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    Owen and Eleanor Make Things Up
    Owen and Eleanor Make Things Up
    Owen and Eleanor Make Things Up
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    Owen and Eleanor Make Things Up

    By H. M. Bouwman and Charlie Alder

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    Owen is doing the same creative writing project for homeschooling that Eleanor is doing in public school! They have to write an interesting story about their lives. The problem is: their lives aren't that interesting. So Eleanor decides to fix the problem by doing exciting things--with not-so--great results. When they join a community martial arts class, Owen sees a different way to make an interesting story happen...by making something up that sounds true even though it isn't. When they both end up in trouble--again--they learn that making up fake stories to fool people isn't a good way to live.

    The Owen and Eleanor series follows two kids from two different families as they navigate the ups and downs of childhood. The duo learns important lessons about faith, values, and friendship.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSparkhouse Family
    Release dateNov 6, 2018
    ISBN9781506448466
    Owen and Eleanor Make Things Up
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    H. M. Bouwman

    H. M. Bouwman grew up as the second of four sisters, and together they put on plays and magic shows (and once, a circus), ran a hospital for animals, climbed trees, played made-up games, and roamed the neighborhood. She now has two children who grew up creating wild stories, collecting fossils of dead animals, and building fairy gardens. H. M. Bouwman lives in Minnesota and teaches at the University of St. Thomas. She is the author of several novels for young readers including A Crack in the Sea and Gossamer Summer. Visit her at HMBouwman.com.

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      Owen and Eleanor Make Things Up - H. M. Bouwman

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      Chapter 1

      Owen

      Owen and Eleanor fought the evil space aliens, trying to keep them from attacking Earth and eating all their friends—and everyone else on the entire planet, including all the people they’d never even met. It was hard work saving the world. When Owen’s light saber poofed into dust as he battled a tall alien with twenty arms, they decided to take a break.

      Freeze! yelled Eleanor.

      Owe picked up his sword. The stick had snapped right in half, but the pool noodle that went around its base was fine. My laser still works, said Owen. I just need a new sword part. He was panting. Fighting twenty-armed aliens was tiring.

      Anyway, I haven’t read your true-life story yet, said Eleanor. And you read mine as soon as I got home from school. So I think we should go upstairs and read yours. Also, maybe your place has some cookies? And some lemonade?

      It still felt like summer, hot and sticky, even though Eleanor had started second grade a whole week ago. Owen missed her when she was at school. He had lots of homeschool things to keep him busy, and he had his little brother Michael to do them with. But playing with Michael just wasn’t the same as playing with Eleanor. Eleanor had been his friend ever since she moved into the bottom floor of his duplex, and he could lean out his window and yell down to her window and he could send her notes on the pulley system they’d built. She was the best friend he’d ever had.

      But that didn’t mean he wanted her to read—

      Your story? said Eleanor. Upstairs?

      He nodded gloomily. It was only fair, after all. He’d read her story. But hers was exciting, and his wasn’t. Everyone in Eleanor’s class had been told to write a true story about themselves, and to make it interesting. They had to keep a journal and write in it every day, and at the end of the week they were supposed to write a story about something real from their journal.

      The true story was due in less than two weeks. And Eleanor’s teacher told her class that they could enter their stories in a big contest at the library. The winner would get a coupon to the movie theater. Yesterday when Eleanor came home from school, she told Owen all about it, and Owen decided it would be fun to do the same homework and enter the library contest with her.

      No, actually, Eleanor decided it would be fun if they both wrote true stories and both did the contest, but after she said it, Owen thought she was right. And Owen’s dad, who was in charge of teaching him reading and writing, agreed. So Owen’s homework was to write a true story now too. They had a week and a few extra days to write it and to make it really good.

      Eleanor had already written two whole pages in her journal about how she ran away from home (which was actually true) and about how, when she ran away, she had also stopped a bank robbery and survived a flood and a hurricane, and met Wonder Woman and saved all the kids on a bus that was just about to plunge into a fiery canyon. Those parts were not actually one hundred percent true.

      Their town did not even have a fiery canyon, Owen was pretty sure.

      But Eleanor’s story was interesting.

      Owen said, I especially like the bus full of children part. But . . . weren’t you supposed to write something that really happened?

      Sure, said Eleanor, twirling her light saber. I just spiced it up a little. She stabbed the twenty-armed alien one last time, her curls bobbing as she leapt at

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