“I don’t know what I believe, Hazel. I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He collected the money that had been taken in over the preceding months, heard reports from all the church groups and shook hands with the adults and kissed all small children. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the young people in DJJ facilities were tried in juvenile court, as those who go through adult court usually wind up in adult prisons. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then his eyes sped to each of the three adult wolves that made up his pack and finally to the five pups who were sleeping in a fuzzy mass near the den entrance. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, even our cognitive abilities as adults are heavily influenced by the social environment that we experienced during childhood, making it hard to discern any influence of preexisting genetic differences. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you tell that to an adult? Please tell that to an adult.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Two bedrooms, one for the adults and one for the boys. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We passed a few older adults pedaling away on their bikes, balancing precariously on two wheels with their briefcases or bags, their heads bent toward the sidewalk. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Other kids and adults started to trickle in to see what was going on. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

A small group of adults comes over and starts to ease us away from the building. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At five I also know I am a pretty child, for I have heard adults say to Ma many times how ugly I am. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For adult mollusks there is apparently less danger of direct poisoning, at least by some of the pesticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

All the adults I knew buried the knowledge beneath lying smiles and hugs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Naomi had her head down, as she always did when she spoke to adults. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want any adults questioning why I was there. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise’s gleanings of adult morals and mores to date were few, but enough: it was possible to have a baby without being married, she knew that. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

We stepped inside, and the three adults turned to look at us. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She will be eighteen next month, and in this country she is an adult and can make her own choices.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I keep counting down to eighteen, to being an adult, holding the reins. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s always been this way and we didn’t know, because we couldn’t know. It’s as if we are looking at an adult Nigeria that we didn’t know about.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She was beginning to suspect Raven must be an adult who worked at a computer all day, because she always seemed to be there. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

On the surface, he was the embodiment of every parent’s dream, a strong, tall, well-dressed and well- mannered boy with talent and striking looks, not to mention the wit to joke with an adult. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had lived by that code his entire adult life. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Some states have no minimum age for prosecuting children as adults; we’ve sent a quarter million kids to adult jails and prisons to serve long prison terms, some under the age of twelve. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Under one of the adult caiman’s rear legs, a baby caiman hatches from its egg, and to the left is a coral snake egg. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She must have realized now that I was aware of her awful truth—she was an adult being treated like a child by the white folks. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Children embrace them even when there are no adults around. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As these became adult, only brown and brown, or black and brown, were permitted to many. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put on the slippers and step into Lord Kensington alone, trying not to let my nerves show as the elevator doors shut and the adults wish me luck. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And he treats us like we’re adults, like he actually cares about what we think and feel. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ms. O’Malley introduced me to lots of other adult chicken people who arrived later as “Jim Brown’s grandniece, who inherited his chickens and his good poultry sense.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I looked at it, and thought I was seeing adult life. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Free men were not the silent, dutiful children of a wise king-father; rather, they were adults who spoke up for themselves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

To bring an adult into this, someone from school, is beyond what I imagined. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

In January 1940, a month after Jack arrived at his uncle’s, the Nazis demanded the services of three hundred adults every day to assist with work projects. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you do a quick computer check for a John Doe at the adult detention center?” the officer asked. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Pm an adult—you can treat me like an adult.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the tiny front porch was a cooler filled with drinks, both adult and not. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The adults talked around her and above her, about adoption procedures and welfare applications. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The passing adults politely looked away, but their children were decidedly more vocal. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re not supposed to be driving without an adult in the car anyway, especially after dark.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The other three adults watch us with a quivering intensity. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Nine months after the passage of Proposition 21,30 percent of all teen offenders in California were being charged as adults. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“It suddenly struck me the other day,” continued Bernard, “that it might be possible to be an adult all the time.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the coldest winter month, we were all bored, adults and children alike. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The way I see it, we didn’t fail Papá, he failed us. He’s the adult here.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

