Spring 2016 | The (Parenthetical)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Hamsterly Ever After

By Kate Lee, age 6

How Lego Was Created: A Series

By Grady Ramberg, age 10

EXCERPT

By Nikhil Gupta, age 11

Annie’s Time Machine

By Caroline Carr, age 8

Choose Your Own Adventure, Sort Of

By Izy Lusk, age 11

How Humans Were Made

By Eve Robin Kaplan, age 9

Saving Dad

By Alisha Tomashevsky, age 8

The Electric Masterpiece

By Anonymous

The Living Fart

By Miles K., age 9

A Halloween Story: Series 2

By Christina, age 8

Seasonal Haikus

By Siena R. Quinn, age 10

When I Went Down the Rabbit Hole

By Chloe, age 11

An Amber Story

By Maya Nichols, age 10

Element of Silver (Excerpt)

By Asbah Qadri, age 11

The Mermaid Who Stole a Diamond

By Julia Aram, age 10

My Life as a Dog

By Juliet Bu, age 10

Madison and Mousey

By Rachel Alcazar, age 9

Another Peculiar Predicament

By Nikhil Gupta, age 11

Caribbean Adventure

By Aaron Gao, age 9

Pandora the Detective: How It All Began

By Sanya Sidhu, age 10

A Strange Day at Writopia

By Madeline (age 10), Izy Lusk (age 11), and Max Peters (11)

Press One at the Tone

By Abel L. Torres, age 11

The Art Thief

By Daniel Anton, age 10

Pink Is Pretty

By Anonymous

Buzzer’s Adventure

By Alex S., age 8

The Scary Mystery: Chapter One

By Nikhil Narayan, age 11

The Trip

By Adhvika Karthik, age 9

And His Name is John Cena

By Grant P., age 9

Flight Adventure

By Anonymous

Marker the Marker

By Noah Granada, age 7

Fawn

By Sheena Bakare, age 9

Far Past Is An Unknown Thing

By Avery H., age 11

Odysseus and the Cyclops

By Siena Quinn, age 10

The Boy, the Woman, and the Forest

By Gracie Espinosa, age 11

Star Gazer (Excerpt)

By Isra Qadri, age 11

The Ultimate Paintball Match

By Matt, age 10

A Rough Current

By Hannah, age 11

Rose Red

By Isabella, age 11

The Turning Point

By Lawrence Han, age 11

Becky’s Diary

By So-Ahn Kieffer-Kwon, age 9

The Lonely Glimmer of the Moon

By Maddie Slogoff, age 11

The Night of the Pug Banshee

By Henry Kaplan, age 10

The Video Game

By Noah Um, age 9

The Fire Prince

By Ava Orrantia, age 10

Mom’s Story Book

By Isaia Kohn, age 10

The Life Cycle

By Ila, age 7

Prince Almando

By Cleo Saltz, age 9

How Burritos Came To Be

By Lela Gavasheli, age 9

How a Snowflake Came to Life

By Sarrah Ewing, age 10

Moon Shadows

By Maddie Slogoff, age 11

Omar’s Great Adventure

By Aman, age 7

The Amazing Adventure of Bob

By Liam W. Lui Martin, age 7

I Never Wanted a Coffee Shop

By Sofia Gonzalez, age 8

The First Adventure of the Two Cats

By Anderson Steiner, age 10

The Subway Tragedy

By Sophie Redvers, age 10

A Day at Work

By Barbara Weaver, age 10

The Big Crystal

By Gianna, age 7

The Town of Randomness

By Abe Effress, age 9

Hummingbird

By Ruby Addie, age 9

Immigration

By Isabella Gernandt, age 11

The Facts I Learned About Jupiter

By Reese Z., age 8

Trent Pearson: The Lightning Man

By Adam Tang, age 10

Kitty Ranchero’s Adventures

By Layla Andrade Lantz, age 8

Diary of a Rebel

By Ruby Addie, age 9

Camp River

By Jack Samet, age 11

My Home

By Tatum Z., age 8

I Can’t Remember the Last Time I Used a Tissue

By Abe Effress, age 9

Battle of Revenge II: Traitors

By Diego Gonzalez Garcia-Torres, age 9

Haunted House

By Ambrocio Mendoza, age 7

Birds

By Tatum Z., age 8

Who Made the Rockets?

By Minal Shaman, age 10

Through the Woods (Excerpt)

By Milo Gold, age 11

Unikitty in Big Letters

By Hunter Trylch, age 11

The Terrrerian

By Dhanesh Tikoo, age 11

Sucked In

By Elliana Lilling, age 9

The Secret Case File of Donald Trump

By Stun Zeed, age 11

Pete the Pirate Cat and Charlotte

By Nalani Reed, age 8

Song of the Wolves

By Jaewon Yeo, age 11

Pure Blonde

By Sascha Fleesler, age 11

The One and the Best Girl: Book I

By Hudson Graybill, age 8

The One and the Best Girl: Book II

By Hudson Graybill, age 8

The One and the Best Girl: Book III

By Hudson Graybill, age 8

Trees

By Georgia L., age 7

Riding A Pug

By Hunter Trylch, age 11

Creme Brulee

By Niamh Flynn-Niedner, age 9

Wonder

By Soleil Wizman, age 8

Candy

By Soleil Wizman, age 8

The Sun

By Soleil Wizman, age 8

Sunshine

By Soleil Wizman, age 8

Flowers

By Soleil Wizman, age 8

The Wind

By Soleil Wizman, age 8

Bubbles

By Soleil Wizman, age 8

Opposites

By Soleil Wizman, age 8

Masters of the Universe (Excerpt)

Digonto Chatterjee

Thinking

By Soleil Wizman, age 8

Happy

By Soleil Wizman, age 8

A Vehicle That Can Fly: The War Against Syria

By NBZ, age 7

Lost Kids

By Bina Klein (age 11) and Dahlia Shapiro (age 11)

Never Betray Someone

By Matthew Diaz, age 8

loser.com

By Bina Klein, age 11

My Life

By Dahlia Shapiro, age 11

US.

By Hugo Orrantia, age 10

Dream Country

By Chloe Zhou, age 7

Untitled

By Sara Xu, age 11

The Adventures of Digger and Scrappy

By Amelia Khemani, age 7

The Ice Cream Monster

By Pablo Mendoza, age 7

Ogre and Sophie and Most of All Sophia

By Charrise Cheung, age 7

Thanksgiving Turkey

By Leyna Amin, age 9

Tornado Boy

By Simon Steingold, age 10

Alexander Percy Lawrence Peter Henry Winkharp’s Cellar Peddlers (Excerpt)

By Madeleine Berkowitz, age 11

Star, My Doll

By Zalah Blount, age 7

The Drum Set

By Messi Berko, age 9

The Revolution

By Max P., age 10

The Wedding

By Haskell Anderson, age 11

Spring

By Alejandra, age 8

The Titanic

By Viraat, age 7

Just a Girl, Part 1

By Fiona Shuldiner, age 10

The Banana’s Life Change

By Martin M., age 9

Kitties

By Isabella, age 8

Tim and Spud

By Ava Hosking, age 11

Rain

By Esme Fishman, age 10

Ice Cream Is Great

By Ram, age 10

The Necklace Chase

By B. A., age 9

Atlas

By Andrew Chen, age 9

A Second Chance

By Summer Boxer, age 8

My Move

By Sophia Birman, age 8