Today we are featuring Inklings Book Contest 2016 finalist, Sahana Rao! Sahana finished 2nd grade this past school year. She wrote a short story about books that come to life and try to escape from the library. Enjoy!
Mystery of the Walking Books
by Sahana Rao
In Oregon, the land of milk and honey, a boy named Johnny was checking out books in the library. Johnny took care of the books more carefully than anyone else did. The librarian was very impressed. The other kids crumpled the pages, spilled milk, and spoiled the books. The books were mad and sad at the same time.
All the books in the library wanted to meet, but there was only one problem. Kids would see them! So the books made a secret meeting place where the kids wouldn’t spot them.
In the meeting, All about Bamboo Trees book said, “We should all hide from the kids.”
How to Make Pancakes book said, “Let’s go to Johnny’s house secretly.”
Then they would go to Johnny’s house.
The next day, Johnny picked out five books. When he got home he didn’t notice books following him. Soon, the library started to look empty. The librarian got very concerned and hired a detective. Her name was Serena, detective Serena.
Detective Serena came to the library and looked around. After about 20 minutes she saw something very strange. There were bookmarks all over the ground. Each one of them had different colors on them. Then she saw one of the books following Johnny. She followed them all the way to Johnny’s house.
Detective Serena asked Johnny, “Have you seen walking books?”
“No,” answered Johnny.
“Then help me find them,” said the detective.
They kept searching until they saw the books in a book fair in Johnny’s room.
Johnny asked the books, “Why did you come here?”
The books replied, “All the other kids don’t treat us well, except you.”
Johnny explained whole story to the librarian.
The librarian asked Johnny, “Why don’t you join us as a librarian? You can read books to all the students and teach them to how to respect the books.”
Johnny decided he would. The moment was so extraordinary that they threw a party.
The Spectacular End.
