Some sci-fi, a good amount of poetry, and a touch of creepy dark forests. Writing from a Chaotic Mind is the latest look into what teens are thinking (and writing) in 2025. Learn the latest fashion must-haves, meet an orphaned girl living on a blue moon, and reflect on how free the United States really is.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “Each fall and spring, 826 Valencia's WRITING & PUBLISHING APPRENTICES, a group of writers aged 13-15, gather to spend a semester honing their craft. Armed with spellbinding prose and limitless imagination, they face their fears, share their dreams, and escape to new worlds.”