Perhaps the closest the world will ever get to having an 826 California. Students from the North and South of this great state team up talk about a common experience they are all going through. Read about the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of community, family, school, friend, and personal responses. Entries mention interactions with the LAPD, the fresh air of San Francisco parks, transformations of all kinds, distance, and classes on Zoom.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “In 2019, 826 National joined forces with our chapters in Los Angeles and San Francisco to launch the two-year 826 Student Author Program, thanks to a grant from the California State Library Foundation. A Short Story to Tell the Future is the second and final book in this series. This book includes a foreword by California educator Darius T. White. The project’s curriculum, designed by 826 Valencia staff, is reproduced at the end of this book and is also available on 826 Digital (826digital.com), 826 National’s pay-what-you-wish online platform, to encourage educators and students everywhere to write, reflect, and celebrate their own communities’ resilience and creativity.”