I have been a Girl Scout since Kindergarten, and I am now a Junior in High School. I started this project at the end of my Freshman year, and I wanted to do something that had to do with literacy. I love reading and I love books. I love reading stories about interesting people.
The authors and editors are all students or alumni of McLean High School. They are listed at the beginning of each section. Editors worked on fact-checking and catching other errors.
Angela Y.: Page 4
Anna L.: Page 11, Page 12, Page 49, Page 50 (ward), Page 51 (house)
Asuka Forest: Page 30, Page 31, Page 32
Daphne L.: Page 16
Elisabetta A.: Page 47, Page 48, Page 50 (Checkup)
Emma S.: Page 17, Page 18, Page 19
Hana K.: Page 34, Page 35, Page 36, Page 38, Page 39, Page 40, Page 41
Jean Bascom: Page 28, Page 29
Karina B.: Page 44, Page 45
Kyra M.: Page 26
Levana G.: Page 4
Liz N.: Page 24, Page 25
Lydia H.: Page 22 (portrait)
Madeleine H.: Page 14, Page 46
Maggie McDermott: Page 51 (Ionia, Money Jar), Page 52 (Ionia), Page 53
Melody W. : Page 4
Natalie N.: Page 4
Sascha R.: Page 37, Page 42
Seoin L.: Page 10, Page 22 (band), Page 27
Tatum. K: Page 52 (house)
Woobin C.: Page 20, Page 21
Dwayne Lawson-Brown is Experience Developer at the Anacostia Smithsonian Museum.
Sharon Dennis Wyeth is a writer and Anacostia native who recently published the American Girl Doll Book Evette: The River and Me.
Theresa Vargas is a journalist for the Washington Post
Christina Barron is the editor of the KidsPost section of the Washington Post.
Violette Taylor is a librarian at Garrison Elementary School in Washington, D.C.
Laura Kravis is a reading interventionist at Garrison Elementary School in Washington, D.C.