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by: Sara Bradshaw, Rachel Barber, Daniel Cowen, Sarah Meira Rosenberg, Dylan Suher, Lucas Gonzalez, Julia Mayer, Carolyn Maughan, Samantha Lipman  List Price: $18.00 Amazon.com's Price: $14.04 You Save: $3.96 (22%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.6 EAN: 9780977084449 ISBN: 0977084442 Label: 826 Books Manufacturer: 826 Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 864 Publication Date: January 17, 2007 Publisher: 826 Books Reading Level: Young Adult Studio: 826 Books Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: This anthology collects nine exceptional novels that were written by high school students from New York City during the summer of 2005 in 826NYC's Young Adult Writers' Colony. Ranging from comedic, to fiercly political, to deeply personal, these novels are immensely entertaining and forecast a bright future for this brand new generation of novelists. As novelist Richard Powers says in his foreword, "There comes a time when we must decide whether we love the world enough to hand it over to its next lover . . . [This is a book of] nine worlds that nine people could not find and so had to make themselves. Here it is before you: how the story ends this time. And how it starts again." Average Rating:
 Rating: - A Book Everyone Should Read (Especialy Young Writers)Ok, so I'm a young writer. I plan on becomeing an old writer too, once I grow up. I read this book because I love to read things by kids my age (can we still be called kids?). I was not at all disapointed. This is a truely wonderful book. My favorite story, I must say, is the deeply complicated and emotional, "Mistaken Identity" written by Sarah Meira Rosenberg, who started it when she was in fith grade. It tells the story of Anna and her school when they are kiddneaped while on a feild trip. Anna ... Read More Rating: - An astonishing featI admit I'm partial -- I'm the father of one of the nine authors represented in this anthology. But think about the fact that these nine novels were written by high school kids age 15-17 in the span of eight weeks over a summer. They churned out 4,000 words a week each, used a workshop format to review each other's efforts, and refined as they went along. They are very different books with very different voices, bound, literally and figuratively, by 826NYC's outstanding program that I refer to as "literacy ... Read More 
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