She’d seen the same expression on kids spotting a birthday cake with their name on it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“God! If I have to hear any more about that stupid birthday party...” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother gave her a bottle of wine and a birthday cake to share with Hans and his friends. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The situation remained unresolved, however, and as Bobby reached his sixty-second birthday in his cell, he was morose. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the nearly eight years that he lived in Hungary, he only managed to convince her to see him a few times—once when she attended his fiftieth birthday party in Bulgaria. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was fun because all the grown-ups ended up bowling in the lane next to ours, so it really felt like there were a lot of people there to celebrate my birthday. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She hadn't taken the day off on his birthday last month. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s an outrage over making Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday into a federal holiday. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As if she could hear my thoughts, Mom said, “He wants to give you his birthday present, since he wasn’t at your party.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

What do you want to do for your birthday? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought so. But you left the city before your birthday, right?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He had already received a few in recent years, given to him on birthdays and other special occasions. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Isn’t that part of what got her into this mess, to this place where she is weirdly and surreally standing alone on a high, rotting railway trestle on her eighteenth birthday? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“You promised. You promised I could get a dog for my birthday—” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“And I framed the photo Dylan took of us with your birthday cake. I have one in my room too.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Would she really do that if she were trying to punish him-or deny him his one birthday wish? Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, Taryn asked what I wanted to do for my birthday, and I thought it might be fun to go to the Spring Dance.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The folks were in Paris—yeah, Paris, France—celebrating my mom’s birthday. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Uncle Drum bought that for me on my tenth birthday. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“And since his birthday is this weekend,” Mrs. Morehouse continues, “his father and I knew this would be the perfect present for him.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slaps down Windy’s birthday invitation on the desk. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have many traditions as a family, but chocolate pancakes on birthdays was one of them, and the one we were least likely to forget. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

With family coming from Virginia, as well as friends coming from other places for the birthday party, all the rooms would need to be opened up, aired out, cleaned, and decorated. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

We stop on a dead-end road for Pi to do his business, and I tell Nana about the birthday party and about math class. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And he always makes me a giant cake for my birthday.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

George, the husband, would be at the birthday celebration and she wouldn't be missed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it made me not think about my birthday. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday: I am eleventy-one today! The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

So they all came grandly down to the picnic: women with their heads wrapped in print cloth like birthday presents. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has never touched the Gogol book his father gave him on his fourteenth birthday. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow was my thirteenth birthday—the day I would officially become a man. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is an added joy to Mina and to me that our boy’s birthday is the same day as that on which Quincey Morris died. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Yes, where would you like to eat? Someplace nice for your birthday.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Win the Hamilton lottery. And I kind of want to see another show on my birthday. Visit Lady Liberty, maybe? Going to the top of the Empire State Building could be interesting.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I do. As I recall, it was in the middle of his daughter’s birthday party?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He had been within a few weeks of his eighteenth birthday, and with it all chance of enlistment, of choosing a service rather than being drafted into one, would have disappeared. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even invited Via, but she couldn’t come because she had a different birthday party to go to that same day. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“The Sibley Guide to Birds. Sure it wasn’t for your birthday?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it? Well, happy birthday, Lily. So how old are you now?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we had the birthday dinner on a folding card table, which I set beside his bed. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A memory washes over me—Maddy’s sleepover birthday party in fourth grade, when her favorite younger cousin asked if I’m going to hell because I’m not Christian. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Eleven years old on his last birthday, Salva was a good student. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was four-and-twenty the 8th of last June, and my birthday is the 23rd just a fortnight and a day’s difference—which is very odd.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“She got it for her fifteenth birthday. Each of those charms represents a different...uh...intimacy act, and she’s supposed to give the charm to the first person she does each act with.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

She’d felt so abandoned since her birthday, it had never occurred to her that Peris would want to see her, especially not here in Uglyville. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Really? So the part about a birthday party . . . ?” “Made it up. The whole thing.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think more people are dying,” Alex replied, saddened that even on his sister’s birthday, death intruded. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the early evening of November 10, Bull and Lillian dressed with great care for the Marine Corps birthday ball. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, sure. Take me to a beer hall for lunch. Some birthday party this is! Look at these people. Steeped in sin. Brains the size of walnuts.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I try to tell him I’m being helpful because I’m giving people information about what I want for my birthday in case they want to buy me something but Dad introduces me to another person. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In January of 1977, three months after my seventeenth birthday, I entered my final year of matriculation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started to think the situation was my fault because I always asked for the top video games every Christmas and birthday. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I made pancakes with maple syrup this morning, for your birthday,” coaxed Aunt Queen. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first awareness of it came on my fifth birthday. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He loved to see them playing with his birthday present. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Just a bit more than two weeks, around twenty-four million miles, after my seventeenth birthday, the Perseids scattered brilliant torrents of blazing dust all across the nighttime sky. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“She’s the reason I like puzzles and mysteries so much. Crossword puzzles, riddle books, strategy games—you name it, she bought it. Every birthday. Every Christmas.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It is his birthday, and Hugh and I are seated in a New York restaurant, awaiting the arrival of our fifteen-word entrees. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I was just coming back from the store with more soda and candy for the birthday party. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a nasty concussion, but recovered enough to have birthday cake the next day with his friend. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Why hadn’t I challenged Leo’s birthday in the first place? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

So, Dallas thought, their real birthday must have been several months before that. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

At that exact moment, 10:33 in the morning, Ivy’s mom always told her happy birthday. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

During the week since my birthday he has learned to walk again. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And with Jenna’s birthday party on Saturday night, this is going to be a big weekend. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Anybody wants an excuse to forget your birthday, you can’t get much better than the fact that it’s not actually on the calendar.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, get a move on, I want you to look after the bacon. And don’t you dare let it burn, I want everything perfect on Duddy’s birthday.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

On January 9, Nixon’s sixtieth birthday, Kissinger cabled the news to Washington. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She had a bulletin board with silly pictures taken at people’s birthday parties and dried flowers and pages ripped from magazines that were too nice to throw away. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered the fire­works the night Rahim Khan had given it to me, the night of my thirteenth birthday, flares sizzling and exploding into bouquets of red, green, and yellow. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t have a party for my birthday, either,” I offer. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Jenny’s girls came over for Faye’s birthday cake and they couldn’t believe their eyes. They don’t talk about nothing else but how it is at Faye’s. Jenny’s sore.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If it was Monday — and you could usually count on Dudley to know the days of the week, because of television — then tomorrow, Tuesday, was Harry’s eleventh birthday. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

On my tenth birthday, Momma promised to drive down and take me out to dinner, just the two of us. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

On Hugo’s birthday, his father took him to the movies as he usually did, and he gave him one of the notebooks as a present. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Sinita took a deep breath as if she were going to blow out all her grandmother’s birthday candles. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He caught a chill, which developed into pneumonia, which finished him off on 11 February 1650, just short of his fifty-fourth birthday. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Because, of course, there were the other critical moments of her birthday last year. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I was never very polite after one of those episodes, and that day—my birthday—I felt particularly toxic for the humiliation of having been given a bath by my stepmother. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Before I sealed up the envelope, I remembered that in all my crazy drama, I forgot Martin's birthday, which was three weeks before mine. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Around the time of his fourteenth birthday, with all the pressures of church and home uniting to drive him to the altar, he strove to appear more serious and therefore less conspicuous. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He couldn't understand why Aunt Queen would let him go through this ordeal, especially on his birthday. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My one responsibility for the day was to chaperone Sul Ross and make sure he didn’t stuff himself on birthday cake to the point of getting sick. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

"What's new with you, Grace? Where are the kids? And what are all those presents doing on the coffee table? It's not your birthday and it's not our anniversary." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I roll up the sleeves and put on the charm bracelets that each of my grandmothers got me for my tenth birthday. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It was Tuesday, May 19, 1964—my thirty-ninth birthday— when I arrived in Algiers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I'm going to have to see her every day in her native habitat, sparkling like the bracelets and necklaces Didu gives both of us on birthdays. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We sat together on the morning of my last day as a little boy, the morning before my seventeenth birthday, drinking our coffee on the patio beside the pool. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Now, with only one day to go until his ninth birthday, Gerald was almost as confident in the kitchen as Aunt Queen, and more important, she trusted him to handle any situation there. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow’s your birthday, don’t forget that, so I expect you’ll be up early to open your present.” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

She received some extra sugar from Mr. Kugler, which sparked off jealousy on the part of the van Daans, because Mrs. van D. didn’t receive any on her birthday. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Every injury, every tear, every missed birthday, wedding—it all washed away as we stood there and reveled in the sound of the crowds cheering us on. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

If it’s my birthday, that means two whole days have passed. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s her birthday, Lady. Let her have as much as she wants.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t anybody’s birthday, or April Fool’s Day, or Halloween, but it was something. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you’ll think twice about doubting your elders next time! Now ... it was your sixteenth birthday recently, wasn’t it?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I know that. I was looking at that passport today. The thing is, their birthday isn’t the twenty-ninth of July. It’s the third of March.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you need some sugar. You’ll probably have too much tomorrow, with your birthday cake. But let’s get a cookie.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Every year, that was the order of things: There was Thanksgiving, and then Christmas, and then Khalid’s birthday, and then Mardi Gras. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

My fifteenth birthday had passed without my being found. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She’s been dreading this day, as she dreads all the big days—all birthdays, not just hers; also, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and upcoming events like anniversaries, proms, and graduations. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hancock did not recognize him as the apprentice of Mr. Lapham who had rashly promised a sugar basin in time for his Aunt Lydia’s birthday. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Windy doesn’t stop talking about her birthday until she gets off the bus. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Your story will be that you ran away the night before your birthday,” Dr. Cable said. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I decided I would begin to celebrate my birthday on October 10 instead. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Today, on the morning of my seventy-seventh birthday, I decided to make one last visit to the Imperial War Museum library in Lambeth. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Aru thought back to Mini’s story about showing up to a birthday party on the wrong date. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Grandma showed up on my birthday six weeks ago with Grandpa’s old riding mower. I’ve taken on, oh, a few yard jobs since then.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old man Randall said nothing about his birthdays, and neither did James when he took over. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

His old acoustic guitar was left behind, where it got kicked on angry birthdays. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Just close your eyes and think about the morning you woke up on your tenth birthday.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She ran the fingers of her left hand through my hair and stared at the Bahrami Family Portrait Gallery until she found a photo of my tenth birthday party. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even know he knew it was my birthday. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She finds what she is looking for—iridescent gray labradorite drops given to me by Taryn for my sixteenth birthday, forged by a goblin tinker with whom she traded three kisses. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Andrew’s ordinary days were filled with the kind of things most people have only on birthdays. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I had my birthday party on Sunday afternoon. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t care if August eleventh is Anastasia’s birthday, or that her church is undergoing renovations, or that the heavens have prepared a rainbow just for the two of you on that day! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Soon after my seventh birthday, my parents took me as usual to spend Christmas with my grandmother in Norway. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Chicho cheers, “Bravo! I think this calls for a piñata right now. Why wait until your birthday? Here, mija, break this one.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I know I don’t have a birthday like humans,” Matt said, “but I was born. Or something like it.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Windy’s birthday is Saturday, and Pi still hasn’t found a home. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He's pretty steamed, but I think he'll get over it when he sees the CD players I got him for his birthday. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

We celebrated most major life events at Southside’s house, which meant that over the years we unwrapped Christmas presents to Ella Fitzgerald and blew out birthday candles to Coltrane. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Especially on your birthday. This day reminds us of how important you are to us. Now, you invite Vince to sit a while. We’ll have a nice evening playing games and all.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hosts read letters and birthday wishes from people across the country, including President Theodore Roosevelt, who offered his “hearty good wishes for the continuation of her useful and honorable life.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I handed her this oversized coffee cup I gave her for her last birthday. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It turned out the first episode was Erlan and his brothers’ birthday party, so that was fun to watch because I’d been there in real life. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Among the four friends, there was the feeling that neither calendar nor cake made a birthday, not officially. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Looks like I just found my birthday present,” he said quietly. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Donna has picked out my clothes for a birthday party—a new black dress that’s so tight, it looks like another layer of skin. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was not very long afterwards that the teeth, after much trouble, came through as all teeth must, and the Twins had their first birthday. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Du Barry had us celebrate their sixth birthday two nights ago. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

As I planted, I began thinking about the fact that my birthday was coming in two days. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was buried in a box, just where he’d left it, between the pages of a book on boatmanship he’d been given on his thirteenth birthday. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Will texting him a happy birthday ruin his day? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She tried not to think about whether they’d all still be alive by Ruby’s birthday, or what kind of life it would be if they were. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The previous day she sat with Lovey after supper and they talked in a way they hadn’t since Jockey’s birthday. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Each time we let the inmates back out, someone else is attacked, violence flaring up like one of those trick birthday candles. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father had given it to me for my fifteenth birthday. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Frankie pointed to a picture on the cover of the book of a birthday cake with lots of candles. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh, like you told me all about how your parents forgot your birthday?” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her birthdays are often forgotten; she is an afterthought at holidays. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Actually, this was my grandfather’s wallet. And this”—he held up the paper—“is his birthday.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The day of his sixth birthday, Mother baked a cake, a special one with raspberry jam dripping down the sides. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I opened a new ivory writing tablet and a case of pens and pencils, a gift from my aunt for my fifteenth birthday. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe my luck really was turning and this would be my best birthday ever. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

If his conduct was good and he was participating in the educational and rehabilitation programs offered there, he would return to court for a second evaluation in another three months, just before his eighteenth birthday. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“How many do you need to have three pairs of birthdays all the same?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Being as how it’s your birthday, I and the boys thought we would wish you happy birthday and we got twenty-one cats for you for a present.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jay and me sat, wiggling in our seats, waiting to see what we might be getting for our birthday. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The awkward silence that followed was mercifully broken by Piper, tugging on Maniac’s arm: “Where’s my birthday present? Wha’d you get me?” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Happy birthday, my little Jupey-Jupe!” he crows, stopping to smile as the room fills with the fragrance of Axe Peace body spray. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The other factions celebrate birthdays, but we don’t. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And, of course, I always go to Christopher’s birthday. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He wishes it, harder than he has ever wished for anything over birthday candles or on shooting stars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Gone in a flash, the memory of her eighth birthday, when her mother...her mother did something. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Naomi had shown it to them on Christmas Day when she’d told them the story of how it’d been a prize for a dance-off that their mother had won on her birthday. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

To me, he said, “Gotta run. But first—” He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small jewelry box. “—belated birthday present.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“You have to. Golden bow tie for your golden birthday.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Far from wishing Harry a happy birthday, none of the Dursleys made any sign that they had noticed Harry enter the room, but Harry was far too used to this to care. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

When they arrived home at nightfall, Bull bore his son past his mother, his brother, and his sisters, past a birthday cake, and presents. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The photograph of the birthday party is sticky in my hand; without meaning to I've left fingerprints all over it, touching the faces of these dead and disappeared girls. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A year when blue birthday cakes and surprises were all that mattered. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I sit on the sofa in the living room, crunching on Lucky Charms while I think about the word birthday. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“You said today was your birthday, and I thought...” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Celia was fussing with the suit Matt had worn to the birthday party long ago. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can we not inundate this amazing young woman with our masculine vitriol on her birthday?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Just for fun, I can give it to Father on his birthday, together with all the copyrights. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I can remember my other birthdays, later and earlier ones, but not this one. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My compass. Got it for my birthday last year.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

These clothes are usually the shirts, pants, shoes, and jackets the members of the church’s eight study groups have given the priest for his birthday, to tide him over for the year. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

On my birthday, my father talked to me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The excitement over Jockey’s birthday allowed Caesar to visit his only refuge on Randall. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Slowly and sadly he gathered up all his presents and his birthday cards and hid them under the loose floorboard with his homework. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The poem Father composed for my birthday is too nice to keep to myself. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

That time of ecstasy for me and three of my brothers, each of us with a birthday that month, plus Halloween to look forward to. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, she had another think coming if she expected Grandpa to say “Don’t spend yore money, let me give you the bathroom for your birthday.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Remember that sheet cake I baked for your birthday last year? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was the week after his fifteenth birthday. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My birthday is three days hence, ” said Corky, “and I could really use a dehumidifier.”Another meaning of hence is “thus”: It’s damp, hence the mildew. hiv. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was eight, I had played with a crab my mother had brought home for my birthday dinner. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

First he explained that today was her birthday, and she would not grow properly next year unless she had a spanking. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t understand how such a lonely, depressed spirit could produce a horn of plenty that shot out pineapples and birthday cakes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Guards announced marriages three or four times a year, usually on propitious dates, such as New Year’s or Kim Jong Il’s birthday. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t actually expect her to answer, but she says, “It was my sister’s birthday. She would have been nineteen.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I remember because it was the day before my mom’s birthday. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But Nick reminded them that they had always wanted to travel, and they should just think of this as a big birthday present or something. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My next birthday, one hundred and two, I will have been alive in three different centuries. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The garden arcades and grounds are abuzz with movement as the palace prepares for the royal birthday party. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She wanted me to come to her sleepover birthday party, but I knew the chances I would be able to go were slim to none. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I expected, but he just looked like anybody—like the sort of chap who would come into the shop and buy a motorbike for his lad’s sixteenth birthday—like your headmaster. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later my mother asked Gay what I wanted for my fourteenth birthday. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Yesterday was Father’s birthday, Father and Mother’s nineteenth wedding anniversary, a day without the cleaning lady...and the sun was shining as it’s never shone before in 1944. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Time became a sliding board, at the bottom of which awaited his tenth birthday. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

