TAISM5-Lindsey+F.

Hi! My name is Lindsey (I have other names from my friends too) and I am 11 years old. I love to read, swim, sing, and play piano. My favorite color is blue! I like green to. I am from America, But I lived in India and Oman for my whole life. I have a Dog and a Bird. I just got my Dog,But I have had my bird for 6 years! I have a family of five including my Mom, Dad, My older sister Amy, and my older brother Spencer. I have many friends some of them are: Caroline, Maryam, Sathya, Chitrali, Chisom, Raysa, Jihan, and Benedicte. We all love to play tetherball with each other at recess. I like to play basketball with my dad on the weekends. Some of my favorite games are Horse and bounce-2 for basketball. My teacher is Mr.Lee, and he is really funny and nice. I was on swim team for 2 years and I have won 13 ribbons. My swimteam friend is Rachel. I was also on track once because I LOVE to run. My favorite classes at school are music an art. Well thats a little bit about me. :)

My Story Chapter One Blue Bird

She ran like the wind her golden hair chasing after her." Thump, Thump, Thump". Her pale white feet hit the dark brown dirt as she ran through the woods. She ran over the small red bridge, past the sea blue house, and climbed over the yellow faded fence. Now she was deeper into the forest. She was listening to natures music, her favorite music. She heard the yellow birds sing out there souls, the crickets chirping like there was nothing else to do in the world,and the occasional deep rumbuling Ribbit from a Frog. She was interuptued when she heard a familure voice call out to her. "Lily!,Lily!" "I'm coming Rose,"Yelled Lily as she ran to her secret tree house were her best friend Rose was waiting for her. "Where were you I was waiting for 20 minutes" asked Rose. "I am so sorry Mr.Lay wanted to help me on my math, you now how bad I am at Math?"Said Lily "You are not bad at math it is just not you best subject, anyways how is school with Mr.Lay?" "Oh it's OK he is nice and everything but I still wish I was with you and Mr.Stone, because he really likes animals and the environment." "I now it is so unfair We have been in every class together except for 5th grade." The girls sat for a while thinking. The yellow birds continued to sing, then Lily spoke: "Rose don't you love it up here we can listen to the birds sing there own special song, We can listen to nature." "Yes I love it up here" answered Rose quickly, showing that something was wrong "Whats wrong?" asked Lily "Did you here about what Sarah did to me today? She made fun of me in front of the whole class.She said that my hair looked wierd,and my shoes,she even made fun of my braces!" cried out Rose "Well I know Sarah has always made fun of you so why not try becoming friends with her?" "Ok I'll give it a try to become friends with the witch,hey want to race to the river." "OK Last one there is a rotten egg."yelled Lily. They ran to the river. There feet hitting the ground. Thump,Thump, Thump.SPLASH! There feet jumped into the water. They watched the fish swim in circles, and then started chasing after them. after a while they were dripping wet, drip, drip, drip, and huffing and puffing they got out of the water. "I have to go home now."Rose said to Lily in sadness. "Ok I will see you tomorrow hopefully." said Lily and Rose ran away out of the forest. Lily layed down on the soft ground. The sun shined on her face. Then she heard it. The whistle from a bird that she had never heard. She started to follow the sound. She looked all around, then she saw it a blue bird with white spots up in the tree, you hardly ever saw these birds in this forest. She climbed up the tree but the bird flew away. Lily was just about to climb down from the tree when something caught her eye. She saw a birds nest. Then she thought out loud"This most be that blue birds nest."Lily counted the eggs. There were 5 sea blue eggs! she climbed down the tree as fast as she could. Than she ran to her house to tell her Grandmother.On her way home she bumped into someone, it was police cheif Arnold. Lily greeted him "how are you Cheif Arnold?" "Oh hello Lily I am sure doin' fine how 'bout you?" "Oh I'm doing fine." "Aren't you in my Sarah's grade" "Yes, sir." "Wella, I could use your advice right 'bout now. See the towns gonna make some more houses in this very good forest. Do you think it is a good idea? with this the town will earn alot of money. Of course there will at least a couple hundred trees will be a cutin' down..." "What cut down trees? No it is a terrible idea. Do you know how many animals live in these trees? I bet you didn't even know that a very rare bird has a nest with 5 eggs?" "Wella calm down Miss.Berry I didn't mean no harm." "Good day to you cheif Arnold and I will let you know that I will never let this go." said Lily angrily and she ran off "thump, thump, thump" went her feet as she left Cheif Arnold at her dust very confused. "Wella it's good to umm now your opinion Miss.Berry.

