‘Johnny boy,’ she called, ‘You help me hang up these here sheets and I’ll give you a sweet.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The servant boys drifted away, and presently the three prisoners sat for a moment neglected. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t talk much with the other boys. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was reading an Italian-English dictionary and had the same huge eyes as the boy. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the noise made by the plumbing and the sight of the water gurgling down the drain was a source of fascination to the boys. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He could no more raise a beard than I could, so he looked like a beaming boy. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now think about you boys, and these boys that are charged with this crime. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A boy slid down with shaking legs from the lion’s back. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had just seen a group of boys from a dozen war-torn countries come together as a team and play beautiful soccer. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

We stared at the new boys and they at us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“A boy asks me for books to read. What is there to tell?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I suppose Andrea could see that I was trying to figure out the boy business. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys who were waiting for the interview began to laugh. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Watching the boy cry didn’t make me feel as good as I thought it would, but Jeremy never bothered me again. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The boy’s rocking slowed but did not entirely subside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The girl and the boy hid in a cave, and the hungry creatures ran on by, leaping off the stage and into the crowd. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Right now those boys are a lot more scared of us than we are of them.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Patel, Piscine’s piety is admirable. In these troubled times it’s good to see a boy so keen on God. We all agree on that.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finn blinked at the boy in front of him, his eyes zeroing in on that famous Rude underbite. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“My boy and I are just trying to get this beef to Verplancks Point the way I do every year.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, Emenike and two other boys had lured Hadome into the toilet and beat him up, Hadome’s eye swelling so quickly that, just before school was dismissed, it looked grotesque, like a big purple eggplant. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That boy, I knew, was a college student from Welch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The twins ran ahead to play leapfrog with the other kids while Naomi helped Muff with her boys. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dewey one was a deeply black boy with a beautiful head and the golden eyes of chronic jaundice. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a couple more boys involved,” Mr. Turner said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He went back and gathered the boy up. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Who wanted to go to school, where—if Matthew and Mark were to be believed—the teachers yelled, and the other boys would double-cross you if you didn’t watch out? Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could hang out on the curtained stage and peek through the opening at the cute boys. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“You boys fight every day in the streets,” the old man went on, as he gloved me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the other boys came out of their hiding, laughing, cackling. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Also, the basketball boys didn’t bother me, not once all morning. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He spread them by the fire on sticks angled into the sand and piled on more wood and went and sat by the boy again, smoothing his matted hair. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He pulled the cart back and swung it around and put the pistol on top and looked at the boy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A boy jumped to his feet and stood in front of him. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I realized it was the first time she hadn’t called me a boy. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Starks left the store to Hezekiah Potts, the delivery boy, and come took a seat in his high chair. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The attitude of America toward this boy regulated his most intimate dealings with his own kind. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The men did the same, then the boys, before the women and girls had their share. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But with only one umpire, it would have taken all night for each of the boys to play, so the coaches decided to modify the scoring. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Eventually he became a kind of mascot, and the bigger boys liked him in the way they always like the smallest and the youngest member of their group. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he got to within five feet, the other boy’s stare fell to the ground. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The tanner, whose house it was that burned, sent a couple of boys skipping right under the Kargs’ noses, taunting and yelling and vanishing again like smoke into smoke. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Pet huffed out a large breath of air and watched Redemption as the boy walked around it with greedy eyes. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Please leave him alone,” she said in a forceful whisper, and then to the little boy, softly, “You don’t have to answer.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The boys came from Liberia, Kosovo, Sudan, Somalia, Burundi, Bosnia, Ethiopia, and Afghanistan, and while most spoke some English, they had little in common. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He says, “You can be sure that we will talk to those other boys.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The word on the street was that a white person at the Angelus had aimed a gun out of a fourth-floor window, downing a black boy walking below. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Painfully, they took each other’s hands and blushed again as the other boys laughed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remained almost desperately reluctant now to tear the fabric of what held them together then, but the boys seemed to be leaving him no choice. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Peale couldn’t spare the boys on the farm for any schoolwork. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The freshman boys, in particular, were in high spirits. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“So why you tell him ’bout the white boy?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

A tall, thick boy jumps up and down like a child before climbing into the sling and lets out a high screech as he disappears, making the girl in front of me laugh. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A minute later, I heard the intercom say to the mom that her boy was at the information desk. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And I remember seeing that boy at the memorial service for Devon because I remember that cap. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the boy was gone, Melisandre washed herself and changed her robes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Blowing at them makes them sleepy,” he explained to the boy. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But even as I marveled at my baby sister’s potential, I couldn’t shake the nagging feeling that something wasn’t quite right with the boy in front of me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The nine freshman boys who had beaten California would go to Poughkeepsie to race for the national championship after all. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“The lizards have become smarter. They run faster now and hide under blocks of cement,” the boy who had climbed told Ugwu. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The boys ran into town together, stopping first at the market square, but everything was closed. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The boy said, “We sure do appreciate this. Johnny was ready to drop. We ain’t had a ride since Galveston.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of sight of the nuns, the boys pelted Carla with stones, aiming them at her feet so there would be no bruises. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There is a boy—a man?—lying on the ground next to me. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The boy grabbed her bow from the ground, took her hand, and pulled her toward the nearest tree, where he climbed to the first branch and hauled her up after. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

If Baba only knew about the boys from the Islamic Center. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Your young friend, the boy from the inn—Matthew, is it?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I see you, Mutumbo. Found the fountain of youth out there in Africa, didn’t you, boy?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My sister had found some other kids, on vacation from Turkey, a girl and a boy. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I wanted to run out of there and never see the boy again. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I wanted you to know what it felt like, boy. Wanted you to know what one of your friends was about to do.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I am today darker than I ever was as a boy. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys move only their eyes, only their thoughts, tracking in their minds the passage of the two officers as they move between tables, seeking out the next boy whose father has been killed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

"He was always clever, even as a boy, but it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise. I wonder what the years have done to him." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Yet he remembered the dead boy in the cart with his cloak of crescent moons, and the words were raw in his throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

On the ground, the boy didn’t look afraid. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When I walk into the school yard it’s the first time since I started I don’t hear the name country boy. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The younger boys had to rig up the saw-horses with boards for the women to use as tables. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sounder was already across the road into the stalk land, whining, moving his head from one side to the other, looking back to be sure that the boy was following. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

What must they be like to have raised two crush worthy boys? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Because he is so tall and linky and rubbery, he seems some- times like a boy, knocking into tables and doorways, his big muddy boots clomping on the tile floors. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I tell him I’m finished with the dancing, that I have sixpence in my pocket for Mrs. O’Connor that’s supposed to go into the black boy’s mouth, that I’m going to the Lyric Cinema instead. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When they got there, though, the boys got sweet news. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Inevitably, she would start in on a story about the boys. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A young Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of Night. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, from his vantage point, it looked as if maybe his boys and the Brits were all alone out front, duking it out. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As he got closer, he saw that several boys were weeding and picking in the small fields. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The boy struggled through a fog of weariness and sleep to go with the others and stand beside the wagon. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivan laughed a little, and then the boy grabbed something in the air. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Shin and two other boys lifted Moon into an empty coal car and pushed it to the top of the mine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I glanced down at the contraption in the first boy’s hands, and my heart seized up and settled in my throat. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Fadi stepped out of the boys’ bathroom and froze like a rabbit hearing a hawk. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Inside were the photos I knew so well: the invisible boy, the levitating girl, the boulder lifter, the man with a face painted on the back of his head. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Then he carried out the twins, one under each arm, and put them on the ground beside the table and gave each boy a stick for his hand to shake and make shadows with. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a panel he’d done around two years ago, of a boy of about ten or eleven making paper flowers out of a heap of crumpled pages while rain poured outside his window. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, boys. If he was here, he would’ve answered by now.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She reached out and touched my hand like she was making sure I was real, then said, “Thank you, boy!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The Campbells got a new son that way after their boy was taken by the measles, but I wasn’t dead. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael had somehow arrived at the war moment little boys are prone to dream about. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We’ll be the messenger boys on bicycles who deliver their groceries or we’ll go to England to work on the building sites. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

As they became still and perfectly quiet, the boy hummed a note in a beautiful tenor voice. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The boy stared at Wes, seemingly as shocked as he was. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Okay, boys, you know the game, keep up the pace.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not understanding a word of it, the boys, as Shorty Hunt put it, “just sat and took it.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Sorry I didn’t turn out to be much of a boy,” I say. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I grew very attached to that little boy—I had seen him take his first step, heard him utter his first word. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I honestly thought both my boys were more sympathetic than that.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The fear was there in the extravagant boys of my neighborhood, in their large rings and medallions, their big puffy coats and full-length fur-collared leathers, which was their armor against their world. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A boy from the other table with dark spiky hair, brown coppery skin, and slanted eyes groaned. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She studied him, not ready to believe that this boy was a bona fide hero. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I went to a school for girls, so I would have to ask a boy. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Both boys were lying on a blanket in their diapers, but Ivy knew it was Evan because his head was totally bald. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The fair boy reached out and touched the jagged end of a trunk. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

As the professor told Mrs. Singleton that Colin was brilliant, was a very special boy, Colin played with wooden alphabet blocks. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She was a much smarter dog than the boy dog, more sure of herself, more cautious. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the fellow saying, Sure, I'm Jenny Jackson's boy, you know I know you, Miss Mary. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys playing ball clear the street, stand on the side frozen, like it’s a funeral car passing by. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

So me and all my buddies went to the yard, and we all bent down on our right knees and said prayers for my son and the little boy that died. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys began to straggle back up the hill toward the main campus in small groups, shaking their heads, talking softly among themselves about their chances of making the team. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He looked round guiltily at the three boys standing by. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the grudging light that passed for day he put the boy in the leaves and sat studying the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“But, Salvador, see to it that she dances only with boys that you or Lucky know.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

In New York the boys had been measured for their Olympic outfits, and now Joe found a double-breasted blue serge sports coat and matching blue slacks spread out on his bunk. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He told the boy to eat whatever leftovers he could find. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The boy she last saw when he was in kindergarten is taller than she is. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I took her shoes off for her, and inside one of her shoes was a kind of worn-down picture of a little white boy with a girl’s hairdo and a smiling dog. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Boy! Sweet boy! Is it war, red war? Boy, free us. A man can fight. Boy!" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The dogs surge, pulling the boy down the stairs, and the door slams shut behind them. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever caught a fox, boy?” asked the bald man. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I don’t have to think about whether I’ve done these things well, as well as a boy. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The finder was a boy called Augustus Gloop, and Mr. Bucket’s evening newspaper carried a large picture of him on the front page. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was very strange to a boy weaned on the fists and calluses of Catholic schools. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I ran track back in my day. Don’t be too fast, now, or the boys won’t be able to catch you.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Everybody brought his best animals, too, and his best birds, and some of the boys and girls stayed right by the stalls to sleep. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“What exactly does the Republic want with that boy? Why take him to the hospital lab?” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In 1212, a French shepherd boy had a vision that the Holy Land could be recovered by innocent children. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

After a time—it was probably only five minutes—the Mellower appeared at the door, bowing, apologizing and calling himself a bad boy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Doc—” he said—“I and the boys—” For the moment Doc hadn’t seemed to see him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a suspicious boy, always on his guard, always careful except when he played with fire. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Chip vaguely remembered hearing about the boy, but he couldn’t place his face. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A boy whose father made him grow out his hair, and instead of letting him get it braided or cornrowed, convinced him that an Afro was the best way to go. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

But then one day the boys went too far. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cupped the boy’s forehead in his hand. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Such was the opinion of the great Sir Ernest Gowers; and I have to say I find that a comfort, coming from the grand old boy himself. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

But after a few months he was accepted as a permanent fixture, and the girls and boys went out of their way to speak to him and bring him refreshments. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I read about you in that grocery-store newspaper. Sounds like you boys do some crazy stuff,” he added. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m an errand boy. Maybe a driver, if he ever lets me drive. We’ve barely exchanged a dozen words.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The boy looked around as if trying to gain a sense of direction. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Milo and one of the boys had taken off down the street, their bikes wobbling underneath them. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One moment I was standing next to a young, blond boy in overalls, clutching a woman’s hand. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Inside the cabin, the boy’s mother sat by the stove, picking kernels of walnuts with a bent hairpin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By the pond,” the boy said, steadying his basket as he tipped his chin to show her the direction. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako thought of those boys with ducktails on the barge, what it would be like for one of them to hide in a closet for such a reason. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The boy started laughing, straightening up the laces on the table. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I thought Black Panthers would only look out for black people, but there were the two Mexicans, a little white boy, and a boy who looked both black and Chinese. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a very fine boy. 8TH JUROR: Ever since he was five years old his father beat him up regularly. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few boys dash across the road and disappear up a steep path on the hillside, but before José can follow, Yolanda calls him back. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The cops load King and his boys into patrol cars, and the crowd claps and cheers. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The boys lay curled up under the benches near the fire, Wart with Cavall in his arms. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amber was mad because she wanted to go down to the schoolyard in case any cute boys were hanging about. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In an article about sewing, she wrote, “It will be a glorious day...when men and boys make their own clothes, and women make theirs in the plainest possible manner.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The boys were ready, were proud to be able to help out the U.S. of A. and whatnot, although the chubby girlfriends and mothers admitted they’d be pining for their men. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A shaggy-haired boy with a crease between his eyebrows. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Emilia’s eyes stayed fixed on the German boy who walked behind me, his cap pulled low over his eyes. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Jay frames his face with her hands like he’s a little boy. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Is he smart? He's not one of those dumb boys who drink beer at the beach all day, is he?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He loves that word, gorgeous, and no other boy will ever use it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Here,” the boy said, handing Day the phone. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He looked at the boy out of his sunken haggard eyes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Any boy who had worked his way into the top two varsity boats was entitled to sit down with his crewmates for a free dinner at Stephens Union on the Berkeley campus. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For just that moment he was again the little boy Dicey remembered, who loved to wrestle and tickle and never asked you to stop, who made games out of everything and anything. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Families who had hidden their boys during the last conscription volunteered them now. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: Where were you when you first heard of a little boy being thrown out the window in the community that you and your kids lived in? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

May and the boys were upstate for the week at their house on Cayuga Lake, and he said he wasn’t in the mood to eat by himself. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

What the boy saw in Sounder would have been totally missed by an outsider. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where you been, boy,” he shouted, “all this time? Don’t you know you’s needed here at home?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And the boy with the runny nose gave two apples to the boy with the broken teeth and they all went back to the fields. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

What you think it’s going to be like for you, boy?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

That night Mama didn’t just ask me to be a better boy; she insisted on it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He even got suspended once for fighting with Curtis in the boys’ room, where he had taken him on for stuffing feathers into J.T.’s locker. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t wait to tell the boys, but then I thought I couldn’t do that—this was supposed to be a secret. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Sheriff Smith come round askin’ questions yesterday, stuff about some black boy from Chicago. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He looked much more a man and less a boy than he had a few months earlier. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never looked in the man’s direction but said, “What you want, boy?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He looked like the same boy she had always known, but he was acting as if he were as powerful as the Sea King. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Sharpe noted to the others that the boy was deprived of speech and reason, returned by the sight of the familial dead to his originary savage superstition and stupefaction. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’s an earnest, dark-haired boy with a deceptively innocent look to his wide blue eyes, and his fiancee’s name, AELIA, tattooed in block letters on his bicep. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The three of us do not speak loudly in our barracks, perhaps because we are sensible that these are men, and we are boys; these others are whole, when we know ourselves broken. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“It is not a question of trust. I have, as we both know, limited time. It is essential that I give the boy enough information for him to do what he needs to do.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“The boy is obviously lying. I have important matters to attend to this afternoon.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was not to be seen prancing lewdly through the streets, eyes sleepy and mouth half-open with lust, or to be found mewing under midnight fences, uncovered, uncovering some black boy’s hanging curse! Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“So them Dillard Early boys are all a little touched in the head, seems. Sooner or later. About the time they decide to mess with serpents.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

One of the boys, about seven, always started a fight, and his mother would pull him away by his ear. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

