I stared at the glossy image. Six-year-old toothless me holding Mom’s hand as white waves broke ..
Everybody in gym class is talking. We’re like a chicken house with thirty biddies going cheep-cheep-cheep ..
1° MOMS HAD WARNED ME I’d get deep in trouble one day. I shoulda believed her. Today was that ..
A Siamese cat crouched on a tree branch, peering down at Gaby with brilliant blue eyes. It cried out. ..
“Why can’t we just call her Aunt Lola?” Miguel asks his mother. Tomorrow their aunt ..
Sitting on my stoop when I was five, not like Timmy or Johnny, or even Mark. Though I wanted a name like ..
A SOFT MEMORY I don’t remember the mountain where I was born or the place where I first crawled. ..
She came home from school today. Skipping and dancing. Humming a song under her breath. Clutching a dream ..
Before being terminated, I was Indian. Now I certainly don’t mean I was killed off or anything. ..
Crowded in the corner of where Fruitless Mountain and the Jade River met was a village that was a shade ..
The first time I broke down in front of anyone was in the middle of the evil place: Walmart. All the people ..
SOMETIMES PARENTS ARE creative when they punish you. Maybe making you squeeze into the same shirt as the little ..
I’m idling in my car even though I pulled into my driveway at least ten minutes ago, nervously ..
Since Hamra had no idea about the thing that was waiting for her in the jungle, at 6:57 a.m. on Tuesday, ..
“It’s patbingsu weather.” Maya almost didn’t hear her grandmother over the whir ..
Is hard to be five. I’m little no more. Good old days are gone. ‘Bye one, two three four. ..
CHAPTER ONE Our new house smells like lemons. Mom says it’s because the previous owners cleaned ..
Dear Mama, Amil says we have to go through our secret path every day. It’s too risky to walk on the street ..
Imperial Valley, California March 1965 REMOLINO I sometimes think about how I lost my voice. I could ..
When I look back, I can’t help thinking that maybe I could have prepared for what was coming. But of course, ..
Everyone tried to warn Onini that Anansi was trying to cheat him, but he just smiled quietly and said ..
So Anansi went walking, walking, walking through the forest until he came to Lion’s house. Lion ..
Chapter 2 Triangle Friends We have a break right after second period, and it’s the first time of the day when ..
Join Lola as she learns what it means to be a big sister, in the third installment in the loveable Lola ..
