By Sara Silber Leah’s party is tomorrow. Chanie needed a present. “Mommy, can you get me a present? Leah’s birthday is tomorrow and she is so popular. Get her the fanciest present.” At the party, they played pin the nose on the head. “Leah, you go fist or tell someone to go first,” we all said…
By Leah Reichman Gitty and Alana were studying together for the Chumash test that was tomorrow. After that, Alana’s mother came to pick her up. The next day, Gitty was hanging around Alana. Alana was ignoring her. Gitty was waiting for Alana to invite her in the game. Gitty didn’t do anything the whole recess. Recess…
By Chavi Weill One of my “friends” is really popular. But, she always tells secrets that I asked her not to say. She always leaves me out and takes advantage of me. I don’t like it, but I didn’t leave her out. I included her even though it was hard. Some people take advantage of others…
By Faigy Eisen Huvy is not the best student in school. One night, our teacher gave way too much homework. Huvy sighed. When Huvy came home, she thought of only one thing. The homework. Huvy ran to the phone and called Dasie. “Hello,” said Huvy. “Hi,” responded Dasie, the smartest girl in class. “I need help…
By Shifra Azarfar I wanted to become friends with a popular girl in my class. I wanted to use her and be nice to her. Help her with her homework, test, etc. I helped her, but she didn’t even say thank you. Using a friend is not worth it.
By Chanie Klug “Sara, can I please have snack? I don’t have any,” said Leah. “Sure, Leah. Here, I have an extra snack bag.” “Sara, school is over, but I am so in the mood for pizza,” said Leah. “My father owns pizza store. You could come with me,” answered Sara. “I’d love to, but I…
By Rivky Samel “Hello?” Lilly screamed into the phone. “Are you there?” “Yeah, what’s up?” Dina said in a low faint voice. Dina had been sick for 2 days already and her “BFF” was calling her. They talked for a long time, but Dina’s voice was getting more and more hoarse. So, they had to hang…
By Aviva Schapiro Someone is baking a cake for the first time. She works really very hard on it. Then, it flops. It comes out really bad. The whole thing is messed up. Some people would just get upset and say I am never baking again. But, if they try really hard and follow the…
By Racheli Mendelsohn Aliza was an all around great girl. She was always cheerful and no one ever saw a frown on her face. It was December and everyone was getting applications to various camps. All of Aliza’s friends thought up of a great camp that Aliza would love. When Aliza heard their opinions…
By Rachaeli Scharf If you don’t like the way you look or you need to loose weight, in the beginning it’s hard. Nothing is happening. But you keep trying and you push yourself into doing it and you’ll see you’re improving. You will finally reach your goal.
By Chana Fradel Bohensky If a girl decides she will be nicer to her sister and then her sister makes her really mad by coloring on her homework, she could just yell and scream, at her sister or she could say Gam Zu Letova. And call a friend to ask her to fax over…
By Chavi Lopin You have a basketball championship. You are not good at basketball. The mean girl stares at you, waiting for you to miss. You tell yourself that you are not giving up. Finally, when you got the ball you score and your whole team is proud of you. All because you told yourself,…
By Toby Fink Rivky worked on her book report for 9 hours straight. She was ready to go to sleep. She pressed “Delete” instead of “Print” and accidentally erased it. She was about to blow up at anyone who was near her. Then she counted to 10 and retyped it. She redid her entire…
By Shayna Spitzer Once I was learning how to rip stick. My friend taught me and she was an expert at it. She taught me step by step. So, I tried and I wasn’t balanced enough and I fell straight off into the street. I was thinking, “Would I ever learn?” I didn’t have faith…
By Rachelli Hoffman A girl named Chana always wanted to try to dive. One day, she went to the pool. She ran to the front of the pool. She held her hands out towards the water and jumped off the edge of the pool. She felt her body fly through the air as she…
By Nechama Mandel There was a girl named Malka. She was running in a marathon. In this marathon you had to run 5 miles in 2 hours. Last year, Malka tried to pass one girl. She was running so fast, that Malka slipped and fell. Everyone was laughing at her. This year she was…
By Breindy Ovitsh Adina was a very good artist. She loved to draw. It was her life. When she was younger she took lessons and now she was an expert. After a few years she wanted to be in a big competition. She practiced so hard, until her art was perfect. Soon the big day…
By Bracha Seror Chana was about 6 years old when she was learning how to ice skate for the first time. She was doing well, but not as well as her sister. When she got home from practice she was telling her neighbor how well she was ice skating. When her sister overheard it she…