So many postcards—from Disneyland, Tijuana, the Golden Gate Bridge—perched among the saints over the fireplaces, in wall crannies, but the boys and the girl were gone. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He latched the toolbox shut and stood and looked for the boy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Chuck found him, and the look of fear on the boy’s face pinched Thomas’s heart. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I would not have become a scholarship boy had I not so often remembered. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a boy and she was an old woman. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They have gotten used to my being away, and so have I. The sheep will get used to my not being there, too, the boy thought. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men drank and the boys milled about, all speculating as to how many commissions would be assigned. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Danny shouted as a group of boys bumped straight into me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is there boys here as well?” said Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The boys started grousing and said they wanted a raisin and Nellie said it wasn’t her fault. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Don’t move!’ because they were certain—humans are always certain about things—that Jambo would crush the boy’s life from him. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The boy tilted one ear up at a low-hanging fruit, almost as if he were listening to it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Odell never talked much, but he was friendly and fiercely loyal to Collins, and from the time he met Bobby he’d felt a deep affection for the young boy. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I stood over the boy a moment longer, wondering what his name was, and if he would even survive the night. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boys who have gone ahead on foot are already pulling down branches and shaking loose a rain of guavas. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The boy called out to the elders that he was back and walked slowly through the gap in the fence. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bains put a hand on the taller boy’s hair and fingered it lightly, absently searching with her nails for tetter spots. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He eyed the man reclining on the bench near Ford’s back wall and commanded, “Give me my horse, boy!” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jacob pushes past him and past me and past Levi, until he’s standing in front of the little boy. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s just the mercy of God,” he said at last, “that this boy didn’t lose his eye. Look here.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He looked at the boy but the boy had turned away and lay staring out at the river. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Hurry up, Noah. Get these loaded,” the boy yelled to the black man. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you see, my lady?” the boy asked, softly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They all looked nearly the same in their dark suits and thin ties, except Eddie towered over the other boys. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Two boys had never drunk sodas so fast. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

An eighth grade boy is already at one and standing at the other is Matt Hubbard. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Because giving an Erudite boy a car is more important than giving food to the factionless,” I snap. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Jeffrey, my sweet little boy, needs me to be around to support him when he isn’t feeling well. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let us take the stuff home,” the boy said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy was fascinated by Fourier’s collection of Egyptian artifacts, collected during the Napoleonic expedition where he had been responsible for cataloging the astronomical monuments of that ancient civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“John,” said his mother, “go and pick her up like a good boy.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

‘Before the rain started. Now she wishes for the gray. She wears always the gray, boy, when it rains. Always.’ The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Do you boys want this to be your last meal, or do you want to answer his question?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“No, ma’am, there’s just five of’em, a man, a woman, a girl, a boy, and a sick baby.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“We wish good fortune for him, too. We believe his heart is strong, like his father’s. Your son is very good boy.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I bent over as the other boys crossed the line. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And I knew exactly what JP meant by the “boys” comment. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, shuck thing wasn’t dead. Alby poked at it with his foot like an idiot and that bad boy suddenly sprang to life, spikes flaring, its fat body rollin’ all over him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, here’s the thing,” I said, “I get to be the good boy. And the gang guy gets the girl. I don’t like this movie.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The taller of the two boys, Antoine, used to call Hugo “Ticktock” because he always had clockworks in his pockets. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Will we be tested on this?” asked a boy slumped in his desk in the far row next to the wall. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Stop behaving as though you love that boy,” Hector says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And Harry, the boy I’d nearly had sex with, I heard he went to Wales. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys shuffle onstage, and I step deeper into the wings. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

On the playground at noon I attached myself to a group of older boys and followed them about, listening to their talk, asking countless questions. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told the boys to come shake Stanley's hand and introduce themselves, "like gentlemen." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I thought you taught this boy the basics. My father is Zeus, of course.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel it in my throat and I looked off into the trees where the afternoon slanted, thinking of afternoon and of the bird and the boys in swimming. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think the boy is afraid of me now. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You and rich boy can stay with us if you want to.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He put the boy to bed in the bunk and smoothed his filthy hair on the pillow and covered him with blankets. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I recall that you used to like my jokes when you were a little boy!” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Another reveler, a laughing young boy wearing a joker’s cap, came and pulled them back toward the dancers. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"White boys?! What you think about white boys?" Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The way I heard it, by the time Principal Trask waded in, one boy had a bloody nose and Noah had a puffy eye. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

We boys came pouring outside, Billy at his theodolite, O’Dell with his binoculars. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sefia eased out of the boy’s grasp and settled more securely among the branches. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When Neville Longbottom, the boy who kept losing his toad, was called, he fell over on his way to the stool. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

No one is there to say, Not that book, when I stop in front of the small paperback with a brown boy on the cover. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Victor brewed some coffee and gave the boys some olives while they told him what had happened since he had freed himself from their bathroom prison. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Most boys are out running around all the time.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tom, Tom, son, listen to me. Come back, slip down the vines, boy. Come along, Anna’s waiting; we’ll give you a good home, everything you want.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s hens all over the grounds,” Hamish told her as she sat down with the boys. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was a part of the Soul of God. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cried like a man, not like a boy. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They yelled and gestured at... who? ... another boy, young, like me, who stood there, almost smiling, gamely throwing up his hands. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

For what reason that was different from that which had made the red-cheeked boy thrill at Clifton's falling to the earth? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their apartment, where only Italian was spoken, Louise and Anthony called their boy Toots. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Girls and boys with their yards and yards of ease, each group knotted tight around their belonging. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'm pretty curious to find out if it's a boy or a girl. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

A boy, larger than himself and probably a few years older, was standing at a counter talking with a stout marketwoman in a frayed red skirt. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he turned around and walked right up to his own son and slapped him so hard the boy fell over. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He locked his arms around Sohrab’s belly, rested his chin on the boy’s shoulder. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you really tell a person’s intentions just by looking at them?” asks a red-faced boy with a gulp. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Main Street, as it was called, ran down a valley so narrow in places that a boy with a good arm could throw a rock from one side of it to the other. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Such has been America’s attitude toward these boys that if one is picked up and confronted in a police cell with ten white cops, he is intimidated almost to the point of confessing anything. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Contrary to Mrs. Scatcherd’s expectations—or perhaps in response to her rebuke—we are a quiet lot, even the older boys. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“When the boy awoke, his humans cried out, ‘Stay still! The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Luma told the boys that she and Tracy would stay behind to watch the bus. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But stronger than his knowledge was his love for the boy, his devotion, his fear of losing him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the boys he knew laughed about what the good sisters and the good fathers had to say about sex. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Compared to Chi-Boy’s six-plus feet, I wasn’t the tallest, but I did have the longest hair of any of the boys, almost to my waist, burnt ombré at the untrimmed edges. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

"And now, O my host," said the Tarkaan, "I have a mind to buy that boy of yours." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

All the boys in Joe’s boat stuck it out, but the easy camaraderie they had briefly felt the first time they went out together on Lake Union in November quickly evaporated. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Bruises could be from anything. A Sanders boy? He’s probably getting into fights, like his brother.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“But I really did love that little boy.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you should never be allowed inside this library again, at least until Friday. We don’t want a little boy getting big ideas. Now, where is your sister and that hideous baby?” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t be surprised if there wasn’t a game down to Thayer’s haymeadow this afternoon. You could get to know some of the boys.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Ophie thought of the boy with the welts on his back. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Put yours on too,” urged the little boy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the waiting room, the boy from the riverbank sprawled in a chair. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The Careers' willingness to leave their supplies, Foxface's reaction, the involvement of the boy from District 3, where they have the factories, where they make televisions and automobiles and explosives. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And when they came, he ate them down greedily, pushing them into his mouth with his bamboo chopsticks, while the boy stood and spun the coppers between his black thumb and forefinger. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Well, that’s tough, kid. Why don’t you boys form a platoon and march home? You can say that hut-hope-hoop-hoop business. You can be the big shot.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Alyce did not know, so she hid the boy in the chicken house and went about the village asking folks what was the king’s name. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you’re lucky, you boys will be fishing with him in no time. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

When they finally got the shell onto the dock, the boys trooped back onto the Manhattan, their serge coats soggy and their straw hats starting to droop, and waited for the formal disembarking. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He has darkish tan skin and longish dark hair that’s not styled with goop like some of the other boys’. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

In spite of all his aunt’s shouting and ordering about, the boy always obeyed her, as his father said he must. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

We step around younger boys playing marbles on the sidewalk. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Two boys were fighting me,” I told her. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy had left the lid of the box on the floor. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the one suggestion that the scholarship boy couldn’t follow. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here come the small baboons,” yelped another white boy. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonathan found the boy’s parents out beyond a small field, not far from the rear loop of the fence. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger seemed more like a boy than a man. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's more than just the way Maxwell resembles him, Grim says that night in the kitchen, the boy is like him, we'd better watch out, you never know what he might do while we're sleeping. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu and Ginika arrived together, the party still at its dawn, the dance floor bare, boys running around with cassette tapes, shyness and awkwardness still undissolved. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“That boy Julian seemed especially nice,” Mom said. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t see the drummer or the player, but he knew they must be boys. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard enough to have a boys’ team. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The boy spat into the pile of glass at our feet. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But just as the boys turn around, two more knights get swallowed by the bay. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There’s something comforting about hanging around with Tess and this boy, as if the absence of Metias hasn’t entirely stripped me of everyone who cares about me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

As it did so, a sudden, fleeting image came to the boy: an army, with its swords at the ready, riding into the oasis. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They performed at the chief’s request at funerals and initiation ceremonies, when many Chewa boys become men. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“That’s all right, my boy,” August says cheerily, slinging a bucket of meat at me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He sat with his back against a rock and his hands around his knees and his throat hurting until the village boys found him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She grasps for something, anything, that she can ask this boy—a question that no one but Enrique can answer. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Already Finn had changed from the eager, bouncy, silly boy he’d been two days ago. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Once the boy waited outside the tall wire fence of a road camp. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she pointed to the boys on the other side of the street. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At Lovelace Elementary, boys and girls who were together were “going out.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She said that she has been seeing this boy secretly since Dad said she couldn’t. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She used to call the boys from the neighborhood ghetto penguins because of the way they waddled. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Several days later, some boys fishing in the river saw the body and called the police. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The next day the older boy, Peter, is upstairs in the office. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they pulled into the parking lot, the boys were asleep. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know about that, but no sense worrying about what may never be. But I don’t expect there isn’t any boy that ain’t never, at least, thought of swinging from the barn.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This boy is more of a young man. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Even as the girls screamed and scampered away, hurling insults back at the boys, Sunjin sat staring at his feet. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Either that boy’s been hanging out with some brothas, or he wish he had. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alhaji asked, and all the quiet boys stood up and turned their angry faces to him, staring silently. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Tell them your boy is eighteen and has a trade.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the boys leans close to Tobias, whose back is to them, and whispers, “Coward,” as he passes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In Detroit cigar factories, ten-year-old boys had to stand on benches in order to reach their work. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“We don’t know. Do you hear me? We don’t know what he is. He’s a boy. He’s just a boy.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In my room we shared mean gossip about our friends, giggled over boys and whined about school and the tedium of life. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look,” said a boy near the door, scrambling to his feet. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The boys are as excited as if they’ve heard there would be free pizza delivered, too. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t knock Angelo, neither. He’s got him a hard road, boy. Santa says he’s been in the bathroom at the bus station all day.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I see the smiling boy waving in my dreams. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The boys were playing as if they were trying to will their team back into existence. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“There was a bokher, a boy, I mean, who was found...” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She also knew that when one of the girls at school wanted to be particularly insulting to a boy, or wanted to get an immediate response from him, she could say. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was smaller than the other basketball boys, skinnier, with dark fuzz on his upper lip and a few pink zits on his forehead. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

So the boy won, to Kira’s delight, and she had company for the journey into the forest. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy bowed his head sadly, but when he raised it, his eyes were angry again. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was a girl like you are a boy. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m Leo Valdez, bad boy supreme. And the ladies love a bad boy.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I saw the boy, Jacob, lean over to the girl, Jeanne. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The boys were energetic, and each different from the next. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still trusted the boys when we all marched down to Grandpa’s house, proudly leading the prancy horse to Miss Love, and helped her put him in a stall. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She was also, not incidentally, a single mother raising a dear, precocious boy named Jonathan, whom I often babysat. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately for him, there was never anything—not a swath of goat hair or even a piece of stone—for the boy to take. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Bran's wolf had saved the boy's life, he thought dully. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Without warning, the man in the grey suit tosses his cane at the boy. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The boy started talking slow, having a hard time getting the words out, “My...ma named...me Samuel...but most...folks...calls me...Sammy.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

So do boys and men announce their intentions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He hits her so hard that some teeth fly out of her mouth and land at the base of the boy’s Christmas tree, but the boy knows better than to speak up. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

When he comes to the pictures of the bus in which the boy died, however, he stiffens abruptly. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The ghost of the boy’s father is protecting both of them.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Wes was now in a full sprint, clearing the five steps of his front porch in one leap and then running around to the alley, figuring that’s where the boys were. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The clever little rascal who had looked her in the eye and said, “But I really didn’t have a frindle with me—” that boy wasn’t in her class anymore. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And like many young boys, he was a collector. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My wife sent me in here to get some things for a basket our church is putting together for a boy who came on that orphan train,” he says. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He talks quietly in the just-deepened voice of a teenaged boy. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Electrocution?” yelps a boy in the back, whose name is Austin, I think. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The boy didn’t know what a person’s “Personal Legend” was. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When, as a young boy, I had been asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I had never answered “black” or “Negro” or even “colored.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The only time during school hours I had crossed the boys’ yard was when a flatbed truck with a giant thing covered with canvas and tied down with ropes had parked across the street. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three boys tell him all about snowboarding; a few girls draw curlicue hearts in their notebooks. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Timmons glanced over at us with a frown and I glared at the boy. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The momentum propelled the larger boy onward and he stumbled. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The boy reminded the old man that he had said something about hidden treasure. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Square boy. Middle- aged at fourteen, fifteen. Already caught in a routine. Wow.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was beginning to get dark, but I could make out a boy marching up the bridge. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

There had been no kidnapped boys swabbing the decks and earning pats on the head from white kidnappers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Celey, like an embarrassed little boy, refuses to make eye contact. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The point was that none of his boys could rely on past performance to gain a seat in the varsity boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A boy and girl were at the other end. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The guards shoved the last of the prisoners, including the boy with the red-brown hat, through the doors of the prison and closed them with a loud metal clang. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

If this child is a boy, Amari thought, I shall name him Freeman. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it was the boys’ turn to be the deer. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The boys suspected their parents would not be enthusiastic about their paleontology purchases. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He spent the whole evening absorbed in thought, ruminating on the story of the fox and the hens, and perhaps that was the night the boy began to become a man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but it’s boring. This has lots more color and photos, fashion and cute boys.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It made the boy think of the old king, and it startled him to realize how long it had been since he had thought of him. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And to a man, smiling faintly, chillingly, loving the act, the boys all just slightly nodded their heads yes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two women were so startled that the delivery boy sneaked up on the unsuspecting for the rest of the week, shouting "Boom!" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blocking Hassan’s way out of the alley were three boys, the same three from that day on the hill, the day after Daoud Khan’s coup, when Hassan had saved us with his slingshot. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the boy came back the old man was asleep in the chair and the sun was down. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The last time I saw you, you were just a boy! Now look at you. You’re a grown man!” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m at home with the wisps of boys filling the cemetery. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

This was the first human being other than the boy that he’d spoken to in more than a year. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The boys worked together unsticking their bikes from the corner of Grandma’s porch, and at first, the pedals and wheels wouldn’t turn. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

One boy and one girl have hair the color of wheat waving in the sun. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Some. I miss this boy, he ... he was a friend of mine. And my brother, Kennet, but he died on the bridge of ships.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was an unsettling moment, and we boys were always glad to get back to our games, yelling and brawling a little louder than necessary to shatter the spell cast on us by the tipple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The tug swerved hard to port, grazed the bow of the shell, and narrowly missed the boy in the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But the way we have treated this boy made him do the very thing we did not want. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

After fourteen weeks Sister Rita tells me I can go home and aren’t I a lucky boy that the day will be the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A big mean-looking boy shouldered his way to the front of the rival gang. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ben reached out his arms and lifted the boy from the boat. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They watched him, half skeptical, half wondering whether this little Jewish boy was as strange and potent as his companion. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

