826 Valencia proudly presents this extraordinary, diverse collection of writing from students ages six to eighteen, created with support from our volunteer tutors. In these pages you will find mystery, vulnerability, and brave calls for change. In other words: hope. Hope that we can understand each other's perspectives and strive to improve the world, all the while tapping into our sense of play and imagination. Our young people are writing the future-all we have to do is listen.

 

This is volume 26 in 826 Quarterly .

This book has been graded for interest at 6+ years.

There are 184 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 2018 by 826 Valencia .

826 Valencia, based in San Francisco, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting under-resourced students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. Sejal H. Patel has been a public interest lawyer for about twenty years. Whoa. Yahir A. is right-that twenty years feels like only two! It took her a long time to find her way to writing. She started writing essays and fiction as a grown-up, after that inspiration bucket went empty. The editors of Creative Nonfiction, The Rumpus, Literary Mama, and Harvard Divinity Bulletin have been nice enough to publish her work. She has had plenty of rejection, too, but she keeps on writing. Like Opal the Bookworm, Sejal read millions and zillions of pages as a graduate of Northwestern Law School and Harvard Divinity School. School rocks! She lives in glorious San Francisco with her superhero daughters (uh oh, Lucia D. !) and her husband who just can't stop eating La Luna de Queso from Vanessa Perez's second grade class. Hey, man, save some for the rest of us! She also volunteers at 826 because she thinks what Kwan B. wrote is true about all 826 writers-on top of the world, you can never be beat! Cindy Derby is an illustrator and author based in San Francisco. Her debut picture book as an author/illustrator is How to Walk an Ant (Roaring Brook Press, March 2019). She is also illustrating Shannon Bramer's Climbing Shadows: Poems for Children (Groundwood Books, 2019); New York Times best selling author Deborah Underwood's Outside (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020); and Jackie Azua Kramer's The Boy and the 800-Pound Gorilla (Candlewick Press, 2020). Cindy's journey began as a puppeteer creating one-woman shows and building puppets all over the world. She received her Master of Arts from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and studied with The London School of Puppetry. She was awarded grants from The Jim Henson Foundation, as well as Puppet Animation Scotland to help create her work. 826 Valencia, based in San Francisco, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting under-resourced students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. Kat Evasco is a writer, stand-up comedian, and performance artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Evasco is best known for her touring autobiographical one-woman show, Mommy Queerest, co-written and directed by John Caldon. Evasco currently serves as the Chief Dream Director at The Future Project and as the Artistic Director of Guerrilla Rep. Evasco is a recipient of the Creative Capacity Fund Quick Grant, NextGen Art Professional Development Grant, and the Zellerbach Family Foundation Grant. She holds a BA in Asian American Studies from San Francisco State University. Alice Malia is an illustrator and theatre set-designer originally from the UK, now living in San Francisco with her husband and toddler. She love living close to the sea, drawing and painting and hoping. Cindy Derby is an illustrator and author based out of San Francisco, California. She is a puppeteer and has performed all over the world. How To Walk An Ant is her first picture book.