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Eyes Full of Sky - Selected Works from the COMPAS Writers and Artists in the Schools progam
Eyes Full of Sky
Edited by Stephen Peters with illustrations by Chloe DeJong Hilden.
Selected works from the COMPAS Writers & Artists in the Schools program, representing some of the best work created during writing and music residencies throughout Minnesota during the 2006-07 school year.
©2007, 118 pages; $14
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The Wind Tells Me Stories
The Wind Tells Me Stories
Edited by Julia Klatt Singer with illustrations by Usry Alleyne.
Selected student writings from the COMPAS WAITS program, represents some of the best work created during writing and music residencies throughout Minnesota during the 2005-06 school year.
©2006, 89 pages; $14
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My Mind Can See in the Night My Mind Can See in the Night
Edited by Sara Fox with illustrations by Marie Olofsdotter

Selected student writings from COMPAS' 2004-05 anthology of student writing, with poetry, short stories, memoirs, plays and songs by 90 students.
©2005, 135 pages; $14
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Sing to the Dust Sing to the Dust
Edited by John Minczeski with illustrations by Teresa Cox

Selected student writings from the COMPAS WAITS program, represents some of the best work created during writing and music residencies throughout Minnesota during the 2003-04 school year.
©2004, 139 pages; $14
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In My Hand Forever

In My Hand Forever
edited by Sheila O'Connor

Anthology of student writing includes selected works from the Writers & Artists in the Schools program. Includes an introduction by Sheila O'Connor and a note to teachers
©2003, 90 pages; $14
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Way to the River Source

Way to The River Source
by Judith Katz and John G. Mentzos

A community's journey to supporting diversity in schools through family and community involvement. A novelized report by COMPAS.

©1997, 94 pages; price $10
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The Creative Current

The Creative Current: Rural Arts as a Community Building Strategy
How thirty-four small Minnesota towns used the arts to strengthen their communities. The book tells the story of the Minnesota Rural Arts Initiative, a unique ten-year partnership of COMPAS and the Blandin Foundation of Grand Rapids, Minnesota.

©1999, 31 pages; price $12
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Creating the Link

Creating the Link - Connecting New Artist Residency Models with Education Standards
This publication takes an in-depth look at artists and teachers working together to make the creative process an integral part of the classroom.

©2000, 78 pages; price $14
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