There’s a skunk In my bunk, And I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to sleep with him. Would you?

Some books I read once and never think of again. Others I enjoy, but never come back to. Still others I come back to, again and again. The Family Under the Bridge is one of those. I first saw it on a free book table at a homeschooling event, and it went into my arms along with probably a dozen other books. I think it pretty safe to say that of that armload, The Family Under the Bridge is the one I've come back to the most. It's just a thin little book, not even topping 200 pa

Silvia, the boa constrictor, is nervously slipping up and down the trees around my home. "Chipper, are you ssure that it'ss ssafe to sstay?"

If a feller can speak freely, which I guess I kinda do darn well all o’ the time, one o’ the best things a boy like you could do is get hitched with a Cove girl. I canna erase ink. Maybe I shouldnta said that.

"Spring treats us fine," the haughty daffies say, tossing their magnificent heads, convinced that not even the sun is a handsomer yellow than they...

I have a passion for stories like hers. Perhaps that is because I am an orphan myself, which you know, although we did not talk about my...

She floated in one day out o' the fog, off the grey, grey sea. Pale skin, golden hair, and crimson lips. More angel than baby...

While exploring a strange cave within the Citadel, the St. Christopher's medal Laz is wearing suddenly becomes hot, and he inexplicably...

National Novel Writing Month always seems to sneak up on me. November arrives, and others around me begin their mad dash to get 30,000...

No one will talk about him. Larkin never got to see him. He never got a name. It seems like Mama and Papa want to forget he ever lived...

My challenge for you, especially if you are a beginning writer, is to enter one writing contest each month for a year. I did this when I...

One thing led to another, and before I knew it, the less than 500 word story had ballooned into a 16,000 word story filled with lots of...

The main themes I saw in Maud were Maud's struggles with family, her struggles with choosing between marriage or her dream as a writer...

Everyone is frightened. Even the squabbling chickens above us have ceased to fight. Everyone is whispering about who will be next...

Mum was out buying groceries when Lulita and I made the fateful decision...

"I scampered up onto the ceiling, checked and double-checked my anchoring, and lowered myself by one shining, silvery thread..."

When Mama and Papa come back from visiting the doctor in town, they bring news that turns Cassie's life upside-down...

“We’d never leave, Sarah," he said. "We were born here. Our names are written in this land.” Caleb looked at me. I knew what he was...

"Behind the barn," said Cassie. "He's wrapped in a green blanket. He asked me about Papa." I smiled. "You and your imaginary"...

Book Title: Sarah, Plain and Tall Author: Patricia MacLachlan Genre: Fiction, Children's Literature Age Group: Everyone! Part of a...