Brian was only thirteen. He was asleep by one A.M.
Brian and Lizzie were both really smart. Really quick. Plain basic types like Janie and Reeve could always get cornered.
A bag lady of indeterminate race pushed her belongings in a cart, on top of which she had balanced a broken-legged plastic chair and a bag full of returnable bottles she was plucking out of garbage ca...
The Indians, it seemed, had paused here on their journey south from Canada to go hunting before the battle. Under the snow were stored the carcasses of twenty moose. Eben had to count them himself bef...
She had no choice but to go to him. She set Daniel down. Perhaps they would spare Daniel. Perhaps only she was to be burned.She forced herself to keep her chin up, her eyes steady and her steps even....
The letter, crumpled in her purse, felt as large as any Rocky Mountain.
She had spent the summer forgetting to be English--and Tannhahorens had spent the summer forgetting the same thing.
She had read a million times that you could not make your boyfriend into something else, so fine—Kathleen would make herself into something else.
I have this terrible fear of fractions, Christina told him. ... Miss Schuyler thinks she can conquer it. Also a fear of running out of popcorn. Nothing could be worse than going to a movie and they do...
Somebody was tapping Mercy in the ribs. It couldn’t be Tommy, who pounced, or Sam, who jabbed. It wasn’t John, who kissed, or Benny, who snuggled. Whichever brother it was had wet the bed in the night...
I will be brave, she told herself. I will stay strong. she said to Him. She had never needed Him more, but in this cold white wilderness, she could not feel His presence.The snowball fights ended.The...
From the river they walked back to the town, and the boy was taken into the fire circle outside the powwow’s longhouse. Here he was placed on the powwow’s sacred albino furs. A dozen men, those who we...
Eben was looking at Sarah in the way every girl prays some boy will one day look at her. I will marry you, Sarah, said Eben. I will be a good husband. A Puritan husband. Who will one day take us both...
You have a girlfriend? said Brian. You never told us. I'm not going to tell you now either. Don't tell Mom and Dad, don't tell Jodie, don't tell Bren. Why not? said Brian. Mom and Dad would be thrille...
It was worth going into the water just to get away from Ruth’s nagging. Mercy waded in, appalled by how cold it was. Snow Walker towed her around for a minute and then let go. At first Mercy couldn’t...