Zach Bonner
It all started during Hurricane Charlie. Zach Bonner, then just 6 years old, took his little red wagon
Damien Declerck
“Everything OK, Damien?” I ask him every other time he zips in front of me with a different box of papers, equipment or toys. “Yeah, yeah,”
Allen Vartazarian
“Fame! I want to live forever!” The song “Fame” from the musical of the same name tapped into two things a lot of people want. And 24-year-old Allen Vartazarian recognized that sometimes the quest of
Elizabeth Torres
“We won’t stumble. We’ve come to save the world.” It sounds a little different, but it means the same thing in Spanish: “Hemos venido a salvar el mundo.”
That’s a line from Elizabeth Torres’ poem “Heroes,”
Chelsey Shannon

Chelsey Shannon, 17, writes for the ‘Louder Than Words’ book series for teens.
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Chelsey was 6 years old when her mom died of leukemia. She was 13 when her father was murdered. Desperate, but hard-pressed to








