The Read Aloud
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The Read Aloud - Volume 34
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Mr. Mangol
OPS Authors
Kathryn - The Little String Puppet
At OPS we are a community of avid readers, but we're also a community of creative writers. With this in mind, we are excited to continue our new series of posts, OPS Authors, which highlights student authors here at OPS on our OPS Library's Check It Out blog.
In our second installment we'd like to spotlight a short story by Kathryn, a sixth grade student here at OPS. Kathryn entered her short story The Little String Puppet in the Betty Awards this summer and was nice enough to share it with us. Here's a short excerpt from Kathryn's story:
I wish I could be free, she mused, thinking of her dull life. However, she knew her thoughts could only stay her wildest dreams. These were little Marionette’s thoughts everyday when she was pulled out of the old trunk to be performed with. Or rather, controlled. She looked around the dressing room as the blur of people passed by her. While she moped, something caught her tiny china eyes. Something sharp. Something shiny. It was a silver mechanism with golden handles. Marionette had seen the tool be used for cutting her fabric clothes. It was a.. what was it called again? A pair of scissors! And that was when a clever, but risky idea, popped into her head. If only I could cut my strings with it. Then I could be free.
Click here to read The Little String Puppet as well as an interview with our OPS Author, Kathryn.
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OPS Library Media Center
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Oradell Public School
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