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Ahiga carefully folded his clothes and put them under his thin mattress that lay on the floor. Then he took a braided bow with tassels at one end and put it under the mattress also. “I’ve put my things away, Grandmother. I’m going to do my chores.” “AGHHHHHH,” screamed a…
If you go into the woods – deep, deep into the woods, where the flowers turn purple in the shade and the green moss climbs up the knotty trunks of the ancient trees – you will find them. Surrounded by protective pink butterflies and watchful fairies with iridescent wings is…
L. Frank Baum wrote “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” in 1900. It’s the story of a girl named Dorothy who lives with her aunt and uncle on a farm in Kansas. Dorothy has a dog named Toto. This passage is from the beginning of the book. —————————– From the far…
Anne Shirley is a young orphan in Canada. She has been sent by mistake to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert at their farm called Green Gables. The Cuthberts are brother and sister, and they know nothing about raising a young girl, especially one like Anne. Anne is full of…
Callie inhaled deeply and stepped out onto the promontory, committing the compact campus to memory. Gothic structures nestled against modern modular buildings, creating a visual time line of the university’s history in stone and cement. Callie tried to imagine herself taking classes in ornately embellished classrooms and making new friends…
Mrs. Oglio rushed out the back door. “Jane! Where you at? Those clothes need cleanin’.” “I’m practicin’ my shootin’,” Jane yelled back. “Well, get in here. I’m not payin’ you to shoot. I’m payin’ you to clean clothes.” Jane grumbled under her breath and went back to work. “I’ll find…
“Samuel!” called his mother. “Go fetch some wood.” The boy grabbed his thin jacket and took the axe from the shed. “They know my jacket isn’t warm and I don’t have boots. And it’s so hard to cut branches with a dull axe. I think they keep it dull so…
Tarzan of the Apes is a story about a boy raised by apes. Tarzan’s English parents had been stranded in a jungle of West Africa. It is there that Tarzan was born. When he was very young both of his parents died. He was adopted by a female ape named…
The small community of trolls who lived near the village wanted to go out and play. They thought the big park near the school would be a perfect spot to spread out their picnic baskets under the trees and play games on the grass, except for one thing. They were…
Steven lived with his wife, Mia, and his old grandfather. They were poor, but very happy. They had food from their garden and clothing that Mia made. One day, while planting in his yard, Steven found a small clay barrel. “Mia!” he shouted to his wife. “Come see what I…
