Heroes of the Solar System

Heroes of the

Solar System!

Adventures in Space with the Sun, Moon and Stars

By the galactic champions of Xpey’ Elementary

Copyright © 2019 The Writers’ Exchange This book was created by Mr. Smith’s grade 1–3 class at Xpey’ Elementary School in the winter of 2019.

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About This Book We learned about space, and the sun, the moon and the stars. Then we made up stories about different heroes and characters, and how some of them might go to space or talk to the sun and moon! We each did drawings for our characters, and then made shadow puppets out of the drawings, so we could act out our stories and learn about the light of the sun. All of our stories and the drawings for our puppets are here in this book.

Contents Mr. Wildcat Goes to the Moon, by Anakin

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Space Bunny, by Brady 4 Cheeseburgers, by Rowan 5 The YouTube Diaries, by Payshintz 6 Pepper Goes on an Adventure, by Christian

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The Cat and the Sun, by Bradley 8 Nom Nom Nom, by Ezra 9 The Day Everything Melted, Evaporated and Exploded!

by Aden 10 Batman vs Joker, by Ryan 11 Echo the Raptor, by Nathan 12 Panda and his Friends, by Faith 13 Dragon World, by M.T. 14 The Pencil and the Eraser, by Yacine 15

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Mr. Wildcat Goes to the Moon

By Anakin

The wildcat went on a rocket ship to the moon. When he was there, he had a picnic. He had an apple, a banana and a delicious bowl of spaghetti. Then he saw some aliens. They tried to steal his food, but it was a magic picnic basket. The basket was empty until you asked it for what you wanted. The aliens asked for a jelly flood! It happened because they asked for jelly but forgot to say “but not a lot.” The wildcat said, “Oh no!” And they lived happily ever after.

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Space Bunny

By Brady

Hop the Bunny hops through the grass and hops further until he finds the setting sun and hops on into space. And he flies up and up and up. Now he is in space. Hop is sad because he has to go home now. Goodbye, space.

Home sweet home. Hello, Earth.

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Cheeseburgers

By Rowan

A mean star comes to steal Cheeseburger (because he’s cool). But Cheeseburger makes him feel shameful for stealing. The star is so ashamed that he goes back to the sky! He goes to the moon and the sun and tells them what he did on Earth. He tells them about Cheeseburger and how he wants to go eat a cheeseburger now. Then they all turn into cheeseburgers and live happily ever after.

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The YouTube Diaries

By Payshintz

In Burnaby, there was a group of good friends: Kitty, Michael Jackson and three penguins, named Gunter, Yugi and Spaghetti. They were making a YouTube channel at Kitty’s house. All of a sudden, Kitty suggested to them, “Let’s go to space to make a funner YouTube!” Everyone agreed and said “perfect!” and they decided to go to space. They shook hands and jumped into space. It took six minutes to get to space from Burnaby. When they finally arrived, they started making a YouTube. Michael said to everyone, “I can teach you guys how to Moonwalk.” They said yes! Doing the Moonwalk was easy for them and they did it for an hour. They succeeded in recording an exciting YouTube! Yeah! They became really hungry because they had danced for a long time, so they decided to go back to Burnaby.

They held each other and jumped to Burnaby. Six minutes later, they landed in Burnaby. They made spaghetti at Kitty’s house and enjoyed their lunch.

After that, they had a nap. While they had a nap, all of them were dancing in their dreams. After waking up, they played with slime and created a new YouTube about it. Since they liked dancing a lot, they started dancing again.

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Pepper Goes on an Adventure

By Christian

Pepper the Cat accidentally got on a rocket ship. He went to all the planets he knew. He also went to the sun, and then he went to the moon.

He went back to Earth after the moon. He told everyone he knew about his adventures. He told some animals from the farm. He was too scared to talk to the wolf, but he had to. Then he told his friend the dog. The dog was excited to hear the story. He celebrated because Pepper had gone to different planets. I guess he was wishing for a million cat treats. But then Pepper was leaving. Pepper had extra cake for everybody. It was Pepper’s birthday. “Let’s celebrate it,” everyone said. They sang the happy birthday song.

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The Cat and the Sun

By Bradley

One morning the sun bought a toy. It was Optimus Prime. Then the star got his favourite book about the cat and the sun. Mr. Star said, “It’s storytime!”

Mr. Laugh and Mr. Rushqueen and Mr. Sun gathered around and listened.

