Desert Living

This newcomers guidebook to desert living was written and illustrated by area students from kindergarten through high school. Delightful drawings, insightful stories and poems all put together in a book that will be given to anyone moving to our community ... or who has lived here less than 2 years. This was part of a project by the Southern Arizona Writing Project in the department of English at the UA that brought together dozens of teachers and hundreds of students.

Nina Trasoff, Councilmember Ward VI, Edwin Rivera, 8^th grader, Kristin Almqiest, Director of Arizona Office to Governor Janet Napolitano, and Kitty Reeve, Project Director for Desert Living is Different!

Kayla Yager, a 4^th grader is being interviewed by Fox News.

Kitty Reeve and Ryan Thandi

Anthony, a young author signs his work.