ACARA Years 3-6

Story·Emily Carver, age 11 — A red wolf named Ruby gets separated from her pack, is tranquilized and relocated to Yellowstone, where she finds a new pack and home after proving herself in battle.

Personal Narrative·Kateri Escober Doran, age 12 — Two kindergarteners get locked out of their classroom during a bathroom break and must overcome their fears and rivalry to find help together.

Poetry·Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer, age 13 — A girl and her father venture into woods to craft a bow and arrows from oak branches, shooting them into the star-filled evening sky.

Poetry·Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer, age 13 — Morning fog lifts as blackbirds sing and a coyote chases a dog, leaving the speaker wondering who cleared the fog away.

Poetry·Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer, age 13 — A young poet captures the historic first tornado on Cape Cod through stark imagery of destruction—downed trees, a fallen church steeple, nature's violent word.

Poetry·Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer, age 13 — A young poet transforms a seashell into a golden rose, a spiral staircase, and a tower, finding ancient scrolls of saltwater within its chambers.

Poetry·Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer, age 13 — A bored car ride to Cape Cod transforms when the window frames a night sky full of stars, glowing trees, and the canal that signals almost home.

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 9 — A child's plea to be forgotten transforms everyday details—soup, Fruit Loops, a voice that travels through walls—into a meditation on presence and erasure.

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 9 — A meditation on impossibility and perception, where belief and action create paradoxes, and inner vision doesn't match outer reality.

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 9 — A young writer imagines a digital universe with corrupted code 719, where trees shake and reality glitches as everything falls apart.