It Doesn't Have To Be Perfectby Sahana N., 15A December 2024 Monthly Story Challenge Winner  Click the "Clap" button if you liked this story! Tick. Tick. Tick.Tiny gold hands within a diamond-encrusted Rolex played an ominous soundtrack in the kitchen. Filled with towering appliances, the ...

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It Doesn’t Have To Be Perfect

Grandpa’s Harmonyby  Sahana N., 15A December 2024 Monthly Story Challenge Winner  Click the "Clap" button if you liked this story! For most 5th graders, the last day of school is one of emancipation. But for me, it was a day I dreaded for one reason. ...

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Grandpa’s Harmony

The Heirloom CompassBy Nolan Carroll, 12A September 2024 Monthly Story Challenge Winner Click the "Clap" button if you liked this story! PrologueWalking along the white sand beach, Elias and Andrea Bohm were enjoying their honeymoon despite being entrenched in the Dark Ages.  Engraved in the ...

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The Heirloom Compass

Lead The Way • Part 1by Yihua Yuan, 13An August 2024 Monthly Story Challenge Winner  Click the "Clap" button if you liked this story! “Ray, come here,” Mother said in a whisper, as her disease was getting worse day by day. “Yes Mother,” it was hard ...

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Lead The Way • Part 1
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Silence in the Shadows

Spies, Lies, and AlibisIn-Person Teen Fiction WorkshopApril 28, 2024 • 3pm-4pmTo register or inquire, use email:[email protected]  Join us for a free intro meetup to our Summer Fiction Workshop.Open to Ages 12-18. Invite your friends & RSVP Today!Our workshops will inspire you to explore your own ...

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Mountain View Tween & Teen Writing Workshop – Sunday, April 28 • 4-5 pm

​We at Beyond the Box Learning encourage our students to become "story eaters," ​or avid readers. Stories through any medium, ​novels,​ graphic novels, comics, and videos help to educate us about the world, the people who struggle with in it, and the realizations they discover ...

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Kick-start Your Reading Habit with these 4 Teen Novels this Avid Reader Loved & Devoured

We invited our former homeschooling student, Micah Ackerman Hirsch to share his wonderful techniques and poetry tips for our young poets and writers. Micah is a graduate of University of Puget Sound, an amazing liberal arts college, and is an accomplished writer with an interest ...

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10 Minutes A Day: 21 Short Poetry Prompts to Start A Poetry Habit

Every storyteller or writer will tell you a story needs a hero with a strong Want.  A Want can be simple: A boy wants a pack of baseball cards.  Why? Because it might have a Wander Franco card worth $2,247! Yes, “Wants” can lift us ...

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Ignite Your Story By Shifting Your Hero’s Want To A Must.

Happy New Year! Here's a beautiful poem to ring in the year by one of our teen writers. May you all have a wonderful, healthy, and prosperous 2023 and beyond.  Thank you Andrei for the poem! White Rose by Andrei Genzel  During the season of ...

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White Rose by Andrei Genzel
Poetry: Cycles of Water by Autumn Hudgens
Poetry: “Regrounded” by Luna Silvana Abadía
Poetry: “A Broken World” by Candice Leung

After Rainby Sierra Elman (Age 12)sweet earthly scentevokes image of serenity,chirp of chickadee, crow of sleek raven, declares finale ofthe rainstormsky rocks itself to sleep beneath itsvast gray quilt, as afinal trickle of water seeps from a crack in the intricately sewnblanket, dripping downonto the ground, drenchingthe soil, the playful ...

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Poetry: “After Rain” by Sierra Elman