And yet he has the feeling that he has been to a few of her birthdays, and she to his. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped out of school in the seventh grade and ended up in court for “assault by striking” right after his seventeenth birthday. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then before I knew it, I was looking forward to my birthday in December. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We all had our birthdays on Easter, all nine of us, or at least, that’s when we celebrated them. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Adam gave it to me for my seventeenth birthday. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like my Uptown relatives forgot today was my birthday. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Happy birthday, darling!” said Mother, throwing her arms around me. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The closeness of Christmas to Nancy Clutter’s birthday, which was right after New Year’s, had always created problems for her boy friend, Bobby Rupp. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at the party, my birthday cake is coming out with its seven candles. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

On April 7, Ellsberg’s thirty-ninth birthday, Carol Cummings called to tell him FBI agents had just come to her door. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

So this was what Julia Bishop had intended to do for me in the first moments of my seventeenth birthday, and it was better than anything I’d imagined. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

First kiss would happen next to my birthday twin and forever president, Barack Obama. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“It just changes. Don’t you wish you could change your birthday?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Happy birthday, Will,” she says, tapping my side gently with the pool cue. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Each day when the door was open to light, I would add more detail and identifying clues that Papa would recognize—our birthdays, a drawing of a vilkas—a wolf. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Eight months after Pa’s birthday drawing, it is a rainy, grey autumn day, October 1, 1864. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

On an expedition to Greenland in 1930, he set out alone, on his fiftieth birthday, to check out a supply drop. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

On Gregor’s tenth birthday his uncle had sent him a pocketknife with about fifteen attachments, and his mom had put it away until he turned twenty-one. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Normally, since Christmas Eve is my mother’s birthday, she would get twice as many presents. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a splendid, uproarious, spontaneous celebration, with hugs and handshakes and kisses all around, and eventually Milligan produced the remains of last night’s birthday cake and Rhonda whipped up a frothy fruit punch. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He loved to ride the hicycle he had gotten for his birthday. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I go into my closet and pull out the blue-and-gray flannel shirt Lidia got me for my eighteenth birthday, then put it on over my white T-shirt. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I bet I even know what ring Yule May’s talking about—Hilly’s mother gave it to her for her eighteenth birthday. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“No...well, yeah. But that’s not what I’m talking about. My mom promised me an epic birthday party if I got straight A’s. I told you that.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He still buys me thoughtful presents on my birthday and on our anniversary. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

As she climbed into the limo, she said, “Tomorrow is Tendai’s birthday. I wonder if he’ll be able to celebrate it.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When his birthday comes, presents will no longer be given to him. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was the birthday notice that appeared in the Mica Times three years before. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Okay, I can't even tell you how much I love the fact that you sent me an actual birthday email. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

People gave him pound and ten shilling notes for Christmas and birthdays, they gave him more because he hadn't got a father, and then there was pocket money. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

My birthday is on the ninth of March. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“What if,” I said, “instead of my birthday and Christmas presents, the money could go toward Fig’s treatment? Even the money from Gran. For the next three years.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I know I can’t blame Lee Lee and Sam for not being able to celebrate my birthday. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Nosy? What? No, he’s wearing that Star Wars shirt I gave him for his birthday.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Lucinda has told her how a girl’s fifteenth birthday is really important in our country. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I looked at my parents' aliases and their birthdays, which variants I knew. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Margot went to Holland in December, and I followed in February, when I was plunked down on the table as a birthday present for Margot. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“You’re alive and well. So well that maybe I can meet Arthur. I know you just came back from the dead, but it’s his birthday.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I’m fourteen. Today’s my birthday,” she said hesitantly. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It could be a birthday that triggered the new cycle or something more unexpected, like finding something in a drawer that belonged to her. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I explained that I was worried that my mother wouldn't come home in time to celebrate my birthday. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“But”—she wasn’t done—“I convinced your father that since we do know Amy and her family, and since they do live right across the street, you can go to the birthday party.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He sees the pile of birthday cards scattered on the carpet, and remembers a hot August day fourteen years ago in Cambridge when he held his son for the first time. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If you could pick your birthday, what would it be?” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Wali and Kamal are here too. They wouldn’t miss your birthday for anything,” he said, laughter lurking just beneath the surface. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Happy birthday, Crow," Otis Amber said, reaching for her hand. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and made that same wish on my twelfth birthday. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Will. Happy birthday to you!” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s perfect. Not just this—all of it. But it’s your birthday, not mine. I should be doing something like this for you.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Everyone shouts "Happy birthday!" and Sophia blows out the hundreds of candles with help from her friends. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A memory came to her from childhood, of seeing at an afternoon birthday party the famous tablecloth trick. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, however, a random sample of 747 death notices published in Salt Lake City, Utah, newspapers during 1977 indicated that 46 percent of the decedents surveyed died within the three- month period following their birthdays. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was hoping that since it was my birthday they would make an exception and allow me to go with Vince. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been disappointed in my attempt to gain Hamlet’s attention on his birthday. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I gave that pin to your mother on her twenty-second birthday,” he said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She anticipated his wants, pulled out the threads on the cuffs of his shirt, and embroidered a dozen handkerchiefs with his initials for his birthday. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Pluto’s birthday gift, Hazel’s only luxury, had been destroyed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I called Momma on her birthday, and she called me on mine. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I know for sure Mama won’t be giving me any kind of allowance, and my birthday’s two months away. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“And you can add that she loved her grandson whose birthday is on July third.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Even though I pleaded not to go to the store because it was my birthday, I knew that Grandma always got her way. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Remember? We speak on birthdays and every Christmas. It was my birthday last weekend, you know.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You must draw something to remember your birthday. This will be a unique one. Soon this will all be a memory,” said Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was the sixth day, and the next day was my mother’s birthday. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“He thought you’d like this balloon from his birthday party. To celebrate your crossing.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“You finally came. And you brought the birthday gift I made for you.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“At markets and fairs. At children’s birthday parties. Did you ever go to one of those fairs where people pretend they’re still living in medieval times?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The girl asked her mother to send back just one thing for her birthday: a doll that cries. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Besides, maybe finding the lottery ticket on Papi’s birthday was a miracle. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I love putting luminaria up every year because it is very beautiful and a tradition and a good distraction from my birthday. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

There is never enough for a birthday present. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Seriously, though, Ern. You excited about your birthday tomorrow?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When I turned nine, you woke me up on my birthday by bouncing on my bed and giving me a picture of a unicorn that you’d drawn. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was exactly the same as Sophie’s birthday gift from her father—the one he’d taken for engraving and never brought back. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She wondered if he remembered that Estella’s birthday was in three days, wondered if it gave him any pause. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But before Arthur’s big day, we’re all celebrating the epic birthdays of Harry Potter and J. K. Rowling at Dylan’s tomorrow. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

For my mom's birthday last year, I filled a pencil case with quarters and wrapped it in newspaper. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“For your birthday,” she’d start, “I baked a beautiful cake. Six layers.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s your birthday next week. You have as much chance as anybody else.” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Words crawled back to my head: canyon, morning, Laika, dirt, birthday, and why is everything on fire? 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

My last visit had been over four months ago—for Gran’s birthday in January—and the house had been as spotless then as it was now. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

These kind of things kept me calm the night of my birthday. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The prophecy had come true right on schedule, and I hadn’t even thought about the fact that it was my birthday. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“But maybe add the teal blazer I got you for your birthday.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

On his birthdays he dragged it up and down the alley, to give proper attention to the amusements held in his name. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was my birthday the next day, and I longed for them more than ever. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our next-door neighbors’ names, the way the house smelled, what school was like, the holidays, the taste of icing on birthday cakes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At least I finally get to use the stationery Aunt Megan got me for my birthday last year. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There’s the skiff my dad built me for my ninth birthday. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Clay, seemingly calmer, replied, “She was my birthday gift this year. I wanted the three of you to see her.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she opened her trunk, it smelled of the house at Rook Hill, and it all came back: the way her father smiled at her on her birthday. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad might get us a little present—a comic book or a pair of shoes or a package of underwear— but at least as often, they forgot our birthdays altogether. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be nasty—we just wanted to say happy birthday,” Leo said. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

All those night missions, why they were basically training sessions so that he could be here for Ernie’s fourteenth birthday! As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t invite you. Wait!” he cried as Maria started to get up.“I do want to see you. I guess—I guess—I was a pig at the birthday party.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew how to behave at a party, and especially one for birthdays. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, he got two birthdays now,” smiled Sister McCandless, “just like he got two brothers—one in the flesh, and one in the Spirit.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

To me, it was still our birthday until the sun came up. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We were posing in front of the Spaceship Earth geosphere at Epcot for my thirteenth birthday. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was awkward to explain to people that before Sasha could come to little Julia’s birthday party, the Secret Service would need to stop by and do a security sweep. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Marie passed away in her sleep three days after her hundredth birthday. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He never gives me gifts on my birthday. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

God had given one regulator the gift of a newborn son, and two others had observed their birthdays. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Do I have to pick up trash for my birthday gift?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

This close to his birthday, he wasn’t likely to mess up too badly, he figured. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy finally broke down and gave Oscar to Lily for her fifteenth birthday. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The weekend after Thanksgiving, while Mrs. Richardson was still irked at Izzy, the Richardsons were due to attend a birthday party thrown by old family friends. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

How every birthday, we cooked, ate cake, washed dishes, and stayed close like a real family. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Mum, for my birthday, can I have a big atlas?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

For in one month, four short weeks after his birthday, the soccer field would become, as it did every year, a place of horror. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The next week, on my birthday, there was a terrible typhoon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He figured he’d finish everything up by the middle of July, right after my ninth birthday. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

But getting to drive Miss Volker was as good as a birthday gift, because her small Catholic church was out in the country and must have been about a half-hour trip. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Scott Wasden was born on January 4, within three days of the absolute perfect birthday for an elite hockey player. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Changing the subject, she said, “Show him your easy books, and then get your things ready so I can drive you over to your friend’s birthday party.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you want to do for your birthday on Saturday?” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You know what? Since it’s your birthday, I’m gonna go against my own rules and let you have a pack for free.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

That is, how many people would there have to be in a group in order for the probability to be half that at least two people in it have the same birthday? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a picture of her—at one of Maisie's birthday parties, scooping ice cream cones—with a ponytail just like that. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“My father always took me to the movies for my birthday,” he answered. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Of course, the worst part is knowing it could have been the most epic birthday ever. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Just like that, my birthday didn’t matter anymore. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure. She’s been to all of my birthday parties. Our moms are best friends.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bicycle I got for my ninth birthday, and the horribly tied bow on it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The smell was sure to come on his birthday. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Cora kicked her beggar’s cup, the few coins flew into the hubbub, and she continued on her afternoon errand to fetch flour for her son’s birthday cake. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it’s a last-minute thing. Maxine called and asked if I wanted to do brunch with her to celebrate my birthday.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He said, “Yes, I know, son. Happy birthday!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Your birthday?” asked Sherm, who had only given any serious thought to his own birthday. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

My mother sent me another Easy-Bake oven for my birthday along with some other gifts. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

On my twenty-seventh birthday, the birthday I had chosen, I submitted my PhD dissertation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s just Grandma Flora’s birthday, Mom’s pin for everything. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

There I would have celebrated my birthday by having a huge party, where fourteen couples would twirl around the dance floor as I made my grand entrance. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I think I just figured out what to get you for your birthday,” she said. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure thing," said Megan, dancing to the music “This lemonade stand was the greatest idea. It's like a birthday for the whole neighborhood!" The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Dad, sharing roasted peanuts with me in Central Park; wandering the halls of museums; celebrating my birthday. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On my sixteenth birthday, I was given the most extraordinary gift: I was invited to speak to the United Nations. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In another picture, we were gathered around Auntie Janet’s kitchen table, celebrating Joey’s twelfth birthday with a cake. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

On her thirtieth birthday she took a trip to Paris. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Ernie got a hundred bucks from Ma and Dad for his birthday, so at least he'll be able to replace his broken ones with better ones. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Even when you’ve recently turned fifteen without a birthday cake, it’s hard to be that mature about Christmas. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from Ian’s birthday card, there was no way to win the game, and no real goal. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“They were a birthday present!” shouted Ron, revolving slowly in midair as he struggled to get free. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I got my license a week after my sixteenth birthday. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He was definitely getting a dog for his birthday. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care about Via! I don’t want you to be late to my birthday party!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I’d never forgotten about a birthday present before in my whole life. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

"The first order of business is for us to agree what it is that we’re celebrating. It's been my birthday twice already this month." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Dursleys had completely ignored his last two birthdays, and he had no reason to suppose they would remember this one. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

And when it was my birthday she got me this necklace, I say and pull out from under my shirt collar my half of the friends forever heart necklace. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She’s the person who plans the secret party for the teacher’s birthday and makes sure everyone brings a treat. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

My birthday was April 2, which was the day before we left Iran. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was the first Sunday in July and I had a smile on my face because it was my birthday and the one gift I had asked for I received. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Plastic bags floating like jellyfish, and a deflated birthday balloon—one of the shiny metallic ones—lifted and zipped through the air like happy shrapnel. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

On December 7, 1950, I was going to put all battles aside and celebrate my birthday. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“My birthday is in a couple of weeks.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I mean, she had a good reason and everything — it was finals time at college — but it sucks having hospital cake for your birthday. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt peaceful and happy, and as if he would like to give everybody he knew a birthday present. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The birthday girl’s head fell back and her body went limp. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Both bars of candy, the birthday one and the one Grandpa Joe had bought, had long since been nibbled away, and all he got now were those thin, cabbagy meals three times a day. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The soldiers appear first, two of them, one younger and one who reminds me of my father's older brother, the one who still lives in Belgium and used to send money on my birthday. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Doc’s birthday party had barely time to get inside the laboratory and wedge the broken door closed and turn out the lights before the police car cruised up. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she has birthday parties, her dad isn’t allowed to come. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he didn’t die. Maybe he is alive, and he has come to visit me for my birthday,” I declared as I tugged at her arm. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said the birthday I’d concocted, with a year that made me sixteen. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, maybe she’ll let you just this once since it’s my birthday,” I say. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Here. Merry early Christmas, happy late birthday, happy Halloween, happy whatever.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“A root beer? What is it, my birthday?” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Individual birthdays aren’t celebrated in Juvenile Hall, so it was a day exactly like any other day. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Every night after my mother washed Lynn down, the whole family sat in our bedroom while I read to Lynn from the encyclopedia set my father had bought her for her birthday in September. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Happy birthday. Congratulations,” she says, handing me the bag. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Irene and I used to spend hours with that thing, until sometime after my tenth birthday, when I had decided that I was too old for dolls, and therefore, dollhouses. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I was sorry that I didn’t get to taste the birthday cake. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the fifty-ninth day before his tenth birthday, he fell in. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I imagine them in their cold graves, calling out to their mothers and fathers, “Don’t forget our birthdays! Celebrate for us. Eat cake for us.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Violet Chavez went all out for my ninth birthday. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Fancy him giving you a Silent Superb for your birthday!” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Like throwing up at your own birthday party. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mama kneels next to me and picks up the item I've just set aside, a birthday card from when I turned sixteen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

On my birthday, she brought me a cupcake with a little bird candle on top. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

As grand and sturdy as a birthday card. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m starting to think birthdays are bad luck.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

That night we had more of a birthday celebration than I was used to. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It’s history, just like the past—past history going all the way back to America’s birthday—July 4, 1776. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

That evening Nixon escorted Pat to her surprise birthday party in the State Dining Room. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She gave them to my mother to keep, and each year on Jenna’s birthday, my mother sends her one of the packages in the mail. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, Ernie, he’s fourteen—today’s his birthday,” Grandma explained, forcing a frown. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"I might as well get some ham hocks for the collard greens and a chicken. After all, it is your birthday. Let’s spoil ourselves." March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When he does, it is to wish Theo a happy birthday and to thank him “for all the kindness you’ve shown me.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She’d joined up with the Dregs less than two years ago, just days after her fifteenth birthday. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“And honestly...before last month, I didn’t even know when my birthday was. Thalia told me the last time she was at camp.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"I get to sleep in, because it's my birthday." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung laughed again and answered, “She is ten on her next birthday and she is a pretty flower.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"It's your birthday, though, so you should have made your favorite foods," I correct her without thinking. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He will remain Gogol during holidays and in summer; Gogol will revisit him on each of his birthdays. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

With a start, I realized I had probably missed my own birthday. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve prayed to have Mama back in my life every night, only to have my heart broken every Halloween, every Christmas, every motherless birthday. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

At lunch when Mrs. Bishop asked if Ivy had talked to them, she had mumbled a yes, embarrassed that her family had forgotten her on the most important birthday she’d ever had. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And one day, when my mother’s in a good mood, maybe after my next birthday, I’m going to ask to buy the nylons too. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Happy birthday, son,” he said, and tousled my hair. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Even when Mrs. Chavez hosted my ninth birthday party, it was spoiled by Amelia wearing the outfit my mother had given me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In school, if their teacher announced their birthday, they denied it, claiming it was a mistake. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

