Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pictures.
Once there, the chaplain closed the door and threw his arms around her. Alarmed, she jammed the heel of her pump into his foot. He let go with a howl and she fled. The incident was never spoken of aga...
Jess followed, still trying to figure out why two grown people and a smart girl like Leslie wanted to leave a comfortable life in the suburbs for a place like this. They watched the bus roar off.
It was Leslie who had taken him from the cow pasture into Terabithia and turned him into a king. He had thought that was it. Wasn't king the best you could be? Now it occurred to him that perhaps Tera...
If life is so bad, how come you’re so happy? Did I say bad? I said it was tough. Nothing to make you happy like doing good on a tough job, now is there?
I was quite sure I was crazy, and it was amazing that as soon as I admitted it, I became quite calm. There was nothing I could do about it. I seemed relatively harmless. After
I had so looked forward to her walking. Maud carried her thirteen-month-old sister a few steps away and put her down on her feet. Walk to Daddy, Maud said, and the baby threw out her arms and took the...
Even a prince may be a fool
Ain't 'cha gonna run? she asked. No, he said, shoving the sheet away. I'm gonna fly.
Soldiers on the banks of the canal, they looked carefully to see whether they were Japanese or Chinese so they’d know which pass to pull out.
You save the whales and shoot the people, huh?
We need a place, she said, just for us. It would be so secret that we would never tell anyone in the whole world about it. ... She lowered her voice almost to a whisper. It might be a whole secret cou...
We need a place, she said, just for us. It would be so secret that we would never tell anyone in the whole world about it.
This story is about John, who was a private in the 2nd Georgia Battalion Infantry. I had always been told that John had taken part in Pickett’s Charge, the bloody assault on Cemetery Ridge on July 3,...
She jerked to life, her eyes wide open. Why did that woman give me away? Then it all began to pour out. Why had she been given away? We’d never told her she was a foundling.
One of the young men she had just met had obviously paid for her ride. Her face was red when he came down the aisle. I guess, he said, grinning, if I pay your fare I can sit by you.
Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk about, even to think a...
Jess vio cómo su padre detenía la camioneta y se inclinaba a abrir la puerta para que May Belle pudiera subir. Se volvió. Pequeña con suerte. Ella podía correr tras él y cogerle y besarle. Jess sentía...
It had never occurred to Jess that parents were meant to be understood any more than the safe at the Millsburg First National was sitting around begging him to crack it.
Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned.