Due this week

General Writing. Send in your best work – poems, short stories, essays. (Feel free to do it throughout the year, but this gives you a deadline.)
Deadline: Oct. 10.

To submit to Newspaper Series

  • Log in. (Click "Not a YWP member?" to create an account.)

  • Click "create content" and create an ENTRY
  • Fill out "title," "author name, school & grade" and "prompt" boxes.
  • Paste story into "body."
  • Click "Submit." You are done.
    NOTES: Your account email must be accurate; a "blog" entry must be resubmitted as an ENTRY to be considered.

Characters

Kitty-Cat Ingemi's picture

My favorite character is Lara. Her Romanian accent is hilarious! I would hate to be friends with her because her accent makes all of her words sound strange and dragged out. This would annoy me easily. So we wouldn't make good friends. Althought it would annoy me greatly, The reasons I think she is hilarious is that she has a shy sense of humor. She is very quiet and kind of sticks to the side lines. When her and Miles (pudge) start dating, she seems to open up a little more. (pg.126) This page makes me laugh histerically! Because I'm sure it happens in real life. If you don't know what I mean, then read the bottom of pg.126!

Favorite character

My favorite is the Colonel (Chip Martin). He is funny, serious, trust worthy and very smart. My favorite trait about the Colonel is that he won’t rat on anybody, even if they aren’t his friends. He believes in getting even by playing tricks on people. If I had the creativity and ability to think of some of the pranks they play it would be so easy to get revenge on people. I would want the Colonel as a friend because he looks out for his friends and sticks up for them. If I wasn’t his friend I would not want to mess with him and make him mad because I would never know what he was going to do and when he was going to do it.

Favorite Character

My favorite character so far is the Colonel. I like him because he’s a real casual guy and really doesn’t care what people do or think of him as long as they’re not pissing in his shoes. He also prides himself on getting kicked out of basketball games. The Colonel is a short muscular guy with a shock of brown hair. He is 5 foot nothing and “a scale model of Adonis”. He also smells of cigarettes. I see him as a comical character.

Jackie Potter's picture

Favorite Character

My favorite character at the moment is Alaska, Even though she died, she still stuck to what she believed in. I admire how she doesn't take crap from anyone and not only sticks up for herself, but for every one of her friends. For example during class when Pudge gets sent out of the room for not paying attention. Alaska speaks her mind and sticks up for a friend. That are two very good qualities that I would want to have in a friend.

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