This was the first birthday party I had ever had. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He gets out of bed, convinced that it’s his parents calling to wish him a happy birthday, mortified that it will wake Gerald and Lydia from sleep. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He would give it to her on her birthday, in spite of the fact that he has no idea when her birthday is. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And you can learn a lot from TV. I watched a show about billionaires. There was this Wall Street guy and his supermodel wife. They spent twenty million dollars on their baby’s first birthday party.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The birthday party tonight just gone be the family and I got to get the cakes made. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s a dress I bought for my fifteenth birthday party. But I don’t wear it on dates.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

No one deserves a birthday party with all his favorite people more than Arthur. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

"What's the matter? Didn't you get a puppy for your birthday?" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“You could say that. It’s Troy Jr.’s thirtieth birthday.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Stated differently, fully half of the time that twenty-three randomly selected people are gathered together, two or more of them will share a birthday. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was little time to waste by having him come off the campaign trail to celebrate Malia’s birthday, and he couldn’t slip out of voters’ view on what was the country’s most symbolic holiday. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“She’s had a year to plan for all this, and you two dump it on me on my birthday! Suppose I don’t want to see her?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The villagers used to climb up to the mountain hut regularly, requesting that Amah embroider peonies or five-colored clouds onto silks for weddings and birthdays. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Every year after that, the daughter came for her father's birthday, and in the way of women, soothed and stitched and patched over the hurt feelings. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, what are you doing for your birthday?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Just a file attachment—an invitation to one of the most exclusive gatherings in the OASIS: Ogden Morrow’s birthday party. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Just before my birthday party had started, Chapter Eleven had been down in his basement laboratory, using a hacksaw on a newfangled Titleist that advertised a “liquid center.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As a child, I celebrated my birthday on September 22, but my parents eventually revealed to me that I was born on October 10. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

On January 1 all horses graduate to the next age class even if their birthdays fall months later. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you don’t need to come now. I’ve got a hundred and twenty bucks of birthday money in my wallet. I saw a Best Western a ways back.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When Liyana woke on her birthday, her mother was singing in the hallway. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Happy birthday, baby!” she says, and I can hear the smiles in her voice. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

All the commotion caused Adele to cancel my fifth birthday party. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

At the end of July, Mr. Bruce, the family therapist, invited the Merritts to Luke’s birthday party in the therapy conference room. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry I missed your birthday lunch. I really wanted to go.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Every year on Dudley’s birthday, his parents took him and a friend out for the day, to adventure parks, hamburger restaurants, or the movies. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Jockey’s birthday only came once or twice a year. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then he cut the birthday cake with his Marine Corps sword. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In honor of the birthday of the Marines, the Second and Third Raider Battalions, who had been in the heaviest fighting, were moved off the front line and allowed to rest for two weeks. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad’s favorite story to tell strangers and indulgent relatives was the day he and Mom tried to button me up into a blue one for his birthday party when I was three. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ve had this one for almost a year. A few of them are broken near the filters, but I think this pack could easily get me to my eighteenth birthday.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Foreign-based executives of the Korean National Insurance Corporation, the state monopoly that orchestrated the fraud, prepared a special birthday gift. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I envy everyone who gets to visit graves, bring flowers to them on birthdays and anniversaries. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Sandy had bought a striped candle for his wife's birthday, a three-hour candle. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, I hope you have a prodigiously wonderful birthday! Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

We spend the rest of the morning baking my traditional birthday cake of vanilla sponge with vanilla cream frosting. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And to think that that miserable man has his birthday next week. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“There have been another couple of dementor attacks,” he announced, as Mrs. Weasley passed him a large slice of birthday cake. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

My mother, whom I have always bought household appliances for, on her birthday. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what to do about my birthday,” Will told his dad. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“You left the night before our birthday, right?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She remembered birthdays and always had a present and a cake with candles. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

You can’t be a person without a birthday, they seemed to say. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If her birthday fell on a school day, Mom arranged for whatever teacher Ivy was with at that time to slip her a note and a little piece of chocolate at exactly 10:33. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The zirconia studs weren’t expensive, but they were a birthday gift from Mamá, so I didn’t want to lose them. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Soojin used to be into making crafts, and I still have the handmade block-print birthday card she made me last year. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She was having a hard time getting excited about her birthday. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Every time it was his birthday, we got him aftershave lotion that our mother paid for. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Stella looks at me across the table, the look in her hazel eyes by far the best birthday present I could ever get. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I put out napkins and the chopsticks Aunt Joan gave Mom for her birthday. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t going to ask if that other mom had the same birthday, too, just like her kids had the same birthdays as Chess, Emma, and Finn. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Is the flight on time? Remember we are taking Nigel out for his birthday,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

No late card for his birthday the week before. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Zander puts his hands together and looks at the cafeteria ceiling where the god of birthday cakes must be. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

That was just the kind of wonderful news I wanted to get on my birthday, but Poseidon patted me on the back like everything was fine. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I mean, here’s the thing: my birthday’s Saturday. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

After all, he’d never had any money in his life until a month ago, and he told Ron so, all about having to wear Dudley’s old clothes and never getting proper birthday presents. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I thought to myself, We’ll miss my birthday if we have to wait much longer. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Actually in Hobbiton and Bywater every day in the year it was somebody’s birthday, so that every hobbit in those parts had a fair chance of at least one present at least once a week. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Marble stairs lead down into the palace garden for Sophia's birthday game. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was his birthday present, and so on, and on. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And now on top of everything, a birthday passed by with hardly anybody even noticing. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he and Ma got me a record player for my eighteenth birthday in March plus a couple of albums. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He realized, with some shame, that he was hoping she had prepared a special breakfast for him on his birthday. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

That was her father’s birthday—he would be thirty-six soon. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then it’s time for me to blow out the candles on my birthday cake. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Someone asked me an interesting question yesterday,” Morrie said now, looking over my shoulder at the wallhanging behind me, a quilt of hopeful messages that friends had stitched for him on his seventieth birthday. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing her pink embroidered Mexican blouse, which she usually wore on birthdays and holidays. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was the only one of them who came to my birthday party. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just like in Mom’s birthday card, our presence is obvious. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A trio of zits exploded across her forehead, as if marking the days since her sixteenth birthday. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Sounds fun,” I say slowly, and then I press my lips together, because it’s not like I’m about to sit here begging for an invite to a random party on my own birthday. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It’s my birthday and we always spend the day together, just the two of us. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fourth grade, a girl told me that I wasn’t invited to her birthday party because her parents said Black people steal. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

February 19 is my birthday, more than a year since I last saw Dad, and this time he doesn’t even send a present. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday had been her birthday, her fourteenth birthday, but she had told no one. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The first birthday present she had gotten in six years, since her father was killed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Papa won’t want me to use that one; he saves the newspapers from our birthdays every year. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was proud of Sasha, who turned fifteen that same day and was counting down the hours to the Beyoncé concert she was going to in lieu of a birthday party. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She knew the exact date because it was her fourteenth birthday, and her mother had recorded it in the black album her grandmother had started when she was born. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I'm giving you the world for your birthday,” she said. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was the perfect drawing to help her forget about how horrible her birthday had been so far. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Mata, I don’t want to go to the circus, but Pata says l am to go on my birthday, whether I want to or not.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

They even surprised navigator Tatyana Sumarokova on the morning of her birthday after her night’s bombing missions, presenting her with a bottle of champagne and singing her a song they’d made up themselves! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This birthday party is at a nightclub—a plain, short, and wide building. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“The night of your tenth birthday? What were you doing in the lab? You were supposed to be on your way to the labor camps.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Just in my daydreams, and in the handful of blurry photographs from Taro’s eleventh birthday party. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“But maybe...maybe your birthday really is March third.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s her birthday today. She looks sixteen. She is sixteen.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How did you know it was her birthday?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents had given me the videotape movie for my birthday. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then how about you, sweetheart,” he said, and Emma held a particular finger up and made a flame dance atop it like a birthday candle. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It had been annoying at first, since I had to wait to get my own phone till my birthday months later, but now I was used to it. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

We invoked it in stating that if we had 367 people gathered together, we could be certain that at least two had the same birthday. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here is the play-by-play for the first two goals in the Memorial Cup final, only this time I’ve substituted the players’ birthdays for their names. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I started to get just the littlest bit excited about my birthday. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I took her the huge dictionary that she had bought as a birthday gift for Daddy Clidell and laid it on the bed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either late Friday night or early Saturday morning, he placed my birthday money and my allowance on my dresser next to my talcum powder and my Timex. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The first day we met, Stella in her makeshift hazmat suit, the birthday dinner. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

"Good, then down to business. My wife's having a birthday tomorrow. I thought one of your gorgeous striped candles would make a swell present." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he would never get to have his sixth birthday party. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s an invitation to my birthday party next month,” Deb says, handing me an envelope. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Their birthdays, it turns out, are less than three weeks apart, which means, for most of March, Henry is twenty-three and Alex is twenty-one. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The questions she asked me at Sophia's birthday banquet compete with her latest challenge: Can you do this? The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Galileo died peacefully in his sleep on the night of 8/9 January 1642, a few weeks short of his seventy-eighth birthday. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

First I had him over for my birthday. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mom bought it for her birthday last year. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“He just celebrated his three hundred and sixty-second birthday,” Edward said. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Phyllis’s mom said she couldn’t come over, but Suesetta and I will call her later so she can be a part of at least some of my birthday. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I made up some excuse about wanting them to help me plan a birthday party for June. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was glad my birthday was in the summer. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

And in the midst of everything else, I’d almost forgotten my own birthday. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sasha had come to the hospital on Andrew’s fifteenth birthday and they had brought a present, a gift card for an art supply store. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She don’t care bout being there on the morning her only child wakes up on the first birthday she remember. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A fly outfit will put me in the birthday and pageant spirit. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I made you some tea. For your birthday. It’s in the teapot. I didn’t even put sugar in it.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The bike was a Condor Junior Roadracer, custom built for him on his twelfth birthday. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I took it back to the hooch and we celebrated Brew’s birthday. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since my birthday’s in August, I’m also younger than most kids in my class. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

For her seventh birthday, a tiny wooden chalet stands in the center of the kitchen table where the sugar bowl ought to be. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“For my birthday ... I know what I want.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She was born on August 18, 1921, and her birthday just happened to be Soviet Air Fleet Day or Aviation Day. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Following my fourth birthday, I began to venture beyond just the grocery store, and go on more adventures into the outside world. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was like a birthday party, so many presents. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope it involves Stella popping out of a birthday cake in a bikini!” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He would see his seventeenth birthday, but not much more. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

One year, all the neighborhood children were invited to the birthday party of the Dixit girl. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“In the meantime, here’s a question for you: Do you think you’ll be able to eat some birthday cake? Or are your teeth too sore?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And that night, for a special birthday treat, Pa played “Pop Goes the Weasel” for her. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s knocking her rings together, topaz, I think, like the kind my mom once pawned when she wanted to buy Olivia concert tickets for her thirteenth birthday. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Aron said, “I’ve got a buck rabbit weighs fifteen pounds. I’m going to give it to my father for his birthday.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They sailed in November 1676, with Halley, now just past his twentieth birthday, abandoning his degree studies. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Strangely, however, on each birthday I somehow got the feeling that I had aged more than a year. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We thought about giving you a bike for your birthday but we decided against it.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was Adolf Hitler’s birthday, and, all across Germany, special torchlight ceremonies were about to take place. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s funny, because a few years ago I would have hated the idea of staying in and cooking on my birthday, but now it’s perfect, it’s the way it should be. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think we’d miss your birthday? We’re staying the night! We got a couple of rooms at the Sleepy Inn. We thought you’d like a real bed for once. A splurge.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I had sort of forgot about it being Karim and Erik’s birthday, but then I figured that made sense, because of how they were triplets. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Happy birthday, Harry!” said Hermione, hurrying into the kitchen and adding her own present to the top of the pile. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Nobody asks me to come to a birthday party or a sleepover. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

After all, January 30 was the birthday of Wilhelm Gustloff, for whom the ship was named, and also the anniversary of Hitler’s rise to power. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

"I need to make the beauty-scopes this week. It's my birthday." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And when Andrew himself had a birthday he had two candles on his cake for every year, instead of only one. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The mill owner changed my birthday on a piece of paper. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Christmases and birthdays she requested wigs and makeup, hospital gowns and uniforms. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“We were going to wait until your eighteenth birthday,” Linda explained, her hand still steady on his shoulder. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Boys put smut on me. It’s my birthday today. I’m fifteen.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“So Obama’s basically having your ideal birthday party?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Every year Mom, Dad, Thomas, and I would celebrate Fig’s birthday with a specially made cake from Heavenly Treats Bakery, while watching the video Dad had recorded of Fig’s homecoming six years ago. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She has read Around the World in Eighty Days until the Braille is soft and fraying; for this year’s birthday, her father has bought her an even fatter book: Dumas’s The Three Musketeers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As he told me about his upcoming work day, I fished under the neck of my shirt and brought out the silver chain that he’d given me for my fourteenth birthday. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting smug in the porch swing, she cut herself another piece of chocolate birthday cake. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I tell myself it’s a simple invitation to a birthday party, not a date. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freak's birthday is a couple of days after school gets out, and the Fair Gwen has already made it clear he's not getting a ride on the space shuttle. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

If his scheme came to fruition, this would be the last time he celebrated Jockey’s birthday. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s my birthday,” I said, angling for sympathy. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I’ve only been to the Twin Cities on day trips with the Nielsens—for a special birthday dinner, a shopping expedition, one afternoon at the art museum—but never with friends, and never overnight. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She knew her mother had gotten sick at thirty, so she’d long feared her own thirtieth birthday, figuring that whatever happened to her mother at that age would happen to her too. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

You keep on like this, and we aint going have you no more birthday. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took it down three months later, on my eighteenth birthday. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“So, all in all, not one of Ron’s better birthdays?” said Fred. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The similarities in their lives became good omens: that they were both only children, their birthdays two days apart, and their hometowns in Anambra State. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I done walk, swim, and fly to get here. But I wouldn’t miss this birthday. You’s eleven now, and that’s momentous.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

This birthday celebration in 1942 was intended to make up for the others, and Grandma’s candle was lit along with the rest. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Thought so. You need a better camera. That one’s fine for a starter, or for birthday parties and Christmas. Not for you.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I ask only this: that you allow Harry to return, once more, to this house, before his seventeenth birthday, which will ensure that the protection continues until that time.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It’s possible that Bobby was simply given the gifts on his thirteenth birthday, even though there was no actual coming-of-age Bar Mitzvah ceremony. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As a surprise for George’s tenth birthday, Aunt Daisy took them to see the Tower of London, where they used to chop off your head if the king didn’t like you. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

My sister knew I had an enormous crush on him and had my favorite magazine photo of him put on a T-shirt as a birthday present. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I think she wanted to make sure you got something for your birthday for a change. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“No, secretary makes the birthday calendar,” Sage told her. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The birthday cupcake sits between us, the candle melted down to a waxy puddle. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Give them to your son. You’ve got birthdays and Christmases taken care of for a couple of years with all this. It’s good stuff any motorcycle enthusiast would love.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Grandma thanked Mrs. Wishart, who told me to have a nice birthday and a wonderful evening. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes Shukumar lit a few more birthday candles and drove them into the soil of the pot. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Robin thought of his mother and how she, too, had said farewell, the day after his tenth birthday. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The girl from the birthday party and American Ballet Theatre. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

This birthday felt like a turning point for me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mom rushes to the intercom and yells, “We’ll be right down! And happy birthday!” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“The Lord done saved that boy’s soul on his birthday!” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

We had a birthday dinner on Saturday, just me and Mom and Dad, because I said I didn’t want a party. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Neeley’s thirteenth birthday had been lost somewhere in those last few days. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except that my birthday comes on June 15 and I would like to know when it’s my birthday and keep track of how old I am. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t been to bed as early as eight since her fifth birthday, but she wasn't going to the trouble of explaining that to Elinor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“But you’ll find the car will be more useful. And I have a bit of birthday advice to give you.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I fought back glimpses of my daugh-ter’s birthday party in its cruel contrasts to our party here tonight. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He takes her to an Italian restaurant where he goes from time to time with people at work, to celebrate birthdays and promotions and projects well done. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately I knew it was a birthday card from my parents. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I was lonely, and it was her birthday. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I believed we were going to make it to Lewiston by the next day, the twentieth of August, my mothers birthday. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Once again he picked the right day for a birthday. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He awoke on this birthday morning with the feeling that there was menace in the air around him—that something irrevocable had occurred in him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I was now looking at my thirtieth birthday looming on the horizon, and I often thought about life after sport. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Just after my eighth birthday, Billy Deel and his dad moved into the Tracks. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Uh, well . .. birthdays have never been a very big thing around our house,” he stammered. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“What do you want to have for your birthday? We’ll get you whatever it is.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But there is an equally noteworthy and genuine coincidence that results from taking Newton’s birthday as 4 January 1643, in line with our modern calendar. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

