Chapter 1: Bad Luck Farm Summer 2005 Tyler looks out the window of his bedroom and can’t believe ..
A PROLOGUE In Which I Am Born and Someone Tries to Murder Me The day I came squealing and squalling into ..
Chapter 1: Mrs. Whatsit It was a dark and stormy night. In her attic bedroom Margaret Murry, wrapped ..
In the fall, Molly Lou Melon started school again with a big yellow backpack and a huge toothy smile ..
UNTIL HE WAS FOUR years old, James Henry Trotter had had a happy life. He lived peacefully with his mother ..
Before the baby hippopotamus became known as Owen, he lived with his mother in a group, or pod, with ..
COUPONS My stomach growls. This morning, I skipped breakfast, though not ’cause I want to. When ..
When Goldy Luck was born, her mother said, “Year of the Golden Dragon-very lucky year. This child ..
1963 BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA I couldn’t play on the same playground as the white kids. I couldn’t ..
Rink Bowagon was a boy from the deep country. He lived out past where the blacktop road became a dirt ..
On the first day of school, Suki wanted to wear her kimono. Her sisters did not approve. “You can’t ..
In Ghana, West Africa, a baby boy was born: Two bright eyes blinked in the light, two healthy lungs let out a powerful ..
When I got to the police station they made me take the laces out of my shoes and empty my pockets at the front ..
SHE COMES TO US in winter, leaving behind her sunny house that rested between two snaking rivers. “Her ..
Mom and Dad told me about the divorce at a “family meeting.” I had just turned eight. We’d ..
I whip my head toward the airplane window as soon as Dad scoots into my row. There’s nothing to see except ..
Mazie wants to play outside, but it is too late. “It’s getting dark, Mazie. It’s time ..
The Rustins opened their home to important African American leaders like W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon ..
All that summer, we swam and read comics and read books and argued about them. Dante had all his father’s ..
Soon a large crowd stood in the grassy field outside the castle walls. “The king will arrive in a few hours,” ..
Michael loved to play basketball. Every Saturday, he followed his older brothers, Larry and Ronnie, to the park, ..
