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Speaking Up for Each Other: A Collection of Short Stories for Tweens and Middle Grade Readers
Speaking Up for Each Other has twenty-four award-winning short stories by talented young writers. These stories are original, enjoyable, and contain a rich variety of themes and situations ranging from a helpless girl living in fear of her own family to a robot contemplating what's best for its employer.
145 pages, Paperback
Published August 17, 2018
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August 31, 2018
Love, revenge, separation, death, happiness, relationships, science, romance, war, bullying, helping the weak, self-confidence - those are just few of the themes these 24 wonderful stories explore!
Here is a short poem from one of the 24 stories in this book "That Glowing Penny" -
“Happiness is odd
Found in mysterious places
Where you least expect it
Like a glowing penny on the floor
Not everyone can find it
And sometimes you lose it
Some find it in small things
Others see it in large things
If you cling to it
You’ll make it through
Because
Happiness is odd”
These young writers have nailed it. Each story has it's own flavor and take on the world. Highly recommended to readers of all ages and genres!
Here is a short poem from one of the 24 stories in this book "That Glowing Penny" -
“Happiness is odd
Found in mysterious places
Where you least expect it
Like a glowing penny on the floor
Not everyone can find it
And sometimes you lose it
Some find it in small things
Others see it in large things
If you cling to it
You’ll make it through
Because
Happiness is odd”
These young writers have nailed it. Each story has it's own flavor and take on the world. Highly recommended to readers of all ages and genres!
August 22, 2018
“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.” - Willa Cather
North Carolina author and editor Pawan Mishra presents the young winners of the Lune Spark Short Story Contest and shares this fine array of talent with us in this excellent introduction to budding talent. As their mission states, ‘ Lune Spark Books aims to encourage children to engage in creating writing. We work with parents and young writers to promote creative fiction writing to help identify talent. We run annual competitions and creative writing classes and publish short stories from the young writers.’
The stories are indeed short but powerful and cover the spectrum of themes that magnetize audiences. There are twenty-five stories in two categories of writers – 10 – 12 Years and 13 – 15 years assuring the stories have broad appeal to the categories designated. That is not to say that adults are not included in the directed audience: many of the stories will find avid fans in the adult reader category! Their futures of these young writers seem bright indeed.
The stories included are Hephaestus, Aphrodite, and Dwayne Johnson, That Glowing Penny, 汤 (Soup), Help, French Fries, The Tide Pool, My Name Is Campbell, Flames of Freedom, Don’t Judge Me, Frost, Survival, Death’s Darkness, Fostering Relationships, An Interesting Opponent, The Pen, The Ship of Steel, A Tennis Ball, Speaking Up for Each Other, It’s Never Us and Them, The Grass Is Greener on Earth, Mountain Paws, Lost and Found, Always Beautiful, and Here to Play.
The book is only 98 pages long but it contains as much entertainment as a much larger anthology. Radiant works from a very fine collection of young writers. Recommended reading
North Carolina author and editor Pawan Mishra presents the young winners of the Lune Spark Short Story Contest and shares this fine array of talent with us in this excellent introduction to budding talent. As their mission states, ‘ Lune Spark Books aims to encourage children to engage in creating writing. We work with parents and young writers to promote creative fiction writing to help identify talent. We run annual competitions and creative writing classes and publish short stories from the young writers.’
The stories are indeed short but powerful and cover the spectrum of themes that magnetize audiences. There are twenty-five stories in two categories of writers – 10 – 12 Years and 13 – 15 years assuring the stories have broad appeal to the categories designated. That is not to say that adults are not included in the directed audience: many of the stories will find avid fans in the adult reader category! Their futures of these young writers seem bright indeed.
The stories included are Hephaestus, Aphrodite, and Dwayne Johnson, That Glowing Penny, 汤 (Soup), Help, French Fries, The Tide Pool, My Name Is Campbell, Flames of Freedom, Don’t Judge Me, Frost, Survival, Death’s Darkness, Fostering Relationships, An Interesting Opponent, The Pen, The Ship of Steel, A Tennis Ball, Speaking Up for Each Other, It’s Never Us and Them, The Grass Is Greener on Earth, Mountain Paws, Lost and Found, Always Beautiful, and Here to Play.
The book is only 98 pages long but it contains as much entertainment as a much larger anthology. Radiant works from a very fine collection of young writers. Recommended reading
August 17, 2018
Lune Spark is doing such an amazing job in helping young writers. This collection tells you why! Children of today are going to become bestselling writers of tomorrow. Effort like these, if nothing else, will make sure we get many bestselling writers in future for the support they received as kids.
Now to the book. All the stories are very well written - my favorite ones are the story of metal worker falling in love, by Poem Schway, and the story of a girl who's abused in her own very home. I couldn't put this down and finished the book in one sitting. Now kudos to all the young writers - you've done very well.
Now to the book. All the stories are very well written - my favorite ones are the story of metal worker falling in love, by Poem Schway, and the story of a girl who's abused in her own very home. I couldn't put this down and finished the book in one sitting. Now kudos to all the young writers - you've done very well.
September 1, 2018
This was amazing!!!
September 14, 2018
This is such a fantastic book - the young writers are so talented, it's unbelievable!! I loved each story.
January 14, 2019
Great collection of stories by middle grade readers for middle grade readers.
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