The Storybird Project – The World needs our stories

Motivated by one of the topics in their coursebook on Mystery Novels

& Films, the students of the 1st Grade of High School assumed the

roles of mystery book writers and through the use of the Storybird

platform, they created interesting and captivating crime stories. They

put what they had learnt into good use and sharpened their writing

skills in a creative manner with an impressive outcome.

Class: 1st Year High School

Students: Amanda Spinoula, Demi Skartadou, Gregory

Giannikopoulos, Angelos Gardelis, Akis Apostolopoulos, Isabella

Dasira, Elisa Vallera, Vasilis Lezos

Teacher: Ms Tsangari

Gregory, Aggelos, Akis,Isabella, Elisa.. Grade Ajunior high MissTsangari

Mystery at theforest…

A StorybirdMystery at the forest…

ByGregory, Aggelos, Akis, Isabella, Elisa.. Grade A junior high Miss Tsangari

Illustrated byShishir Naik

Published onMay 19, 2014

© Storybird 2014. All rights reserved. Not for resale.

Once upon a time…..

there was a little house,where a very strangewoman lived.

Who ever had gone inher house, never cameback.

It was unbelievable.

This woman was a serialkiller.

There had been so manymysteriousdisappearances..

So someone had to takeaction..

A detective was hired inorder to investigate thearea.And so he did.

As the detective wasclosely examining thearea, he saw a woman’sshadow getting close tohim.

‘Am I the next victim’, hethought to himself.

He was right!!

Strangely enough, thewoman managed to catchhim and she locked himinto a mysterious,haunted, isolated castlefar far away from anyone.He was there, alone andhopeless.

Noone could help him.

The detective soonrealised that this womanwas a witch and she couldtransform people intoanimals.

He saw so many peopleinside the castle! Somehad been transformedinto animals while othershadn’t.

One night when the skywas clear and no starswere shining, the witchflew away from the castleand the detective got thechance to escape.

He went straight to thepolice and reported thewitch.The police managed tofind the witch and shewas arrested.

After that, everyone was free from the witch’s spells!They were so happy!Nobody saw the witch EVER again.

At the end they allcrossed the bridge thatled them away from thatfrightening castle andthat awful area and wereexcited!

They lived a normal lifeand totally forgot aboutthe witch and theiradventures.

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Amanda Spinoula,Demi Skartadou ..Grade A junior high,Miss Tsangari

THE ROOM 303

A StorybirdTHE ROOM 303

ByAmanda Spinoula, Demi Skartadou .. Grade A junior high, Miss Tsangari

Illustrated byThe art of Claudio Cerri

Published onMay 15, 2014

© Storybird 2014. All rights reserved. Not for resale.

Once upon a time… four very close friendswere at a hotel!

“What?!!!’ said Catherine,they are givingus the most strange room in the hotel?Andwe have to sleep in there? That isn’t fair!’’

“Relax, Catherine,said Bethany,whatstrange thing could happen?”

“Oh,now I remembered Tiffany…our oldfriend but…it’s better without her!’’

‘’Anyway….where is Loucy?” askedCatherine.

“Uhm…she is at the reception desk andshe is asking for information” answeredKlara!

“Ok,lets open the door of our room” saidBethany jumping with joy!

“Stop doing that!” said Catherine!

“WOW!…the room is amazing!And lookover there….in my bed pillow there arefairies!They are so cute!I will also put myteddybear there.”said Klara.

“You make me so angry with your fairiesand teddybears!!!” answered Catherine!

And then Bethany was on the bed jumpingand screaming:“We have our own room,we have our ownroom!!!!”

And she opened her bagand started putting awayall her clothes.

Klara was playing with allher dolls and teddybearsand Catherine waswriting in her book.

But then, she was angry..“Bethany stop whateveryou are doing…you arethe worst and the mostcrazy girl I have everseen”

“Fly fly…in thesky!”Bethany said

“Girls did you hear thenews?”asked Catherine.

“What news?”About theclimbmurderer…?”askedKlara.“NO, NO!!”“Oh,come on! They saythat there is a climbmurderer in this townwho has killed 5 people.”

“I am so scared!!Why ishe called climbmurderer?”asked Klara.

“Because he climbsbalkonies to get intoroom

Then Bethany started screaming saying“AAAAAAAA WE ARE ALL GOING TODIE!”

“ONE MORE TIME AND YOU AREOUT OF THIS ROOM!Now letssleep!”said Catherine.

“Wait!I have to brush the hair of myteddybear!”

“Klara????”“Ok ok lets get some sleep’’That night at 2 o clock the door opened.Ablack figure came into theroom…Everything was dark.The blackfigure went in front of Bethany’s bed andtook out a knife….After that he left a paperunder the bed.He went out and closed thedoor

The next morning Kathrin woke up.Shesaw Bethany in her bed with a lot ofblood.She screamed.Then,Klara woke up.“What happened?”“Look at the bed of Bethany”Klara couldn’t believe it!She fell down!“Where is Lucy to see that?Who did this?”said Catherine.Klara went closer to Bethany and startedcrying in her bed.“Oh, look!”“what?”“there is a note under the bed!”said Klara“What NOTE??’’Catherine started reading.

“For any crime you want call this superdetective.So maybe this detective can helpus.”The next day:“DIN DON”,the bell rung.Lucy opened the door.A girl with sunglasses and a long grey coat came into theroom.She had soil in her boots.“Hello,detective Marlen”“Hello”“I am here to solve the crime”“Thank you….and why do you have a knifein your coat?”“Uhmm…you know….a detective alwaysneeds a weapon to kill the murderer whenhe sees him.”The detective approached Bethany, whowas covered in blood and took a picture!