Chapter two The talk with Grandma

"Grandmaaaaa! I'mmm hommmme!" "I'm comeing butterfly, what news do you have for me today?" "Grandma, geuss what." asked Lily "What?" " Do you know the rare bird that is blue with white spots? Well it has layed a nest in our forest with a total of 5 eggs! can you belive that?" "I can hardly belive that Butterfly! In our very own forest?" " Yes! But cheif Arnold is so cruel. He was thinking about cutting down "100" trees or more to build houses! Do you know how many animals could live in those trees? At least a thousand!" "Well if you want my opionon I would say you should stand up for what you think is right." "What do you mean?" asked Lily " I mean tell the world this. They probably don't know this so it is your job to tell them." "Okkk.. I kinda get it thanks Grandma." and then Lily ran off, into her bedroom. Lily grabbed her pencil and began to work. She started drawing pictures of the rare blue bird. After she drew ten pictures she thought it would be important to know the name of this bird so she went on the computer and searched it. She finally came with resalts. The bird was a Jewla. She made posters that said things like "save the enviroment don't cut down trees", "help protect the Jewlas", or "Help save animals!". Then finally she started working on her speech that she would make at morning recesse it began like this: "My fellow students, you probably do not know this but there is a rare blue bird called a Jewla laying a nest of five eggs in our very own forest. But people are thinking about cutting down trees. When I first saw the Jewla it woke me up to think about all the other animals that live in the forest, and how many would die if we cut down the trees. I think it is our time to rise to take control. what And then Lily fell into a deep sleep excited and scared about the next day to come.

