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Spring

Out of the Pandemic, poetry in seasons by Paridhi, 13 | Part II: Spring 2020

Author's Statement I started writing this piece as an optional assignment in my seventh grade English class. It was an ...

Pandemic Echoes

An invisible enemy has changed our lives. Lives lost, all too soon. Soon slinks fear, that we contain in isolation ...

Becoming Pablo Neruda: The Dreamer, Reviewed by Emma, 10

The Dreamer, written by Pam Muñoz Ryan and illustrated by Peter Sís, is a unique story based on Pablo Neruda’s ...
A photograph of a quaint birdhouse surrounded by snowflakes.

Out of the Pandemic, poetry in seasons by Paridhi, 13 | Part I: Winter 2020

Author's Statement I started writing this piece as an optional assignment in my seventh grade English class. It was an ...
AmericatheBeautiful

What My America Looks Like, a poem by Eboni, 13

What My America Looks Like Eboni Maxwell, 13 My America looks like chaos, a burning flame that cannot be put ...
MIddleSchool

An Unsent Letter

An Unsent Letter Ellis Yang, 12 Dear Miriam,  That morning in the city, two weeks before you left, I walked ...

Restart, Reviewed by Emily, 10

Have you ever wanted to have a fresh start in your life? Erase your past and create a new future ...

When You Trap A Tiger, Reviewed by Pragnya, 12

When you Trap A Tiger by Tae Keller is a story of family, relationships and the magic in everyday life ...

Author Adam Rex reviews Abhi Sukhdial’s novella Three Days Till EOC

We sent Adam Rex, the author of so many wonderful books himself, a copy of Abhimanyu Sukhdial's Three Days Till EOC, ...

Reckless, Glorious, Girl, Reviewed by Nova, 9

Reckless, Glorious, Girl by Ellen Hagan, is an original story written in an original way. It is a novel but ...

These Unlucky Stars, Reviewed by Prisha Aswal

I consider myself incredibly lucky to be one of the very few to be able to read this book before ...

Betsy-Tacy, Reviewed by Nora, 12

“It was difficult, later, to think of a time when Betsy and Tacy had not been friends,” begins the first ...