Lola enjoys going to the Program for Gifted Learners (PGL) each week with her friends. She and her PGL class successfully sent a science experiment to space in a NASA rocket. She also presented experience with Cubes in Space at NASA in Virginia. Lola loves reading and writing, especially about mythology and adventure.

Racing through the forest, weaving in and out of trees, skirting old dirt roads, I can feel adrenaline coursing through my body, my heart rate elevating with each leap I take. I start to feel the tattoo on my side burning, as if a pattern is being added to it.
I stop; not willingly, but my body has just stopped moving. I know that if I stay stopped for even another minute, they will catch up to me. Looking down, boarding my planted …show more content…
I’m twelve years old and in sixth grade. I am not going to tell you what I look like, because I don’t have enough time. As I mentioned, I have this weird power. You are probably thinking, Why would this not bring good? Well, this is why I am writing to you all. Let me tell you some of my wishes.
One of my wishes was that my older siblings disappeared. Another one was I wished I had younger siblings. Those times, I only got sent to my room, but this time was not going to be like that.
It was a rainy day. I was reading my favourite book in the Percy Jackson series. I had this weird idea to wish that all the Percy Jackson characters came to life; that is where I made my mistake. So I wished all the characters were real. When I wished that, it also meant the monsters in Percy Jackson lived. Worst and best wish ever!
For a while, I didn’t know the monsters existed, until they were at my front door. At that moment, I told myself, “How stupid am I? Monsters are characters too!”
My parents looked directly at me when they saw the monsters. They said, “What did you do this time? And why did you wish up mythical creatures?” My parents had to call the police, because the monsters were ripping apart my house.
The police didn’t know what to do about it. I totally forgot demigods were in my house that could kill the …show more content…
“Somewhere special.”
She opens the door to the fire escape and starts climbing. The boy has never really been good with heights, so as he follows her, he looks out ahead.
They call it the city that never sleeps, yet tonight, there seems to be tranquillity, a stillness even, amid the vehicles rushing beneath them as they ascend. The boy breathes it all in and tries not to look down.
As they climb higher, he realizes that their footsteps aren’t as loud as usual, as if the eerie silence over the city affected these as well. He wonders how much higher they will go.
Finally, they reach the top of the fire escape. From here, the boy can see all the buildings in the neighbourhood, maybe even the entire downtown area. From here, the boy can ignore everything and pretend he’s the king of the world.
They stand in silence for a few moments, sibling and sibling, until he speaks: “Why are we here?”
She replies, simply, “Watch.”
Suddenly, as if on cue, thousands of pale, bluish figures emerge from the buildings, the houses, everywhere. The figures float just above the siblings’ heads and gently glide in the same direction—the distant waterfront. The boy’s heart skips a