6-18-2025 8:21am

Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District Talented Young Authors

Donnella Tilery Editor

There are 152 young authors who attend classes at the Bridgewater-Raritan Middle School.

They are actually full-time students, each a 7th Grader in the Enrichment section of Language Arts at the Bridgewater-Raritan Middle School, who participated in the Novella Project.

The Middle School 7th Grade Language Arts Teachers facilitated this writing project that spanned the entire 2024-2025 school year.

The dividends were delivered over the last week to the Middle School authors and their teachers.

Those dividends were books.

All 152 of them.

Dr. Krsity Shurina, one of the 7th Grade Language Arts Teachers at the Middle School, explained the project.

“This was the first year of launching the enrichment project in 7th Grade English Language Arts as part of a curriculum update that was approved over the summer,” she stated. “The 7th Grade students in the Enrichment Sections of Language Arts began their process to write a novella during the school year. The writers started by finding mentor novels in September and ended by sending their revised and edited books to a publisher in May.”

She further revealed the process.

“With a generous grant from the Education Foundation of Bridgewater-Raritan, the department was able to purchase a copy of each book for the students to keep,” Dr. Shurina said.

The Education Foundation of Bridgewater-Raritan is a charitable organization that includes Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District administrators and teachers, board of education members, and residents of the community. The Education Foundation provides grants, scholarships, and other district initiatives that are not covered by the school district budget.

The average total of pages for the novella books was 60 pages, according to Dr. Shurina.

On Monday, June 16, all 152 young authors had received their books and were awarded medals and congratulations from Suzanne Wooby, the school district’s Supervisor of English Language Arts for 5-8.

The 7th Grade E-Language Arts Teachers who coordinated the Novella project were Megan Alloway, Craig Bogusat, Sue Cacciatore, Bridget Lawler, Lori McLain, Kimberly Pratt, Kristy Shurina, Kelly Schwertfeger, Kelly Zarelli, and Zoe Zylowski.

Here are the Middle Schoo lstudents who particpated in the Novella Project

Ananya Aggarwal

Saivi Ahuja
Rennita Arun
Akshan Arun Bhaskar
Ioannis Athanasakis
Sahishn Sai Bangaru
Brianna Bao
Rowan R Barrett
Hannah Reem Bartlett
Syrus Barua
Aditya Sekharjyoti Baruah
Riaan Bhise
Ava Belle Bossotti
Emilio Edimer Caballero
Aarav Shiv Falgun Chag
Tiasha Chakraborty
Saya A Chandra
Adhvika Chandrasekhar
Reid Thomas Chartowich
Aaliyah Amei Chen
Akanksha Reddy Chevireddy
Medha Ranjith Chingacham
Jack Ryan Conway
Mariella Cornett
Justin Reece Daehnke
Anh Van Dang Vu
Anthony John Santiago Deguzman
Olivia Grace Discenza
Ethan Thomas Dobkin
Ryan Dobkin
Odelia Xirouhakis Dowling
Abha Eswaraka
Alice Shengyi Fan
Ankur Gaba
Tvisha Vishal Gandhi
Rohan Gangoli
Anna Elizabeth Ganz
James Daniel Garcia
Anaya Ghate
Sarvesh Gokul
Vivian Yu Gu
Mayin Veer Gupta
Mikayla Beth Guzman
Zayaan Hanna
Madeleine R Hughes
Chavi Jain
Aarav Jetly
Ishaan Sopan Joshi
Divisha Sagar Kalambkar
Dheshna Ishi Kambala
Kushagra Kamthan
Zimeng Kang
Aania Kartha
Nethra Kathi
Tanvi Khanikar
Avnoor Kaur Khanuja
Robin Kim
Claire Helen Kipila
Natalie Kugelman
Heera Kumar
Brayden Scott Kupperman
Peter Moshe Kursar
Stavya Lakshminarayanan
Ava Grace Lang
Dillon Lu
Evelyn Ruoyun Ma
Adwiti Machiraju
Dhruv Reddy Madduri
Charles Patrick Majowka
Nina Alexandra Maksimovic
Anvith Reddy Marri
Elianna Maria Mascarenhas
Austin Matyas
Ryan Alexander Mayo
Ashlynn Marie McClarren
Joy Sage McCobb
Aanya Mehta
Keya Mehta
Murilo Rocha Fernandes de Mello
Cassidy Elizabeth Miller
Saanvi Mithun
Saanvika Nagineni
Aaryan Nair
Ishan Nandi
Aesha Nangla
Erin Elizabeth Nodes
Nathaniel Paul O'Hara
Allamurat Maksadovich Omarov
Ishika Pandhi
Praket Pant
Arpan Parikh
Ansh Mehul Patel
Misha Desai Patel
Shaan Mittul Patel
Vyom Patel
Nathan Penumudi
Sofia Isabel Pereira
Anirvinya Polisetty
Sririshi Pothu
Anjali Prakash
Rhea Prakash
Logan Steven Preisler
Arush Rai
Aashi Raina
Anjana Ramasamy
Daniel Bayu Rumondor
Rachel Louise Ryan
Trinity D Ryan
John Michael Salvatore
Viaan Salwan
Nikhil Simon Santhosh
Lakshita Saudha
Kalaya Katherine Schraft
Samuel Anthony Scocca
Hermann Sehringer
Srishti Sengupta
Eric Shaw
Aaradhya Singh
Ira Singh
Soumil Singh
Violet Rose Stapley
Sarah Agnes Stasiulaitis
Ethan G Sukhin
Sai Sachin Sumant
Sohom Sachin Sumant
Audrina Tafa
Genesis Katherine Tafur
Sophia Isabella Tawiah
Ketan Satya Tayi
Logan Tung
Anwita Sri Uddaraju
Swara B Umarale
Jannah Marie D Valencerina
Aarushi Sai Veera
Kriya Venkatesan
Praneetha Vinoth Kumar
Audrey Elizabeth Votapek
Aashutosh Vyas
Arielle L Wang
Jake Wang
Nora Lily Wang
Sophia Wang
Alexander Weinstein
Radissa Aurora Wibawa
Lucas J Wong
Pradyumna Yadav
April Yan
Mina Yip
Marshall Chang-Chen Yuan
Audrey Cai Zhang
Jason K Zhu
Isabella Claire Zimmerman