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Dear Journal,

Today was like almost great…except for the part that wasn’t so great. Okay, so our day starts out in a big argument- between Micah and me. I’m not saying either of us really had all the right facts, but Micah thought that we needed to go to the time of George Washington. I didn’t want to. I mean, I’m not that picky, but it was two against two. Mercy was on my side (do...

Dear Journal,

Today as Micah, Mercy, Bethany, and I sat on the floor in my room; the subject of the time-machine came up. “Where should we go today?” asked Bethany. “Oh, maybe to the time of Gutzon,” I said jokingly. “Oh, Patience, get your mind off that guy,” Bethany said. “I don’t think so,” Mercy said. “No,” Micah said. “I think we shoul...

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“Today is Good Friday,” I thought as I woke up. I went and woke Mercy up. I said, “Hey, Mercy, let’s go to the first Good Friday in our time-machine.” “Let’s not,” Mercy whispered back. “Why not?" I asked. “Because I don’t want to watch Jesus die,” she said. So after I convinced her (more like forced her to) we got the rest (Bethany and Patience) and we went. We arrived in servants clothing ...

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I told you yesterday that we would go somewhere else. When I found out what that somewhere was I was shocked. We went to the time of Noah. As you can tell it was not dry at all. God had just closed the door when we showed up. We all became the children of Noah’s sons. Aunt J. is Bethany’s mom and Japheth is her dad. Aunt H. is Mercy’s mom and Ham is her dad. Grandma N. and Grand...

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The time-machine has totally been used WAY too much; all I think about is our latest adventure. Micah and Bethany come all the time now. The latest adventure was at the time of Lewis and Clark. We went to the White House where Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark across the United States. We asked them if we could go along. Lewis and Clark didn’t mind us coming along, and were pretty nice about the whole thing. R...

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I was successfully keeping the time-machine a secret, but not anymore. Today we made history! Like majorly. I’m serious. Almost. Today Mercy and I made our first batch of pumpkin-lemon-apple cookies – without snitching. First, neither of us likes pumpkin-lemon-apple cookies. Second, Bethany and Micah were there helping us by telling us NOT to eat any. And third, they were for our families, not us. Anyway now it...

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I have a lot to catch up on for today. Wow. I don’t even know where to begin. Recently my cousin and I have found a time travel machine, and have been going everywhere. Today after lunch we decided to go outside and do some more time travailing. We got in and Patience suddenly stopped right in front of the machine, and asked me were we were going. I didn’t know so I asked her where she wanted to go. This laste...

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I guess I kind of feel sad, mostly because of the trip I took with my cousin, Mercy, in our time machine. Ever since she and I found the time machine we have been traveling everywhere! Yesterday Mercy and I played in the time machine all day. Towards the end of the day we had time for one more visit before supper. We both wanted to go visit Amelia Earhart before we needed to go in. And we both wanted...

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Today I have a lot of things to catch up on. My cousin & I have been very busy over the last couple of days. We recently found a time machine with a control panel that we could type in where we wanted to go & the machine would take us there. We climbed in and typed a couple of different things. Finally we agreed on going to the time of Laura Ingalls Wilder when she was about 7 years old. Then we pressed the enter b...

I watched as she marched down the hallway, her curly yellow hair bobbing. “Good bye, Maggie!” she called. I managed a weak ‘bye’, but I didn’t feel like leaving now. Julia May, my best friend since I was eight years old, leaving me. Moving, far away from me with a terrible heart disease. I felt like bricks had been piled on my back. As I watched her turn to wave, I couldn’t stand it any longer. I ran with all my might straight towards ...

The plane suddenly slowed and tilted forward. The plane’s intercom sounded and the flight attendant said, “Please remove the life jacket from under your seat and move to the nearest exit. From there someone will give you insertions.” I grabbed my life jacket and put it on. As it started inflating, I looked the life jacket over. It was equipped with a whistle, flashlight, and spare battery. I grabbed my carry on, which contained my survival kit, and moved to the nearest exit....

There once was a girl named Maggie and she did not have any brothers or sisters. Life was quite boring for Maggie. One day when she went out to get the mail there was a letter for her!

This is what it said: "Dear Maggie, I hope that you are fine. Grandpa and I don't like being so far away from you all, and would love to see you. School is over, so if it is fine with your parents, Grandpa and I would love to have you come to the farm to...

Once, when Bobby was three, he got a cat. Sadly, the cat died because he was very old. Later he got a dog and that died of the same reason. It kept happening that they would get a dog or cat and it would die. So one day as he talked he said……

“I want an ant farm for my birthday.”

So on his birthday he got an ant farm. Sadly, he fed them cornmeal and they died. So he got a Nanny ...

Bobby was a boy who loved adventure, he liked d fishing to. So one day as he and his friend, Fredrick were pulling up fish after ...

On normal summer nights Bobby would go meet his friends at the park. They would play and talk. One day though it happened that they could go camping. So it happened that they were camping when…

“What’s that?” asked John.

“I don’t know.” said Bobby. “I think it’s a skunk.”

“Uwe, it smells,” said ...

"The television can wait." My mom whispered in my ear.

"Ok I'm going." I said as I stood up. I knew I was supposed to be doing my homework, but I didn't even know how to start. "Okay what do we have here." I mumbled to myself as I sat down at the desk in my room."I think I might just do my writing first." As I did my homework I thought about what my teacher had told our class today at school.

"You kn...

"Is it a girl or a boy?" I asked bubbling with excitement. My dad had brought me to the hospital to see my new little sibling. "I'm so excited because I'm pretty sure I know what it is going to be. Well I guess I don't really know but I am think it should be a boy" I said as we walked toward the room where my mom was staying. As we walked into the room I couldn't help but feel a stab of disappointment. All around me were pink balloons saying, "it's a girl!" I slowly walk...

"This movie is terrible!" My sister wailed.

"Of course, you begged me to play it and naturally you wouldn't like it." I thought as I put in a different movie that both of us would like.

As we watched it I thought about my mom, and what she had told me as she left for the hospital where Dad was. "Rebeca, you're going to have to watch Rachel until Grandma gets here. You and your sister can manage." That...

“Okay, you don’t have to go on about it,” Sabella said. “I get the point. You think I’m a failure.”

“No, that’s not what I’m saying,” Ladonna replied. “I’m just pointing out…”

“My faults,” Sabella finished. “You think that… Oh, never mind.”