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SLJ<br>LEVITHAN, David, ed. Where We Are, What We See: Poems, Stories, Essays, and Art from the Best Young Writers and Artists in America. 220p. photos. reprods. Scholastic/Push. 2005. pap. $7.99. ISBN 0-439-73646-3. LC number unavailable.<br>Gr 7 Up-Composed of artistic submissions by middle and high school students, this book is a knockout. The content is often heavy with the weight of adult situations that these young people face. Such is our world. Yet the literary work, compositionally, is aesthetically lovely and filled with the candor of youth. Living Like That offers a take on the confused emotional state of growing up in and out of war-torn Jerusalem, while I Kept Looking is a reflection on the effects of living through the trauma of 9/11. This book will be well used as peer examples, motivating students to step up and celebrate their own artistic talents. As one young writer puts it, Reading a well-written book sometimes puts me into a state removed from the larger reality but awed by what I just finished. -Alison Follos, North Country School, Lake Placid, NY<br>VOYA<br>Award-winning work from today's young adults should come as no surprise, but here is a collection that catches the reader through its competence and impact. The nearly sixty entries of essays, stories, and poetry along with photography and art range from tragic to wistful, contemporary teen oeuvre to picturing the sensitive kids one wishes that they all could be. The middle and high school authors and artists are winners of the 2002, 2003, and 2004 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. They clearly reflect the diversity of lives and lifestyles of today's young adults. The writers respond to the deaths of friends, families, strangers; they remember childhood indiscretions; they present the simplest and most complex of life events. As the editor states, these authors and artists are engaged in the world around them. . . . They have both insight and the ability to convey this insight. Some of

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