By Yocheved Nussbaum Shevy was very excited. She was at the edge of the race track ready to start running. The moment the whistle blew she was off running with all her might. She was in 3rd place, now she was in second, now she was in first. She could feel the wind rushing behind…
By Adeena Jaffa There was a girl, Tamar. Every Motzei Shabbos she went to play basketball. While playing someone threw ball at her. She didn’t know what to do! Oh, no! So she tried shooting it into the hoop and missed. After that the game ended. Everyone was shouting, screaming and embarrassing her. They said,…
By Esti Schorr Naomi got picked from the whole school to speak at her school assembly. She worked really hard by making the speech and practicing. The night of the assembly came. She was so excited. She was in the middle of the speech and all of the sudden her mind went blank. Everyone started…
By Chana Leah Markowitz Once up on a time there was a girl named Goldie. This is a fascinating story that happened to her in the summer time. Goldie is 14 years. She wanted to apply for a job at a certain day camp. She asked her parents to please get her an application so…
By Temima Chamani “I can’t, I just can’t do it,” yelled Sarah helplessly. “You saw how all the guests spit out the cake. I was burning with embarrassment and I am not going to go through it again. I just won’t.” “Sarah, honey,” Mrs. Friedman said softly. “Mistakes happen, but that doesn’t mean you should…
By Ahuva Lefkowitz I’ve always wanted to play guitar. Throughout 5th, 6th and 7th grade I enviously watched my 5 other siblings pluck at the strings as though they were born to be guitar professionals. In 9th grade my mother finally agreed to give me guitar lessons. In a whirl of excitement and giddiness, I…
By Lana Segel I stood behind the big curtain. I felt my heart beating under my costume. I looked around me and was sure someone would hear it pumping. We all went to our starting positions and the curtains opened. The play went smoothly and it was time for the school yard scene. The curtains…
By Rivka Meiser I have two brothers. And that means a lot of talking about basketball. He shot this and he missed that. They would always be out playing basketball, and going to leagues. One time, I decided I wanted to play basketball. Not only was I not good, I didn’t know any of the…
By Devorah Band Sarala was an average 8 year old. She played with her friends’ games, jump rope and so on. But as summer came all her friends were riding their bikes and she was left out. Her parents bought her a beautiful pink bike for her birthday. But Sarala never used it because she…
By Temmy Grossman Noone had better mark than Esti. She was an amazing student, studying hard and doing well. One day, a bad mark was on her test and she took it for the worst. She felt like her life was destroyed. Her face turned into a dark mask, refusing to talk to anyone anymore….
By Shani Weintraub The speech that’s really important to our grade is coming up. It’s proof read, clear, excellent and deserves an A+. All you need to do is read it to the class. Alright, the moment is coming closer. You’re getting nervous by the minute. You walk up to the front of the classroom….
By Aliza Chornyk “Uhh, this is so frustrating, I just can’t land a cartwheel properly,” thought Sara. “I’ve tried. Landed on my knees, hands, but I still can’t land on my feet.” So she gets up and falls about 50 times and starts feeling like she’s got a concussion from how many times her head…
By Penina Nikforuz Sara was good at everything that she did and had great talents. The only thing that she couldn’t get was math. She always struggled. Many times tutors were not able to help her out. For her getting in the low 70’s on math test was amazing. She always tried to do her…
By Adina Charnas Let’s say it’s the first day of school and you’re new to a school. This year is a good way to make friends. So, you start off looking around seeing who you can introduce yourself to. Then you see in the middle of the class a group of girls laughing, so you…
By Yitta Bracha Weinheber Sara is a very good singer. She is going to sing in a very big concert. Sunday was her 1st performance. During her performance she spaced out when it was her turn to sing. “Sara”, the director called out in a whisper. “Oh,” she thought, “How embarrassing.” She began to sing….
By Shimon Kadosh In my camp, many years ago we had a play which I had part in. after weeks or practicing, the day of the play finally arrived. I woke up that morning with such feeling of excitement and nervousness combined. My mother drove my friends and I to the auditorium where the…
By Suri Knoble My niece Raisy is three years old. She is trying to learn the ABC’s and she really does not know how to. She starts singing and she is really confused. She keeps trying and she still can’t. So, she gives up. A few weeks later she tries again. She got a little…