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All the Wrong Questions
by Yash, age 10
Nothing But Different (Part Two)
by Olivia Patterson, age 10
Sign Language
by Sigal Minsky-Primus, age 10
Back to Mars
by Ema Blanco, age 10
Emy’s Jazz Club
by Cecilia Cunningham-dePedro, age 10
The Scary Puppets
by Sammy Bialkin and Elliot Kaner, ages 10
The First Swan on the Moon
by Riley Dowell, age 11
A Stick Figure’s Life
by Noah, age 10
Why You Should Never Be King
by Izzy Weitzman, age 11
The Basement of the Dead (Chapter 1.)
by Marie-Evelyn, age 11
The Adventures of Bub (Book 1)
by Odysseus, age 11
The Break
by Laura Daniels, age 10
Seasons
by Sarrah Ewing, age 11
Once Upon a Time
by Lea Karian, age 10
Seasons
by Ava Orrantia, age 11
The Screen
by Ben Samuels, age 11
Girl and Squirrel (Part I)
by Pearl Barker Seidman, age 10
The Trampoline
by Marli Fisher, age 11
Locked Out (Part I)
by Ann Dai, age 10
The Sleepover That Changed My Life
by Emma, age 10
Harmony’s Destiny
by Ruixi, age 10
The Green Place
by Benjamin, age 11
The Fashion Show
by Sage Keith, age 11
Three Long Reasons Why Sahara Should Have a Puppy
by Sahara Asher, age 10
The Chronicles of Lincoln Middle School
by Paloma Divina, age 10
Blue Dragon, Red Warrior, Young Boy
by Rafael Prochnik, age 11
I Would Rather be Crushed by a Bowling Ball Than go to School
by Kiran, age 10
Warren’s Welfare (Part One)
by Max Pohman, age 11
Atlantic (Excerpt)
by Maia Rose Wellington, age 10
Christmas is Here
by Ethan Outtara, age 10
The Cloud Race
by Nina Vigil, age 10
Car Accident
by Viraaj Sarwahi, age 10
Calling All Teachers
by Emily Birman, age 11
U.T.S.
by Elwyn M., age 11
Adventurous Kids
by Emmanuel Weintraub, age 11
The Golden Heart Chronicles (Excerpt)
by Sasha Rappaport, age 10
The Guy With The Top Hat
by Jaden Jacoby-Cooper, age 10
Expectations and Results of the 2016 Presidential Election
by Aarav Sethi, age 11
Why Minecraft is Educational
by Jordan Marshall, age 10
One Lost Doll’s Journey
by Lauryn Cooper, age 11
Fort Knox
by Ram, age 11
Helen Patrick Human
by Alice Xu, age 10
Disappointment
by Ria Dangayach, age 11
The Adventures of the Puppets
by Eyal, age 10
Unnamed
by Xueming (Samuel) Li, age 10
The UFO
by Abraham Cunningham, age 10
Nothing But Different
by Via, age 10
Sandy Kayla
Maya Evans
Humans and Food, Finally Together
Luz Del Alba
The King
Leela Mandal
The Tale of Arcaror
Caspar Turner
The Attempt
Jack Samet
Aliens!
Jeremy Nam
The Two Sisters
Sana Mehra
Cherry-Red Sweater
Asmara Downey Twiss
My Life On The Street
Calista Finkelstein
Siblings
Sophia Singh
Is There A McDonald’s In Beach Haven
Naomi Butler
Flight
Charlotte Stillman
When the Two Worlds Came Together 2
Aanya Sethi
A Grimm Life
Uma Bhaman
The Annoying Ravens
Niranjan Deshpande
War and Peace
Varun Gupta
The Three Wolves
Mireille Oppenheimer
Bakery
Avantika Jagdhari
What Happened in 1870, Italy
Gwendolyn Lawrence
Behind the Screen
Hannah Shen
A Big Fall
Juliet Bu
Gilbert the Raccoon and the Fighting Rabies
Haley C.
The Package
Mia Blattmachr
Happy Day
Katie Thomson
The Journey
Lucy Paolini
What Makes A Hero?
