Lee orchestrates a showdown with a mysterious garden thief. Featuring two new stories: “The Hockey Player Who Played the Ukulele,” a story about an athlete who changes professional hockey forever, written by Nolan, a 10 year old from California, and “The Pumpkin Patch Mystery,” a story about a magical and strange land inside of a pumpkin, written by a 10 year old from the Oneida Nation named Nova.
Scroll down for the original stories behind the episode!
Illustration by Camila Franklin
The Hockey Player Who Played the Ukulele
by Nolan, age 9, North Carolina
Once upon a time there was a hockey player who played the Ukulele. His name was John and he loved to play the Ukulele.
He showed up at PNC Arena one day and played the Ukulele instead of playing hockey. His teammates were very upset because he was the best hockey player in the world. Then his teammates learned how to play the Ukulele and started playing instead of playing hockey too.
Soon, every hockey player was playing the Ukulele. Then they started using the Ukulele as sticks, even the goalies! Soon everything in the world was made of Ukuleles. The arena, the Eiffel Tower, and even the White House were made of Ukuleles! All of the food was shaped like Ukuleles.
One day, an evil scientist named Bob McMickey Pants Scootlebob with his lab rat Gerry McBoop decided all the people should be made out of Ukuleles. They decided to throw all of the people into the Arctic Ocean.
John found out about their evil plan and gathered all of the hockey players in the world for the ultimate battle. They used Ukuleles as their shields and swords. John used a club made out of two Ukuleles (they were guitar sized). He banged Bob McMickey Pants Scootlebob over the head and then threw him into the ocean.
The people were saved! While Bob was sinking he bubbled the word “the end”. And then John said, “hey that’s my line! The end”
The Pumpkin Patch Mystery
by Nova, age 10, Wisconsin
A girl named Emma lives in Oneida. She woke up one day and she was going to the pumpkin patch with her mom. Her mom was busy talking to someone and Emma saw a really big pumpkin in the woods and when she walked up to it she saw a door on the pumpkin. She got really curious, and she went into it. She fell into it and saw a wonderland. It felt like a dream. She saw all these cool things like going down slides, eating candy like chocolate and nerds clusters. There were pumpkin people coming out of their pumpkin houses. one asked Emma, why did you come to our land. Emma said, I just saw a big door and wanted to go into it and see what was in there. All of a sudden there was a knocking on the door. It was Emma’s mom! Her mom said, “Emma, I was looking for you. What is this???”
Emma said, "now that you're here, you can come in."
Emma said, “I just saw it and decided to go into it. Now you’re in it and you can see it too!!” Mom said we can stay but not for the whole night. Emmas asked one of the pumpkin people what kind of things could they do in Pumpkin Wonderland. He responded with, "you and do anything here, it's a kid's dream."They go on the bouncey house. They went on roller coasters, swam in a pool, went on water slides. It started to get cold.
Then the pumpkin people said it was time to leave. The seasons were changing, and winter was coming. If Emma and her mom stayed they would freeze.
They went back up to the pumpkin patch, picked their pumpkins and went home. Before the went to bed that night, Emma said, "today was a crazy day." Mom said, "I agree with you."
Roll Call Stories
PillowPhone
by Owen, age 4, California
I have a pillow that’s a phone. I can call my friend when my parents are asleep to talk about what our dogs are doing. Hello little doggies.
Caramel Cheese
by Dietrich, age 7, Hawaii
The Strange Storm
by Hannah, age 10, New Jersey
“Hannah, get out of the living room, there's a storm coming! Get your toy from outside, it could get hit by lightning,” Dad screamed as I went outside to get my toy.
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” I screamed … as I got hit by lightning.
I grabbed my toy and wobbled back into the house. I fell to the ground and I was out cold ...
“Call 911! She passed out,” my dad screamed as he carried me to my bed.
The next morning, I was in my bed. I had just woken up. I went to the mirror to see what I wanted to wear today. I start thinking about my favorite pop star. “OMG,” I said, “I’m her! I looked just like her! I must have shapeshifted!”
“YOU WHAT?” my sister Emma barged in.
I quickly thought of myself to shapeshift back. I told her about how I could shapeshift as she left, but I told her: Don’t tell anyone! She agreed.
Then, my best friend Parker was knocking on my door.
“Hannah,” Parker called out.
“What?” I replied tiredly.
“How are you? I heard you went to the hospital last night,” Parker said.
“I feel fine,” I said.
Parker had come to visit, and she brought Kaylee and Mia, my other friends. But Kaylee and Mia left at 10:50 because they had to go see Sierra at 11:33.
The next week, Kaylee, Mia and I were at school talking about our new, super-secret superpowers. Kaylee and Mia have telekinesis and I can shapeshift.
“ See you later,” I told Mia and Kaylee as I walked to my next class and they walked to theirs.
Five hours later … “We made it,” I said with a sigh as we walked into the cafeteria.
Mia and Kaylee sat at the table, planning to save me a spot. I got on the lunch line to get a bagel bag and an ice cream bar. In my bagel bag, I found a very weird item: bright blue apples.
I'm thinking of giving them to my sister when I get home as a prank.
“Emma, I'm home! I brought you apples,“ I yelled.
My sister ate the apples. Next thing I know, she starts screaming.
PEW PEW PEW! I hear.
“Help! Lasers are coming out of my eyes,” she screams. We were home alone, so I ran to help her. She’s right! Lasers are coming out of her eyes!
This is going to be stressful to explain.
THE END
