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Kids: Win $15 gift card from Changing Hands Bookstore Students who either live in Chandler, Gilbert, Queen Creek or surrounding areas or who attend area schools can win $15 gift cards from Changing Hands Bookstore, thanks to a partnership between the bookseller and the SanTan Sun News. This ongoing, monthly promotion awards a $15 Changing Hands gift card to every youth whose article, story, poem, essay, editorial, book review, photo or illustration is chosen to be printed in the SanTan Sun Kids Opportunity section, while supplies last. The Kids Opportunity section is printed in the Youth Section of the first paper of the month, each month. The best news is that even though only one to three submissions are printed per month, all good submissions are held in a file to be printed in future issues. So if an entry doesn’t win this month, it could win next month—or even the month after that. To enter, visit SanTanSun.com, click on Youth and then on Student Writer Permission Slip to download a submission-permission slip. Complete the form and have a parent sign it so the paper has permission to print the entry and the author or artist’s byline. Then, email the submission-permission slip and writing or artwork to news@SanTanSun.com as a Word file, if writing, or JPEG, if art, or pasted into the email.
DRAWING: This drawing was submitted to us by Emily Douwstra, a second-grade student at Haley Elementary School.
Dreamland Adventure By Jasmine Tu, Third grader, Bright Beginning School Once a upon a time there was a place called Dreamland. It was a place where animals can talk, where cars can drive without people in them and where fairies live. However, only four kids know about this place. The children’s names are Fern, Lucy, Howie and Eddie. Fern and Howie are older than all of them. Fern is 10 and Howie is 8. Lucy and Eddie
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PENNED BOOK: Libby, Ariel and Mika Armbrister, grades five, five and first at San Tan Elementary School, wrote a children’s story and have published their book on Amazon. “Muffin is Looking for a Bone” is an adorable story about a missing treasure. It is suitable for reading levels kindergarten through third grade. All the illustrations in the story were made by children, including Libby. Submitted photo
are the younger ones. Lucy is 6 and Eddie is 4. They are brothers and sisters. They had promised their friends in Dreamland that they would never tell a person about them. They had many adventures with their Dreamland friends. Now, it had been a long time since they had their last adventure. So they went to Dreamland. They saw that an evil witch was trying to capture their friends. They formed a plan. Lucy and Eddie would try to distract the witch while Fern and Howie rescued their friends. Their plan worked! They thought they saved the day.
But suddenly they saw the witch trying to capture an unicorn. So they had to save the unicorn and drive the witch away from Dreamland. Lucy, Eddie and their friends distracted the witch and Fern freed the unicorn. Then, Howie drove away the witch. What an adventure! It was nighttime in the human world already. So they said goodbye to their friends and told them to call them if the witch comes back. They went home happily and ate supper together except Howie. Howie just went to bed. He laid on his bed thinking about the adventures that lay ahead. The End
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