During the late 1800s, “bicycles aren’t for ladies,” was all Tilly was told when she asked to ride one. Prone to give up on a dream, she decided to secretly teach herself to ride! Falling in love with cycling, Tillie knew she could not ride fast in a dress. She pulled out her needle and thread an...
Franklin Delano Donuthead is a fifth grader with a lot of problems: For starters, his last name is Donuthead. He considers himself handicapped because one arm and leg are shorter than the other (by less than half an inch), his mother is trying to poison him with non-organic foods (like salami), h...
Harry Sue Clotkin is tough. Her mom's in the slammer and she wants to get there, too, as fast as possible, so they can be together. But it's not so easy to become a juvenile delinquent when you've got a tender heart.
Franklin Delano Donuthead, star of Sue Stauffacher's Donuthead, is back and life continues to throw him lots of curveballs: he's now in sixth grade which means it's time for middle school, with all of its related terrors. He has to avoid whipping pony tails in the hallways, he's forced to use sch...
Chapter 7 The next morning, Grandma clomped up the basement stairs, her arms full of supplies. “They don’t call it Mephitis mephitis for nothing,” she said, to no one in particular. “I bought two quarts of tomato juice at the Dollar Store yesterday. The rest of the ingredients should be here in m...
In the last year, Keisha had been to Detroit twice. The first time was when the FFGs went to the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Then last summer, the Carter family spent a whole day going back and forth between the Detroit Science Center an...
Chapter Four The entire Carter family, except baby Paulo, knew right away what had happened. They knew right away because this was not the first time that Grandma had lost an animal. In fact, over the years since Daddy had brought his mom to live with them at Carters’ Urban Rescue, she’d also los...
Mr. Drockmore said, congratulating her on her oral report. “I think Phillis … well, I think Phillis would have been moved to hear ‘Hymn to Humanity’ recited that way.” Everyone guessed that she was a flower child from the sixties, not a Romany girl, but Keisha didn’t mind because she loved the wa...