What, was he on the verge of jealousy of this—this beardless boy? Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

As the two coaches lingered in the office, the boys’ usual post-practice banter and joshing faded away and was replaced by an uncomfortable silence. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A boy could spend a whole year having fun in a place like this. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A skull-capped head turned from the boys’ row in front of us. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

And there were more people sitting around than I first thought too, mostly it was men and big boys, but there were a couple of women every now and then and a kid or two. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The boy planted his fists on his pudgy hips and looked out over the audience. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Alice had already told me she meant to ask for the boy’s freedom. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But boy, did I ever want to be one. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

One stubborn eye flared open and Pinch fixed his annoyed little boy glare upon the bird. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A small crowd bore down on them headed by a hysterical woman and a bawling boy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Carver? Do you mean the boy named Thomas?” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Down at The Coffee Pot they say Shotgun rode with the James boys.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when I open it, I find Simón and a boy next to him, about Rob’s age. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I looked up, waiting for the boy to return. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Feds surrounded the family’s cabin, kept them locked in there for weeks, and when a hungry child, a little boy, snuck out to go hunting, the Feds shot him dead.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The guards sit across from the four boys, take out a deck of playing cards. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I think the boys he’d been playing football with earlier came back, or maybe it was some students strolling by who came and sat down with us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The swarm of gnats stayed behind, preferring the contents of Zero's stomach to the sweat on the boys' faces. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

His energy drained like boys siphoning gas from a car. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The boys landed in dense, thorny scrub and when they finally managed to free themselves they hesitated, not sure in which direction to go. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

On another occasion a man killed a small boy because he was ‘in a bad mood and the child was crying’. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The National Socialist educational program surpasses anything of its kind in history. You see, my boys, the reality is this: It is your job to shape the fate of our Fatherland." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

They came around the corner of a building and startled two Norwegian boys, who took one look at them and bolted. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Stheno called down gleefully, “Clever boy! Found a goddess to carry, did you?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Reporters flooded the funeral and made photographs of the dead boy’s grotesque face. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"He's a wonderful boy. And thank you for calling him." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was hardly anyone to be seen in the narrow alleys, only a few of the Black Jackets, as Meggie had secretly dubbed them, with skinny boys following them like puppies. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Professor Grubbly-Plank’s voice carried over to the boys; the girls were all clustered around the unicorn now, stroking it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“What you need to know, boy, is that my mother’s name was Jessica.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“That ent important! Little boy, ye tell yer da not to challenge him. I know enough to know fool magic when I see it, but Sigurd’s strong. He won’t fall for it again.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He went back and sat by the boy and refolded the cloth and wiped his face and then spread the cloth over his forehead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The second bag held a stack of boys’ clothing, neatly folded T-shirts, blue jeans, and underpants. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel leaned down and gathered up one of the boys and held him on his lap. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Gee, Judge, I never noticed that; boy, am I dumb. But what does it mean?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure I set the alarm. Oh, dear, I’m such a bad boy.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“A fire in my village. Some boys burned it down.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The boy, madam, spent the first five minutes of the trip pushing every button in the back seat. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy’s lower lip quivered, but he put out his arm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Three boys who lived around the corner on Orinda were at the carom table, which is like pool but with small wooden disks instead of balls. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“This is nothing more than a misunderstanding. My boys aren’t broke out with brains, you know. I have an idea they just wandered into the wrong house.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boy put some light yellow fluid on the towel and touched it gently to her cheek. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Upwards of twenty thousand, Jeth; mor’n twelve thousand of ’em was our boys.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

What does he want, the sneaking serpent? thought the boy. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“You know, I thought about whether I was a boy once. Back when I wanted to be a firefighter and I thought all firefighters were boys. Is it like that?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He wears a key to his childhood home around his neck, but he doesn’t know the last time he actually thought about the boy who used to push it into the lock. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I see a lot of new faces out there tonight. It’s great that you all came down. Looks like my boys are doing a good job spreading the word.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You’ve been a mother’s boy since I got you. Now, go join your brother and grow up.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“You were an altar boy, I guess,” I said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The boy says that they visited a brothel." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Raul stopped by a large boy who was sanding a curved piece of wood. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately the boys in the Washington boat found their swing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This afternoon, however, Robin called the boys to a council. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or have you brought someone to sing opposite you? Is one of the boys you came in with a castrato?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The boy knows we’ve heard him, and he starts following us and chanting “Fake news! Fake news!” and his friends laugh like hyenas. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The boy, the dog, and the epileptic kid all went under. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Better attendance, of course,” the boy says laughing. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Hey, Mom,” said the boy, wiping his nose clean with the back of his arm. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“My dear boy! Arthur told me you were here, disguised....I am so glad, so honored!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He's a good boy, this neighbor of hers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The boys would circle up like they were getting ready to watch a gladiator fight. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The boy’s tale made her heart stir in her breast, but this was not all. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy agreed quietly, but he seemed to sense that something was wrong because he started crying. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The delivery boy came by and slapped another city paper on her desk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come with me,” said Marian, touching the boys on the shoulder. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What? But that’s preposterous. He’s nine. He’s just a boy,” the woman said. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boy Slant suffers some disorder that causes him to choke upon his words. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He was a lovely boy who was a long way from his family and he was about to die. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You ain’t heard? People say the police is lookin for a colored man what killed that white boy in the schoolyard.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even when they ask about our grades, and we tell them we have good grades, they usually say something like, “Well, that’s good. I’m glad you’re not distracted by them boys.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They go in the boys door and end up in the same place we do. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tallest and biggest of the boys nodded fiercely. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Ahead of him, just emerging from the Apprentices’ Quarters and finishing his breakfast as he ran, was the new boy, Heqet. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“She prefers the dear boys. Listen to it rain.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

So Q hooked her up with some of his boys. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Dear boy, I ain’t come so fur, not fur to be low. Now, go on, dear boy. You was a saying—” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was a new dishwasher, a boy of about sixteen, and there was something familiar about him, his movements, the look in his eyes. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The boy covered his face as his mother looked up at the sky. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“We must pray that your little boy will come out unharmed at the other end.” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

She remembered a boy at the Home telling her about learning to float. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

‘Imagine,’ Papi said, ‘a young boy like you with hands as hard as a man’s.’ Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And when the boy left, my dad said that this boy was becoming a fine young man who could carry himself. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The boy bowed and scurried off to start the fountain gushing. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The boys started splashing and lunging at one another. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

"Albert done gone for one," the boy said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all I could see was the wrong'way-round Z and a line of boys, all Salim look-alikes, smiling and waving and saying goodbye and walking to the edge of a precipice. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although I, too, was undecided about trusting Link, I continued to defend Link as both of them came up with dozens of reasons why I shouldn’t trust this white boy. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth got a tingle down her spine as she realized the boys were working as one, summoning the sky and the sea to do their bidding. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“My boy,” he heard in his mind—old Master Hyrrokkin’s words, kindly meant. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Dr. Trefusis expatiated at somewhat galling length upon my achievements; which accolades Lord Dunmore received with kind pleasure, saying, “Faith, excellent! Excellent! You are brave boys, all of you.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

To show my gratitude, I took hold of his collar and said, “Come on, boy, let’s go home and get something to eat.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aye, curious. I know the ways of boys. They are like cats who thrust their noses into everything and oftentimes are sorry. You had best save your curiosity, young one, for safer subjects.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Then the boy ran away and only returned late in the evening. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simple, stupid, brutal curiosity, the same thing that motivates boys to see what flies might look like without their wings. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“You are a clever boy, though somewhat too obscure.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He also learned as a young boy that doing this required a strict and sometimes exhausting devotion to religion. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Even after the death of his son, with the body lying there before him, the body of the boy he had loved so much, he spoke with dignity and firmness. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Across the garage, Scrap shows Doc and his boys his two pieces. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She could look after the boys if he and May went out. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our cousin Daniel waves at him from down the sidewalk with some other boys, and they’re all on their bikes. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I glanced at the other kids in the room—five boys and only one other girl. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Gita, you’ve seen Piscine. He’s at that age when boys run around and poke their noses everywhere.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

My feet clomped over the same worn boards boys did somersaults on before they went off to the First World War to be gassed. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It happens every year with that cursed fiesta. All those people drinking and picking fights. They should outlaw it... But Chacho—” He stopped and looked at the boys closely. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where Africa be?” the boy wanted to know. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I caught a glimpse of the look of terror in the boy’s face, and I realized that Abel had gone past getting revenge for me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I knew she was probably surprised Twig and I were talking to a boy, and she was probably saying something mean about us, but I almost didn’t blame her. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

None of the prisoners killed was the boy’s father. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at me when I talk to you, boy,” the first man said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A group of boys were smoking and laughing close by and for a moment, their laughter seemed directed at her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The mousy woman who must be Finch’s stepmom stands next to him, her arm around a very small boy. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I have to admit, it’s been impressive to see my brother turn into a coach to the younger boys at the center, who all adore him. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Lily and a small boy play in their front yard, and even though our eyes meet neither of us acknowledges the other. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The demon boy Miss Whitlaw had sent out came back without a doctor. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another thing her books had neglected to mention: what to do when the prettiest boy you’ve ever seen lays his head in your lap and seems content to camp out there for a few weeks. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“There’s plenty of wood, and I must go back to school,” the boy told his mother several days after they had buried his father. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I opened my eyes and looked down, I saw the boy from the gas station riding his skateboard, pushing himself up the slight incline to our parking lot where the gravel changed to asphalt. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“These are the boys I was telling you about.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The boys helped her to the floor while Kate secured her rope to the beam and climbed down to join them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Basil, sir,” the boy stood awkwardly in the aisle. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was just a boy from across the street. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Just before the boy opened his mouth to speak, a large bird flew overhead and landed on the angel’s shoulder. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Brother Tom went off to find the hospital, to see how the boys were, to see how Buster Kilrain was getting along. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned to the side to see, sitting across from me, a short, scrawny Black boy with a do-it-yourself haircut, thick red-and-black-framed glasses, super-baggy cargo shorts, and a Malcolm X T-shirt. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The demon boys must have played hooky that day. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short while later both boys fell asleep. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He got up on the stage and the conjurer waved his cape over the boy’s head twice. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

We have a little boy and we have a little girl. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There were crowds of them, thousands of boys, as far as he could see, and more kept arriving, sitting down and pushing in, tighter and tighter. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

There were eight of them down at the river, four young boys about twelve years old—my age—two girls, a man, and a woman. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The boys in our class were bigger pests than they were rough and rowdy. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

By symmetry, about 300 couples will also have two boys and a girl. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Barrel boys don’t have parents. We’re born in the harbor and crawl out of the canals.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The one big difference between John and me, besides the fact that he’s a boy and I’m a girl, is I have compassion. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Mind you return anything you have borrowed to the correct — what have you been doing to that book, you depraved boy?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I still didn’t see any dog, but then the oddest thing happened: the boy barked at me. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"That's him! The plague boy! He's the one spreading all the pox! Get the cops!" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He plodded onward and soon he reached the bus stop where he’d first spotted the running boy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I accidentally caught a glimpse of the little boy in the bed, who was still looking at me. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The boy made a motion with his hand, and the horse walked up to the son. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

So far, the door to the waiting room has opened twice, and a nurse has announced that one of them has a boy or a girl. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The German boys and the Italian boys were already in their boats. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The tall boy gave Colton a push in my direction, while I tried to act like I wasn’t watching. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

A boy in the back calls out, “My dad says saying Black lives matter is racist.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got strings out, right now. Wait till next year. Just wait. Then see where I’m marching. I wont need to tell you how I’m fixing it; I say, just wait and see, my boy.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catelyn listened to girlish laughter, and the excited chatter of the green boys her brother had left her for a garrison. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

All of the girls, no matter what part they wanted, would be auditioning with Charlotte's lines, and the boys would be auditioning with Wilbur’s. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Fay’s new boy friend is a dance instructor from the Stardust Ballroom. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The woman hugs a man and a teenage boy: she is with family. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had the feeling that the boy was only teasing the girl, but she had to know for sure. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

When she had both boys covered, she walked back to Luke, smiling. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There is no small boy in the world who wouldn’t be. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked to and from school alone, unable to befriend the sassy girls with budding figures or the boys who leaned against fences and lampposts to hiss and leer. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then he adds softly, "But in class, your idealism shows as well. Be careful of idealism, my boy, for idealism is the most dangerous doctrine of all." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Two boys and a tall man sat at the table on which Lucia rolled out her pasta dough. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

A boy next to him grabbed him around the neck and clung to him tightly. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather, we rushed on the boy at the same time, and before he knew what was happening, we had taken the corn from him. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy clung to the leg of the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“No, no, it was my fault, I’m afraid. I kept your boy here listening to the wanderings of an old lady.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Da-A-Fu said, and the boy swung up his arm in excitement. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“So tuckered out he fell asleep,” the boy said to himself. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother stuck her head out the second-floor kitchen window just then and said to him, You be careful with that bad boy. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jacob craned his neck to see the big boy’s face. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But Sounder was warm because the boy’s father had put two burlap sacks under the porch for the time when the hard frosts came. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Governor glided toward the boy and spoke in a deep, smooth voice. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The boy wished she would stop humming and tell a story about the Lord or King David, but she kept humming “That Lonesome Road.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn't talk much, this boy with the hole in his heart but when he does, it's to ask us about our mother in New York City. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She reminded them of all the pranks Tommy had played on them, of all the sterling qualities of the smartest student in their class, of why a girl, not a boy, should represent them. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

How does a boy vanish into thin air in a subway station? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The way he grab the hair of a smalL boy, or lock his elbow around my neck sometime, I know we are not mostly trouble for Titid. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after the concert, Roza is swarmed by girls, and more than a few boys. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The boy picked up his tray and moved farther down the length of the table. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The boy’s fearful feeling increased as he got nearer town. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys would roll out their sleeping bags in the Children’s Room, just off the rotunda; the girls would be upstairs on the third floor in the Board Room. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The brother, Salim, would be in town with other boys making a kite out of butcher paper, glue, and hand-carved branches. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He was the one that finally picked up that boy that jumped out the window I told you about, James Castle. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

By the night of July 21, the boys could see the glimmer of lighthouses on the southwest coast of Ireland. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The boy Chester and his friends grabbed Cora, startling her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe part of him had been secretly hoping his parents would forbid him to go, would lock him in the attic and keep him as their little boy forever. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

But why would Anansi give such a powerful item to a nerdy black boy from Chicago? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The dog’s bent tail, matted with twigs and leaves, thumped on the ground, and the boy grinned in reply. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem was that the girls and boys played in different parts of the playground. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy found a deserted barn a ways off the road. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Sit down, and let me treat you to something,” said the boy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, boy, what does it matter?” he said, speaking in a far softer voice than before. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The young knight fell to his knees a frightened boy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We saw bodies of eleven- and thirteen-year-old boys in army shorts piled by the river. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He checked the teeth of a young buck he had never seen before, wrenching the boy’s jaw to get a good look, and nodded in approval. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Probably not, otherwise she and whoever her new boy toy is would have tried to run me down. They drove by just as I was leaving.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His failures had made him a recluse, but people remembered the vulnerable boy he had once been. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Silas began to call the boy back, then he stopped, and stood there in the night alone. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Page,” he said, as the small boy trotted in, knuckling his eyes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You see, Caballito? This is how things will always go. A boy like you has remarkable taste. And luck, too, I should say!” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

