Perfectly balancing space for authors' words and words on the authors themselves, Because No One Else Could Do It is a must-read. Moving photography sits alongside poetry and memoir from the lives of these students. Read of heartbreak, sitting on grass, the feel of a muffin, Mackinac Island, and soccer worldwide.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “The student writers and photographers at Ypsilanti Community High School have explored identity, place, belonging, social (in justice, the terrain of their lives journeys, and their ambitions for the future. In partnership with their teachers and 826michigan volunteers and staff, these young artists have expressed their insight and experience through images and stories with the power to delight, instruct, and transform. We hope you will carry this book with you.”