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“Jennie’s House” is a short story by Bo-Violet Vig, age 13. Written in the close third person in past tense, “Jennie’s House” follows the story of Jennie and (surprise surprise) her house. Jennie lives with her family in a house on Gardener Street that she absolutely adores. She grew up in this house, and she knows every square inch of it. Sometimes her parents light the Chinese lanterns and have big parties where everyone in the neighborhood attends, including Jennie’s…

“Gentle Hands,” by Michelle Wang, age 12, is a story about a student on her first day of first grade, written in the first person. Michelle is extremely scared to be at school and can’t stop crying. She wants to be at home, where people speak Chinese, and where she understands everything that is going on. She meets her teacher and slowly begins to trust her, despite saying she has had bad experiences with teachers in the past. She cheers…

“There Goes the Sun” is a short story by Phoebe Donovan, age 11. It is written in close third person, in past tense. The protagonist is a boy named Robin. In the opening scene, Robin is on the subway on his way to his trumpet lesson. He is thinking about his father, a Beatles fan who loved the song “Yellow Submarine.” We find out later that his dad is deployed in the army. All of a sudden, Robin has a…

 “Endless Months” is a poem by Amity Doyle, age 11. The poem walks the reader through each season of the year, starting in January and ending in December. Much of the poem is written in the second-person present, though occasionally the speaker also uses the first-person plural present tense.  The nature of the descriptions are varied. Sometimes the “you” of the poem is described doing specific things—delivering flowers to Grandma, or bundled up in the cold. At other times,…

“Numbers” is a poem by Patrick Lusa, age 11. The poem is organized around the numbers 1 through 24. Most (but not all) of the poem’s lines start with a number, and the numbers are connected to the content of the lines. At the start of the poem, it is a (1) winter day at 2 in the morning. The people are asleep, the 4 owls are awake until their 5 a.m. bedtime. The day goes on until the number…