We had a few minutes before the day officially started, so I decided to get my desk in order. I placed ..
Her lunch box looks different. It’s packed with home-cooked Cantonese food. Sometimes it smells ..
On the day I was born, Papa announced me to the village: “Here is my son Loo-WEE!” The neighbors ..
It’s been more than four hours since we left our home in Kuala Lumpur to get to this shining, anonymous ..
Kavi laughs as much as the others for the rest of the evening, but I sense she is feeling anxious about ..
“What are you guys talking about?” she asks. I wait for Soojin to answer, expecting her to say something ..
When Mama tucks me in at night, her eyes tell me I’m a miracle. In those moments when she’s ..
We come from stardust, our bodies made of ancient elements. We come from single cells evolving over billions ..
I was the only brown person in class. So when we talked about slavery, I could feel every eye staring ..
Darryl loved third grade. He especially loved music class and writing. “Great job, Darryl!” ..
“I want you to know that in the last days and hours of my life you inspired me. You filled me with ..
“Oh dear,” Linus Baker said, wiping the sweat from his brow. “This is most unusual.” ..
I got my morning chores and schoolwork done at lightning speed so I could get to the boards–maybe ..
Words and ways of thinking are changing all the time as old, limiting beliefs transform and evolve. What ..
We all have different abilities. Some of us can sing and play sports. Some of us can see, hear, touch, ..
Red is a rainbow color. Green sits next to blue Yellow, orange, violet, indigo, they are rainbow colors, ..
Climbing the stairs, I headed to the bedroom in the back of the house that I shared with Eddie and Billy. ..
“Rise and shine, sunshine,” its my wake-up call. But just for a moment, my eyes cling to last ..
The bus smelled of mildew, machine oil, and sweat. As the suburban Atlanta sprawl disappeared behind ..
“April, I know you’re excited, but we have a whole week ahead of us before we visit Grammie. ..
Abdul loved to tell stories. He told one about the high-stepping kids who collected donations in boots. ..
Children come to live in America from many different countries. And for many different reasons. Some ..
The aged Indian woman and her granddaughter pulled the fish they had netted onto the shore. Back and forth ..
I like telling made up stories, Misaabe thinks. Can the real ones be just as good? So, the next day, ..
The end of everything starts with a buzz. You know the one the insecty buzz that makes your heart beat ..
