The 2025 Awards Issue
Vol. 37, No. 2 Sept. – Dec. 2025 ISSN: 0899-529X
2 The 2025 Book Awards: Our Annual Honors List of
Multicultural and Nature Books & Teaching Resources
5 Your Lies, Humanity • Summer’s Haze
6 Celebrate America Creative Writing Contest:
• America Poem by Luu Ly Shulman, New York
• Flavors and Rhythms by Alana Atkinson, Florida
• Why I Am Glad America Is a Nation of Immigrants by Sarina Razaghi, California
9 The Asian Celebration Haiku & Tanka Exhibit
14 The 2025 Youth Honor Awards
14 What We Can Do to Help Tackle Climate Change
15 Poems by Wallace Wu, age 9, New York
16 Infinity • Hardware • Young and Naive
17 Foresaken • Threads of Unity
18 A Forest, Once • Charlotte Kong, grade 3, South Korea, Shares Her Culture
19 Reminders of the Rain
21 The People From Nowhere
22 Bridge Between Two Identities • Earth’s Lament • Plastic Wrapping • Haiku Communication
23 Tteokbokki and Borscht
24 Poems by Sixth Graders at Lawrence Middle School, California
25 The Jungle Is Covered • Just A Fantasy • Preservation • Earth in Our Hands
26 Straddling Two Worlds: Life in Seoul’s International School Community
27 From the Ocean to the Fresh Water
28 Hello, Ocean • Communication
29 YHA Entries by Artistic South Korean Students
30 A Few More Art Entries
31 Artists’ Statements for Art on pp. 29-30
32 My Father’s Deadline
33 Across the Ocean
34 Nepal’s Democracy: Where Every Vote Counts… If You Can Find It
35 A Song of Two Worlds • Lost Treasures
38 Diversity Shapes the World • Art by Jessie Li, age 13, British Columbia, Canada
39 Art by Jessie Li, age 13, Canada & by Hollyn Mei-wen Alpert, age 14, California
Regular Departments
Cover Your Lies, Humanity by Jaslene Kwack, age 15, grade 10, Illinois
20 Skipping Stones Stew: Observations on a Walk • When the World Is Quiet
36 Cultural Collage: More than You Can Have • Saturday • Just Black Enough
40 Back Cover: Paintings by Jessie Li, grade 7, British Columbia, Canada
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