Arlington resident Amina Luqman-Dawson was recently honored with the most prestigious prize in children’s literature for her book “Freewater.”

In a year of protests and social isolation, teen authors are processing the news through their own stories and illustrations.

“You can’t take an adult seriously when he’s debating you over why Twilight vampires are O.K. with sunlight. If my parents had read ‘Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing’ at the same time as I did, I would have looked into boarding school,” writes Joel Stein.