Our eight-year-old student Livia has won First Place in BookFest Writing Contest!
Congratulations!
Here is Livia's first-place winning story. Enjoy!
The Mirror
Every day, I like to look at myself in the mirror. I like styling my hair. I can spend hours
in front of the mirror to learn how to do French braids or other styles to make myself pretty.
One day, I woke up and felt strange on my left eye. I looked in the mirror and I saw a
huge, ugly, hideous bump on my eye.
I went to my mom and said in a sad voice, “Mom, look at this.”
My mom jumped so high that she bumped herself on the ceiling.
“Mom, are you okay?” I asked.
She didn’t answer.
I started to cry because I looked weird and scary. I couldn’t open my left eye completely.
I didn’t want to go to school. What would my friends say to me if they saw my eye? I wanted to
break that mirror. Actually I wanted to break all the mirrors in the world because I looked so
horrible in the mirror.
My mom tried to calm me down. She said, “It doesn’t matter. Nobody’s perfect. Nobody
looks perfect. As long as you have a pretty heart, you’re always a pretty girl.”
“But mom, I don’t want to have an eye like this.”
“Everything happens for a reason,” my mom said.
“What reason can it be?” I wondered, as I was looking at myself again in the mirror.
Suddenly, I got an idea. I ran to my mom. “Mom, mom,” I shouted, “remember I want to write a
story for that writing contest. The title is ‘The Mirror’. I haven’t started it because I didn’t know
what to write. Now I have an idea.”
“See, I told you,” my mom smiled.
“Everything happens for a reason,” both of us repeated.
“Jinks,” I added
I went to school with a happy face. I didn’t worry what my friends would say about my
eye. Although I didn’t look wonderful in the mirror, I felt wonderful in my heart because I knew
what to write for the writing contest.
