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4th grade battle of books 2014
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aliens on Vacation | "You have a pet squid?" Brian said. "And you take him for walks?" |
| Aliens on Vacation | The main character has a grandmother who owns a bed and breakfast. |
| Aliens on Vacation | "Scub is an especially brutal nickname for a baller, since it basically means second or third string." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "It was Tyler's turn to pick, and he came up with Who Will Be the First to Kiss a (Non-relatives) Girl." |
| Aliens on Vacation | The grocery list includes 50 boxes of tinfoil, 25 bottles of sun-block, and as much bleach that could fit in the cart. |
| Aliens on Vacation | Mr. Harnox is a tourist. |
| Aliens on Vacation | "We're not bear-huggers in my family." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "And is that place half as weird inside as it is outside," Brian asked. |
| Aliens on Vacation | The main character spent the summer in Forest Grove, Washington. |
| Aliens on Vacation | "It took most of the afternoon to rummage through Grandma's backyard storage sheds, gathering scattered bits of camping equipment." |
| Aliens on Vacation | Sheriff Tisdall |
| Aliens on Vacation | "You can stop with the threats, if you don't mind." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "Again and again I closed in on a bobbing green glow, only to have it disappear behind a tree or around a bend in the river." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "Rubbery flesh-colored chunks fell from his face as the Kleenex scraped away the disguise to reveal his true skin." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "P.S. I hope that you are getting a chance to throw your basketballs. I know that's important to you." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "Lately, it seems like GRADE jobs alone have been taking up most of my time." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "It's Disney World, dork," the tall one said. "Disneyland 's in California." |
| Aliens on Vacation | The main character lives in Tampa, FL. |
| Aliens on Vacation | "She was talking like one of the sci-fi/fantasy club types." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "But I want her to like me, Grandma and I'm not sure your food is going to help." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "Here I was worried about the upcoming FCAT, and Amy was already making plans for college." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "I just looked up these coins, and it turns out that nobody's seen anything like them before." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "Nah, let's play ball," said Eddie. "You wanna play, dontcha, big fella?" |
| Aliens on Vacation | "Mr. Harnox held on to the rim, wrenching the bolts right out of their sockets and ripping the rim clean off the backboard with a horrible screech." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "I told her about Tampa, and the basketball camp I was supposed to be at." |
| Aliens on Vacation | The main character's nickname is Scrub. |
| Aliens on Vacation | "Does this help," said Zardolph. I turned and he was glowing all over." |
| Aliens on Vacation | The main character receives "challenges" from his friend, Tyler Sandusky. |
| Aliens on Vacation | "My eyes flew wide open. Greenish glow?" |
| Aliens on Vacation | "There! A Jungle Boy, running through the dark forest." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "Every resident of Forest Grove seemed to be out front, forming a massive mob that filled up the streets as well as the sidewalk." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "I kind of think I'm going by David now." |
| Aliens on Vacation | Intergalactic Police Force |
| Aliens on Vacation | Commander Rezzlurr |
| Aliens on Vacation | "You've gone all this time without hiring a head security?" |
| Aliens on Vacation | "In a flash of inspiration, I decided to tell the truth. Part of it, anyway." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "The next time the bigger one shoots, jump up and smack the ball away." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "First off, did you know what some organisms survive in boiling water?" |
| Aliens on Vacation | "Amy, you know I'm glad that you came over." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "She popped open the stage makeup kit and pulled out a vial of flesh-colored liquid." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "They sure got the wilderness part right." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "I wondered if I would have to submit a formal application to be the town freak." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "He bent in half at the waist, lowering his head until his gray carrot of a nose was touching the mailbox." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "Those are pancake." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "His skin was really loose, drooping and sagging all over his face." |
| Aliens on Vacation | Tourists |
| Aliens on Vacation | "It’s all just a misunderstanding," I said. "They're not from around here." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "You really play the guitar?" I asked. |
| Aliens on Vacation | "It was like those famous pictures of the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "That's a colorful nickname." |
| Aliens on Vacation | He scratched his jowls with the back of his hand. |
| Aliens on Vacation | The person who stepped out made the whole scene even more bizarre. |
| Aliens on Vacation | She could really squeeze hard for someone with such skinny arms. |
| Aliens on Vacation | "That’s not a…well, that's not a bathroom for you." |
| Aliens on Vacation | Man, this place was even weirder than I expected. |
| Aliens on Vacation | "Oh many thanks and thanks of plenty to the little man." |
| Aliens on Vacation | I shivered. Only, I don't think that had much to do with the cold night. |
| Aliens on Vacation | A different kind of weird light woke me up next: sunlight. |
| Aliens on Vacation | I never know where to look when passing someone on the street. |
| Aliens on Vacation | The problem was, I never knew what to say to girls. |
| Aliens on Vacation | Oh no. Not exactly your average trip to the grocery store. |
| Aliens on Vacation | He smacked loudly, silver- colored drool trickling down his cheek. |
| Aliens on Vacation | She was acting like the sole keeper of a national defense secret. |
| Aliens on Vacation | I just sat there thinking about the fact that I was in on a secret that maybe only 2 other people in the world knew. |
| Aliens on Vacation | "So we use this stuff to make sure they look…normal?" |
| Aliens on Vacation | So we stood there, bobbing our heads at one another like a couple of mental patients. |
| Aliens on Vacation | "Very sticky and long-lasting" |
| Aliens on Vacation | "What are you, some kind of snarffle-eating tumberlite |
| Aliens on Vacation | "We make our jelly with wild berries, and those can be very unpredictable." |
| Aliens on Vacation | I hardly ever call in Grandma for backup anymore. |
| Aliens on Vacation | "Oh , just, you know, someone. A girl. Selling chocolates." |
| Aliens on Vacation | The situation had hit DEFCON One. |
| Aliens on Vacation | His arms were folded across his chest, and he was chomping on his toothpick. |
| Aliens on Vacation | You know what that bitter taste is in the back of your throat? Let me tell you. It's jealousy, baby. |
| Aliens on Vacation | I mainly invited him so I wouldn't have to go down there alone. |
| Aliens on Vacation | His legs dangled in the air, kicking wildly, and he choked out a surprised scream. |
| Aliens on Vacation | My jaw must have fallen below my waist. |
| Aliens on Vacation | We try to welcome everyone here, but I'm afraid it's just not possible. |
| Aliens on Vacation | They crawled out headfirst and just kept coming and coming. |
| Aliens on Vacation | It's not like I could take them to the hospital, or even the veterinarians. |
| Aliens on Vacation | I pushed the wagon back on its wheels and piled on the camping gear. |
| Aliens on Vacation | "Water seeps into the cracks, and then when it gets hot enough it expands and shatters the rock." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "We ate the bars named Hershey from your box. Delicious." |
| Aliens on Vacation | "And the hideous part is because these two fingers are out of position. |
| Aliens on Vacation | I tripped and fell into a patch of stinging nettles that set my arms on fire. |
| Aliens on Vacation | I stood up choking and retching, and blindly took a few steps. |
| Aliens on Vacation | I rolled out of bed, wincing at the soreness in my knee and dozens of cuts and bruises all over. |
| Aliens on Vacation | She looked like a puppet with all of the strings cut. |
| Aliens on Vacation | "Do you have a search warrant?" I asked. |
| Aliens on Vacation | I checked my watch every thirty seconds or so. |
| Aliens on Vacation | A desperate idea, and not a very good one. |
| Aliens on Vacation | When there were ten minutes left, I had almost finished, but some parts were still goopy and damp. |
| Aliens on Vacation | He stepped out from the shadows of a storage shed and into the gloomy pre-storm light. |
| Aliens on Vacation | I realized that maybe this wasn't the best plan in the world. |
| Aliens on Vacation | The picket fence was flattened as the mob surged away from the house. |
| Aliens on Vacation | The humiliation was a million times worse than being in that stupid play. |
| Aliens on Vacation | They shook their heads and muttered from the opposite sidewalk as they walked past. |
| Aliens on Vacation | "A pretty good retirement plan, don't you think?" |
| Aliens on Vacation | "You knew?" it came out in a whisper. |
| Aliens on Vacation | The hairs on my arms stood straight up. |
| Aliens on Vacation | "Before we can do that we need to speak with your head of security." he said. |
| Aliens on Vacation | I exhaled, and it felt like the first time that I had really done so since the night of the mob. |
| Aliens on Vacation | That was a lot of zeros. |
| Aliens on Vacation | I smiled and hit SEND. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Being named "Kelvin" after a guy who spent his time freezing things would have been a wedgie-maker for sure. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Their parents were "SPAM -cooking scientists". |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "BURP!" thought Cottonswab. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "Hey! Who ate all the peanuts?" |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | They had to spend their vacation at Camp Whatsitooya. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "RUSTLE…RUSTLE…RUSTLE…CHOMP…CHOMP…CHOMP" |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "Indeed the crates of marshmallows were gone." |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "'Forget those children' he thought. They had insignificant amounts of energy. They are irrelevant.'" |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "A huge "No Trespassing by order of the U.S. Government" sign was nailed to the door of the brick building." |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "Your love is like a Tator Tot. Sometimes cold and sometimes hot." |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | " 'Wait for me!' he yelled, running out of Mission Control. "Wait for me!'" |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "Eating Mom's secret sauce probably mutated our DNA or something." |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | " *SPLURP is a rare sound made only by vats of SPAM juice and astronaut food bubbling in a thick, oozy, purplish greenish brownish molten lava kind of a way." |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "I told you….all the cool kids watch the Plumbing Channel!" |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "When asked about Professor Dewdy's predictions, Governor Winkleheiny responded, 'His name sounds like 'doody' " |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "But as all good things must come to an end, so must summer camps and SPAM festivals>" |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "Fierce, Large, Ugly, and Ferocious Furballs." |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "At the center of the Mallow Galaxy is the Starburst, a large, orange cube shaped star of sweet candy goodness." |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "And besides, its not cruddy." said Mr. Rockman "It's rustic. It says that right here in the brochure." |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "Exceptionally Exceptional Outdoors Experiences Guaranteed. No Exceptions.*" |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "He overcame his fear by drawing and memorizing maps of his room…" |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "At last, the path broadened in front of a small rickety building. It was the outhouse-a.k.a. the spa- from the brochure." |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "The Rockmans were enthusiastic people and brought that enthusiasm to all of their endeavors." |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "Where Kevin liked to study a situation and make notes about it before deciding what to do next, Joules was more likely to poke a situation with a stick to see what would happen." |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "' This gives me the creeps, like that movie Don't Look in the Bathroom!'" |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "'The aliens are recharging their telereceptors. Remember? They won't come back until dawn.'" |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "Following the advice of his mother, who famously invented the phrase "Get off the couch already," Whifflesniff set off to find the elusive Northeast Passage." |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "'I am extremely disappointed in your behavior, Miss Rockman,' she said. " I have never seen such disregard for crafting and the enjoyment of other crafters.'" |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "SmellyCat sighed, too, then they said something in GiggleSnort that sounded something like"GlitGlueFun", followed by a round of giggles and snorts." |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "The girl in braids had a sparkling smile. Literally. She had two flakes of silver glitter stuck to her front tooth." |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "Ms. Jones hoped that Craftland would become a vacation destination for glue-gun gurus everywhere." |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "I heard you were a suspect in the Case of the Missing Candy." |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "The two wore matching pink safari outfits with rhinestone buttons, beaded collars, and glittery hiking boots." |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "Their attention was focused entirely upon a gigantic ear. Well, more accurately, a picture of a gigantic ear painted on a gigantic satellite dish…" |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "'Enjoy your scenic stroll to our historically significant facilities, and hurry back to join us…We're going to learn all about the history of lanyards.'" |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "'Mom says that too much bacon can make your tail curly. I don't think that would be good, do you?'" |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | The flaming meteor hurtled through the endless, black void. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Well, they couldn't have two noses. The would be weird. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Table 1: Know Your Fluff |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Kevin's Chart of Famous Last Words |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | B. Rabbits don't have blackened rumps or tails. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Camp Whatsitooya was on the shores of Lake Whatsosmelly |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | The campers ate at Café du Lac |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | People hiked for miles just to avoid Aroma Rocks |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Even though their faces looked nothing alike, the three girls seemed identical. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | What could you possibly be doing that is more interesting that this? |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Push in case of flaming meteor attack, tennis elbow, or invasion by Swedes |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Pushing the button initiated the URP |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | This book has several pages that look like a graphic novel. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Joules and Kevin went to summer camp their parents had never seen |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Joules hated crafts and golf on TV |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Avery got in trouble because someone stole his candy from his tent one night |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | This camp was established in 1940 as a vacation spot for Norwegians. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Craftland - Creating Smiles One Project at a Time. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Mom says that too much bacon can make your tail curly. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | She grabbed her glue guns like a cowboy with itchy trigger fingers. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | By the time she reached the showers, she looked like a porcupine and smelled like a pancake. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Kevin liked lessons that included details and planned for problems like death, destruction, locusts, and panic. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Avery jumped into the lake and sent Kevin spinning in the canoe. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Kevin saw a weird creature attack Ms. Jones |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Joules followed a trail of clues that led into the deep ferns. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Spam - unnaturally square; unnaturally good. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Ms. Jones spoke like a robot, wore sunglasses and told them to call her Commander Jones. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Kevin kept a list of Things to Avoid |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Everybody is made at you for eating all the marshmallows. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | The campers needed a whole lot of Popsicle sticks to build a three-stage intergalactic rocket with satellite communications. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | "Nature is your enemy!" said Counselor Blech. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Counselor Blech's job involved some kind of super-conducting, super-colliding, super-dee-duper-holy-cow-that-was-one-wicked-big-explosion kind of event. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | It's an F-Class Intergalactic Recon Probe used to explore different solar systems in the 1970s. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Something has happened to Ms. Jones and Counselor Bleck. It's like they are under some kind of spell. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | In unison, they unscrewed the lids, raised the jars to their mouths, and gulped down the thick, white goop. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Their mission was world domination. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | We now require a 103-inch plasma television with Dolby surround sound and a built-in gaming system. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | They all grabbed at the pipe cleaners and started twisting them together and gluing feathers to the ends. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | The invisible Earth frogs ate all the food and the telephone device. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Commander Jones said Sparkletooth was delicious and crunchy. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | The counselors communicated through looks and head motions and occasional head whacks. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | They had contemplated exploring the woods during the night, but it was too risky. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Thunk. A strange noise woke Kevin. He sat bolt upright on his cot. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Kevin's flashlight beam landed on a red sneaker with an odd spot that glowed in the dark. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Jones grabbed Joule's stick and snapped it in two. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | They had eyes that glowed softly and turned in opposite directions. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | They ate other creatures, absorbed the creature's DNA and used a holographic field to look like the creature. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | He began to feel woozy until he remembered to close his eyes. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | They were watched by the night eyes of the forest. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | The power of the smell could make unicorns weep. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Nelson ran past without being noticed, waved at the twins and vanished. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | In a single bound, he cleared the fence and landed easily on the other side. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | What happened next is best viewed in slow motion. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Ms. Jones was right. You can never have too many lanyards. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | We must use our voices and preserve our telepathic powers. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | After we begin the satellite transmission, we will feast. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | E.A.R.S. Earth-Alien Radio Satellite |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | This would be a great time to speak up because our heroes would really appreciate knowing. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Junior High School Musical Seven |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | This was Mission Control |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | They tried to turn everyone's brain into sweet mush |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | This system is wired to keep running. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Astronaut food! This stuff never goes bad! |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | You boys figure out a plan, and I'll look around for something useful like a secret weapon and a vending machine. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Remember when Jammer stepped on your foot? He acted like you bit him. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | The aliens hate the secret sauce! |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | SPAM!!!!! |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | All we need is some kind of cannon or catapult or something. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | And by good, I mean good and deadly! Just like Mom makes! |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | The brew changed from a greenish brown to a purplish greenish brown. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Slurp is not a good sound. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | The article included a picture of two men in suits standing in front of a rocket exactly like the one they'd seen. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Remember this when you're grown up. It explains a lot about grown-ups. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | All the cool kids watch the Plumbing Channel |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Sometimes a good Plan B can keep you from being squished by truck-sized cockroaches. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | He made a weapon from 3 matches, a lanyard and a mop handle. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Your love is like a graduation hat. Weird and square and sort of flat. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | I love the way your braces shine. Full of pizza just like mine. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | Now, Nelson!!!! She yelled. NOW!!!! |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | A ball of flame shot toward the ceiling. The fire sprinkler was activated. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | They swam, sailed, canoed, hiked through the woods, and told ghost stories around the fire. |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | They hiked through the woods and back to the road where their parents had left them standing in the weeds seven short days before |
| Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies | No need to worry. Ah, yes. Famous Last Words. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Ah, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free have arrived!" |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "All characters are fictional. Any resemblance to any person is coincidental." added Edgar |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Did you give him the card?" Ms. Cassatt asked. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Here comes the bride all dressed in white, here comes the groom with a bucket and a broom." |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "How come you can write on the wall, but if we do we get in trouble?" |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "I did a chromatogram of the ink we use at this school, and it's a perfect match." |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "I guess you need a new theory," Edgar said. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "I was wondering if you have a tissue? My nose is running." |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "I'm documenting some important evidence." |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "I'm going to crack this case!" Patrick called |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "I'm going to make you it for two minutes in absolute silence to let your ideas and thoughts come out." |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "It has to be someone with keys!" Destiny said. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Let's put on a play for everybody in our class about a robbery and watch the audience." |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Meter is the rhythm of the poem." |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Mine is about my dog," Taz said with a grin. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "My dad said it was contaminated with too many finger prints." |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Remember the culprit is sometimes the opposite of who you'd expect." |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Safe and sound in Ms. Barrett's tank, " Mr. Crew said. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Shh! I think I hear his broom!" Edgar whispered. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Should we start with just the people in our class first?" Destiny asked |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "So, where were you between 8:20 and 9:00, Taz?" |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Thank you for letting me look through the Lost and Found box," he said. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "The beautiful silk iris-the flower-that I had in my pencil cup is gone." |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "The most famous plays- Shakespeare's plays- were all written in verse." |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "The rhythm of your poem matches the rhythm of your dog running back and forth." |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "The staff lounge is usually full of coffee drinkers, but I brew tea in my room" |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Use your power of observation. Consider all the possibilities" |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Well, I guess my fish-sitting days are over," Ms. Barrett said. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Well, make sure you have solid evidence before you go pointing a finger, Patrick." |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "What if it's an ugly poem?" Taz said and laughed. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | A card…From: Liz Barrett…To: Rob Browning |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | A coffee hog. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | A janitorial supply closet big enough to hide a thief and his loot. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | A small box of small wooden animals from Oaxaca, Mexico |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | a small twig with two graceful willow leaves |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | a video surveillance system |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | As soon as they arrived in the music room, the team went to work. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | As they walked in, Destiny gave him a secret smile. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | confessional poetry |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Destiny Parks could hide a whole school of fish in her hair. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Edgar "accidentally" knocked her coffee cup off her desk. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Everyone was busy painting paper mache masks they had made. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Fired up, he bolted to Ms. Herschel's desk. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | For a cup of coffee, Ms. Herschel will risk the life of a helpless fish. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | For dinner that night: fish. On a bun. With tartar sauce. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Forgive me. I have good reasons. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Gabriella is Star of the Month. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Goldfish |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Goldfish, iris, fan, tea |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | He closed his notebook and let his new theory percolate. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | He made a silent apology to his friend the pencil, and then he broke off the tip. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | He peered out to see if any criminal-looking types were lurking around the school's entrance. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | He sat next to his dog in the soaking grass. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | He took his notebook outside and sat on the concrete steps. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | He tried working on math, but a new theory was gnawing away at his mind. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | His parents started mooing in two part harmony |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | I left the room to get coffee. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | I need to establish the exact time of the crime, ma'am. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | I pretended I couldn't hear Patrick because of the wax build-up in my ears. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | I recognized your handwriting. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | I think there's something inside me that stronger than bones. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | If I ever fall in love, I'm wearing sunglasses so nobody can tell. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | I'll train it as a classroom guard dog. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | I'm afraid he's going to solve the crime before me. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | It was odd to hear teachers talking like this. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | It's like she is wearing a mask that looks happy on the outside, but I can tell she's crying on the inside. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Last year his Dad tried to teach him how to play the accordion. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Ma'am in you exact words, when was Slurpy stolen? |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Maia was the fish who swam away to be with Gabriella. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Maybe Slurpy wasn't the only victim. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Mr. Crew was giving a standing ovation. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Mr. Crew was making a cup of tea with the electric teapot he kept on the counter. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Ms. Barrett should smile. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Ms. Hershel is letting Patrick take pictures of the crime scene. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Never fear Taz, I will prove your innocence |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Poems are like mysteries that must be cracked open in order to be understood. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Secrets have a way of making the heart beat faster |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | She squinted, shielding her eyes from the sun. "My mom said they're putting Bandit down." |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | shoe print with an "O" in the center |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Skunk- a metaphor poem! |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Slurpy and the other fish were very compatible |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Stage Names: Tubby and Twig |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Stopping by This Room on a Rainy Morning |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The colors and the designs made the mask look bold and powerful. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The lesson on Aztec trade went in one ear and out the other. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The Pet Corner |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The room was silent, except for the scratching of pencils on paper and the sound of Kip's leg jiggling against his desk. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The teacher set down her coffee cup. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The thief comes on little cat feet |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The thief crept in, taped a mysterious message on the board, tiptoed to the Pet Corner, and peered at the fish. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The three new friends gave each other the thumbs up and rushed into the building. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Then the nice custodian helped Edgar clean it up. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | There once was a dude named Taz who had lots of pizzazz! |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | They worked in the Clown Care Unit at Children's Hospital. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | We can start with a metaphor. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | What a crime solver needs is a theory. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | What kind of thieves danced? |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | What to Expect When Your Dog Has Osteosarcoma |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Who was Taz calling in the middle of the school day, Edgar wondered? |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | You are mine now, the thief thought with a sly smile. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | You're just like us, a normal kid, Who likes to spit and slobber. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The author dedicates this book to "all the people who have shared the love of poetry with me." |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The thief crept in, taped a mysterious message on the board, tiptoed to Pet Corner, and peered at the fish. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | This book takes place at Wordsworth Elementary. |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | He had his eyes closed and imaging what the ordeal must have been like for the fish. Pg. 1 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Whoever stole that cute little fish was mean. Pg. 2 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The Thief comes on little cat feet sits looking at the goldfish then takes it carefully and moves on. Pg. 3 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | What a crime solver needs is a theory about why someone would commit the crime. I've got one. Do you? Pg. 5 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | All I know is there are criminals out there who do bad things and innocent fish pay the price. Pg. 6 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | May I be excused from doing math so I can immediately build a hamster protection device? Pg. 10 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The message is like a poem. The thief is using the image of a cat to describe himself or herself. Pg. 13 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | How lucky! I was going to start our unit on poetry today, and now I can use this as a springboard. We can start with metaphor. Pg. 13 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | A POEM IS A GIFT. Pg. 14 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | A metaphor is when you use one thing to describe another, like the thief for the cat. Pg. 15 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | I didn't get anything done in this stupid class. No good observations. No poem. I am a failure. I am giving up. Pg. 18 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "I'm going to crack this case!" Patrick called after him. Pg. 19 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | IMPORTANT CONCLUSION: Do not stand too close to Taz when you are interviewing. Pg. 21 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "I have an interview to do," Patrick said. Pg. 24 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Does the principal know that you are careless about locking up and that you are drinking coffee on the job, ma'am?" pg. 26 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | For a cup of coffee, Ms. Herschel will risk the life of a helpless fish. Pg. 26 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | For dinner that night: fish. On a bun. With tartar sauce. Pg.32 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The main character in this story has parents called Tubby and Twiggy who work as clowns. Pg. 33 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | A nice person wouldn't want an innocent hamster to be the second victim in a dramatic crime wave. Pg. 37 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | I am a big glass but instead of being filled with orange juice I am filled with hatred. Toward a certain someone. Pg. 40 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | But remember, just because you find a shoe print near a crime scene, doesn't mean that the shoe print belongs to the criminal. Pg. 41 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Forensic investigators often use handwriting analysis to solve crimes. Pg. 43 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The theory about a professional fish thief, the worry about Mister Furball and the kindergarten fish… none of it led him any closer to solving the crime. Pg. 43 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Consider all the possibilities. Remember the culprit is sometimes the opposite of who you'd expect. Pg. 43 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | I should be writing my own poem, but it is hard to write your own poem if you are spying. Pg. 47 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "I love the metaphor of the pencil as a friend!" pg. 50 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | It is a terrible feeling to have something stolen from you. Pg. 50 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The main character in this books writes a metaphor poem about his nose. Pg. 52 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Ms. Barrett has a secret side. Does every teacher? Pg. 55 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | A true friend swims close to you never leaving you all alone in the dirty water of life. Pg. 58 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Watching other people succeed is the story of my life. Pg. 63 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | It's funny how the outside of a person doesn't always match the inside. Pg. 63 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Who knows what really happens to fish or to people or to butterflies after they die? Pg. 64 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Maybe everything has a spirit and every spirit has a color and it just can't be seen all the time. Pg. 64 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | I wonder how many people, at this very moment in time, are sad? Pg. 64 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Another crime has been committed!" pg. 66 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "To pluck the bloom" was a clever way of saying "to steal the flower." pg. 66 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | An iris was stolen! I wasn't expecting this. Why an iris? Think… think… think… pg. 67 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Coffee again! When will this woman learn? pg. 67 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | I guess I'm just wearing a mask, too. Pg. 71 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Boom! Boom! Boom!" Mr. Crew said to the beat. Pg. 77 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "If you read a poem with meter, the rhythm helps you to connect with the poem, with the message of the poem, and even with the poet." Pg. 77 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Stopping by Your Cubby on a Gray Day pg. 78 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | If my mom would let me get a dog, I'd probably write a lot of great poems. Pg. 80 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | IMPORTANT CONCLUSION: Mr. Crew has gray hairs in his mustache if you look up close. Pg. 85 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Mr. Browning is in love with Ms. Barrett. Pg. 87 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | We know you're not the thief. We know you're not the robber. You're just like us, a normal kid, who likes to spit and slobber. Pg. 90 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | I think there's something in me that's stronger than bones. My spirit. Pg. 93 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | If a friend needs you, sit down next to him even if the grass is wet. Pg. 95 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Why can't it be that everything lives a really long time? Like hundreds of years? Pg. 93 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Maybe the reason people have pets is because it feels good to take care of something even if you know it might die someday. Pg. 96 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | I'm the Thief! Who are You? Pg. 98 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | I could get a lot more done in school if there wasn't so much school work to do. Pg. 100 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Some poetry is called "confessional poetry" because the poet is really confessing a deep emotion in the poem. Pg. 102 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The idea of taking time in school to write something that didn't even have to be turned in had a different feel to it. Pg. 103 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Eyeballs never lie." pg. 105 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Do you see Slurpy? Or Ms. Herschel's iris? Or her fan?" pg. 110 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | We didn't find any of the stolen objects, but I'll never forget the afternoon. The whispering! The sneaking! The hiding in dark closets! Pg. 111 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "People write poems on gravestones," he said. "What about that? I have the perfect rock." pg. 113 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Bandit, Brave and funny, Ready to run and play, Inspiring everyone to smile more. True friend. Pg. 114 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Henri looked at me with something new in his eyeballs: respect. I think he is seeing that I'm not just a little kid anymore. Pg. 115 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Patrick and his dad set up a trap." pg. 117 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "The moment of truth has come." Patrick whispered. Pg. 118 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | I have taken the tea that was in the classroom. Forgive me. I have my reasons. Pg. 119 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | His birthday is tomorrow. I bought his favorite tea, which he ran out of on Friday, and had it all wrapped and ready right here. Pg. 119 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The video showed the door knob turning and the door opening. An arm reached inside the door and turned off the light switch. Pg. 120 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Goldfish, iris, fan, tea. Pg. 120 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Can I write a play instead of a poem?" pg. 123 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | How I do love to flap my little fins, for when I race against myself I win! Pg. 124 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "All characters are fictional. Any resemblance to any real person is coincidental." pg. 124 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | From that day on, they read poems old and new. The thief was glad. His name was… Mr. … pg. 125 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "You don't like coffee, do you, Mr. Crew?" pg. 126 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "You're not supposed to make an accusation unless you have proof." pg. 127 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "I believe you wore these gloves to prevent your fingerprints from being left at the scene of the crimes." pg. 129 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | "Bravo! You have done it! I am the thief!" pg. 129 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | It's going to feel funny not to have a mystery to solve. Pg. 131 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | He looked at his parents' goofy smiles and imagined how much joy they must bring to sick kids every day, and his heart danced with love and pride. Pg. 133 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | In this story, a discarded journal reveals that the rival character is sad because his parents are getting a divorce. Pg. 134 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | If every person saw every other person's sadness, then there couldn't ever be such a thing as a complete enemy because how can you hate somebody who you feel sorry for? Pg. 135 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The puppy was a tiny white bundle with a wide-awake face, a wet black nose, and a sloppy pink tongue. Pg. 136 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The morning unfolded with the usual mix of deciphering and daydreaming, drudgery and delight. Pg. 136 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Silence is the water that helps your imagination to grow. Pg. 138 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | Dear Reader, Here are a few more mysteries to solve. Don't peek at the answers. Pg. 139 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | At the end of this novel, the author provides questions and answers about the famous writings she used as sources for her work. Pg. 140 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | One of the characters in this book has a name that was created by using the first letter of these writers' names: Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson and William Carlos Williams. Pg. 140 |
| Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook | The author uses the same names for her fictional characters as the names of real poets who were in love. Pg. 140 |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Her boring job was the only reason she could buy half a cheese sandwich and a rain slicker. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | A girl who begins her life on a doorstep, without a note or clue of any kind, has a choice. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | It was a creature of some sort, and it pulled its enormous, blubbery body onto the sand with a pair of front flippers. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Large black eyes, surrounded by folds of skin, stared down at her. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Slime shot out the end of the dangly nose and landed in Isabelle's short hair. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | She wondered if the apple would be edible after travelling inside a nose. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | If a slug wanted to move across town, it would attach itself to a boot or pant leg when a villager walked down the street. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | She considered salt to be a sacred weapon in her one-woman battle against the slugs of Runny Cove. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | For most of the tenants, each day yielded the exact same events so the days blended together. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "Yer the boringest tenants in the whole world. Bunch of dimwits, the whole lot of ya." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "She said it fell from the sky. Said a black bird dropped it on her head." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "Don't think fer one minute that just because I'm in the parlor ya numb-headed fools can steal from me." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | It seemed the only climbing she could manage was the ladder to her observation chair. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Kindness kept their hearts from turning stone cold like Mama Lu's and kept their spirits from washing down the storm drain. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "I'm such a burden to you," the old woman said, tears filling her red-rimmed eyes. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | The apple, now golden brown, sat in a pan on top of the oven. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "All I know is that it don't take much brains to know a bad apple is a bad apple." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | The distance between the hanging slickers and the stairway stretched before her, where squeaky floorboards lay like landmines. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "Well, I say she's a mold-covered lying rat and she fiddled with my oven." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | In the distance, the factory's cement towers pierced the low-hanging clouds. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | His glossy black trench coat crunched as he walked up and down the line, twirling his driving gloves as if he didn't have a care in the world. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Silver beads dangled from the umbrella's edges, tinkling magically. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | The usually colorless faces of the factory's workers reflected the umbrella colors in a way that was both awesome and terrifying. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "My clients, people of the highest caliber and breeding who live far away from this revolting place, want umbrellas to match their shoes and umbrellas to match their travelling cases." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Her tears soon cleared but the seed continued to drive her mad. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "I won't let her kill my barnacle Granma taught me all about barnacles." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "And what about them plants? What do ya think likes to live on plants? Slugs and bugs, that's what." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "This stuff is mine 'cause it's in my house. It don't belong to you 'cause she weren't yer real, blood-born granny." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | The rain poured as she negotiated the slippery driftwood, but both she and the barnacle reached the beach without injury. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | And his skin wasn't translucent, but as brown as wet driftwood. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "Okay, well, technically an elephant seal delivered your apple." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "I bought the three apples and Rolo, Eve, and Neptune helped me deliver them to the three kids." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Only someone with a pure heart can eat a Love Apple. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Now was the time to find out if what she had always believed was true- that she had not been left on that doorstep because she was an unwanted piece of garbage. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "NEPTUNE! THE TIDE IS READY!" |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Not only have I been stuck in this depressing stinkhole for an entire week, but now I've got a passenger who can't swim." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | As soon as he reached deep water, his flabby, rotund body moved as gracefully as a bird in flight. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Though her heart pounded and she still hadn't caught her breath, the icy plunge seemed to have shocked the seasickness out of her. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | The rain's melody, sometimes delicate, sometimes thunderous, had serenaded her for as long as she could remember. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "Yer an ugly little thing, with that stuff growing in yer hair and those scrawny arms and legs." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "You couldn't possibly want to look that way, with your skin all puckered and see-through." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "Anyway, you're just jealous because I'm a tender and you're not!" |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Feeling full was as unfamiliar to her as rainless silence." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "Hopefully we'll land by dinner, if that good good-for-nothing seal would hurry and finish hunting." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "A yellow-bellied marmot. You gotta watch out for them." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Little white feathers fanned the water as the barnacles fed. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | The marmots ran along the trunk, then lay on their bellies and hung their heads over a branch. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "YOUR NOSE IS LOOKING EXTREMELY LOVELY…I MEAN, EXTREMELY BULBOUS THIS MORNING!" |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | The shirt stretched as the marmot turned itself around and popped its head back out through the neck hole. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Their gray shapes darted beneath and above the water line, somersaulting and rolling as gracefully as waves. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | The Northern Shore stretched out before them- speckled beach, clay banks, and fir trees as far as the eye could see. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | They walked through a grove of pine trees, passing over a forest floor of dappled shadows and moss. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | They stepped out of the forest and into a little meadow where a wooden caravan sat. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "Why not change your name to Vanillabeanly since you are so pale." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "What we tenders grow is magic." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "Magic's when you close your eyes, make a wish, and it comes true." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "Tenders are the only people in the entire world who can grow magical ingredients." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Her head filled with music as a song begged to be born. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | The oxen seemed to know where to go without his help, plodding along the steep trail at an even pace. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | The marmot climbed onto the boulder and hurled her rock, which hit Wart Nose in the back of her head. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "I used Vice Vines, aptly named for their vice-like grip." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Vice Vines, however, have very short attention spans and quickly grow bored with squeezing. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "Fortunes must make a solemn promise to never reveal the whereabouts of Fortune's Farm." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | The rock wall looked as smooth and black as an umbrella. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Emptiness lay before her as time hung between the moon's departure and the sun's arrival. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | A rosy glow crowned the distant mountain, then spread across the sky like spilled dye. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | An "ooh" and an "ahh" slid from her lips, for no words could express her amazement. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | So this was what it felt like to be warm all over- like an enormous hug. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | The skin that had always been as puckered as a dried-up slug and as pale as moonlight, looked smooth and slightly pink. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | After all, a grandfather and a great-uncle were more relatives than she had ever had in her entire life. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Fruit in all shapes and sizes crowded the branches of the orchard trees. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | While she had long conversations with barnacles, potato bugs, and slugs, she had never before spoken to a tree. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | The tree began to shake all over, rustling its leaves excitedly. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "You may be uneducated in our ways but instinct is a powerful source of knowledge." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "No tender has had hair that color since the very first tender." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "It's a magical barrier that keeps outsiders from wandering onto the farm." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "Breaks are mandatory around here, as are naps, daydreams, and occasional episodes of goofing off." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | She peeled off the kelp suit and sighed as warm water cascaded over her new skin. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | A grassy yard dotted with daisies stretched between her room and the red barn. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "THE END HAS COME!" |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | And finding a lost granddaughter would make for happiness and rejoicing, not yelling about things coming to an end. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Plates sat stacked in the sink and a family of mice ran along a little trail they had made across the dire-covered floor. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | She ran to the other side, a wilder side with a forest and looming mountains, hoping for a trace of checkered coat and white hair. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | THIS WAY TO THE SWAMP THAT MAKES RUDE NOISES. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | THIS WAY TO THE CAVE THAT SWALLOWS THINGS AND SPITS THEM BACK OUT. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | The fish took a few bites and floated up out of the water. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | A breeze slid beneath her, lifting and carrying her back toward the cottage. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | She drifted toward the tower that loomed behind the cottage, right up to its single dark window. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | The air beneath the tower's overhanging roof was still and lifeless. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "You're not wanted," he snarled. "Go away." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Reunited with her body, she hurried across the yard to the large glass building. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "You're not wanted" is a rotten thing to say to a person who has just arrived. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Thin streams of black gunk oozed down the stalks. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "My seeds used to be alphabetized, but those squirrels keep moving everything around." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "You see there was once a time that magic was accepted as well as cheese was accepted." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | Thanks to her spell, our farm looks like solid mountain and feels like solid rock to outsiders. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "The end has come, so go away!" |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "You made the solemn promise not to tell anyone about the farm and not to take anything from the farm." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | He fired the farmhands because he thinks there is no future for magic or the farm. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "The spell was weakened when she took the magical seeds off the farm." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | She cried because the world was full of mean and rotten people who cared only about making money. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "I knew it would be easier for you to leave if you believed that your grandmother had died." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | The vines settled as the tunnel closed behind her. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | A happy ending for a skinny factory worker from the most miserable place on Earth. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | "It mimics the ocean's movement inside your stomach so your stomach doesn't become confused by the motion outside." |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | One marmot can eat three times its body weight in clover in a single day. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | The Camouflage Creepers worked their magic, blending the caravan into the wet driftwood. |
| Fortune's Magic Farm | As the villagers cast off their slickers, the gray that had soaked into their bodies began to evaporate. |
| Guinea Dog | "Just as snug as a bug in a rug!" |
| Guinea Dog | "Copy that." |
| Guinea Dog | "We can't be double tardy." |
| Guinea Dog | "The more the merrier." |
| Guinea Dog | "You can't make one sound, or else I am dead." |
| Guinea Dog | Scrabble tiles |
| Guinea Dog | "She was always ready for another toss, hopping up and down, wagging her butt." |
| Guinea Dog | "See you with the G-U-I-N-E-A P-I-G?" |
| Guinea Dog | "Computers have to be plugged in or have batteries, but we just go and get our own fuel." |
| Guinea Dog | "Since I started working at home, I've been…a bit…tense, I suppose." |
| Guinea Dog | "What part of that sentence do you not understand?" |
| Guinea Dog | "Be happy with what you've got." |
| Guinea Dog | "It's pretty typical behavior for boys his age." |
| Guinea Dog | "This was Normal House U.S.A." |
| Guinea Dog | "I should go down and offer your mom my condolences." |
| Guinea Dog | "You think you can laugh your way out of anything, but I don't think you'll laugh when you end up repeating fifth grade." |
| Guinea Dog | "She is the coolest thing on four legs!" |
| Guinea Dog | "If there was a girl here, she'd wreck everything." |
| Guinea Dog | "You can't judge a book by its cover, et cetera, et cetera." |
| Guinea Dog | "If you do not object to what I just said, I won't speak to you for hours, if not days." |
| Guinea Dog | "Dad deserves some downtime from work to commune with nature." |
| Guinea Dog | "Cease cracking the whip, taskmaster." |
| Guinea Dog | "Teacher gave me a gold star." |
| Guinea Dog | "That's three times this week, and it's only Wednesday." |
| Guinea Dog | They knock over Christmas trees, they attack mail carriers, they attack their own tails. |
| Guinea Dog | Dad had taken a new job as an editor for a golf e-zine. |
| Guinea Dog | Mom's job was mixing paint at Try Your Best Hardware. |
| Guinea Dog | Being at home all the time had transformed him into the Super Insane Fussy Work at Home Dad Guy. |
| Guinea Dog | I was tired of living in that freak house. |
| Guinea Dog | I had no idea that they could run so fast. |
| Guinea Dog | Dinner conversation that night was even weirder than usual. |
| Guinea Dog | "Eeee!" I squealed when I opened my backpack. |
| Guinea Dog | No way those ducks poisonous. |
| Guinea Dog | School flew by that day, just to make me mad. |
| Guinea Dog | I heard the howling a block away. |
| Guinea Dog | They like to play games like tug of war, frisbee and fetch. |
| Guinea Dog | A lot of people had more than one. Our next door neighbors has two. The family down the street have three. |
| Guinea Dog | His list is endless: They whine, they gnaw, they scratch, they bark, they beg… |
| Guinea Dog | I was dreaming I had a Rottweiler. |
| Guinea Dog | My best friend's dog was perfection. |
| Guinea Dog | Solicitors will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. |
| Guinea Dog | Mom put a rubber welcome mat that read: "We're Glad You're Here!" in attempt to warm up the fortress. |
| Guinea Dog | It was a store bought tree house, made of giant, fat, interlocking, colorful plastic piece since Dad's didn't want to mess with the noise and mess. |
| Guinea Dog | End of discussion. Return the rodent. |
| Guinea Dog | She claimed the store was called Petopia. |
| Guinea Dog | Dad gave me the Stone Stare. |
| Guinea Dog | Scrabble tiles does make a great hobby. |
| Guinea Dog | I wondered if there is a book or website, Lying ford Dumbheads. |
| Guinea Dog | No hurry. We are already late. We can't be double late. |
| Guinea Dog | Recess is a joke. You really don' t have time to organize a game. |
| Guinea Dog | He played me and used Shireen's poofy orange hat to be Fido. |
| Guinea Dog | He entertained everyone by doing a reenactment of the First Annual Rustberry Spring Recess Parade. |
| Guinea Dog | Of all the kids on the playground, why did she choose you? |
| Guinea Dog | Mar's, the big black puffball of death |
| Guinea Dog | How does a whole pet store disappear? |
| Guinea Dog | Here's why you should never keep a rodent in your backpack at school all day. |
| Guinea Dog | Did he somehow understand better than other people that nobody was what they showed on the outside, that everybody had good stuff on the inside, but a lot of it got all twisted up on the way out because people are always trying to be cool. |
| Guinea Dog | Her claws were making little squeaking noises on the upholstery. |
| Guinea Dog | I could pretend to be happy with an iguana that played tug a war or a parrot that slept at the foot of my bed or a goldfish that caught frisbees. But that wasn't me. |
| Guinea Dog | A big, fat orange rat with spiky white mohawk and creepy toes. |
| Guinea Dog | We played Crocs in the Nile. |
| Guinea Dog | She followed me jumping the same rocks I did. |
| Guinea Dog | If I made the laws, my mom would have been arrested. |
| Guinea Dog | The coldness felt good on my ankle, thought the pain was still intense. |
| Guinea Dog | I trained her to take discs in and out. |
| Guinea Dog | She's already ruined my life by telling everyone at school about having a picnic with me, … |
| Guinea Dog | China C. really likes her. |
| Guinea Dog | It's my old gameboy. My mom says I should give it to you. |
| Guinea Dog | He said it like he was talking about a turnip-asparagus-boogier smoothie. |
| Guinea Dog | "You are a total dorkchop, dude." |
| Guinea Dog | He pulled out his U phone and began pushing buttons. |
| Guinea Dog | You da boss, Roof. Broken-foot guy. Vamos, Senor Sull. |
| Guinea Dog | She bought a ferret collar and leash from a different pet store. |
| Guinea Dog | Every kid dreams of getting crutches. |
| Guinea Dog | He shoved whatever he had pinched in his fingers in my face and bellowed, "FLEA!" |
| Guinea Dog | She looked even more ratlike when wet. |
| Guinea Dog | No doghouse was complete with out the name painted in an arc over the door, right? |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | But the best thing about the roof is that no one knows I’m here. I've been coming out since I was eight and haven't got caught yet. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | There are lucky people in the world, and then there are people who always seem to find themselves knee-deep in trouble. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Like most kids with money, Billy knows when to flaunt it. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | What else can you call a kid who goes around bragging that he's the bravest, smartest, strongest, fastest person who ever graced the planet? |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | We head toward Billy Rattle's house. In the summer, his front lawn is know as "the field." |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Personally, I think it's funny to name your pain, but others on Ramble Street never get my humor. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | As far as I’m concerned, ice-cream trucks never some soon enough, and they leave too early. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | "Mr. Softee's here! I see it!" |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | I swear to the Slinky flopping around inside me that I will show the people of Ramble Street the real Muscle Man McGinty. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | No matter what I do in life, I'll always be the person worthy of only two Barbies, while she is worthy of thirteen. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | "Dr. Dan, my eye doctor, says he's never seen a human being who could see such a great distance." |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | That night, I have an empty feeling in the pit of my stomach, one that no amount of Oreo cookies can make go away. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Kebsie believes you shouldn't take any flack from anyone, and she calls everyone, even grown-ups, by their first names directly to their faces and not just behind their backs, like I do. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | But on the last day of school, Mrs. Webber glared down at me and said that even without my partner in crime, I was still trouble. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Jack continues, "You know, I like to think of life as a battlefield." |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | A group of neighbors on the other side of the yard is getting ready to do the bunny hop. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | "Hey, Mr. Pizza. Great voice. You really know how to work a crowd." |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | It's a sun-melting-tar kind of afternoon, and I bet that ice cream tastes good. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | "You're not tired. More like you stink and kickball, and you don't want to play." |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | "Dad, you work for big business. That's 'the man.'" |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | "Hiya, Beanpole. Did you will me to call?" |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | "Even when someone is far away, they don't stop being your best friend, Beanpole." |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | "Go home. You'll catch your death of cold," she says. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | After eleven years, Matthew and Michael Donovan haven't figured out that both of them can't occupy the same space at the same time. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Muscle Man's expression never changes, even though, in my opinion, his brother has just thrown him to a pack of hungry wolves. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | I make up a little song and sing it under my breath. "Strike one. Strike one. The fun has just begun." |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Muscle Man is so cheerful that I want to smack him. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | We're destroying this kid. He is toast. No, he is worst than that. He is burnt toast. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | The kid doesn't even lose when he's losing. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Help! I'm being abducted by evil Soviet spies who are forcing me to tell national secrets! |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | There's no name for the feeling inside of me. The emptiness I got from missing Kebsie seems like good times compared to this new feeling. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Even Mrs. Grabowsky, who can find out other people's business in less time than it takes for most people to put their socks and shoes on, can't get to her before the Pizzarelli's door closes. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Marshall's face grows puffy, like it's filled up with things he wants to say. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | "This is just wrong," I whisper to Shirley. "You can't laugh at a funeral." |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | "Your mother worked real hard to cook this food and even though it's filled with burnt specks and is probably unsanitary, you are being ungrateful by not eating the cheese fondue." |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | "These are the rules! We don't stop playing until he admits defeat." |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Unless you count the fact that I'm grounded until school starts as news, there's nothing happening at all in the Simpson house. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | The second he utters the word friend, an emptiness sinks inside me, causing my body to become so heavy that I bet I gain a hundred pounds. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | For a compulsive liar, he's strangely quiet. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | In the entire town of Massapequa Park, only I see him for what he really is. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Knowing the truth when others fail to see it is hard on a person. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | That's because the truth has a way of seeping under your skin and wrapping itself around you, like a coiled-up Slinky. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Coach says I'll be ready for the Olympics in Munich, Germany. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | I'll always remember my friends on Ramble Street. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | They'll probably want to put my picture on the Wheaties box. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Right in the middle of the dandelion blizzard, summer will come on Ramble Street. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | I had a truckload of Mr. Softee yesterday. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | I'd love some colored sprinkles, Mr. Grabowsky. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Kebsie is the kid I like better than all of the other kids put together. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | I'll will always be a person worthy of only two Barbies, while she is worthy of thirteen. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | For forty-two days, he's been going through Kebsie Grober's front door and sitting on Kebsie Grober's front steps. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | He pulls out a silver chain with a charm dangling from it. Even before I catch it, I know what it is. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Dr. Dan, my eye doctor, says he's never seen a human being who could see such a great distance. He said that I should be working as a top secret spy or something. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | She was a foster kid, like you. Mrs. Kutchner was her foster grandmother, too. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | She was the expert, full moons, new moons, crescent moons waxing gibbous, waning gibbous, quarter moons, she knew about every phase of the moon and howled at each one. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | I'm grateful my parents are stair shouters and not face to face yellers like Big Danny's mom and dad. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | The initials BF are indented into my cheek. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | I don't know where to send it. All I can do is stare at a blank envelope. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | I should know better not to begin conversations when Shirley is watching Jack LaLanne. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | When you go over to your best friend's house expecting to spend the afternoon playing Bobby Sherman records and instead you find out she's away for good. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | He hurt them both. They don't want him to find them, so they didn't tell anyone where they were going. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | I can never count on my mother to answer the door when her soap operas are on. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | The only time we're allowed on the Grabowsky's lawn is when we are doing quiet activities like talking. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | The slightest misbehavior can get you ousted from a game. And there is no point to summer if you can 't play kickball. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | The way they all stared at the brown spot in the middle of the grass you'd think the whole was as big as the Grand Canyon. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | For the record, when we voted about you, I voted to let you play. After all, you were the one who gave me my name. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | We want Pizza! We want Pizza! We want Pizzarelli to sing! |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Did I tell you about the time I sang on Broadway? |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Don't you know the LEM was built a few miles away from here in Bethpage? |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | LEM stands for Lunar Excursion Module. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Your uncle is the head of the Apollo 11 mission. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | He just challenged the entire block to our favorite game. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Even when someone is far away, they don't stop being your best friend, Beanpole. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | A clap of thunder makes me jump. It's 10:05, a whole five minutes after game time. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Strike one. Strike one. The fun has just begun. |
| Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Others Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me | Let me kick the ball. It's thirteen against one. It's only fair. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | If we want good things to happen, we have to make them happen. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | The winner gets to go to Washington DC |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | "Hey, if you're baking, you need the egg." |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | We laughed and said "cheers!" bumping our milk cartons together. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | I was so flustered, I scooped up a spoonful of soup and slurped it down. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | "Pinks 257." |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | 3. Now take a bite, but sit down first. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | She was a tomboy like me. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Since tea back then was a popular as soda or chocolate milk today. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | The "T: is for toad, I thought. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | "Woodhull Society Saturday" |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Skyrocket Blue gel dye |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | " 'M'Lady, it's a matter most urgent!" |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | "Little dudes, you okay?" |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Wow! She went to the rarely used quintuple-beg please. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | The police said the woods were "unsafe due to recent discoveries." |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | "Just because you shoot hoops like a dude, that don't make you tough." |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | President John Quincy Adams Caught Swimming Naked... |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Everyone called them the It Squad. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Baby Ruth |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Was I a cheater? Would I cheat to win? |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. What if you get caught? |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | …Life was good, people called it a "boom" or "boom time" |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | "Little lamb, why the sad, sad eyes? We're all friends here." |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | How you handle your mistakes is what can determine who you really are." |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | He was standing where he stood every morning, directing kids north, south, east, and west. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Itsy-Bitsy Wild Banana Bites |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | (Like the British soldiers who were ready in a minute, my girls jumped into action!) |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | "Why that conniving little scoundrel." |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | "If you skip on ingredients so you can splurge on making it look good, customers will know." |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | "Pig Pig, what do you think?" |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Questions pelted me like sleet, but without the sting. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | "Phil-an-thro-pist" |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | You have choices to make - choices about who you are and what you can do for the people who vote for you. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | She gave me two checks - one for $500 and the other for $600. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Pinks 257 were in the background playing my song. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Justice for all should really mean: doing the most good for the people who need it most. And finding a way to get everybody involved. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | She spoke to her vice president, class treasurer, and the Student Advisory Board representative. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | I grabbed Pig Pig off the dresser and gave him a big shake. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | My first step toward millionairedom and charity. It felt good to be a mogul in training. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | And you think that because you were willing to bend the rules, sneak around, turn friends against friends, and threaten others with losing out on their dreams that it would make the It kids like you? |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Revenge is a dish best served cold! |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | The part of Cinderella should have been mine. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | I am going to have to bake a lot of itsy Bitsy Wild Banana Bites to make up for being a lousy friend. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | After some fast, pre-carnival trick or treating, we all headed back to school. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | With a parent's help, peel two medium sized sweet potatoes and boil until soft. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Don't think I'm being too mushy or anything, but running a good campaign is a lot like making a good cupcake. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | You try different ways, you use your best "ingredients," and you always, always, always stick with the people who know you best - your friends and family. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Rosie the Riveter was like a symbol for women during World War II. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Finally, the cool kids are listening to me. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | The election was in FOUR DAYS! |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Once her secret is out, no one will vote for her. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | My mind was filled with recipes and dollar signs. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | I looked at my friends. My girls. We group-hugged. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | She found my memory book and saw the letter and the note you'd written under it. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Did you know that the president, Barack Obama, was a a huge fan of Superman comics? |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Prepare your pan: The easiest way to do it is make sure your pan is clean |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | I just want to make Orchard Park Elementary the best school ever. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | I'm here with someone I admire very much, Miss Delicious. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | I love the combination of graham cracker crust and fresh apple filling baked into a tender moist golden cake. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Jasmine Moon's show played on school TV yesterday. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Thomas Jefferson, our third president and one of the men responsible for the Declaration of Independence. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Not like old friends; more like kids trying to figure out what they have in common. Or if they have anything in common at all. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | One week and one day from now the kids at Orchard Park Elementary would cast their votes. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | How would everyone react to what I had to say in my recorded biography that would play on school TV later in the week? |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Mom and Dad were in there dancing by the light of the opened refrigerator to music that must have been coming from their hearts. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Something had to be done to stop the foolishness! |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Lincoln's important "address" took place on the battlefield; mine begins in the kitchen. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Made posters. Practiced speeches. Told everybody. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | I just stood there, the right answer stuck inside my mouth like a Tootsie Roll. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | When George Washington was president, the capital was in Philadelphia, not Washington, D.C. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Abba, caba, cccc, ab-ab, abcc, ba-ca (1, 2,3) ca, ca, bbb,…that's almost the end: don't forget the aabbcc!" I'd memorized the answer sheet. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | "I am not a crook!" says Nixon (and "I am not a cheat," says Brianna. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | I was all ready to talk about how William McKinley had a parrot who could whistle "Yankee Doodle." |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | I was studying my math and trying to ignore Toady Todd. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | The cool thing about confectioners' sugar and milk is that there's really no wrong amount. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Shhh! Do not even say such things, m'lady. Losing is not an option. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | The Baby Ruth candy was named after Ruth Cleveland, President Cleveland's daughter. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Chunks of sweet Red Delicious apples and tart green Granny Smith apples churned and ground and blended in the food processor. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Thinking I would ever go to a Pistons game with tickets from pure e-villll. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | We were still giggling over Becks's transformation into a Sassy Thing. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | No need to worry, she won't forget; she is your best bet! |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Snow Angel - white chocolate chips, cream cheese frosting… |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | Success included the right ingredients: staying true to yourself, following a plan that makes sense, and trusting the ones you love. |
| President of the Whole Fifth Grade | A good leader has to know when to run with the pack and when to pull away. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Have fun at school, Lambchop. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | But, walnut, don't you want two or three friends. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | By the time she was four, she dismantled her parents' broken toaster and turned it into a working radio. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | They were always quoting Dr. Wanda, a famed child expert. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | She crafted a working robot out of toothpicks. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | She taught herself Japanese. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | She definitely wasn't switched out of birth. Too bad. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | If he is well adjusted, then she was the president of Finland. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Wouldn't you like to go, marshmallow? It is going to be a pool extravaganza. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | She built a topographic map of Zimbabwe out of mashed potatoes. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Advanced Concepts in Modern Calculus was found in her backpack. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | She thought about equations while her parents made her watch TV. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | No spilling glitter on the rug, no falling over your desk. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | If you got three check marks, you had to stay inside for final recess and clean the windows. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | No one ever raised a hand in his class. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | If they forced her to dance in the recital at the Middlebury Performing Arts Center on Saturday, it would be utterly unfair. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Madame Robespierre in Association with Eisenberg Elementary Presents: OOH LA LA, a ballet recital about the history of France. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | The lemur was the exact opposite of a rabbit. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Everybody in line for the diving board for the high dive contest. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | She finally had her 100 dollars. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | The four of them were squeezed up tight together like a human snowball. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | She ended up with friends, not a calculator, what is she going to do with them? |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | "Have fun at school today, lamb chop," her mother would say. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | School is not for fun, it's for learning. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Sophie Simon was a genius. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Since earthworms have five hearts each, this was a pretty difficult task. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Aileen and Maxwell Simon worried that their daughter wasn't "well adjusted." |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Owen Luu. The one who was afraid of paste. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | She had never been to a birthday party, and she never wanted to go to one either. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | "All this time you promised you'd spend your free time reading comic books!" |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Having friends sounded like a waste of time. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | She stayed up past midnight studying under the covers. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Doozies. Dilemmas. Submarine-sized pickles. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Whenever anybody did something that Mr. St. Cupid didn't like, the teacher would add a rule to his list. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Daisy Pete had a lot of problems when it came to tripping. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Daisy had been trying to get out of her ballet recital for weeks. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | During silent reading time she worked on chemistry experiments. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Was it true that powerless people could find a way to change their lives, like Sophie had said? |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | "I want a calculator," she said. "A pembo Q-60." |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | She slipped-SWISH! And tripped- CLUNK! And crashed-THUD! |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | The second seat on the right was the cleanest one on the whole bus. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | For most kids birthdays were happy times. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | It seemed like no matter what Owen wanted, his mother got him the exact opposite. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Owen would not love an aquarium full of piranhas. He wanted a rabbit. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | She was the smartest girl in third grade, possibly the world. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | "Did you say that Julia is looking for a news story?" |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Owen nodded. "So the opposite of a rabbit," he said, beginning to understand, "would have short ears, a long tail, and be very, very loud?" |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Julia pulled her camera out of her bike basket and hung it around her neck. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Julia was not a mathlete. She was a journalist. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | From underneath the table Julia couldn't see any of the girls heads- just their pink tutus and pink ballet slippers. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | "Tonight you are telling zee 'istory of France. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | The curtain went up, and the audience cheered. The lights were bright and the music was loud. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | "It's not a joke," Daisy said, firmer this time. "We're staging a sit-in." |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Owen was wearing green dolphin trunks with a dress shirt and tie. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Sophie waited for her parents to leave, and then she wiped off both her cheeks. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Staring back at her was a ring tailed lemur. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Lenny the Lemur leaped from Owen's shoulder and pounce onto the cake, trying to grab the grasshoppers. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | "No arguments!" Mrs. Luu scolded. "You're getting a rabbit and there's nothing you can do to change my mind!" |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Somehow, Sophie had not ended up with a calculator. Somehow she had ended up with friends. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Snickerdoodle, Walnut, Gumdrop were just a few of her nicknames. Name the book. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | By the age of 7 she had performed open heart surgery on an earth worm. Name the author. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | School is not for fun, school is for learning. Name the book. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Her parents wanted her to be a well adjusted child. Name the author. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Maybe she had been switched at birth, she taught. Name the book. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | "Calculus is not interesting, Calculus is Math." Name the author. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | No choking. No wearing orange socks. No talking about fungus were some of the rules. Name the book. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | She told her parents her dance teacher was meaner than an angry werewolf. Name the author. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Are you reading a book during Math time her teacher asked. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | The Pembo-Q was the latest model. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | No reading books fatter than your head, rule #60. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | She needed to get out of the ballet recital and needed help doing it. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | He hated dirty bus seats. They were grimy and messy and gross. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | No matter what he wanted for his birthday his mother got home the opposite. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | Most things made him nervous- clowns and geese and moving sidewalks just to name a few. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | He felt she could rearrange his brain cells just by looking at him. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | She thought ballets were long and boring and pink. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | They looked like thirteen tiny terrified tots in tutus. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | She knew for a fact her story would make the school paper this time. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | She didn't go to the party to have fun or make friends. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | No reason to whack her father over the head with something heavy. Too bad. |
| Sophie Simon Solves Them All | HATS, Julia wrote in her notebook. VERY UGLY HATS. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Ms. McMartin was definitely dead. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Rumors soon began to fly regarding where and how Ms. McMartin had finally kicked it. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | A trio of gigantic cats shot across the lawn like furry cannonballs. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | It wasn't long before someone heard about the old stone house for sale at an astonishingly low price and decided to buy it. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | "We were both reading the same journal-The Absolutely Unrelenting Seriousness of Mathematics for the New Generation" |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | There were hundreds, maybe thousands of books, obviously collected by several generations of McMartins. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | It was like being in a museum where you were allowed to play with the exhibits, not just stare at them through the glass. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | A full moon pressed its face through the clouds, touching a path of white stones that led into the dark woods and disappeared. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The house's creaks and groans were almost covered by the thumps of her own heart. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | "That's not my name," it said. Then the cat looked back at its mirror image and ran one paw delicately over its nose. "Gorgeous," it murmured. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The cat's eyes glinted up at her like bits of green cellophane. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | If the house was truly trying to get rid of them, it seemed to be taking its time. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | All the people on Linden Street looked just about as old as their houses. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Carefully, the way you touch an animal that might not be friendly, she stretched her fingers toward the painting. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | "Test your hypothesis. Test your hypothesis. Test your hypothesis. In marching rhythm. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Her face sank through the canvas, and then her shoulders, and before she could grab the frame to stop herself, her whole body toppled forward into the dark and chilly forest. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Behind her, a frame floated in midair, holding a smallish painting of the upstairs hallway. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | When it had unrolled completely, Olive saw that it was actually a boy with a large, round face and a very small body hidden in a white nightshirt that was several inches too long. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | A shadow, thick and solid as a pool of oil, raced after them from the edge of the forest. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The cat guided them across the field toward the row of houses, his giant orange tail twitching like a banner. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | There were other houses that looked familiar, just with different colors and different details, and there were houses that she didn't recognize at all. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | As she watched, one tiny light flickered to life in a distant window, and she knew that Morton was there, waiting. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | As long as she kept the spectacles safe, and as long as she didn't spend too much time in any one painting, she would be alright. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She took a deep breath, flicked on the first flashlight, and ventured down, following the beam that sliced a little hole through the dark. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | In fact, it looked less like a cat and more like a small domestic panther. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | What the cat was sitting on was made of wood. It was flat and rectangular, and it had a handle made of an iron loop. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Perhaps the trapdoor was what the builders in the painting had meant about "something funny." |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | But the rest of the painting hadn't moved--the trees hadn't shifted in the breeze, dry leaves hadn't blown across the path--until she had put on the spectacles. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | "The people in all the other pictures were worried I would get them into trouble. They said there was a man who was watching them." |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | "You can't believe everything they tell you." Annabelle pressed her cold palm hard against Olive's hand. "Trust me," she said. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Even the gloomy upstairs hall had been bright compared to the twilight of the painting. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | "Nope. I'm a lighthouse." Morton swung the flashlight in one hand, its glow making a sparkling trail through the mist. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Then he turned to look up at the sky, where there were no stars, and where the clouds never changed. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She remembered the feeling of his warm nightshirt against her face while she had listened for a heartbeat that wasn't there. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Wondering if reflections worked the same way the paintings did, Olive put on the spectacles and walked into the vanity mirror. All she got was a bumped nose. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Their house was much more interesting than any beige two-bedroom apartment. It was more interesting than anyplace Olive had ever been. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | And if there was an attic, there had to be a staircase to the attic somewhere, and she was going to find it. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | It was as if every time it reached a level with her nose, the pendant suddenly became a magnet--a magnet that was attracted to Olive. The cat watched, with an I-told-you-so expression on his face. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | He was a bit like your favorite page in a book, one that you go back to and read to yourself over and over again, knowing that it will always be the same. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | This painting was just a place to hold the people Aldous McMartin had captured, like moths in a specimen jar. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | "I'm afraid that what you've heard is true. Those cats are, quite frankly, dangerous. But you can stay with me. You can stay with me just as long as you want to. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She felt as though a princess in one of her fairy tale books had climbed out and was waiting to be shown around the house. Except, of course, that Annabelle knew her way around. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | There were no paintings in this bathroom, and Horatio had selected the spot as the safest base of operations. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The cats encircled her feet, staring out protectively into the darkness like three feline gargoyles. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The three cats froze in their positions as a clot of shadows slithered swiftly around the edge of the door. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She was already on the first stair when something knocked the flashlight out of her hand. The attic door slammed shut behind her, leaving her all alone. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | A scream moved up her throat and tried to get out of her mouth, but it ran into her clenched teeth and came out of her nose instead. Olive bolted toward the stairs. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | It was not the ominous quiet that tells you something is sneaking up behind you, but a peaceful quiet--the kind of quiet that makes you ant to curl up and sleep. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Lights glowed cozily in the distant houses, and a few stars twinkled softly in the twilit sky. "Good night, Morton," Olive whispered. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Ms. McMartin was definitely dead. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Olive Dunwoody was 11 years old and very creative. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The old stone house was on Linden Street. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Mrs. Nivens lived next door for as long as anyone could remember. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The three kitty carriers popped open simultaneously. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | They talked to her patiently as if she were a foreign exchange student from a country no one had ever heard of. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | They met at the library at Princeton |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Her parents were mathematicians. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She liked to paint, but she mostly made squiggly designs or imaginary creatures. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She discovered an old chest of drawers with a pair of spectacles. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The house made squeaking, moaning sounds when the wind changed. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The painting at the top of the stairs seemed to be keeping a secret. