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Story Pirates

The Early Years: The Ghost’s New Friend

Story Pirates

Lemonada Media

Comedy, Education, Kids & Family

4.517.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2013

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Just in time for Halloween, Story Pirates is back with the (not so scary) story 'The Ghost's New Friend' by Alyssa Mazak! Join ghost Boo as he explores the peculiar challenges faced by a ghost trying to make a friend. Featuring an interview with author Alyssa Mazak, and her tips for writing a great story! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to The Story Pirates Podcast, I'm Lee Overtree.

0:11.8

And I'm Mindy Thomas from Series XM's Kids Place Live.

0:15.1

Story Pirates take stories written by kids and we turn them into awesome sketches and

0:18.8

songs and sometimes we play those on the radio.

0:21.9

We're going back into the archives to play some of our favorite stories.

0:25.5

Mindy, what's today's story?

0:27.4

Well, today we're going to go back to October of 2011, when the Story Pirates did a Halloween

0:32.6

special for us.

0:33.9

And today we've got a story that was written by a then-second grader who went to the Atlantic

0:38.9

Christian School in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey.

0:42.2

Her name is Alyssa Masek and her story is called The Ghosts New Friend.

0:47.4

But before we hear the Story Pirates adaptation of Alyssa's story, let's hear Alyssa's

0:51.8

original story.

0:53.6

Story Pirate, peanut and vignanine, take it away.

0:57.2

Thanks very much, Lee Overtree.

0:58.9

Here is Alyssa Masek's story, The Ghosts New Friend.

1:03.0

Once it was a ghost named Boo.

1:04.8

Every day Boo woke up and looked for a friend.

1:07.0

He just couldn't find the right one.

1:09.0

One day Boo woke up and his mom was cooking breakfast.

1:11.7

He asked her if she knew where he could find the right friend for him and like to play

1:15.0

the same games as him.

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