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The blog is written by the young writers and artists of Stone Soup. If you are aged 13 or younger and have something to say on any topic—nature, science, cookery, sport, sewing, crafts, music, photography, travel—we would love to hear your voice. We are also always happy to hear from book reviewers. Please go to our Submittable site for more details on how to become a young blogger. We accept individual posts and are also always looking for writers to contribute on a regular basis—once a week or once a month.

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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 ...