Friendship
— “Lily, can I have a cookie?” asked Joseph, a kid in her class. “Oh, well, I don’t know, they might have nuts in them or something…” she replied, shakily. “That’s...
— Practical Advice “I drew a good picture today. You wanna see?” I asked. “I heard that if you cut off a chicken’s head, it’llkeep running. That true?” asked Uncle Morris,...
— SWEETIE The small girl sat in the dreary light, counting raindrops on the window. On the other side of the window was freedom, the freedom that she didn’t deserve, or...
— “I don’t know, Izzy,” said Ophelia. “Oh, come on,” I complained. “He wasn’t spooked by a crazy bulldog, he won’t be afraid of a harmless ghost who he can’t even...
— And then it turns out I was wrong, because I am writing another story. I went back to Clara's shop and we moved the desk and went to visit Jacob....
— Two friends took a walk listening to the birds chirping, the peaceful sense of quiet that nothing other than nature could quite hold. The delicate branches of a Kwanzan Cherry...
— Sensibility And when she was picked, she had long hair. Long,flowing hair, dark as the night sky, which never seemed to be blue, and dark as the colors ofthe witches...
— On the first day of seventh grade, I walked into my new school quivering with fear. I have always been a very outgoing person, but only because I had been...
— An update from our twenty-fifth Book Club meeting! On Saturday, March 27, the Stone Soup Book Club discussed The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a...
— When she left I leaned against my locker and pulled out one of my favorite books. Finally, finally I could spend a minute reading. Unfortunately, my hope was sadly far...