Whitney Young teacher's 1st novel wins top award

Rising at dawn to write every day for eight years. Having to lop off 150 pages from your manuscript because the writing isn't quite working. Shedding tears in the assistant principal's office because you're spending 40 hours a week teaching, 40 hours a week editing your book -- and you have no life. But after all that, Whitney Young Magnet High School English teacher Brigid Pasulka got to hear Whitney junior Rachel Bowlus say this about her first novel: "I really liked it. . . . It was one of my...

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