When Saffron was eight, and had at last learned to read, she hunted slowly through the color chart pinned up on the kitchen wall. So begins the book Saffy’s Angel by Hilary McKay. Saffron ‘Saffy’ is the second-oldest child in the Casson family, a hilarious family of painters. They live in a house named The Banana House in England. …

I pulled my crumpled schedule out of a pocket and thrust it at her. A little forcefully, probably. I didn’t like being mistrusted.She scrutinized it with a sort of suspicious admiration, like a well-executed forgery. “I’m going to have to talk to Dr. Spicer,” she said. “You’re not supposed to be here. I don’t want …

Now you see that he’s carrying a hammer. He takes a nail out of his pocket and hammers it into the window frame. He takes another nail out of his pocket and hammers it in above the first nail. More nails. More hammering. You don’t get it. Then you do.He’s nailing the window shut. He’s …

I’m sort of a corny TV and movie addict in general. I am a dork.Self professed “dork” (not really) Carli is an actress. She’s been assigned a role as a “Sheila Smith” in a new TV show, about girls who live in a boarding school. But Carli doesn’t know what boarding school is like. Why …

He had never disobeyed the order to hide. Even as a toddler, barely able to walk in the backyard’s tall grass, he had somehow understood the fear in his mother’s voice.Luke is a third child who lives in a country where third children aren’t allowed. No one is supposed to have more then two kids, …

“Hi, Taj. Glad to see you and Johnny are back.”Back?It all started with a website. TAP is a social site for people- you go and meet friends. You create wishlists and people buy you the things on them. You get free stuff. You get to go to awesome parties. And at these parties the ones …