TLG-Erin+Gilbert

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April 1st 2009**
 * Hi**, I am a fifth grader here at Turner Elementary. I'm going to be 11 in May, the fifth month, on the 14th. I have a large family, and an //adorable// chocolate lab puppy who's always getting into trouble. My parents are divorced, and I see my Dad once a week. This Saturday, I'm sleeping over with my siblings at his house. I have hair on my head that I cannot think of a name for it, so I'm sticking with chipmunk. Oh yeah, I almost totally forgot!! Today is April fools day, a day where people pull pranks on each other and yell "APRIL FOOLS!!". It's not the funnest holiday, but heck is it funny! And I'm a girl.


 * __The Great Kidnapping __**

One windy Saturday afternoon, Caitlin Treblig ran outside to get the mail. When she grabbed the heavy envolopes in her hands, the contents slipped out!! Letters for her foster aunt went everywhere! She tried to grab them, but she missed and fell in the foster dog doo-doo!

Meet Caitlin, a typical almost normal girl living in Lincoln, the capital of Nebraska with her foster family. But the thing that makes her life //almost// normal is her bad luck. On her tenth birthday, she broke a mirror. Then her life started spinning out of control. Her parents died in a car crash, leaving her with nowhere to go but a run down orphanage. She has had bad luck for a year now, and Caitlin still is excited for her seventeenth birthday, when the Jinx hiding in her shadow will leave her forever. But when Caitlin gets kidnapped and gets dragged to Alaska, will her Jinx really leave her....or end her? 

Caitlin picked herself up//. Ugh//! she thought, glancing down atthe lumpy, brown, soon-to-be stain on her shirt//.Not again//! She ran to her room, looking for a yellow-and- brown free T-shirt. The Jinx chuckled. "Oh, shut-up!" Caitlin snapped at it. He rolled his eyes and creeped back into her shadow.