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Cameron Murray has his story published April 2009
Cameron Murray wrote and illustrated a story entitled 'Bentley's Wish' while he was in 4th Class. Cameron's story, along with his illustrations, is now printed in a new school textbook. The book is called Reading Zone for 4th Class and is published by Folens. Congratulations to Cameron on his great achievement.
This is Cameron's story:
Bentley’s Wish
In a peaceful place called Oak Town lived a boy called Bentley. Bently was a very clever boy. He was always very good in school. Aliens fascinated him. His bedroom walls were plastered with alien posters and alien playstation games filled his shelves. His favourite game was called Alien Invasion. He would play the game for hours on end and if he completed the game, he would restart the whole thing and do it over and over again. At times, he even wished he could be an alien.
Then one night, when Bentley was sound asleep in his bed, something extraordinary happened to him. There was a flash of lightning and a bang of thunder and one, two, three, abracadabra, he was an alien. He didn’t know he was an alien until the thunder woke him up. He sat up and scratched his head but he didn’t scratch his head with his human hands. He scratched his head with two oversized, slimy, green hands.
He jumped the height of an elephant, then hit the ground. He still had two arms and two hands but on his hands he only had three slimy fingers. His two legs had two feet but, like his hands, he only had three slimy toes. On top of his head he had a tall, floppy antenna. Everything else was the same on his body.
It took him a while to get used to walking with three toes. It was scary because it was hard for him to keep his balance. He looked around the bedroom in which he had woken up. It was a good size and was painted in bright, glossy colours. At his bedside was a red carpet leading to a hover car parked outside. On his bedside locker was an unusual key which looked like a microchip that you would push into a slot in the hover car.
He looked into another room to find an alien making a breakfast of black and red bat burgers. Bentley figured this was the kitchen. The kitchen was humongous, it was like living in a mansion. The alien walked over to him. Bentley was astonished and before he could say a word, the alien said, “Hello, Sir Bently. My name is Benny. How does it feel to be an alien?” “Odd,” answered Bentley. “I am overwhelmed.”
Then Benny told Bentley about a devastating plan to find aliens and turn them into statues. That information really disturbed Bentley. He asked who was behind this madness. Benny explained that it was a wicked character called Ratchet who was once an alien himself. He got tired of being told what to do by the alien boss Darwin.
One dark night, Ratchet got his hands on a magic potion and managed to sneak it into Darwin’s drink at the Alien Dance. However, Darwin switched his drink back and Ratchet drank the magic potion instead. The potion worked and Ratchet got turned into a robot. Ever since then, Ratchet changed every alien that he could capture into a statue and the aliens were in danger of being wiped out.
Bentley set off to stop Ratchet and save the aliens. He drove off in the hover car and took a spanner with him. When he got to Ratchet’s headquarters, he waited until Ratchet had fallen asleep. Then he sneaked into Ratchet’s bedroom and dismantled him by twisting off his bolts with a spanner. When Ratchet woke up, he fell apart. Bentley had saved the aliens and their world so they could live in peace once more.
Bentley was exhausted and went to bed. When he woke up, he found himself in his own bed with his mother beside him saying, “Did you have a nightmare?” “No, more of a dream,” Bentley replied with a grin.