Junior / Features
The cool October air smacked into Katherine’s pale, freckled face like a swatter on a fly. She zipped up her jacket and slipped her hands in the pockets. I didn’t know it was gonna be this cold! She thought as she turned the corner. Her thoughts about the weather quickly faded as her gaze went [...]
Junior / Features
The old man sat at the table across from his wife, his head slowly drooping beneath his hunching shoulders. It was his birthday, and she’d decided to take him out to one of his favorite restaurants to celebrate. She’d scurried around all morning—confirming reservations, inviting friends, calling family and enforcing a dress code that “should [...]
Junior / Features
The following six-word memoirs were written by young people ages 6-15 during Tree House Books’ Tree Shade Summer Project, Conversations in the Garden: What’s Your Story. Campers wrote their own stories, expressed their story through different art projects, and interviewed longtime members of the North Central Philadelphia community. Tree House Books’ mission is to grow [...]
Junior / Features
Miriam Rose, Age 10, Wyncote Elementary © 2012 A bone-chilling gust of wind swept over my cheeks as the door to the store jingled. I looked up from the cash register as a short, thin, and rather ashen-looking woman stepped onto the threshold of the Wawa. She wore a long, dark, down winter jacket, with [...]
Junior / Features
Richer Writing-Personification
We all know that animals can’t talk, right? Or can they? Have you ever found yourself having a conversation with your cat or dog, or another type of pet that you might own? In a way, your pet does talk to you, either through a look, a bark, a meow or whatever noise your particular [...]
Junior / Poetry
Duality of the Universal Solvent
Burning, freezing, melting, cold and hot and tepid,
Junior / Artwork