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2003: Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.


Hatching
Run barefoot over the dunes
to the other side, where their eyes
cannot follow. Taste the dune grass
underfoot, so dry and sharp against
the throat. Let the seam between
water and shore lick the toes.
Above the watch of the sea,
weave between the wind-warped fences
that mark the place where gulls lay
their eggs.

Kate Monagham, 16
Saint Ann's School
Brooklyn, New York


Respect Your Mom She goes to the gym.  (painting)

Katherine Schuler, 17

Palm Harbor University High School Palm Harbor University High School, also known as PHUHS, is a nationally-performing public high school for grades 9-12 located in Palm Harbor, Florida. The school's nickname is the Hurricanes and the school's colors are navy and maroon.

Palm Harbor, Florida Palm Harbor is a census-designated place and an unincorporated community in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 59,248. Culture
Palm Harbor is roughly 45 minutes from downtown St.Petersburg and Tampa.


On these pages, we spotligh some of this year's finalists in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. The awards program was established 80 years ago by Maurice R. Robinson, the founder of Scholastic.

Untitled (graphic design)

Juan Kurtzman, 18

Design & Architecture Senior High School

South Miami, Florida South Miami is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The population was 10,741 at the 2000 census and as of 2005, according to the U.S. Census Bureau is 11,147.[1] History
An early land owner of the area, W.A.


Teen on the Phone (ceramics)

Alison Winzler, 14

Rockville High School Rockville High School may refer to:
  • Rockville High School (Connecticut) - a high school in Vernon, Connecticut
  • Rockville High School (Maryland) - a high school in Rockville, Maryland


Vernon, Connecticut Vernon is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 28,063 at the time of the 2000 census.

Vernon was incorporated in October, 1808, from Bolton. Vernon contains the borough of Rockville, incorporated in January, 1889.


Manchurian Girl

My father was the oldest of three sons. He had a sister, too, but girls didn't count in northeastern China. So we can ignore my aunt and her daughter because they don't exist on our family tree. My grandmother had only three children, all of them sons.

I was the firstborn first·born  
adj.
First in order of birth; born first.

n.
The child in a family who is born first.

Noun 1. firstborn - the offspring who came first in the order of birth
eldest
 in our family. The doctors were not allowed to tell my mother if I was a boy or girl. The Chinese government had passed a law limiting most families to one child. In the remote countryside, where government officials and hospitals were scarce, many newborns ended up at the bottom of a river, wrapped in blankets that doubled as funeral shrouds. Those babies were always female. So doctors stopped telling prospective mothers the baby's gender.

When I turned out to be a girl, my grandmother was furious. Her oldest son, a prestigious Ph.D. from Tsinghua (the most prominent university in the country), the pride and joy of her life, was stuck with a daughter. A girl could only do housework, get married, and bear sons for another family. As far as my grandmother was concerned, I would be a waste of time and money.

But my mother didn't give up on me. Maybe because she was from the south, where people didn't believe girls were quite as useless as Manchurians did. She spent every spare moment teaching me everything she could, from music theory to arithmetic. Maybe she wanted to prove that not all girls were worthless.

When I turned 7, my family moved to America. I left behind the grandparents grandparents nplabuelos mpl

grandparents grand nplgrands-parents mpl

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, aunts, and uncles who had never really cared much about me. But I continued to work and study as if my life depended on it. I needed to prove to the world that I was better than any son my parents might have had. I needed to show that I was worthy of other people's love, just as I had proved that I was worthy of my family's.

Lisa Wang, 15

Lynbrook High School
There is also a Lynbrook High School in Lynbrook, New York.


Lynbrook High School (abbreviated LHS) is a co-educational, public four-year secondary school located in the West San Jose neighborhood of San Jose, California, USA.


San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County.

Sylvia (mixed media sculpture)

Alyssa Smith, 17

NW Cabarrus High School

Concord, North Carolina Concord (kän-kord) is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 55,977. It is the county seat of Cabarrus CountyGR6 and a winner of the All-America City Award in 2004.  
Day One

You're in the kitchen baking cookies:
Just mix the butter and flour together
(she's flirting)
and I can hear your voice, but not your words.
I'm under my sheets in weekend-old clothing
trying to turn myself into Novocain.

Whose shoes are these?

You're talking about my new ones,
discarded, mud-coated, on the couch.
You say we need to clean up after ourselves,
but you can't see the mess you've left us treading
in waist-deep.

Elysha Krupp, 17
The Park School
Brooklandville, Maryland

Daydream

I've been thinking about your stay
at the hospital. I've thought of it
down to the heaviness of wool blankets,
down to the sibilant sounds echoing
through the hallway, but I still can't decide
why, exactly, you're here.
Either an elevator accident from which I rescue you,
heroically, or something internal--a potato-shaped
melancholy growing stoutly in your stomach.
Whatever it is that has brought
us to this bedside, your eyes are like
cupped hands filled with oil, and they hurtle me
into a place where neither of us exists.
I take a snapshot in this windless cosmos before
I understand that you won't read this poem,
that you won't go to any hospital, and that
I will not save you from anything that can
be named.

Jacob Eigen, 16
Saint Ann's School
Brooklyn, New York


Silver Key, Scholastic Writing Awards of New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.


In the Future I Will Be ... (china market & pen drawing)

Alfrena Moosa, 14

Norland Middle School

Miami, Florida

Candy Shoe (sculpture)

Ariana Becher, 17

Ephrata Senior High School

Ephrata, Pennsylvania

Black and White Photo (photography)

Helen Juegens, 18

Palm Harbor University High School

Palm Harbor, Florida
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