As part of the 2023 Annual Awards Breakfast with James Patterson, he gave the kids the first line of a short story. This is how they finished the story. The first line is “Let me tell you what really happened. Everybody got it wrong, and I mean everybody.”
Palm Beach Public Elementary School
Hadley Kate Barnes Hinson
Rell Clemente
Leila Gonzalez – Those Innocent Eyes
Ann Large
Connor Skillestad
Camille Zambrano – The Unlucky Ones
A.W Dreyfoos School of the Arts
Yelaine Aguilar – Garbed
Yemaya Gaspard
Nico Nasse – The Deal
Palm Beach Atlantic University
Ariane Campbell – The Truth Stains
Grace Cram – The Tempest of Errors
Kira M. Dewey – Snakeout
Brody Eldridge ‐ So, How is this Ending?
Sarah Pouliot – The Hidden Treasure of Alice Barlowe
Mikayela C. Smith – Clueless
