This piece contains some additional resources for educators. Click here to read them. Alone at her family’s Country House, once a gathering place for “The Cousins,” the narrator reflects on summers past I am nestled on the window seat, cocooned by the voluminous cream-colored curtains, when I look up from my book, Jennifer Nielson’s The False Prince. I am stunned by how quiet the house is. There is no boisterous echoing noise, there is no impatient shouting, there is no…
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Dad’s Stocks
This piece contains some additional resources for educators. Click here to read them. Up and down and up and down, that’s how stocks work. Up and down and up and down, that’s how Dad works. Then stocks go down and down and down and down— that’s what’s happening now. So Dad’s emotions go down and down and down and down— and suddenly he is silent. He is silent like the stocks— afraid. And now I realize I care about stocks….
Lazy Cat
This piece contains some additional resources for educators. Click here to read them. Oil pastel Additional Resources Author Interview Summary & Analysis Discussion Questions Author Interview What inspired you to paint this piece? I was inspired to create this piece because I wanted to try out a new medium along with a more colorful way to express myself. I normally use color pencil, so going out of my comfort zone to explore something new was quite fascinating. Can you share…
Get Myself a Rocking Chair
Katrina’s life changes when she starts visiting Mr. McCumber, a lonely old man with no family of his own Chapter One Lord I been hangin’ out of town in that low-down rain Watchin’ good-time Charlie, friend, is drivin’ me insane Down on shady Charlotte Street, the green lights look red Wish I was back home on the farm, in my feather bed The soft music of the guitar floated through the still air. Smoke from a chimney could be seen…
A Long Walk to Water
A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park; Clarion Books: New York, 2010; $16 Have you ever found yourself running as fast as you could but not really sure where you were going? Maybe you were trying to clear your thoughts or simply running for pleasure. Maybe, like eleven-year-old Salva Dut, you were trying to get away from something. Have you ever had to perform a task so terrible and tedious that you can’t wait for it to be…
