M (10-12). Portraits.

These kids live in the in-between -- not little kids anymore and not yet teenagers.  They are self-aware but not too self-conscious.  Their skin still glows, they work earnestly on their school work, they still think that you will always get a half-hour recess.   I can vividly remember that glory of being at the top of elementary school.  For the first time, I wanted clothes for my birthday instead of toys, I bought pop music and listened to it with my friends in the cafeteria and I realized that not everybody liked me.  I felt on the brink of something big.