“There are new friends in the cellar, Anett”. Mama said when I woke up. “Time to take breakfast ..
We are joy! igniting the world, like stars caliente and bright, like trumpets blaring at midnight! ..
The skin i’m in is just a covering. It cannot tell my story. The skin i’m in is just ..
“Tell us about Saint Lucia’s Day,” Anna said. She sat her doll on her lap as though ..
Kirsten clasped Nora’s hand in hers. Now she remembered clearly that she had felt exactly as Nora ..
But the cold seeps under our blankets, through the soles of our moccasins, and I see Grandmother stumbling ..
I can’t sleep tonight. I’m too excited! Because tomorrow.. me, my mom, and my big brother, ..
His body can scream, cheer, laugh, or cry. Feelings are good to express all the time. His body can choose ..
Everyone sat around me in a big circle and Mr. Menard handed me a large sack tied with a pretty ribbon. ..
In Vietnam We sat in an Internet Café And wrote electronic postcards. Hi, Mom, I wrote. Wish you were ..
“Where were you?” she says. “We lost because of you!” “Um, I told you. ..
I see my mother and my baby sister. Strike one! I see my uncle Ethan and my aunt Agnes. Strike two!! ..
“Let’s get rid of them,” said Tatyana. “I’ll bang these pots together. ..
When training finished and Coach Clarke walked over to talk to one of the parents, Manu ran up to me. “Just ..
What begins as a slow, distant glow grows and grows into a tired train that clatters down the tracks. ..
The morning sun blares through your window like a million brass trumpets. It sits and shines behind your ..
CHAPTER ONE NYA WAS NOT a good goatherd. The sun had barely broken over the trees as she pulled Zvezda ..
In Brooklyn in the summer not so long ago grown-ups always had someplace to be or some kind of work to do, but the minute ..
I didn’t want to turn to see if anybody was looking at me, but I couldn’t help it and I saw Mama ..
It was the day of the big race. Jim was excited. He loved race day. The animals headed to the starting ..
In Grandfather’s workshop the fire was already crackling inside the brick stove. Later, it would ..
The lion sleeps. He dreams he is in a field of flowers. The flowers are as big as the sun. The flowers ..
Katie laid the thick book on the floor, and everyone knelt for a closer look. The dictionary was a tattered ..
A man climbed aboard with a spotted dog. CJ gave up his seat. “How come that man can’t see?” ..
