You Are My Sunshine

by Lebo Molefe

Published January 21, 2016

    CHAPTER ONE I start to shiver and my feathers begin to puff instinctively. It’s getting colder, and I...
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Roller Skating

By Nicky Cannon

Published January 21, 2016

The wheels Crunch over the pea gravel As sweat Crowds my tomato-red face. My legs are constantly moving Pumping with...
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Home Is Where You’re Happy

by Rachel Keirstead

Published January 21, 2016

It wasn’t true. It couldn’t be. Leah shook her head in disbelief, not accepting that she could be moving away...
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Tree House

By Caroline Lunt

Published January 21, 2016

I climb up the light brown ladder I smell fresh air A soft wind touches my face Gently brushing new...
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The Radiant Melody

by Angela Chang

Published January 21, 2016

A few fallen leaves and twigs rustled around me as I shuffled my feet. I crouched in the darkest corner...
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Star in the Forest

By Laura Resau, Reviewed by Jamila dePeiza-Kern

Published January 21, 2016

Star in the Forest, by Laura Resau; Delacourte Books for Young Readers: New York, 2010; $14.99 Deported. On her eleventh...
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Wind Before

by Catherine Pugh

Published January 21, 2016

“Just take it easy, Jenna. We don’t want you to fall.” Jenna gritted her teeth and took a step. She...
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Horses

By Sophia Lipkin

Published January 21, 2016

George, with his silver-gray fur cantering across bright green grass whinnying softly his white mane blown out by the wind...
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Lilly of the South

by Benet Dawn Stoen

Published January 21, 2016

CHAPTER ONE: THE SOUTH POLE The plane seemed to be going ridiculously slow. I had a seat by the window...
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My Vicksburg

By Ann Rinaldi, Reviewed by Grace Russell

Published January 21, 2016

My Vicksburg, by Ann Rinaldi; Harcourt Children’s Books: New York, 2009; $16 Fourteen-year-old Claire Louise Corbet has always lived a...
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