Time Magazine: 2019

2020 Book Creator competition - all entrants

August 1st, 3025 Dear Journal, I never knew how much damage humans could cause. We can&#8217;t even leave our house, it&#8217;s so dangerous outside. My home is nowhere near the camp! Neither is the school, yet school is still cancelled.

November 5th, 3025 Dear Journal, We can go back to school now. The humans have joined us. One sits next to me. She is smart, for a human, and very funny! Her name is Paige. She is mischievous yet honest and trustworthy. She calls me E.T after some odd human movie about aliens. I do not mind. It is an affectionate nickname, the type you&#8217;d give a friend. And we are the greatest of friends! We go together like ice and cream, something that Paige made me try. It is a delicious Earth treat! I will not need my journal anymore. I will, instead, tell Paige everything. We&#8217;ll share secrets and be best friends forever.

Izzy P is a 6th grader in the Papillion LaVista school district. She has been reading since Kindergarten until now, and free writing since 1st grade. Izzy enjoys writing for her class. Her favorite genre is horror. Some of her classmate&#8217;s favorite books are Red Binder Scary Stories, the Insane Asylum series, Dear Dead Diary, and At Death&#8217;s Door. Her 5th and 6th grade teachers have helped her greatly in getting her writing out into the world (Izzy&#8217;s 6th grade teacher was actually the one who signed her up for this contest!) Izzy likes cats, pizza, soccer, and, of course, writing. Read her books on Wattpad at Kittyhouse7. 

June 18th, 3025 Dear Journal, Today is a day I will remember forever, but I am writing it down anyway. Today the first ship of humans came to Mars. They were loud, crying and fretting and running around like lunatics. Honestly! So uncivilized. A tall male one with brown hair noticed me and cried out how the world was ending and they needed to get all of civilization off their planet. He spoke in rapid Spanish. It&#8217;s a good thing my school has a class on Human Languages! I felt uneasy with all those humans around me, so I moved to look at their spacecraft. It was much heavier than our ships, but the odd thing was, it was not round! Can you believe it? The ship had two heavy-looking pieces of metal sticking out the sides. How did it fly like that? It must have been terribly unbalanced the whole trip. Sometimes I don&#8217;t understand humans.

June 27th, 3025 Dear Journal, The government must have felt the same way I had, because they locked up all the humans. I was worried about the open roof, but Father said that humans can&#8217;t fly out. Really! One less thing to worry about, I suppose, but I do wonder how humans get around. I could ask my teacher, except school is cancelled until the government is sure all humans have been rounded up. My teacher sent us homework, so here it is: Differences Between Humans and Martians. Humans and Martians are similar in looks, but Martians have green skin and rounder eyes. Human eyes are small and squinty, like they&#8217;re trying to hide something. Human females can wear their hair however they&#8217;d like, unlike Martian females, who must have a bob hairstyle. Humans do not have antennae. Perhaps that is why they seem confused, as if they do not know where they are or what they are doing. Humans come from a planet called Earth. Their clothes are strange, and they wear complicated masks over their eyes and mouth.

1:  I am a cylinder with an open top and bottom. I mostly harm the environment, but if I&#8217;m made of metal, I can save it. Guess who I am!

3...The Perfect Hike 4...What You Can Do

2:  I am a plant that makes you very itchy. Poison is in my name, but I&#8217;m not poison ivy. Guess who I am!

3:  I may look like a flower, but I am actually a weed. I change forms and colors. People make wishes when they scatter my seeds. Guess who I am!

9...Emily Terrestrial, First Woman On Mars

4:  I am what you wear when it&#8217;s cold outside. I cover your fingers separately, so you can pick up snowballs to throw at your friends. Guess who I am!

5:  Challenge! I am round and found on trees. My texture almost looks like the type of tree I grow on. Sometimes I&#8217;m covered in sap. Guess who I am!

There&#8217;s always enough time to read!

The perfect hike to take isn&#8217;t in the mountains, or in a forest, or in a prairie. The perfect hike is in your own backyard. Sure, you&#8217;ve seen it every day for as long as you can remember, but have you really seen it? Really crouched down to watch a spider weave it&#8217;s web, or a worm crawl through the dirt? Taking a hike or nature walk in your own backyard can open your eyes to a tiny world you&#8217;ve never given a second glance. Afterwards, it will help you realize the importance of saving the birds, bees, flowers, and trees of our world.

One of the problems with our current world is the lack of care we give to the environment. There are many small, simple solutions to this problem that you can do on your own. First, you can pick up trash at a nearby park or playground. Gather a group of environmentalists to stuff trash bags with the junk you find. If picking up trash is too gross for you, you can start recycling. Recycling is easy; all you need is a bag. You can put recyclable items, (paper, cardboard, cans, etc.), in the bag and leave it out to be recycled, or take the bag to a recycling place. You can also use a cardboard box for recycling.

Picking up trash to save the environment (So important!)

Question of the Day: What do you think the future will be like? Extra Credit: How do choices we make, big and small, affect our future?

If someone drops a soda can in the ocean, it could get caught in a pipe, clogging the pipe, making a building flood, and harming innocent people. 

If someone were to drop a soda can in the ocean, how does that affect you?

Or, the can could join the other tons of trash in the ocean, which could eventually mess up the ocean ecosystem and lead to mass destruction of animals, plants, and even humans.

Bottom line? Don&#8217;t throw trash in the ocean.

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