By Fatima Yousuf, Money Smarts Editor and Contributing Writer

I took a deep breath and slowly stepped into the large building as it towered before me. The bell rang, the sounds echoing throughout the halls of my high school.

By Jimena Valdivia, age 11, California

On a scorching hot sunny summer afternoon, inside a red and white farmhouse, lived a greedy pig named Piggles Worth Snort with all his other barn friends, and several birds which just came to eat and drink food inside the barn.

By Samia Alvi, age 9, Texas

Shelters are open,
Fences are broken,
Houses are flooded,
But Harvey won't stop.

By Olivia Gao, age 10, New York

I look out my window,
Seeing the whirly snowflakes
Swirl around in the cold winter air.

By Aryaman Sheth, Photography Editor

Light painting is a technique which was taught to me at a photography course I took in late May. They didn't show me how to do, just told me the way to do it.