Preface: The Perfect Dog In the summer of 1967, when I was ten years old, my father caved in to my persistent ..

My grandmother saw the emperor cry the day he lost his golden dragon throne. She wanted something to remember ..

Chloe was the coolest person I’d ever met. She was tall and thin and had elegant long fingers and pointy ..

Why Here around sunset mama fatheya comes to get me i tell the office she is my grandmother & does ..

I looked out my window, trying to soak up the view. If I craned my neck, I could just about see the grassy ..

There are billions and billions and billions of people in the world. But you are the Only YOU there is! And the world ..

September 2, 1919 Russia My Dear Cousin Tovah, We made it! If it had not been for your father, though, ..

“It’s Batty’s fault,” said Skye. “It is not,” said Batty. “Of ..

“Go tell Dad we got to get going,” Jason commanded. He might have been only a year younger, ..

Sometimes I like to stand with my feet pressed to the pavement of a city and feel it breathe. And sometimes ..

The first real memory Nori had was pulling up to that house. For many years afterward, she would try to stretch ..

“Why can’t we go to a church that lets women wear pants, like Titus’s church?” ..

CHAPTER ONE March 6 They’ll probably be polite-crisp as a soda cracker on the outside, hard as day-old ..

I like to walk early in the morning, before I begin my chores, even in this crisp November weather. I use my birch ..

PROLOGUE Every town has its share of secrets. And when whispered by children in the dead of night, some ..

After two years of sneaking up the fire escape and stealing down a hallway of old people’s apartments ..

1 The Empty Chair There used to be an empty chair at the back of my classroom. It wasn’t special- ..

The one good thing about the ride to school is that I can have a little privacy. No one ever sits with ..