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Mom grabbed the sides and pulled, but the painting would not budge. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Hershel was her old brown teddy bear. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Something was moving inside the painting. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Mom expected her to go into the basement alone. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She always skipped the eighties when counting to hundred. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | A talking gigantic orange cat squeezed through the window. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Their names were Horatio, Leopold and Harvey. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | There is something that doesn't want you here. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The portrait winked at her. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The canvas seem to turn to jelly as her face sank through it. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Test your hypothesis. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Morton wanted to get out of the forest. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | A thick solid shadow was coming closer. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | His skin was painted a very pale peachy color. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | "Girls are smarter than boys", he said. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Someone dangerous was watching her. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | There's something funny about the basement. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Mrs. Dunwoody was allergic to cats. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Proceed methodically. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The two halves of the saucer pulled back together, like magnets. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Annabelle grew up in the house. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Morton might be happier if she brought him a present. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | In this book a girl gave a boy a flashlight to play with. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Morton wanted to go home. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The author wrote about a boy that heard a man talking to a cat. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | In this book a girl and a boy did jumping jacks for a long, long time. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Warm. His nightshirt was warm. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Mrs. Nivens and Mrs. Dewey were Olive's neighbors. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Aldous McMartin was a famous painter. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | They did not redecorate their new house. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The house's windows were made in all different shapes and sizes. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | If there was an attic, there had to be a staircase to it. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Something sparkled in the painting with a small, silver lake under a twilit sky. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | This book tells about an egg-shaped gold pendant on a delicate chain. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | If you put the necklace on, you can't take it off. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The painting was just like one of those sneaky mirrors that's actually a window. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The attic was Aldous McMartin's studio. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | I said I was a cousin of the Count of Monte Cristo. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The dog and cat crashed away through the barn. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She was 11 years old and spending the night alone in the old house. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | They watched the fragments of glass shatter, then meld and pull themselves back into the window frame. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Those cats are witches' familiars in animal form, serving evil masters. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | He said, if we agreed to serve him, he would make us live forever. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | it was just a place to hold the people he had captured, like moths in a specimen jar. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Curiosity can lead to danger if we take too many risks. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Curiosity is the mother of invention. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The stones at the bottom of the wall in the basement held a secret. They were gravestones. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | I haven't left this room in seventy years. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She was told to get an old rowboat from the reeds. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | For a delicate-looking woman, she rowed powerfully. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The wind ripped the spectacles from around her neck and dropped them into Annabelle's hand. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The wave tossed Olive our of the boat like one noodle slipping our of a spoon. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | We need your help - Ms. McMartin is loose! |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Blackpaw's booty! The buried treasure of the pirate king! |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | He used the gravestones to build a new house to preserve the power of the family. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | They weren't dead exactly, but they weren't alive anymore either. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Baltus had been hidden away in the painting. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Aldous never did get the things he'd taken from the real world to blend in completely. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | This character painted a self-portrait and put it in a locket. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | His granddaughter promised to bring him back to life by setting the portrait free. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She finally died of old age, at a hundred an four years old. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The cat wore a breastplate made of tuna cans. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The urn was gold and covered with etched scrolls and curlicues, just like the necklace. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | With his yellow teeth bared, he looked different than the cheerful, tail-wagging mutt she had rescued. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Morton was tied to a small bare tree. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Drops of blood fell over the locket and into the urn's open mouth. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | "Come out, Grandfather." |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | "Run! If we can get to the picture frame, we can call for help!" |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | "I told you I was real. I have blood. You saw it." |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The tree roots began to coil around them to trap them. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | If they could get the spectacles and get out, then Annabelle would be stuck there for good. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The swirling clouds were thickening, pulling together into a huge, spinning funnel. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | A tiny, cheerful streak of gold bobbed around the clearing like a firefly. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She felt her sock was gone and she toppled out into the hallway. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | "I broke them. I break everything." |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The black cloud poured over the frame into the hallway gathering into a pillar that nearly reached the ceiling. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | They stayed close together and tried to find some candles in the darkness. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The author of this book is an award-winning poet. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | I found the necklace and put everybody in danger. I deserve this. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Olive raided the kitchen cupboards for matches, flashlights, and camping lanterns. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | A soldier doesn't run into battle unarmed. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Morton was curled up beneath the mattress in his usual defense position. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Something knocked the flashlight our of her hand and the attic door slammed shut behind her, leaving her all alone. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She began singing "This Little Light of Mine". |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She had never realized how much her fingertips could tell her. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | This book was illustrated by Poly Bernadine |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The sudden brilliance of fluorescent light exploded the darkness. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The neighbors grew very suspicious |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The old rusty mailbox had an aluminum door that couldn't hold the mail |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She didn't have anyone to leave her inheritance too. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The old stone house had antique furniture and strange knickknacks. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The sale of the house was as good as a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Meeting in the library, they found a mistake in the book and wrote to the editors about it. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She is a very creative girl. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The scratched wooden floor, and the chips on the wall made the large room look cozier. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The room had a stenciled ceiling and a ladder on wheels to reach the tallest shelves. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Our house---this is our house! |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | At the end of the white path……… the moonlight couldn't reach it. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | There were glass medicine bottles , and odd cooking utensils. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | It was like being in a museum, you were able to use things, but return them . |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | It was at the top of the stairs, keeping a secret |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | One idea was to use water, if they wet it, it might come off the wall. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The flitting white shape was moving, before diving into the dark thorny black forest |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | There were cobwebs, and old dusty shelves, and crumbling patches with dangling lights from chains. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Something green and bright flickered in the corner, something that looked like a pair of eyes |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | With the gauzy curtains, billowing in the breeze, the gigantic orange cat squeezed through the windows. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The eyes glittered like bits of green cellophane. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Be on guard, keep your eyes open. It wants to get rid of you. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | They were on a long beaded chain when she balanced them on her nose. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The little figure was limping in the long white night shirt. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Test your hypothesis. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | They were being followed as they ran through the forest. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She had to get away from the from that thing that was as thick and solid as a pool of oil. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | He was paint, a perfectly smooth, slightly shiny and pale peachy in color. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Hey! Don't push me! |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Up close the old houses looked grand, with gingerbread trim and lead windows of every shape. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The porches, and lawns were empty, there was no light coming from the windows. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Stamp collecting is not a fatal hobby. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She could tell he was waiting for her when she saw the tiny flicker of light in the window. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Forty-six lima beans, please |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The girls wore wreaths of wild flowers in their hair as the danced holding hands. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | It was like pressing your face in warm Jello-0 |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The basement, there is something funny about the basement. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | My coat is simply filthy. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | What you just did was very dangerous! |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | When did you start wearing glasses? |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | There was a glimmer of green in the farthest corner. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The panic pounded out of her heart through her whole body |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | That's classified information. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The chandelier conundrum! |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The old safety pin poked her foot. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | There was a menacing look around the eyes and the sharp ledge of the eyebrows. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | the sofa was squishy with lots of pillow in all shades of pastels |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | There were sponges and coloring books and broken crayons to play with. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Do you ever have to go to the bathroom????? |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The other house had a striped umbrella with a little white picnic table |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The small round windows looked like something from an old sailing ship. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The necklace had swirls and curlicues with a long chain and an egg shaped pendant. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | It was like a magnet, never getting above her nose. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | For breakfast it was "sugar-puffy kitten bits. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | There was a distant muffled sound in the wall near the bowl of fruit. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Her heart was doing a tap dance on her ribs |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Her stomach was queasily as if a spider had run over her skin. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | It was late autumn. There was a cool nip in the air that brushed the long grass around the old brown barn. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | He leaped from the piano to the mantle, and skidded down the polished wood hallway. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Three hundred and thirteen pieces! |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The Triple Ripple Ice cream with the chocolate chips was in a gigantic crystal bowl. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Everything you do here gets fixed. It goes back to how it was before. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | They want to get rid of you! |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Look at the stones, look at the bottom. Don't trust the cats! |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The people were held captive light moths in a specimen jar. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Her hand ran over the stones in a long slow arc. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | They are "witches familiars" |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | You have lost your mind, why don't you go to the nearest mental hospital? |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | It's been seventy years since she left the room. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The weathered old rowboat was covered by the waving reeds in the water. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | You will wear it until you die. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The smooth black stones that appeared in the rolling water dissolved behind her. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The wind was getting stronger, the waves pouring over the boat were getting higher. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Somebody! Anybody! Help me!! |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Hold on to my tail! |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | "I didn't lose them! She took them" |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The fire destroyed the home the family had lived in for centuries. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The only good thing his son every did was to give him a granddaughter. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | He wanted to create, control and trap life, to make it last forever. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | They would always be young and lovely. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | His self-portrait was inside the locket. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She wore it until she was 104 years old. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The gold container looked like it was a cross between a trophy and a lamp. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The long yellow teeth were bared on the gigantic dog as he thundered from the attic. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | It smoldered against her chest as she listened for the hissing and growling to come. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | It looked like the hilt of a dagger sunk deep into the stump. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | His ankles were tied together as he was told to hold out his hand. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Her eyes were lit like oil fires, her face was cruel and twisted. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Was it blood or paint that came from the boys palm when the dagger cut into it? |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The filigreed halves of the pendant were open over the urn. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | His face had deep pits for the eyes, and a sharp square jaw. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The wind bent the trees, leaves and twigs whipped through the chilly air. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | They ran as fast as they could through the wild wind and heavy ashes. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The long black tree branch thwacked her on her back so hard she did a backward somersault. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | I have blood---you saw it. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | You were real once! |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The tree roots were snaking themselves out of the dirt and coiling around them as they hid. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | It bobbed like a tiny firefly in the clearing. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The beam of light made her shriek and cover her eyes. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She was half way through and the hand grabbed her foot. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | We did it! We did it! |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | There was a piece of glass poking in her ribs. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The windows were dark , they couldn't see their hands in front of their faces. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | It was absolutely dark, it was icy and damp and complete. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | They encircled her feet, staring protectively into the darkness |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | They won't let their legacy go so easily. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | It's my fault, I put everyone in danger. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | We need to bring the light! |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | A soldier doesn't run into battle unarmed |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | "Keep moving---don't close your eyes" |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | What ever brushed against her arm, felt wet and cold, like and eel or a strip of seaweed. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Giving him encouragement was the best she could do as she brushed a dust bunny from his sleeve. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | At the end of the massive tunnel, there was only darkness |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The attic door slammed shut leaving her all alone. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | She sang songs, like "this little light of mine" and Let the Sun Shine" |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Glow little glowworm, glitter, glitter. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | The spiders with hundreds of running legs, were on her ankles and calves, all over her. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | There was a kind of quiet--one that makes you want to curl up and sleep. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | YoudiditYoudiditYoudiditYoudidit! |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | God speed, Sir Pillowcase! |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | "My love for you is a monotonic increasing function of time." |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | They walked up and down on the fresh turned dirt, tramping it down with their round footprints. |
| The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | I'll just have to get and an anti-allergy injection. |
| The Familiars | Stealing was one of his favorite schemes to fill his belly. |
| The Familiars | He had a habit of thinking three meals ahead. |
| The Familiars | Finding food was a full-time job. |
| The Familiars | "Gotcha," said the mysterious figure. |
| The Familiars | Since when did the old fishmonger set traps? |
| The Familiars | "It's Grimslade!" |
| The Familiars | He made a mental not to add this to his list of greatest escapes. |
| The Familiars | Shadow hounds were canine apparitions concocted from black magic. |
| The Familiars | "You're an impressive foe, but the chase ends here." |
| The Familiars | There were dozens, no hundreds, of cages, stacked floor to ceiling. |
| The Familiars | There were unusual creatures with unusual talents. |
| The Familiars | They were animal companions of wizards and witches or any spellcaster. |
| The Familiars | "Kalstaff, I've been expecting you." |
| The Familiars | "I want to be a Beyonder," he said. |
| The Familiars | Chameleon crabs specialize in camouflage spells that can make themselves and their loyals blend in with their surroundings. |
| The Familiars | Jack saw a six-inch-long green lizard wearing a tiny saddle on its back. |
| The Familiars | He was an ordinary alley cat, whose only real talent was for getting in trouble. |
| The Familiars | The three T's of animal companionship were: temperament, toughness, and talent. |
| The Familiars | "I'm going to name him Mittens," he said excitedly. |
| The Familiars | They passed a caravan of driftfolk, tattooed traveling merchants. |
| The Familiars | Volcano ants! |
| The Familiars | A blue jay sat on Dalton's shoulder. |
| The Familiars | "Your cat looks like it could use a bath." |
| The Familiars | "Marianne, Dalton, we're back!" |
| The Familiars | She was joined by a red-eyed tree frog. |
| The Familiars | "Are those fleas? No, they are freckles." |
| The Familiars | "Do I have any flies in my teeth?" |
| The Familiars | Wind fairies |
| The Familiars | Swimming eyeballs |
| The Familiars | "We should gather some juniper berries and sage leaves to cast the spell." |
| The Familiars | Bridgetower |
| The Familiars | Mud lizards |
| The Familiars | The Collected Divining Spells of Parnabus McCallister |
| The Familiars | Queen Loranella |
| The Familiars | Gundabeasts |
| The Familiars | The queen's magic was important for keeping Vastia safe. |
| The Familiars | "Holy dragon eggs!" |
| The Familiars | "My mom and dad were Beyonders, you know." |
| The Familiars | What kind of dark magic was Skylar dabbling in? |
| The Familiars | "Tricks are for circus monkeys," she said. "I'm an illusionist." |
| The Familiars | Telekininesis is moving things with your mind. |
| The Familiars | Mind reading is telepathy. |
| The Familiars | It had three eyes, tough gray skin, thick-hoofed feet, and a horn jutting out of its forehead. |
| The Familiars | "Gustavius rescutium!" |
| The Familiars | Constrictor vines |
| The Familiars | The tiny glass vials contained different spell components. |
| The Familiars | Four riders sat atop the phantom stallions, their identities hidden by darkness. |
| The Familiars | Loranella |
| The Familiars | Wyvern and Skull |
| The Familiars | "I'm going to feed your corpse to the bone vultures," said the queen. |
| The Familiars | The prophecy was three stars spinning in the sky. |
| The Familiars | "Heroism appears in many forms," he said in a whisper. |
| The Familiars | "Guide him gently into the Tomorrowlife." |
| The Familiars | She called the library a trove of irreplaceable knowledge. |
| The Familiars | The gray-haired witch was called Agdaleen. |
| The Familiars | Tremor hawks were avian predators. |
| The Familiars | Clear glass jars were filled with ingredients for a witch's brew: goat tongue, mugword, and goblin toes. |
| The Familiars | She wore an anklet of silver and emerald squares. |
| The Familiars | Gilbert was terrified of his dad. |
| The Familiars | "Vastia sure is…….vast!" |
| The Familiars | They needed to go because their loyals needed them. |
| The Familiars | "Meow," he purred in his most sympathetic face. |
| The Familiars | "I didn't lose this piece of ear chasing yarn." |
| The Familiars | The queen demanded the capture of the three animals. Dead or alive. |
| The Familiars | ….it's just a frog thing. |
| The Familiars | Is anyone else's tongue sweating, he asked. |
| The Familiars | It was Grimslade. |
| The Familiars | When he was disguised as a chicken, he ate a fly. |
