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Title

The best teen writing of 2007 : selections from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2007 / edited by Justin Beltz ; foreword by Billy Collins.

Publication

New York : Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Beltz, Justin.
• Collins, Billy
• Alliance for Young Artists & Writers.
• Scholastic Inc.

Description

271 p.; 19 cm.

Subject

• Writing > Competitions > United States
• Teenagers' writings, American

Note

• "A program of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers."--Cover.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Editor's introduction / Justin Beltz -- A message from the National Council of Teachers of English / Kent Williamson -- The possibility of greatness / Billy Collins -- Fire / Laura Ball -- One last day / Zara Kessler -- Spring training / Amanda Picardi -- Swimming pool / Grant Hailer -- The problem with jump-off trees / Erin Weeks -- On being informed / Anna Isaacs -- White woman ; A prayer for my friend ... ; Idi Amin had a blue windbreaker / Phoebe Rusch -- Of rawls, refutation, and ratiocination / Andrew Halterman -- Far-off yellow / Jasmine Hu -- Ma'arat ha'machpela / Leila Dashevsky -- Boy / Suzannah Isgett -- Of the dangers of lunch lines / Micahel Lambert -- A traveler's journey / Maya De Vitry -- Confessions of a teenage mascot: my life as a bee / Michael Yashinsky -- Across the universe ; Eighty percent water ; For Sarah / Denise Rickman -- She thinks she loves him / Margaret Hayertz -- It's just too soon / Monica Klein -- Woodnote / David Pederson -- Mapping the streets of Chinatown / Kathryn Llewellyn -- Final grade / Erin Guty -- The cotton club / Eugene Stockton-Juarez -- Family reunion: China, 2005 / Lisa Pang -- Church people / Katharine Eisenberg -- So old school / Elizabeth Motich -- Bouncing back / Kaitlin Sanders -- The witness ; Menu planning ; Sharpening / Anne Reece -- Obituary for an a / Jack Anderson -- Underground / Alyssa Fowers -- The last revolution / Naomi Funabashi -- The road home / Margot Miller -- Slashed skies / Eric Roper -- Rise up / Jillian Kinsey -- Defining you / Katharine Sedivy-Haley -- Brace yourself / Thomas Renjilian -- Aquarium ; Quick money ; Bird watching / Cory Wallace -- English breakfast / Kayla Krut -- The funeral / Cora Johnson-Grau -- Song ever changing / Jenna Devine -- A twisted stomach / Joshua P. McMillen -- On being experienced / Rosetta Young -- Tantamount / Sindha Agha -- The sweet forgotten life / Antoinette Forstall -- A small adjustment / Shalini Ramachandran -- Fallujah / Rebecca McCarthy --
• The lump of inspiration / Nicole Levy -- Nature at our doorstep: four seaons on an Ohio farm / John Savage -- Finding Hope / Clare Grieve -- Gratefulness runs in the family / Brenna O'Tierney -- Tip tap / Ryan Beiermeister -- Writer's statement ; Brown or bust ; Everything I need to know in life I learned from Genghis Khan / Temnete Sebhatu -- My fathers says he hates poetry / Ryan Brown.

ISBN

• 0545059313
• 9780545059312

OCLC

181341811

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library