After he has gone back, to wherever he’s going next, I think of getting him a star named after himself, for his birthday. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Happy birthday to you!” the children sing in English. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“No, nothing like that. It’s this. ‘What did you give father on his birthday just before you went in the army?’ East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted it to be extra special for my brother and for me because he was coming home, and it was my birthday. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But none of them had had any fun since Julie’s birthday. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Carolyn Malone was Stella’s best friend, and not only that, their birthdays were just three days apart. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On the evening of July 17, 1918, a month shy of Alexei’s fourteenth birthday, a firing squad instigated by the Bolsheviks burst into the czar’s house and assassinated the whole family. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Usually Marie-Laure can solve the wooden puzzle boxes her father creates for her birthdays. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We completely missed the birthday cake, which Mom was really mad about. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He is afraid he won't live to his thirtieth birthday in May. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I see the Russ I saw on his birthday, when he was talking about his father on my roof—the real Russ. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lunch is actually amazing, because Morgan and Bram both had birthdays over the long weekend, and Leah’s very strict about everyone getting their own giant sheet cake. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I was eleven when we moved into our home on Pinewood Drive, and we would move out on my seventeenth birthday. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the doorbell rang, bringing me back to my birthday party. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Later, he asked for his mother only occasionally, like on his birthday or Christmas. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rode a little motorbike and blew out candles on a birthday cake. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

And after all, November 10 was only the day listed as my birthday. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that Saturday, the first Saturday in August, one month after his birthday, was the worst day of the year. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Remember when we took the train up to Place de la Nation to celebrate your birthday with Janai and Ben and the kids? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Tonight’s her birthday party, right?” my mother asks as I follow her, zombielike, back to her bedroom. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean—well, your safety’s much more important! Actually, I’ve been wanting to ask you how you want to celebrate your birthday, Harry. Seventeen, after all, it’s an important day....” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Here it is. Renault, Jerome E. Son of James R. Pharmacist at Blake’s. The kid’s a freshman, birthday—let’s see, he just turned fourteen. Oh—his mother died last spring. Cancer.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the day, whenever I’m at my locker, someone calls out, “Happy birthday!” to me. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Hearing him is better than any record I’ve ever heard, better than ice cream all day on your birthday. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My father gives an exasperated puff of air that could blow out birthday candles. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He had seen a birthday party, with one child singled out and celebrated on his day, so that now he understood the joy of being an individual, special and unique and proud. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Linda seemed to wilt, while Mark looked like one of those helium balloons that Joaquin had gotten from a birthday party when he was seven. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Constantine died, Skeeter. I sent her a check, for her birthday. To the address I found for her daughter, but Lulabelle... sent it back. With a copy of the obituary.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But I was still biting my lip so hard, thinking about eggs and birthdays and allergies and not crying, and I didn’t think about it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember when Dallas and Florida first came here and you asked them how old they were and when their birthday was? You remember that?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“So when you get allowance money and birthday money, you have to put it in the Madison Square Garden savings jar.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

How every birthday, she spent time with me, showering me with love. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The camera people made Erlan and his brothers blow out the candles on their birthday cake three times, because they said they couldn’t get the angle right. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t think I forgot your thirtieth birthday, did you?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was too cold to go up to the attic, and anyway, it was Margot’s birthday. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The alarm beeped its insistent warning, and I silenced it with Jesse’s birthday. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Bri died on my birthday after thanking God that I was still alive. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“And the nickname,” she said to his father, “you should hear the nickname they gave him for his ninth birthday, the hoodlums.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Will be in the city ready to carry out birthday floggings &c. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit had been a very late foal, born at the end of May 1933, but in January 1935, half a year short of his actual birthday, he was deemed a two-year-old, officially eligible to race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another birthday has gone by, so I’m now fifteen. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Of course, as far as the little kids were concerned, the highlight of the whole party was not the birthday boy, Piper McNab, but the McNab’s new pillbox. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says birthdays are our own personal holiday. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Aech told me that she hadn’t seen or spoken to her mother since leaving home on her eighteenth birthday. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The British commandant was throwing a ball in honor of Queen Charlotte’s birthday in ten days’ time. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sends me a card on my birthday with fifty dollars in it, which my father nags me about until I finally go to the bank and deposit it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A committee meeting was set for tomorrow, and since it was Jack's birthday, a party at the Chthonian would follow. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Julia, we're going to have a little party for Finn on the sixteenth. It's his birthday. Mike and I would love it if you could come.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Just days before my fifth birthday, my mother took me to Philadelphia to register me for ballet lessons at the Rock School for Dance Education. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing only his birthday suit, Roosevelt waded into the cold black water. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

How can you celebrate your birthday when you’ve got the sulks, how can you accept gifts from people you won’t even talk to? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She raced back to her room and got the black-and-silver camera her godparents had given her for her birthday. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

This was after the card in the parking lot, after the birthday gift, but her mind jumps and shoves images in front of her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, he’s having a birthday party on Saturday.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I must repay a debt, Just Sal. I wagered Captain William Farrar that the British would not dare hold this ridiculous birthday celebration. It’s a slap in the face to the people who are starving.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fiftieth birthday had passed without much notice in 1968, but in 1975, when I turned fifty-seven, Walter and Kathy approached me with a long-term plan that would make my sixtieth birthday more memorable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then his dad laced up the multicolored shoes, put on the red felt nose, squeaked his bike horn, and drove away to make balloon animals at a six-year-old’s birthday party. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Rick, selecting question three, said, “You are given a calfskin wallet on your birthday.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

My mom’s birthday was September 22, so my dad finally gave in and made plans for us to go to Panamá. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He talked about El Patron and the fantastic birthday parties. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as with June, Ivy hadn’t talked to Taryn since the night of her birthday. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My daughter, Leigh, arrived on September 26, 1969—my mother’s birthday. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

British people love those things: a plate for the Queen’s birthday, a plate with the prince’s wedding portrait on it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“We’re only here for a few minutes. We just couldn’t let you be alone on your birthday.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It was a Friday evening, the day before Prim's tenth birthday in late May. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it was a birthday present from my husband,” Ms. Fender said politely. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband had bought her a nice pantsuit to wear when they called on customers, and for her birthday Doug had given her one of his medals to wear around her neck. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are four months and seven days until your birthday. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“My last birthday? My mom gave me a kitten from the animal shelter. I didn’t ask for a kitten. Now? I love Squeaky. That’s her name.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

In my elation at the photo shoot today, I forgot to mention that today June 19th was my deceased mom's birthday. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I guessed it was red, the one she had worn on her birthday. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

My sixteenth birthday I had dinner with my folks at the restaurant they met at. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We were still deep into our space phase when my sixth birthday rolled around, so my parents decided to have my party at the planetarium. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He buried his dirty clothes at the bottom of the hamper and dug all his leftover birthday and Christmas money out of his sock drawer. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I take out my birthday gift, a package of sparkly pens Mama Ya-Ya has given me. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It requires a large number of people, 253 to be exact, to be 50 percent certain that someone in the group has March 19 as his or her birthday. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew Aunt Queen had been saving this for his birthday surprise, and he knew that she had put money aside for months to get such a fine bike. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the conversation we had on my mom's birthday, just one month ago, and I feel sick to my stomach. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I was only fifty-one then, and birthdays did not seem so important. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But then he said that those guitars cost thousands of dollars, and besides his birthday wasn’t until September, and the way he said September, it was like a judge issuing a prison sentence. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

By Kristina’s twelfth birthday on April 16, 2005, pale green buds had broken out in the oaks in front of the Links’ house. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

There, on the bottom shelf, sat his birthday cake. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I think maybe this might be the best birthday ever. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In his sleep a voice echoed down the long dark barrel of a cannon: You have run out of birthdays. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I got to wear an apron when I had my birthday party at the bakery, but that one had been plain black. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s the shaving lotion I got on my birthday.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Seventy?” said Malcolm, who knew well that Mr. Taphouse had had his seventy-fifth birthday the previous autumn. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

At the end of summer Krishna’s birthday was celebrated. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“By the way, we know Miss Jupiter’s birthday is this weekend. She turned us down because she said it’s ‘tradition’ to hang out with you.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

A neighbor dropped me off after school to wait for Grandma to come home from work, so my birthday celebration could begin. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted to wear the little black dress I’d bought for my fifteenth birthday party, my death dress, but I didn’t fit into it anymore, so I wore a plain black dress, knee-length. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He extended a wrapped birthday gift to me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

This air made him think of bonfires on autumn nights, of logs crackling in a fireplace, of Mom lighting candles on his birthday cake every single year, every single birthday. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Now that you have turned twelve,” she started, “I know you’ll appreciate what I have to say about birthday gifts and gift giving. My mother taught me this and it is the old Norvelt way.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was nearing my nineteenth birthday and I did not know how to pronounce the word “preface.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you’d be surprised how many people will pay for a flesh-eating horse. They make great garbage disposals. Wonderful way to terrify your enemies. Great at birthday parties! We rent them out all the time.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Thing is, I was supposed to renew my license last year on my hundredth birthday. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then El had her twelfth birthday, and I couldn’t miss it. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I took out the sand dollar my father had given me for my birthday. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was April 12.1 remembered because it was Easter and the day after my twelfth birthday, just two months earlier. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He died on his fiftieth birthday, I believe, right during the party. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d wanted to have it ready for my birthday, and he’d promised that we could finish it later, together, which we never did. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The one who made cupcakes for me to take to school on my birthday while Mama watched soap operas in her bathrobe. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then he asked if I knew what day it was, and when I said I didn’t, he said it was his birthday and would I please give him a birthday kiss. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for the birthdays—there are only three hundred and sixty-five possible birthdays anybody could have. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Just a photo. Of Bo and me. My mom took it on my eleventh birthday.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I guess that people been reading the newspapers or saw me on the television and knew it was my birthday. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been in the diplomatic service of both Austria and Italy and his birthday parties were the great social event of Milan. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

On the morning of her twelfth birthday, there is no puzzle box in place of the sugar bowl when she wakes; her father is too busy. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“But take your time. It’s your day. Sorry, it’s not your day, it’s not like a birthday, it’s the opposite.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For birthdays his mother orders a cake on which his name is piped across the white frosted surface in a bright blue sugary script. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Go, go. It’s your birthday. You invited them.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Between her eleventh and twelfth birthday, things changed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What would you say to a birthday outing next week—we two, and the two youngsters? Would it please young Marcus to sit in the Imperial Box?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

On the morning of Rachel’s birthday I found Mother out in the kitchen house with her head in her hands, crying. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I’m going to a birthday party, thank you. Do you think he’ll be a minister?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A treat, she’d said, for my birthday, which was the holy week of Easter. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And now, now he can’t find the good picture of Byrd and Frank, but can find them crying at the picnic table, over a birthday cake for a ten-year-old that wasn’t at the table. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I stitched the colors of the fireworks exploding into the sky on Lord Krishna’s birthday and the two of us covered with red powder at the celebration of Holi. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember that birthday party you had here?” she asked.“Yeah,” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s actually perfect. I need to pick up a birthday card anyway.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I was months away from my fourth birthday. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

For his sixtieth birthday celebration, the Queen Mother came. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was the day of his twenty-ninth birthday, and Lucile had asked him to drop by her apartment when he finished with an appointment at the dentist’s. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that story," said Mo. “Didn't I make it up for your eighth birthday? It's rather a gloomy tale, as far as I remember." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The soldierwives would too, for they belonged to the ■* army of servants who would work at the birthday dinner. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, his birthdays were never exactly fun — last year, the Dursleys had given him a coat hanger and a pair of Uncle Vernon’s old socks. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

But I’m not sure that the word birthday, for him, would still have meaning. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Last year around the time of my birthday it was pouring down rain every single afternoon, come heck or high river, but this summer, not a drop yet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight was Midsummer’s Eve, and tomorrow would be her eighteenth birthday. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He pulled two birthday candles out of his pocket and stood them up on the cake, side-by-side. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

They spent a long time wandering through stores, looking at toys and records and pianos and birthday cards. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for Shin’s birthday, no one paid any attention when he was growing up, including Shin. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Missy had gone there last month for her birthday. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Or hide your book in its birthday suit—after all, sometimes no disguise is the best disguise of all. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Watching it is also part of our birthday ritual. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

With credit for time served and good behavior, the deal would mean Richard, now seventeen, would be released just before his twenty-first birthday. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Three birthday candles? Constance is only two years old?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They gave me an egg, as if it were my birthday, and tea, though they were older than I, but I poured for them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Milady Kelly phoned me at work. They're all off for pie and chips after work ’cause it's somebody's birthday, so we've got room for one more.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Catherine, whose second birthday I celebrated with Farmer and Didi in their Paris apartment, is a teenager and attends a boarding school in the United States. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“But my birthday isn’t for three more days.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her favorite, a birthday gift from Gogol, features paintings that hang in the Museum of Modem Art. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1941 Grandma got sick and had to have an operation, so my birthday passed with little celebration. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Johnny was the only one who lived past his thirtieth birthday. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Mr. Thomas had died by then, I fondly remembered how kind he was to me on my twelfth birthday and how he told me that everything was going to be all right. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He sprinted upstairs and threw himself under the bed, wrenching up the loose floorboard, and grabbed the pillowcase full of his books and birthday presents. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir, if it was his birthday there’d be presents. That’s just the thing. All we got to find out is when it is.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Earl himself soon followed them to the grave, a month short of his seventy-seventh birthday. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But such occasions were rare, and the birthday party notwithstanding, Shin was not happy in South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Kevin and I had not planned to do anything to celebrate my birthday. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

His fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and now eighteenth birthdays had all been spent locked up. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“This,” she declared, “is the best birthday ever!” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And who she was calling and what the big emergency was and why his birthday was ruined. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Beto knew only one important thing about that date: it was their mother’s birthday. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A made-up birthday, a dance after toiling under the harvest moon. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“She is a most excellent birthday present, Father,” Clay said as he glanced once more at the girl who huddled in the corner. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also dreamed of having my own birthday party. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s my birthday, that’s what,” said the policeman as he entered “Forgot my birthday” in his little book. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight she sat a long time before writing on the first page of one of the new blue notebooks Poppy had given her for her birthday. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He can’t miss what he’s never had! Why don’t we open it now and celebrate Mr. Weasley’s birthday? Nothing like a fine spirit to chase away the pangs of disappointed love...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I never had a birthday party with balloons when I was a kid—so these are for me, too!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

And he had carefully, daintily really, pulled Palmer’s shirtsleeve down over the wound and said, “Happy birthday, kid,” and walked off, and in that moment Palmer loved Farquar. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The radio announcer said Gandhi spent his birthday fasting and spinning yarn on his wheel. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The second he got outside, he started scampering to the car with the speed of a little boy going to open his birthday presents. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, now you know what to get her for her birthday,” she says, looking at Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Honey, you just go play and enjoy your birthday,” Mrs. Pace said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Why—I’m—I’m surprised. I didn’t even know you knew it was my birthday.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It tells you all the things that were popular on your birthday, like the top books, the top songs, the biggest movies. It just made me think of you when I saw it, so...” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

"You just got ten dollars from Grandma for your birthday." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I once read an English story where a little girl got a big pink cake and presents wrapped in shiny paper and bows for her birthday. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It’s a strange birthday to have because it is so close to Christmas. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

‘I think we can reach Spain this time if we’re lucky. Just let me -’ The mob of ghosts vanished, like a mass of birthday candles blown out in a single breath. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

So first we’d give Omi a birthday hug inside the O, and then we’d give her a little red pouch of chocolate pebbles—basically M&M’s, but each one a different pebbly shape and color. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Since I thought that was so cool, I’d given her a silver necklace with a little treasure-chest charm for her tenth birthday. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He hurried to the pantry and found the bag of birthday decorations his mom had bought. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“We think we’re very lucky, to be able to give her a birthday. It’s the same as Winston Churchill’s. And Mark Twain’s.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was not too fond of crab, ever since I saw my birthday crab boiled alive, but 1 knew 1 could not refuse. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone, including Tess, waiting outside for Ernie to come out, the same way they had waited for him on his birthday. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She remembered small moments, and these moments came to her now: A birthday cake cradled in her mother’s hands, with white peaks of frosting and animal crackers around the edges. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And during that week after his birthday, Mama Nee is working third shift, so that computes to just about every night. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I guess. My mom said she wanted to take us skating as an early birthday present for you. We can go after choir practice.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Diana bit her lip as she reached for the gold studs Katherine gave her for her sixteenth birthday, then added the gold-cross necklace that had technically been from her father. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

That every year, on her birthday, her father would present her with another puzzle and another novel, and she would read all of Jules Verne and all of Dumas and maybe even Balzac and Proust? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then my mother dropped the bombshell: She was expecting another baby—a girl—the day before my birthday. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Next thing I know, I've got in my head the Easy-Bake Oven Joe got for his birthday when he was six, I think it was, and how much he loved that thing. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Khalid’s birthday is going to be in a few weeks, but no point in celebrating something like that with no Khalid. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Because of that, my birthday is now officially June 1. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Since you must know, I went in to arrange your surprise birthday party. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

