epub |eng | 2020-12-21 | Author:Maya Chhabra

Spreckels Lake was one of Margaret’s favorite places in the city. She and Betty met up by the artificial lake when they could to dangle their feet in the water ...

epub |eng | | Author:Gennifer Choldenko

We hear his car before we see it. His windows are rolled down; the Indian talk-radio station he loves to listen to is chattering in earnest. “Harpreet,” Niko whispers as ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sharon Arms Doucet [Doucet, Sharon Arms]

School started up again after the long winter break, and Mademoiselle Sonnier cracked the whip on us harder than ever. I would try to concentrate on the words she wrote ...

epub |eng | | Author:Amanda Zieba

The children settled into their seats quickly and ate their dinners on their laps as the train chugged out of the station toward Colorado. Charles stomach hurt, thinking about the ...

epub |eng | 2009-04-15 | Author:Jenny Moss

15 “Is your behind sore?” asked Miranda. “Put your mask back on,” I told her as I fixed my own. “And go to sleep.” I shifted to my side in ...

epub |eng | 2021-03-01 | Author:Juliet Rosetti

Chapter 21 "Might be a while before the rope burn fades away," Mr. Tikas said, rubbing salve that smelled like roofing tar into my neck. He and two practical nurses ...

epub |eng | 2018-07-24 | Author:Mary Downing Hahn

* * * The police came sooner than we’d expected. We heard their sirens and saw their flashing lights before they’d even turned into the driveway. Four cars and an ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-26 | Author:Brian Herberger [Brian Herberger]

Twenty Words If Miss E. meant for the flight in the duster to change me in some way, it didn’t work. Like going back to school after discovering that Miss ...

epub |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:Helen L. Wilbur

Mrs. Bishop starts to come for a little while every day. She knows everything about plants and flowers, even their names in Latin. She tells me that my name in ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-14 | Author:J. Patrick Lewis [Lewis, J. Patrick]

“Lippy Randolph? That brat in my class? Maybe he took it.” “Lordie, what is all the fuss? That doll’s seen better days.” “You’d be in a tizzy, too, if it ...

epub |eng | 2004-10-15 | Author:Norma Jean Lutz [LUTZ, NORMA JEAN]

After the pageant, there was yet one more week before Christmas vacation. Mandy could hardly wait. What a welcome break to be away from Queen Anne School from Christmas until ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-23 | Author:Carol Lynch Williams

I saw it in the far corner of the lake. That light. Past Grampa when he told me to go on home and I’d gotten delayed by my own drowning. ...

azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-07-22 | Author:[email protected]

Chapter 9 Maggie walked on air as she made her way upstairs to Harry and Yoko’s spacious apartment on the second floor of the dojo. She would spend an hour ...