8th and 12th grade graduates take some time to think about what comes next. As they share stories from school, from life, and offer advice, these students write down what is most important to them whether that be art, LGBTQIA identity, protest, and pollution.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “In this Young Authors' Book Project, I Closed My Eyes and Imagined: Visions for a Better Boston, the graduating classes from the Margarita Muñiz Academy and the Rafael Hernández School paint a powerful, quirky, and authentic vision of what students want to see in their future and in the future of their city.”