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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