Spirit of Christmas

Essays

Fiction, 12 and Younger
1st Place
Emilie Mai
2nd Place
Scott Denton

Non-fiction, 12 and Younger
1st Place
Erika Seiler
2nd Place
Faith Lemire-Baeten

Non-fiction, 13-18
1st Place
Erica Daves
2nd Place
Ricardo Hernandez

Non-fiction, 19 and Older
1st Place
Patricia Auch
2nd Place
Valarie Pinaglia

Honorable Mention
Dylan Collins
Amy Gatto

Other Entries
Lindsay Alves
Amy Cochran
Angie Haskell
Beth Hirning
Gertie Kandris
Heather Massey
Rebecca McCallister
Verna O’Furry
Harrison Prewett
Joyce Skeen-Bridges
Vivyan Torres
Sarah Wooton

Emma and Rudolph saved the day

First PlaceOnce upon a time, on the day before Christmas, Santa became very, very sick. It was such a big problem that it was on the news all over the world. A lot of kids thought that there was going to be no gifts from Santa that year. Santa only had a short time to get well or Mrs. Claus would have to deliver the gifts. So Rudolph and Emma, the elf went to North America to see the claus’s doctor to get some medicine for Santa.

When they got back Mrs. Claus had all of the reindeer ready except Rudolph. Emma gave Santa his medicine, after that Emma got Santa’s coat, shirt, pants and rubber boots. Emma and the elves loaded all the presents into the sleigh. At midnight Santa got on his sleigh and went southwest to North American and South America and all over the whole world. He got back at 6:20 a.m. and the sun came up at 6:30 a.m. Santa was happy to hear and see little children opening their presents.

Santa thanked Rudolph and Emma for getting his medicine and for saving Christmas.

“Thank you! Thank you!” said Santa.

“You’re welcome!” said Emma and Rudolph.

As Santa finished thanking them the phone went ring, ring a ling it was the doctor asking how Santa was Santa told the doctor he was a lot better thanks to Rudolph and Emma. That day there was a huge parade for Rudolph and Emma. The parade was two hours and twenty minutes long. Santa and Mrs. Claus, Emma and of course Rudolph were at the end of the parade.

After the parade there was a huge party in the biggest workshop. There was a nine-layer chocolate cake. There was also six flavors of ice cream vanilla, strawberry, chocolate chip, rocky road with extra marshmallows, fudge with chunks of chocolate, and of course regular chocolate. The party also had plenty of games like “Pin the Antler on the Reindeer.” The party had a ton of food and just about everything else a party could have. After the party everyone went home.

The reindeer went to their dens the other animals went to their holes, trees and nests. They all went to sleep except Rudolph’s twin sisters Jasmine and Jennifer who were smaller than Rudolph they were fours years younger than Rudolph, he was six and the twins were two. The twins could not sleep, so they counted sleighs all the way to nine hundred twenty six. They watched Reindeer Disney but that didn’t help either. So they played at www.PBS Reindeer.com. That helped but shortly after they went to sleep it was time to wake up for flying lessons.

The girls got up and ate flowers and fruit for breakfast. Next they put on their lucky bows and trotted to flying lessons. They didn’t like falling down during flying lessons. After lessons the twins and Rudolph went for a picnic.

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