Breakfast on Mars and 37 Other Delectable Essays: Your Favorite Authors Take A Stab at the Dreaded Essay Assignment

Breakfast on Mars and 37 Other Delectable Essays will inspire students to think differently about the muchfeared assignment in elementary and middle schools around the country: essay writing.Rebecca Stern's fifthgrade students were bored to death with essay writing, and the one thing Rebecca needed to inspire themgreat examples appropriate for kidswas nowhere to be found.

Inspired by a challenge, Rebecca joined forces with her friend, social entrepreneur Brad Wolfe, and the two came up with a terrific proposalto gather together a collection of unconventional essays by some of the best writers around.

They have compiled and edited a collection of imaginative, rulebreaking, and untraditional essays that is sure to change the way you think about the essay.Contributors include: Ransom Riggs, Kirsten Miller, Scott Westerfeld, Alan Gratz, Steve Almond, Jennifer Lou, Chris Higgins, Rita Williams Garcia, Elizabeth Winthrop, Chris Epting, Sloane Crosley, April Sinclair, Maile Meloy, Daisy Whitney, Khalid Birdsong, Sarah Prineas, Ned Vizzini, Alane Ferguson, Lise Clavel, Mary Ann Ochota, Steve Brezenoff, Casey Scieszka, Steven Weinberg, Michael Hearst, Clay Mc Leod Chapman, Gigi Amateau, Laurel Snyder, Wendy Mass, Marie Rutkoski, Sarah Darer Littman, Nick Abadzis, Michael David Lukas, Lna Roy, Craig Kielburger, Joshua Mohr, Cecil Castellucci, Joe Craig, and Ellen Sussman.