My birthday’s coming up, but I don’t care about wearing some silly dress or having a huge Sweet Thirteen like some of the kids at school. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He emptied all his handheld video games and Josh's remote control cars, and called his grandma to tell her that all he wanted for his birthday in November was AA batteries. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Happy birthday,” he’d croaked to his reflection, practicing a smile, but only managing a grimace. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He pushed the notebook at me like it was a big birthday gift. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t miss Percy’s fifteenth birthday,” Poseidon said. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ben says, “It’s midnight Earth time. That makes it your birthday, Petra.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Just after Vera’s fourth birthday, I passed my CPA exam and got a real job at a firm in the center of town. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But wanting all that just made Ivy angrier because she had no home and she had no birthday cake and right now, she might as well have no Layla and no family. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And in the late nineteenth century the Congress made its reading a mandatory ritual on Washington’s birthday. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Between When is your birthday, Mon? and What's your favorite color, Mol? The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whose birthday bash is this going to be?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My dear,” said Mr. Wigg, smiling down at the children, and looking apologetically at Mary Poppins, “I’m very sorry, but I’m afraid it is my birthday.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I remember his Noise from back on the farm, about my birthday, about how a boy becomes a man. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was my birthday, and we’d planned to meet in Clover that day. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It sounded so foolish and inadequate, as though she had knocked over a favorite houseplant, or forgotten a birthday. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It would be a far cry from the solemn and fearful birthdays I had spent in Pakistan not long ago. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She was glad that they didn't know her birthday. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He’d been sitting on his birthday money for a month, waiting for Fiona to take us on the train into the city, to Newbury Comics, to browse through music, comic books, and assorted thingamajigs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In two days it would be her twelfth birthday. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He celebrated his nineteenth birthday with his parents in New York City. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She emailed birthday cards, would argue with waiters over wine, and still had a job. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mama didn’t have time to remember our real birthdays. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Kenny hasn't let it out of his sight since he got it for his birthday three weeks ago. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I planned to use some of it to pay for my CharlieTicket to ride the T. I also had some of my leftover birthday money, in case we needed it. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Like all the previous discs, this one begins with her birthday party, a lavish private affair somewhere in Scotland. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

We were just up to “Happy birthday, dear Oooo-mi” when something brushed my shoulders. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had another two birthdays still to celebrate behind bars, his nineteenth and his twentieth. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I have no idea when Jan's birthday is, but I doubt Mrs. Veenstra will remember any better than I do, and I hope she can't sense how uncomfortable I am. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The last one I listened to was an extended birthday card to me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a plain shift dress that likely fit her when she first entered the Tower, shortly after her thirteenth birthday, but she had grown taller, and it barely covered her knees. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I soothed myself by spending time choosing a dress to wear for my birthday dinner. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I didn't want the mean white people there to treat me like I didn't count on my birthday. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The man who wound his watch told the story of his sixteenth birthday. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Matt had seen this weapon at El Patrons birthday party. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the same day of my thirteenth birthday dinner, Conrad got his thirteenth Boy Scout badge, so we had a double celebration. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I forgot to tell you, but Victoria Lyons invited me to Hannah’s birthday party next weekend.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Happy birthday, Ron,” said Harry, when they were woken on the first of March by Seamus and Dean leaving noisily for breakfast. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They were twins, and their birthday is February 19—the same day as Rere was born. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that I actually got a speck of attention on my birthday. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was standing with Baba in the yard near the bar when some­one said, “Happy birthday, Amir.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Man, I got grounded on my birthday once, and it was not fun. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She doesn't have all her marbles any more--she's old as hell--and she keeps sending me money for my birthday about four times a year. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I cried for myself because I was alone and lonely on my birthday. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It’s my tenth birthday, and Dad’s hands are covering my eyes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The day of the dance—the day of Ivy’s thirteenth birthday—she woke up with a stomachache, but not a sick stomachache. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I was very moved,” he told me when we met for the first time in December 2008, a few days after his birthday. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then I pick up the story in the late afternoon of Prim's birthday. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In front of them is a small table holding a big birthday cake. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Not because she isn't nice, because she is—she always hand-makes birthday cards, and she even sent me an e-mail when she heard I was applying to Prism to tell me good luck. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I want to give you this now, on your real birthday.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Every year on my birthday, Mama Ya-Ya tells me the same story. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She’s not coming back until Monday, and Dad’s not back until Monday either, so I’ll be spending my seventeenth birthday alone in Uncle Milton’s apartment. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“But she’s been workin’ real hard to make up for the past, and she really wants to share your birthday with you.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She drove a four-in-hand on her fourteenth birthday, and her cousin, Mr. Jack, got up on the box beside her and tried to take the reins from her hands. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes before a holiday or a birthday party, I feel like I’m going to burst. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the feeling, it is like a birthday present. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“Happy birthday, Boo,” she said, her voice utterly calm. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was shot by Seb Mundy on his thirteenth birthday, made to stand alone and pull the trigger as the rest of the men of Prentisstown watched. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It seems unfair not to give credit where credit is due simply because one lacks a certain number of candles on one’s birthday cake. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She’s never been able to buy them a toy or a birthday cake. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

This same mirror must have seen her descend the stairs like this on dozens of occasions, on her way to one more friends afternoon birthday bash. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Kind of cold out to be running around in your birthday suit!” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“She keeps talking about a birthday feast. Which means we’ll be in the kitchen for hours, making something that will be eaten in ten minutes. Like homemade samosas or something.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

H. G. Wells died six years later in London, a few weeks before his eightieth birthday. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Dressed in faded, threadbare GoreTex, a couple of months shy of his sixty-ninth birthday, Pete was a gangly, slightly stooped man who had returned to the high reaches of the Himalaya after a long absence. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

"It’s in honor of Melba’s birthday," he said, "and it’s really for everyone." March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care. I just wanna get out of the house some on my birthday.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Auggie had to go to the hospital instead of going to my sixth birthday party. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

That made the stove even more of a joy than it had been, because as I got the fire going I realized that I could have a real birthday cake, layers and all. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

When I turned ten, you woke me up on my birthday by bouncing on my bed and giving me a gift certificate to the trampoline park. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ash's thirteenth birthday was shortly after the Spring Festival, when flower peddlers flooded the market square with buckets of daffodils and crocuses. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

You need the camera you got for your sixteenth birthday and the flowers you dried. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We visited Butte, Montana, on the Fourth of July, which happened to be Malia’s tenth birthday and about four months ahead of the general election. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On her birthday after school, she had called Omer to thank him for the wonderful surprise, and his mother, who didn’t speak English very well, answered the phone. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“God. I just feel so bad. His birthday’s coming up. Proms in two weeks. Like, I'm pretty sure I just ruined everyone’s senior prom.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

For my birthday that year, I got one of those plastic keyboard toys done up in cotton-candy pink, the kind with fat keys that played way out of tune and drove grown-ups crazy. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Tickham’s birthday machine let out an uncertain roar and stuttered to a stop. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Here. You can borrow my lantern. Happy birthday.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Good evening, birthday girl,” he said, handing me a small box with a bow. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shape bends over him, cutting open his favorite Colombia soccer jersey, which his mom sent him for his birthday, slapping two pads on his chest. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Julia nudged my shoulder and added, “But don’t even try to guess what it is, because I’m not telling till your birthday.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The next Saturday was Margie’s birthday party, and Marly gave her a friendship ring. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

That the pencil markings on the wall by the linen closet, where Ashoke used to record his children’s height on their birthdays, will not be painted over. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

On her ninth birthday, when she wakes, she finds two gifts. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sure, I invited her to my Flower Fairy birthday party once. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I’d just like to time my earthly exit so I don’t miss my grandson’s birthday on July third. Would that be okay with you?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Malia was happy at her University of Chicago Laboratory School, making friends and loading up her own little calendar with birthday parties and swim classes on weekends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On the Halloween just before my thirteenth birthday, Tess came over. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

There was one at school with a big cake and some mighty nice birthday cards. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birthday ball gown had a scarlet red underskirt topped with a short gown of Royal Navy blue, embroidered with gold. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I still think my birthday is cool. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

His birthday was one of the last drawn, and anyway, as an undergraduate, he had been granted a deferral. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Rubbing his eyes, Matt saw Maria’s present on a shelf, and the birthday party came back with hideous clearness. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt so happy, even though Mother Lois gave me the usual speech about how I would have a wonderful big Christmas gift to make up for there being no birthday present. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He saw himself on his last birthday, a spoiled, ignorant child. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Baby, I’m sorry. I know it’s your birthday—” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

What was still more splendid, it was like a birthday or Christmas Day. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once—I swear—inside an egg Tessie had just cracked. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Why not center them on holidays, like birthdays, Easter, Christmas, even . . . Mother’s Day. There’s probably something every month.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“You going to be okay this weekend? I hate leaving you alone on your birthday.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It could be her birthday, it could be the morning of the Rapture—Cathy will get up early on Saturday to clean. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Happy birthday, dear Boy21. Happy birthday to you,” he sings, and then blows out the candles. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know why we even bother hiding things from you. We could never keep birthday or Christmas gifts a secret. You always found what you were getting.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His first recorded arrest was on October 27, 1936—his eighth birthday. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I got even more bummed when Mom told me that Isabel had asked her if she would be able to drop Via off at the other birthday party before going to my party. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

An afternoon fireworks display explodes over the Royal Harbor to celebrate the princess's birthday. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

My dad gave me the silver dollar as a birthday present when I turned nine. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jack's birthday was an occasion for champagne and the hot, dog-day evening was even more volatile than usual. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank had been sure his godly parent would speak up on his sixteenth birthday, which had passed two weeks ago. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

This day, in my deep heart I feel it is my birthday. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I never got an invitation from them to go to their birthday parties or their houses for playtime. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Matt remembered the portrait Celia had given him on his last birthday. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t hate school, but I didn’t want Amil to be alone on our birthday. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“My best friend, Amy, across the street is having a sleepover party for her birthday and wants to know if I can go. Can I?” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It’s a temporary assignment, but on his twenty-first birthday, May 1, 1878, he leaves The Hague. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But my mother said Lynn had to stay home because it was my birthday. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Alex’s mom made his favorite birthday breakfast for the second day in a row. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Inside was a big piece of his birthday cake. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Did your work do anything special for your birthday?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In February, a card on my birthday—conspicuously lacking in news of Charles. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Allegra looked like she had just been given an early birthday present. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It started to slow down after my one-hundredth birthday but then I got to 101. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Pellegrina who had given him as a gift to Abilene on her seventh birthday. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Every guest who came to our home on New Year’s Day would also bring me a birthday gift. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s do this thing, before your grandpop tries to take over your birthday.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

On my eleventh birthday I got to invite Silly over. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Not that I’m complaining about a ruined birthday party — I was lucky to be fed and alive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“So,” she said, “are you going to invite me to your birthday party this year?” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He had made it for her in his shop class, for her birthday. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Kathleen had just turned ten, and this trip was a kind of birthday present, showing her the world, offering a small piece of her father’s history. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab the albuterol and shake my head, mumbling, “Happy birthday to me.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

For Hudson’s birthday I teamed up with Dylan to draw Hudson in Wonder Woman’s armor since she’s his favorite superhero. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“And then we have to plan for your birthday the week after that.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

George felt like he had to show something in return, so he took out his good-luck charm, the bowie knife Papa had given him for his ninth birthday. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

That night, Hans’s closest friends, all students like him, stopped by to meet Sophie and celebrate her birthday. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

His face had aged so dramatically that, on the twenty-ninth birthday he celebrated that November, he could easily have passed for sixty. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got a computer for my birthday last week. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had become sixteen when winter turned to spring in 1943, but he had no way of knowing which day was his actual birthday. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The same day I first met you, Griphook. My birthday, seven years ago.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I had it in my head that if I became popular, every day would feel like my birthday. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

In Congo, we celebrated major holidays, such as Christmas and Easter, not birthdays. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Anybody saw you make a birthday cake for a dog that he don’t even know when’s his birthday would think you were nuts.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I've been preparing for this day since my thirteenth birthday; all of the lessons, the lectures, the practice. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t care if they steal what’s left of my birthday money. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For it had happened, once or twice, that his birthday had passed entirely unnoticed, and no one had said “Happy Birthday, Johnny,” or given him anything—not even his mother. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

My parents and I have just arrived at his house, for his birthday party. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a pity, but I do. My birthday be next week.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The day before my fourteenth birthday I see myself in the glass in Grandma’s sideboard. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She had gotten it for her birthday last summer, and there hadn’t been a day since that she hadn’t taken a picture of something. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

To my horror, everyone stopped talking and looked at the mother of the birthday girl. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The day after the birthday party the Starling, who had been away on holiday at Bournemouth, came back to Number Seventeen, Cherry-Tree Lane. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I was one-point-seven million miles away, two months, from my seventeenth birthday, and if I weren’t so tall, I could probably pass for a sixth-grader. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ll stay home and prepare a special birthday dinner for you,” she replied. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I, the youngest, get to celebrate my actual birthday even though I turned a year older like everyone else at T£t. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, he had been known to walk halfway across town, knock on a door and say sweetly to a surprised parent, “I hear there’s a birthday boy in here.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Annemarie had her birthday party with two cakes, an awful one that Julia and I made for her and a really good one her dad made. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Rather, I take my cue from Gone with the Wind: the scene in which Scarlett is forced to attend Miss Melanie's birthday party. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

His name was Polly, of course, and he was our birthday gift. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“One time, this boy had J. Cole perform at his birthday party.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Mom never sold him, so he stayed in the garage for eight years, until my sixteenth birthday. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He got that for his birthday two years ago, when his dad took him to an air show in upstate New York. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

"Some kids had a birthday party," Zero said. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Candace told us. They had a birthday party with all their friends, and you weren’t there. You’re such a liar. Go sit over there.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

My little sister, Nadia, eager to pounce me into wakefulness on the morning of my seventeenth birthday, discovered my bed had not been slept in. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Loving mischief, she spread icing over a cardboard box and presented it as a birthday cake to a neighbor, who promptly got the knife stuck. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“But we couldn’t let her first birthday go by without a celebration.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Do you know some girl tried to kiss me for my birthday? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uhmma and I had a few framed one year for his birthday. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Today was supposed to be special, because TJ had learned how to do perms at school, and he was going to give me one as a birthday present. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It’s actually one of my manga sketches—Anna surprised me with it for my birthday this year. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s almost Tendai’s birthday. He would have been fourteen. Will be fourteen, I mean. I always took him to the Starlight Room ... to ride the elevator . .. and have dinner....” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I got older and discovered that presents don’t just “show up,” I realized Daddy always went over there around our birthdays and Christmas. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

My sixteenth birthday was eight days away, and throughout the flight back home I still felt as if I was dreaming, a dream that I didn’t want to wake up from. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Please? It’s my birthday, and...he’s not my friend anymore.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was two weeks after Jockey’s birthday and Cora was still on the mend. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was going to be a memorable birthday if folks were already this riled. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I remembered a cat playing with a rubber ball somewhere...a kitten a girl friend had gotten for her birthday...and it was hiding behind a chair leg eyeing the ball...stalking it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

My gift to Mamaji one birthday, I must have been thirteen or so, was two full lengths of credible butterfly. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just before he gets into the car, Boy21 turns around and says, “I wish you and I could travel through the cosmos together, Finley. You have that calming presence. Happy birthday to me—and thanks.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Dursleys hadn’t even remembered that today happened to be Harry’s twelfth birthday. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Layla gave it to Ivy for her tenth birthday and said the color looked good with Ivy’s pale red hair. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In my living room, I have grocery sacks full of letters and birthday cards. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad...he wanted to start his own business, another one of those birthday stories. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Because Nowruz moves around every year, depending on the equinox, so does Sizdeh Bedar, which means it sometimes falls on my birthday. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

That was how Naomi’s brain, still keyed to Spanish, stored the words her mother sent her with when the second disaster came just after Naomi’s seventh birthday. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We will never taste the sweetness of a classroom birthday cupcake We will never taste the bitterness of a battle. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s Granny’s birthday. She’s about eighty years old and belongs to the Portuguese tribe. How many people are there like that on the city’s computer?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What are we going to do for your birthday this year?” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth’s got her hair poufed up in front and she’s covered the back in a scarf, the yellow scarf I gave her for her twenty-third birthday. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I think on my next birthday, I’m going to buy her a present. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But my mother was loath to pass up even the flimsiest excuse for a celebration—she once invited friends over for our cockatiel’s birthday—in part because she loved to show off our house. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Delsie! My mom is taking us on a whale watch for my birthday on Friday. You can come, right?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

And for Andrecito, who still calls me Mama, even at age four, I take a photo from his first birthday party, cake smeared everywhere. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So,” I said, sliding his plate in front of him, “my birthday is this Saturday.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The social workers estimated she was two months old when she came to us, give or take a couple of weeks. That was January thirtieth. So we decided we’d celebrate November thirtieth as her birthday.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I nod, flustered, but before I can figure out how to respond, Mama puts the birthday card down again, rising to her feet and brushing the dust off her skirt. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the noisy birthday party—which was to be followed by a public celebration the next evening—we weren't noticed, and when she left fairly early in the evening I saw her home. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every year my birthday cake, my Easter basket, my Christmas candy canes always had to be blue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was during this time that the birthday of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, was added as a holiday in Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We’ve been quizzing each other, but the only answers I care about are all Arthur-related: How is he celebrating his birthday? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

By my ninth birthday, I was a national chess champion. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one before was on Columbus’ or Garibaldi’s or somebody’s birthday. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw herself on her thirteenth birthday, riding across the fields on her borrowed horse. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“What do you want for breakfast? I’ll make you anything you want on your birthday.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the next day, my mother called me, to invite me to a belated birthday dinner for my father. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In lieu of cake and gifts, we would pool our food and present an extra slice of bread or cup of coffee to the birthday honoree. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Happy early birthday. Taylor says y'all got plans tomorrow. Hope you have a great time!" Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