A much younger creature, also a boy, came running out of the house immediately ahead of the others. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy put the stones back in the pouch and decided to do an experiment. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rose and built back the fire and sat beside the boy and pulled the blankets over him and brushed back his filthy hair. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The boy moved cautiously to the table and sat down. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the boys got downstairs, most of the people sitting in the atrium had cleared away. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But the boy was trying to fight off the dementors, even though Harry could see their cold, draining power starting to affect him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t like no boys to smile at me. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Hanako tried not to think about it, in case the boy could read her mind. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And then the door opened and the boy burst in. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He picked up the boy, straining to lift him up high enough to get him into the trunk, and dropped him in as gently as possible. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Mechanically speaking, a girl wouldn’t need to be into a boy to let a boy into her, would she? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The boy beside me wanders away with a short, round woman who tells him it’s high time she has a man around the house. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Whenever Stanton had a baby, a flag was raised outside her house—a red flag for a boy, white for a girl. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Misfortune still pursues us and this morning we lost another canoe and one of the boys was drowned. Today’s misfortune is a tragedy!” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you ever, ever do that again,” she growled, and I wasn’t sure if she meant kicking a boy between his legs or letting him see my private parts. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Ayanna’s fading fast. Nothing I’m doing is helping, boy, it sure ain’t. I’m trying, but I reckon I don’t got the conjure for it.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Matt could see the gears churning slowly in the boy’s brain: Whatever Jorge said was good. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shut it,” she tells the boys behind us, smiling at them anyway. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“If I arrest the boy, I’ll have to arrest everybody else on the property, too.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy untied his sister and then led her back to their father’s new place. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Mack and the boys and the captain sat down on the ground to have one last short one and to map their campaign. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had always been about surface, her beautiful, sunny, shallow boy, and on the surface she couldn’t see what would draw him to Pearl. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That just makes those boys tease me more. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The men didn’t see him for a few moments and then one of them stuck out his arm to show where he was and the boy shot him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys followed with the food: a large plastic bowl full of steaming rice and smaller ceramic bowls containing helpings of warm cassava, beans, potatoes, and stewed greens. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Collin and the other boys at the orphanage were right, that Richard and Reverend Hunt and I will all die here. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She would stamp out all of the things that were bad about Johnny as they came up in the boy, Neeley. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad turned to Kelly and said, “Excuse me, miss, do you know this boy?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I wish I could stay invisible in boys' eyes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then, just when I am calming down, she says, “Are you a boy angel or a girl angel?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

For the varsity boys, it was a long, dismal train ride back to Seattle. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“This is Jimmy’s boy,” Bo said, sliding next to Lily and dropping an arm across her shoulders. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I sense the boy tells the truth,” Zeus muttered. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Jack ignored them for the moment, turned his mask down to the seated boys and pointed at them with the spear. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“There you are, my boy. And Tyson, hello, son!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The sound of them crying and shushing the cries of Dante’s newborn baby boy at the same time is one I’ll never forget. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I came home one day and a boy was with my daughter.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Suddenly there was quick movement on the platform, and Samuel’s father put both his hands on the boy’s head so that his palms cupped over the ears and his fingers met behind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but he’s convinced all the boys to stop being your friend—for your own good. That’s why nobody’s talking to you.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

And then there’s the boy throwing rocks into the waves. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

In fifth period I found out the fight was all about Noah Randolph getting commanded to take off his armband and he wouldn’t, so a bunch of other boys started whaling on him. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I can’t remember the first boy who threw up, but I do remember Mrs. Finley’s face when the rest of us started spitting out our tobacco wads. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Siobhan didn’t like how overprotective her father was, but they did agree on one thing—she had no time for boys. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had made out with only two boys and had shared a quick, truth-or-dare kiss with a girl named Eve at a seventh grade dance party. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They spent the morning watching television, cartoons that kept the boys entertained. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The boy was sad as he left her that day. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You let the boy make a simulacrum of you, then bring him here on malfeasance?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dimple had never thought her life would include a boy like Rishi. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“The churches got together though. They gone send both them boys to college.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But I was too vain to think any one boy was good enough for me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

This man was the father of the boy she’d met on the road, and the tsar’s fool. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Did he really like boys instead of girls? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Every ten minutes or so, a drunk girl or boy would stumble in my room to see if they could make out there or something. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Frenchman listened to the boy intently, nodding, shaking his head, occasionally reaching out and touching the boy’s face, his hand, his arm. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had bet that the baby was a boy, so they had lost their money. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I detected in you a sense of fair play. Most dangerous in the Underland, boy.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, at least the boy hadn’t gotten too passionate with himself!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thomas! Thomas!” the boy shrieked as he ran toward him, pumping his arms, his face lit up with excitement. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I have a sore throat but it’s not strep,” the boy said, wiping his nose with the back of his hand. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Or did she just think about birdseed and wonder at that funny boy who read her books? Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“So, boys, what are we going to do about this?” said Principal Hornstein. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

When he came out from behind the last coach he waved for the boy to come and the boy rose and put the pistol in his belt. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“When I was just a boy, younger than you, it began to come to me. But it wasn’t the seeing-beyond for me. It was different. For me, it was hearing-beyond.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘Well, it is so nice to see them shaking down together, after all,’ said Mr Joseph Hooper to Mrs Kingshaw, a little later, after the boys had left the room. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The pink boy shouts, showing a black hole where sharp teeth glow. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The boy continued to talk to the Frenchman. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The boy blinked a few times, then sat up abruptly and grunted like an animal, he and the little one suddenly yelling at each other as they gathered the cakes into their newspaper. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Me too,” the boys responded, nearly in unison. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But I guess I never stopped wanting to be the smart boy she wanted me to be, so that she would love me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Already the boys were scrambling up to a higher rock. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He heard Warren saying, ‘Steady, boy,’ and, after a moment, ‘Is it better so?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we were boys who liked to think and talk about elements inside the literature he put in front of us—relationships, emotion, conflict, ideas. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She had no idea what this ill-dressed boy was talking about. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The boy tried to scramble up and run, but he couldn’t get any traction on the squashed turf. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

For these dances the boys send corsages, which I press afterward and keep in my bureau drawer: squashed carnations and brown-edged rosebuds, wads of dead vegetation, like a collection of floral shrunken heads. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Can we get around it? the boy said. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Way high up there with the sunlight falling reddish-brown on the palm trunks and the boys’ narrow limbs, they look beautiful. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The enterprising African boy whose fine leather boots she wore would have been chained belowdecks, swabbing his body in his own filth. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The two boys kept their faces averted while their mother and sister put on enough clothes to keep them from feeling ashamed; and the mother and sister did the same while the boys dressed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boy ran back to his game, hugging the ball to his chest with spindly arms. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Tell them. You know this boy! This isn’t right, brother. Didn’t he bring your kids out?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Your Suggestion Can we please choose a book with a boy this time— Weren’t you listening? Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Because to go meant to get got by Marcus and the boys. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but he’s a good boy!” says Mrs. Krajewska, with the exact same tone she used to defend me to Dr. Schillinger. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Come over here, boy, and let me tell you about some other stuff you are not going to have. Come on over here.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy she had met wore strange-looking shoes and unfamiliar clothing. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And in time the boy would take the oath as well. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Most of these boys knew nothing of racing when they began and were completely at the mercy of their trainers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy was still sore about the hunting trip. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Which one is the boy with the reddish brown hair?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The boys were silent as they finished getting dressed. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we play set ball before the boys come?” he asked. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

That night we told all the boys about the tall buildings in the city, the noise, the cars, and the markets. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The boy just sat clasping his hands as he leaned forward on his knees, head hanging. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Based on eyewitness accounts, police believe the boy may be traveling with two teenage accomplices. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The little Puerto Rican boy was supposed to get a taste and King's friend was supposed to get a taste. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still hugging the boy, so he couldn't see the disingenuous look on my youthful face. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The boy slipped the bottle through the bars. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

About a boy she’d met, even though I didn’t have mine. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Think of all the stories you’ve heard, Bast. You have a young boy, the hero. His parents are killed. He sets out for vengeance. What happens next?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The witty, clever lad that Lord Steffon had written of never reached Storm's End; the boy they found was someone else, broken in body and mind, hardly capable of speech, much less of wit. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The boy’s name was Rostelli and his father owned an Italian restaurant just off Meeting Street in Charleston. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lili asked, tucking the boy’s shirt down deep into his short pants. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“The boy, he is a stranger to Manifest.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Six mornings a week, little noisy dirt-kicking crowds of boys from our village and the next one over come straggling in for their education. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whispers that while we were in the cellar a hundred Jews, old men and little boys, had been run all over Przemyśl, right up Mickiewicza Street, German soldiers beating them if they fell. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The day before, I had heard a kid at school shout to a group of boys in the hall: "Game on!" Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Gather up from the mud the pieces of burned, striped cloth, the shreds of his pajamas, then bring him down, the poor pale boy, and make a decent burial. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He planted himself in front of the redheaded boy. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once Bran had known every stone of those buddings, inside and out; he had climbed them all, scampering up walls as easily as other boys ran down stairs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The class had shrunk to ten boys, and I came out eighth. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, ladies. Need some time with my boys, if you don’t mind.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Both boys thumped their fists on their chests like baseball players do. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He could sit on the pipes with Mack and the boys any time. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the boys’ room miniature bunk beds were stacked three high, while the girl twin and I shared a room with the biological daughter. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The boy tried to be on his way, but the master stopped him. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“If you punks ever mess with my boy again,” Bull screamed, “they’ll find pieces of you all over town.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy thought about that for a while as he looked at the moon and the bleached sands. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys sat round the door without surprise, waiting for something else to happen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arriving at the used-up haystack, the boy leaned against the barbed wire fence. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I carefully replaced the lid and backed away, I noticed him, a boy with blond hair peering out from behind his mother's back. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Yeah, a boy says as he gives Josh a shove. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cold chill went up my spine, so solemnly was the statement made and confirmed by the cluster of huge, muscled boys standing outside my door. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m friendlier with some of the boys, but right now everyone is just trying to avoid Tobias’s attention, and since he’s focused on me, they’re all earnestly avoiding my eyes. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He lifted his eyes from the boy’s face and stared out across the fields still cracking in the wind. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm talking about you. How lucky I am that you're so smart about boys." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“M-my governess,” said the boy, “used to say that nobody is ever given more to shoulder than he or she can bear.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

A boy at school called Ashton had had nits in his hair last term and the matron had made him dip his whole head in turpentine. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He looked over his shoulder at two other similarly dressed boys. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the Outside article, I reported with great certainty that H. mackenzii, the wild sweet pea, killed the boy. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is la llorona, my brothers cried in fear, the old witch who cries along the river banks and seeks the blood of boys and men to drink! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the smallest boys, unless fruit claimed them, brought little pieces of wood and threw them in. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He’s with a red-haired human boy about my age, which makes me pause to study them. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And I told him about the boy who makes mix tapes hitting my sister because my sister only told me not to tell mom or dad about it, so I figured I could tell Bill. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s no danger,” the boy said, when they had moved on past the encampment. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The teacher, who had already told me every day how to read “I” and “here,” put me in the low corner under the stairs again, where the noisy boys usually sat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And so Shawn would list my studio, the Robert Poppins School of Performing Arts, under that column on the application. Shawn, tell this boy how many pirouette turns you can do.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Dulcet blushed, and boy, when these people blushed, they really blushed! Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the boys rushed toward us, I threw the grenade among them, but the explosion was delayed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He sat with his arm around the boy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Stephen Carey told you and your father you couldn’t be an altar boy and closed the door in your face. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The mouth organ man said, “I suppose you boys are going out on that train tomorrow?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

As the other boys laughed, Fadi joined in, a feeling of elation intoxicating him. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He took off his hat and put it on Vonetta’s head, and boy, did she like that. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He and Father talked about man things.The doctor was surprised about the Jimmy Crow boys being in our village. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On November 10, 1966, Deborah gave birth to Alfred Jr., who she named after his father, Alfred “Cheetah” Carter, the boy Galen had once been jealous of. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He put the piece of stationery back in the box, then got up and followed the boys out to the tables. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Happened to you, country boy?” the boy in the desk behind me asks. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t exactly talk to boys on a regular basis. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I would never get a boy to look at me if they did that. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A teenage boy was leaning out from one of the trees, arm outstretched. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

A boy wearing a panda hat and a Giants jersey, two girls with cat-ear headbands and their faces painted with whiskers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He made coffee, grits, bacon, and fried the turtle eggs as he and the white boy watched the turtle cover her eggs, camouflage her tracks, and plunge back into the sea. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought too of my friend Fred, and the boy who had been hanged for trying to escape, and the man who had fought back, and all the other people I had watched die. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wiped a tear away, walked over to the chair, and took the boy in his arms. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The boy was going into a real battle. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Gared had spent forty years in the Night's Watch, man and boy, and he was not accustomed to being made light of. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

All of the boys had bad skin, but this one took the prize. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas reached out and shook the boy’s hand—he seemed a lot nicer than Alby. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A woman walked briskly up to him and thrust her baby boy into his arms. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A boy, Lourdes recalls, a boy in a soft clot of blood at her feet. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kulang became a butterfly and settled for a moment on her cheek, but left it to flutter around the other dæmon, who sat still on the boy’s hand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sergio tried to figure out what the boy was talking about, but didn’t see anything. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“For the boy it’s a demon,” Kvothe said, “because that’s the easiest thing for him to understand, and it’s close enough to the truth.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I had the wind of a deer, the muscles of a country boy, a heart full of dog love, and a strong determination. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will recall that, when you were a little boy, I once told you that the hardest choices often required the strongest minds.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The boy with the deep speaking voice actually sings like a girl. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

"Maybe someone else could tell something. Perhaps about one of the boys?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

His teachers say he’s very intelligent but maladjusted, that he cries every night and disturbs the other boys’ sleep. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another fact: The boy was the focus of my travels—perhaps the cause of them. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You can come out now,” the boy said. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guy took the book from the boy’s hand and flipped through the pages quickly. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He was absorbed in a football match involving some younger boys over in the next field and at this stage his mood seemed just fine, tranquil even. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the hours not devoted to cooking, cleaning, love-making, rope skipping and trying to get into the baseball game with the boys, Sissy made plans for the coming baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think it will be you, do you, the boy who has survived by accident, and because Dumbledore was pulling the strings?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The boys’ voices carried the melody up and down, simply but with the richness that is in no other singing. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy wiggles his finger and Carmine buries his head in my lap. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was brown, like the boys, wore dark goggles cinched tight through a mane of coiled dreadlocks that whipped about as he got his bearings. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Da-A-Fu said, and the boy swung up his arm in excitement. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They decided to go down by the river where the boys sometimes swam. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom said that there are four kids, and the three boys are going to share the other room, but the girl gets her own. I wish we could paint it turquoise.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Ah, yes,” he said, mounting the steps, “they all seem like real nice boys when they pay their rent.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

No use—the kick hits the Candor boy in the side, and he groans, twisting away from it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But, since the boy hadn’t passed by, they had decided to move on, thinking that he had changed his route. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was determined to find the running boy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I thought maybe she’d notice that I’d been lifting weights over the summer, that I was taller, that I really wasn’t a little boy. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All of us rocket boys would go to college, something not likely in pre-Sputnik West Virginia. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He held the boy shivering against him and counted each frail breath in the blackness. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of boys saying the rosary for you and offering up their communion. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

After a while the boy sauntered down the hill again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy was only a few years older than I was. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako slid it open, and there was a little boy who looked about four. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The boys don’t seem to resent this habit of hers; they take it as a mark of distinction to get hit. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boys made faces and the girls exchanged glances. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The other three children missed the two boys badly. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Back in America, a seventeen-year-old boy told his friends that the flight had inspired him to put all his efforts into accomplishing something similar. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They were all honking their horns and yelling, and one boy even waved at my sister. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, all of the other boys had gotten off without punishment. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

According to the sign, this boy stopped growing at the age of five, but he went on to live to the age of eighty-nine. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He continued to remain oddly silent about his own boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Leave that boy alone, Brooke,” Grandma said, slapping the old man on the shoulder, setting a plate full of breakfast food in front of him. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The boys got locked in a boxcar so hot that they were soon frantic to escape. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Pop stands, shouting, “A grown man. Two grown men. You. Your partner, Officer Whitter. Armed. Threatened by a boy?” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Especially after telling you she’s into a boy—your boy, as a matter of fact. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Why did I kind of like that boy? Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A fish jumping out of water was confronted by a famished boy with a hands-on, no-holds- barred approach to capturing it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was not gone long but he felt a strange unease and when he got back the boy was standing on the beach wrapped in his blankets waiting for him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Why not? I need both you boys,” Grandma said. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Lawrence had been talent-spotted by Time-, his elevation to the magazine’s cover boy as the symbol of modern American science would soon follow. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then the boys began to unload the dozens of milk cans they had brought along. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Next thing they were up in musty blackness, swinging silver hatchets at doors that were, after all, unlocked, tumbling through like boys all rollick and shout. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