| The Familiars | Patches of green skin were visible where feathers had once been stuck. |
| The Familiars | Scribius's map |
| The Familiars | The billy goat said the Bridge of Betrayal was cursed. |
| The Familiars | "I see you both eyeing my maggots," he said. |
| The Familiars | There was lightning snow in the mountains. |
| The Familiars | He could have sworn that the rock he was sitting on just blinked. |
| The Familiars | They huddled shoulder to shoulder as the enormous troll approached them. |
| The Familiars | The troll's head exploded through the ceiling. |
| The Familiars | The piranhadon chomped down on the piece of white taffy. |
| The Familiars | The Mountain Alchemist was not too keen on having visitors. |
| The Familiars | The trio didn't have far to go. |
| The Familiars | The turtle's name was Edan and he was a time stopper. |
| The Familiars | The hydra has seven brains and each must be put to sleep for a chance for safe passage. |
| The Familiars | After going neck deep in the cool stream, he was covered in winged leeches called vampire leeches. |
| The Familiars | The kittens were practicing telekinesis under the guidance of an older cat. |
| The Familiars | "This is no longer your quest." |
| The Familiars | "If you're not from Maidenmere, where are you from?" |
| The Familiars | He had been accepted back into the fellowship. |
| The Familiars | A single dragon's head appeared, then another, then a third and a fourth. |
| The Familiars | THE SLEEPING POWDER!!!!!! |
| The Familiars | This was the acid spitter head. |
| The Familiars | He knew his friends would be cooked if he didn't do something. |
| The Familiars | We like to think of mosquitoes, stinging beetles and poisonous bees less as enemies and more as appetizers. |
| The Familiars | "That bounty is mine, beast!" |
| The Familiars | Into the light bounced a small, gray rabbit. |
| The Familiars | Paksahara said she was a hare, not a rabbit. |
| The Familiars | "Animals have served man for far too long." |
| The Familiars | The spell was between hiccupping and burping. |
| The Familiars | "Think about it, animal and man working together." |
| The Familiars | Gray haired. Gray hare witch! |
| The Familiars | They were honored to carry on the legacies of the legendary figures. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | It circled the carrots and bumped into the celery and finally settled beside a parsnip. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | Train tracks ran behind the woods below the house. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | She was allergic to pine and grass and dust and dogs. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | A thud. The crack of wood. A tumble, tumble, tumble sound. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "Your mother's calling you," he said. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "You should let him go," she said. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "You want a live bug?" |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | He planned to dash down to the woods first thing this morning and look for it. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "Y'all get out of my garden!" |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | They had put their ears against the metal rail to listen for the train. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | The two dogs trotted along behind him, sniffing every tree and pricker bush. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | The three boys scurried up the rickety ladder to the loft. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "Y'all are building something for that sad old frog." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | His stomach clenched up into a ball of angry. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "Staples would work better than that wire." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | Rocket was the secret code word they had made up to ditch her. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | They made a list of the tools they would need. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "Do you hear somebody talking?" . . . "I don't hear a thing." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | He blinked one long, slow blink, but didn't move. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | He inched along the edge of the dock, poking the stake into the water. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | Using hinges wasn't a very good idea. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "You should put water from the pond in there." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | She crawled through the hole in the hedge, disappearing into her own backyard. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | When he had first brought him home, he had croaked all night long. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | Anybody who would tear down a perfectly good fort was deserving of a glare. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "Bullfrogs love crawfish." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "You're not going out on that rotten ole dock, are you?" |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | Something was niggling at him. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "A hubcap. Shoot!" |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "If something's tumbling, that means it's like, rolling." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "Whatever was tumbling was probably going downhill, right?" |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | They found a grocery cart with two missing wheels. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | The more he thought, the bigger the niggle got. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | It grew and grew until it became a tangled-up mass of worry. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | It was big and red and made of metal. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | Jammed between two scraggly oak trees was part of an enormous wooden crate. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | The red thing lay nestled at the bottom of the ravine. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | One end was rounded, like the nose of an airplane. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | There were no wheels, just a flat, box-shaped bottom. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | Water Wonder 4000 looked perfect. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "You are going to make sure that it works before you try to move it, right?" |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "There's leeches down there, all right." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "He should not be living in a cage." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | He hated standing in a circle around the piano singing hymns. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | His grandfather seemed to enjoy the conversation. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "Where's the hatch?" |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | His throat wasn't quite as yellow as it used to be. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | They made lists of supplies they might need, like rope and chains and bungee cords. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | It had been going to Sun and Sand Tropical Resort in Miami, Florida. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "That's an ambient-pressure submarine." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "Something's wrong with that frog of yours." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "Maybe we should bring the tractor down here." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "We've got to get some saws and clippers and stuff and start clearing a path." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "Y'all are going to put that submarine in the pond, aren't you?" |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "If she thinks she's in on the plan, she'll keep her yap shut and won't tell on us." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | Sawing and clipping and digging and hacking was hard work. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "I'm thinking maybe I should let him go." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "Other kids'll just mess things up." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "I'm going to take it for a ride with or without y'all." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | He needed to climb on the logs and float on the leaves and nestle in the mud and eat the bugs. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | She was annoyed that he had stayed gone all day without telling anybody where he was. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | He raced upstairs to find his parents, hoping, hoping, hoping they were not sitting at the Bible Bingo table. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | He lifted the lid of the perfect cage. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "Get your girlfriend to help you!" |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "I know how to get that submarine down to the pond." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | Her big fly-eyes peered at him through her thick glasses. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "Some people think that the Egyptians moved those big stones for their pyramids by rolling them on logs." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "We need two people pulling and two people moving the pipes from the back to the front." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "Then do it now. Go in there and start that thing up." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | Leroy came leaping out of the woods with something in his mouth. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | From way down at the pond came the low, steady r-u-u-u-m-m-m of a bullfrog. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "Now flip the switch marked CONTROL PANEL." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | The soft hum of the motor made his stomach flip with excitement. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "Turn on the flow meter so air for breathing flows into the cockpit." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | They had all decided that four pipes should be enough. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | She grunted as she scrambled to roll one of water pipes up under it. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | It glided into the water with barely a splash. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "It's like taking a giant drinking cup and turning it upside down and pushing it underwater." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "The bottom is open to the water, so the internal pressure and external pressure are always equal." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "There will be air trapped inside so you can breathe." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "She's the one who figured out that stuff about ambient pressure and ballast and all." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "I hope a water moccasin don't bite you." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | He gave the signal to untie the rope from the dock. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | He saw little silver minnows darting through the water. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "Turn on the forward and aft blow valves." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | There on the dock was a cluster of frantic-looking grownups, waving and yelling and gesturing. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | He was sitting in his bedroom, where he was going to have to stay for one whole week. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | "He's coming all the way from Canada to meet me." |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | He was bringing a reporter from the Macon Telegraph to interview them. |
| The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester | His grandfather lifted a hand off the bed and gave him a shaky thumbs-up. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | They stood patiently along a far wall, signing autographs, posing for photos, glancing toward the course every so often. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Often he just bashed his head into the bottom of the hoop and streaked on. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Remember, we compete only against the course, nothing else. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | The crowd noise faded and the world seemed to slow. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | He stared at the clock for a few seconds in disbelief. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | A bit rough is when you have to remove you fat dog from his backyard swing twenty times a night because he can't jump through it and won’t stop trying. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | S-so… I'm going to the United Center? |
| The Fast and the Furriest | It's just the single most important event on the agility calendar, that’s all. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | I'm glad you're amused by the fact that I've just been assaulted by the family dog. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | He's a high performance machine. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | This was merely our first- and certainly not our last- piece of hardware. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Anyway, you should take this trophy, put on your jersey-which you still haven't worn-and march back upstairs. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Your dog is clutch, dude. You can't deny it. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | There's a collectibles show out in Rosemont. I'm autographing this afternoon. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | But to the best of my knowledge, no dog has ever spent thirty-five bucks to wait in my autograph line. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | The father stared at this son. The son fidgeted. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | You won't stop and you know it-not unless you're able to pay back your investor. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | He carried himself differently, his chin raised a little higher, his voice just slightly louder. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | He couldn’t actually keep the trophy in plain view, of course, so he hid it under his mattress at the foot of his bed. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | In, particular, he enjoyed the memory of his conversation with the reigning champion of the Purina Challenge. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Have faith and yourself, and your fine dog. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | This music will balance and repair you, she said. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | He raced through Welles Park, listening to what sounded like angry cats being dragged across the strings of a damaged harp. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | He listened to park sounds for a while- birds in trees, kids on swings, cars honking in streets- and glanced down at his dog. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | It occurred to him that his escape from football camp was easily the strategic highlight of his summer. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | The ball will be snapped, then everyone will chase the quarterback, and then we'll just turn around and go. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | He ran across the softball field, cutting between the shortstop and the third baseman. Then he interrupted the T-ball game, scampering over the pitcher's mound. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Based on what he remembered from those horrible mornings at Scherzer, he estimated that he'd be tackled in approximately four seconds…three…two…one… |
| The Fast and the Furriest | He eyed the corner of the park nearest to his house, then lowered his head and ran as hard and as furiously as he could. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | He ran backward for a moment, long enough to yell "You need me to slow it down…" |
| The Fast and the Furriest | He was simply digging in as hard as he could, trying to catch up. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | He ran straight for the Bears Tahoe, jumped onto the hood, and scrambled onto the roof. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Just a few short weeks before, beating any camper in a footrace would have seemed unthinkable. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | You're looking good ace. At least the lisp is gone. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | So I'm celebrating here. I'm not sure when it happened, but I'm actually faster than you. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | They began to walk up the driveway-almost zombie-like, but still in pursuit. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Your son got kicked out of camp on purpose. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Great seeing you, old camp buddy! Drop by whenever you like. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Nice little bone trophy, by the way. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | So this nonsense is true?! Secret dog shows? |
| The Fast and the Furriest | He shut the door to his office-which was really more like a small Bears museum-and made three calls. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | He called for an immediate BFR- his term, referring to a "Big Family Round-table." |
| The Fast and the Furriest | He could have cried, but instead he went numb and cold until the BFR that afternoon. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | If you didn’t want to play football, why say yes, to camp? |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Because Dad basically made me go, he said bitterly. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | To what?! To make a total fool of myself? To do something I've never-not once- expressed the slightest bit of interest in? Ever? |
| The Fast and the Furriest | As I recall, you came to me to discuss camp options. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | And yes, I've been taking classes. That's why I've been jogging. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | That's where I go three days a week. All summer. No one notices. No one asks. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | I'm sorry you had to turn to dog shows because you don't feel like we were, you now…interested in whatever else you were doing. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | It's agility training. A-G-I-L-I-T-Y. Like the sort of things you need in what you call 'real sports.' |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Nothing is greater than football. Dog agility is equal to knitting or ice dancing or ballroom dancing. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Yup Dad. Frilly costumes. And wigs-fabulous wigs. Make-up too. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | You should not have lied to us, period. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | He was fast, true, but as for his technique regarding obstacles…well, it was not exactly refined. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | It would just be nice to have someone else-like, say Mom and Dad-watching us derive satisfaction from our accomplishments. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Dad says that when you do something once, you own it. You have the skill. No one can take it away. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Mom and Dad are total soccer geeks because you win. You win all the time. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Dad gets to bask in the reflected light of you winner-ness- and he loves it. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | I just mean one lousy time-one lousy game they can probably win anyway. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | And when you commit to a thing like that-more importantly, when you commit to a team- you honor the commitment. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | And if you want to beat the best, you have to face 'em kid. You never duck a challenge. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | They never managed to complete her course in anything less than 53 seconds-and that was before various infractions were factored into their time. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | I would like to confirm that you have these parents that are often referred to, yet never seen. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | There were dogs receiving massages from accredited specialists. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | There were dogs in bejeweled carrying cases: dogs wearing capes, tiaras, leopard skin outfits, bow ties, tiny mirrored sunglasses, Star Wars costumes… |
| The Fast and the Furriest | As your business manager, I'm just performing due diligence. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | He licked her and sniffed : she lifted his ear and muttered unintelligible things into it. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | They were domesticated from wolves, probably in East Asia, and almost certainly 15,000 years ago. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | They wore nothing but their own fur. No holiday sweaters, no tracksuits, no hats. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Don’t even consider the competition. They aren't obstacles. We don’t climb them. We don’t jump them. Don’t let them distract you. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | A crowd is a good thing. I've heard athletes discuss this. They feed off the crowd's energy. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | They moved at inhuman speed and with ruthless efficiency, wasting no steps. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Ramp, hurdle, tunnel, hurdle, wall, tube, table, weave, seesaw, hoop… finished. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | I was the financier! Of course I have money for the bus. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Did we miss it? We couldn't have missed it! I just called! |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Mercy rule. Ten-nothin', Team Illinois beats Team Wisconsin. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | I thought you'd be happy we were here. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | I'm completely committed to you. Win or lose. Football or…um…dog. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Its not important where you finish. All that matters is what you give. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | It's the UC. You only get to compete in a building like this if you put the work in. Getting here is the big thing. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | The air smelled like stale popcorn and nacho cheese, with just a hint of dog poop. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | The scene felt faraway, as if someone else were at its center. People seemed to cheer in slow motion, and voices sounded muffled. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | As you can see, there's absolute pandemonium here at the United Cen- |
| The Fast and the Furriest | He leapt onto his dad's wide back, then climbed atop his shoulders and thrust both arms into the air. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | Dad, we've switched controllers eight or nine bazillion times. The gadget is fine. It's operator error. |
| The Fast and the Furriest | We'll need to finish that course in 38 seconds next time for sure! |
| The Trouble With Chickens | Her eyes were tiny and black, and set so close to each other they practically touched. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | She picked up her left foot carefully, not sure whether she should back out of my sweltering doghouse. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | As her foot hung in midair, she lowered her pointy white head and very deliberately said…nothing. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | I could track the six-day-old scent of a lost hiker and pull a fat guy out from under a pile of rubble… |
| The Trouble With Chickens | "I already got a pillow, " I grumbled. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | "I'll work for a cheeseburger. Take it or leave it." |
| The Trouble With Chickens | They were half yellow, half white-like fuzzy popcorn kernels with feet. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | Nicknames are only cute when your mother knows where you are. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | On the job we call it "probability of detection, " POD for short. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | "Humans have a knack for finding themselves in places where they don't belong-dark woods, cold snow, and deep canyons. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | The earth will hold on to your smelly secrets for a long, long time. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | It was rain. Hard rain. The kind that makes grown men wear funny boots. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | She reminded me of a splinter I'd had once-it bothered me, and I was in a much better mood when it was gone. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | Two things were clear: Whoever had left that note had fast feet and a head full of big words. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | Sometimes your gut can tell you more than your nose. This was one of those times. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | I've never backed down from a staring contest in my life, but her eyes were so tiny and close-set, it was making me cross-eyed. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | Her left foot was bouncing up and down, like she was standing on a hot plate. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | Behoove. Rendezvous. Twilight. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | They were "inside" words. Words you only learn inside, where there are things like comfortable chairs and fresh lemonade. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | It looked like an Easter basket gone horribly wrong. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | I had a hunch once about a roast beef sandwich I found in an alley in Detroit. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | The shades were drawn, but you could clearly make out the silhouette. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | He had a long, skinny build, beady eyes, and a giant white funnel around his neck. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | Before I could think any further, my stomach rumbled. I was starving. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | I should have asked for that cheeseburger up front. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | "No medals and no parades here, pretty boy. Just my house, my yard, and my rules." |
| The Trouble With Chickens | She hadn't just inherited her mother's eyes, she'd inherited her mother's crazy. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | "No. I said the trail leads to the house. Are you listening to me? Do you even have ears?" |
