The Winners Walk Janelle

The Winner's Walk is about a kid named Case who never won anything. Everyone else in his family won things and got in the paper. Case really wanted to win something. He thought he had a good chance at winning the talent show but something happened. He was juggling to a song on the piano and he lost track of one of the balls and it flew onto the piano players head. The show went on but he knew that he wouldn't win. He ended up getting second place. The next thing he tried to win was a horse race. He sat on the horse while he told it to jump and do his commands. A dog went on the course and the horse got scared and Case flew off. He broke his arm and couldn't compete for a while.  On his way back to his house he found a dog. He wanted to keep it but he knew his mom would say no. His mom said he could keep it as long as he tries to find the owner and he keeps it outside. He named the dog Noah. Case made flyers to try and find the owner. He hoped that someone wouldn't call to claim the dog. Case tried something new where he would walk beside Noah and tell him what to do to get through the horse. It's just like the horse racing but he is not on the dog. Case entered a competition and won! He got in the paper and everything! He was so happy. It turned out that the owner of Noah saw it in the newspaper and called. The man described the dog perfectly. Noah was a service dog that was stolen and ran away. The person that needed the dog got a new dog but Case still felt guilty. He wanted someone else to have a dog because hundreds of people who needed a service dog have been waiting for a long time. Case ended up sending Noah away so someone who needed him could have him.

Janelle Mixner