Hill Students Hope to See Their 'Sweet' Book Published

The hard work is over. Now it’s time to wait and see if their efforts will be rewarded.

For the past few months, “Reading Buddies” in Heather Vrba’s second-grade class and Jennifer Reidel’s fourth-grade class at have been preparing the pieces of a book entitled “A Sweet Deal” for Scholastic’s Kids Are Authors contest.

Working in groups of two or three, students were asked to create sweets that not only taste delicious but also give magical powers to whoever eats them. The artwork depicting each sweet and the accompanying text will serve as pages for the book.

Among the creations: gum blasters, sonic apples, an invisible cookie, flying fruit hard candy, speed-o-licious soda, red explosion taffy, tiger beans and a berry chocobar.

The student artwork and accompanying text will be compiled and sent to Scholastic with great hopes the class’ creation will be selected for official publication and nationwide distribution by Scholastic as the company’s 2012 contest winner. 

Michael Quintana created the book cover and Dotun Adelabu desgned the book’s entry page.