Paperclip Revolution

Middle school—the worst place on Earth. Sam Cooper and Bri Arnold are eighth graders living very different experiences. How is it that two people can be in the same school and have such different perspectives on the same things?

Sam said, “​I hate school. I hate everything about it. I mean everything. I hate it on every sensory level. I hate the overuse of the color beige.”

Bri said, ​“Yay! It’s the...