March/April 2010

Story·Cameron Manor, age 11 — Three vignettes capture the chaotic dynamics between sisters: midnight roof adventures, a failed spy agency, and a garage sale of unwanted 'gifts.'

Story·Kaija Warner, age 13 — A boy travels back to 1908 where a mysterious girl helps him return to his own time, only to discover she died the day after they met.

Poetry·Levi Crossley, age 12 — A morning farm routine becomes a meditation on familiar rituals, from feeding cattle to picking the season's first buttercup.

Book Review·Gloria Whelan, Reviewed by Siena Teare — After the Train, by Gloria Whelan; HarperCollins: New York, 2009; $15.99 Picture this: you are thirteen years old and living in Rolfen, West Germany, ten years after WWII has ended....