June had just turned fifteen and used part of her birthday money to buy an issue of a blindingly colorful teen magazine. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s the most beautiful birthday cake I ever had,” Julie said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He dashes into Newbury Comics, buys himself London Calling and Talking Heads: 77 with his birthday money, a Che poster for his dorm room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So do I. Because it is all I have. And to give birthday parties,” he laughed. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’m making too big a deal about birthday parties. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

They celebrated what would have been Willow’s tenth birthday once. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The wedding was planned for February 24th, three days before my seventeenth birthday. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until Mother decided to get my birth certificate, not knowing my birthday had never seemed strange. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I’ve been working hard at the library, clearing out the room for Mama’s surprise, and she won’t even be here for my birthday! Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

My actual birthday, two weeks away, was about twenty-four million miles in front of Julia Bishop and me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I can still wear the gown I wore to my first birthday ball.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Gran’s spirit had come to wish us a happy birthday, I guess there was no reason Mama couldn’t visit her and spend time. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She invited me to her home often, though I was never permitted to go—not even for her birthday party. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Look, okay. I don’t know what to tell you. He’s coming over. It’s his birthday, and I already made the reservation. So you can start by putting on a bra.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Sneaky says his mom will take us to the movies later on, and since it’s my birthday, I get to pick the movie. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

He’d just had the best birthday of his life — and yet — he chewed his hamburger, trying to find the words. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I ask, because we’ve been invited to parties before—birthdays, weddings, funerals, graduations. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It's mostly just stating her birthday, the year she started the Housewives’ League, and how, as a woman, she is a leader of the church. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Her birthday isn’t the question here. It’s her age. Ask her how old she is.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

And that was the beginning of a day—Ernie’s birthday and the Fourth of July—where the only normal thing to happen the next twenty-four hours was that Ernie woke up with his sunglasses on. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Who had called, one of the district members or someone from Jack's birthday celebration? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For me, it be the son. I was his birthday present.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"One of my royal inventors made these for me. Remember when you first came to my toilette ritual—on my birthday—and I handed out jewelry?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The adoption party ends up becoming a combination adoption-eighteenth birthday party. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When they got to “Happy birthday to A-LEXXXX,” the dog joined in too, howling all the way to the end. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was the best birthday I ever had. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She’d picked it out herself, she said, as a present for his nineteenth birthday. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was supposed to be her birthday gift. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

This time, at least, Luke was more interested in Matthew’s leg cast than in harassing me, but it was hardly the birthday party of my dreams. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He wondered whether to say “Happy birthday” to Vincent, whether indeed the call was somehow related to the occasion of the birthday. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I was in the sixth grade, my parents gave me a baseball glove and a typewriter for my birthday. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The mess hall, gracefully festooned with flowers, streamers, and brightly colored ribbons, pulsed with celebration as the pilots and their wives gathered for the 187th birthday of the Marine Corps. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why aren’t you talking to me? And why didn’t you invite me to your birthday?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Little plumes of smoke, like birthday candles, were popping up all over the town. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Brody works as a birthday clown on weekends, so lots of kids have known him since they were toddlers. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Weird, weird, weird. Did they just steal our names and birthdays? Or—I know.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

One of those shows where the rich parents try to plan their daughter’s sixteenth birthday. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It had been a birthday gift from Grandma when I started school, and it was my dearest treasure. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also remembered that I wanted to send him a Reebok T-shirt—his birthday was the perfect reason. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My birthday is in the summer, so my bat mitzvah is practically two years away. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

When I was here for my birthday, I only got a quick look at the bakery’s kitchen. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

All in all, not a bad way to spend your eighteenth birthday. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of 1666, in the midst of this inspired spell, Newton enjoyed his twenty-fourth birthday. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I’ve lived twelve years of thirteen long months each and another twelve months besides, all of which living means I’m still one month away from the big birthday. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had married Lessie Lane sometime around her sixteenth birthday. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We won’t stay on long. Just wish her a happy birthday and hang up, I promise.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Just before Christmas in 1691, Katherine died; Robert Boyle followed her a week later, on 30 December, a month short of his sixty-fifth birthday. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Afterward there is tea, and bowls of payesh made in honor of his birthday. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They’ll let me stay till my sixteenth birthday, not a minute longer. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My guess is that the phenomenon is more pronounced among very old people, for whom a last birthday may be the only kind of significant achievement within reach. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jam flipped some of the books open to the pages where she’d tucked the glittered bookmarks Redemption gave her on her last birthday. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Byron, her son, went to a birthday party and saw a pinata. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I set the table with the “good” china that my mother saved for Sundays, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and birthdays. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The house began to look like a giant birthday cake covered with frosting. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jockey had a good birthday plan, Cora thought. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, sweetie, you’ll still get to dance. We'll move after Barrio Fiesta. That gives us time to get organized, and we can celebrate your birthday here. And your land will be here whenever we visit.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“She’d close her eyes every time he came on Sesame Street. One time, Sonny’s dad put on a Big Bird costume for Sonny’s birthday party. Bri ran away screaming.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

June 29 is seven days after my birthday. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“This is your birthday surprise,” she whispered, smiling. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“In real life, I’d be almost seventy now. It’s hard to be sure when you never have a proper birthday.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They blink in confusion and terror at a mass of flaming candles on their Slammer cake, perhaps more candles than they’ve ever seen on one of their own birthday cakes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on my eighth birthday my father brought a big box into the house. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

That was how our home movies ended, with a prank on my birthday. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The only thing I keep in it is the gold baby ring that most Korean kids get at their one-year birthday. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know it was Taylor’s birthday,” he says. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Hot chocolate” was something extra special, usually reserved for birthdays. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then something on the counter caught his eye: an open box of birthday candles. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“We intended to give this to Emmanuel for his eighteenth birthday,” he says. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She visited each young person in turn on their tenth birthday, but did not harm them outright. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I move up one a her fingers, chant what my daddy used to say to me on my birthdays, “Three little soldiers, come out the doe, two say stop, one say go.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Really, she’s not usually this emotional, but something about my birthday always makes her both weepy and joyful at the same time. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I know exactly which picture you’re talking about. Your mom used to have it in a frame. She gave me the tickets as a surprise for my birthday. The Celtics won, too. It was amazing.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“How can you keep saying that he’s a man and you’re not? Just because of some stupid birthday? If you were where I came from you’d already be fourteen and a month!” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“It was the three cheers that reminded me,” said Mr. Benedict, opening the box and shaking out three birthday candles. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He's sweet, respects my physical boundaries, and spoils me with thoughtful gifts like handing me his parents' unused tickets to the Yankees game so I can take Dad for his birthday. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The day I turned twelve, I was certain it’d be my favorite birthday yet, but then I got the letter. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

My birthday party turned out to be much smaller than I thought it would be, but it was still great. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Bummer. But I guess she couldn’t miss her grandma’s birthday party.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He shut his left eye and pretended to look through the viewfinder of his father’s old camera, which Habib had given to Fadi for his eleventh birthday, a few months before. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Yet another unusual thing about Harry was how little he looked forward to his birthdays. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The Friday night before my nineteenth birthday Mrs. Finucane sends me for the sherry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then I’m at the arcade where I had my twelfth birthday party, firing a plastic gun. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The closest person to him in age is a girl named Moushumi, whose family recently moved to Massachusetts from England, and whose thirteenth birthday was celebrated in a similar fashion a few months ago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could have invited friends to his house....He might even have had brothers and sisters....It would have been his mother who had made his seventeenth birthday cake. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Last week, we went out to dinner for my birthday. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

On the morning of her eleventh birthday, she wakes to find two new packages where the sugar bowl should be. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I celebrated my birthday with my dad every year, and we spent Christmas with him as well. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I was walking home alone after school, thinking about what to get Annemarie for her birthday. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I fretted about Minnijean as I plunged into my birthday party plans, but the more I tried to console her, the less she listened. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was one of their birthdays, or perhaps no reason was needed for the party. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two years ago. My birthday. I found a package on my front step. A porcupine necktie. I never found out who gave it to me.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

For Christmas and birthdays I received such gifts as a microscope, a chemistry set, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’ll be celebrating another birthday by the time I get it written down. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He never got a stamp on his forehead on his twenty-first birthday at The Tombs, never jumped in Dalhgren Fountain. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He pointed out a few more shapes in the clouds before he explained that this year he didn’t actually have a birthday. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suffering seemed to age me more than birthdays. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found a flashlight, but no batteries, and a half-empty box of birthday candles. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He came to my eighth birthday party and spent the whole time picking his nose and eating it. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I didn’t care if I never had another birthday, as long as I could keep my one-eyed teddy bear. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she woke up that morning, she felt like it was her birthday— like she used to feel on her birthday, back when there was a shot in hell of ice cream. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“By the way, do you know what tomorrow is? Nancy Clutter’s birthday. She would have been seventeen.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s this big celebration that happens for a girl’s fifteenth birthday,” Fina explains. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He’d left all of his toys behind in the empty shack—I discovered them the next day, piled in a corner just like the birthday presents in my room. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The festive annual highlight of this scheme took place in the week before Kim Jong U’s birthday on February 16. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The final bowl contains payesh, a warm rice pudding Ashima will prepare for him to eat on each of his birthdays as a child, as an adult even, alongside a slice of bakery cake. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I once bought her a scarf with giraffes on it for her birthday. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Like a present on one’s birthday rather than those her father gave for no reason at all. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Do you think your mom could give me my mother’s birthday present early this year?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

My birthday was months ago and people still send me cards. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pleasant little bed-sitting room was crowded with photographs, bottles of toilet water, lace pincushions, brushes and combs, and the china and silver bureau-knacks of many birthdays and Christmases. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kim said that in the five years he was based in Pyongyang for the state insurance corporation, bags of cash always arrived in time for his leader’s birthday. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She got a babysitter, and for Gary’s birthday, they went to an Olive Garden and then to the movies to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I have a small pair that I almost always use, but Dad gave me a set of noise-canceling ones for my birthday years ago. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Somebody in every fambly got to be the picture taker. A fambly takes pictures at Christmas and birthdays and suchlike, don’t they?” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In 1895, more than three thousand people gathered at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for a grand celebration in honor of Stanton’s eightieth birthday. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But this year, for his seventieth birthday, the youngest daughter, Sofía, wanted the celebration at her house. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Put them on the table, and bring her in and see her open the bundles. Don’t you remember how we used to do on our birthdays?” answered Jo. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Families often sent in extra cupcakes for the agents when there were classroom birthday celebrations. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He sounded like they were in kindergarten and today was his birthday. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She celebrated her sixty-fifth birthday last year and rarely makes it up because of her bum knee and her weak heart. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Everybody gets birthdays. You mean you never had cake or candles or stuff?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

My birthday is the one day of the year that we’re both most acutely aware of my illness. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t smash his finger into all my birthday cupcakes. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I had moved in with the Hagens only six weeks before my seventh birthday, but I do not recall any special celebration or recognition. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s your birthday gift from Lola and me, a little early.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I was . . . so angry ... at how they treated you at the birthday party. I wanted to kill that abomination El Patron keeps at his heels.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boxer’s twelfth birthday was due in the late summer ot the following year. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She had a distant memory of the taste of real tea, buried with her recollections of sugar and birthday cake. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Or hide your book in its birthday suit—after all, sometimes no disguise is the best disguise of all. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Having never had a normal childhood, I didn’t miss birthdays; to me they were simply like other days: to be survived. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On her birthdays, she would test for whatever license she was finally old enough to have. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Best birthday ever! And everyone is being so cool. I was kinda worried.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

One time on Jockey’s birthday, Wesley treated them to a song he knew from his days up north, a new sound none of them had heard before. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I think I’m officially at the age when I want people to forget my birthday,” he says, accepting the gift. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For Gay’s birthday I wore a black velvet dress with white stripes down the sides that Ms. Sandnes had picked out. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t move even as everyone surrounds the birthday girl to wish her a happy eighteenth. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She could hide the necklace till her mother’s birthday. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"This little girl's grandmother had sent her some sneakers for her birthday from New York, not knowing she had gotten so much bigger, and the little sneakers wouldn't fit her." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My brother gave me a book by Ring Lardner for my birthday, just before I went to Pencey. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Back then, celebrating your birthday was still not a common thing for us Navajos. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I return the focus to Arthur’s birthday, which is the most important thing tonight. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I was at the recruiting office in the Bishop Building on 125th Street at nine o’clock on the morning of my birthday. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Unless I wanted to sign a five-year indenturement contract with some corporation, and that was about as appealing to me as rolling around in broken glass in my birthday suit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Babi said they would hold birthday parties at the restaurant, engagement ceremonies, New Year’s get-togethers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Burson down at Riverbank Books thought you might enjoy this. Happy birthday.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

As it was my birthday, I got to decide which game my classmates would play, and I chose volleyball. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She was in a better state of mind because her father had finally remembered to send back her extremely belated birthday present, duly engraved. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

"It's not your birthday," said Magnet, who was standing behind Squid. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Suddenly El Patron wasn’t the jovial birthday host anymore. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was planning to give him the drawing for his birthday, but after seeing those brochures, he looked like he needed a transfusion, so why wait? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm a lot of things, but shocked is not one of them, because my mother, on her birthday, told me we could lose each other. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We didn’t really do birthday parties or birthday cake back home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

TJ is putting the finishing touches on it at school and bringing it home on my birthday, the day before the pageant. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

By Molly’s next birthday she was living with a new family, and her mother was in jail. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Golly, did you see his eye twitch when I said that birthday thing? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

My birthday, the twelfth of August, fell on a Friday, and the plan was to have a party for me on the next day. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She can navigate by the stars, and by dead reckoning, but I think she learned to use her sense of direction properly because her granddad gave her a motorbike for her sixteenth birthday. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

His mother learned about his death in the newspaper the next day—her birthday. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wished him a happy birthday when I woke and thought about him while hauling logs during the day. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“You could maybe help me work on Ernie’s birthday cake for when they get back,” Grandma added, her voice suddenly high and singsongy like a little kid’s, coaxing. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“You think I do not know my own niece’s birthday? And did I send a present every year?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

How would he have known it was my birthday? P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was his birthday, and Habib had promised to take the boys to Toys“R”Us after prayers to pick out a present. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I promised to spend some birthday money on them and to contribute to our Jackson Five concert savings. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

And on her sixtieth birthday, Tiller had done the same, giving her a map to his fund, to use for whatever she wanted. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I know it's not a big significance, but reflecting on it afterward it seemed symbolic and special that the photo shoot took place on my mother's birthday! Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Tuesday evening, October 15 What a way to spend my twenty-second birthday! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank had been handed more than a spear for his birthday. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Your parents didn’t want you to be alone on your birthday. Although…” She glances at Ben, who promptly turns bright red. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother, Gloria Grace, the woman who Grace shared her name with, had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer a month before Grace had been born, and died right after Grace’s first birthday. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The smell of warm maple syrup would forever be blended in his mind with the events of that birthday morning. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or had he forgotten the peculiar girl he used to go riding with—the girl who shared one kiss and a birthday cupcake with him before disappearing forever? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My tenth birthday came and went away, like all the other nine, uncelebrated. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Julia said, “I have something for you. I'm going to give it to you on the night before your birthday. It will be a perfectly tremendous surprise.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I had the same birthday as the country, which made it even harder to get noticed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could give it to Baachan for her next birthday, whenever that was. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When Natalie’s birthday finally arrives, my mother tries with all her considerable energy to make things appear normal. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But people made such a big deal about a birthday party that I forgot that my license was going to expire. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I almost didn’t make it at all. And when I did, it was ages after my birthday. That’s why they suspected me.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He apologized for not inviting her to his last birthday party. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Please consider it as thirteen birthdays’ worth of presents from your godfather. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But Og’s birthday party was a special event, and so the usual clientele would be banished for the evening. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got all this makeup my aunt gave me for my birthday, but I don’t really know how to put it on.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I think I’ve got enough to get a proper cake for Dad’s birthday. And more batteries, enough to last the month.” Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

"Please leave me, now that you've gotten your gifts. I want a little privacy. It is my birthday, after all." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Sage could seem mean, but I figured he had to be nice to me if he knew it was almost my birthday. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Some birthday boys he seemed to totally ignore, passing them on the street as he usually did, as if they were dog doo. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Dressed formally as he was, in a black tuxedo, it was obvious that he was part of the debut court, the escort of one of the birthday girl’s attendants perhaps. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I looked at the wall where all our birthdays were written on cake-slice cutouts. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

On my birthday, Mami offers to invite Sam over, but I already told him I was twelve two weeks ago, so I don’t want to be caught in a lie. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

A few years ago, she offered to give me the piano, for my thirtieth birthday. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lexie had chosen the 100th Bomb Group, a restaurant out near the airport where the family went for very special occasions, the most recent being Mr. Richardson’s forty-fourth birthday. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I chose a dress that they'd given me for my birthday a few years ago. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t have fun at my birthday party,” she says. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I also had few expectations for my eleventh birthday later that month. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We always shared one piece of birthday cake. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Would he call Finn once a month, and send ten-dollar checks on his birthday? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Like imagine some heina’s acting all mad ’cause Diego forgot it was her birthday or he didn’t call her all weekend even though he swore to God he would. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

