1. 0 When Anissa first woke up that day, she was very excited to go to school, since she had a big homework assignment she had stayed up late finishing.

2. 0 While brushing her teeth and washing up, she wondered if Mrs. Otterbox would like her examples she gave for her homework assignment. 3. 0 She quickly ate breakfast and got her book bag and coat on. Running out the door, she almost forgot her lunch bag, and thought to herself, I dont want to forget anything! Whew! 4. 0 After Anissa got into her classroom, she started working on the morning work while she waited for the bell to ring. 5. 0 When finished with her morning work, her teachertold the class that they would be learning about theletter N that day. Anissa loved learning new lettersand all the fun things that start with that letter.0 Mrs. Otterbox said, But before we learn about theletter N, I would like for each of you to come and turnyour homework assignment from yesterday in. 6. 0 Anissa was excited, this was her opportunity to showMrs. Otterbox how hard she worked on herhomework, and that she tried her very best.0 She started going through her book bag to take outthe homework, but she looked confused. 7. 0 I cant find my homework! Anissa thought to herself.She started getting worried she lost it, so she went upto her teacher and asked her if she could help her findit.0 Mrs. Otterbox also started looking through her desk,her book bag, her cubby,.but no homework. 8. 0 Anissa started frowning, she was sad she couldnt findher homework. Mrs. Otterbox started asking Anissaquestions about where she had last seen herhomework.0 After a lot of questions, Anissas teacher said, Wellwhen you get home, maybe you should retrace yoursteps and see if you can find it that way. When youfind it, you can still turn it in to me as long as it isfinished. 9. 0 Anissa had never thought to retrace her steps. She wondered if she would be able to find her missing homework. 10. 0 When the bus dropped her off that day, Anissa was worried that she would not find her lost homework. Her mother was there to take her into the house, and as soon as they got inside, Anissa told her mother all about the missing homework. 11. 0 They both started searching through all of Anissasdollhouses, books, toys, movies, everything. Themissing homework was nowhere to be found, andAnissa and her mother were stumped.0 Anissa told her mother that Mrs. Otterbox said toretrace her steps. Anissas mom thought that was agreat idea, so they started thinking of all the placesAnissa was in the day before. 12. 0 They retraced all her steps, walked through the toy room, the dining room table, the living room, everywhere. Anissa looked in all the places she remembered she was at that day, but she still could not find her missing homework. 13. 0 After dinner, Anissas mother said, I think we mightjust have to tell Mrs. Otterbox that its lost. Maybe shewill let you have another one and we can do it again.0 No mom! I want to find my homework and turn it in.Anissa shouted.0 Honey, it is lost, we cant find it. We will have to letMrs. Otterbox know tomorrow morning, dont worry Iam sure she will understand. 14. 0 Anissa wasnt sure that she would find it, but shedidnt want to have to redo the assignment, so shekept looking.0 She spent the rest of the day looking all through thehouse for her missing homework, but she never foundit. 15. 0 It was almost bedtime, when Anissas mother told herthat she could have a little snack. Anissa was soexcited, she loved having a bedtime snack.0 She went to go into the freezer and grab a minipopsicle when all of the sudden, she felt a piece ofpaper on the bottom of the popsicle box. 16. 0 She was confused, and she took the box out to try totake the paper off since it was stuck. Anissa slowlytook the paper off, and as soon as she turned thepaper over, she gasped.0 My homework! She yelled. 17. 0 She ran to her mother, and leapt onto her lap. Anissawas so excited that she had found her missinghomework.0 Anissa wondered how her homework got in thefreezer, since she had not been in the freezer the daybefore. 18. 0 Her mother went through the freezer again to see if anything else that was missing was in there. Just then, she saw her missing stamps behind the frozen fries. She thought this was odd, so she hid to see who was the culprit. 19. 0 After waiting for a few minutes, she saw someone tiptoeing through the kitchen and slowly put somethingin the freezer.0 Ah! I caught you! Anissas mom shouted.0 The culprit turned around, very scared. It was Anissaslittle brother Seth! 20. 0 Anissa came around the corner to see what washappening, and started laughing.0 Seth, you are silly! But I need my homework forschool, do you think you could stop putting things inthe freezer?0 Okay. Seth said, frowning. 21. 0 The next day, as she was packing her book bag for school, she and her mom double checked that her homework was in the folder in her book bag. 22. 0 When she finally got to school, she ran up to Mrs. Otterbox and handed her the homework assignment. Mrs. Otterbox laughed at the little drops of popsicle juice on the paper and took it. 23. 0 After becoming a mini detective with her mom, Anissadecided that finding missing things was fun, and shewas hoping she could look for some other missingthings soon.0 The case of the missing homework was SOLVED. 24. 0The End.