ozzie's first novel

Ozzie and the Tornado
By Ozzie Etkin

Table of Contents
Chapter One
Ozzie

Chapter Two
This House is Flying

Chapter Three
Getting Picked Up Again

Chapter Four
Ending Up in Atlanta Zoo


Chapter One
Once there was a boy named Ozzie. One day, he was sitting under an apple tree. Then he noticed two weird things, one was houses exploding as if a bomb had went off inside it. Another was apples kept falling on his head.

Chapter Two
As soon as he saw a funnel cloud, Ozzie yelled, "Ahhh! Tornado!"
By the time he was at his house, he found himself in a windy dust cloud. When he almost got hit by a tree, he ran inside. When he got inside, he found his family looking down the window (mom, dad and Zoe). When Ozzie looked down the window, he found his house was flying!
When Zoe asked, "Why are we flying?", Ozzie answered, "Because of the tornado."

Chapter Three
A couple of minutes later, they landed in Elk City, Oklahoma where they got picked up again. After a couple of minutes, they noticed they were flying again.

Chapter Four
An hour later, they landed in Atlanta Zoo where they saw Mei Lan and Xi Lan.

The End

zoe's caviar wishes and champagne dreams...

and she's only 5...

"mommy, can someone have 2 birthstones?"
"no, why?"
"because i really like diamonds..."

*pause.*

"and you know that garnet bracelet you have that you never wear? well, if you want, i mean, because you never wear it, you can give it to me, i mean, if you want to..."

*bangs head against the wall*

so ozzie brings home a load of stuff from school, various crumpled papers, all shoved into his backpack.

i ask him, "did you clean out your desk today?" he says, "no."

so i'm going through the papers and i see one that is a drawing of a turkey with feathers, only half colored-in. i say, "what's this? home work?" and he says, "no, that's from thanksgiving. i never finished it. i don't have to bring it back."

"why is it in your backpack?"

he says, "i found it when i cleaned out my desk today."

"so you did clean out your desk today?"

he looks off into the distance and says dreamily, "oh, yeah. i guess i did."