epub |eng | 2024-07-02 | Author:Unknown

12 Every Scout, no matter how strait-laced or even cowardly, has snuck out of a tent with his buddies on a brisk night; it might as well be a merit ...

epub |eng | 2021-09-14 | Author:Jackson, Tiffany D. [Jackson, Tiffany D.]

Fifteen STARING UP AT the ceiling is how I do my best thinking. The vast blankness helps me sort out all kinds of stuff. Like how to chuck my little ...

epub |eng | 2021-01-26 | Author:Elle, J. [Elle, J.]

CHAPTER 22 YIYO PEAK IS WHERE the onyx stones are mined. The transport pod hums toward it, the sun growing smaller behind its highest tip. Honey-colored earth wisps by in ...

epub |eng | 2006-04-05 | Author:Chen, Justina [Chen, Justina]

25 Walking Tall I’m bedded down for the night on the musty-smelling, pull-out couch in Auntie Lu’s office. It’s not like I need to be well rested for tomorrow’s flight ...

epub |eng | 2008-02-15 | Author:Victoria Christopher Murray

21 I slammed my locker shut, closed my eyes and leaned against it. I was so tired. I had waited all night for Jax to call, but for the first ...

epub |eng | 2023-07-18 | Author:Andrew Yang

Yoona It’s the golden hour, almost sunset, and we’re hanging out by the pool. Sabine and I are sitting on deck chairs, watching the others have a kind of water ...

epub |eng | 2023-04-25 | Author:Katie Zhao [Zhao, Katie]

Quickly, I wrote a reply. Lisa did not like to be kept waiting. Winnie: K I’m omw now Lisa: Excellent. Tilting my head to the side, I studied the text. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Alex Dean [Dean, Alex]

Chapter 11 Two days later I arrived at work early for a meeting with Gladys Brennan, the school’s superintendent. After finishing my usual morning cup of green tea, I ventured ...

epub |eng | 2008-05-15 | Author:Joan W. Blos

It is some time since I have written to you and even now I can hardly bear to take up my pen. Miguel, who called me Eldora-Eldorado, is dead. He ...

epub |eng | 2016-08-22 | Author:Ed Duncan [Duncan, Ed]

* * * Minutes earlier Rico had arrived and spotted the couples from several yards away. He circled until he faced Rachel, removed a photo from his shirt pocket, and ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2022-05-03 | Author:Grace K. Shim [Shim, Grace K.]

* * * As soon as Halmoni leaves for the hospital, I call my mom. “Chloe-yah, what is it? Are you okay?” Her hushed tone tells me she’s at the ...

epub |eng | 2009-02-15 | Author:Stephanie Perry Moore [Moore, Stephanie Perry]

Lord, You just gotta help me. I can’t lose another son!” Mom declared after York stormed out the door. I had been reading many books at school to keep up ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Janet McDonald

Cigar smoke clouded the air. The man looked much older without his hip cap. A strip of gray, crinkly hair fringed the bald pate of his head. “Sorry to just ...

epub |eng | 2009-12-15 | Author:Stephanie Perry Moore [Moore, Stephanie Perry]

I couldn’t believe we were pulling up to the Duval County Jail. I had never been there before and knew I’d never want to return. York was a hothead, but ...

epub |eng | 2007-12-15 | Author:Rene Saldana, Jr. [Saldaña, Renè]

Thirteen That night, Barry sat in the living room watching the news. Momma was at work. He'd fixed himself some leftovers and was about done when he heard Alby at ...