“I will be brave” thought Despereaux. “I will try to be brave like a knight in the shining ..
Mickey and his dad were the first to arrive at Eddie Murray Field for the Blue Jays game. The sight of the old ballpark, ..
YOU are deep below the streets of Paris, France, in the twisting network of tunnels known as the Paris ..
The Sheltons followed Danny down toward the gym floor. When Cam and Eric got to the bottom, Eric said, ..
Emily was the door holder. My friend Michael who never ties his shoes was the line leader. The art room ..
We believe in luck. The good kind and the cruel. The kind that graces and the kind that cripples. The kind ..
I’m in the water. Only my eyes are visible, and I blow bubbles. To ensure the rest of me stays ..
Chapter One Nate I’d recited this blah script more than fifty times. “Welcome to the Zombie ..
1 AT THE START OF EVERY SCHOOL year Mom and Dad try to get me all pumped up by saying things like “it’s ..
Richard is watching the clock above the whiteboard. Four minutes until his weekend officially begins. ..
“Mother,” I say, “Uncle Ralphie says he’ll hire me and Frankie to work at the store ..
Nikki isn’t playing right. She’s holding her paddle wrong and she isn’t keeping her eye on the ball. ..
The children of Room Ten (except Ralph Buyer, who’s absent again) at Carver Elementary School are standing ..
“Look at all the stuff there is to do,” Mia Robinson said, stepping out of the boys’ ..
SCHOOL WAS OVER AND THE SUMMER MORNING stretched ahead like a soft, sweet piece of bubble gum. It was still ..
LIKE COOL, SWEET MILK ON A BOWL OF CRUNCHY cereal, the Thursday morning breeze splashed the crisp, dry leaves ..
There is something strange going on. Something in the air. Deja feels it as soon as she enters Room Ten at Carver ..
The Earth on Turtle’s Back Before this Earth existed, there was only water. It stretched ..
ZIGGY AWAKENED TO A BRIGHT SPRING SATURDAY morning. The sunshine sparkled through his open bedroom window, ..
ON A CONTINENT OF MANY SONGS, in a country shaped like the arm of a tall guitarrista, the rain drummed ..
Nine o’clock this morning: I strapped on the Lady Tin-Yin’s violin case and glared at my father, ..
Martina Josefina Catalina Cucaracha was a beautiful cockroach. She lived in a cozy street lamp in Old Havana ..
