1 when guts fry FOR MY ENTIRE life, La Cocina de la Isla has closed on Sundays. Year after year customers ..
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Three years ago, we moved for the first time in my life. In fact, apart from the two nights at a neighbor’s ..
Today is Tét, the first day of the lunar calendar. Every Tét we eat sugary lotus seeds and glutinous ..
School. Not my favorite thing. Especially the first week back after a glorious summer off. I always dread ..
In my ‘hood, battles is fought every day. . Some on the street corner, some in the park. Warriors ..
I’m late to homeroom. Not because my bus was running behind schedule, or because my knee was flaring ..
That’s my twin brother Isaac and our friends, Tamara and Donté. We go waaaaaay back! We live in the great ..
“This old house makes sleepy sounds, just like you,” said Grandpop. “You yawn. You stretch. ..
There is a forest behind my trailer, through the weeds and under the gate and across the trickly, oily ..
“I am a queen!” savs Ava. Cash waves a magic wand. I pull on a tutu. Then I close my eyes. ..
I was born with water on the brain. Okay, so that’s not exactly true. I was actually born with ..
A NEW FRIEND Day 1-Monday morning “Harper! Come quick!” Harper Raine looked up from unpacking ..
POLICE POLICE November 27, 12:05 a.m. My leg jiggled up and down. I shifted from one bum cheek to the other. ..
Today my family is leaving for a road trip.”Can Gia come too?”I ask. My mom shakes her head. ..
IT’S SIMON BARNES HERE. BUT EVERY– body calls me the Notorious D.O.G., because I might be little ..
I’m finding poetry in the pages of The Great Gatsby this summer. My copy from middle school has started ..
IT WAS THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. ACTUALLY, IT WAS THE nineteenth day of school, but it was my first day, ..
1 Until last summer I thought the only thing I had in common with that whale on the beach was a name. ..