Chapter 3 A day at school "Aghh" said Lily as Mr. Lay wrote todays math question on the board. "Class may I ask you for your attention for just a momment. Please put down your pencil and listen. You may already know this, But the fair is comeing up," there was a mumer of excitment from the students", Please listen, the mayor has asked for the fifth grade to present a speech about anything in this town, something good or something to change. So at recesse I would like you to think about speech ideas. After recesse the other class will join us to come up with ideas, Oh yes one other thing one and only one of our students will present it in front of the whole town. You are now allowed to go to recesse." said Mr.lay in excitment, and the students ran out side ready to play. Lily walked out side slowly thinking about the speech. Then Mr.Lay interupted her thought: "Lily is something wrong?" "No I am fine." "Ok, see you later Lily." When Lily got out she spotted Rose right away, and she was standing and giggleing right next to SARAH! Lily wanted Rose and Sarah to become friends, but not that fast. "Rose, over her," said Lily as she walked over to her " ,Hi Rose" "Ummm.. Hi Lily" said Rose "Oh I see your little friend is here now,Bye." said Sarah in cruelity "Oh yeah Bye."said Rose and Sarah walked off. "Why did you have to ruin that I was becomeing friends with Sarah just like you wanted, Right,"blurted out Rose", Well it doesn't matter know what do you want." "Well after you left yesturday I found a Jewla birds nest, and it had 5 eggs can you belive that?"asked Lily excitedly "Wooow! thats so cool," said Rose her attitude changeing",so what are you going to do?" "I was thinking of putting posters all over the playground and maybe having that for our speech. There is of course a problem otherwise I wouldn't be doing this work. Sarah's Dad ,cheif Arnold, wants to cut down 100 or more trees to build houses in the forest when there are at least 1000 animals liveing in those trees! Can you help me put up those posters?" asked Lily "Sure" answered Rose "Oh and one more thing come to the tree house after school alright. promise?"said Lily "Promise,"said Rose ",now lets go put up these posters." and they were off they put posters all other the playground. Then the whistle blew three times and they lined up to go inside. "Hello kids please have a seat," said Mr.Lay ",Mr.Stone and I are going to go and get the worksheet we expect you to be responcible and queitly talk about speech ideas." and they walked out the door. The perfect time to talk about the Jewla thought Lily so she stood up and asked for the student's attention. "excuse me everyone, may I please have your attention?"asked Lily "What" said Sarah "I have a speech idea. There is a Jewla bird in the forest and she has a nest of five eggs. Jewlas are very rare here." "Annnd?" asked Sarah rudely "Well your father is planning on cutting down hundreds of trees to build houses. Do you know how many animals live in those trees? At least a thousand!" "So thousands of people could live in those houses." said Sarah "But your father is..." "Are you calling my father a... a.. animal killer or something." "Well he will be if he cuts down those trees." "Can you belive her makeing fun of my father in front of everyone, a chief, and her father is an lazy janitor. Ha ha ha. I can't belive her. If we build these houses the town will be in great shape." said Sarah. Lily started crying right now. How could Sarah make fun of her Dad. She loved her Dad and she was very close to him and anyone who makes fun of him, is just pushing her limit. "How could you be...be so mean to mmy DDDAADD," Cried out Lily",everyone already nows that were poor, you don't have to remind them" "I know, but I think your acting like a baby whhen when,"said Sarah trying to sound like a baby",Well lets see what Rosey has to say shall we." Asked Sarah "Well umm.. what I have to say is umm," mummered Rose then she looked into Sarah's eyes and Sarah gave her Do-you-want-to-be-my-friend-or-not type of look and then Rose said "Well IIII think Lily is acting like a baaaaby crying over something sooo small." said Rose in her most mature voice. Rose looked over at Sarah and Sarah gave her most biggest grin. "Well I...I think I'm going to to go now" said Lily as she ran out the door her cheeks still wet from crying. As she ran away from Sarah she ran into Mr.Lay. "Lily whats.."asked Mr.Lay "Can I go look for my waterbottle?" Lily lied "Lily what is..."tried Mr.Lay again "well can I?" "Ok, fine" and then off she went, but she knew exactly were her waterbottle was, it was in her backpack. Instead of going to her backpack ,she ran to the bathroom. She cried in the bathroom for about an hour. While she was there something happened that she would probably never thought to happen. ...in the classroom... "Hello kids, we know you were talking about speech ideas, so were we. On our way over to get the worksheets we found this poster on the playground along with many others. This says "help the envoroment don't cut down trees". Now I've been hearing a romour that trees are going to be cut down to build houses. Mr.Stone and I thought that should be our speech, about Help Save the Planet, infact it will be. who ever student made this I thank them. There might be a name on here but we will cheak later." after Mr.Lay said that the whole class was sileint, and Sarahs face was blank and white "Did I say something wrong?"asked Mr.Lay with a frown on his face "No" they all replied at the same time which was really wierd because the class usally did not agree on things "Ok everyone is.." "RRRIIIIINNNG" "Ok class your homework for the weekend is to write a speech. The class will vote on thier favorite speech with out knowing who wrote it. The speech that has the most votes wins, and the auther is the one who will tell his/her speech to the town!"said Mr.Stone cheerily. Everyone got up and left the classroom. ....In the bathroom.... Lily slowly got up and whiped her tears with her hand. She looked in the mirror. Her eyes and cheeks were all red from crying and her hair was a mess from pulling it in anger. She tried to pretty herself up as fast as possible she couldn't miss any more class time..."RRRRIINNGG" went the bell. Great thought Lily. She sat down a bit more and thought about what happened,No she couldn't so she got up and went into the hallway it was empty. She went to her locker and got her school bag then she slowly creeped her way home. No first she would go to the tree house, not that Rose would be there but she could listen to nature and that will calm her.

