Friends tell me trouble’s coming. I ease out of the restaurant onto the sidewalk, gun in my pocket. ..
It is almost summer and everywhere smells like fish, except for right down by the sea where if you hold ..
CHAPTER 1 TOOOO! There was a big puddle of spit on my little brother’s forehead. It was mine. But, ..
It was the kind of August day that hinted at monsoons, and the year was 1774, though not for very much ..
THE HE FIRST TIME I SEEN HER, I got a bad feeling inside. Not like I was in danger or nothing. Just like ..
“Son! Your ears are bigger than baseball gloves.” Manny was a known troublemaker but I still ..
Best friendships were tricky. One day you were in. The next, you were out. At least, that was the case ..
CHAPTER 1 RRRRRR! The sound broke through the pin-drop silence of the classroom. It was the sound that ..
one It’s so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That’s above and beyond everything ..
The drome first came to me in the mirror when I was six. Earlier that day my friend Mario, while hanging ..
I AM ONLY GONE LONG ENOUGH TO GET THE EGGS. Ba had asked me to stop by the Minute Mart after school, ..
Chapter One “A is for Amy who fell down the stairs,” says my best friend, Jenna Davis, as we climb. ..
Father started my English lessons when I was seven. I hated remembering all the rules of English, such ..
We are different from each other. too. Our hair may be brown or blond or red or black. Our eyes may be blue ..
Even the woods are burning. I plunge past the torched byre and hard into the shoulder-deep growth of brambles ..
When Mama first goes away, what I miss most is the sound of her voice. At night, while Papa’s asleep, ..
Big Ed is about to tell it again. He greets all the new ones. He sits them down, tells them about the place, ..
“This movie is lit.” Dan aims his TV remote to start Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. “Chad ..
Tony’s little brother, Linden, was having a bad day at School. To begin with, his tooth hurt. A lot. ..
Pop Pop gave me my very first “Darlene” eight years ago and a brand-new one every year after ..
I talk a lot. Just not out loud where anyone can hear. At least I used to be that way. I’m no chatterbox ..
