Have you ever read a book about women who want to achieve to do things, but can't because of their gender or race? If you haven't, then "FLY GIRL" is a book you should read. The genre of this book is realistic fiction. The setting is mostly on an army camp called Avenger Field where they wi...
Ana Shen has what her social studies teacher calls a “marvelously biracial, multicultural family” but what Ana simply calls a Chinese American father and an African American mother. And on eighth-grade graduation day, that’s a recipe for disaster. Both sets of grandparents are in town to celebrat...
I tell Joey when I climb back into his car. He closes the paperback he’s been reading and shoves it beneath his seat. “Cyrano?” He nods. It’s the book he took back from Maggie. “You were saying?” The sun sinks into the west in a blur of red and purp...
Mommy and Daddy don’t think that I know, but I listen from under the table sometimes, and I heard them say it. When we leave the Institute today, it will be the last time I say good-bye to Priscilla, Dr. Warren, and the others. I’m glad we are leaving. I don’t like Dr. Warren’s infirmary. I don’t...
Zacharias said aloud to himself. He had risen this morning (or this evening, it was impossible to tell) to discover that the table in his cell now held two candlesticks, a box of matches, and a sheaf of paper with ink and pen. He lit the candles. His cell was every bit as ...