When Matt’s parent move again, this time to a new house in a new subdivision, Matt finds himself with no one – and nothing – to play with. Standing on bare ground littered with scraps of construction materials, Matt sees a stick and feels like breaking it, or hitting something with it, but when he [...]
When Emily’s dad breaks his promise to come outside and build snow animals in the backyard, she’s sad and angry. She stomps outside determined to build something all by herself. Something big. A dinosaur! She’s pretty happy with Grizzle, the Diphosaurus she makes, but, leaning out the window, dad calls Grizzle “cute and little”. With [...]
Jeffrey has to write a story for homework and cannot think of anything to write about. So he begins to doodle on the page and soon as drawn a long-armed sloth who slips off the page and into his bedroom. While Jeffrey tries to concentrate on his story, the sloth informs him that [...]
Eleven year-old Jess Aaron’s life is a hard one. The family farm can’t support them, so he and his four sisters and parents struggle to make ends meet on what his father can earn working in construction. They are a poor family in a community of poor families; money is tight and there [...]
When Sarah and her best friend Ben observe the rotten Derek Henshaw getting turned into a frog right in the middle of the cornerstore while trying to shoplift, Sarah figures she has found a great topic for her science project. “Magic: Fact or Fiction,” she announces to Mr. Wyanth, the science teacher, who is [...]
