Most 826 anthologies collect a semester, perhaps a year of student writing. This beautifully put together volume highlights fifteen years of determined LA youth authors. Hear from community leaders and students from every neighborhood as they speak to wide-reaching family roots, making ceviche, problem solving, pereverance no matter what, and the meaning of blue nail polish.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “The Sun Was Trying to Tell Me Something is a compendium of student writing from 15 years of 826LA’s work in high schools, including our annual flagship publication, the Young Authors' Book Project, and our partnership publication with the Roosevelt High School Ethnic Studies program. The anthology includes introductory essays by Dolores Huerta, Phil Jackson, Antonio Villaraigosa, Eric Garcetti, Alice Waters, and more.”