My boys didn’t care to die, that’s all, and when I told them that you couldn’t unleash them dragons against the Yunkishmen, well...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The boys quickly found that they had just landed smack-dab in the heart of hog heaven. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The film’s narrator reminded every boy—from Ellis Carter to the Jameses, the Anthonys, and every other pants wearer—that they too could grow up to be guardians of our community. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the butchers boy, Mycah, his body covered in dried blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“So you want to put up an ad to find the post office boy.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Charlie backs away from the boys laughing in the hallway, drops the bundle. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because she had suspicions the two strange Durmstrang boys she met before the first task were somehow involved in the disappearance of Cedric’s wand. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Trainer Woody Stephens, who began his racing career as a bug boy in the late 1920s, always felt he got lucky in this respect. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw me looking at it, and she said, “You could drink without hurt all the strong beer that’s brewed there now, boy.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ginger hair sprouted on his cheeks, too, sparse as a boy's first beard but not long enough to hide three long, pale scars. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The standing people shrank away from the pushing boys, giving them a space to work. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

By this time, the lanky boy had walked past me, swiveled, and returned. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

After Gilly, he had no patience for the fat boy’s fears. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I started the day as a boy with a right leg and deformed foot, no nose, and eyes at the sides of my head. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The wind drove me into a side street where a group of boys had set a packing box afire. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the boy stood at his window and watched Julius and the other men. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

As I drifted back to sleep I wondered what a little white boy would think if he knew he was getting stepped on every day by my sister. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry was a bit of a leader this afternoon, because the other two were Percival and Johnny, the smallest boys on the island. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was a boy of perhaps six years, sturdy and fair, his clothes torn, his face covered with a sticky mess of fruit. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Basil ignored my reaction, one that he was probably used to getting in McDowell County, and told me he was going to make me and the other rocket boys famous. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I said: ‘You ought not to be fighting, old boy. I can see that what you need is a good sleep and something to eat.’ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The running boy was way ahead of him, but Roy figured he could stay close enough to keep him in sight. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy lifts one foot and steps back. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Dear boy!” he said, putting his arm on my shoulder, as he took his seat. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pendanski filled each boy's canteen, until Stanley was the only one left. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

"Put it down, boy! I've enough of a score to settle with you as it is!" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger continued to hold the sword at the boy’s forehead. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started to call to the boy where he trudged ahead and then he looked about at the gray country and the gray sky and he dropped the coin and hurried on to catch up. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Amos raised his arm, but just as he was getting ready to throw Edward, Abilene tackled him, shoving her head into his stomach, and upsetting the boy’s aim. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

There were boys from Illinois at Wilson’s Creek, and the war for many people in Jasper County had suddenly become a sorrowful reality. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if already, right now, she was in the family way and it was a boy, she was likely to get more out of Grandpa than Mama could stand—and heir more, too. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He’d given me straightforward directions that he simply hadn’t had time to explain: “The Old Man,” I realized, was what the locals called the bog boy, and his grave was the cairn. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

That was altogether too much from a lad younger than herself, and Meg walked away, saying petulantly, “You are the rudest boy I ever saw.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hinkley smoothed his mustache as a new group of boys crowded around the stand. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He'd been dreaming happily of his ragged but carefree life before he'd been plucked from the streets and sewers of the city to serve as royal whipping boy. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Fifteen yards from the drove Jack stopped, and his arm, straightening, pointed at the sow. he looked round in inquiry to make sure that everyone understood and the other boys nodded at him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There were four pairs of boy and girl twins, each made of one of the sacred stones: white shell, abalone, turquoise, and jet stone. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He knew him, of course, since they had always been groupmates, but they had never talked about the boys accomplishments because such a conversation would have been awkward for Benjamin. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“A boy. He’s long and wide and dark.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The movement of the boy pup shook me from my trance. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who’s got a match?” he demands and the boy with the square forehead offers him a flame from a red plastic lighter. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They also skated over the accusations of bullying in the report — “He’s a boisterous little boy, but he wouldn’t hurt a fly!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was the stereotypical green-eyed pretty boy with parents who spoiled him, so he had fly clothes and tattoos. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Is that boy still nasty as a pygmy rattler?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The chase begins, squirrel and dog and boy. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As they approached the fence surrounding the field where the large wicker basket and deflated balloon rested on the ground, Guy let go of the hands of both his wife and the boy. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Anatole immediately settled down to driving us anxiously through the dark while I curled around our suckling boy in the backseat, alarmed to see he wasn’t even that—he couldn’t nurse. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of the contestants appeared to be grim and nervous, stiff as manikins, except for Susan, who was bending the ear of the boy sitting next to her. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Ye’ll not say that word in our town, boy,” he says. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to stay in this place where Mrs. O’Connor can’t take the sixpence herself instead of letting me nearly lose my hand in the black boy’s mouth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now the boys were begging me for the raisin and offering me everything, a slug of their milk, a pencil, a comic book. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In those days, far south in Calormen on a little creek of the sea, there lived a poor fisherman called Arsheesh, and with him there lived a boy who called him Father. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

There will never be anything but cold and fear and the agonized sounds of the boy dying in the horn. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

From a pocket of his torn jeans the boy produced a crumpled piece of paper. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red-haired boy laughed and led me into one of the rooms. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, in those last few days, the boys—each in his own way—centered and calmed themselves. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I was a little worried when this boy didn’t know the proverbs, but it’s clear the ancestors have sent him. I vote he stays.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They made the boy continue digging, but he found nothing. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that everyone in the camp would find out within minutes, including the boys—mortifying. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The boy on my front, my pack on my back, we pushed our way through the sea of people toward the stairs. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I looked at the mouth of the boy Jody had wanted me to meet. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He must have somehow put it all together: the epileptic boy with the two-colored eyes and the Lazarus Door mark along his spine. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It’s as though the image of the first baby Vincent emerges from under Vincent's, a pentimento uncovered, and in their parents’ eyes the portrait of that hoped-for “good boy” melds with Theo's. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“That’s strange,” said the boy, as he tried once again to read the burial scene that began the book. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether to her or to the boy, Catelyn was not sure. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I stepped back, out of Fang's reach, air rushed into my lungs, pushing him out, he was back outside, just a desperate boy, no, two desperate boys, standing at the bottom of a towering rock. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He motioned to the two identical boys, who grinned in unison. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The boy preserved worldly truism and matter-of-fact observations about the weather with equal zeal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I loved to run, to jump, to test my strength and speed against other boys. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She was startled, most of all, by the teenage boy in a baseball cap standing near a brick wall, face down, body leaning forward, hands between his legs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“He calls the knaves Jacks, this boy!” said Estella with disdain, before our first game was out. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Moss returned, Melissa told her that we had gone over to the boys’ side and blurted, “Ashley wouldn’t listen to me.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“You boys going to the Brassiere?” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He squinted between the partition’s wooden panels, curious, and noted that two people had just stopped mere feet away on its opposite side, a boy and a girl. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

All the boys and girls watch and they have little smiles. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I shook Pedrito awake and flew out of that bed terrified that something had happened to my boy. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd looked for a few of the friends he'd played with as a boy, but they were gone, dead, or grown into strangers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The little boys actually managed to sleep at midday, sometimes even piled atop one another like damp, steaming puppies. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Genes embedded so deep they control our eye muscles, so that two sisters have that same way of blinking, and boy twins dribble in unison. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The elevator comes, and we get on, the boy bumping into the walls because he’s dizzy from the spinning. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Her duster and hat and veil lay on a chair beside her, and she seemed to the boys to be clad entirely in black silk and lace. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, maybe I was actually fated to meet the boy from the post office. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

So they sent him one—a twelve-year-old boy who was accompanied by his widowed mother. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are also two boys and a teacher in the classroom. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“And don’t give a second thought to that boy,” he went on. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I was distracted by the humming of a boy named Lansana. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The tube, called IV, and other supplies for Djo were sent by missionaries after they read in the paper what had happened to Djo and the other boys. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy’s eyes sought out the direction from which the orderly’s voice had come. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The little Japanese boy was smiling in the L.A. depot; darkness came like night fog and someone was bending over a small body. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The white boy’s mother nodded at my mom and said, “That’s right, Mary.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Randolph reached out and felt for the boy’s head and patted it. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I thought of the stones in my pocket; they’d worked against wolves and boys, but they’d be worthless against wild horses. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

At that moment, I realised that I was not a little boy any longer. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She ran with her baby alongside it, but the other boy had gotten up and found her. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You boys have it too easy here. America make you soft.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A boy next door called Rupert Entwistle had told her that if you chopped off a newt's tail, the tail stayed alive and grew into another newt ten times bigger than the first one. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They were given to me as a present by a king,” the boy said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I did not ask for your views, boy," Rykker said coldly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Again the boy behind Reynie snickered, this time muttering: “What makes him so sure he’ll be taking that test? She hasn’t even called the names yet!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like a lot of boys I knew, I often wished that some of Cade Hernandez’s wrong magic would rub off on me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

By habit, Dedd swept her eyes across the room looking for the boys. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His slightly bulging eyes were damp as he stared past Cal, and the boy asked, “What’s the matter, Mr. Hamilton? Don’t you feel well?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What was written on the Emerald Tablet?” the boy wanted to know. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the dog a boy about fifteen or sixteen came with an armload of firewood. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It said the police believe two boys sawed on the rung of that ladder. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“The boy is eleven and already you want him to throw fights?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Lord Bronn would sound better. I could grab the boy for you just as well. I'll dandle him on my knee and sing him nursery songs if there's a lordship in it." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They would wear all white for the month after returning, symbolizing that a boy had left but a man had returned. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I looked up to see a boy in a Texas Rangers hat watching me from across the street. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

To the men beside him he said, “Reek has been with me since I was a boy. My lord father gave him to me as a token of his love.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She dropped the skillet and its contents directly onto the boy’s neck and chest. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I remembered Dante running after two boys who were shooting at a bird. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He tells her he did not become headmaster of Leamy’s National School to preside over an academy of messenger boys. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The sixteen-year-old boy who won the second Quarter Quell must have had people he loved — family, friends, a sweetheart maybe—that he fought to get back to. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The three-week training courses were intense, and some boys hated them. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a full moon, and the boy told the Englishman the story of his life. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His Aunt Florence looked up, and said: “We been wondering where you was, boy. This bad brother of yours done gone out and got hisself hurt.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Aguita boys, three of them, nearly clawed each other to death over Olive Hamilton. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I can’t help asking, “Doing what in the boys’ room?” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Every morning the Keepers lined up the boys and raised a flag with the emblem of a beehive over the factory. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd seen the pictures and words and all he ever said was, Boys will be boys. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

But the boy keeps at it, suggesting his involvement in theater will, or already has, made him gay. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

For a bowl of food with a tiny bit of meat, he would pretend to go into a trance and find lost objects and catch boys who had stolen things. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl had the day off, and as usual on a Sunday afternoon, Jaimito had gone to the big gallera in San Francisco, this time taking all three boys. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the humming heat of a midsummer afternoon the little boy Jody listlessly looked about the ranch for something to do. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or a little boy who has to pick through the rubbish heap to earn money for his family. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

You could say those boys danced over a grave. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“All those women in bikinis strutting around Cape Canaveral, and there’s old Wernher and his boys with their big rockets sticking up in the air. How do you feel when our rockets work?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The young boy’s bare skin shone pale in the moonlight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One of them began to swing wildly at the colonel, who stepped back and aimed a kick that landed solidly in the boy’s scrotum. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otto—a boy who’d faced monsters and ghosts, and who now lived in a frozen eternal day—understood there was Logan County strange, and then there was too strange. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He is a country boy not used to the city temptations, and I do not want him getting mixed up with the wrong people. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it troubled me that a small boy would be forced out of school by a bunch of bullies. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

My sense of belonging in this ceremonial Church was dearest when I turned twelve and became an altar boy. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. You guys have been two peas in a pod for so long. Maybe Jack decided he needs to have some friends who are boys. It’s natural for someone Jack’s age.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The American boys would have a day off. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The next day she was quiet as well, and she never shouted at the boy again. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

"It is no good saying Whoa, old boy. The thing will whoa when it wants to. It is a magic *un." The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy screamed, fell to the floor, his body already convulsing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Dylan drifts closer, but the boy says, without even turning around, “Lay a finger on that curtain and you’re disqualified.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But the colored boy in the black suit driving the wagon and his queer smile discomfited strangers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The first two boys to face the varsity players were both overcautious, spareboned, young, and fearful of sudden error and humiliation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A boy sits with his back to me—but I'm sure he's smiling too. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

One bear boy broke away, again tried to get near The other longingly at her, the big bear abruptly nosed down the trail. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“That’s what you don’t get. The boy didn’t wanna learn how to shoot. He was scared. You knew it. I knew it. Hell, even Crab knew it.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I think we’ve proved that the old man couldn’t have heard the boy say, “I’m going to kill you,” but supposing— 10TH JUROR: You didn’t prove it at all. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some boys found clever ways to get enough to eat. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no boys his age whom he could befriend in the camp. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His low whistle betrays disappointment at what he finds—or fails to find—between the boy’s ears. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He told the boys to start packing their things and to pack as if they were going to Berlin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Everyone else seems to know when the khaki pants the boys need are on sale at JCPenney,” she said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Whatever s in that bag must really be important,” Diana said quietly as the boys circled the air conditioner, discussing their options. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He’d been having a kickabout earlier with two other boys, but now he was alone, juggling the ball about in the air. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Evan was the yardstick for what made a “man,” then she’d rather just meet boys the rest of her life. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When Will was a growing boy, his father had not been long enough in the Salinas Valley to be thought of as an “old- timer.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh no, it was great. There were lots of kids from school and, ooh, so many good-looking boys! You have to come with me. We’ll pick out a really nice outfit for you to wear.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Thereafter never a week went by but she brought news of this boy or that, and she and I and Nathan spent long hours trying to assess their relative merits. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I’m going to be the flower boy at your wedding, right?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Within minutes the girls were playing house with Delsa and Norma, while I chased the boys up and down the alley, getting good and dirty. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She reaches into her bag and hands the boy something that looks like a TV remote. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Images of the boys at home, watching television too late, popped into his mind. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Bobby Moch set the varsity boys to rowing at a leisurely twenty-two or twenty-three. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then he turned back to look at his boy. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But none of the boys asked her to prom or dance, she just stood by the punch bowl until all the refreshments were gone and then went home. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was a proud boy as I walked along in the twilight of the evening. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sefia unhooked her pack as quietly as she could, but at the slight noise the boy opened his eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He and another bigger boy I hadn’t yet met whose bunk was close to mine, had to help me get back to the dormitory because I could not walk without falling. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m already taller than the boys’ basketball coach.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Once, I saw a boy stagger after him, but the piper was going too fast. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The very last thing I do in this building is kiss a boy—the boy who moved in across the street and changed everything. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The explosion that killed my father took out her husband as well, leaving her with three boys and a baby due any day. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And now the boys are all in this war. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” is all I say, knowing that I would make myself into a soft cushion for my dear sister to fall onto if that boy Ainsley pushes her too hard. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In her heart, she didn’t trust the boy. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need to think,” the boy said. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were also the boys who needed the Fugees the most. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Please excuse me, Signora Hartlieb,” said Ida, “but this boy has only come to us recently and he is having a lot of trouble with the other children. So they teased you again, Ernesto?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

That boy stuck his hand out and say, “Glad to make your acquaintance, Biddy.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This wind never ceased to blow on them and against them, so that the two boys cried of its cold. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t ever a discipline problem, but I wasn't a shy girl either—except when I liked a boy. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As he strapped his shoes to the footboard and began to lace his feet into the shoes, Stub McMillin, his face alight, said, “OK, this boat is going to fly now, boys.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

One small boy who had blown up a Russian tank collapsed from exhaustion after receiving his medal. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wes noticed one of his boys leaning out of a window along with dozens of other people, who were now curiously watching. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The boys kept walking, Minho almost looking happy but something was nagging at Thomas. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Behind us came the sound of screams, laughter; ahead the footfalls of the running boys, distant fire trucks, shooting, and in the quiet intervals, the steady filtering of shattered glass. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You should’ve just told me the truth,” Cabot said, slowly approaching the boy. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

