Good thing the plane had seat belts and we’d been strapped in tight before takeoff. Without them, ..
Over the blazing camp-fires, when the wind moaned eerily through the thickets of juniper and fir, they ..
There is a saying that the eyes tell everything about a person. At a store, my father saw a young Jewish ..
I’m Keena Ford, and this is my notebook. This notebook belongs to ME ONLY. Right now it is writing ..
The wolves of the Avalik River ran in and out among the musk oxen. Their ruffs rippled like banners. ..
I dream of dogs. I dream of warm, soft backs pressed against mine, their deep musky smell a comfort on long, ..
SEPTEMBER 4, 1:05 A.M. HE’S LEAVING Kevon He’s in the corner of the room, throwing stuff ..
It is a funny thing, memory. It is a trick we play on ourselves, to keep connected to who we were, what ..
Alex Maki is in church when his world shatters. It’s a typical Sunday. The pews are filled with ..
When I first visited Poland, sometime around 2009, I thought it would be a vacation. My brother and sister-in-law, ..
The only person left alive on the island was a baby girl. The tired men who had come there to pick up furs ..
When I was growing up in Hobart, I had a map of India on my bedroom wall. My mum-my adoptive mother-had ..
The best part of Vik’s story is that I’ve never heard it before—which means he knows how to keep ..
BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR, Kentucky was a slave state and Ohio a free state. In the 1800s the Ohio River was less ..
The three sisters-Lojayn, Hanin, and Jawa-knew they lived in a special place, an ancient city where history ..
Alaa loves his city of Aleppo. He loves its narrow alleys and covered bazaars selling pistachios, jasmine ..
Gila River was the place where my eight-year-old sister, Kimi, learned to go to the bathroom with a white ..
—–Internment Camp, Near Vann’s Plantation October 20, 1838 Almost five months after we had been ..
I was a good detective. I solved mysteries all the time. But I didn’t have to be a detective to know ..
For a while, things went fine. But then, during the Oompa Loompa song, everything started going wrong. ..
“Hey, Darius.” Chip grinned at me. Cyprian Cusumano is one of those guys who always seemed ..
Nia jumped into the front seat and threw her backpack on the floor. Her eyes looked like they were about ..
Death-Cast is calling with the warning of a lifetime-I’m going to die today. Forget that, “warning” ..
When I turn thirteen, I will have a Bar Mitzvah (bar MITZ-vah) ceremony. Bar Mitzvah is an old ritual. ..