| The Trouble With Chickens | To the right was an old birdbath. To the left was a droopy tomato plant. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | I grabbed her by the scruff of the neck and looked for someplace safe to stash her for a few minutes. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | I thought about the small town in the Midwest that had held a parade in my honor after I pulled three tornado victims out from under a mountain of debris. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | I was as out of place in the country as the guy I once pulled out of a snowy cave in his pajamas. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | The back door was rusty and crooked, with one small window and a floral shade. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | The game show host was laughing while an energetic woman in a wrinkled green dress was jumping up and down. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | I could make out the dim, gleaming arc of a giant plastic cone. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | She looked like a toothpick with a head. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | If you don't have the good sense to follow orders, you are about as useful on a search-and-rescue mission as a scoop of vanilla ice cream. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | Her mission was to look for any signs of her siblings and then get out. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | I call it RHBWR, but it's hard to pronounce. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | Sometimes there's a plan, sometimes, there's only adrenaline. Sometimes adrenaline is all you need. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | The walls were a dingy blur as we slid down the long corridor. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | It was the last thing I remembered before everything went black. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | "See? Nothing to worry about, Mom. You can leave anytime you like, " I lied. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | I'm going to get rid of all of them and I don't even have to leave the house. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | I woke up behind bars. Either something had gone terribly wrong, or I was back in Detroit. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | I've pulled people out of all kinds of places-cars, caves, crevices, and sewer pipes. But not once have I come across a lock. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | All I had heard from her rant was "Blah, blah, blah, rendezvous, blah, blah, blah, behoove." |
| The Trouble With Chickens | A tell is something people do when they are lying. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | "Regular guy is gone for the holiday. His cousin is filling in. Never seen me before, " he answered. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | So that's what that funny black tag on his collar was for. I thought it was the on/off switch for the lamp. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | "Mom, the doggie door is locked. We can't get out." |
| The Trouble With Chickens | "I have a plan," she said. Then she grabbed a pencil and paper and drew her own diagram. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | The fireworks had begun. They shed just enough light for us to make out our own shadows. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | I knew that they were counting on me, but it suddenly hit me that I was counting on them, too. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | All kinds of things can affect the outcome of a rescue-timing, weather, terrain, fatigue…and sometimes just dumb luck. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | I had a new appreciation for the pajama guy in the snowy cave, the lost skier in the Alps, and the victims waiting under piles of debris. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | It wasn't the linoleum that did him in; it was the empty plastic bottles. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | "I was just a worried mom looking for my kids. I did what I had to do." |
| The Trouble With Chickens | Sometimes, you find yourself exactly where you belong. |
| The Trouble With Chickens | We helped ourselves to a few books before we left the house that night. |
| The Trouble with Chickens | His real name is Johnathan Joseph Tully. P4 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | Probability of detection, POD for short. P14 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | His price was a cheeseburger. P6 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | This story takes place during the 4th of July weekend. P15 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | Behooves. Rendezvous. Twilight. P27 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | Her name was Millicent. I called her Moosh. P5 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | Vince the Funnel p36 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | "Are you listening to me? Do you even have ears?" p48 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | We have to be half strength, half perseverance, and half obedience. P59 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | Her mission was to look for any signs of her siblings and then get out. P62 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | I call it RHBWR, but it's hard to pronounce. P63 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | Sometimes adrenaline is all you need. P68 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | The rug carried me like a sled. P71 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | Unlike our Hero Dog, I didn't need years of training -- I was born brilliant. P75 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | "Poppy and Sweetie, I presume," I snarled. P77 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | I've pulled people out of all kinds of places -- cars, caves, crevices, and sewer pipes. P81 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | Vince wasn't as dumb as he looked. P84 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | "Sure we can. Not very well, but enough to get off a birdbath." p85 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | It was like a game of Ping-Pong. I hate Ping-Pong. P87 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | A tell is something people do when they're lying. P89 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | "Why in the world would you do that?" "For the books." p90 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | She raised her voice so high, I thought she might cough up a vocal cord. P92 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | Sugar spilled her guts for real this time. P97 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | "Mom, the doggie door is locked. We can't get out." p102 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | The fireworks had begun. P103 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | I have to admit, she's pretty handy with that sharp beak of hers. P103 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | Just one more reason to recycle. P109 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | We came for the TV, we stayed for the books. P111 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | Chronic ear infection. P111 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | I was just a worried mom looking for my kids. P113 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | Sometimes, you find yourself exactly where you belong. P117 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | I had to give Vince credit … he knew exactly how to push my buttons. P118 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | Can't stand him, but he's a smart guy. P118 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | She always catches me off guard, that one. P119 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | This book has an Epilogue. P118 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | Little Boo and Peep or Dirt and Sugar. P5 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | She reminded me of a splinter I'd had once -- it bothered me, and I was in a much better mood when it was gone. P20 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | Sometimes your gut can tell you more than your nose. This was one of those times. P23 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | It was time for a nap, after all. P19 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | It looked like an Easter basket gone horribly wrong. P31 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | He lives at Barb's country house. P4 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | I should have asked for that cheeseburger up front. P41 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | Hero Dog. P44 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | She hadn't just inherited her mother's eyes, she'd inherited her mother's crazy. P46 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | I was as out of place in the country as the guy I once pulled out of a snowy cave in his pajamas. P50 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | I could see a long, dark corridor with a polished linoleum floor. P53 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | Interference was Moosh's middle name. P63 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | I woke up behind bars. P76 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | She winced when I called her by her real name. P79 |
| The Trouble with Chickens | I thought it was the on/off switch for the lamp. P96 |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | If you turned left three times and climbed through the next window, you'd end up in the kitchens. Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | She felt like she was in a nightmare, and hoped desperately to wake up. Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | He's not invading yet. For now he is just spying. Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | Funerals were always held at sundown, with a feast afterward. Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | There was a kind of hum to the stones, a sense of awareness that hadn't been there before. Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | He certainly didn't look like an assassin, standing there in his yellow tunic holding those ridiculously small dogs. Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | She pressed her face as close to the wall as she could without smashing her nose, and stared through the peephole. Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | I wasn't aware of any feast for the peasantry. Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | He looked over the top of the brass spyglass, squinting at the road beyond. Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | Do you have anything to eat in your room? Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | Who wrote about a girl making an atlas? |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | I think I can see into your rooms from our hiding place. Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | Tomorrow morning they'll find their clothes ink stained, and more seams splitting. . . Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | It made a nasty-looking mud that he stirred with a small silver wand that he took from his pocket. Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | I'd like to find the biggest pile of manure in the stable yard and shove him into it. Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | It didn't look like it would be hard to slide down from the room to the balcony. Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | I'm not strong enough to lower you down, but you could lower me. Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | We're leaving nothing for those rats above to eat. Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | They feasted on apple cider, tarts, and sausages while they planned what to do. Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "Pogue was easily the handsomest young man in Glower Valley." Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "Let us not mar this sad occasion with talk of revenge." Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "The country of Sleyne mourned..." Name the author |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "We need to find out where Mum-Mother and Father are first, anyway." Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "The next morning, when Celie awoke, they found exactly enough guest rooms, barracks, and stables to house precisely the number of foreign guests they were expecting." Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | Name the book where the Castle can foretell the future. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "You're still the crown prince. That means that the Castle hasn't chosen anyone else to be king." Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "Rolf is still the crown prince, then Father must still be alive!" Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "It had draped itself in black, had refrained from making any big changes." Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "She would hug them tightly, and then present her father with the atlas, and tell him that she had always known they would be all right." Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | Some of the characters speak Vhervhish in this book. Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "The Vhervhish are always plotting to assassinate someone." Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "The Councilors had to stand but it wasn't an insult: they always did. It made them feel tall, Rolf would joke." Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | Name the book in which the main character is given a black cloak that made her invisible. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "Khelsh dipped the pen into the small ink bottle and signed with agitated scrawl." Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | He's young, and naïve: he'll soon realize that he's powerless to object…" Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | Name the book in which the main character's mother had a secret code to stick a handkerchief in her sleeve, so that a bit of it is hanging out. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | A handkerchief in the right sleeve means the siblings meet in the Spyglass tower at midnight. Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "Will you live every day for the good of Sleyne, her land, her beasts, and her people?" Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "Everyone else would know her brother as Glower the Eightieth." Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "It warms my heart for my people to receive me so well." Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | Name the book in which the main character's "first grown-up gown" is one of mourning. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "He dismounted, seeming to gather energy from some unknown source. 'They're alive!'" Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "It just….disappears. They can't find a single footprint, nor locate their auras." Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "Master Parry has just brought the news. They found their tracks leading away from the ambush site…" Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "She took her atlas…" Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "Khelsh laughed loudly. 'My best assassins did I send.'" |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "…half the soldiers are gone. And that includes Sergeant Avery!" Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "Cook stuffed me into the cold room where she keeps the meat." Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | This main character wants to spy on Prince Lulath and his small dogs. Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | Name the book in which the villain is exiled from his own country, Vhervhine. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "Dogs are very good to know people's hearts. And JouJou is the very clever." Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "Toulala mad water on Khelsh's boot." Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | One villain in this book had clothes that smelled like "moldy cheese and cats, but no one else seemed able to detect it." Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "For when he sank down into the straight-backed chair, his robe pulled tight at the shoulders and the seams promptly parted." Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "It involves manure…a great deal of manure." Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | The chamber pots disappear and the beds are short-sheeted. Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | The sisters were stuck in the Tower. Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "We have a little food, so we won't starve…at least not today." Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "The maids were crying. The knife boy was shouting something, and there was even a dog in one corner howling along." Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | They layered their clothes and personal things around huge cheese, hams, an loaves of bread and then took a secret way out. Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "Lilah is trapped in Spyglass Tower." Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | The main character attempts an escape through a trapdoor under a sofa and through the seamstresses' rooms. Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "The straw caught fire and the laundress screamed again. 'Go!'" Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "She was barely aware of her sister removing the various bundles from her person, plus the mirror-wand, the broken bits of biscuit, and the atlas." Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | Name the author who has a main character use an atlas to navigate a castle that is "alive." |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "The Castle isn't dead." Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "I know how dangerous black magic can be." Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | The secret passages had either been made for "Fair Folk" or "magical creatures." Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "…there was also the enormous bar, carved from a two-hundred-year-old oak, that had been lowered into its brackets to keep the doors securely closed." Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | The main character in this book must jump into a moat to save herself. Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "A lion, a winged lion-a friffin, like the one on the flag-stood between her and Khelsh now." Name the author. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | "The stones seemed to go soft under you, and you were lying there like an empress in a bed of silk…" Name the book. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | As the Emissary leaned over Lord Feen to help him gather up the pieces of his robe, his own robe split under the arms. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | You can look out the window and see if another search party gets sent out. |
| Tuesdays at the Castle | He was going onto the College of Wizardy to see if there is a way they could track Bran. |
| Turtle In Paradise | Everyone thinks children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I’ve lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten. |
| Turtle In Paradise | A girl my age is holding a baby that’s got a pair of ladies’ bloomers tied on its head to keep the sun out of its eyes. |
| Turtle In Paradise | He says folks in the Dust Bowl wouldn’t be having so much trouble if they’d just move near some water. |
| Turtle In Paradise | Archie’s a traveling salesman. He’s sold everything—brushes, gadgets, Bibles, you name it. Right now he’s peddling encyclopedias. |
| Turtle In Paradise | Mama’s always falling in love, and the fellas she picks are like dandelions. |
| Turtle In Paradise | Mama’s promised me that someday we’re going to live in our own home. We’ve got it all picked out, too. It’s a Sears mail-order house, from a kit. |
| Turtle In Paradise | I blame Hollywood. Mama’s watched so many pictures that she believes in happy endings. |
| Turtle In Paradise | What is it with folks always talking about where they’re from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it’s your muddy ditch, then it’s gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “It’s guaranteed to work in one month or your money back.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “At least I’m not named after something that gives you gas,” I say. |
| Turtle In Paradise | Beans hoots with laughter. “Idjit? Your name is Idjit? |
| Turtle In Paradise | “you been using that hair tonic on your arms, ’cause it’s sure coming in thick there!” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Here,” Beans says with a mean smile, picking up my suitcase. “Let me help you with your bag, Tortoise.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | Folks like to feel sorry for orphans, but I think they’ve got it pretty good. Little Orphan Annie gets adopted by Daddy Warbucks, who’s a millionaire. That’s just about as lucky as it gets in my book. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “What happened to him?” “Some boys lit her tail on fire,” I say. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “You a relation or a thief?” he asks. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Doc Parrish said you are supposed to take a nap every day!” “But, Ma—” “Do you want your heart to give out? Do you want to die? Is that what you want?” |
| Turtle In Paradise | And that’s how I find myself sitting on the front porch with Beans, Kermit, Buddy, Smokey, and Termite. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “And guess what? He said I could have all his marbles when he was dead,” Buddy says, and then his face falls. “But then he went and lived.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “You’ve got a club called the Diaper Gang?” I say. “What do you do? Change diapers?” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “You ever take care of good babies?” I ask. “Ain’t no such thing,” he declares. |
| Turtle In Paradise | Aunt Minnie picks up a rolling pin from the counter and brings it down hard on the scorpion. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “That’s an alligator pear,” Kermit says, pointing to a bowl of avocados. |
| Turtle In Paradise | The baby’s crying his head off like he’s being tortured. |
| Turtle In Paradise | I don’t like babies. They’re like Shirley Temple: everyone thinks they’re cute, but the fact is they’re annoying. All they do is cry and make messy diapers. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Can he breathe?” I ask. “Ain’t lost a baby yet." |
| Turtle In Paradise | Mama told me that Conchs are what folks in Key West call themselves. A lot of them originally came from the Bahamas, where they fished for conch. |
| Turtle In Paradise | The biggest turtle imaginable breaks the surface of the water like a lazy cow. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Sure don’t look like any sponge I’ve ever seen,” I say. |
| Turtle In Paradise | It’s so hot I wouldn’t be surprised if the hens were laying hard-boiled eggs. |
| Turtle In Paradise | The wagon hits a bump, and the front-right wheel falls off, making the wagon tip. The babies wake up bawling. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “That’s the secret diaper formula?” I ask, unimpressed. |
| Turtle In Paradise | Before he can grab a fresh diaper, a stream of liquid hits him right in the face. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Rule number three,” Pork Chop says, wagging his finger at Too Bad. “Always duck.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | Out on Francis Street, a throng of kids jostles around a man selling ice cream from the back of a horse-drawn wagon. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “The nickel was in the bottom of the can, mister.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | Kids lie. We have to or we’d never get anything. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “You want to play marbles now?” |
| Turtle In Paradise | They’re playing a game they call klee-klee, which looks just like tag from where I’m sitting. |
| Turtle In Paradise | For a kid with a bad heart, he sure can run. |
| Turtle In Paradise | Mama left Key West and hasn’t been back since. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Ker-mit! Ker-mit!” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Would your heart really give out from running around?” “I don’t know,” he says with a mischievous grin. “Want to find out?” |
| Turtle In Paradise | It seems like everyone on this island has a funny nickname, because the whole time we’re walking, Kermit’s greeting this person and that one: “Hi, Cheap John! Hi, Too-Too Mama! Hey, Kitty Gray! Hiya, Fat Rat, you try the doughnuts today?” |
| Turtle In Paradise | Leche is Cuban coffee with a lot of milk. Everyone seems to drink it down here, even kids. I saw a toddler sucking down a leche a few days ago. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “You know, you’ll never get famous unless you write for the funny pages,” I tell him. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “You in the habit of giving grown folks advice, young lady?” “Sure,” I say. “You’re the ones who need it most.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Mama said Key West was hot, but I didn’t think it would be this hot,” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Are we related?” I ask. “Seems like everybody here is someone else’s cousin.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “I thought you said you could swim like a fish,” Slow Poke chides me. “A dead one,” I say, and cough. “Honey,” Slow Poke says, shaking his head, “dead fish float.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Everybody’s always looking for Black Caesar’s treasure. Especially after Old Ropes up and disappeared.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Who’s Black Caesar? Who’s Old Ropes? Why’s everybody got such funny nicknames around here, anyway?” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Guess you could say I’ve always taken my own sweet time doing things. My mother said I was late for my own birth.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | Kermit’s right—Buddy’s more trouble than a baby. |
| Turtle In Paradise | Most of the parlor is taken up by a hulking piano that looks like it’s crumbling in places. |
| Turtle In Paradise | Most old people are cranky. Not that I blame them. How can you be happy when you know you’re gonna be dead soon? |
| Turtle In Paradise | “When ships would wreck around Key West, he would salvage the cargo before it sank and then sell it off. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Mami’s flan.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “We got babies.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | she’s meaner than a scorpion! |
| Turtle In Paradise | she stood up in church and told the minister his sermon was so boring he ought to be crucified! |