By the time that the snake had eaten all the things that the boy dropped from the calabash, they were just outside the village fence. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Just as I opened the door from the boys floor, I stumbled onto Mr. Farrow and that freakishly unhot witch from downstairs, Mrs. Singer. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

An obnoxious group of well-manicured people—a white girl and boy, and an Indian boy—were already trying to take pictures of one another. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He waved his baton to the right for the man, and to the left for the woman and the little boy. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I rounded the corner, I nearly tripped over a boy sitting on the sidewalk up against the wall. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The boy on the cot jerked against his ropes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were black people and they were a man and a lady with two children, a boy and a girl. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She then explained about all the things you have to go through to prove it, especially in high school when the boy and girl are popular and still in love. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

His daughter, Jean, sold flower bouquets and loaves of fresh-baked bread in her marketplace stall while she flirted, laughing, with the gangly, self-conscious boys who stopped by. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was the uniform all the boys wore in the factory. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Craig. This boy, your son,” he turns to my parents, “he has helped me.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The boys had caught their breaths, and they were talking softly, not joking for a change, not horsing around, just talking quietly about the lights and what lay before them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Darkness began to fall, but at last the boys arrived. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The boys cut through the thick elephant skin to rescue their small brother. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Lacking a coach’s launch, he ran up and down the shores of Lake Washington, yelling at his boys through his megaphone, freely mixing baseball slang with rowing terminology and a wide variety of exuberant profanity. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And if, as a boy, Hagrid had heard that a monster was hidden somewhere in the castle, Harry was sure he’d have gone to any lengths for a glimpse of it. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Father, on learning that we would miss our lessons, said, “A good thing, too. A boy needs piano like a snake needs a hoop-skirt.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was high time to get rid of the boy, but how? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I go overseas for twelve months and I come back to my boys all talking like grits.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy himself came forward, vaulted on to the platform with his cloak flying, and peered into what to him was almost complete darkness. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Jonathan got himself a job on a ship, as a cabin boy. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

It is better not to cry because you have to stick with the boys in the school and you never want to give the masters any satisfaction. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Dad pulled two ice scrapers out of his pocket and said, “O.K., boys, let’s get out there and knock those windows out.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped she would not ask me to clean herel To make things worse, as Sister Claire explained to me, Father Aristide collected boys who lived on the street—those who beg, wash windows, steal. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in his hurry, the boy sent the rest of the sweets rolling off the table, onto the ground. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He leaned on Cooter’s fence and called, “Evening, boys.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

We took our normal path to school, but before we even got to the front gate, a group of boys called to Jay. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the morning a boy came into the room and gave Mr. Aumack, my homeroom teacher, a note. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll finish here. You boys better go back to the house and get washed up. Jack, tell Mom I’ll be a few minutes.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Thomas almost laughed as Newt turned to an older boy standing nearby, whose face had turned bright red. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Of course, I did not stop to listen, but I could not avoid hearing his lordship shouting: 'But that's not your business, my boy! The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I know those boys told that I ask them to do me. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Listen to me. There’s no better opportunity for a black boy in this country than to join the army.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I was just a boy; I had no connections; I had no skills. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I noticed that the man occasionally directed the boy to fetch things for him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The other boys looked at one another and shrugged. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It looked eerily similar in design to the boys’ locker room at Burnt Mill Creek High School, except this one was just a little more battered and abused. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

At the beach Mrs. Moss gave Toby and Mitchell, another of the foster boys, an inflatable shark. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“You good to run?” one of the boys asked me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I tracked where his skullcap had pointed, and I saw those same two older boys that had been following me on Christmas Eve. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s rude to point,” Ron snapped at a particularly minuscule first-year boy as they joined the queue to climb out of the portrait hole. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I win!” the boy shouted, plowing into her and hugging her around the waist. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boy sat on the stool, with his back resting on the side of the stand, and Chester gave him a private recital. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lefty Lewis said, “Why, thank you, Officer, I always thought the boy was unusually handsome.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Round with awe his eyes shone, like those of a little boy; he looks, she thought, as if he has been playing and now it’s time to give up and come home. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Buckminster and Mrs. Hurd would try to keep them talking through the meal but would finally give up when the boys’ yawns got longer than their sentences. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The dogs only fell silent once the boys had turned off the boat lights. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

A wave of relief washed over him, and the alchemist muttered some words that the boy didn’t understand. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we happened upon a group of boys playing music. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care what all the kids do. I don’t want you in there. I’ve seen those boys hanging around there, and they’ve only got one thing on their minds.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

There, most boys grew up to be shipbuilders or fishermen. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He kept his back to me and said, “Little Charlie, boy, is that you?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Stick picked it up and tossed it back to a small boy with two missing front teeth. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But like a swirl of dust on the dry salt flats outside, a stream of boys moved to cut off the exit. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The redheaded boy lived in my father’s neighborhood. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys tried not to look at the faces. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ear folded his ears as a small boy began to throw a temper tantrum by the candy machine. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

As a boy, he’d been used to people giving Baba this kind of attention when they saw him in uniform, but with Kamau it was harder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Until a football boy stifled a groan, the silence was utter. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The two boys were in the old man’s room and in the third room O-lan gave birth alone. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When you ride into a lane the children call out, Here’s the telegram boy, here’s the telegram boy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I nodded, and he pointed to the open metal box that all the boys now stood in. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Glover drew a dagger from his belt and gave it to the boy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The boys look down at their food in silence while Bastian walks the rows, trailing a single index finger across their backs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I refer to the plan Lord Voldemort is revolving around me. His plan to have the poor Malfoy boy murder me.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“So a teenage boy was with your teenage daughter?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But I wouldn’t be a Prentisstown boy if I couldn’t ignore Noise. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I was seventeen, in a red jeep, and a boy I loved had just touched my hand. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It showed a boy, hair flopping in his eyes and bulging muscles ripping his shirt sleeves—Dimple snorted—handing a fierce-looking girl a paper flower. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Five bus-loads of boys and girls, singing or in a silent embracement, rolled past them over the vitrified highway. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he laughed like that was so funny, and so did all the boys next to him, and practically the whole other side of the lunch table. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

In a windowless room draped in black and crimson, Matthias listened silently to the strange words coming out of the pale, freakish boy’s mouth. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the past I had taken punishment that was not mine to protect the solidarity of the gang, and I had seen other boys do the same. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hopped the fence last night. Then I hid under the backhoe,” the boy said. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After-school clubs for boys and girls invited them in, away from the streets, providing a place to build friendships and stay away from the Riffraff. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Just like I had managed to stay neutral in a war among the boys, I wanted to stay neutral in what might have turned into a war among the girls. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Thialfi was not certain that the boy had been there before he had been called. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It sounded deeper, more like a man’s voice than a boy’s. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Raji,” she called to the boy, “have you brought me another? There is no room! Never mind, we will manage. What is your name, girl?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Making big money in the Dominican cane fields, a boy could not fall into debt. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the boys stood with lowered heads, trembling. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another boy breezes in and comments on Volpe’s attire, a frequent topic of conversation, and what looks to him like peace signs on Volpe’s belt. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Dude is tripping! No more bud for you, yo!” one of the boys said. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He crossed the room and put his hand on the boy's brow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He sauntered off like those American teenage boys, his little sister chasing after him. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As we grew older, we organized matches against boys from neighboring villages, and those who distinguished themselves in these fraternal battles were gready admired, as generals who achieve great victories in war are justly celebrated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bigger boy stomped off down the path, and Bod watched him go, ear hurting, eyes stinging. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Somewhere ahead there was a boy who had been her best friend. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“And that, my friend, is why I’m not going to dress differently. Eighth grade boys think they’re so cool. A dance sounds like torture.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Matt, who had joined the boys to watch, asked, “How’s the little fellow going to back up?” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The boys caught five small fish, which they killed and then left lying in the water, so they’d be fresh for breakfast. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you tell us about the tennis game against the boys from Wallace?” he asked. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The word deodorant was not yet understood by over half of the boys. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I heard the sound of running water and thought that the men were going to let the boys bathe or something. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see you’re quite tongue-tied by the honor. That’s right, George, you boys shall personally preside over the completion of my project. If all goes well, that is.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I must have gone out with a different boy for every week in the year. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

And now the boy is turning to me. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, black boys weren’t supposed to dance with white girls. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Turn it up a bit, Bobby boy. Can’t hear it too good.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Well, good. I don’t mind if you thought I was a boy.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I learned how to smile at a boy so he would buy two chocolates instead of one, and to smile even prettier when he put the second chocolate into my hand. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

That’s what the consumption does to you, say the boys at the post office. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But there was a Germany the boys could not see, a Germany that was hidden from them, either by design or by time. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It had not yet been turned over to Indians and small boys. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” Julia said with a tone that implied she understood perfectly well that sometimes boys just hated each other for insignificant reasons. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The boys hustling bait in the shallows scooted back, calling out, “Cottonmouth!” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were two hundred boys in the dormitory. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four original Egyptians were especially thrilled and amazed about the stuff the boys brought for Set. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She say she too busy trying to get her boys into college next year. “Any other maids that go to your church? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Jobs like mine were usually taken by boys with some physical disability, since everyone had to take part in sports and this was all disabled boys could do. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piggy and Simon followed him and the other boys came sneaking after. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The boys in gold—the team from Warner Robins, Georgia, who would advance if the Fugees lost their lead—pleaded with the Fire to score one more. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I looked over at the picnic table and saw Frankie sitting with a few other boys. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She was pressing so hard she was afraid she might strangle the boy, but the blood was coming up too fast. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The peanut bag was rattling against the round board as a skinny white boy with hunched shoulders beat it into a brown blur. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

What were they to him, Silvertongue and his daughter, the boy, the bookworm, and the woman who was another man’s wife once more? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Luke could tell the boys weren’t sure if they were supposed to be happy or not. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Once I heard her mother talking to my babysitter about something bad that had happened in their old neighborhood, something with a boy. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

There was a big boy Dicey knew in Provincetown who ran away from home and he just kept on coming to school and nobody knew, not for months. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles fought any boy who challenged or slurred Adam and usually won. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

What has changed since the time of the Greeks, boys? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Angel and Jose, the Puerto Rican boys, cackled like hens when the medicine ball knocked him over like a tenpin. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys let their eyes shift vagrantly over to Bernabe, and they gave him a cluster of cool, sleepy-eyed glances that almost made him shiver. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are continually praying in church for your safety and for our other Navajo boys over there. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hi, David!” the boy repeated, in the same exact tone. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If he took night classes, he said, when would he ever see his little boy? Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I got it dug by paying a whole troop of local boys for each and every basket of earth they moved. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy’s body, in recent months, has grown tall, nearly as tall as Ashoke’s. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on, Henry, lay off the boy. Hardly big enough to shoulder the recoil anyhow.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas watched as Newt chewed his fingernails, something he hadn’t seen the older boy do before. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The boy took the balls with a cautious smile. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The whole morning, I watched the basketball boys out of the corner of my eye. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Old Sally kept saying, "I know that boy from somewhere." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He snapped his fingers again and the boy’s eyes came open and were staring di-rect at the conjurer! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The boys looked at it briefly, quickly lost interest in it and started up a four-man baseball game of their own devising. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a good boy, but he liked to gamble and drink and run his mouth—just like his daddy. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

See Miss Leeila combing the knots out of her girls’ hair and blowing kisses to her boys. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

When the other children got wise to Ruth May’s bossy ways and drifted off, one boy stayed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The teacher lost control of her class and the girls and boys ran to the windows. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The team of five boys and five girls was housed in various homes throughout the township: there wasn’t enough sponsorship money to pay for hotel accommodations. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A bad un, I’ll be bound,” said Mrs. Joe triumphantly, “or he wouldn’t have given it to the boy! Let’s look at it.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The boy went to the edge of the roof and looked over again. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You wicked, wicked boy! Oh, I declare, you are going to bring disgrace on us all.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some days, Tony would have Wes and Woody meet him at the Murphy Homes, where he would assemble a group of Murphy Homes boys. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Johnson wasn’t sure he wanted to take the time to analyze this boy’s blood serum, if, in all probability, nothing would be found in it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, and a demon who can only be nourished by the pancreases of young boys could also be there,” he said. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The little girl ran past giggling, followed by a boy of similar age. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As she wrapped her arms around my waist, the boys began to pool together what was left of the food in Betty. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“We will teach the boy English,” Reverend Hunts says, “and then I will tell him the good news of Christ, and he will bring that message to his people.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When they picked him out of my arms to look him over, my boy howled. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The class initially consisted of fourteen girls and eleven boys, a small class for the time. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Hollis climbed into the back with Sonny and a younger boy Alfred had seen around the neighborhood. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he got outside, the boy did not go to the woodpile. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with you and Kutti and the boys close at hand—and the waste mart man far away—it felt silly to worry. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You boys want some breakfast? How about some waffles?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She could hold her own even against a group of stupid high school boys. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was a grown man venting his rage on a twelve-year-old boy. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was real in both the boys and the girls, but it was, somehow, more vivid in the boys. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The boy picked up his hat and wiped the blood from his nose. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But he knew how annoying it must be for the elder boy to be continually subjected to advice, and so he held his peace. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow Osha and the wretched boys were eluding him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A few days before Christmas the man from whom his grandfather rented the farm “turned us off the place,” the boy continued. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy with the burnished hair smacked his comrade’s hand away. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

People said that boy w as always kind of wild. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you two boys doing here?” he said. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The boy stood in front of the shop door for a moment, looked around with a face that gave nothing away, and then kneeled down to tie his shoelaces. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a real treasure for a country boy. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet that’s the worst stink in the world,” bragged another boy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Belén tries to get me to talk to boys from her school, but I’m never interested in any of them. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The boy let out a small coo as he awoke, reaching for Taisin’s hand. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They bought a cantaloupe from a boy at a roadside stand. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the monks knelt beside the boy, who still clutched the sticky cake in his hand. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

"Well, boys, we’ve just been scooped," he told his colleagues as he hung up the phone. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The boy next to me was called Dobson. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wave of restlessness set the boys swaying and moving aimlessly. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The boy ran for his blanket, stopping to pick up the torn fabric from his pants, and brought it to her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Calvin seemed to be the most congenial of them, and followed the introductions with a command to King Walker to “get this city boy some shoes for his feet.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next contestant is a tiny boy, hardly seven or eight years old, with a neat bow tie and hair that hangs over his eyes. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“You must see that! Julian’s had nightmares because of that boy. Did you know that? Julian has anxiety issues.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Her late-afternoon walks had not concealed her meetings with a boy her mother had long had intuition of. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A soldier pointed to several boys, and, speaking perfect German, he ordered them to open the freight car doors. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The stones had done what he had hoped they would do and his voice was now as soft as the boy’s. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Sure,” Stella said, shrugging, still trying to feel as if sitting outside with a boy at three in the morning was a perfectly normal thing to be doing. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m the fat outcast. You’re the new hot boy being eyed by Rachel Caldwell.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“She raised the boys on her own. Prosper has just turned twelve, and Bo is five.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

His black eyes stared at Elinor as she bent over the boy to adjust his bandage. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

All her life, her crushes had been from afar; she’d never had the courage to speak to any of the boys who caught her fancy. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Only the boys remained in the bank conference room, and Felix sat frozen in his chair. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sign startled the boy, and as he stared at it, his attention was drawn to an open window on the ground level. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He swings his sword at the boys, slicing the air. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

