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Lenny’s face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.

Lynne Rae Perkins

Lenny’s face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.

Tags: smiling

What can you do? You pick yourself up. You pull yourself together. You move on.

Lynne Rae Perkins

What can you do? You pick yourself up. You pull yourself together. You move on.

About Author
Lynne Rae Perkins (born July 31, 1956) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books.
Her novel Criss Cross, winner of the 2006 Newbery Medal, is a book of vignettes, illustrations, photographs, and poems about a group of four small-town teenagers.
Perkins' picture book Home Lovely was a runner-up for the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. Her novel All Alone in the Universe was named an ALA Notable Book, a Booklist Editor's Choice, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book, and a Smithsonian Magazine Notable Book for Children.
Perkins was born and raised in Cheswick, Pennsylvania, a suburb fourteen miles northeast of Pittsburgh in the Allegheny River Valley. She earned her B.A. at the Pennsylvania State University in 1978 and her M.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1981. She currently lives with her husband and two children in Suttons Bay, Michigan.

This was the danger of sharing your dreams with your parents. If you told them you wanted to learn to play the guitar, all they heard you say was, I want to learn to play the guitar, and then they fou...

Lynne Rae Perkins

This was the danger of sharing your dreams with your parents. If you told them you wanted to learn to play the guitar, all they heard you say was, I want to learn to play the guitar, and then they fou...

Tags: guitar, parents

They looked for one another when nothing else was happening, the way you pick up a magazine or look in the cupboard for a snack. Not exactly by accident and not exactly on purpose. You could go out in...

Lynne Rae Perkins

They looked for one another when nothing else was happening, the way you pick up a magazine or look in the cupboard for a snack. Not exactly by accident and not exactly on purpose. You could go out in...

Their secrets inadvertently sidestepped each other, unaware, like blindfolded elephants crossing the tiny room.

Lynne Rae Perkins

Their secrets inadvertently sidestepped each other, unaware, like blindfolded elephants crossing the tiny room.

The trouble with being too careful about your wishes, though, was that you could end up with a wish so shapeless that it could come true and you wouldn’t even know it, or it wouldn’t matter.

Lynne Rae Perkins

The trouble with being too careful about your wishes, though, was that you could end up with a wish so shapeless that it could come true and you wouldn’t even know it, or it wouldn’t matter.

Whatever her name was, she was pretty. She had a thick, careless braid of chestnut hair, a quick smile, and dark, merry eyes. She wore some kind of a fuzzy lavender pullover, and when she crossed her...

Lynne Rae Perkins

Whatever her name was, she was pretty. She had a thick, careless braid of chestnut hair, a quick smile, and dark, merry eyes. She wore some kind of a fuzzy lavender pullover, and when she crossed her...

Tags: close observation, girl

Over and over and over, Mom and Dad towed them out, turned them around, then let go. The water whooshed them back to shore. The hot sun above, the cold water beneath: it was a feeling you could never...

Lynne Rae Perkins

Over and over and over, Mom and Dad towed them out, turned them around, then let go. The water whooshed them back to shore. The hot sun above, the cold water beneath: it was a feeling you could never...

My dance on the pedestal was my friendship with Maureen. I wasn't sure how I had lost my balance and fallen off. Or whether I was pushed. Everyone around me was trying to get me to dance again. The th...

Lynne Rae Perkins

My dance on the pedestal was my friendship with Maureen. I wasn't sure how I had lost my balance and fallen off. Or whether I was pushed. Everyone around me was trying to get me to dance again. The th...

Many girls at school were infatuated with his shallow athletic splendor and his golden handsome features that were biologically inherited and had nothing to do with the kind of person he might actuall...

Lynne Rae Perkins

Many girls at school were infatuated with his shallow athletic splendor and his golden handsome features that were biologically inherited and had nothing to do with the kind of person he might actuall...

Life was rearranging itself; bulging in places, fraying in spots. Sometimes leaving holes big enough to see through, or even step through, to somewhere else.

Lynne Rae Perkins

Life was rearranging itself; bulging in places, fraying in spots. Sometimes leaving holes big enough to see through, or even step through, to somewhere else.

A good story makes a journey go by more quickly. A really good story makes you forget you are even on a journey.

Lynne Rae Perkins

A good story makes a journey go by more quickly. A really good story makes you forget you are even on a journey.

Tags: travel

I tried to think whether I had ever had a great adventure. I decided that I had. It's all in how you look at it.

Lynne Rae Perkins

I tried to think whether I had ever had a great adventure. I decided that I had. It's all in how you look at it.

I thought Marie could handle whatever came along. I thought of her as someone who did whatever she wanted to. That's what she would have said. She skipped school a lot, and when she did come, no one s...

Lynne Rae Perkins

I thought Marie could handle whatever came along. I thought of her as someone who did whatever she wanted to. That's what she would have said. She skipped school a lot, and when she did come, no one s...

I know I'm still young and there's a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that's wrong, that I'm not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and...

Lynne Rae Perkins

I know I'm still young and there's a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that's wrong, that I'm not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and...

His fingertips lightly and unintentionally grazed her face and her ears, and Debbie’s don’t-get-in-trouble self felt itself making room for her alert-alert-something-new-is-happening self.

Lynne Rae Perkins

His fingertips lightly and unintentionally grazed her face and her ears, and Debbie’s don’t-get-in-trouble self felt itself making room for her alert-alert-something-new-is-happening self.

Tags: romance, teenage love

He was thinking that maybe love was like starting a fire with two sticks. You've always heard that it's possible, but how likely is it?

Lynne Rae Perkins

He was thinking that maybe love was like starting a fire with two sticks. You've always heard that it's possible, but how likely is it?

He tried to ignore the feather of longing that tickled his heart. But it kept tickling. Because he hadn't quite made up his mind to stay here.

Lynne Rae Perkins

He tried to ignore the feather of longing that tickled his heart. But it kept tickling. Because he hadn't quite made up his mind to stay here.

Good-bye, ocean, said Alix. This was the best time I ever had. You always say that, said Jools. It’s always true, said Alix.

Lynne Rae Perkins

Good-bye, ocean, said Alix. This was the best time I ever had. You always say that, said Jools. It’s always true, said Alix.

Debbie wondered if it was true that there was only one person in the world for every person, and if she had already met him, and she either had to find a way to be around him again someday or always b...

Lynne Rae Perkins

Debbie wondered if it was true that there was only one person in the world for every person, and if she had already met him, and she either had to find a way to be around him again someday or always b...

Tags: romance