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Honorable Mention<br />
An Elf & Two Kids<br />
by Alex Wells<br />
Wesmere<br />
One day, the Smith family received a<br />
gift. The gift was The Elf on the Shelf, and<br />
his name was Charlie. Every night while<br />
the Smith family was asleep, Charlie traveled<br />
to the North Pole to tell Santa how the<br />
family’s children, Katy and John, were behaving.<br />
Katy and John Smith were siblings.<br />
Katy was John’s little sister. Katy was high<br />
on the Christmas spirit, but John thought<br />
Christmas was silly and Santa was a big<br />
phony. One early morning, as the sun’s<br />
rays were just starting to peek over the horizon,<br />
Charlie returned from the North Pole.<br />
Unknown to him, Katy was in the kitchen<br />
getting a cool glass of water.<br />
With a sudden shriek, Katy spotted<br />
Charlie.<br />
“Shh. Shh!” Charlie begged in a hushed<br />
tone. “Please, I’ll be caught!”<br />
“Who are you, and what are you doing<br />
in my house?” Katy asked alarmingly.<br />
“I’m Charlie, you’re elf.”<br />
“But why are you talking and moving<br />
around? Are you magical?” Katy whispered<br />
excitedly.<br />
“Yes, and I need you and your brother’s<br />
help,” Charlie said. “You see, every night<br />
I travel to the North Pole to report on how<br />
you and John are behaving. But this time<br />
when I arrived, I saw something horrible.<br />
The worker elves, who are responsible for<br />
making all the gifts, are refusing to work,<br />
because they claim that hardly any kids still<br />
believe like you do.”<br />
“So what do you need from me?” Katy<br />
asked.<br />
“I need you and your brother to come<br />
with me to the North Pole and convince the<br />
elves in the workshop to continue making<br />
gifts for all the children around the world,”<br />
Charlie said.<br />
“OK, but John doesn’t believe in<br />
Christmas,” Katy said in a depressed voice.<br />
“He thinks it’s stupid.”<br />
“Don’t worry about it,” Charlie said.<br />
“Once he sees me, he’ll know Christmas is<br />
real.”<br />
Katy and Charlie tiptoed to John’s room<br />
to wake him up.<br />
“John, John, wake up,” Katy whispered.<br />
“No, it’s too early,” John mumbled.<br />
“Come on, John,” Charlie said. “We<br />
need your help to save Christmas.”<br />
Suddenly, John shot straight up like a<br />
rocket.<br />
“Who are you!” he screamed.<br />
“Keep it down,” Charlie said. “You’ll<br />
wake your parents. I’m Charlie, your Elf on<br />
the Shelf. I need you to come with us to<br />
save Christmas.”<br />
“I must be hallucinating,” John said.<br />
“You’re not,” Katy said.<br />
Charlie explained the crisis they faced<br />
at the North Pole, and soon enough, John<br />
agreed to go.<br />
“Grab your coats, kids,” Charlie said.<br />
“It’s cold in the North Pole.”<br />
“How are we going to get to the North<br />
Pole anyway?” John asked.<br />
“Through magic,” Charlie said.<br />
“Awesome!” Katy said.<br />
“I don’t know about this,” John said.<br />
“Don’t worry,” Charlie said reassuredly.<br />
“Santa’s sled is safe.”<br />
And suddenly, using his magic, Charlie<br />
made Santa’s beautiful red sled appear.<br />
“Wow, that’s amazing,” Katy exclaimed,<br />
as she instantly started petting the reindeer.<br />
“Come on, kids,” Charlie said. “Get in.<br />
We don’t have much time.”<br />
Katy jumped right in while John, looking<br />
a bit sickly, got in slowly.<br />
“Here we go,” Charlie said, as they<br />
blasted off from the Smith’s front yard in the<br />
cool, early-morning air.<br />
A few hours later, they arrived at the<br />
North Pole.<br />
“Alright, we’re here,” Charlie said, as<br />
they landed in a snowy courtyard.<br />
“Now, remember what I told you. Once<br />
we get to the workshop, you two need to<br />
convince the elves to continue working.”<br />
The group met Santa in the workshop<br />
and gathered the elves. Katy and John<br />
gave an emotional and moving speech,<br />
and convinced the worker elves to continue<br />
making gifts for all the children who<br />
still believed in the magic of Christmas.<br />
Afterward, they returned home, and Katy<br />
and John had the best Christmas ever!<br />
Honorable Mention<br />
The Magic of Christmas<br />
by Katharine Nguyen<br />
Windsor Landing<br />
There was a girl named Emily who was<br />
very rich. She was spoiled, selfish and<br />
rude, and her mind was full of hatred. She<br />
never thought of other people.<br />
One day, her grandma demanded<br />
that Emily go outside. After five minutes,<br />
she found herself deep in the woods. She
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