Write a short story about a tiger and his tail to read for our schoo district’s summer seminar. Give it a lesson to be learned at the end and appropriate for both elementary students and junior high students. Give it a twist in the middle and don’t write quoted dialogue.
Once upon a time, a tiger named Tio had brilliant orange and black stripes like the other tigers, but there was something about Tio that made him very insecure–his exceptionally long tail!

The other tigers constantly teased Tio, and he became very lonely. One day, Tio realized he could use his tail to help a baby tiger climb down from a broken branch. Soon thereafter, he was celebrated for something that made him different.

However, Tio loved his new attention so much that he became arrogant! What was once a heroic tiger had turned into a vain creature. Tio even became mean to the tigers with shorter tails. He had completely changed.

One day, an elderly monkey visited Tio to remind him of his previous good deed and told him that appearances aren’t everything––Tio was once a nice tiger, and now he was pompous. Throughout a sleepless night, Tio thought about what the monkey said and decided to change his ways, turning back into the nice tiger he once was while still using his long tail to help those in need.