Lucy hugged my uncle as she gushed about how wonderful it was to see him playing bridge again. Then she got all flustered and apologetic because she had used the word see. It’s all right, Lucy, Trapp...
How can he be your friend if you don't like him?
He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.
But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When yo...
Stanley took a shower—if you could call it that, ate dinner—if you could call it that, and went to bed—if you could call his smelly and scratchy cot a bed.
Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. you'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it.
Normally Trapp would just sit back and let the opponents argue, but I think he was offended by her use of the word fixed. She had just called him stupid and lucky. Worse, she blamed his supposedly luc...
Myron had named him Oddly. Myron had named him oddly. Is
Friends always break even.
Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up.
It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather!
Everyone in his family had always liked the fact that Stanley Yelnats was spelled the same frontward and backward. So they kept naming their sons Stanley. Stanley was an only child, as was every other...
Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second.
Chalkers sat at his desk in the back of the room—last seat, last row. No one sat at the desk next to him or at the one in front of him. He was
Cautiously,
After all, if you’re not scared, then there’s nothing to be brave about, is there?