Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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November 1, 2010

Sucker for Stickers

By Elizabeth Ames Staudt

In first grade, our construction-paper caterpillars grew based on spelling test scores. Or maybe the reward was phonics-related; I don’t recall precisely why we received cookie-sized circles to add to […]

May 17, 2010

Flea Market Value

By Elizabeth Ames Staudt

There’s nothing like moving cross-country to make you hate your stuff. And there’s nothing like a good flea market to make you forget that you hate moving and you have […]