Chapter 4 In the Tree House

Lily ran over the red bridge, past the sea blue, and climbed over the yellow faded fence, like she had a million other times. Lily kept running and running untill she heard the strange whistle of a bird. Lily looked up and smiled, it was the Jewla bird! Before she went to the tree house she wanted to go and visit the eggs. Lily climbed up the trees rough bark, and there they were. Five little eggs in the same spot they had been since the last time Lily visited the birds eggs. She just wanted to reach out and touch those eggs, and hold them for herself but she couldn't. If she touched those eggs the mother Jewla would never come back. Now Lily really wanted to go to the tree house, so she climbed down the tree and ran the rest of the way. When she approched the tree house she thought she saw something inside, could it be Rose?! "Rose!" yelled Lily in hope and excitment. Lily climbed up the tree house. "Umm its not Rose but me David from your class. While you umm were... gone, something amazing happened that I think that you shhshould know about." said David "Like what? People makeing fun of me and how did you know where to find me?" said Lily not happy that David was there in Rose's place "Rose said you might be here..." "Rose told you are seceret hidding place?" Lily yelled "After what uumm happened I'mmm not surprised" mummered David obvisely uncomfertable "You still didn't answer my question," remarked Lily ", What happened?" asked Lily in a whisper, shocked at what David had said "It's nothing to be sad about I just.... "Get to the point." said Lily annoyed "Mr.Lay and Mr.Stone saw a poster like this on the play ground," said David as he pulled the poster out of his back pack to show Lily", they said it would be a great idea to try to help the enviroment, with out asking the our class they decided it is our speech." A little smile started to creep up on Lily's face. "They saw that?" asked Lily "Why, does this mean anything to you?" asked David scarcasticly "Umm well I made that," whispered Lily her face going red, quickly changeing the subject Lily asked David "Do you want to see the Jewlas nest?" "Sure," answered David. So Lily gabbed his hand and they half ran, half walked to the bird's nest. On thier way over there, Lily asked "Soooo how was Sarah's reaction when Mr.Lay and Mr.Stone said that the enviroment was the topic?" "Oh you should have seen her face, it looked like they had smacked her right in the face." Said David laughingly "and Rose's reaction" asked Lily barely loud anough for him to hear. "She looked sad, confuessed and sorry." They were queit for a while than Lily said in a crooked "Thats were the nest is" they saw the beutiful bird fly away. Both of them climbed up the tree. Lily had tears roll down her cheek. Could Rose really have been sad that she left her? Was she confuessed at how she acted? Lily sure was. And most importantly could she have been sorry? "Can I help you?" asked David. What was he talking about wonderd Lily. "What" asked Lily confuessed "Can I help you save these eggs?" "Sure," answered Lily ", I would really like that, well umm I better get home or my Mom will get scared." "Me too" So they walked together through the forest and once again Lily bumped into Cheif Arnold.

Chapter5

"Oha, Hi Miss.Berry," said Cheif Arnold "Oh anda hi Mr.Shuffle" "Hi" said Lily flatly "Miss.Berry I want to give my biggest apoliges to ya I didn' mean to get ya mad the other day." "It's Ok, I really have to go know my ,Grandma will be worrid." Said Lily and she ran off not caring about what she left behind. "She mad ain' she?" asked Cheif Arnold to David "Well kind of, your daughter got pretty nasty on her today, and her best friend left her." said David knolegedably "Wella I goin' to give my girl a little talkin' to, it ain' right to be nasty on such a darlin' girl." "Yup you got that, You know you shouldn't be cutting down these trees.." "I know, I know, Miss. Berry gave me ah all the talkin' I need to get. Ya better get home son or ya folks'll go and be gettin' themselves worrid." "Yes, sir!" David said in enthusiathum, though he didn't feel it, there was so much work to be done. David started running off, but not in the direction of his house. ~Five minuets later~ David was out of breath and panting. He streached out his hand to reach a door bell. He pushed it and it went"ding dong" a women opened the door. "Hello" said the Women happily " What can I do for you" " Oh I was just wandering if Rose was here I needed some help on a math problem." Lied David "I'm not sure she has been in a crabby mood all afternoon since she has come back from Sarah's house, but if you must then come in" Mrs. Handa unblocked the door way and with a smile let David come in. "I have one question whats your name young man?" asked Mrs.Handa "Oh its David." "Rose, David's here, he needs your help on a math problem, He'll be in your room in a minuet." "Ok Moooooom" answered a voice. David walked up the narrow steps when he reached a door full of roses he knew he had come to the right place. David reached out his hand and knocked on the colorful door. There was a clicking sound then there was a girl with red eyes right in front of him, he didn't know what to do! "Oh hi Rose, I just..." "I was evil, wrong and terrible! How could I betray Lily like that?" yelled Rose then in a wisper she asked " How could I be so mean?" "It was easy, Sarah was popular you wanted ohh whats the word for it?" "Fame, Glory?" "Yes! thats it glory, you wanted Glory." "But that shouldn't make Lily and I not friends, I should be able to have glory when I'm with Lily!" "Your right, you made a mistake, but if you really had a strong friendship with Lily she would except your apolegie, because ,well thats just what friends do, they except mistakes. But you have to talk to her in person say sorry, no matter how scared you,if you don't go you will lose a friend, a good one."explained David slowly trying to figure it out to himself as well. "I will go tomorrow." "Promise?" "promise." "Be by her side always, she needs you more than ever now." David turned around with out giving Rose a chance to speak. Rose slowly sucked everything in and relaxed, she was scared ,what would the next day would bring?

