How the NBA Season Works, by Himank Chhaya, age 11 Illustration by Spencer Hanson, 11, for the story titled "Blue Eyes" by Eve Driver, 13, published in our July/August 2011 issue A lot of people don't know how the NBA season works. Those people might be die-hard NBA fans, but they …
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Coconut Pudding: Behind the Story
Editor's Note: We published Tristan Hui's story "Coconut Pudding" in the September issue of Stone Soup. In this post, Tristan gives us some background on the subjects she chose to write about. In a seventh grade History unit, every student in my class made a model house of someone living in a …
Playing in the Youth Orchestra
My dad parked the car in the parking lot of the performing arts center. I hopped out of the car. It wasn’t the first time I had been there. My family often came here to listen to concerts. But this time, something was different. I wasn’t here to listen. I was here to play. I grabbed my violin and …
Slipping into Sunbeams, by Sage Millen, 11
When I began composing this song, I started with a motif- the few notes of melody on which a song is based. Next, I messed around on the keyboard until elaborated the melody, added a B section, and returned to the original motif. Finally, my piano teacher helped me add the left-hand harmony. When I …
