Published: February 13th, 2009 12:23 AM
Last Modified: February 13th, 2009 12:23 AM
As part of their effort to raise funds for a trip to Ghana this spring, a group of Anchorage school students is selling copies of a book they have written. "Magical Masks" links Africa and Alaska as it tells the story of two children who travel from their African birthplace to Angoon, in Southeast, and Shishmaref on the Bering Strait. The kids are enrolled in the Home Base After School Program, a privately-sponsored program supporting students in grades 4-8 in math, technology and science.
Program coordinator Shirley Mae Springer Staten said the students wrote the book themselves and did all of the art in it as part of the program's reading and writing curriculum, with assistance from Shirley Nelson and Dianne Barske.
The students will sign copies of the book from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday at GrassRoots Fair Trade Store, 1300 W. Northern Lights Blvd. (Near Middle Way Cafe and REI).
Books can be purchased for $10. The children plan to leave March 6 for their 14-day trip.
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