Sofia Perez, a 13 year old in eighth grade, is part of Ms.Skiba’s journalism class. This class documents the important things the community wants to know about, and she helps alongside her classmates. She loves her family and her two pet turtles, that are red-eared sliders. She is very creative and wants to become an illustrative artist when she grows up. Her favorite season is summer and finds school enjoyable as well as swimming. She also has an older brother and a younger sister, and loves to work on her hobbies like drawing, painting and art in general.