I hate birthdays. Birthdays taste of burnt toast and sour milk and smell of parched grass and frozen ..
I wish I were invisible. Wearing Harry Potter’s Invisibility Cloak or Frodo Baggins’s Elvish ..
I start my day before sunrise, throwing on running clothes and laying a pinch of semaa at the eastern ..
I live in a tilted house. A bowling ball on our living room floor would roll past the couch, past the dining ..
Lee Noel had been coming over to our house in Featherstone Creek since he was in first grade. We’re ..
Being nice is like leaving your door wide-open. Eventually, someone’s going to mosey in and steal ..
IN MY FIFTEEN YEARS, I HAVE STUCK MY ARM in a vat of slithering eels, climbed all the major hills of San Fran ..
My story starts last weekend on one of my favorite holidays of all time-Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year ..
I’m the tallest fourth grader, which means I never get to stand in front. My shoulders are squished ..
The house is quiet. I’m pretty sure Mom and Dad are asleep. Slipping my hand underneath the pillow, ..
As if there isn’t more than enough on my mind by the time we get to the ballpark for our first ..
Dad says punk rock only comes in one volume: loud. So when I slipped my headphones over my ears, I turned ..
CHAPTER 1 The firefly hovered over the back of my hand, then landed— slowly, effortlessly. I could ..
Salva’s father was a successful man. He owned many head of cattle and worked as their village’s ..
“Better,” Lily’s mother said, stepping back and blocking Lily’s view of the salesgirl. ..
A very wise person once told me that there are two roller coasters in America-one for the poor and one for the rich. ..
“Your friends will like those.” Zohra points with her eyebrows toward a stall filled with ..
One dark season, Grandible became certain that there was something living in his domain within the cheese ..
A FACE AT THE WINDOW Gramps says that I am a country girl at heart, and that is true. I have lived most ..
When I was smaller, I asked my grandfather how Wolf Hollow got its name. “They used to dig deep ..
