Mr. Glazer's Class

[Editor's note: This essay by Roxane Park, Grade 8, Crossroads Academy, is a response to Banned Books Week, which is this week.]Words Worth Saving: John Steinbeck's East of Eden

Apple Picking

I reach up to the branch above
With apples thumping on the ground.
Bright green and small consumed with love
Some brown but good still all around.
They’re sour and crunchy to the bite