Our annual Summer season Studying Contest invitations youngsters all over the world to inform us what New York Occasions items get their consideration and why. This week, the ninth of our 10-week problem, we acquired 1,263 entries. Thanks to everybody who participated, and congratulations to our winner, Ming-Li Sabina Wolfe, in addition to to the runners-up and honorable mentions we honor beneath.

Scroll down to check out the number of matters that caught the eyes of our members, together with the Maui wildfires, the Pittsburgh synagogue trial, a current paper that reveals ladies have been hunters too, and why “Barbie” and Taylor Swift received the summer time. You may learn the work of all of our winners since 2017 in this column.

(Word to college students: In case you are certainly one of this week’s winners and would love your final identify revealed, please have a mum or dad or guardian full our permission kind [PDF] and ship it to us at LNFeedback@nytimes.com.)

Winner

Ming-Li Sabina Wolfe, 16, from Brooklyn, N.Y., chosen the obituary “Astrud Gilberto, 83, Dies; Shot to Fame With ‘The Woman From Ipanema’” and wrote:

In 1951, my grandfather’s household moved from China to Brazil. He left after one 12 months to check within the U.S., however his mother and father stayed till 1975. When “Getz/Gilberto” was launched, my great-grandparents mailed the report to my grandfather, which he performed whereas writing love notes to his girlfriend — my future grandmother.

When Gilberto launched “The Astrud Gilberto Album,” his mother and father despatched it once more, however this time to my married grandparents’ dwelling in Connecticut. From then on, their Sundays have been spent cleansing to “Corcovado” and “Dindi.”

This summer time, 58 years later and two years since my grandfather’s loss of life, my grandmother came around my mother and me. Their report participant had sat in our closet for many years, however when she arrived, we dusted it off. She sat and performed these data on repeat. Like Farber talked about, Gilberto can “evoke pictures of summers imagined or misplaced.”

The opposite evening, my grandmother, mom and I have been strolling within the East Village after we heard the acquainted chords of “Agua de Beber.” I spotted then that music is transient, not singularly tied to lonely moments subsequent to a report participant or cool summer time nights surrounded by household. By means of artwork, the residing and the useless are misplaced in a dance. My ancestors communicate to me by way of the artwork of a useless singer, whereas I repeat their errors.

Currently, I’ve been questioning, “What’s a life’s work?” It’s one which retains folks alive and Gilberto has raised three generations.

Runners-Up

Allen W. on “Transfer Over, Males: Ladies Have been Hunters, Too”

Dingzhong on “O’Shae Sibley’s ‘Expression Was Turned Into Resistance’”