We are thrilled to partner with StoryShares for this year's 2024 fall contest, and we are looking for young authors to write a new ending for our 8th-grade cliffhanger fiction series Hacked! The StoryShares annual contest runs from September 18, 2024, to January 13, 2025, offering writers the chance to win up to $5,000 and get published both digitally and in print. Categories include decodable chapter books, microfiction, and nonfiction stories about global change-makers. This contest is free, open internationally, and aims to foster literacy improvement worldwide. Winners will be announced in April 2025.  Hacked! A five part fiction series for Middle School! Test your creativity by writing an alternate ending for this action-packed fiction series. Follow Fatima Bennett and her two best friends, Julia and Felipe, as they storyboard, code, and program their new app for a gaming contest. Then all of a sudden, a yellow triangle with a black skull and crossbones flashes on everyone's screens. 
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It means they’ve been hacked!” another student screeched.
The auditorium erupted in shouts and yells. “HACKED? !” “How could this happen? !” “Our apps! Are they really gone?” a frantic voice cut through the unruly crowd. Fatima, Julia, and Felipe looked at each other, slack-jawed and in disbelief. “Oh, no!” cried one student. “Now what?
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