Taylor Harris
The Finals
Shiv Shamdasani
W.P.A. Boot Camp
Jake Eaton
Last Resort: Antarctica
Charlotte Stroff
Lavanasium
Juli Valencia
Heaven’s War: Chapter 1
Kayla Shapira-Stern
Royal Disaster
Anonymous
The Heist
Charlie Lehner
Island of the Flins
Max
Fear the Fuzzy
Valentino Sella
The Village
Rebecca A. Reid
My First Earthquake
Margot W.
Excerpt from Aliens Attack
James Pyne
Lorenza’s Eventful Day
Kira Lopez
Nikki’s Message
Alicia Xin
My Chicken Experiences
Cassidy McKee
The Heart of an Athlete
Taylor Scott
Dellya
Callista Sava
Election Day
Jonathan Pae
Deal
Arina Banks
Searching for Home, Chapter 1
Isabela Venegas-Ramirez
A Different Life
Mackenzie Wright
Fun Times
Madeline Guadalupe
The Knight Walks Into the Moonlight
Madeline Guadalupe
The Contest
Lily Z.
Jack’s Bakery
Yisak
The Old Man and the Soda
Tamara Houck
Love for the Amazon
Catherine McCarthy
Two Sides of A Coin
Alex Torres
The Stranger
Joseph Glasson
M.I.A.
Ben Cohen
The Bomb in the Building
Christopher Lee
Change
Sencha G.
The Scary Night
Maria Huerta
The Enchanted Clock
Bianca Pelin
Hard Times with Luck, From Sarah’s Diary
Lily Martin
The Rise and Fall of Emily Dixons
N. Cain
Terry the Donut
Thomas C.
Dessert Disaster
Audrey Peng
Nacho Cheese for President
Deede
The Great Lunchbox Mystery
Julia Garcia-Lascurain
What Are the Chances?
Anonymous
The Big Cat Adventure
Amerah-Taylor Bramble
Under the Skin
Elwyn M.
The Peacock
Arina Banks
Football Players
Shiv Shamdasani
Super Powers
Emilie Henry
Summer
Avantika Jagdhari
Ah Ha Moment
Max
My City
N. Cain
The Foxes’ War
Sophia Siqi Wang
Shakespeare Speech
Stephanie Fuentes
Childhood
Manuela Speciale
Beauty in the Fields
Jennifer Kaechele
Treemania
Kaylin Yagura
Missing
Mackenzie Wright
The Fight
Leila Zilko
Awkward Family Reunions
Sey Stein
Lonely
Iris
Butterfly Away
Leah Braden
Dramatic Fall: The Dramatic Story of When George Washington Went Skiing
Laura Williams
The Smartest Gingerbread Man Runs the Marathon
Binah Friedman
E.V.I.L. Chronicles: The Opponent
Benjamin Azencott
Knight of the Chalice
Valentino Sello
Baltimore Kitty
Sydney Wiser
Finding the Gray
Sayee Edekar
Mitten’s Story
Stephanie Park
The Star, the Heart, and the Flag
Ben Samuels
Yellow Fever
E. Hankins
What Happened to the Candy Shop?
Rachel Faino
Emma
Grace Steiner
Man’s Best Friend
Iris
Butterfly Madness
Kiran Borzillary
Ice Cream Is Great
By Ram, age 10
Tim and Spud
By Ava Hosking, age 11
Rain
By Esme Fishman, age 10
Just a Girl, Part 1
By Fiona Shuldiner, age 10
The Revolution
By Max P., age 10
The Wedding
By Haskell Anderson, age 11
Alexander Percy Lawrence Peter Henry Winkharp’s Cellar Peddlers (Excerpt)
By Madeleine Berkowitz, age 11
Tornado Boy
By Simon Steingold, age 10
My Life
By Dahlia Shapiro, age 11
loser.com
By Bina Klein, age 11
US.
By Hugo Orrantia, age 10
Untitled
By Sara Xu, age 11
Lost Kids
By Bina Klein (age 11) and Dahlia Shapiro (age 11)
Masters of the Universe (Excerpt)
Digonto Chatterjee
Riding A Pug
By Hunter Trylch, age 11
Pure Blonde
By Sascha Fleesler, age 11
Song of the Wolves
By Jaewon Yeo, age 11
The Secret Case File of Donald Trump
By Stun Zeed, age 11
The Terrrerian
By Dhanesh Tikoo, age 11
Unikitty in Big Letters
By Hunter Trylch, age 11
Through the Woods (Excerpt)
By Milo Gold, age 11
Who Made the Rockets?