No obviously bad effects were noticed from these ill-advised unions, but one or two old maids or gardener boys marked a weakening of faculties and a disposition toward eccentricity in some of the children. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d kissed boys before, and usually by the next day the kiss had evaporated like a dewdrop in the sun. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, boy, you can quit going on about it.You sold me. But... what’s your point?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Instead of all this talk, let’s settle it on the court. Your boys against mine.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Had she been a boy this day would be one to celebrate. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Howard had not obeyed, and when Holmes came for him, the boy was nowhere to be found. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Amari learned quite a bit of English from the boy, who seemed to know intuitively what she needed to know. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Dicey and Maybeth there were dresses, for the boys shirts and trousers. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cleared the crud from his vision just in time to see the boy run off, the rattraps clattering like castanets on the toes of his shoes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy’s dæmon took to the air and fluttered with Kulang among the rainbows, and slowly they began to understand each other. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Roman was there while we were lining up, and he kept telling everyone, “My name is Roman, and my brother is the one that threw the boy out the window.” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys suggested we build a tent around the large grave, using it as the floor of our shelter, because it was raised above the soggy ground. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You boys are not going to let a little thing like the cotton market beat you, are you?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as a boy of seven or eight, I knew why everyone honored Aleer-Manguak in death. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy pulled his knees to his chest and wrapped his arms around them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My father and I looked at each other, then we explained to my mother what the boy had said. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The boys sauntered away, Jinx yelling over his shoulder, “They got toilet paper in Arkansas.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The boy was crying and calling Sounder’s name. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Such a dutiful boy," said Varys, "to make certain His Grace did not lack for refreshment." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Last year, I'd tagged along with Sally, but today she stayed late to watch the boys play football. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moments later the Mysterious Benedict Society stood on the plaza, exactly where the boys had stood that morning when Jackson blindfolded them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Each boy produced a fat peanut that had been marked with charcoal to show the owner. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What is going on here, boys?” she asks, out of breath. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

And the boy, remembering how he was always laughed at for getting to school so late, had agreed. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The big boys are still coming out from the Ellice Islands,” Walter Bennett down the net pointed out. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The challenges the Fugees faced—subpar gear, no cheering section, and the hostility they sometimes felt from opposing teams of American kids who resented the newcomers—only brought the boys closer. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I looked at the boy and saw that he was blind. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure what kind of response her flyers had generated among the boys in the complexes around Clarkston. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

In one picture, the lizard man was standing on a curved bridge, laughing as he watched the little boy falling forward over the bridge rail, his slippered feet already in the air. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a quick tour of the girls’ tent, which was slightly smaller than the boys’, though without the smell of cats, Harry, Ron, and Hermione set off across the campsite with the kettle and saucepans. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The boys on the football team shrugged and grinned. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He did something I never in a million years thought a Dewberry boy would do. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Andrew, my boy,” he said to himself as he looked in the glass, “you’re a devilish well preserved fellow for your age. A distinguished- looking man, sir.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

My parents didn't talk to us in depth about sex, except to tell us that we were too young to be having it and that it was all boys wanted. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“This is the abbey orchard. I used to play here as a boy.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She went for long walks by herself, and it was a rare walk when some boy did not blunder out of a woodlot and come on her by accident. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why,” Adam cried, “these boys are not alike! They don’t look alike.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They do all the inside-the-house chores, while boys do all the outside. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Those boys beat us fair and square. Beat us like we’d never seen a tennis racket before, much less picked one up.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There had been times when his heart spent hours telling of its sadness, and at other times it became so emotional over the desert sunrise that the boy had to hide his tears. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been no sadness for Jethro when only the little boys were there; these three had been imaginary playmates for him when he was younger. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

And let’s face it, most of the white boys ignored me, too. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

One boy sweated in a tank top, his basketball clutched under his arm. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, oh boy, if those fast cheerleaders who teased me for being a preacher’s kid could see me now, practically engaged to an older man! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy jumped, but he did not remove his knife. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Lee Wei has us all lined up on the stage in high heels while Dale, the bouncer/owner, sits at the bar sipping on a tall boy. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Still, kindness like that from a boy is unwanted. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He dropped dead of blood poisoning less than a year ago and the boy was only twelve years old.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy had come from nowhere and been a slew of trouble since. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And,” he added, fatigue and defeat glazing his eyes, “having your boy hang, knowing he will, nothing worse can happen to a man.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the figures were suddenly so big, far too big for a small fat boy, who was clumsy even before his transformation! The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“WeIl, he asked me before I realized what kind of boy he was,” she explained. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As a junior lieutenant I had been in charge of a small unit made up of boys to carry out quick missions. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The boy looked around, wide- eyed and startled, and dropped his stick in the grass. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"But we owe you an explanation, dear boy. You need to know the truth. You're caught in a little drama, and I think you have a part to play. Whether you like it or not." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She hoisted herself up on the table next to me so casually that I had to remind myself that this was no boy made up to resemble a girl, but the actual thing. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I just want to know that when you dream, me and the boy, we’re always in your dreams.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

At this, the two little boys drew nearer to the dog and the rest of the band gathered around. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The father of the boy who had urged me to sell the papers also found out their propagandistic nature and forbade his son to sell them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other boy, who was also a former child soldier, introduced himself. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

With his stride he gave the air of a man even more intense and combative than he had been as a boy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There was an awkward silence until Mom said, “So ... how is it playing against these boys?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Goats and catde cropped the grass, while small boys guarded them with switches. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was crying, only a boy, famous hero or not: a poor miserable virgin. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

For once, that little boy was quiet, as if he could tell I needed his good behavior. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning she was out in the back garden when a boy scrambled up from the garden next door and put his face over the wall. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I give the letter to my grandfather to mail because I don’t really want Mami to know I’m writing to a boy, even if he is my cousin. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

"You and the butcher boy beat him with clubs while you set your wolf on him." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In one, a young boy is cutting down a cluster of palm fruits with a silver cleaver. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Equal rights, a boy named Andrew yells out. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The boy pressed his nose against the window. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boy gazed at him with eyes full of astonishment—eyes that sometimes looked as if they had seen too much already. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You probably always know what to say to the cute boy, don’t you, Aishwarya?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Chase helped Karl settle the horses, then took off with Elmer junior and some of the boys from the Lutheran church to bob for critters at the creek. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

"It's a long time since we had a little boy." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We passed a little boy and his mom doing a sand castle. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’m afraid I’m going to have trouble with that boy, it begins to look like it. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like to ride with ye a piece,” he muttered, and climbed over the wheel and into the seat without raising his eyes to the boy’s face. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Do you have separate dreams for boys and for girls?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the twins was human, a bouncing baby boy; the other was no more than a mouseling. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The rest of that week at school, I kept looking over my shoulder, checking which boys were behind me. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

This will be even better than watching boys or drunken sailors slug it out. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mack and the boys were in the Palace and the door was closed. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started off the “Happy Birthday” song but soon was drowned out by the boys, who screamed it rather than sang. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The boys had brought it up to the apartment for me, and I’d shown it to my parents. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“No, you don’t care. You never cared for nothing, boy.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But who would take care of her boys? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora hadn’t thought of the boy since they stepped underground. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

After I climb down the tree, I conceal the boy's knives and spearheads in a pile of rocks so that no one else can use them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The coverage immediately turned political, but at the heart of the story was this boy’s grief-stricken parents. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

So, in the spirit of three-year-old boys everywhere who’ve run out of better ideas, I decided to punch her. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The remainder sat outside on palm leaves the boys had collected. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them were Union boys, looking at him insensibly as he went by. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Since Lord Renly died, he has been troubled by terrible nightmares," the boy had confided to his father. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Being the only boy among four sisters was not easy, but there was one perk: Oliver was the only one in the family who had a room to himself. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Under-standably the boys of my age and social group were captivated by the yellow- or light-brown-skinned girls, with hairy legs and smooth little lips, and whose hair “hung down like horses’ manes.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, coming through the muddy field, Mrs Helena Kingshaw said, 'Now, when Charles was a very small boy he used to be a little bit frightened. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

A little girl said, “Mama! That boy walked out of the river. “That’s nice, dear,” her mother said, craning her neck to watch the ambulances. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Art tha’ but a shepherd boy, then?” he asked, seeing Robin’s poor clothes. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The delivery boy from the bakery has supplied us with darning thread—90 cents for one measly skein—the milkman can get hold of ration books, an undertaker delivers cheese. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Watch your mouth, boy. I got a clean business.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy’s throat hurt with a great lump, and when he swallowed, it would hurt more. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the boy’s own family is scared to death; sometimes fear of police intimidation makes them hesitate to acknowledge that the boy is a blood relation of theirs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

After the match, the boys took to the field themselves, to receive their medals. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Matt smiled, pleased to be proven right about the big boy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the newsroom boys returned Riddle’s animosity, but the fact that he owned some of the fastest and most noteworthy horses on earth led to a certain uneasy detente. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That wasn't the first time the white men with their long beards and narrowed eyes had come to Rose Hill, taking every Negro boy and girl away to be educated. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But as soon as that bell rang and Bryson left school, he noticed that Slim and some of the other boys were following him down Portal Avenue. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The Washington boys didn’t think much of the class business, though, and they flouted it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The boy places a long cardboard box on the counter before us and starts piling our stuff inside it. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The boy curls his lips and looks at my mother. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The boy tilted his head, trying to reassure her with wide, gentle eyes. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He thought about taking the boy up on his offer, figuring that maybe he was telling the truth. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Maya and Dilip give the boy a rattle and a baby book, with places for his parents to commemorate every possible aspect of his infancy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve traveled the world with my father’s retinue since I was a boy. I know how money spends.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Could be the intersection of two streets,” said Emma, and she pulled back the tent flap to ask the boy if this was what he meant— but he was already gone. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The little boy seemed too dazed to speak. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had a piece of that brown Norwegian goats' milk cheese known as gjetost which I had loved even when I was a boy. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

If Sean was his mother’s big boy, Finn was his mother’s beautiful boy. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It couldn’t be very hard, many people would be proud and glad to have such a dear boy care for them. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph took the conch from him and looked round the circle of boys. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then he took the eyepiece out, replaced his glasses, and fixed the boy with a sour and suspicious look. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

By way of closing, he reminded them that there were at least four boys vying for each seat in the first varsity boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I said, glancing at the dead boy’s face, his delicate features somehow perfectly preserved. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

All three boys were arrested and charged with armed robbery and attempted homicide. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Reggie, a boy working on a math assignment, kept his head down and slid farther away from them, almost like he didn’t hear Chip’s greeting. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We hollered for all the boys in our class. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A very small boy, in a cotton sun suit, was standing close by, on her right, purely in an observer’s capacity. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Ernie asked, looking at a young boy biting into the mystery sandwich, his eyes closed in delight. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The boys had picked it up, and now he heard it everywhere. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He hates it when Hugo calls him "my boy." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

But the boy was obviously concerned, even frightened for me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s not a little boy. He’s got to find his own way back.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

"Hello, boys," the lady at the register said. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The boy is patient, taking her elbow only when she seems to need it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He marched the boy across the porch and drew a paper out of a desk. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You get a line and I’ll get a pole,” the boy calls out again, his voice strong and even. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

This was the only way to get out of Freetown without being killed by the armed men and boys of the new government, who hated it when people left the city. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Semaj was supposed to be a boy—at least according to every sonogram—and my parents were going to name her James. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Nearby, boys were fishing in the pile for metal using magnets on strings. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

On the day I had spent my last rupee and thought that I must sell Tagore’s book, I saw the boy with the rickshaw again. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Statistically speaking,” the Erudite boy next to me— his name is Will—says, grinning at me, “you should have hit the target at least once by now, even by accident.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Chasing boys and going to parties weren’t even options in the Muhammad household anyway. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The boys ran to the very end of the platform and seemed to wait. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

All the telegram boys like Protestant ministers’ wives. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Or had a black boy spoken of yearning to get a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, his friends—in the boy’s own interest—would have reported his odd ambition to the white boss. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Night loneliness is part fearing,” the boy’s mother had once said to him. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 33rd President of the United States handed Bod over to the famous writer Victor Hugo, who threw the boy into his sack and put it over his shoulder. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I head now for the Virginia Colony in the company of my quondam charge, the Negro boy Octavian—in which country, he avoweth, he shall rise in arms against the vile practice of slavery. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

My toes and feet tingle when I hear the nurse say the boy either kicked a grenade or walked over a landmine. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always get feelings for boys who will never have feelings for me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine that, Cochran? A Trinity boy who has refused to sell the chocolates? Do you know what’s happened, Cochran? Do you know why the sales have fallen off?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonathan crossed over and pulled the boy to his feet. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Who these boys here?” the man called Crab asked. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

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

As a small boy, I was never quite aware of the concept of “father.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I forget that they was older than I am. I always think of them as the little boys.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if he recognized me, but I think he might have something to do with the disappearances of some boys I know, and maybe even Yakov’s and Victor’s deaths.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, she got an eyeful of the inventive and somewhat revealing outfits fashioned by the boys. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The Rebs were pressing the front, against Rice’s New York boys, the rest of the brigade. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy smiled and turned, but then stopped to look back. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And someone different and new, but who still feels like home, is waiting for me outside—a boy from my hood. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As Maybeth soaped and rinsed, and the boys dried, and Dicey put away the glasses, dishes, knives, forks, pots and pans, they sang. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night Jorge told a bedtime story and afterward invited the boys to confess sins. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on, white boy, come on,” Marisol says while clapping and pushing up her thick glasses. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Luke told the boys to get their jackets on, standing up like the conversation was over. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Hosie would of hit any town boy at school who even mentioned such. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After a few moments, the boys returned and greeted their elders before sitting on the ground. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Frederick sits at a glass-topped table at the back of the room, both table and boy looking small amid the clutter. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, we passed around a single bowl and each boy dipped into the food with his fingers. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy read my name off a card. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up he got, groped his way to the piano, laid a kind hand on either of the broad shoulders, and said, as gently as a woman, “I know, my boy, I know.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chella was a small hard woman, flat as a boy, and no fool. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Shiny-eyed, beautiful boys that can pull you in the wrong direction. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Practice ended with a scrimmage—the highlight of the afternoon for the boys. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

There, in the playground, they would be waiting for her—the gang of four or five boys, blond, snotty-nosed, freckled-faced. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Two teenage boys were in the front seat, facing the road. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

One of the white boys around him yells out, “Hell, yeah!” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I was remembering the tale of the “white” man who had beaten the “black” boy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she told the boy a story of a mighty flood which the Lord had sent to wash away all the evil in the world. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Garikayi and his relatives were conducting ceremonies for the baby boy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t even make us recite the Five Principles of Good Citizenship and the Four Attitudes Leading to Right- Mindfulness,” exulted a boy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Butchered like a hog and shoved beneath a snowbank. A boy.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a boy in the black-and-white photo. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When a small barefooted boy was bitten by a rattlesnake, it was her duty to suck his toe to draw the poison out. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sefia fell to her knees and pulled the bandanna from her hair, pressing it to the boy’s neck. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gideon seems to realize that the boy in question was more to me than just someone on the same train I’d taken here. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I found Abraham at a camp for displaced persons on the mainland. He was a poor, tortured boy, but so strong. I knew at once that he belonged with us.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Like the teenage boys: not scared of anything, at least on the outside. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"What would my part be in this scheme of yours, boy?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

What did I know about boys, about men? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"Perhaps you are indeed right. That boy has become a blight. We are best companions once more! Let's have celebrations galore!" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The eldest boy was strong and fast, capable and handsome. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“The boy can hardly keep up, Elinor’s feet must need a rest, and if you ask me this wouldn’t be a bad place for one.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mere weeks ago, they’d stood on these very steps crowded among fourteen other Yaba boys who, like them, had spent their whole lives dreaming of becoming Sons of the Six. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We followed the path, the two others watching Julio and the little girl and the boys somewhere in the rear. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other little boy jumped up and yelled, “Me next! Me next!” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, son,” Mr. Burden told me, “it’s certainly a comfort to see another boy in this house.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That had not happened in a while, and he whimpered, almost like a little boy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the boy’s name is inscribed on the family tree. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We stayed in a big unfinished cement-brick house along with other boys. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him, about going to the movies when he was just a boy, when the movies were new. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t think boys are as complicated as girls. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you know. A little boy’s curiosity about what the other sex keeps inside her panties.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In parts of Africa little boys were still stolen away by adult slave traders and sold for money to men who disemboweled them and ate them. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“The Amyr are dramatic figures. When we are young we all pretend to be Amyr and fight battles with willow-switch swords. It is natural for boys to be attracted to those stories.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Thus Trabb’s boy became their guide, and with him they went out to the sluice-house, though by the town way to the marshes, which I had avoided. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sick boys gathered under the trees and called for their mothers and fathers. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d found a pair of workshoes and the boy was wearing blue tennis shoes with rags stuffed into the toes and they had fresh sheeting for face masks. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The other boys had made A’s in algebra. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’s not a pretty boy, but I can’t stand pretty boys anyway. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The boys earned prestigious Hitler Youth merit badges for outstanding performance. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She has often worried from afar about her boy. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The little boy buried his head against Poet’s leg. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I wrote to Tom Fleet, the boy who helped Gram when the snake took a snack out of her leg. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The boy always thought her lips looked as though they were glued together when she hummed. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy bowed his head, then raised it slowly, suspicion in his eyes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

