Come find out what the hidden secret really is! Super powers, night-time mysteries, and evil villains provide ample creativity that these student authors run wild with! Meet vampires, assassins, robot-dogs, fizzing sodas, and alien threats.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “THE HIDDEN SECRET is a collection of speculative and imaginative fiction writing from the tenth grade students, ages fifteen to seventeen, at June Jordan School for Equity in San Francisco. After exploring short stories from the likes of Cherie Dimaline and adrienne maree brown, and Walidah Imarisha, these young authors created their own worlds, focusing on theme, character, setting, dialogue, and narrative structure. 826 Valencia's volunteer tutors worked with students twice per week for six weeks. The resulting writing is immensely creative, thrilling, and mind-bending. The ordinary becomes extraordinary, cyberdogs rule the planet, the promise of immortality causes betrayal, and is traveling through time ever a good idea?”