Purple Heart I was bored with the book, "Purple Heart." For one thing, I was very busy the last couple of weeks and I didn't have time to read. So the little things that I do every day, like reading, was getting boring. A second reason was because I wasn't going anywhere with the book. I ...
Purple Heart Purple heart is about a solider named Matt who woke up in a hospital and has no clue how we got there. Purple Heart takes place in a Iraq hospital. The novel begins when Matt wakes up on a hospital bed and has a major headache. Matt is a solider in the U.S. Army. When Matt wakes up...
Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But...
From the acclaimed author of Cut comes this new novel that explores the anguish of living with divided loyalties and the cost of keeping family secrets, as a young teen struggles to keep his family together when his father abandons them.
You lean forward, place a box of tissues in front of me, and your black leather chair groans like a living thing. Like the cow it used to be before somebody killed it and turned it into a chair in a shrink’s office in a loony bin.Your stockinged legs make a shushing sound as you cross them. “Can ...
They finally pick one way; I go the opposite. They don’t notice I sneak away. They don’t care—now everyone just walking to live, not caring where we go, who live, who die. All I think is Thailand. I walk the direction to Thailand, one day, two, maybe three, sometime even at night, always walking ...