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• Nonfiction > Heroes
  Bobber

  

  By JKaufman, Ada, MI

  The menacing example of nature’s wrath, the Delta River—with its raging rapids, thumping boulders, and punishing weather—merely serves as a speed bump for the greater wrath of Bob. His blood pumping through his veins, his veins bulging in his arms, his arms pulling through the pain, my uncle d...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Four Years More

  

  By JKaufman, Ada, MI

  Five boys, together, all smiling. We have done it, middle school is over. The group delights, four years more await. Today we see that picture, they notice only that we have grown. I, too, notice, but I see more. These boys will not be together, not tomorrow, not always, not for four years...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Reflection

  

  By JKaufman, Ada, MI

  The handsome, unshaven boy is someone he has never spoken to before. He is not the boy who had sat in this exact spot when he saw his friend nearly drown, nor the same boy who had kissed a girl for the first time, weeks before. No, this boy is a stranger. One of the boys sits on a crudely-chopped ...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Clifford the Dog, Caps and Gowns

  

  By JKaufman, Ada, MI

  Getting off the bus, I searched frantically for a Clifford the big red dog puppet, the signal that I had found Mrs. Popiel and her first grade class. But as I took that first of many steps on my pivotal, capricious “real school” journey, I experienced the first of many bewilderments that are a K...