Going bush , by James Patterson

 I’m flying through the air on a polar bear “go go go Polar bear” said Rafe Khatchadorian. “Fly like the wind”. “Ahhhhh,” said Rafe as his sister threw a letter in Rafe’s face and that woke him up from his daydream, “what was that for?” said Rafe. “it is a letter for you,” said Rafe’s sister. Rafe opened the letter and it said would ‘you are a great artist, would you like to come to camp culture? it is where young artists go each year, it is in Australia. If you want to come please email us at ww.campculture.com.au. You will get a plane ticket for Australia from the camp culture team. “Yes I really want to go but to Australia, last time I went there it went extremely wrong. So I went to find my family and asked them is it ok if I go to Australia for an art trip. They said “what?!” “here read the letter it will explain everything,” Rafe said. The ticket finally came in the mailbox (I thought it was not going to come). 2 days later my family drove me to the airport, I hopped on the plane. We had to go on three flights. When we had to go on the last plane it was super small. It landed at a very small airport. We went to a hotel and I waited until my friend Ellie got there. I knew that she would not take that long to come because she lived in Australia. The eleven people that were going to camp culture hopped on an old rusty, dirty bus that felt like it was going to fall over. 4 hours later we were there but I thought we weren’t there because there were no buildings, there was nothing except rock and the ground. “Welcome to camp culture,” said Brushes the leader. It was late at night, so we all gathered in a circle and fell asleep. The next day we had to hop on the bus and go to a cave that had lots of paintings. Everyone was taking photos of the paintings. In the end, a boy from camp culture said “sniff this”, it was one of the paintings, so Rafe sniffed it and it smelled like fresh paint, “That is weird”, Rafe said. We headed back to the camp, I told Ellie and Denny they thought that was weird as well. Later that night Rafe woke up then Ellie woke up they talked about the cave, then they went off to go toilet, but then Rafe realized that a massive crocodile was standing right next to him Ellie came over and said “stop and stand still”, so Rafe did “when I say run you’ve got to run as fast as you can” whispered Ellie. “what? that is not a good idea!” said Rafe “do you have a better one?” said Ellie “no” said Rafe. “RUN,” said Ellie “AHHHHHHHH” they both screamed, “I think we have lost it, “ said Ellie. Then I saw a massive hole “Look Ellie” said Rafe, then we saw a diamond that is the blue budgie the most valuable diamond in Australia and he is stealing it. They were spying on him, they finally fell asleep, Ellie and Rafe did the switcheroo and took it so we can put it back but we don’t know where it goes, it was the last night here so we took it and put it in our backpacks. The next morning we woke up hoped on the bus and drove back to the creek, we put our art out at the motel, Rafe was running around and then slipped and his foot bent the wrong way, so they had to take him to hospital. The next day they flew Rafe back, Late the next night the leader of camp culture came into his room and stole the diamond, but it was not the diamond it was a paint bucket, Rafe hid the diamond in his cast. He got invited back to Australia to get an award and when he is there he will put the diamond back.





Hi, this is one of my home learning literacy Tasks. We had to write a short story about a book that we like. This book is called going bush by James Patterson. Would you like to read this book?