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Times Read: 775The move wasn't my idea. Why would I want to leave my friends and live across town in a place where no one knew me?
But when my parents announced they'd bought a new house, I realized this family meeting didn'...
Times Read: 685Pastor von Asselt and his wife huddled around the little lamp that rested on the table in their bamboo hut.
Darkness had settled in the Sumatran jungle. The eerie blackness and strange noises of the bush count...
Times Read: 750Can you hear me, Autumn?" I called through the walkie-talkie.
"Justin, I hear you loud and clear," answered Autumn.
"Head into the woods behind the apartments. Let's find out if we can still hear each other."...
Times Read: 579Two boys are trapped on an ice floe on the Niagara River off Grand Island. No one can reach them!"
Don and Jack, riding in their traffic-reporter helicopter above Buffalo, New York, heard the report crackle ov...
Times Read: 758You can't make me go, Mom!" Lonny put his hands on his waist and kicked the wastebasket next to his bed.
"Four sixth graders are going, and you were picked to go, Lon. The church is paying." Lonny's mom sighed...
Times Read: 701The prickly pear stickers glistened in the dazzling heat of the punishing Texas sun.
Only the stickers poked above the ground. My brother, Jonny, and I had buried the cactus pads so only the spines were visibl...
Times Read: 556Sekuba rubbed his eyes and peered into the darkness of his little hut. He couldn't see anything.
"I am sure an angel was talking to me just now," he muttered. "He was standing beside my bed. But it must have b...
Times Read: 999I have to go back and tell him," said Bobby, leaning over the arm of the stadium seat."What! Are you nuts?" Jeremy exclaimed. "He'll never know. It'll be collected tomorrow with the garbage.""I don't care. I'll...
Times Read: 709Kenton's sharp eyes couldn't help noticing a brown lump lying against the curb in front of Mountain View Market. Must be trash someone threw out their car window, he mused. This isn't the best part of town. Ken...
Times Read: 730Curtis walked through the front door of Snyder's Pet Shop in Riverside, California.
"Did you come by to window- shop?" the manager asked.
The 11-year-old nodded.
"OK, just make yourself at home!" the man cal...
Times Read: 618Pete couldn't believe it. One minute Dad's pickup had been backing up to load a pile of firewood. The next minute it was tilted on its side in a brush-filled ditch.
Hearing a low moan, Pete immediately went to...
Times Read: 884Scott watched helplessly as the Metro doors slammed shut, separating him and his dad from Michele, his younger sister, who was now imprisoned on the subway car.
"Get off at the next stop, and wait!" Dad shoute...
Times Read: 930Who broke the eyedropper?" Mr. Gillham asked. He held the incriminating evidence in front of our sixth-grade class. His voice was serious, his eyebrows raised inquiringly.
Nobody answered. The silence was so p...
Times Read: 542Hey, monkey face, why weren't you at school today?" Kashi shouted.
Jiwan looked up and saw Kashi and Manos walking toward him.
"Because he's as stupid as he looks," said Manos. "See, he can't even talk."
Jiw...
Times Read: 795Harlan smiled as he pulled on his practice jersey. Coach Talbot had told him he was starting halfback.
Their next game was just two days away. Their opponents, with three wins and no losses, the Mavericks, wer...
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