Children's Poetry Competition 2023
We are delighted to announce the winners and poems chosen for the anthology:
Reception to Year Three
Winner:
‘Only Foxes Should Fear Dragons’ by Erin
Wyatt
Highly Commended:
‘Memory Meadow’ by
Ruby Armitage
'The song of the birch' by Maya Pal
‘A Swan Poem’ by
Elliot Houghton
Years Four to Six
Winner:
‘Cinnabar’ by Tabitha Hodsoll-Kutereba
Highly Commended:
'Fox' by Oscar Otomo Humphreys
‘So
You Gave Me A ‘D’’ by Athena Papoutes
‘Wokering Walley-go-Way’ by George
Jeronimidis
Years Seven to Nine
Winner:
‘A Planetarium’s Myth’ by Laura Houlder
Highly Commended:
‘Red Sails (Helen of Troy)’ by Mabel
Bailey
'White Crow' by Pihu Munjal
Years Ten to Thirteen
Winner:
‘Us Park Street Kids ‘ by Hattie Norman-Bird
Highly Commended:
‘for the children
made of glass’ by Lily Brady
'Where the Teeth Used to Be' by Helena Ramsden
Winning School
Meridian Primary School (Rocking Horse Room)
Poems selected for the anthology
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Finding
Myself (In Regards to You)
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Lottie Atkinson
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Memory
Meadow
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Ruby Armitage
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Red Sails
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Mabel Bailey
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A Whisper
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Florence
Barnett
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Plains
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Toby
Barnett-Jones
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The Hollyhock Field
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Hope Barrett
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See the
Easter Bunny Blow
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Carlotta Belton
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Is light the
Enemy
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Eera Bhalla
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Stegosaurus
Poem
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Maisie Bowler
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For the
Children Made of Glass
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Lily Brady
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The Wind is
a Bully
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Oscar Buckley
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Under the
Microscope
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Charis Chan
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Morse Code
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Oliver Chen
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Help the Earth
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Isaac Chia
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Teachers
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Josie Cleminson
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Written in
January
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Ozzie Coleman
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My Big
Sister
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Arthur Colville
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The Four
Seasons
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Pascale Connors
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Separation
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Romilly Connors
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A Monochrome
world
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Henry Coulter
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Seas
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Zoe Davies
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Bonfire
Night
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Charlie Forbes
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Night Hawks
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Arabella Frewin
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Tree
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Clement Garrard
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Shackaty
Shack
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Leonora Faith
Goldsmith
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Like a Rose
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Naomi Gordon
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Minecraft
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Chris Graham
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So Dizzy
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Rose Greiff
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The Bully
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Edward Hartlebury
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The
Hammerhead Shark
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Richard He
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Family
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Amaya Hickman
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Cinnabar
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Tabitha
Hodsoll-Kutereba
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Little Devil
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Benjamin Holden
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A Swan Poem
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Elliot Houghton
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A
Planetarium's Myth
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Laura Houlder
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Deep Sea
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Emily Hunt
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I can See
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Serena Isted
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The
Wockering Walley-go-Way
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George
Jeronimidis
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Ice Cream
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Bob Jeronimidis
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In the
Middle of the Ocean
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Lena Johnston
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A
Sustainable Path
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Benedict
Kazi-Fornari
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Thomas Tasta
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Clara Kelly
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Animals in
my Room
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Nuri Kenes
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Glass
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Ilay Kenes
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My Security
Bubble
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Rosie Kersley
Williamson
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Spring
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Andrew Kong
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Speaking Up
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Daniel Koskinen
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The Rampage
of Spelling in my Mind
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Ingrid Lang
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Shivani
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Tayyibah Latif
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I Never
Meant to Fall in Love
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Atlas Leader
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My Music
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Sophia Lozano
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Only You
Understand
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Faith Lydall
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The
Wilderness
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Tatiana
Macaulay
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The Lime
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Mondrita
Mahdiat
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Your good
Friend Hope
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Elisa McKenzie
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Journey of a
Plastic Bag
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Ayla McKenzie
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Law of the Jungle
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Martha
McWilliam
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Death's
Curse
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Chloe Menton
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Young at
Night
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Natasha Misra
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White Crow
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Pihu Munjal
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Cats
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Edward Murphy
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morals of
fighting
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Imogen Nathan
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Us Park
Street Kids
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Hattie
Norman-Bird
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Two
Different Things
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Gaia O'Donnell
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Falling Into
Spring
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Connie Osborne
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What Happens
in Spring
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Heidi Osborne
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Fox
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Oscar Otomo
Humphreys
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So You Gave
Me A 'D'
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Athena Papoutes
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If your soul
was a lily-pad
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Beth Parker
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The Song of
the Birch
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Maya Pal
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My Reality
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Skyla Paslo
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The Blood of
a Woman
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Marla Payne
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Oooh! The
Delights of Lemon Curd
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Jessica Poupart
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Change
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Matilda Quash
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Tomorrow's
Philosophy
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Sara Qureshi
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Where the
Teeth Used to Be
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Helena Ramsden
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Oren
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Oren Reichattar
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Panda
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Ena Richardson
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Eleven
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Keziah Rigby
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The
Wallabies
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Alex Rolfe
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An
Elephant's Freedom
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Bella Russell
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Naïvety
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Rhea Sadasya
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A Spider
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Leo
Scott-Bartram
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My First
Tennis Camp
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Max Sharp
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Inside my
Head
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Connie Shean
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Not Alone
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Théo Spencer
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Spring
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Arabella Stell
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Mythical
Rainforest
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Rafe Sudlow
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My Brother
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Aaryan Thevan
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Excuses
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Oliver Thorpe
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Lilium
Convallis: An Elegy for her Majesty
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Conrad Van Wyk
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So I run and
I run and I run
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Eve Ward
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Fa(r)ther
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Isabelle Wei
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Skylark
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Beatrice
Wiseman
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A Shopping
List
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Aisling Wood
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The Scope of
Death
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Isabella
Woodall
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Defeated
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Tehilla
Woolfson
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Notions
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Mexi Wright
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Only Foxes
Should Fear Dragons
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Erin Wyatt
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Summer
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Alex Xu
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Tree of Life
and Love
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Eileen Yaryar
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Raksha the
Mother Wolf
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Sofia,
Jake, Liepa, Hafza, Zach, Daisy, Zaisha, Sumaia (Meridian Primary)
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