Voices From the Heights

Voices from the Heights is an anthology of works from at-risk students at innovative award-winning North Heights Alternative School in Amarillo Texas. The stories are often gritty & personal but these young writers are courageous creative & talented. about this book and school in this article: amarillo/stories/050408/fea_10069474.shtml Bruce Beck Am Globe News: Many of the writers in Voices found a safe haven at North Heights Alternative School and are not shy about telling how they ended up there and their amazement at what they found when they arrived - a caring nonjudgmental staff that looks beyond the surface to the potential that lies beneath. The children whose writings populate Voices are young single mothers children of single-parent households liberals conservatives idealists cynics pro-President Bushies anti-President Bushies drug-users former drug-users friends of drug-users the children of drug-users. They are us. Read more