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• Nonfiction > Educator of the Year
  Mairi Wohlgemuth • History • Amador Valley High School

  

  By kecat, Pleasanton, CA

  I take AP classes. I do school activities. I am the student teachers count on to revive class discussions, the girl school librarians know by name, and the classmate who never turns in an assignment late. And so I am, supposedly, a good student. But I harbor a shameful secret: I used to despise hist...
• Nonfiction > Memoir
  The Child

  

  By kecat, Pleasanton, CA

  “I hate my mother,” the boy said to me. He spoke with a conviction so powerful that it built itself into a white wall of shells, covering his body and his invisible tears. For a moment, I had the magical power of reading people's faces, and I closed my eyes when I almost saw through those cra...
• Nonfiction > Memoir
  She's the type of girl

  

  By kecat, Pleasanton, CA

  She wears pink nail polish, the kind that you can buy at those ubiquitous chain supermarket for a price about $5.00 each bottle, and perhaps $3.00 on sale. She’s the type of girl who would turn on her lamp at 3am in the morning, and squander loneliness by staring at her own hands and critique ...