| Turtle In Paradise | “My grandmother? But Mama told me she was dead!” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “She’s not dead. She’s just mean,” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “I’m just some cousin from New Jersey,” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “He’s got so many of my aunts worrying over him, he can’t fart without one of them jumping,” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Where we gonna get the dough for a new wagon?” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “They had to stay after school every day for the last month and write I will not steal on the chalkboard two hundred times,” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Nobody needs fancy face cream. A lady buys it because she wants to feel young or find a husband or feel prettier than her neighbor,” he told me. “All I do is sell her that dream, bottled up nice and tidy in a cream, or maybe a new hat, or some brushes.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “This is the bee’s knees, fellas!” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “I don’t know about the hearts of men, but I’d bet there’s something evil lurking in that diaper,” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “I wish I had rheumatic fever so I could take a nap,” |
| Turtle In Paradise | The headline shouts Key West Cursed by Weeping Ghost? |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Mama’s head is so high in the clouds, I’m surprised she doesn’t bump into Amelia Earhart.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Killie the Horse! Killie the Horse!” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “You boys stop that right now! You hear me?” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “That was swell!” |
| Turtle In Paradise | My uncle’s face is tan as old shoe leather. He looks hot and tired, and has a pale patch of skin on his chin where a beard must’ve been. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Gee, I never met a man who could sew,” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Seems mean to eat something you’re named after.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Where’d you get that name of yours?” “Mama says I’ve got a hard shell.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | I haven’t cried since I was five years old. I don’t think I have much of a choice, to tell the truth. Who else is going to hold things together when Mama falls apart after some man disappears? |
| Turtle In Paradise | “You know, the thing about a turtle is that it looks tough, but it’s got a soft underbelly.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Can I please have some of the diaper-rash formula?” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Course I am,” I say. “You’re just used to rotten boys.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “This is delicious,” I say, and smile. “Shame you spilled yours.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | She reminds me of a lobster, with her beady eyes peeking out at me from under her red hat. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “You know, Mama told me you were dead.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Poor Mama,” I whisper. Chased off by her own mother. No wonder she’s such a wreck. |
| Turtle In Paradise | She’s wearing a royal blue hat with a peacock feather. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Do we have to watch babies today?” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Your cat made a mess in my clean laundry,” |
| Turtle In Paradise | Sure enough, some cat has done something despicable on a lady’s pale blue silk slip. |
| Turtle In Paradise | I’m not lucky as an orphan. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “You got stung by a scorpion.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | If there’s one thing a housekeeper’s kid can do, it’s clean. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Who do you think would win in a fight, Dracula or Frankenstein?” |
| Turtle In Paradise | I hold the coin in my hand, turning it over. Then I unfold the paper. It’s some kind of a map. |
| Turtle In Paradise | This being Where Blacke Caesar put His treasure |
| Turtle In Paradise | “It’s a map! To Black Caesar’s treasure!” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “This is the sponger’s key, with the cistern and the shack.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | I been sailing since I was in diapers.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | It’s a fact: if a kid is being nice, he’s probably up to no good. I guarantee you some kid was behind the Titanic sinking. He probably offered to steer the ship so the captain could get a cup of tea. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “We’re stealing Johnny Cakes' boat?” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “We just need to find this tree,” he says, tapping the paper. “It looks like a Y.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “I got a weak heart,” |
| Turtle In Paradise | I must have been crazy to believe in something like pirate treasure. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Look! She fell on her bungy!” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “My bungy found it!” I say. “My bungy found it!” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “It’s a U.” “Have you ever even been to school?” I ask. “It’s a C.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | Maybe Mama is right after all. Maybe life is like a Hollywood picture, with happy endings around every corner. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Hot dog, that’s a swell lot of gold!” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “We’re rich! Rich!” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “We’re rich as Rockefeller!” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Where’s the boat?” |
| Turtle In Paradise | There are folks all over the country who’ve lost their homes—they’re living in tents, in boxcars, under bridges. I can survive one night in a shack. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Nobody wears shoes around here.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | I wonder what Shirley Temple would do in this situation. Probably sing a song about how fun it is to be stuck on an island. |
| Turtle In Paradise | What is it with boys and fighting? I’m amazed any of them get to be grown-ups the way they’re always going at it. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “I’m not sure I want to be found. Ma’s gonna tan our bungys good. We’re not going to be able to sit for a week.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “I don’t want to spend all this pirate gold buying a headstone,” I say. |
| Turtle In Paradise | It’s probably the only time in history a bunch of lying, stealing, no-good kids actually saved someone’s life. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “We made the front page!” |
| Turtle In Paradise | GANG OF CHARMING KIDS FINDS PIRATE TREASURE LOOT WORTH $20,000! |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Your secret diaper-rash formula is cornstarch?” “Nobody would believe us if we told them,” Kermit says. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “What happened next?” the writer fella asks me, smoothing his mustache. I lean forward. “That’s when the rats showed up, Mr. Hemingway.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Maybe you can come visit sometime. I bet there’s lots of kids you can be mean to there.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Take care of Smokey for me,” |
| Turtle In Paradise | A Hollywood writer couldn’t have imagined a sappier scene. |
| Turtle In Paradise | what are you doing here? I saw your new daddy leave. |
| Turtle In Paradise | “Princess, everybody’s got a dream.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | “He’s a no-good crook!” |
| Turtle In Paradise | It may not be a Hollywood ending, but then I’m no Shirley Temple. |
| Turtle In Paradise | you already got a dumb nickname like everyone else around here.” |
| Turtle In Paradise | My family is related to the Curry family of Key West, after whom Curry Lane is named. |
| Turtle In Paradise | At the height of the Depression, Key West was in economic ruin, with the majority of the population on public relief. |
| Turtle In Paradise | the Labor Day Hurricane struck on September 2, 1935 |
| Turtle In Paradise | Searching for pirate loot has always been a popular pastime in the Keys. |
| Turtle In Paradise | Pepe’s Café is a beloved institution in Key West. It still exists, although it is no longer on Duval Street. |
| Turtle In Paradise | Nicknaming was a Key West tradition, and the nicknames came in all styles. |
| Turtle In Paradise | The scorpion sting suffered by Aunt Minnie was inspired by an actual incident. |
| Turtle In Paradise | The writer Ernest Hemingway was one of Key West’s most famous residents. |
| Turtle In Paradise | The real Kermit suffered rheumatic fever as a child and grew up to become the mayor of Key West in the 1960s. |
| Turtle In Paradise | He famously tricked Jimmy the ice cream man with the “nickel in the bottom of the cup” trick to get free ice cream, and he did tick-tock people. |
| Turtle In Paradise | Finally, the Diaper Gang’s secret diaper-rash formula is a family remedy I have used on my own babies’ bungys. (It also works on mosquito bites.) |
| Turtle in Paradise | He's sold everything--brushes, gadgets, Bibles, you name it. Right now he's peddling encyclopedias. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Mama's always falling in love, and the fellas she picks are like dandelions. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Mark my words, princess. We'll be living on Easy Street someday. |
| Turtle in Paradise | You're like Little Orphan Annie and her dog. |
| Turtle in Paradise | What happened to our cat, anyhow? She got the mange? |
| Turtle in Paradise | They're never nice to the housekeeper's daughter. |
| Turtle in Paradise | It's a Sears mail-order house, from a kit. The Bellewood, Model #3304. |
| Turtle in Paradise | It turns out that getting to Key West is nearly as impossible as getting to Peppermint Bay. |
| Turtle in Paradise | It's so hot and humid it hurts to breathe. |
| Turtle in Paradise | I guess Hair Today ain't exactly an overnight success. |
| Turtle in Paradise | They're all Curry's mister. It's Curry Lane. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Will wurk for candy. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Idjit? Your name is Idjit? |
| Turtle in Paradise | One of the walls is covered with funny pages from newspapers--there's Crazy Kat, Terry and the Pirates, Flash Gordon, and even some of my favorite, Little Orphan Annie. |
| Turtle in Paradise | You want to play marbles with me? |
| Turtle in Paradise | I had rheumatic fever, and now I've got a weak heart. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Pork Chop and Beans. They just go together. |
| Turtle in Paradise | You've got a club called the Diaper Gang? |
| Turtle in Paradise | No girls allowed. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Keep your rag clean. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Always duck. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Never tell anyone the secret formula. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Alligator pear on Cuban bread. |
| Turtle in Paradise | She picks up a rolling pin from the counter and brings it down hard on the scorpion. |
| Turtle in Paradise | We got Pudding today. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Conch Telegraph |
| Turtle in Paradise | Conchs are what folks in Key West call themselves. |
| Turtle in Paradise | The only thing that is lost in this house is Buddy's pants. |
| Turtle in Paradise | He's up in Matecumbe working on the highway. |
| Turtle in Paradise | The nickel was in the bottom of the can, mister. |
| Turtle in Paradise | I'll try the sugar apple. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Those are my dolls! |
| Turtle in Paradise | Mama's always been a little funny with the truth. |
| Turtle in Paradise | I worry about her being by herself. |
| Turtle in Paradise | You know I don't let the help to use my personal telephone. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Duval Street is like a different Key West. It's nicer. |
| Turtle in Paradise | He's a rumrunner. |
| Turtle in Paradise | They're drinking leche out of condensed-milk cans. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Maybe you should start writing for the funny pages, Papa. |
| Turtle in Paradise | They don't even need to talk to each other; they're like the sailing version of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers doing a dance number. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Seems like everybody here is someone else's cousin. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Stuck on the hooked end is a black sponge. |
| Turtle in Paradise | You're a born Conch. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Pirates would shackle rivals to this rock and let them drown in the incoming tide. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Everyone's always looking for Black Caesar's treasure. |
| Turtle in Paradise | How'd you get the name Slow Poke anyhow? |
| Turtle in Paradise | The bolita. Cuban Lottery. |
| Turtle in Paradise | She makes us lunch--toasted ham and pickle sandwiches on Cuban bread and something called flan for dessert. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Her daddy was a wrecker and he saved it from a sinking ship. |
| Turtle in Paradise | She hates kids most of all. |
| Turtle in Paradise | After we finish swimming, we have a cut-up. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Too Bad followed us when we went tick-tocking last night. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Is a mysterious ghost haunting the lanes of our fair town? |
| Turtle in Paradise | Why'd you name that dog Termite? |
| Turtle in Paradise | Mama's head is so high in the clouds, I'm surprised she doesn't bump into Amelia Earhart! |
| Turtle in Paradise | It's Killie the Horse! |
| Turtle in Paradise | My uncle's face is tan as old shoe leather. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Gee, I never met a man who could sew. |
| Turtle in Paradise | That was three bowls of turtle soup you had, you know. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Mama says I've got a hard shell. |
| Turtle in Paradise | You'd be the Rockefeller of diaper rash. |
| Turtle in Paradise | I walk into the house with fresh eyes. |
| Turtle in Paradise | It's milk toast. We eat it all the time. |
| Turtle in Paradise | I spoon out two bowls of grits-and-grunts-and-gravy. |
| Turtle in Paradise | She makes the best caramel custard. |
| Turtle in Paradise | She reminds me of a lobster, with her beady eyes peeking out at me from under her red hat. |
| Turtle in Paradise | She's wearing a royal blue hat with a peacock feather. |
| Turtle in Paradise | A corner of my grandmother's mouth turns up in a crooked smile, and her eyes shine. |
| Turtle in Paradise | I left my shoes outside on the front porch last night, and rotten kid stole them. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Your cat made a mess in my clean laundry. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Get it off me! |
| Turtle in Paradise | She was stung clear down her back. |
| Turtle in Paradise | It's some kind of a map. |
| Turtle in Paradise | We're stealing Johnny Cakes' boat? |
| Turtle in Paradise | She fell on her bungy! |
| Turtle in Paradise | My bungy found it! |
| Turtle in Paradise | Where's the boat? |
| Turtle in Paradise | How much you think it's worth? |
| Turtle in Paradise | I'm starving. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Those low clouds. And sea foam. |
| Turtle in Paradise | On the good ship lollipop. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Trees have been blow over. |
| Turtle in Paradise | That was a hurricane? |
| Turtle in Paradise | The Upper Keys got hit hard. |
| Turtle in Paradise | The gold coins spill out. |
| Turtle in Paradise | My money is waiting for me in the bank. |
| Turtle in Paradise | The cat happened to look like a skunk. |
| Turtle in Paradise | That's when the rats showed up, Mr. Hemingway! |
| Turtle in Paradise | Writers never get the story right. |
| Turtle in Paradise | You can call me Daddy now. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Too late again. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Don't forget to stop at the bank. |
| Turtle in Paradise | She said I wasn't her daughter anymore. |
| Turtle in Paradise | A Hollywood writer couldn't have imagined a sappier scene. |
| Turtle in Paradise | I saw your new daddy leave. |
| Turtle in Paradise | He took her treasure and hopped a boat to Cuba. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Her eyes are cloudy but mine are clear. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Besides, you already got a dumb nickname like everyone else around here. |
| Turtle in Paradise | I've lived long enough to learn the truth; not all kids are rotten, and there are adults who are sweet as Necco wafers. |
| Turtle in Paradise | In front of us is a rusty pickup truck with a gang of dirty-looking kids in the back sandwiched between furniture. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "I slugged Ronald Caruthers when he tried to throw my cat in the well, and I'd do it again." |
| Turtle in Paradise | Mama's always falling in love, and the fellas she picks are like dandelions. |
| Turtle in Paradise | How can someone have opinions on baldness and not know the name of Annie's dog? |
| Turtle in Paradise | The Bellewood, Model #3304 |
| Turtle in Paradise | Mama thinks me going to Key west is a swell idea. |
| Turtle in Paradise | It turns out that getting to Key West is nearly as impossible as getting to Peppermint Bay. |
| Turtle in Paradise | It's so hot and humid it hurts to breathe. |
| Turtle in Paradise | There's a boy who looks my age rocking lazily on a porch swing, his feet resting on a sleeping dog. |
| Turtle in Paradise | WILL WURK FOR CANDY |
| Turtle in Paradise | She looks like an older version of Mama, except her face is tanner and her hair's pulled back in a flyaway bun. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "She got a new job as a housekeeper, and Mrs. Budnick doesn't like children." |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Beans, did you take my shooter?" |
| Turtle in Paradise | "For Pete's sake, Buddy, go put on some pants." |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Get in bed, Kermit!" |
| Turtle in Paradise | "I had rheumatic fever, and now I've got a weak heart." |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Pork Chop and Beans. They just go together." |
| Turtle in Paradise | Been delivering mail for twenty years now and he still can't keep the Currys straight. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "First rule of the Diaper Gang is you gotta know the rules, Buddy." |
| Turtle in Paradise | Lots of folks go to bed hungry these days. |
| Turtle in Paradise | A scary, insectlike creature with a pointy tail scuttles out, waving mean little claws, and I jump back. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Are all the kids from New Jersey as dumb as you?" |
| Turtle in Paradise | The sounds of a baby crying rings out an open window. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Pudding is crying furiously, kicking his little feet. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Mama told me that Conchs are what folks in Key West call themselves. |
| Turtle in Paradise | The biggest turtle imaginable breaks the surface of the water like a lazy cow. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Say, Slow Pok, you get any loggerheads?" |
| Turtle in Paradise | It's so hot I wouldn't be surprised if the hens were laying hard-boiled eggs. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "You can't change diapers, got it?" |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Look at his bungy, no wonder the kids crying." |
| Turtle in Paradise | Before he can grab a fresh diaper, a stream of liquid hits him right in the face. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "That's Diaper Gang candy." |
| Turtle in Paradise | Termite barks and Beans tosses the candy at the dog. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "The nickel was in the bottom of the can, mister." |
| Turtle in Paradise | They're playing a game they call klee-klee, which looks just like tag from where I'm sitting. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Just hearing her voice made me feel like I was wrapped in a soft blanket. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "If I so much as catch you walking fast, I will box your ears, you hear me?" |
| Turtle in Paradise | Duval Street's like a different Key West. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Hi, Cheap John, Hi, Too-Too Mama! Hey, Kitty Gray! Hiya, Fat Rat, you try the doughnuts today?" |
| Turtle in Paradise | They're drinking leche out of condensed-milk cans. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "I don't mind illegal activities as long as I get paid." |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Terry and the Pirates is my favorite. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "You in the habit of giving grown folks advice, young lady?" |
| Turtle in Paradise | It's a hot day, but the combination of the wind and the salt water spraying cools off my skin. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Slow Poke takes off his straw hat and puts it on my head. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "She's working as a housekeeper for a mean rich lady who hates kids and won't let her talk on the telephone. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Your people are from Green Turtle Key. Mine too." |
| Turtle in Paradise | He picks up a glass-bottomed bucket and holds it on the water, looking down intently. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "You're a born Conch." |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Spongers leave their sponges here to cure sometimes." |
| Turtle in Paradise | "That's where pirates used to hide their ships and their loot." |
| Turtle in Paradise | "It's just the Key West way, Turtle." |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Black Ceasar was a ruthless pirate who buried his treasure here in the Keys." |
| Turtle in Paradise | "You'll still make us bollos when you're rich, won't you , Mrs. Soldano?" |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Her daddy was a wrecker and he saved it from a sinking ship." |
| Turtle in Paradise | A tiny, frail-looking old lady is sitting on a rocking chair reading a fashion magazine. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "They stole the answer sheet for a test from Miss Sugarapple's desk." |
| Turtle in Paradise | A cut-up is something these Conch kids do every chance they get. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Miss Sugarapple says a ghost was trying to get into her house." |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Too Bad followed us when we went tick-tocking last night." |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Mrs. Higgs believes the spirit may be the widow of a sailor who died at sea." |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Mama's head is so high in the clouds, I'm surprised she doesn't bump into Amelia Earhart." |
| Turtle in Paradise | My uncle's face is tan as old shoe leather. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "I see you have already acquired a taste for turtle." |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Can I please have some of the diaper rash formula?" |
| Turtle in Paradise | Nana Philly is sitting in the rocking chair in her bedroom reading a new magazine. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "It's milk toast." |
| Turtle in Paradise | I clean up the mess again and make another bowl of milk toast. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "There's grits-and-grunts-and gravy on the stove and guava duff for dessert." |
| Turtle in Paradise | Everyone's always saying that hard times bring out the best in people, but far as I can tell, the only thing that hard times bring out is plain meanness. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "The scorpion was in the nightgown?" |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Smokey killed the scorpion that bit you, Ma! Bit its head right-off!" |
| Turtle in Paradise | Smokey's fallen through the top of the crumbling, termite-eaten piano and she can't get out. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "It's a map! To Black Caesar's treasure!" |
| Turtle in Paradise | He's got a roll of maps in one hand, a shovel in the other, and a canteen slung on his shoulder. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Everyone has caps on except me, and I can feel my cheeks baking. |
| Turtle in Paradise | They bang around the boat, tripping over each other and arguing about which way to go and who gets to be captain. |
| Turtle in Paradise | We've dug a dozen holes all over the key, and all we've found is a whole lot of nothing. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "That maps not real." |
| Turtle in Paradise | "My bungy found it!" |
| Turtle in Paradise | You'd think when a dream comes true you'd scream until your heart gives out, but the reality is you just turn dumb from the wonder of it all. |
| Turtle in Paradise | I lie on the filthy floor and try to ignore the pests- insect and boy- by telling myself that it's just one night. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Then a mosquito bites me and I wake up in the pitch-dark shack with Ira's stinky feet in my face and Kermit drooling on my neck. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Maybe we could build a raft?" |
| Turtle in Paradise | The sky grows darker and the wind picks up. |
| Turtle in Paradise | I feel something long and slimy slide over my ankle and go still. |
| Turtle in Paradise | There's a horrible cracking sound as a piece of the roof is torn away. |
| Turtle in Paradise | Something washes over me and this time it's not water: it's fear. |
| Turtle in Paradise | There's debris everywhere and the key looks smaller, as if it's been swallowed up by the ocean. |
| Turtle in Paradise | I'm dry-eyed; crying wouldn't even touch the feeling inside me. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "We been looking for you kids since your aunt raised the alarm." |
| Turtle in Paradise | "I'd believe an honest man over you," Johnny Cakes says. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "He heard you talking about digging up treasure on this key." |
| Turtle in Paradise | It's probably the only time in history a bunch of lying, stealing, no-good kids actually saved someone's life. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Your secret diaper-rash formula is cornstarch?" |
| Turtle in Paradise | "I would've gotten stranded on an island a whole lot sooner if I'd known that would make her come get me!" |
| Turtle in Paradise | Curry Lane has never seemed longer than when I'm running down it toward Mama. |
| Turtle in Paradise | "Nothing like a tragedy to make you realize what's important." |
| Turtle in Paradise | I look back at Mama, and she waves her hand at me, a think gold ring glinting in the sun. |
| Turtle in Paradise | I know that my father doesn't have three eyes and isn't a murderer, unless you count sponges. He's kind. And he likes the funny pages. |
| Turtle in Paradise | The tears rain down like spitballs, and there's no stopping them now. |
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