By Minal Shaman, age 10
Camp River
By Jack Samet, age 11
Trent Pearson: The Lightning Man
By Adam Tang, age 10
Immigration
By Isabella Gernandt, age 11
A Day at Work
By Barbara Weaver, age 10
The Subway Tragedy
By Sophie Redvers, age 10
The First Adventure of the Two Cats
By Anderson Steiner, age 10
Moon Shadows
By Maddie Slogoff, age 11
How a Snowflake Came to Life
By Sarrah Ewing, age 10
My First Year of Middle School
Anoushka Sawardekar
Mom’s Story Book
By Isaia Kohn, age 10
The Fire Prince
By Ava Orrantia, age 10
The Lonely Glimmer of the Moon
By Maddie Slogoff, age 11
The Night of the Pug Banshee
By Henry Kaplan, age 10
The Turning Point
By Lawrence Han, age 11
Rose Red
By Isabella, age 11
A Rough Current
By Hannah, age 11
The Ultimate Paintball Match
By Matt, age 10
Star Gazer (Excerpt)
By Isra Qadri, age 11
The Boy, the Woman, and the Forest
By Gracie Espinosa, age 11
Odysseus and the Cyclops
By Siena Quinn, age 10
Far Past Is An Unknown Thing
By Avery H., age 11
Flight Adventure
By Anonymous
The Scary Mystery: Chapter One
By Nikhil Narayan, age 11
The Art Thief
By Daniel Anton, age 10
Press One at the Tone
By Abel L. Torres, age 11
A Strange Day at Writopia
By Madeline (age 10), Izy Lusk (age 11), and Max Peters (11)
Pandora the Detective: How It All Began
By Sanya Sidhu, age 10
Another Peculiar Predicament
By Nikhil Gupta, age 11
My Life as a Dog
By Juliet Bu, age 10
The Mermaid Who Stole a Diamond
By Julia Aram, age 10
Element of Silver (Excerpt)
By Asbah Qadri, age 11
An Amber Story
By Maya Nichols, age 10
When I Went Down the Rabbit Hole
By Chloe, age 11
Seasonal Haikus
By Siena R. Quinn, age 10
The Electric Masterpiece
By Anonymous
Choose Your Own Adventure, Sort Of
By Izy Lusk, age 11
EXCERPT
By Nikhil Gupta, age 11
How Lego Was Created: A Series
By Grady Ramberg, age 10
Lilly the Cat
By Brook Brownstein, age 11
The Lady Sings
By Ziara Pichardo, age 10
The Man
By Darobo Acceber, age 11
The Unbelievable Man
By Ziara Pichardo, age 10
Bluemoon
By M. Francisca Vivanco, age 10
The Coat of Nature
By Natalie Panitkin, age 11
Camp
By Sarah Arevalo, age 11
Mourning in its own Light
By Scarlette Roy, age 10
The Young and the Youth
By Scarlett Roy, age 10
As It Floats Down
By Daniel Plotkin, age 10
Saving Santa
By Natalie Frank, age 11, Maigan, age 11, and Hannah Frank, age 12
Words and Hearts
By Mary Root, age 11
Trust
By Mary Root, age 11
T.G.I.F
By Violet DiBiasio, age 10
How Evil Came to Be
By Siena Quinn, age 10
December 13 1972
By Collin, age 10
The Witch Books
By Mariema, age 11
The End of Time
By Elle McMahon, age 10
When You Kiss Me Goodnight
By Madeline Slogoff, age 10
Best Friends
By Lily Stein, age 11
The Big Fright
By Sreejato Chatterjee, age 11
Boo-Goo Land
By Lena DiBiasio, age 10
Circus Monkeys
By Naomi Laronne, age 11
The Machine
By Daniel, age 10
Forgotten Words
By Molly Breckman, age 11
The Change
By Max P, age 10
The Black Hole
By Mariah Mendoza, age 11
West Poo
By Masara, age 11
A Strange New World
By Claire Abrams, age 11
The Attack of the Slender Men
By Lawrence Han, age 10
The Girl Who Went To Ecuador
By Juliana Valencia, age 10
The Glass Slipper
By Juliet Bu, age 10
Don’t go into the dark
By Ryen Jones, age 11
Zombie Attack!
