The Long Way Home

The Long Way Home
By Jennifer Rosene
Age 7
Second Grade



Once a little boy went shopping with his mother. They went up the hill to the market and bought some carrots. He put them in his mom’s cart. When they left the store, he got in the cart so that his mom could push him home. He totally forgot about the hill.


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"Watch out for the hill!" yelled his mom. Down went the boy, the cart was going crazy. It was rolling while the boy was screaming, "AAAAAA!" Then all of the sudden he wasn’t that scared anymore. He pretended he was a race car driver and people were cheering while he raced down the track.



Then, suddenly he hit a rock and flew up into the air! He did a flip and landed on the telephone line. "I’m a tight rope walker at the circus," he thought. People were cheering as he walked along and did flips on the rope. Then, when he was doing his final flip he fell off the wire.



Down, down he went. As he fell he could see water below him. He imagined he was a cliff diver plunging into the water below. When he came up for air, he saw a large rock next to him. He decided to climb up on it to take a break.

Suddenly, it began to move and he realized that it was a turtle. Faster and faster and faster the turtle swam. The little boy felt like a cowboy riding on a bucking bronco at the rodeo. The turtle carried him into a mysterious hole. The boy had no clue where he was going.



"What a surprise," the boy said. "It’s my house. I’m home at last!!!"