Tom Cunningham Story

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Tom Cunningham is a seventh grader that has two brilliant other siblings three years ahead of him. His two siblings Alex and Emily(the twins) aced Mr.Irving's class, Tom's english teacher. But Tom just can't live up to their legacy. Tom has to turn in a manuscript by the end of the week to Mr.Irving. He's just not sure how he's going to do it.

In the cafeteria, Tom meet Nelson, a kid in a motorized wheelchair. He was writing in a three-ringed blue notebook. Tom asked if he could take his notebook home with him to check out his writing. Tom used one of Nelson's stories to use as his manuscript he had to turn in. Mr.Irving says that Tom did a great job and asked if he could enter it into a contest. Nelson felt guilty, so he admitted

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