The hand rapped on the glass. Jake and Kate looked at each other. Jake didn’t make a sound. He couldn’t. But the next second Gus bounded over to the door, wagging his tail. Then Jake heard his grandpa’s voice. “Jake! You in there? Open up, it’s your...
He slowly opened his eyes and saw Arthur sleeping peacefully on the ground beside him. He was lying on a soft bed of pine needles, looking up, up, up into the tallest trees he’d ever seen. The air was clean and fresh, and the woods were silent, silent. He could hear water ...
The gargoyle escaped. Christopher stared as the gargoyle careened into the sky. It looked like a fat black bat or maybe a giant frightened June bug, but it wasn’t as graceful. The gargoyle really wasn’t very good at flying. It barely got out of the way of Marbles’ jaws and...
It was a glorious day for carving pumpkins and getting the house ready for trick-or-treaters. Kather-ine had arranged to go trick-or-treating with her best friend Sarah, who lived just down the street, and Sarah’s little brother Benjamin. Katherine and her parents spent th...
She had rested for several days, so she was no longer too tired to fly. The water and the crabapples, such as they were, had given her strength. Each night she had noticed a warm glow from a few rooftops over. She wasn’t sure what it was, but she liked the look of it. It w...
Myles tried to scream. He very, very badly wanted to call out to his mother and his little brother that they were in danger. But he couldn’t. His voice was gone. His throat was closing. He couldn’t breathe. Myles squeezed his eyes tight and hugged himself as hard as he cou...