By Viet Doan Nguyen, 11, East Point, Georgia I have been through an experience that I will never forget. When I was about six years old, my family and I escaped looking for freedom in America, because the Viet Cong took over my country. The country is Viet Nam. The first time we escaped we didn’t make it. I didn’t […]
My Country and the Way to America
By Huong Nguyen, 11, Hosford Middle School, Portland, Oregon Reprinted with permission from Light of the Island, © 1982 I live in Vietnam. I go to school in Vietnam. I have three pigs and one dog, but the dog is dead. My mother she was sad. My mother my father my sister is go to work. […]
Lone Wolf
By Julie Frazier, 14, Licking Heights High School, Pataskala, Ohio Illustrated by Ryan Mills, 10, Santa Cruz, California The day was a cold, crisp spring day, a good day for a picnic. And that’s exactly what Mike and Julie planned to do. They had lived in this Canadian wilderness for almost ten years, so they […]
Sheep Story
Today I went to a man who had some sheep and I looked at one and it was a magic sheep and it had wings, and the man said this was a very precious sheep so when my mom and dad and the man who owned the sheep were looking at a different one I […]
Make the Morning
I want make it be dark I want it way, way, way dark. I gonna get bigger, bigger and the whole world gonna shine and I gonna be the sun and there be lines on me not any head, not any bottom. I be a face and I be the dark and I be the […]
