Evie is somewhat of a loner at school. Aside from her lunch companions she's labeled 'the whisperers,' she pretty much keeps to herself. She enjoys her weekly paper route, especially since it means she usually gets to see Jonah, who is usually doing his job of cleaning the expired animals in the ...
Usha has painted over the mural, and I still haven’t been able to undo the rumor of my supposed suicide. The next morning dawns, and the only not-so-terrible news is that Mr. Fisk has left the drop cloth up to let all that white paint dry. I don’t have much time left until the mural is really and...
Sometimes he passes us in the hall; he’s always in a hurry, turning his bone-skinny body to sidle between the bumping shoulders of the kids walking ahead of us, looking like he’s stepping between the bars of a jail cell. He never even glances at us. Or Hadley at him, either. It isn’t even that st...