What life had made him bear, her lover, this wild, unhappy boy, many another stronger and more virtuous man might not have borne so well. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Though he could be a sweet boy, he was often short-tempered and obstreperous. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Each night, that boy came into the lean-to just a-talking away like he had himself an invisible friend, chatting on about all he’d seen that day in hawks and prairie dogs and such. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“That boy was on fire, wasn’t he?” a man remarks as Sasha pushes through the back doors to the sidewalk. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We’re ashamed of the way we look and if boys from the rich schools pass remarks we’ll get into a fight and wind up with bloody noses or torn clothes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Just stay there. Stay there while I go and call my boys from the army barracks.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She dosed the boys regularly and gently to purge the putrid bile from their bodies, but it seemed to have little effect. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says, “I forgot who you are, Mason. Franklin too. We are sorry. We got lost in our pain. And lost in this horrible, confused story. And missing our boy.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I can’t see how those boys are any kin to me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the roads there were people, and they frightened the boy. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It reminded me of home. In England the boys used to light bonfires and march through the streets — ” “Such things are best not mentioned,” her husband silenced her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Digging his sharp little claws in the bark, the boy pup made it to the top. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember when that cute boy hit on you yesterday?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The boys of our school and the Catholic boys from Our Lady of Perpetual Help throw them at one another, but we would not do that. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The same old boys showed off trading cards and clowned around nearby. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He had stumbled upon a private scene that belied everything he thought he knew about the golden godson and his charmed life, and it broke something in him to see the other boy brought low. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A tuck-box is a small pinewood trunk which is very strongly made, and no boy has ever gone as a boarder to an English Prep School without one. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed the other boys were absorbed in their work too. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other Washington boy who showed up at Grand Coulee that summer was Chuck Day. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For the boys speak a jived-up transitional language full of country glamour, think transitional thoughts, though perhaps they dream the same old ancient dreams. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And to show their appreciation, what did the boys do but pass the hat for you!” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys shuck their clothes where they stand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The dumbest ward heeler was smart enough to know that time, no matter what else it did, passed, and that the school boy of today was the voter of tomorrow. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked this of the dark boy who had said earlier, at the table, that the white man’s actions proved him to be a devil. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I thought I placed the boy's face then. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Gunshots rang out, and one of the white boys hit his mark, wounding Lieutenant Browning in his leg. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that they were both three years older than Ji-yong and all three of them attended different schools, the three boys were close friends. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma comes from the other hallway in her plain yellow scrubs, following a teary-eyed boy and his mom. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I want to touch her skin and talk to her and pretend that I’m just a normal Tribal boy and she’s just a normal Scholar girl. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He took the boy’s hand and led him out but the boy had already seen it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The paper chain belonged to everybody, but he was almost the poster boy for it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Who will take up the call for the dignity and redemption of the boys?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He remembered none for her, but he would have been a child then; he had seen the strange woman for years now, had felt her eyes on him since he was a young boy. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Dub often said that his boys would have won a championship as well—if there were enough colored high school teams in the state to have an actual tournament. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The boys keep flyin’,” Tom said, stepping up to Mr. Fuller. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The boy gasped for air, clutching onto the rope of the crab basket. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It was strange that a boy who could fight like that and enjoy it so intensely never quarreled, never fought, and he had almost nothing to say about this really Homeric battle. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are nicely built boys, lean and strong. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“My boys are young, but they are very shrewd. They know how to take care of their mothers and sis­ters.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

All I have left are Rue's roots and nuts, the boy's dried fruit, and one strip of beef. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was out of luck on the boys’ side, so he turned toward the desk all the way in the back of the class, behind Yvonne. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Had she ever known a boy named Pong? A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

True enough, there were boys no older than he drilling there, but his crippled hand made it impossible for him to pull a trigger. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy asked him how the tank had gone empty so soon but he said that it just had. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Osiris the Merciful forbid it! thought the boy. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

A boy on top of a wooden board—this flying T with tricycle wheels in the back—rumbled by and managed to clip me good. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them looked out, to where I am now, and they watched two boys walk up the street. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“And then you go around thinking a boy will make this all better,” the woman snapped. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I got the account a few days after I moved in to the foster home. My boy Malcolm took this one photo of me, look...” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He would not say that to the boy, how ever. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We’ve tried hard, Lord knows. But Ishmael here, my boy Ishmael here—he’s a match, easily, for two lads, for three! We have high hopes for him.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The boys on the corner look at her with needy eyes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“That is the great secret of men. We aim for manhood always and always fall short. But my boy, I have seen you reach at least halfway.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Since Enrique has been at the river, he has watched thirty other men and boys sleep at the camp, pay a smuggler, then cross the river into the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Some of the men went behind the Store and poured white lightning in their soft-drink bottles, and a few of the bigger boys followed them. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Louie wasn’t always the only Zamperini boy who could be seen sprinting down the alley with food that had lately belonged to the neighbors. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

But in fact I remained a country boy at heart, and there was nothing that lifted my spirits as much as blue skies, the open veld, and green grass. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Young boys and old men die the same." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“What’s up with that?” the boy asked, looking to Thomas for some reason. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He was twenty years old and six-foot-four, a big strong farm boy. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

When a boy caught his first bird in Nunivak, he was supposed to fast for a day, then celebrate the Feast of the Bird. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That boy could be ripping it to pieces for all I know. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Sure was, by a group of old men and boys. They delayed those Long Knives long enough for the warriors sent by Gall and Crazy Horse to get to the crossing.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

It took me a few steps to realize that the boys weren’t laughing or whisding or calling us names. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He says if he catches any boy interfering with these words that boy will go through the rest of his life with one hand. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then, where the faint path from the House in the Woods meets the main path to the lake, I heard a boy, gasping for breath, pounding this way. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I was learning how a boy is supposed to live, learning our traditions, how to be brave, how to protect the cattle—and not to involve myself too much with women. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The day after a boy goes missing? Are you out of your mind?” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Nor Jakob, a boy from another village who all the girls wanted to marry because he was so handsome. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The boy stood still and stared dully at him. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Forget this. I shoulda known you weren’t up for it. Just a couple country boys, right? You like everything straight and simple.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The boy knew a lot of people in the city. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re always concentrating on boys’ sports or the kids who get scholarships.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

So go to sleep, my little Brandon, my baby boy, and dream sweet dreams. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As he walked through the camp with several other boys, Salva glanced at every face he passed. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other one could quit soon too and take care of the small boy and the baby. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He was just a boy, and I didn’t want to miss the bus to our adventure. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But one night I asked a guy on the sidewalk outside if he’d buy us a twelve-pack of tall boys, he agreed, and that had become our weekly routine. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

On my politely bidding him Good-morning, he said, pompously, “Seven times nine, boy?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Gwin snuffled busily around the boy’s chin and nose, as if he had missed him, then he disappeared into the night again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His arms fell to his sides as he turned, looking around the Glade for a sign of Ben, trepidation building within him as he wondered what the boy would do when he saw him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was on West Oriole Avenue, the same street as the bus stop where he’d first spotted the running boy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was a boy, the solar system was thought to contain thirty moons. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

On June 26, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were carrying a banner that read Democracy Should Begin at Home when a group of boys started heckling them. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He tapped the boy’s shoulder and walked out of the house. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Here’s a thing about me: I have always been a complete and utter muttonhead for a clever boy, even when I’m half delirious with pain. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“You boys would not believe what a creature this is. What a foul beast, a centaur, an Untermensch.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I had been a scrawny, starving boy of fifteen who was the size of a ten-year-old. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“He claimed that this boy here lied about his being in the home last night. Is rfwtttrue?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were now two boys before the ingcibi reached me, and my mind must have gone blank because before I knew it, the old man was kneeling in front of me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The altar boy held the gold platter under each chin, the priest mumbled something in Latin and placed the host on the tongue. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He eyed me suspiciously, then said: “The baas is not around, boy.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she finished unpacking their clothes, Ma told the boys to put the suitcase back in the car, which really meant leave grown folks to grown folks’ business. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was one of the eeriest and uncomfortablest feelings I ever had, watching a boy lead cheers for me. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Finally, he rolled the big boy all the way down the hill to bang against a rock. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The boy spoke Dinka but with a different accent, which meant that he was not from the area around Salva’s village. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who is this boy that would risk his own safety for a girl he didn’t know? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She would lie in bed with the baby boy, the two girls wrapped in quilts on the floor, thinking. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Lily was in love with a boy who promised her things. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

All night the boy who is a man watches me dance. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” Victor replied, as he wrapped the boy in the blanket he'd wisely brought with him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know what her heart wanted for the strange black boy, who seemed an emissary from a different country. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Only for a time. You will return. For the boy, if for no other reason.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But when they are very young, boys and girls work and play together. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their mother needed quiet to tend her two new boys, and sent the girls off to amuse themselves. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the dancers look goofy — one boy reminds me of David, his elbows bent sharply. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stocky boy with horn-rimmed glasses came out of a crowd of young people lining up at the corner. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dark friend will not give you the luxury of a choice. It’s the cliff or the cave, boy!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s the Emerald Tablet,” said the Englishman, proud that he might teach something to the boy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This boy’s my client and he’s signing no confessions,” Max said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember a boy who lost his hand in a firecracker accident,” she said. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie didn’t budge, so Joseph put his hands on the boy’s shoulders and tried to force him towards the door. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He resembled one of those big tough boys who got their kicks taunting me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the boys gawking at me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The boys retreated into his living room to discuss strategy. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He and the boy looked at each other and began to snicker. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

"Is it the boy king that's died now?" she shouted down, leaning out over the street. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I knew Miles was a big boy who could take care of himself, but if there was ever a time to put my finely honed sense of paranoia to good use, it was now. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The second they realized the laundry boy was no longer in the laundry room they would comb the area. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The boys played tackle football on the training field. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet he had belief in wonder and in the next twenty-five miles of black Carolina highway, he thought: Can a boy begin a prayer with the hatred of his father in his heart? The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He set down the knapsack and put away the lighter and took hold of the boy by the shoulders. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The boys in the band loved having us out there in front of them all the time, bending back and stepping high, in our snug satin outfits and short skirts. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My old trusty refractor. Just came in the mail today. This is what I used to do when I was your age, boys. I’d almost forgotten about it until I came down to your range.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah! The new voice speaks first with strength and now with wisdom. I will discuss the matter with Yawar. It is time for you to leave, for soon they will arrive with the injured boy.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But the boy was never afraid when his father was near. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had little interest in running around in circles while drunk, brawny boys in leather trod on my toes. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Who are you?" said the boy in a whisper. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

They’d be freaking out about nothing, too, because I don’t like boys that way yet. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Fito looked over his shoulder in the direction the boy had gone. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I just thought you might be curious because Bill was, after I told him about that boy and my sister. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But I got there ahead of you, little boy—I reached the wand before you could get your hands on it, I understood the truth before you caught up. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

No telling what might happen to a city boy around here this time of night. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I arrived at the gate and found a group of boys in a half-circle on a step overlooking the street. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to take my advice. I’d have the boy in right now. I’d tell him everything— every single thing. I’d even tell him why you didn’t tell him before. He’s—how old?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boy spoke very little with the Englishman, who spent most of his time with his books. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his mind, Jonas saw again the face of the boy who had lain dying on a field and had begged him for water. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Putting yourself on display. Trying to make that boy whom I hired to take care of some projects around here—projects your father never has time for—you're trying to make him notice you.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

There’s a chorus of laughter from a bunch of kids as a boy kicks his skateboard in the air. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Ghost boys have disappeared, like they know it’s time for Emmett’s tale. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

As if they’d twirl in circles, arm in arm, with Lovey catching a boy’s eyes for a second on every revolution and Cora following suit. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There was a knock on the door of their compartment and the round-faced boy Harry had passed on platform nine and three- quarters came in. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“The small boy who arrived after harvest to help with the threshing, is he still here?” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And those Quincey children. That boy wetting his bed and all. The poor little lambs.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson mostly just watched the boys quietly, still sizing them up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Gabe gave his friend a wave and turned again to his work as the other boy walked away. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Annabelle would catch him watching her and her friends, same as that boy on the grass is doing now, making sure he doesn’t do anything to shame himself from the circle. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Finally, after hours of waiting, the guard bade the boy enter. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe their father, Mikwam, would arrive and say he needed an always-hungry little boy of five winters to accompany him on his next long trip. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

So he laid the boy in his wife’s arms and she took him, smiling, yet with tears. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe one of you boys can tell me where these girls stay.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

"Boom! Just a warning to keep doors locked," the delivery boy said, dumping a carton of Westing Paper Products on the kitchen floor. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might flick off a boy’s hat or knock a soda can from his hand and laugh as the stain spread over the boy’s jeans. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The girl clicked her tongue, and the dogs pushed their snouts into the boys’ bellies. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their only response was still the shaking of heads, but an old man said something in their local language, and the boy with polio nodded and gestured for me to follow him. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re not going to cheat the boy out of his victory.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He passed the Bollywood feature of you with a boy under a tree to everyone on the quiz team.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He teases us, Do you think, boys, I should give this to the pigeons on the windowsill? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You’re not supposed to be here,” the boy said, adjusting his spectacles. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

If the boy was here he would wet the coils of line, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s my child, and I won’t have his temper spoiled by indulgence. Go down, my dear, and leave the boy to me.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, only one name can go on an entry. You put all the boys in your club down on the form. I changed it. You’re the one.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, talking to this boy made her feel almost feverish. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"I've seen this fat boy in the common hall," he said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Now if I hear of one boy in this class jeering and sneering at McCourt or his brother over their shoes the stick will come out. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Colonel? Request permission to go pick up some of our wounded. We left a few boys out there.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you boys know why your commanders gave you up to these civilians?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The spyglass flew out of Sticky’s hand and onto the gravel path...and before the boys could gather themselves, Jackson had brushed past Constance—knocking her roughly to her knees—and was upon them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

This was certainly not what a boy had. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

While we did that, Father began to tell me about his life as a boy on our farm, his first years with Mother, and his first years over here in the demon land. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But bringing a boy to my door is a whole other level. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Because neither set of grandparents has a working telephone, their only link to home is by telegram, which Ashoke has sent to both sides in Calcutta: “With your blessings, boy and mother fine.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The girls wore beautiful flowered dresses and high heels that made them taller than some of the boys they were with. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He holds his fist out, and before I know it, we’re doing the candy boy shake. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Hi, boys,” he said absently, and then saw it was me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

How a boy can fit in a hole this way. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“My grandchildren have been admiring the tame marten that boy has on a chain,” said the old man as he approached. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Father lifted up the baby goat’s leg and announced that it was a boy. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

As the boy grew to manhood he saw even more clearly than she the terrible situation. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Plus, we walking that way, so as soon as we get done with lover boy here, I'm gonna stop by and see him." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the boy by the shoulders and shook him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t think we can change them boys. But we might change how you look at things.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I followed the boys through the twisting streets until I saw them turn a corner and scurry down a flight of stairs into the basement of a burned-out building. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Fear,” says the boy, taking a step backwards. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The Pritchard boys made no move to follow us out of the store. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was also a bespectacled boy named Chuck Day. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The man said nothing, but he looked at Johnny and the look of bleak hatred amazed the boy. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And somewhere in there, the boy’s mother went out and told the receptionist that Billy was evidently going crazy. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the last second, the smaller boy sounded the alarm—someone was coming! Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Told him to tell Zeebo’s boy you wouldn’t touch the case.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The boys who were about Tyan-yu’s age made us sit on the bed side by side and everybody made us kiss so our faces would turn red with passion. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that she could see him properly, she was frightened of the boy almost more than the bear: he had a horrible wound: two of his fingers were missing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But Matty, still a young boy, had been with him then, as a guide; and Matty had seen the twig grow, expand, sharpen, aim itself, and stab. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z