During one of these clearing sessions we unearthed a dollhouse my father had made for my fifth birthday. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“We could have had a birthday party for the guy,” Peewee said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not when they also all had matching birthdays. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“She showed up on your third birthday. We didn’t even know that she was coming.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Cade had given me those socks on my sixteenth birthday, the summer before. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

For Christmases and birthday parties and summers packed with distant relatives. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Today’s my birthday,” I said, hoping to send his thoughts in a new direction. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mum did a proper recipe this evening, and it wasn't even anyone's birthday. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She looks at me with the kind of excitement a child has on their birthday. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You had that Flower Fairy birthday party there once!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

One of these years, the gifts are going to run out and that will be a very sad birthday indeed. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I really wish I would’ve been enough to unite everyone the way Arthur was able to do on his birthday, but that’s in the past now. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

You might not want to talk to me, but it is your birthday. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s like eleven o’clock on the night of your birthday, when you realize no one’s throwing you a surprise party after all. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Every time my mom fills out a camp form or RSVPs for a birthday party, someone's got to find out that Max is epileptic. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Maria Teresa was home from school for the long holiday weekend in honor of El Jefe’s birthday, so she came along. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gimpy was behind the counter wrapping a birthday cake for one of our regular customers—a cake that sells for $3.95. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Clones would look like us, not have the same names and birthdays.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

On her twenty-first birthday in May, Sophie said goodbye to her parents and boarded a train for Munich, where she would finally join Hans at the university. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad wished me happy birthday at breakfast. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I remember being at her first birthday party, and it seemed only months ago. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Two birthdays now I have had in the Congo, and I thought the first one was the worst there could be. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad bought me a brand-new pole for my birthday but wouldn’t give it to me until I learned that song. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I had celebrated my twelfth birthday back on December 7, 1953, I'd believed I had put aside my hurt over being left out of all the Maypole dances forever. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A birthday is more than cake and presents. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

So I started a column called “Birthday Corner,” listing the names of the eighty or so people who had their birthday in the coming month. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Remnants of the lavish birthday dinner stain its violet folds. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

We buy each other’s Christmas and birthday presents at the last possible minute so we don’t accidentally give the surprise away. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Leo’s index finger blazed like a birthday candle. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

What he should have said is that it takes twenty- three people to be 50 percent certain that there is some birthday in common, not any particular birth day such as March 19. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mentioned that we had a new girl, and that your birthday was coming up. She likes to bake.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I wake up on Saturday, I remember it’s time for the dreaded birthday party for Deb. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Think of the surprise birthday parties, the daycare, and the reference checks on babysitters. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m six,” she said, “but I’ll be seven tomorrow. I’m having a birthday party. Do you want to come?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

When someone wanted a birthday cake, they came to her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I believed that if there was any chance to bring my mother back home it would happen on her birthday. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s been a tradition for years around here. On your birthday you get knuckled once for each year old you are. It happened to me plenty.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

A brass telescope from his father for his seventh birthday. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Y’all,” he said, “did I really make myself out so pitiful that you had to go to this much trouble for my birthday?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Surely Luke was thinking about Mark’s seventh birthday, or maybe his eighth. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the best version of the happy birthday song, hands down,” Marcus said. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Our birthday, in December, caught me off guard. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny celebrated his voting birthday by getting drunk for three days. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they came to the line “Happy birthday, dear”—they glanced at each other and belted out—“Sno-ots! Happy birthday to you!” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

She wanted a birthday cake with her family, and she wanted Layla to sing “Happy Birthday” in French like she’d done every year since she started learning the language in eighth grade. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said the girl, “what was you when you was last birthday?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Two weeks ago, just days after his fourteenth birthday, Lon would never have believed his life could change so drastically or so fast. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I could hardly get through my official birthday dinner that Sunday afternoon and our usual Sunday ride. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sage did not seem to be happy that it was almost my birthday. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Well, Daddy didn’t even show up for my birthday. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He told me then about birthday cakes and candles, and I laughed also. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“My son wants the book Max und Moritz for his birthday,” a soldier repeated, eyes closed, blood leaking from the sides of his mouth. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

You forgot I had a birthday coming, didn’t you? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are the kind of friends who make even the ordinary day fun, who scrape every dollar they can to chip in on a birthday gift. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

It must have been his birthday, and she had put it amongst her other presents on the breakfast table. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’d better not get another ruddy dog when my birthday comes. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Him: Today is our mom’s birthday, but Noah barely knew her. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But once my twelfth birthday passed without a single shift, the Bureau declared me ‘essentially human’ and now I’m here.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

As I approached my twelfth birthday, I was nearly six-feet tall and physically aggressive. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

With credit for time served, he would be out just before his twenty-first birthday. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There’s an e-mail from Fizz: Don’t forget my birthday, tomorrow after school, my house! Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Jason, no. Just the truth, exactly what you think. I miss you, big shot. And I’ll talk to you on your birthday.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And so he spent another year living with strangers and not mentioning his birthday. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

On Didu's birthday, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and a group of their church friends of a certain age take her out to dinner to celebrate. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s my birthday and I’m in a good mood. But someday you’ll be old too.Your body will start to fall apart and your brain will deteriorate. See if you’re so high-minded then.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her that this year would be different because she wouldn’t have to do anything on her birthday. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Regularly Mary had six birthdays a year, and she organized costume parties, surprise parties, holiday parties. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“From now on, you’ll have two birthdays: your adoption day and your regular one,” Gay announced. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It did not spoil his birthday, as it did not spoil his father’s lap, but it changed those things so they did not feel quite as good as before. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He knew what they were, the sticky orange rounds; a kindly monk had given him some gokkam one autumn many years ago, in celebration of Buddha’s birthday. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

As Harry’s birthday dinner would have stretched the Burrow’s kitchen to breaking point even before the arrival of Charlie, Lupin, Tonks, and Hagrid, several tables were placed end to end in the garden. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I wanted to shout, “I'd rather have two small gifts and one of them today on my birthday!” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“What? Oh, good morning, Mr. Lemoncello. I didn’t expect to find you here, inside the library. Isn’t today your birthday, sir?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He doubted that she had ever written him anything at all, except for the generic Love, Kainene, on his birthday cards. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Although she insisted that she would be there right up to the last minute, Dorothy did not come to Palmer’s birthday party. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

A similar calculation using 23 rather than 5 yields V2, or 50 percent, as the probability that at least two of twenty-three people will have a common birthday. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure Harriett running off an hour ago to celebrate a friend’s birthday and leaving me alone with Hudson was for the best, though. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Today he was smiling, because tomorrow was his ninth birthday, and he was really, really hoping for a bicycle. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young prince grew until he was nearly a man, coming within two years of the eighteenth birthday that would allow him to ascend to the throne on the old king’s death. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I should have known not to anticipate a great birthday because I had always been disappointed before. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“We just have to do something for your birthday,” Lucinda insists. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“No one in my family actually survives his fifty-fifth birthday anyway.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is true, so true, but this is still her last thought of her eighteenth birthday: She has wrecked so much for so many people. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“For the matinee of Breakfast at Tiffanyd! It’s my treat, remember? For your birthday.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The manager tells me I can start again next week, two days after my birthday. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t say, “And you used to make art and like boys and talk to horses and pull the moon through the window for my birthday present.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I flew into a panic every time a truck backfired or a balloon popped at a child’s birthday party. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A while back, though, he started working part-time as a clown for children’s birthday parties. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The last time he had seen her in person was when she had visited him at his mom’s apartment in Phoenix for his eleventh birthday three months ago. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

To know that he was away was almost as good as getting a birthday present. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel awful about ruining everything—her clothes and mine, especially the Ti-grrlz birthday top. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As a birthday gift, Chandresh gives them two fluffy orange kittens with blue eyes and striped ribbons around their necks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Granny was planning her birthday luncheon in the city. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, in my life away from gymnastics, an exciting thing had happened: my parents had agreed to get me a car for my sixteenth birthday. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“If I’m right, we can figure this out pretty quickly. Let’s tell each other our birthdays.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Three months and eleven days until your birthday. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

For her birthday, she got a silver dollar; at Christmas, she got a gift of snuff. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Her skin was the same color as my brown silk hat my mother had made me for my birthday. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Shoe polish, needles, and coffee became luxury items to be gift-wrapped and given as presents for birthdays and other special occasions. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put the pillow over his head, angry that she couldn’t even wait until a decent hour to ruin his birthday. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gathering was meant to be a rally for several hundred of our local supporters as well as a kind of casual birthday celebration for Malia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“We can’t come to the dance. Jason invited me to his birthday party that same day.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trevor and I were quiet for a few seconds, and then he said, “Happy birthday, by the way.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She was making a birthday present for Ruby, who would be sixteen in a few months...if they were still alive by then. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Twenty,” Lazlo reminded him, though in truth he couldn’t be certain, having chosen a birthday at random when he was a boy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I knew I’d been born near the end of September, and each year I picked a day, one that didn’t fall on a Sunday because it’s no fun spending your birthday in church. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I remember how we celebrated your birthday. We gave you a picture book—you know, the one about the sea serpent with a toothache winding itself around the lighthouse....” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Christmas was still months away and Conor’s birthday was already past. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ogden Morrow had actually taken the time to invite me to his birthday party. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He played Milton’s birthday, Desdemona’s birthday, the date of Greek Independence minus the last digit, the year of the burning of Smyrna. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

On my fifteenth birthday Liliane brought over a whole jar of hair beads. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up till that birthday we were like a sister and a little brother. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t even want to wish her a happy birthday. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We were so sorry you couldn’t come, but the Order’s got to come first, and Harry’s not old enough to know it’s his birthday anyway! Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My birthday party, has red and blue balloons and a chocolate-brown cake. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

His friends from school would come over, and tables would be set in the garden where El Patron used to have his birthday parties. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a very quiet birthday tea, just us and old Bathilda, who has always been sweet to us and who dotes on Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mama and Daddy had just separated, and Daddy had promised me for months that he was going to get me this bright red bike we’d seen in Walmart for my birthday. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She wanted to buy me a fancy dress because we were going to see Phantom of the Opera for her birthday. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Happy birthday to a woman who always makes cents. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no! You don’t tell anyone that Saturday is my birthday!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weekend after Easter, we celebrated my birthday with a Sweet Sixteen party. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Mami calls, “Un segundito,” from the kitchen, and in a moment, she comes back in, carrying a birthday cake in the shape of the island, with thirteen candles flaming away on top. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Nothing hurts more than celebrating your mother’s birthday on Christmas Eve when she’s not around. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Comfort Snowberger; wise in Putting Two and Two Together, said, “Dismay is my birthday present!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The previous week she took the children to see their father on his birthday and got to hear the clopping of her footsteps in the beautiful lobby. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Her birthday is in November—the gloomiest month of the year—but that never stopped her from planning something fun. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

My family gave me some really nice birthday presents. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

So had my thirteenth birthday, which came and went without any celebration. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is precisely to the point, Sticky,” said Mr. Benedict, with a nod to Rhonda Kazembe, who went to a cabinet and produced an enormous birthday cake that had been hidden inside. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

At a birthday party for a friend, he stumbled inexplicably. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, besides the thank-you notes Mom still makes me write to Grandma and Grandpa after my birthday and Christmas. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s mod­est and not worthy of you, Amir agha. But we hope you like it still. Happy birthday.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“To your fifteenth birthday. And to a better year to come.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It never come out of Jason’s pantry. I fixed him some birthday.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone sang the regular birthday song to me and then my sisters and I sang our version just before the wishing and cake cutting began. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Robin went to Kylie’s birthday party yesterday,” said my mom. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I wore it to my birthday dinner at the Coconut Grove. Remember? I put it here—right in this jewelry box. I remember clearly.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“That’s his birthday all right. I made a card for him too,” Theresa says. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only cut on his ninth birthday, to be woven into an elaborate neckpiece for his godmother, the queen. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

May the Communists light up the house on a girl’s birthday. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they had sung many songs, and talked of many things they had done together, they toasted Bilbo’s birthday, and they drank his health and Frodo’s together according to Frodo’s custom. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The day before Liyana’s fifteenth birthday, he stepped through the door after work with a hefty bouquet of white roses, saying, “What do you think? Fifteen deserves something—regal!” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She’s mad because I didn’t invite her to my birthday party, thought Palmer. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I never had to wear a scarf and gloves on my birthday before.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Poppy, remember when you told us your twentieth birthday was the most important landmark day of your life? I do not think it will be a very good day in mine.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Just before her eightieth birthday, a reporter from the Houston Chronicle visited. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Ever since his birthday he’s been extra quiet, and I get the sense that he doesn’t really want to talk about basketball or anything else, so I let him be. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the Lilienthals were supportive of Bobby, he reciprocated with gifts: a television satellite dish, a vacuum cleaner, leather goods that he’d buy on trips to Vienna, and special gifts for birthdays and other holidays. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My last birthday we saw a movie with a man hanging from the arms of a giant clock.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I found him today. He’s mine. He’s my birthday dog. I’m gonna call him Rex.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She said that Frankie and I were her most prized possessions, and knowing that we were safe was the only way she could survive being apart from me on my fifteenth birthday. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

There were chocolate chips in the house from when my mother and I baked cookies for my dad’s birthday. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’m face to face with a bed like a birthday cake topped with a fluffy icing-pink blanket with a white llama design, and two poufy pillows, all facing a glorious TV. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole thing looks quite pretty, but I don’t know if it’s enough of a birthday present. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This is the real birthday gift of her dreams. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I notice that your birthday cake is in the shape of a Snitch,” Scrimgeour said to Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was September 19—a Friday, the day before my birthday—and the air felt crisp and new. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t have minded if it came without birthday money. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

At birth I was not expected to survive past my first birthday. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“She had fun at my birthday party, all right. Seemed like she was everywhere.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking bitterly of his birthday, he attacked the mirror with the cloth, watching his face appear as out of a cloud. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Now, the morning of her birthday, Ivy stuffed herself with Mr. Bishop’s famous maple-and-brown-sugar pancakes, bacon, and orange juice, daydreaming about her dress. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, on the day before Charlie Bucket’s birthday, the newspapers announced that the second Golden Ticket had been found. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

She and me shared a birthday now, for I was reborn as Isabel Gardener and that paper proved it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll begin from the moment I got you, the moment I saw you lying on the table among my other birthday presents. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I want her for my son. Today is his sixteenth birthday!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hope you had a happy birthday yesterday,” Bedi Ma'am greets me, a smile dimpling her cheeks. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

On my birthday the school bus dropped me off at Perfect Angels. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

To make it up to me on my birthday? From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Several days after the birthday song, I heard a shout down the hallway: “Don’t!” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

There was one beech tree I loved so much that Danny gave it to me for my tenth birthday. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s your birthday, and I am not going to let you down.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Seconds later Harry realized that it was his birthday cake, which Mrs. Weasley was suspending with her wand, rather than risk carrying it over the uneven ground. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then the first Saturday of October came, and we were herded together for our communal birthday, in a peculiar mood both celebratory and sullen. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

For my birthday my father took Silly and me down to Lynnie’s grave. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

After Ana’s sixteenth birthday, Lady Isobel began to regularly take her daughters to visit her sister in the City, for it was time to introduce Ana to society. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Happy birthday, and I'm so proud you're becoming a bat mitzvah! Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

To make leaving easier, Anthony promised to come back for Stanton’s eighty-seventh birthday in November. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was caring and devoted, attentive to detail, always a card on my birthday, always my favorite food and toys when I came for a visit. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

On his sixteenth birthday, Martin proudly handed his dad a check for the required amount, and Mr. Larsen turned over the keys. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Dad gave it to me for my birthday. He can’t afford to buy another one.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t even sure when Baachan’s birthday was, but she would save it for then. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He looked hopelessly around his room again, and his eye paused on the birthday cards his two best friends had sent him at the end of July. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

For it is, of course, also the birthday of my heir and nephew, Frodo. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Now he was dead before his fortieth birthday, a tape recording of one of his last sermons serving as his own funeral oration. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not a lot to go around, but there’s enough to toast to his birthday and sip away. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

If Tally showed up too long after her birthday, Shay might realize that her operation had been delayed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I’m so happy I had a role in flipping this birthday around. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

A farm only a few hours away rented out ponies dressed as unicorns for birthday parties and other events. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you coming to my birthday party?” she asked. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“My sister Julie and I are calling to wish her a happy birthday.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

And since it was to be a birthday party there were presents to be considered. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never received a birthday card in is life. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

In Lafanmi not one of us knows when his birthday fells. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jay loved the plane Mama and Doc gave him for his birthday and kept it in a special place in our room. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I mean. Ugh. Sorry, we don’t have to talk about this on your birthday.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I guess in most ways, or at least in the ways in which parties are judged, my birthday bash was a huge success. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I got to thinking about the truck I hoped I’d be getting on my birthday. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

And since her parents didn’t ask her what she wanted for her birthday, Ivy guessed that clothes weren’t really in the budget. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We fly back up, the panda’s face coming onto the screen, Abby’s voice, breathless and giddy as she grips the panda tightly, screaming out, “Happy birthday, Stella!” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t allowed on social media until my thirteenth birthday, but I could email classmates and teachers. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was the Queen’s birthday on Saturday, she got a lot of presents. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

