Forgotten Wolves  by Myka MacGregor A February 2024 Monthly Story Challenge Winner  Click the "Clap" button if you liked this story! Once upon a time in a world far away were wolves. They used to be everywhere till the hunters came. They hunted all the powerful wolves ...

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Forgotten Wolves

Two Flash Fiction ​pieces​by ​Kalpana Mudambi (age 11)​A February 2024 Monthly Story Challenge Winner Click the "Clap" button if you liked this story! Love at First Sight​When I saw her face, I knew she was perfect. It was a crisp fallafternoon, and a Saturday, so ...

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Love at First Sight & That Smile

Cake Survivalby Connor Seeker (age 10) A February 2024 Monthly Story Challenge Winner Click the "Clap" button if you liked this story! Prologue We have lived on the moon for 500 years. It is absolutely massive, an endless sea of dust. Survival was only possible by ...

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Cake Survival

Hummy the Hummingbird Being a Mother: Book 2By Maya Seeker Click the "Clap" button if you liked this story! Chapter 1The eggs are hatchingIt was a bright summer morning, when I saw the lightest crack on one of my eggs. I was excited, but also ...

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Hummy the Hummingbird Being a Mother

The Adventures of Soid (40)by ​Bastian Taylor (age ​10) (25)A ​February 2024 Monthly Story Challenge Winner (25) Click the "Clap" button if you liked this story! ​Chapter 1Soid Flamemaker was a normal 17 year old, but he was currently lost in a vast jungle.Just then ...

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Adventures of Soid

Starwitch Academyby Myka MacGregor (age 11) A January 2024 Monthly Story Challenge Winner Click the "Clap" button if you liked this story! Whosh! Lunar could not believe her eyes. Her brother, Lando, stared at the ground with his eyes wide and mouth dropped open. She really wished ...

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 Starwitch Academy by Myka MacGregor

Lostby Kalpana Mudambi (age 11)A January 2024 Monthly Story Challenge Winner Click the "Clap" button if you liked this story! PrologueOf course, back in the 2220s, it was still possible to get lost on earth, the evergreen planet. Now that we’ve hit the 3000 mark, ...

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Lost by Kalpana Mudambi

Spy School Adventuresby Sahas S. (Age 7)A January 2024 Monthly Story Challenge Winner Click the "Clap" button if you liked this story! One day in The Mystery School for Spies, a student called Plats went missing.   Plats was a clever little platypus who was ...

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Spy School Adventures by Sahas S.

Holiday Swanby Emma C. (age 7) A January 2024 Monthly Story Challenge Winner Click the "Clap" button if you liked this story! ...

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Holiday Swan by Emma C.

BROKE(the no money kind)By Ming-Shan Wang (age 8, almost 9)A January 2024 Monthly Story Challenge Winner Click the "Clap" button if you liked this story! Lucy Patterson was an average 25 year old, and here she was, standing with her parents at court. Talk about ...

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BROKE(the no money kind) by Ming-Shan Wang

​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

AAPI Middle Grade Novels: 7 Must-Read Gems by Micah Hirsch Ackerman Imagine... a girl blending Paul Bunyon and Chinese Folklore into new stories as she copes with anti-Asian rhetoric in a California logging camp.  Or what if the ghost of a Chinese emperor possessed a ...

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7 Engaging AAPI Middle Grade Novels that Will Capture Your Imagination

Here's a list of our 3rd Grade Story Prompts that will inspire your 3rd grader to pick up a pencil or pen and let the words flow! Parents and kids, if you can think of a fun prompt that you want to share here, feel ...

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73 Silly & Wild 3rd Grade Story Prompts!

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.

The Trek on the Mountain by Tobey Liu Little birds chirping, I see a coho salmon. Bunny runs by me. Rustling leaves shaking, North Wind blowing soft, gently, Small breeze sings to me. I look up and see Gorgeous mountains with white snow, Bald eagles ...

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Poetry: The Trek on the Mountain