We walked back again through the adult grove, but this time Tino sat down on a crate between two large trees. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took a moment for all the seventy-five adults and ten or more children to get settled that day. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She seemed terrified of what adult thing her daughter might say and thaw Frozen Time. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Apart from that. He spent most of his adult life outside his homeland. Like me.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to tell who rode them in all that brightness, but it seemed the riders weren’t adults, but children like him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This led to the doctrine of preformationism: the adult existed fully formed within the egg. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The quietly inoffensive assertion of a black child’s attempt to communicate with a white adult. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Germany was our close neighbor, and I remember the adults talking about the oppression of Germany’s Jews. Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany, was making life miserable for them.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

If your friends were on a dangerous path, adults told you to cast them aside. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Not many young people can pinpoint the exact date, time, and place they grew up and became an adult. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I would use the money to buy adult paperbacks with girls on the cover. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But now adults were starting to gather around the perimeter. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Here yes, they are boys and girls. But back in Cuba, carga bates can be adults, even today. So you see, Señorita Santos, I’m really Bat Man!” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They put the young people’s presentations on first, before all of the speeches and the musicians and the adult poets. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The element of luck in Tyson’s analysis lies in the fact that the specimen he examined was a young chimp, and human beings resemble infant chimpanzees even more than they do adult chimpanzees. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, when she reentered the drawing room in triumph, no one paid her any attention, and everything was exactly the same—tired, miserable adults sipping tea and smoking in silence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

For someone who would eventually become so completely tangled in a web of espionage intrigue, Bentley entered her adult years alone, a solitary figure looking for companionship and community. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Was it imagining on his part, Robbie wondered, or malign intent on hers, that made the adults' portions appear twice the size of the children's? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Are we a hundred percent positive it wasn’t an adult?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She was tired of adults telling her what to do. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

My mother spoke to me like an adult, which was unusual. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If only I were an adult, I could have made myself be listened to. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

There were polite nods between the adults at first, but then, even those vanished. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

How does he regard the adults his sons and daughters have become? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he looks like the kind of child who has seen too much of life, who's seen more than most adults. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I could see why adults might need them, but kids? How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I think you should confront your parents. You should just sit them down and make them tell you. Make them be adults.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The air was filled with the din of wailing babies and frantic adults, cut by the angry shouts of soldiers. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Here they were, sitting in a school that was offering them a free education, I said, and there were a whole lot of committed and caring adults inside that school who thought they mattered. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They will go home and sit in their living rooms and interact with their parents for the first time as adults. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The adult ghosts hung back, listless or fearful, but the children all came thronging forward. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

From this tunnel, I was extremely startled to see protruding a pair of adult male feet, shod in some oddly familiar brown-and-white spectator shoes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He wondered about watching an adult movie, but the pay-per-view device by the phone needed a credit card. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She said that the London Eye management policy states that children are not supposed to ride without an adult accompanying them. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was killing about two million people a year, more adults than any other infectious disease except for AIDS. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Freckles laughs about my Holocaust one-liner, and it doesn’t even sound like a condescending adult laugh. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Though boys were put into their own groups with the older ones in charge, Sudanese elders, following our traditions, decided the girls needed to be looked after by adults. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It also diluted its appeal to preschoolers with jokes aimed only at adults. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You talked about an adult intimidating a girl with a gun. Was that you?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“There were also several times I thought about sassing adults back, mostly teachers and principals at school. And I didn’t trust God on two occasions.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for Lola, she spoke her lines correctly but casually, and sometimes smiled inappropriately at some private thought, determined to demonstrate that her nearly adult mind was elsewhere. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

More protests followed, now with angry adults, and Connor provided them with the same treatment. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then her brother moved in, so you had three adults and two children in a two-bedroom apartment, which was just not working out. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His impatience makes him feel that he is, incontrovertibly, finally, an adult. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only in strict emergencies did Bailey allow me to speak Pig Latin to him in front of adults, but I had to take the chance that afternoon. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It consisted of four adult members, including Miss Rossit and Mr. Burke. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

My parents and other adults at the masjid had given up trying to "save" her by getting the authorities involved. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I was the child, and they were the adults. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He was an adult, and there was nothing my mother could do about it. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Seven were adults, big grey-brown beasts, savage and powerful, their mouths drawn back over long yellow teeth by their dying snarls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

You know how adults love to ask, “So ... what are you going to be when you grow up?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scipio might have had the body of a child, but he could express himself like an adult, with a confidence that they couldn't help admiring. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