~Chapter 6~

"RRRIINNGG" went Lily's alarm clock. Lily yawned. It was the weekend and she was already board. "Lily, Mr.Lay just called he said you were out of the classroom for a while. While you get your breakfast you will explain this to me, won't you?" Questioned Mary, Lily's mom. "Coming Mom" groaned Lily and she slowly walked down the stairs. "So, tell me the story." asked Mary as soon as Lily reached ground leavel. "I forgot my waterbottle and I went to go look for it, Mr.Lay knows that."toled Lily "And it took a full hour?" asked her grandma who had just popped in her head. "Well I got a cut looking for it. I went to the bathroom to wash it up. After that I tripped and fell on spilled water, I fell on my cut leg, so I had to go back to the bathroom to wash up again. And that did take an hour." Lied Lily as she showed her Mom and Grandma a week old cut, but her mom didn't know that. "Oh you poor thing, why didn't you go to the nurse? Oh I will call back Mr.Lay right away and let him now everything." Said Mary. Mary left and it was just Grandma and Lily "So what was the real problem?"asked Grandma "That was the real problem." Butterfly you expect me to belive a foolish thing like that? You might have fooled your ma, but not me. I know that cut is a week old, you got it by playing at the playground. So, I ask again, whats the real problem."That was all Grandma Berry had to say. Lily toled her everything from the posters to David.When she was done Lily cried out "Oh, why did Rose do this to me, how could she do this to me?" "Sometimes friends, Oh how should I say this? they well out grow each other and start to have different intrasts. She was a great friend to you while you were friends, you should at least be thankful for that." "Oh i'm still a friend to her, I did nothing mean, she's the one who's not friends with me." " That may be so, she seems to have made a new friend from my understanding, maybe you should do the same. but remember what you said 'I did nothing mean' and lets keep it that way." "OK Grandma, but please don't tell Mom she would kill me if she found out I lied." "Ok Butterfly just this once, now you go run off to your ma, she's waiting." Lily ran to find her Mom, she finally found her in the living room on the phone. "Ok Mr.Lay I will tell her right away, thank you, goodbye."Said Mary to the phone "Lily that was just Mr.Lay on the phone. He toled me to tell you that you should go to David's house and David will tell you what you should catch up on." "Why David." "Mr.Lay called him out of random to ask for him to do it and he agreed. You should go to his house in fifteen minuets, Ok? "Ok" But it was not ok, to Lily at least, because to get to David's house she would have to go past Rose's. ~15 minuets later~ 'calm down Lily, she might not even be outside' thought Lily. But of course she was wrong. Rose was out side mopping the padio. 'Maybe if I go quickly she won't even notice me'. Lily walked quicker but that made her louder. Rose looked up and wondered who was walking. A smile aproched her face when she relized it was Lily. "Lily," cried Rose", Lily wait" "What" asked Lily in a sad voice "The other day I was wrong. I just really wanted to be Sarah's friend for...for Glory. She was popular and I was not. And I was wrong because I didn't like Sarah for who she really was and I like you how you are and I shouldn't have left you because Sarah was popular.You have every right to ignore me and walk away, but no matter how you treat me I will help you by your side to help save our beutiful forest.So.." "You didn't forget about me?" "No" "You still want to be my friend?" "Only if you still want to be mine." "Rose I have always been your friend and I will never stop. I may make new friends as I grow up,but I will never leave you." They hugged and cried a little untill Lily said"Oh my gosh I'm late I was suppose to be at David's house half an hour ago, he was going to help me with the school work I missed." So they ran together until they reached the Shuffles (Davids) house.David was the one who opened the. "Where were you I have been waiting an.."but he stopped talking because Lily put up her hand for silence. "Long story."said Rose "Tell me" Demanded David "No, it doesn't involove you in any shape or form." Replied Lily "Wait a mineut why is Rose here?I thought... You two.... Oh I get it!" said David proudly that he knew what had happened. "Are we going to let you talk all day,or are you going to help and tell me what I need to know?" asked Lily "You need to write a speech. The class will vote on their favorite speech with out knowing who wrote it. The author of the winning speech gets to read it to the town."said David. "If thats all I don't see why he could have told my mom and my mom tell me?"asked Lily "he wanted me to help you, and I guess Rose can help too." "but than you would have to write two speeches and that isn't fair!" said Lily "Oh I wouldn't have to make another one if I helped you." "Ohhh" said Lily "Lets get to work" said Rose

~Chapter 7~ The marching band just walked by. It was fair day and Lily was wearing her prettiest dress.