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Smartphone Addiction: One Middle Schooler’s Perspective
When I look at my classmates’ faces, absorbed in their smartphones, they look eerily expressionless, even hollow. Their eyes look ...
Freedom of Speech Series: Public Schools
In 1966, in a packed hearing in Delano, California, then New York Senator, Robert F Kennedy, was arguing with the ...
The Great Beast (The Great Wave off Kanagawa): A Series in Ekphrasis by Ella Yamamura, 14
The great beast tipped with an army of acid claws it sported a color blue so deep you could fall ...
Four Books and the Meaning of Normal: A Review of Out of My Heart, Wonder, The Thing About Georgie, and Freak the Mighty
Four novels, Out of My Heart by Sharon M. Draper, Wonder by R.J. Palacio, The Thing About Georgie by Lisa ...
To Kill a Mockingbird, Reviewed by Grace, 13
One of the most classic Southern Gothic novels, To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee from a little girl ...
Ways to Make Sunshine, Reviewed by Samantha, 11
Have you ever had one of those devastatingly rainy days? Your plans are ruined and you just feel kind of ...
Kiki Strike: Inside The Shadow City, Reviewed by Sita, 11
The YA novel Kiki Strike: Inside The Shadow City, is unlike any book I’ve ever read. The main character, twelve ...
Roller Girl, Reviewed by Akhil, 11
A year ago I signed up for something called Oregon Battle of the Books. I was discussing with my team ...
The Hobbit, Reviewed by Nora, 12
I first read The Hobbit when I was seven years old. I was instantly intrigued by the adventure, and wanted ...
Kind of A Big Deal, Reviewed by Pragnya, 12
How cool would it be to live inside a book? Where everything is planned out for you to have a ...
The Land of Stories, Reviewed by Nora, 12
Imagine if Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Snow White, and Rumplestiltskin were all real. Imagine if all the fairy tale ...
