High school students are thoughtful and wise and raw and sort of wrenched open, and these books let you in on that process like a secret, and maybe remind you of when you were wrenched open, and maybe open you up to the perspectives of young people, and maybe make you wiser or more compassionate or just bring you back to the world, our actual, sunlit, improbable world, from wherever you have gone.

826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting under-resourced students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.

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