Mr. Star started reading . . . then the moon arrived. He ran around and stuck money on Mr. Sun’s moustache. Then he stuck money on Mr. Rushqueen.

Then Mr. Laugh laughed at Mr. Rushqueen. Then Mr. Rushqueen got mad at Mr. Laugh.

P.S. Ha ha, there is no cat!

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Nom Nom Nom

By Ezra

Floss Boss Mode flies into cheeseburger space. He finds some stars! But oh no! The stars are all in cages. Floss Boss Mode has to save them! He breaks the cages and frees the stars. When he opens the cages, he realizes that the stars are really all cheeseburgers. He takes them home to Earth, and they say, “Thanks, brew.�

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The Day Everything Melted, Evaporated and Exploded!

By Aden

One summer, people were eating popsicles and ice cream and drinking iced tea and swimming in a swimming pool. Then the sun floated closer. The stars and the moon said, “Is that a good idea?� The iced tea evaporated and the ice cream melted. The swimming pool water got hot. It started boiling. It evaporated. Then a guy that knew karate tried to fight the sun. The fight began! If he failed . . . and lost, he was going to burn up! The sun won!

Victory for the sun!

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Batman vs Joker

By Ryan

Batman battles Joker and he saves Gotham City. When the sun comes up, Batman turns into Bruce Wayne. The next night, Batman battles Joker again, only this time with TNT. Batman saves the day, but something smells like dirty underwear under Gotham City. So Joker goes into the Phantom Zone Projector. When he is in there, he sees dirty underwear. Batman then goes to his Batcave, and notices that he has adopted Dick Grayson. Dick names himself Robin, and so Batman thinks he is a kid on Halloween in a costume.

Batman goes to the Batmobile to the find Scudder. Then the city splits apart, and they see the dirty underwear. They say: “We’re doooomed!” They try to get to the other side of the city and realize that they are battling to save Gotham. They put the city back together and Batman goes back to the Batcave.

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Echo the Raptor

By Nathan

Warning: This story is very scary. Mystery raptors can pop out suddenly at any second.

Some stuff is cursed in Jurassic Park. They get their power from the moon there, and the raptors always get loose because the power shuts down a lot. The first raptor in the park was very dangerous. His name was Echo. A guy tricked the researchers and the computer went cuckoo. The computer said, “Ah, ah, ah, you didn’t say the magic word!” Then the researchers had to make a decision and they shut the power down. But it was the wrong decision! Echo hunted down the humans and tried to eat them. Some kids were hiding in the kitchen, and some raptors tried to eat them, too. If the raptors found the kids, they would be in severe danger.

How do the kids escape? To be continued . . .

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Panda and his Friends

By Faith

Panda was walking down the street when he found a friend. His friend was a cheetah! They walked down the street together and got ice cream. The sun shone and said, “Have a great day.” Then they got some cotton candy.

The next day it was Panda’s birthday, so they went to Playland. Cheetah gave Panda a present, then they found another friend—a monkey. Then the next day it was Cheetah’s birthday. They all went to a swimming pool and walked on the water. Then it was nighttime and they all had a sleepover.

The moon said, “Goodnight.” Then it was Monkey’s birthday, so they went to the library. After that, they got on the school bus to go to school. They played with Lego, then they did math. Then they went home. Then they went to tutoring. Then they had dinner.

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Dragon World

By M.T.

There was once a tarantula named Spike and a scorpion named Nagita.

Both Spike and Nagita were very hungry. They wandered around the desert. Spike buried itself in the sand so that it could escape the heat and predators. Nagita ate bats. In the beginning, Spike and Nagita didn’t know each other because they lived on different cliffs. One day, when Spike and Nagita were wandering around the desert, they met each other. They started to fight because they both wanted to eat each other’s kind of food. Nagita used its sharp tail to sting Spike, while Spike bit Nagita. They tied in the fight, and ended up both eating each other.

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The Pencil and the Eraser

By Yacine

The pencil and eraser are enemies because every time the pencil draws something, the eraser erases it! The pencil teams up with the sun to get revenge on the eraser. And Mars becomes friends with the moon. The eraser goes to Mars to try to erase it, but Mars is too big to erase. And then the eraser leaves Mars and erases the pencil. So the sun gives the eraser some food. But it is a potion that makes him look like the pencil. After he turns into a pencil, the eraser draws back the other pencil. And then they find a portal and go to the Fortnite world with the sun and the moon.

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