About Charlie Osborne

Age: 12
School: Creekside Middle School
Favorites: Sport teams: Colts!!, Houston Dynamo, Chicago Cubs.

Interests: sports, video games, reading, playing with my dog, building with Legos, eating, and animals. Sport teams: Colts!!, Houston Dynamo, Chicago Cubs.

Hobbies: Activities: soccer, tennis, basketball, playing with friends.
Favorite Color: green, yellow
Favorite Book(s): Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Favorite Movie(s): Ratatouille
Favorite Food: steak and steak sauce
Favorite YPress Story: Only Child

Stories by Charlie

One is the onliest number

By Charlie Osborne, 11, Zoe Hayes, 18, Keenen Brannon, 13

Zachary Bowman, Sam Jacobi, Drake Jellison, Brooke Sawyer and Tyler Sharpe are among a trend- setting group these days. Each of these Indianapolis youths is an only child, and families such as theirs are the fastest-growing family group in the country. According to the U.S. Census, the percentage of women having only one child rose from about 10 percent to 23 percent from 1980 to 2000.

Full-court pressure

By Austin Golden, 15, Charlie Osborne, 12, Alesha Peterson, 17

Spencer Fields once kicked a star tennis player off the North Central High School team, even though the coach realized then that it meant the school would likely lose a state tennis title. Why? Because the kid was poisoning the mood of the team by putting too much pressure on everyone.