As different as we were, I reasoned that our fates would shoot in opposite directions once we hit adult hood. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gives me the indulgent smile of an adult hearing an outrageous claim from a child. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You're not an adult. You have to live here,” she says simply. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Even if he wasn’t one of this adult crew, he was one of his father’s and so he had some trust. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

There is a long childhood in which the adults teach the young. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see smoking ruins of huts and luaks, dead animals, and bodies of villagers whom the adults were trying to hide from the eyes of children. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She placed her ear to the panel, and heard a murmur of male adult voices, so she knew she had found the right place. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A few adults who had gathered to watch the fun, guffawed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

This quiet, motionless adult was apparently more Otto’s speed than the rowdy nursery bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The adult geese frowned at his flying tricks, but the goslings thought he was amazing. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

All of the adults hunkered on the vessel, calculating their scavenge and scheming how to ensure their claim. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sort of in love with how weird he is around adults. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Each adult chicken will drink approximately 2 cups of water per day. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He was a moody, lonely young man, after all, afraid of strangers, awkward even with the adults he knew well, and the cousins were plump blond children of three and four. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Born a slave before the Civil War, Mcjunkin had no formal education—he had only learned to read as an adult. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And the obscene caller that phoned us at home when the adults were at the laundry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other village children looked at her enviously while the watching adults shook their heads. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It’s all but impossible to reach that number all by yourself by the time you’re a young adult. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until after September 15, 1963, that I finally understood that death could come to any one of us—adults and children alike. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

From the beginning Sesame Street was intended to appeal to both children and adults. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start to look around, but all I see are tired and grumpy-looking adults. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To distract the adults there or any other predator who might want to grab the prey.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In some counties the percentage was much higher—in San Diego County, for example, three out of every four young people were charged as adults by the end of that first year. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It’s like how I can’t figure out how any adult buys toilet paper with a straight face. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

More African American adults are under correctional control today—in prison or jail, on probation or parole—than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I am an adult woman. I am not telling you this story for pity.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was during these night rides with his father that the feeling of what it was like to be an adult often possessed Ben. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The average adult would probably have been reduced to slapping the keyboard. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

If there were no war, and if we were normal young adults, what would we be doing today? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Momma always directed her statements to the adults, but sometimes, Oh painful sometimes, the grimy, snotty-nosed girls would answer her. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three adults sat in the front row looking extremely brainy. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Tori is not an adult,” her father replied. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“We are three adult, intelligent people. We have all come a long way, Doctor Montague, to meet you here in Hill House; Eleanor wants to know why, and so do I.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It seemed like the young people were more fed up with the local situation than were the black adults,” he recalled. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a story of love in the old days, when adults loved faithfully—not a story of the present, in which adolescents pursue the ignoble spasms of the cinematograph. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although sedentary in adult life, they discharge their spawn into the sea, where the young are free-living for a period of several weeks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They did, however, for his former friend at Monticello, who had spent the bulk of his adult life keeping his head and his heart in separate chambers of his personality. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I look over at the adults, occupied with plans and forms. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It looked small, scarcely big enough for an adult, and it lay there in the cramped, underground space quite peacefully, curled up as if it had lain down to sleep. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But sometimes I wish I had more reliable adults in mine. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Never before had students felt so much power over adults and school authority. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because most Europeans contracted the disease in childhood, the great majority of European adults, the conquistadors among them, were immune. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Grown-ups were kneeling down by them and the adults’ hands fluttered down toward the little girls, then, before they touched anything, fluttered back up, over and over. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking for athletic young adult to play teen. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

By the summer of 1964, hundreds of black adults were standing in line outside the Dallas County Courthouse on registration days, waiting to be admitted so they could register. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All of your adult life. But it becomes routine; after a while you won’t even pay much attention to it.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Thus a tadpole has the form of a juvenile frog, and its goal, its final cause, is to become an adult frog. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

