28. Chelsi Thomas, 9

• PlayStation 2. "I want the Kingdom Hearts game. You control characters from movies and you fight with them."
• Rocket Power for GameBoy Advance.
• A gumball-making machine.
• A digital camera.

29. Annie Auchincloss, 12

• A big shopping spree.
• Concert tickets. "I like Jennifer Lopez and Pink, but I love Avril Lavigne."
• A no-homework night. "A month would be great."
• Yankees tickets and Liberty tickets.

Denzel Jacobs   (Photo: Noah Sheldon & Kate Lacey)

30. Denzel Jacobs, 10

• Yu-Gi-Oh! cards.
• PlayStation 2 games.
• "My own recording studio."
• New Jordans, "but my parents don't want to pay $100 for sneakers."

31. Gen Katz, 11

• Yu-Gi-Oh! cards.
• Legos. "Challenging ones where you control them from the computer."
• A computer with Pentium 2 or 4. "I can't use the software that moves the Legos on my computer now, so I just build them and wait."

32. Jacob Dannett, 11

• GameCube.
• "A book called Hoot."
• "A publisher. I write stories, mostly nonsense. I'm trying to write chapter books now."

33. Jordan Samuel, 11

• PlayStation 2.
• Limp Bizkit and blink-182 CDs.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! cards.

34. Veronica Hoglund, 12

• Eminem concert tickets.
• Ultra Love jeans.
• A laptop.

35. Ashley Wayans, 9

• A white Barbie with a pink dress.
• There's a Hamster in My Lunchbox and other books by Susan Clymer.
• A new art kit. "I got a kit last year, but my brother and sister started using it. It only lasted two days. Everyone got to use it except me."

36. Katie Schwartz, 11

• Gift certificates to Barnes & Noble. "I want to have a library."
• Mr. Deeds and Lord of the Rings DVDs.
• Light blue Pumas with gel soles.

37. Zohran Mamdani, 11

• Books.
• FIFA 2003 and SimCity 3000 computer games.

38. Ivee Gedell, 12

• Another ferret.
• "A new wrist. I crashed into my sister when I was snowboarding."
• Christina Aguilera, the 8 Mile soundtrack CDs.

39. Laura Profeta, 12

• A dog. "A small one that doesn't shed or bark too much and can live with our guinea pig and hamster."
• Avril Lavigne's CD.

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