Teens on page 4

There is a story deep in the Northern Maine woods. It is only told in a whisper around campfires, when the moon is high and bright to help light the night. There is a section of woods, nobody is clear exactly where, but every- one agrees you will know when you find it. Hunters may go in with hopes of getting a big deer; however, they always come out empty- handed and pale-faced. No hunter has ever tried to hunt that section of the wood more than once. Here is the mystery behind this tale.

Oftentimes people ask if they could go back in time and start over again, would they change anything? I've always been taught that God doesn't make mistakes, but my childhood tragedy left me wondering "why me"quite frankly. As young adults we are oblivious to the fact that certain courses of action can change the trajectory of our entire live. For me, tragedy ultimately changed me for the better, but it didn't feel like it at the time.

Lucy Goose is a twelve-year-old gosling who discovers that computers have replaced all the fine arts teachers at the academy. She must overcome fear to lead the fight for the creative freedom of Gooseria. Her odyssey begins on the dangerous “River of Reality” in hopes of joining forces with her teachers at the magical Crystal Lake. “Sisterhood of the Flying Goose” is based on the real struggle to keep the Fine Arts in our schools. Through her main character, Rieth explores the impact of a one-size-fits-all educational system and the ongoing battle of teachers versus online computer screens.

Facing an Islamic extremist armed with a grenade launcher, Billy finds himself in a life and death situation. A fellow U.S. Marine lies trapped in a burning Humvee, while a young boy is pinned down under machine gun fire amid the nauseating odor of burning flesh. A Black Hawk helicopter unleashes a Hellfire missile reducing a building filled with warring Jihadist to rubble. These are the images that are frozen in his mind haunting Him. Billy has just returned to Spillerville after spending four-years away while serving as a U.S. Marine in the Iraqi War. The fatigue of combat has taken its toll on him. It is a bitter/sweet moment coming home. Flashbacks ...

A wonderful collection of original short stories created by an amazing group of students.

Armand Cass has enlisted to serve in the Black Wolves, a lost human search team. Everything is going well: Armand's mom is getting engaged to a famous wrestler-turned-actor, and training is going well. But there are a set of twins who are troublemakers, and suspicious. They are reserved, and even make trouble with leadership. They steal the security system, and God knows what else. They break rules, but come up with excuses. The General is using Armand to shut them down, but are they really bad guys? And will Armand follow the General, even when he finds out a important secret that links him to the Twins?

Josie’s Life the Sequel is a love story in which her life finally comes together in her early twenty’s when she takes matters into her own hands, at least so it would seem. Her fate awaits as she heads into the unknown territory of a grown-up relationship of love, intimacy, confusion, and bewilderment. Life’s final blow slaps her in the face when she finally finds her father under unimaginable circumstances, her life is turned upside down, and her mental state slips into . . . “The Edge of Darkness.”

This book is about a young man named Robert who chronicles a poetic diary about his struggles through childhood of having a drug addicted mother and a deadbeat father. He is working his way through life learning a lot of rights and wrongs while being a role model to his younger brother. There's one man who cared about him and his well-being, his guidance counselor Mr. Marble who molds him into a better man, is a role model to him and shows him a better way of life. Through the trials and tribulations of life, Robert chronicles his thoughts and experiences on various issues such as family, love, relationships, his neighborhood and growing into the man he wants to be. This book shows that ...