By Adam Tang, age 10
Big Dude’s Escape
By Minal Shaman, age 10
Allstar
By Sophia Torren, age 11
A Story of Fred and Bob
by Thomas Clark, age 9
Z-Town
by Finn, age 10
Win Torture: The History of Plot Day
by Andranik Kaladjian-Webb, age 10
What Is Being Rich?
by Emilia Marshall, age 11
Waterfall
by Amah Assoumou, age 11
Video Games: Not Just Fun
by Christopher McCarthy, age 11
Trip to Yesterday
by Juliette Putman, age 10
Untitled
by Leila Jackson, age 11
Two Fingers (An English to English translation of “One Heart” by Li-Young Lee)
by Elijah Menla, age 10
Today
by Zeyna Ilahi, age 11
Three Hours Til Morning
By Bella Orelowitz, age 11
The Whale
By Andie Dougherty. age 10
The Tragic (and Comedic) Life of Mr. Henry Billersworth
by Hilary Malamud, age 11
The Tragedy of the SS Minnow II
by Sam Lauricella, age 10
The Sunflower Seed
by Neha Soni, age 11
The Sun Thief (Excerpt)
by Lucy McCleary Keller, age 10
The Stolen Lives
by Sierra Krueger-Wolfe, age 11
The Road to Fame
by Sofia Vaccaro, age 10
The Rainbowfish
by Leila Jackson, age 11
The Rewind
by Mariele, age 11
The Pyramid Snake
by Emma Willey, age 10
The Only One Armed Girl
by Amah Assoumou, age 11
The One Ring
by Santiago Soto, age 11
The News That Changed My Life
by Rachel Bergman, age 10
The Little Witch
by Lauren, age 10
The Infection: Ebola
by Bennett Elisha Cullison, age 11
The House Next Door
by Vera Saidel, age 10
The Great Voyage
by Maximo Del Pino, age 10
The Great Chocolate Adventures
by Maya Beasley, age 10
The Fate of the World
by Cole Thomas, age 10
The Elephant
by Ava, age 11
The Dream That Nobody Gave Into
by Dylan Phoenix Small, age 10
The Downfall of Secrets and the Coming of the Month
by Gabriel Kraemer, age 10
The Beach
by Neha Soni, age 11
The Ball of Mystery
by Langston Keene, age 10
The Bachelor of Oz
by Sophia Von Kerczek, age 10
The Adventures of Little Timmy
by Julian E. Dohi, age 10
The Almost Unperfect Family of 28 (Excerpt)
by Lila Boyle, age 10
Summer Feet (Excerpt)
by Anonymous, age 10
Speed Runner
by Jarone Johnson, age 10
Staying Strong
by Ava Bissell, age 11
Smith Beach
by Amelia Levin, age 11
Special (Prologue)
by Lily Lev, age 11
Spank Union
by Jeremy, age 10
Sigh: The Story of Bill, and How He Escaped From One of the Most Infamous Criminals of All Time.
by Sebastian Waizenegger, age 10
Seedfolks
by Sameer Glazerman, age 11
Schools Should Expand Their History Focuses
by Zeran, age 11
School
by Zeran, age 11
RAP GOD
by Jarone Johnson, age 10
Questions With Answers
by Juliette, age 10
Revise Your Entitlement
by Joaquin Contreras, age 11
Robbery
by Ava Levinson, age 11
Pumpkin
by Yana Serjantov, age 10
Poems for a Rainy Day 2
by Ruby Goodman, age 10
Plants
by Finn, age 10
Peregrine (Part 1)
by Brendan Martin Firvida, age 10
Over the Wall
by Yuxi Tian, age 11
Once Upon A Time
by Devin, age 10
Outside Poems
by Olivia Dixon, age 11
