My Epic Quest begins in fifth grade, right around the time I realized that despite its name, Ms. Paradise’s ..
I’ll never know for sure when I was born. Not exactly. On the morning Osh found me, I was just ..
“Guys, we should go in. It’s a school night.” “Shut up, Charlie.” “Why’d ..
I’m in the water. Floating on my back, staring at the bluest sky there must have ever been in the history ..
1975: Year of the Cat Today is Tét, the first day of the lunar calendar. Every Tết we eat sugary lotus ..
There is a new girl arriving in Sycamore. Her hair is in two Afro buns with big white bows, and she is wearing ..
WHERE’S Papa going with that ax?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table ..
It had happened the year Bronze turned five. He’d been swept from his bed in the middle of the night ..
If people were houses, Lola Celina, my grandmother, would be a hot-pink Painted Lady-one of those fancy ..
The smoking star lit the night sky as women wept, holding their babies close. Men kept quiet while the old and the weak ..
Most people in America cannot pronounce my name. On the first day at my new school, my teacher, Mrs. ..
You know how in Bollywood movies, people sing and dance on mountaintops when they’re in love? I wonder ..
Girl Lily Jo is not my name. Yet. But I’m working on that. That’s why I’m in the closet. ..
At the end of that summer, my dad got a job as an assistant fryer at a Chinese restaurant in California. ..
One Kiana Roubini It’s no fun riding to school with Stepmonster–not with Chauncey screaming ..
Rose was sitting at the table in the little log house on Rocky Ridge Farm, finishing a letter to Grandma ..
1 Jasmine I’m a month away from starting my junior year of high school, and I just found out my father ..
My mother is a bird. This isn’t like some William Faulkner stream-of-consciousness metaphorical ..
Nadine and I are sitting crossed-legged on my bedroom floor, chewing grape gum and making friendship ..
“There it is!” Charlotte leaned against the deck railing, the wind whipping her honey-brown ..
1. And You Wonder Why We Get Called the Weird Watsons It was one of those super-duper-cold Saturdays. ..
The Tower’s searchlight circles the Gangnam district of Neo Seoul at a uniform rate. At the center ..
