Susanna Lang coordinated this collection of poetry and prose by 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students of the Hawthorne Scholastic Academy, Chicago, IL. The collection is published by Hawthorne Press with assistance of Old Mountain Press and with the support of the Oppenheimer Family Foundation and the Hawthorne PTA. This collection was edited by Annika Alfaro, Elijah Brown, Jude Carpio, MK Clancy, Frances Depke, Sidney Eun, Lucia Lamagna, Sara Laureano, Alison Lopez, Kyra Sieben, Harry Spark, Madeleine Spark, and Maggie Swanson, with the advice of Susanna Lang. The cover art was created by Annika Alfaro and MK Clancy.
This is such a wonderful collection of imaginative and personal stories from middle school students. I am in awe of the fact that they created, collected, and printed this journal for us. Many of these stories and poems are creative in ways I don't know that older writers would have been able to pull off and I LOVE it. I look forward to the writing futures of these students.