Story Starter: Candy Galore

Out of breath, Max dashed inside. He wanted to play outside longer, but Mom had called him three times already, and he didn't want TV privileges taken away. When he entered the kitchen, he couldn't believe his eyes. The countertops were covered entirely with ... candy.

I didn't know what to say. "Where did you get all of that candy?"

"Mitchell won a prize on the radio," Mom said. "He chose candy."

There was all kinds of candy. There were Jolly Ranchers, cherry sours, Fruit-By-the-Foot. All the candy you could imagine.

We decided to sell some of it for money. One pound cost five dollars. We sold ten pounds of candy in one day. We got fifty dollars.

Each day we sold about ten pounds. The weekends we sold a little more than ten pounds 'cause more people were home. We decided to save it up until we had enough for the Wii.

The only problem was the Target was out of Wiis, and that was the only store that we knew that sold them. They said they'd be getting an order of Wiis in one week.

In one week, Mitch and me bought the Wii. We bought Mario Party for Wii with it. And we also bought Mario and Sonic Olympic Race for the Wii, too. We had a blast playing them.

We decided to start selling some of the candy to the stores. We charged twenty dollars for four pounds. We didn't know what to do with all that candy. After we sold so many pounds, we still had heaps of candy left, so we decided to give some of it away. We gave the candy to poor people and then they sold it to other people and got some money.