Social & Family Issues
epub |eng | 2022-11-14 | Author:Ellen O'Clover

23 Autumn chatters from the backseat the entire drive to the lake. It’s clear why Maren likes her: she’s hilarious, and she tells great stories, and the familiar way she ...
( Category: Parents March 3,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Megan Paasch

* * * I circle my thumb over the back of Rhonda’s hand—the hand without an IV needle taped to it—and wonder if she can hear me. The nurse told ...
( Category: Death & Dying March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-03-15 | Author:Ellen Hagan

( Category: Friendship March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-02-21 | Author:Patricia Park [Park, Patricia]

* * * — AND THEN WE’RE ON the A train, leaving Brooklyn for Queens. Some of the passengers in our car have suitcases and duffel bags. “Are you taking ...
( Category: Bullying March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-12-16 | Author:Jessie Weaver [Weaver, Jessica]

Friday, May 29, 4:05 p.m. The Cartwrights’ Loft “Here.” Summer handed Grace a fat Cuban cigar from her father’s humidor. “One for you, and one for me.” It was the ...
( Category: Friendship March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-01-30 | Author:M-E Girard

My phone rings about three seconds later, so I put down the piece of leftover chocolate birthday cake I was working on. I answer it, saying “hi” and “hello” together, ...
( Category: New Experiences March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-01-24 | Author:Kristen R. Lee [Lee, Kristen R.]

CHAPTER 15 “YOU SURE YOU want to come to this park, Mama?” I ask. “I don’t mind walking a little further to the nicer one. Mia needs to get the ...
( Category: Prejudice & Racism March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kekla Magoon

HERE, WE WILL RESURRECT YOU Our church isn’t the extreme dress-up kind of church, but Matt puts on a tie anyway. We pull my jeans from yesterday out of the ...
( Category: Depression & Mental Health March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-12-12 | Author:Amy Zhang

The Infinite Q Again, Constant deleted my paragraphs. At first I thought he hadn’t written anything in response, but then I noticed a new star on the map where there ...
( Category: Dating & Sex March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-10-02 | Author:Katherine Higgs-Coulthard

Ruthie dozes off and on all that day. I sit on the pallet near her, my mind churning it all together, now and before, Chick and Ruthie, the fire, losing ...
( Category: Homelessness & Poverty February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-01-24 | Author:Sofía Lapuente & Jarrod Shusterman [Lapuente, Sofía]

33. Pause I had to stop the track to show you something. I was just lying on the mattress, debating whether more people are conceived on firm or on soft ...
( Category: Bullying February 25,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Julie Halpern

There. A complete essay and 100 percent avoidance of anything that would make me tear up in class or need to leave for toilet-using purposes. Thank God we weren’t forced ...
( Category: Marriage & Divorce February 24,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-09-13 | Author:Amanda DeWitt [DeWitt, Amanda]

Kerry was studying me when I looked up from my phone, her hands buried in the pocket of her hoodie. She leaned against the air-hockey table. “Does Beth know your ...
( Category: Dating & Sex February 22,2023 )
epub |deu | | Author:Claudia Recinos Seldeen

Asleep That night, when my mother kisses me good night, she doesn’t brush my hair back from my face. Or say soft words. Or smile. She sits on the edge ...
( Category: Parents February 22,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-01-31 | Author:Melissa de la Cruz [Cruz, Melissa de la]

Josh waited until sundown, watching the window to Amelia’s apartment from the shadows of the building across the street. He’d needed to make sure that the police weren’t milling around, ...
( Category: Prejudice & Racism February 21,2023 )