Original Story by William, age 7:
Characters: Jake- 5 years old- had short hair that he was growing long and loves the rain. Luna is Jakes’ sister. She is 4 years old- Luna had long hair but wanted it to be short like her brother.
Setting: Inside and outside the census building in the busy city of San Francisco, California
Problem: The kids wanted to be hired at the Census but the old human incharge of hiring would not hire them.
Plot: They were walking around counting all the things they could shop for when suddenly they ran into the boss of one of the census offices. Jake recognized the boss because Jake and his sister spent hours imagining how it would be working for him and counting people.
They said, “Hi, are you the boss of the census office”
And the boss said, “Why yes, I am”
Luna said, “Can you hire us?”
Jake said, “The old man incharge of hiring wouldn’t hire us because we are too young.”
The boss said, “Interesting how old are the two of you?”
Jake answered “5 years old and my sister Luna is 4 years old.
The boss says, “We’ve never had anyone that young work in our offices.”
“Well there have never been any kids before that think that working for the census would be the best job in the world.” said Jake
The Boss could not say no to that because he too wanted to work for the census when he was 5 and no one would let him.
“OK!”, said the Boss, “you are hired. You can start tomorrow.”
Jake and Luna felt amazing. Numbers were their favorite and the job of the census is to count every single person in the United States.
“WOW! Can you believe it!”, said Luna We are going to be the first kids to work at the Census.
Statement from the Author:
I loved listening to all the other stories, so that inspired me to write a story. My dad started working at a new job for the Census. He worked for them 10 years ago and 20 years ago. I thought that was interesting. My sister is named Luna so I thought that one of the characters' names would be that.
