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Overbearing or underbearing parent?
Image: All Rights Reserved, New York : Walker & Co. c2012 I walked down to the kitchen. “Can I borrow your car?” Mom tensed over the sink. The water continued dripping and water overflowed from...
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Rules for working in a White Lady’s house
Image: All Rights Reserved, New York: Amy Einhorn Books c2009 “Sit down on your behind, Minny, because I’m about to tell you the rules for working in a White Lady’s house.” I was fourteen years old to...
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You are really a good girl
Image: All Rights Reserved, Tokyo; London: Kodansha International c1996 “You are really a good girl, you know.” That’s what the headmaster used to say every time he saw Totto-chan. And every time he...
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On a trip like no other
Image: All Rights Reserved, New York: Random House c2010 “You know how Leonardo invented all those crazy things, like submarines and helicopters and hang gliders?” Tommy said, and Luke looked over at...
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“Dragons don’t carry people’s love.”
Image: All Rights Reserved, London: Vintage Books c2012 They began to know the hours when certain trains passed, and they gave names to them. The 9.15 up was called the Green Dragon. The 10.7 down was...
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“Who holds the key to your happiness?”
Image: All Rights Reserved, London : Puffin c2006 Nicholas was relieved to hear that Mr Fender had decided to let him remain at the school for a further trial period, provided he followed Miss...
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Which is better – to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?
Image: All Rights Reserved, London: Faber and Faber Limited 2011 c1954 A great clamour rose among the savages. Piggy shouted again. ‘Which is better – to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?’...
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“What does it mean to be the best?”
Image: All Rights Reserved, London: Bodley Head 2012 I think I was smiling. Maybe I was beaming, I don’t know. As I walked up the aisle toward the stage, all I saw was a blur of happy bright faces...
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me
Image: All Rights Reserved, London : Macmillan Children’s 2012 Mrs Minish came into the room. I went up to her. ‘Mrs Minish…somebody moved my desk.’ ‘Oh… the custodian is always moving desks around...
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“I Did Not Stand Up for my Mother”
Image: All Rights Reserved New York : Hyperion c2006 Still, I can say I adored my mother, in the way that boys adore their mothers while taking them for granted. She made that easy. For one thing, she...
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“Get him the help he needs.”
Image: All Rights Reserved USA : Viking, Penguin Young Readers Group c2012 The 151 bus pulls up, and Lexie and I get on. Big Bob’s Budget Bus had a slight sour smell; this bus smells better. It heads...
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‘You’ll need courage.’
Image: All Rights Reserved Oxford : Oxford University Press 2007 c2006 The thought of setting off alone, beyond the safety of his garden gate, and out into the unknown world, a world of cunning...
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