And then Klara was telling to herteddybear“Don’t worry Sparki…Bethany will cometo life again.Oh…don’t cry..”All the girls were watching her!“I see I see….”said the detectiveThe next day the detective opened thedoor.“Hello detective Marlen.Ok…so …..wehave to find some clues.Obviously one ofyou is the murderer”“What?But Bethany was our friend!”saidKlara“That doesn’t mean anything!”

“And where is your knife?” asked Lucy”Yeah…about that…I forgot it in myhouse.”The detective came closer to the scene ofthe crime….there was blood everywhere, aswe said.Marlen looked at that weaponunder the pillow.“It’s a knife”“OMG!”said Klara“Who has a knife here?”“Oh,I know,Klara has because she needs itfor cutting her fruits”said Catherine.The detective came closer to Klara and said“That makes you a suspect”Klara was very scared…and she washolding her teddybear.

An hour later the girls were alone in theroom.“I am going to write my book.Girls…doyou think that one of us is the murderer?Idon’t know but this detective is verystrange”said Catherine.“Obviously,Lucy is the killer”said Klara.Lucy gave her a punch and she fell down.“Yes,propably she is” she said again“Oh…I am so nervous that someone killedour friend!!!!!”said Lucy .“Where is mypair of scissors ?I want to cut something!”She looked in her bag but the scissorsweren’t there.Then she looked under thebed“I cant find my scissors…..where are they?

She looked under the table“I AM SO NERVOUS!!!!!!!”“Calm down Loucy…..we will find yourscissors later”In the afternoon the detective Marlin cameagain.“So…now we will do a room searching inthe hotel”They went out of the room.There was a fewsoil in the ground.

“What is that?I am so scared”said Klara“Its just soil” answered Kathrin

“Maybe this stupid soil is a clue!”said Lucy.

“You are always interested in sillythings.Do you want to find the murdererwho killed your friend or not?”“OK OK lets begin the room searching”They went in the down floor,in the diningroom…but…nothing.“So what are we gonna do?”askedLucy.”Why are we doing this stupidinvestigation?”“We haven’t finished.There is also thebathroom.They went into the bathroom and sawscissors with blood.“OH GOD!There they are!!!!”said Lucy.“Aha!Is this your pair of scissors?”askedthe detective.

“And why is it covered with blood?”“I don’t know!I didn’t put them here!”“Or you don’t want to say that you killedBethany”asked the detective.“NO!!!”answered Lucy.Then the girls and Marlen went into theoffice of the detective.“I want to ask you some questions….Firstof all…who was Bethani for you?”“She was our best friend…we met herwhen we were 10 years old” said Lucy andKlara started crying“But she was so crazy and was always doingstupid things!She always got on mynerves!”said Catherine.

“I see…so…..you hated her…”“A little bit”“Hmmm that is a good reason to killsomeone.”

“WHAT?I am not the murderer!!!!”In the room,before the girls went to bedCatherine said“Lucy,do you believe that we don’t knowthat you are the killer?

“What do you mean?”“Your scissors were with blood in thebathroom and you also are the mostaggressive girl of the team.”

“What?YOU hated Bethany!!!”

“What did you say?”The girls were ready to have a fight butthen Klara was screaming “aaaaaaaaaa” andsaid“We are not here to fight girls! Calmdown!!!!”The next morning Marlen came to theroom.“Oh I am so stupid!”“What?”“We searched the hotel but not yourroom,only the crime scene.”“You are right”said LucyThe detective looked under the bed.“Oh God…its smells so strange here!Ohwait….What’s that?”

She was holding a small paper in herhands.She opened it and started reading.“You are NEXT!”“I am so scared” said Klara again.“Let me see it,said Lucy,oh…I recognisethe handwriting…It’s Catherine’s!”“WHAT???!!!!How do you know it?”“I saw your handwriting in the book thatyou write.”“That’s not true!I haven’t wrote this!”“And how do we know that you are tellingthe truth?”said the detective

A couple of hours later Lucy and Klarawere alone in the room.“Klara…I think that Kathrin is the killer!”“So?”“So I want you and me to make a plan tocatch her!”“No,I don’t want to do that!”“Klara if you won’t do it…..”‘’OK OK”“The plan is…….”And Lucy started telling the plan to Klara.

“We will do this in the afternoon”“OK”

This afternoon Lucy knocked the door.“Tak tak….Klara, it’s me,Lucy…I came forthe plan…open the door!”But nobody answered.Nobody opened the door.

“Klara!”Lucy broke the door.She saw a black figurewith a knife ready to kill Klara.“What are you doing?”“AAAAA!!!!!”screamed Klara‘’Help me!!’’

Lucy and the black figure startedfighting!The figure kicked Lucy and shefell down.She stood up and gave the figure a punch.She was holding it from the neck and put iton the wall.The murderer couldn’tmove.The door suddenly opened“WHAT IS GOING ONHERE?!!!”screamed Catherine.“I caught the killer!”“But wait……if we are all here…who of usis the killer?”Lucy took of the hood of the black figureand saw his face.She was wearing sun glasses..

“IT’S THE DETECTIVE!!!”shouted KlaraLucy took off the sun glasses too.“OH MY GOD!ITS TIFFANY…OUROLD FRIEND!!!!!!,said Catherine,’’whydid you do that?”“Because you left me and I wanted to getrevenge and kill you all!!!!!”“So you took my scissors and you saw thebook that Catherine was writing to writethe note.YOU also left the paper where wefound you!The knife was the weapon thatYOU had in YOUR coat.The soil that wesaw outside the room was from YOURshoes!”“You are so clever, Lucy!”said Tiffany.

The girls called the police and everythingwas fine!The girls were a little bit nervousbut you know…..now they have a perfectexperience of mystery.!!!

THE END!

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