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Silver Specks, collaborative piece

Post Published March 10, 2023 by Laura Moran

The piece that I chose to work with on this collaborative art project is Silver Specks. It depicts what appears to be a brightly colored road, dotted with silver, leading out of a brown, wasted, barre...
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Silver Specks, original

Post Published March 10, 2023 by Laura Moran

Member of the My Start Art Collective Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
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Full Pink Sun Half a Yellow Sun, collaborative piece

Post Published March 10, 2023 by Laura Moran

I chose this piece of art, called “Full pink sun half a yellow sun,” to add to because from the moment I looked at it, I could already see the many similarities between the shapes and colors used ...
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Full Pink Sun Half a Yellow Sun, original

Post Published March 10, 2023 by Laura Moran

I can see landscape and made one like the one here. The balls are like planets, here in Kakuma it is like being in another world from the rest of the world and the sun is in the middle because it is ...
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Book Club Report: The Austen Girls, Lucy Worsley

Post Published December 15, 2021 by Laura Moran

An update from our thirty-first Book Club meeting! On Saturday, September 11th, our final Book Club meeting of the year, we were so very fortunate to be joined by renowned author and historian, Lucy ...
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Book Club Report: When Stars Are Scattered, Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed

Post Published November 4, 2021 by Laura Moran

An update from our thirty-first Book Club meeting! On October 30th, the Stone Soup Book Club discussed When Stars Are Scattered, by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed.
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Book Club Report: Beyond the Bright Sea, Loren Wolk

Post Published September 28, 2021 by Laura Moran

An update from our thirtieth Book Club meeting! On September 25, the Stone Soup Book Club discussed Beyond the Bright Sea, by Loren Wolk. Beyond the Bright Sea tells the story of twelve-year-old Crow...
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How Olive Hendrix Broke Her Leg, May 29, 2021 (Conner)

Post Age 12 Published May 29, 2021 by Laura Moran

How Olive Hendrix Broke Her Leg It is a hot day, but I’m not that hot. In fact, Iam able to pull a sweatshirt over my head and I am fine. Anna’s complaining about the sun makingher hair get all fr...
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The Beggar Woman’s Song (Connor, wkshp #1)

Post Age 12 Published April 27, 2021 by Laura Moran

Writing Workshop #1: On the Word ‘And’ The Beggar Woman’s Song And the beggar woman sang of the wolf’s cold heart, how she prowled in a mist shrouded lane, she widened her slanted yellow eyes ...
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I Was the Fly

Post Age 12 Published February 20, 2021 by Laura Moran

I Was the Fly It started out as just a normal day. I lugged my backpack over my shoulders, wincing as it faithfully dug into my shoulders in the usual rutted pathway.
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Book Club Report: Lord of the Flies, by William Golding

Post Published June 11, 2020 by Laura Moran

An update from our eighth and ninth Stone Soup Book Club meetings! Over the last two weeks in Book Club we have been discussing Lord of the Flies, by William Golding.
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Book Club Report: Out of My Mind, by Sharon M. Draper

Post Published May 22, 2020 by Laura Moran

An update from our sixth Stone Soup Book Club meeting! This week, in Book Club, we began discussing Out of My Mind, by Sharon M. Draper. This is the story of a 10-year-old girl with Cerebral Palsy.
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Book Club Report: The Inquisitor’s Tale, by Adam Gidwitz (cont.)

Post Published May 17, 2020 by Laura Moran

An Update from our fifth Stone Soup Book Club meeting This week, during our 5th meeting of the Stone Soup Book Club (13 May, 2020), we discussed The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, the Three Magical Childr...
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Book Club Report: The End of the Wild, by Nicole Helget (cont.)

Post Published April 30, 2020 by Laura Moran

An Update from our Third Stone Soup Book Club meeting! On Wednesday, April 29th, we were lucky enough to be joined by author, Nicole Helget, as we continued to discuss her book, The End of the Wild.
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Book Club Report: The End of the Wild, by Nicole Helget

Post Published April 24, 2020 by Laura Moran

An Update from our Second Stone Soup Book Club meeting! The Stone Soup Book Club is open to all Stone Soup contributors and subscribers, age 9-13, during the COVID-19-related school closures and shel...
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Book Club Report: Our First Meeting!

Post Published April 17, 2020 by Laura Moran

An update from our first Stone Soup Book Club Meeting! The Stone Soup Book Club is open to all Stone Soup contributors and subscribers during the COVID-19-related school closures and shelter-in-place...
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