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Tangerine Moon – A New Magazine by Middle School Studentsby Blake GroobyA new magazine is hitting thestores of Santa Cruz. It’s written bymiddle school students. I chose tointerview the creators of“Tangerine Moon” because it is agood magazine. I was able to read apreview copy. Even though it is amagazine for girls, anyone can getit. It is a variety magazine with afocus on community. Here is theinterview.Q.) Why did you choose the name“Tangerine Moon?”A.) We brainstormed for a longtime and finally came up with thename.Q.) What’s in the magazine?A.) Lots of articles, coupons,reviews, and fashion.Q.) Where can kids buy themagazine?A.) Bookshop Santa Cruz.Q.) What can we look forward toin the fall edition?A.) Lots of new quizzes, thingsabout community, and fall stuff.Q.) I see you’ve been on TV.Was it good for the publicity?A.) Yes, very good.Q.) Do you plan on doing themagazine for a long time?A.) Yes.If you want to buy this magazine,go to BOOKSHOP SANTACRUZ and get it for $4.95.CREATORS OF“TANGERINE MOON”Kelly McCandless, SophieMcCallum, Maggie O’Hara,Athena Greenleaf, MorganEidam, Gina CondottiA new magazine by and forMiddle School Students!England and USA Differencesby Adrian SamsonTo many children growing upin America, England ismysterious. Their primary wayof understanding England isoften through the media. Themedia, however, isn’t alwaysaccurate.One of the first things I noticedmoving from England to theUnited States was thedifference in Kit Kat bars.Here, the packaging is orangeand the bar tastes more likepeanut butter. There thepackaging is red and the bartastes more like sugar. I laterfound out that here, Kit Kat isowned by Reese’s, and there,Kit Kat is owned by Nestle.Kit Kat isn’t the onlydifference between thecountries of course; there arealso many differences in theway schools are structured.Here, we only wear uniforms inprivate schools. There, they wearuniforms in all schools.Here, we have elementary school,middle school/junior high school,and then high school. There theyhave primary school, secondaryschool, and then college.In school in England, there’s lesshomework, but it’s not as great asit sounds, because there arelonger school hours. There arealso fewer holidays, and summervacation there is half as long as itis here.A more famous difference is “teatime.” Tea time is basically nodifferent than a mid-day snack.Sometime in the afternoon, someEnglish people have a scheduledsnack. Tea time is enjoyedprimarily by those in the upperclass and lower class, while mostpeople in the middle class don’toften participate.There are some significantdifferences between England andThe United States. However, thesimilarities between England andAmerica are much greater than thedifferences highlighted above.____________________________Praiseworthy:Our journalism class would like tooffer special thanks to KathleenHoward, our school district’sformer superintendent, for hermany hours working with usformatting this first edition of ourschool newspaper.We would also like to thank MarthaMendoza, Pulitzer-Prize-winningjournalist, for speaking with usabout her experiences in the worldof journalism.Thanks also to Heather Martin forsupporting us as we werecompleting our stories.Page 3 of 8