I loved you before I met you. Before I held you in my arms, I sang you down from the stars. As I searched ..
Every Tuesday night (even after her daughter had a rather difficult and very complicated day), Penelope’s ..
Lilly smoothed on cold cream, then squeezed a bit of buff colored cream from a tube and covered her face ..
Rebecca paid her five cents and giggled her way through the darkened maze. She bumped into black walls ..
“What kind of wagon is that?” Addy asked? “It’s a streetcar,” Sarah explained. ..
“You all go home early for a change,” said Teacher Yun. “Let us teachers take care ..
Every night before I go to bed, Mama combs my hair. I sit between her knees, resting my elbows on her thighs, ..
Spring 1945 Small clusters of pale green needles emerged from the old weathered pine tree in out front ..
I look at myself in my bedroom mirror–the mirror with little pink ballet shoes painted around it, which ..
My papi has a motorcycle. From him I’ve learned words like carburetor and crino, drill and dedication. ..
Peter looked into his sister Susie’s room. His mother was fussing around the cradle. “That’s ..
To Karina’s right, a woman in a black long-sleeve shirt signs everything Karina says. This is the first ..
Papa cleared his throat. “Last I checked” he said,” there was exactly seven cakes sittin’ ..
Hey, want to come over to my house tomorrow?” Dakota asked her friends. I’ll have to check ..
But to my brother, Jackie Jr. and David, and me, the best parts were our new friends Candy, Willie, and Christy- ..
“Don’t talk about my parents!” Amy would have put her hands over her ears if she wasn’t ..
As far as I’m concerned, each day can be sorted into one of two categories: A) A day that goes ..
Nannie was supposed to arrive early in the afternoon. After I’d eaten lunch, I decided to sit on the front ..
Athena watched closely as Aphrodite worked her magic. I don’t know how anyone can beat Aphrodite, ..
Dear Celie, I wrote a letter to you almost every day on the ship coming to Africa. But by the time we docked ..
Ever since she could remember, Momo had wanted a dog. But no ordinary cur, such as she might easily have ..
What luck on such a bright day! The beasts of prey were hunting together in the forests of Somalia. Late ..
Nothing could keep me from baseball. Summers I played with the boys in town. And even in winter I got up early ..
“I remember when your grandpa and I wouldn’t dare to go in the backyard, let alone to a bee farm! ..
Jacob sits on his front steps, tossing a baseball up and down. He stares at a patch of dry grass with ..
