epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Cornelia Meigs [Meigs, Cornelia]

* * * CHAPTER VII THE PORTRAIT OF CICELY If Janet had needed any further clue to Anthony Crawford's character, she would have had it in the sudden trembling terror ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-31 | Author:Jacqueline Dembar Greene

Chapter 10 Snake Killer The tawny cock stood as still as a fence post. Miguel also froze, afraid the slightest movement would scare it off. The bird’s feathers mixed mottled ...

mobi |eng | 2010-06-09 | Author:Osborne, Mary Pope & Sal Murdocca [Osborne, Mary Pope]

The huge boat rocked in the water. Giant chunks of ice smashed against its sides. “Thanks a lot, Annie,” Jack whispered. He shivered in the snowy cold. “We’re not supposed ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Jewell Parker Rhodes

The sun is three o’clock in the sky. The hurricane, says the weatherman, will arrive this evening. Still Sunday I gather all the candles, matches, and flashlights we have. I ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:Geoff Watson

The digital clock on Tom’s bedside table read 10:16. His parents had only gone to bed fifteen minutes ago, but in order to catch the 10:31 Metro-North out of Yonkers, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jennifer Allison

After recovering from their shock, Gilda’s spy recruits seemed to decide that the face on their video screens must be part of the surveillance test—something intentionally created by the Spy ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Joan W. Blos

Sunday, May 22, 1831 On this day, in Boston, they married. I will not call her Mother. Thursday, May 26, 1831 She is less tall than I expected—smaller, even, than ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-24 | Author:Jeanette Winter [Winter, Jeanette]

But the dogs lost the runaways’ scent at the stream, and Molly and James and Isaiah, old Hattie and young George, were not found. They hid all day in the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Nick Bertozzi

THE GLOOM IN JACK’S HEART remained for the rest of that evening as they returned to Hitchcock’s suite and spoke long into the night about what to do next. “I’m ...

epub |eng | 2014-02-05 | Author:Julie T. Lamana

CHAPTER 26 My head was pounding and the sour taste still lingered when I seen Mr. Frank’s ol’ beat-down school bus sitting upside down on top of the building next ...

epub |eng | 2003-01-28 | Author:Lila Guzmán

Chapter Seventeen “Well, this explains a lot,” Lorenzo said. “Why would you pretend to be a man?” Miguel looked him straight in the eye for the first time. “It’s a ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Kerry O'Malley Cerra

. . . . . . . . . . The team is stretching out and Coach pats me on the back as I take the clipboard and stopwatch from ...

epub |eng | 1997-10-15 | Author:Joyce Hansen [Hansen, Joyce]

Wednesday, June 21, 1865 Dear Friend, Sir left for Charleston today. I’m sure he went to find the teacher for us, since there are already schools for black children there. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-24 | Author:Scott Mebus

15 THE BEST-LAID PLANS The dirigible floated above the city, a long, pill-shaped balloon the length of two city blocks with giant fins at the end. As it passed over ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-25 | Author:Scott Mebus

16 SWINBURNE ISLAND Peter Stuyvesant nibbled at a small biscuit his wife had baked him as he rested beneath his pear tree on the corner of 13th and 3rd. He ...