By Mollie Grinberg Claire gulped in paralyzing fear. It was a cloudy Sunday morning. The day that her parents planned to go rock climbing in the southeast, far away from her hometown in Virginia. “Claire, are you ready?” Claire snapped out of her daze. “Yeah, I guess so…”Her mother bent down to comfort her child….
By Melanie Ades All her life, Melanie wanted to be on the gymnastics team. That was her main life’s goal. She went to Aerial’s gymnastics every Friday to practice. She asked her coach if she can be on the team one day. Her coach replied, “You can be on the team if you practice…
By Sondra Bukobza There once was a basketball player who always played offense because that’s what he played since he was little. One day, the coach asked him to play defense because the starting defense was injured. He took the risk and played defense instead of the usual offense. He continued playing defense and, three…