Rose and Lily's stories, poems, and book reviews.
Christmas lights we enjoy year round,
Running and brightening up the town.
Some of the lights go up a pole,
Some of the lights go down a hole!
Some lights red and some lights blue,
Some lights green and purple too!
After snow coats the ground,
It seems like a light lost and found!
Bear and Donut wanted to go floating! But there was a problem.
“I don’t have a float!” Bear said, “How will we go floating without a float?”
“Don’t worry, I don’t have a float either. You can use me as a float! I can hold you, and I can float, so you can ride me!” Donut exclaimed.
So Bear and Donut went floating, with Bear sitting on top of Donut.
“You’ll never have to worry, Bear. You have me! Donut.”
The river was only a mile away, but a mile was still a lot for Donut to walk.
“My legs are getting tired,” Donut sighed, “Bear, can you walk?”
“All right, I can walk. you can ride me.”
So Bear walked the other half of the mile to Glorious Day River. “Now we can float! It is such a glorious da— it’s not day anymore!” Bear gasped.
Even if it was not day, Bear and Donut went floating, and soon they were asleep.
Donut woke up to the sound of rushing water. “Oh no! Bear it’s a waterfall!” Donut shouted.
“Oh no!” Bear’s eyes popped open.
“Huh? River rafting? Donut! Are you trying to trick me?” Bear asked.
“No, I’m not! There was a waterfall, and we were Donut-rafting and you were on top of me and suddenly we were all back at my house and I was so relieved!” Donut said.
“Donut!” Bear laughed. “It was just a dream!”
“Let’s go real rafting!” Bear stood up and blew up his rideable dolphin floatie.
“Yeah, let’s!” Donut agreed and stood up too. Donut and blew up his otter floatie.
So the two went rafting, and never again did this strange dream pop up. And they never ever saw that waterfall again.
Beep bop. Beep bop.
“Thank you. We’ll be on our way.”
Beep bop.
“They’ve never had a case like this today.”
Beep bop.
Four tires went POP!
Bop beep. Bop beep.
“Thanks, a lot.”
Bop beep.
“Sometimes, we use a robot.”
Bop beep. He threw the old tires into a heap.
“You know I really like to rhyme,
But we don’t have any—”
“Time?”
The tow truck, in such a hurry,
Made the ground grumble.
It went so fast it looked so blurry,
And then the ground started to rumble!
We watched the tow truck as it stopped,
And out the driver came.
There was never a time when four tires popped,
So today was not the same!
What do you think it is like to be the first people to live on the moon? Here’s what Dashiell Gibson would say:
– Space food is terrible.
– The space-toilets are even worse than space food.
– Life on the moon is dry, dusty, and boring.
– I’d rather go home.
For twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson, or Dash, life on the moon is a bore. Or not…. One morning, early morning at 2:00 AM, Dash overhears Moon Base Alpha’s doctor, Dr. Holtz, and he’s talking to someone in the men’s bathroom. Dashiell cannot hear the other end of the conversation, so he assumes Dr. Holtz is talking on the phone, but why at 2:00 AM? Well, next thing you know, Dr. Holtz is dead, brain dead. Dash is afraid worst has come to worst, and there is a killer loose on the moon! When he attempts to explain this to the moon base commander, Nina Stack, “Nina the Machina”, she dismisses his idea and thinks otherwise. Then, in the middle of all this chaos, two very helpful things happen. Dash is assigned to welcome new lunarnaut, Kira Howard, the daughter of Dr. Maxwell Howard who is also a new lunarnaut. Second, when he returns to his room, he meets someone from security called Zan Perfonic, who claims to be a good friend of Dr. Holtz. Also, she agrees that he was murdered and will help Dash find out the murderer. Kira, who has overheard Dash, helps too. But who could have done it? For one thing, Dr. Holtz is well liked. For another point, there are 25 people on the moon, could it be Lars Sjoberg, a multimillionaire. He and his family are about the most annoying people, forget on the moon, maybe even on earth. The killer could be Nina the Machina, Daphne Merritt Lars, Sonja, Patton, or Lily! As the story continues they find more clues. Could it be, Dr. Timothy Marquez, Dr. Chang Kowalski, “Chang Hi tech”. Whoever the murderer is, they’d better watch out! Dashiell is on the case no matter what Nina the Machina says. Can Dashiell succeed or will he get murdered as well? And can Dashiell figure out who murdered Dr. Holtz?
We like Space Case, because it is a funny and interesting murder mystery on the lunar surface almost 20 years in the future. It features diverse characters with differing personality.
– Dashiell Gibson: who is sometimes pessimistic and is not the kind who will break too may rules.
– Violet Gibson: Dashiell’s younger sister who is friends with Kamoze and Inez. She is energetic, and she likes eating waffles and blueberries, singing, and watching Squirrel Squad.
– Dr. Rose Harris: mother of Violet Gibson and Dashiell Gibson.
– Dr. Stephen Gibson: Father of Dashiell and Violet Gibson. Dr. Gibson doesn’t get to do much with Dashiell because of the limited space on the moon.
– Kira Howard: who has an enthusiasm trespassing into places she’s not supposed to go, especially when she sees no reason not to go.
– Dr. Maxwell Howard: who is staring into space with a hundred other ideas all the time, so he ignores his daughter a lot.
– Inez Marquez: a seven-year-old who is friends with Violet and Kamoze.
– Rodrigo Marquez: “Roddy” who is a VR addict and will not stop talking about it. Roddy likes playing video games so much that he often hogs the VR.
– Cesar Marquez: oldest child in the Marquez family, who uses his size to threaten his younger brother, though sometimes he needs help from the Sjoberg twins Patton and Lily.
– Dr. Timothy Marquez: who is an incompetent base psychiatrist, so may people in Moon Base Alpha dread their one-on-one meetings with him.
– Dr. Ilina Brahmaputra-Marquez: an Astrophysicist in Space Case, Spaced Out, and Waste Of Space.
– Kamoze Iwanyi: a seven-year-old who is friends with Violet and Inez.
– Dr. Sheri Goldstein: Moon Base Botanist who spends most of her time in the greenhouse caring for plants.
– Dr. Mfuzi Iwanyi: who is an Astronomer and a strict rule-follower.
– Dr. Jennifer Kim: a Geologist who has a very meek and quiet personality, and although she talks at about a regular frequency, it seems like a lot less since she makes everything seem like it’s her fault and usually talks in an apologetic tone.
– Dr. Shenzu Alvarez: water extraction specialist who likes playing practical jokes on people.
– Sjoberg family: a family of multimillionaire jerks: Lily, Patton, Lars, and Sonja Sjoberg.
– Dr. Viktor Balnikov: a Russian Astrophysicist in Moon Base Alpha.
– Dr. Ronald Holtz: base doctor that got murdered in Space Case.
– Dr. Chang Kowalski: a Geochemist that has an IQ matching Albert Einstein’s
– Garth Grisan: maintenance worker that works for the military.
– Nina Stack: base commander who, like Grisan, works for the military. Nina is called “Nina The Machina” by younger children like Violet or Inez.
– Dr. Daphne Merritt: base roboticist whose personality is the opposite from Nina’s. Dr. Merritt a best friend to all the children except Cesar, Lily, and Patton.
– Zan Perfonic: when Dashiell first meets Zan, she says she works for security.
It was a beautiful sunny day,
As we drove along in our van.
Rose suggested, “I think there’s a faster way!”
And so we changed our plan.
Prickly cacti stood all around,
And suddenly, we stopped.
We heard and exploding sound,
Because all the tires had popped!