Let us begin by reaffirming a core truth: nobody in the Sand Fox Award holds extra voting power. Neither myself nor any of the young colleagues attending our weekly strategy meetings possess a privileged ballot. Each of us casts exactly one vote—no more and no less than any other participating adolescent across the country for […]

Nobody needs to announce themselves or explicitly define what kind of reader they are. Spend just a few sessions together in the Sand Fox Award reading circles, and a young person’s reading habits disclose themselves naturally: through the book recommendations they offer, the volumes they quietly set aside without finishing, and the precise moments where […]