epub, mobi |eng | 2017-03-03 | Author:Lauren Wolk

“Can I help you?” asked a nurse coming out of the nursery just as I meant to go in. Her uniform was so white it made my eyes hurt. “I’ve ...

epub |eng | 2012-05-31 | Author:Sarah Rubin

I sit very still on the bus ride home, not because I am trying to quiet bad feelings and not because I am tired. I sit still because I don’t ...

epub |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Shelley Pearsall

THIRTY-ONE Officer Billie showed up at the hospital wearing a pair of white pajamas. At least, that’s what Arthur thought at first. He was in the waiting room with the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ronald Kidd

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN That stupid rooster. He woke up at sunrise every morning, which was fine during the week. On weekends, though, I liked to sleep late—or as late as Mama ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-09 | Author:Laura Amy Schlitz [Schlitz, Laura Amy]

Monday, August the seventh, 1911 I have had an adventure! It was late last night and I was in the library trying to read the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. That ...

epub |eng | 2004-06-11 | Author:Martin, Ann M.

“Do you think they’ll really do it?” asked Holly as she and Ellie stepped off the school bus on Thursday morning. Ellie sighed. “Yes.” “But do you think everyone will ...

epub |eng | 2010-05-26 | Author:Stuber, Barbara

CHAPTER 15 August 12, 1926 Dearest Iris, Your father was tinkering with our new cash register this morning when he threw up his arms and exclaimed, “Celeste, write Iris. We ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Jenny Moss

CHAPTER 29 The pink sunrise leisurely stretched along the horizon. We were drinking hot coffee and sitting on a concrete table on the beach, quietly watching. “I can’t believe they ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-18 | Author:Jennifer L. Holm

Whenever Archie comes back from a sales trip, it’s like Christmas. He buys perfume for Mama—Je Reviens in a tall blue glass bottle that looks like a skyscraper—and pretty things ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-07 | Author:Avi

24 On Saturday, I got to the library a little before nine. Kat hadn’t arrived. Soon as the doors opened, I went in and headed for the front desk, glad ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Dan Gutman

TOTAL DARKNESS. Why does this always have to happen to me? I was kicking myself. I couldn’t believe that I had screwed up again. Why can’t everything go smoothly, just ...

epub |eng | 2010-01-31 | Author:Kathryn Lasky [Lasky, Kathryn]

The scullery maid was always the first up in the morning and the last to bed in the evening. There had been a great deal to clean up after that ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2000-09-30 | Author:Richard Peck [Peck, Richard]

When we got there, Grandma was out in the yard, standing over a thing made out of lumber in the shape of a teepee. Nearby was a pile of stove ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-17 | Author:Kristin Levine

27 DECK THE HALLS Every year in December, Mary Lou and I linked together colorful rings of paper to hang on the tree. Since we couldn’t do it at home ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Thomas Meehan

Nine A few minutes later, the limousine drew to a halt in front of Bergdorf Goodman, at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, and Miss Farrell led Annie into the elegant ...