I would be ten years by my Chinese age, so it was an important birthday for me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made the hole with a baseball bat Mack gave me for my sixth birthday. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I turned ten that spring, but birthdays were not a big deal around our house. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s Sunday and we kinda owe it to Jesus to go to church on his birthday, none of us wake up until around eleven so we miss service. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her parents bought it for her eighteenth birthday and had it equipped with GPS, satellite radio, and a little video screen that shows when you’re about to hit something in reverse. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

They’re both wearing cone-shaped birthday hats, and Daddy carries a huge sheet cake with candles lit on top of it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

"The way you changed my hair for my birthday party was just the start. You're clever. You passed my first little test." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He announced that there was a birthday present for all of us coming from Austin but that it had been unexpectedly delayed and would arrive later in the week. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to sleep through your entire birthday?” he asked. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The birthday is celebrated at suppertime with cake and presents. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

On November 10 we had a big birthday celebration. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two months after his eighteenth birthday, Clary was stopped and searched in the St. Louis airport because he “looked like” a drug courier. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t spent a birthday at home since he’d turned fourteen. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On my eleventh birthday, when we came home from school, I was surprised to see saucepans full of food simmering on the stove. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“No, Ash, we would never do that. But every time you get a letter, you go on a little high, then you crash, like too much sugar at a birthday party.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“She has a birthday present for you—and a couple of other surprises as well,” replied Aunt Queen with a tightness in her voice that Gerald had never heard before. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The month before, I had reminded her it was Grandma’s birthday. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They put on their most cheerful expressions, bring flowers and gifts for birthdays and holidays and are always ready to do what they can. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

With the Sneakoscope Hermione had given Harry for his birthday set carefully upon the table in the tent, Harry and Hermione spent the rest of the day sharing the role of lookout. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We set it down in the wooden wagon Ali built Hassan last win­ter for his birthday, pretend it’s a giant steel cage. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours after receiving her birthday clout to the ear, Mig was out in the field with Uncles sheep when she saw something glittering and glowing on the horizon. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

She would have preferred an intimate celebration for Wash’s birthday, too, but the twins had been getting ready for it for weeks. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But to me, it was my birthday, Christmas, and the Fourth of July all wrapped into one. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Old people have birthdays too, you know. And I like to have something to look forward to. So— how long do I have to wait?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

They kept their birthdays as secret as possible. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Come on, birthday girl. These pancakes are getting cold.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They were all so nice to me a month ago because of my birthday, and yet every day I feel myself drifting further away from Mother and Margot. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“All I’m saying is, no matter what happens, just know that you have a family who loves you. And Nessy, happy birthday.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

"No . . . I just remembered that today's my birthday." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Here are the facts: Dismay came to Snowberger’s seven years ago on this reporter’s third birthday. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A week later, Wes and Tony took their girlfriends to their mother’s house to celebrate the first birthday of their baby brother. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It sounded like I'd walked into a birthday party because the children were giggling so much. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

People talk about visiting grandparents in the hospital or sending birthday cards to a niece’s husband; single mothers live with their own mothers or share apartments with a coworker or boyfriend. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I remembered she had to go to her little cousin's birthday party. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Last year I rode with him in his old dinged-up van to a kid’s birthday party waaaay out in Long Island. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Two years older than Sophia, she fell into a deep sleep after her fifteenth birthday, and hasn't woken up for four years. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Then, let’s ride, handsome, or we’ll be late for the birthday ball.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited until March 20, Chapter Eleven’s birthday. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We waited more than a year, and then, on what would have been Joseph’s sixteenth birthday, when the apple trees were blooming and the bees doing their dances, Mrs. Stroud drove into our yard. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Leo looks like a neighbor man who remembers every kid’s birthday and dresses up like Santa for the Salvation Army. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Only recently, on Tiller’s sixtieth birthday, had she given him a map to her understone fund, so that he could use it for whatever he wanted. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Outside of birthdays and special occasions, all we had were our Sunday afternoons. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And Mr. Kearney who milled the town’s wheat and who always spoke softly and who made wooden toys for each Prentisstown boy’s birthday. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It ended up being a present for Isa’s twelfth birthday, and Jessie had spent nearly all of June working on it. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They invite me to go bowling or to the movies or to their birthdays. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Right, sign of the goat, and so on—you get the idea. Your sign depends on your birthday.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in this room would survive him, even the silly men in the band who seemed like boys—imagine making a living out of playing birthday songs! How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“A very big birthday cake,” my sister added. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Grandma studied up on the topic, and we talked for hours while she taught me how to do the quilting for Mother’s birthday present. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so, for her seventeenth birthday, they offered to get her a nose job. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Alex closed his eyes, trying to remember why his birthday was so important. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should have said that it was my birthday, too. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had heard that rich people in Zimbabwe have parties and get presents on their birthdays, but mine always passed like any other day. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I hoped a card from Cecile would arrive on my birthday. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Open it, boy. I’ve been saving this for your eighteenth birthday for a long time.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she turned the whole thing upside down and lifted the skillet, revealing our birthday cake. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then I went outside and with my new birthday shovel I got back to digging the bomb shelter. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It's been a couple of days since the birthday party now. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After all, how could she forget her own mother’s birthday? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And we still argue about Mirugai, the cat—not our cat, or my cat, but the cat that was his gift to me for my birthday last year. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked back at Luna and pictured the mechanism inside that girl—rhythmically ticking its way toward her thirteenth birthday, as even and inexorable as a well-tuned clock. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

As soon as we sat down to breakfast on my tenth birthday, I said, “Well, Papa, I’m ten!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When she stood before him, small and blond and pretty, less than a month past her twenty-first birthday, the German ace thought his Soviet captors must be making fun of him. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Amy wants me to sleep over at her house for her birthday, but Abu said no,” I whined, willing my mother to make my father change his mind. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We are all nearly the same age, and we all have birthdays in the fall. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

And throughout the evening of my birthday, Cade kept looking from me to Julia with the eye of an interrogating detective, no doubt trying to determine what might have happened between us the night before. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

"We're so elated that you could join us in celebrating the birthday of our beloved daughter." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In the month since my mother's birthday, knowing what my mother has been hiding has left me with a strange feeling. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Boy, are you wrong. Today is my birthday.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Three years ago for her birthday, my dad surprised her by hiring part-time help for the store so she wouldn’t have to go in every day. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Before making the first tracing, though, I see the newspaper I'm about to ruin is from Mama’s birthday. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Did you have a good day? A good birthday day?” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She reminded Matt of one of the guided missiles El Patron used to get for his birthday. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that courtyard we hosted countless weddings, birthdays, engagements, anniversaries, and every other kind of party you could imagine. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s Jesus’s birthday, therefore that rule does not apply since it’s a clear violation of one of the Ten Commandments.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She gives me two shillings to have tea and a bun for my birthday. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“But maybe today would be better, because it’s Papi’s birthday and he loved lottery tickets.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s just a little blush and lip gloss, Daddy. I wanted to look nice”—my voice quivers—“for my birthday.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was also announced that the gun would be fired every year on Napoleon’s birthday, as well as on the other two anniversaries. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Seeing the picture of someone with your exact same birthday and almost your exact same name who’d been kidnapped wasn’t boring. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was so upset that I didn't invite her to my thirteenth birthday, on March 28. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“You were just there last week for that kid’s birthday party.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Before they left the ship, Leo had given each of them an emergency flare the size of a birthday candle. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And why today, a week before my thirteenth birthday, her deathday. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to have to go to church on my birthday.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t wait for the last week of October because of my birthday I tried to reach midnight with my eyes wide open so I would know when I turned twelve. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Two months and twelve days till your birthday. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

But with all the scenes, the birthdays, the lessons, the practices, the ordinary events that should have been left alone, what I remember most are Jenna’s eyes, flickering, hesitation, an urgent trying. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“She’s learning how. Let her help. I want my own birthday party.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The century is only 99 years old in the year 100, and only celebrates its hundredth birthday on January 1 in the year 101. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was my birthday, but I knew who the real star of the show was. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Consider these new clothes a gift,” she says, “to make up for all the birthdays I’ve missed.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She could hardly admit starting four days after her sixteenth birthday. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

How she had wrapped a present for me and, smiling, said happy birthday. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I brought them to him after dinner, and then began planning my birthday cake. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He smiled, and at that moment, just being in the kitchen with him was the best birthday present I ever got Then my mom called from the living room, “Percy? The candles are melting!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“That,” she says slowly, “was like watching a clown die at a children’s birthday party.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was expecting God to do something special on this birthday. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He wanted to cry, like a child: “But, Mama, it’s my birthday!” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Kathy noted that the perfect time for such a book to be published would be on my sixtieth birthday. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On her eighth birthday, Ethel’s father forbid her to play with Jasmine so as not to pervert the natural state of relations between the races. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The trip was a birthday present when I turned nine, and J.T. and Digger had come along. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Which was a lie. And he asked for a birthday hug, which I’m pretty mad about, actually. So I don’t understand why you want a hug, Tobias. Unless it’s your fake birthday too.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

This isn’t a birthday party; it’s a funeral. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next day was her birthday, and she’d expected a perfect baby as the best present ever. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“You must never forget your father,” she reminded us at Christmas, Father’s Day, and his birthday. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Their birthday, maybe, or some other lucky digits they arrive at somehow. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I read in the paper the other day that a man from Portland hiked Katahdin to celebrate his seventy-eighth birthday,” she said conversationally. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

How would he have known where to send a birthday card? P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Think for a moment about what the story of hockey and early birthdays says about success. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Back in our kitchen, we start singing, but before we even get through “birthday,” Theresa puts her hand up like a policeman and yells, “Wait! We forgot Annie.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katz’s face lit up like the birthday boy in a Norman Rockwell painting. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was tickled pink last week with the birthday gift she sent all the way from Jefferson City. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and tried to recall my last birthday with my family. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Me holding the panda, the two of us standing on either side of the pool cue, us floating underwater, the filled table at his birthday party, me spinning around and around on the icy pond. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Did you get to have as much as you wanted, like we do for our birthdays?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She asks him to visit the following weekend, the Saturday before his birthday. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And me, the new baby, set deep inside this love. the cousins It's my mother's birthday and the music is turned up loud. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“You brought me something? Thank you! I don’t even know when your birthday is.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She came home in the winter of 1977, a few weeks before her twenty-fifth birthday. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after that, Adam was complaining about his decrepit guitar, saying he wanted to get a vintage Gibson SG, and I offered to get it for him for his birthday. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

How he came up into my room with beer on his breath and told me we were going someplace for my birthday present and I should get dressed right now. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Look at all the great stuff I’m missing. No neat name for me. No dead muskrats. No torturing people on the way home from school. No making mothers scream. No Treatment on my birthday.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“My dad was going to come to New York for my birthday.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

On the old man's next birthday, she appeared at the apartment with her little girl. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Thus, we can reject the null hypothesis and tentatively accept that, for whatever reason, people do seem to wait until their birthdays to die. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the wall, I tacked the poster of the red hen which my mother had given me for my fifth birthday, and the drawing of the bam she had given me for my last birthday. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It didn’t really feel much like a birthday, anyway. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We were regular fixtures at each other's birthday parties, graduations, and weddings. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

After our thirteenth birthday, we moved on from using our teacup dogs and the stray teacup cats that lurk on the grounds to enlisting our servants as subjects of our beauty work. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But I don’t exactly want him to know that my plans consist of hanging out with my family and reading birthday messages on Facebook. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I always watched closely because I wanted my license by my sixteenth birthday—only three months away. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You kissed me when we were younger. You kissed me beneath the pledge-Oak, on your fifteenth birthday. And you kissed me last May Day, behind your father's cowshed." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

So that was my birthday, but it meant I got to go to his house a few weeks later. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I appreciated their business savvy and the way they always looked out for me, but the last thing I wanted to think about on the eve of my nineteenth birthday was financial planning. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t be fair to be angry with his mother on her birthday. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Remembering their last meeting as he stood at the dark window, Harry had to admit he was lucky even to have reached his thirteenth birthday. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It’s not anything you can label or take a picture of, but I feel it like you do a birthday— nothing you can see, but something you intuitively sense. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I have my eighth birthday in a motel. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I wake up early, cut myself a big piece of Richards birthday cake for breakfast, and start writing the letter. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He had heard it was her birthday, and had dared to bring her a gift—nothing that would attract attention, just a small decorated box of sweetmeats. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It’s about a girl who gets a dog for her birthday and all the funny things he does around the house. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

No one ever asked him when his birthday was, so when the day came, he kept it to himself. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

"But I think it's got as much to do with your hair being red and your hands being soft . . . and the fact that you smell like homemade birthday cake." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I tried not to feel sorry for myself, but I couldn’t help thinking about how different my last birthday had been. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“The day I met her, that’s what I call my birthday. The day I met my true mum.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Bathing is even more embarrassing, because I have to strip down to my birthday suit in front of a nurse. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He looked now for something to put the birthday candles in and settled on the soil of a potted ivy that normally sat on the windowsill over the sink. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“She left the night before her sixteenth birthday.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

My birthday is January 19, but I remember it was an especially nice day. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only four months had passed since his thirteenth birthday and Bobby had become the youngest chess master in history and one of the strongest young players in the country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"You," she said, "you will die next week on your birthday." Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

On August 8, just one week after her thirty-first birthday, Henrietta arrived at Hopkins for her treatment, but this time she said she wanted to stay. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t be some generic babyish birthday celebration, with cupcakes for the whole class, like you did in elementary school. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s Saturday, and my family is at Uncle Carlos’s house for a Memorial Day weekend barbecue, which is also serving as Seven’s birthday/graduation party. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And so for your next birthday, you remember? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

When he did, he was carrying a birthday cake, blazing with fourteen birthday candles. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The white socks, the Mary Janes, the always-inadequate birthday present swathed in tissue paper, and the little girls with their assessing eyes, their slippery deceitful smiles, tartaned up like Lady Macbeth. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Danny told me later that it contained the sayings of the Ba’al Shem Tov and had been presented to his father as a gift on his fiftieth birthday by the members of his congregation. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m just here for Erlan’s birthday party,” I told the man. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

That was where we celebrated Amelia’s sixth birthday. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

While walking alone on his sixteenth birthday, Louie was ambushed by a giggling gaggle of cheerleaders. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

We heard her greet us in the hallways and classrooms, and we wondered how she knew our names and our birthdays. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Boys always forget other people’s birthdays. “You have committed the following crimes,” he continued: “having a dog with an unauthorized alarm, sowing confusion, upsetting the applecart, wreaking havoc, and mincing words.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was seven and made the colossal mistake of asking my mom to bring my favorite Indian dessert to school for my birthday. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Only once a year, on his birthday, did Charlie Bucket ever get to taste a bit of chocolate. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

But he never gave me a birthday present or a Christmas present. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

"Guess how much I spent on your birthday present?" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They didn’t know their birthdays so had to invent them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Like I do every year on my birthday. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“She was a good soldier. Good woman. This kid Frank proved his stuff tonight. Happy late birthday, kid. Time you stepped up to a real man’s weapon.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Had the government kidnapped those kids in Arizona who had the same names and birthdays as Chess, Emma, and Finn? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I always felt the whole country was celebrating my birthday. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had indeed privately made up his mind to leave on his fiftieth birthday: Bilbo’s one hundred and twenty-eighth. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A cousin in London had sent them as a twelfth birthday present, even though Calder’s birthday wasn’t until the end of the year. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then it slowed down to only special days, like Christmas or our birthday. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, I was thinking that since it’s your eighteenth birthday, I’d really like to give you the best gift I can think of as you enter legal manhood and everything.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

For his seventieth birthday, he attempted to track down a friend from elementary school named Bobby Hunsicker, whom he hadn’t seen in sixty years. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I decided that this was my birthday, whether the calendar said it was or not. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Will you let me have one for my birthday?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“What about Gran? She always gives me birthday and Christmas money. Maybe she can give it to me early.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

For my birthday, Cade Hernandez gave me a belt made from an old fire hose, and a brass statue of a bullfighter. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Adele made a big fuss over Luke’s third birthday in July with a homemade cake, balloons, and fancy hats for us and her grandchildren. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was to be my first birthday party, and I was looking forward to it. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

If you asked me at the time, I’d have said that we came up short for her in the end—that her birthday felt like an afterthought in the maelstrom of the campaign. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I am thankful for surprise phone calls and birthday wishes. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Jamal was typing up a report on Brew and noticed it was his birthday. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the last week of February, Mama's birthday month, I chose a word I had heard on television, apartheid. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And three weeks ago, for the first time ever, she had not invited him to her birthday party. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s not my birthday. It’s not our anniversary. So why are you giving me a present?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Until the day we celebrated her 60th birthday in class. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She also promised to bake a fancy layer cake for the twins’ birthday in July. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tell him everything: how Olivia wanted to go up one last time to this cabin near Albany where we always went for her birthday. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mom said I should have bought Erlan a chess set for his birthday, but I told her he likes lots of things besides just chess. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Kids who have the same names and birthdays as us,” Finn informed her. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They all understood that she meant in case there were no more birthdays. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Like when we tried to throw her dad, Mr. Tanaka, a black-tie forty-fifth birthday party two years ago. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My first thought was: Someone is having an amazing birthday party. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z