Meet the folks who slip out of history books like they're playing the Kansas City shuffle. In this fascinating collection of stories, Paul Kirkman has dug up all sorts of head-scratchers: how did Jesse James rob a bank with John F. Kennedy, and how could a Beatles concert in the 1960s fail to make money? Watch a cow explode in a kitchen, frogs rain down from the sky and dogs pay for a public library system. Learn how Harry Houdini was trapped in a phone booth, why Clark Gable haunted street corners in a clown outfit and what kept Kansas City in Missouri.

826 Valencia is delighted to share this incredible anthology of writing from students ages six through eighteen. This volume is jam-packed with humor, drama, and everything in between. The writing is powerful, inspirational, sometimes silly, and often transformative. We hope that you spend some time with the important student voices showcased in this collection, because we know that these voices have the power to change the world.