: General writing
Young Writers Project is an independent nonprofit that engages Vermont
students to write, helps them improve and connects them with authentic
audiences. Each week, in this newspaper, YWP presents a selection of the
best local writing and photography. This week’s writing is in response to the
prompt for General writing. You can find more at youngwritersproject.org,
a safe, civil online community of writers, and in YWP’s monthly digital
magazine, The Voice.
was supposed to be saying, “I
won’t let you in ... not by the
hairs of my chinny chin chin!”
Suddenly Piper got sucked
into the book! She felt a tingling in her whole body. Then
she found herself standing
inside a stick house with a red
carpet in the middle.
She looked at herself and
noticed that instead of hands
she had hooves, instead of a
nose she had a snout, and instead of a human body, she had
a pig’s body!
Suddenly she heard something outside, and
sure enough, the house was blown down and
standing there was a wolf! “You’ve got to be
kidding,” she thought to herself.
That second Piper screamed and sprinted
down the hill!
Erin McIntosh, Essex High School
She eventually came across a nice looking
brick house with a beautiful chimney.
She knocked on the door and out came a
giant pig.
“Little brother!” the pig said. “What brings
you here?”
Piper replied, “ I am not your brother. I am a
girl named Piper. Can I come inside? Please?”
The big pig didn’t believe Piper, but he let
her in anyway.
Soon the wolf was knocking on the door.
The giant pig and Piper stood frozen in shock
with their mouths open. The wolf threatened to
blow the house down if they didn’t let him in.
Of course, they didn’t let him in, so the wolf
blew and blew, but he couldn’t blow the house
down because it was a brick house.
The only other way in was through the
chimney. So the wolf started climbing higher
and higher. He eventually came to the top and
he jumped into the red brick chimney.
“Splat!” was the sound the wolf made hitting the steaming pot of stew that Piper and the
oldest pig had left for him.
The story ended with dinner. Of course it
was wolf stew. (Piper didn’t like wolf stew, but
she ate it to be polite.)
As the story ended, all of a sudden there
was a gleaming green light circling around
Piper. Piper swatted it, trying to get it off because it tickled a little bit, but she couldn’t get
it off so she just stared at it in disbelief.
Moments later, Piper appeared back in the
classroom, reading in the corner again. She
glanced at the clock and realized she was late
for gym, so she rushed out of the room before
the teacher could see her.