May – June 2009 Issue

After years of being abused by the woman who raised her, a girl finally got away.

With popular goths and scary short stories, these books are way better than your English teacher’s summer reading list.

Because it’s full of emotion, Ernesto, 17, prefers classical music over everything else.

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of our annual art contest which asked teens to show us what Los Angeles means to them. The L.A. Youth teen staff chose these images as the winners.

Seven months after voters passed Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California, the state supreme court ruled on May 26 that the ban is legal. L.A. Youth writers share their views on the decision.

L.A. Youth writers share how the state budget deficit affects their summer school and college plans.

High school students from several LAUSD schools walked to district headquarters on May 29 to plead for their teachers’ jobs. Read a first-person account from one of the students who organized the protest.

A girl and her family moved out of their cramped apartment, but now her family can barely afford the house they’d always wanted.

My parents always dreamed of owning a home. And I wanted us to have a house too, so I could have my own room. But now that we have our home it hasn’t been the dream we had imagined.