Sept – Oct 2011

Skipping Stones

Vol. 23, No. 4                                 Sept. – Oct. 2011                               ISSN: 0899-529X

2011 Youth Honor Awards!  •  Voices of Today’s Youth

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2  Self-Portrait by Lilia Kamata  •  Photos by Maya Hunter
4  Guest Editorial:  We Are the Future!
8  The Best Game
9  Something in Common
10  Nana Jean:  On Love
11  Family: Five Perspectives
12  The Magic Paintbrush: A Chinese Folktale
14  The Globe Club at Centennial High
15  From Then To Now
17  Chippey’s New Best Friend  •  Sunrise that Brought…
18  Travels in Four Continents
19  Cultural Collage: Polska, Poland
20  Around And Around We Go: Polkas
2011 Youth Honor Awards!
25  Poetry by Sarah Mae Smith, age 14, grade 10, California
26  Worlds Apart by Irtiqa Fazili, age 15, Tennessee
27  Essays by Haluk Akay, age 16, and Leyla Akay, age 15, Turkey
28  Empower Orphans: by Neha Gupta, age 15, founder, Pennsylvania
29  Zaj Lus:  A Bilingual Hmong Story Book by Students in Wisconsin
30  Poems by Kylie Hunter, age 10 and Maya Hunter, age 8, Colorado
31  Writings by Students at the Julia Morgan School for Girls, California
32  Poems by Students at Laurence School, California
33  Art & Poems by Students at Na`au School, Hawai’i
34  My Grandfather Ben by Maya Young Wong, age 11, California
35  Art Collages by Students at Na`au, Hawai’i

    Regular Departments
Cover:  “Rock Climbing” by Kimberly Shen, 17, New York
5  Editor’s Mailbag: Peace Starts With Us
6  What’s on Your Mind?
7  Noteworthy N.E.W.S.
13  Dear Hanna
16  Nature Poetry Page
22  Skipping Stones Stew
23  Health Rocks!
24  BookShelf

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