Young Authors share magical tales of kingdoms, outer space, more By Kevin Lyons District 200 When this year’s Young Authors competition approached, one Greenwood Elementary School second-grader had a sequel on her mind. Callie Hansen remembered “The Aliens,” the Young Authors manuscript that her mother wrote when she attended Greenwood. The book her mother read […]
Gretchen Sebastian spent two years carefully crafting “Are You Ready for It?” – the tale of a Jewish teenager escaping Germany while trying to rescue her sister. “No one should have to go through something like that just because they believe in something that you don’t believe in,” Gretchen said. The Prairiewood Elementary School fifth-grader […]
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