An adult would do something like that, but not no children. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Census Bureau reported in 2002 that there are nearly 3 million more black adult women than men in black communities across the United States, a gender gap of 26 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This was not a fairy tale, this was the real, the adult world in which frogs did not address princesses, and the only messages were the ones that people sent. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When the caterpillars died or their pupae failed to produce an adult, she repeated her investigations. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Berlin would become a sort of benign amusement park for adults. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They soon found out that I had in mind ‘adult books.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Black Whip was for kids, but the Don did adult things like drive race cars and parachute out of jet planes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, an adult, he would have to say something. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kira remembered watching her childhood companions at such play, preparing for the real scramble of adult life. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hi!” and while none of the adults answered her, Gregor saw a few little kids wave back. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They kept sinking and surfacing, but Nhamo thought she could see twenty adults and six babies. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a slow process that depends as much on luck as on hard work, all the more so when the animal is an adult. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom taught me to always call adults by Ms. or Mr. whatever their last name is, unless they say it’s okay to use their first name. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Only one adult I could really trust to understand. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

People liked to ask this question, especially adults. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

As children, Laura must have played the role of the big sister who exposed the stupidity of the little sister, always with kindness and good cheer, and preferably in the company of adult relatives. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The core of the audience he saw in his mind’s eye consisted of those adult white males who owned sufficient property to qualify for the vote. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Problem, a little problem? Well at least it’s not a fully-grown adult problem.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then Ernestine came in, thus leaving Anne, the oldest, in what for her was a fairly familiar dilemma: whether to cast her lot with us or with the adults. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time this adult Negro had ever perspired. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so roomy that we could play hide-and-seek with our friends indoors without annoying the adults. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“That, to me, is what she is. There’s something very adult about her.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

His voice was suddenly adult—calm and disappointed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Hagoshjj. Whatever it is, just leave it be,” Nali said in a tone that was similar to the one Nathan’s mom and father used when they talked about adult things in his presence. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I think of Flaubert, who spent most of his adult life in the same French village, or Emily Dickinson, whose poems echoed the cadence of the local church bells. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to be able to operate at a top level with both adults and children was admirable. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just figured she would drive because she was the adult, but she was standing on the passenger side. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Like constipation pills, adult diapers, ointments. A bunch of butt-related stuff, now that I think about it.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I’d had my bar mitzvah. I was supposed to be an adult.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

How could I know what I wanted to be as an adult when I had never been an adult and did not know any adults who were doing anything I wanted to do? Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Children learn from each other by listening and joining in, learn by listening to recordings, or learn aurally from adults. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Five were adults, two were little twin boys. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The Hogwarts Express was usually reserved for students and they had never seen an adult there before, except for the witch who pushed the food cart. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Usually when groups of adults want to speak to me it’s because a grandparent has died or I’ve let Feather pee on somebody’s flower bed. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

My mother had a very difficult time in those early years of marriage; she was a teenage girl, ostracized by the adults around her. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The children had one room, and the adults were divided between my parents’ bedroom and the sitting room. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In General Groves, Lawrence encountered—possibly for the first time in his adult life—someone who was even more driven than himself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

However, keep in mind that a child’s vocal apparatus is still developing, and imitating adult singing with scoops, chest voice, or belting is affected singing and not natural. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

They will be adults when he is released. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He began by goading his audience of Korean immigrants and their American-raised adult children, asserting that Kim Jong II was worse than Hitler. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, black and white adults stood along the sidelines and either cheered or booed what they were witnessing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Looking around the table, she saw that the adults were all suddenly very busy talking to one another. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s talking about the adults who are visibly active in the Civil Rights movement. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Our space becomes very popular because both children and adults have a fascination with Buttercup. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Dr. Maria said I couldn’t go to Amsterdam without an adult intimately familiar with my case, which more or less meant either Mom or Dr. Maria herself. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Macon went on with the charade, pretending he didn’t know his sister was the one Porter and anybody else—adult, child, or beast—could buy wine from. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if, now that we were getting waxed together, she could treat me like an adult. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He worked with sickness and disease his whole adult life. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If children do wrong, any adult can correct them. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was taller and thinner, and she looked very adult in her slim, black dress. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

No adults ever sit this way, except Ms. Dale. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Nothing was there at the football game, and he was one of the few people who was not an adult that was actually watching the game. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Along with destroying breeding areas, adult mosquito populations were also attacked with the widespread use of the pesticide dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, better known as DDT, much of it sprayed from planes. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Many states had changed their laws to make it easier to prosecute children as adults, and my clients were getting younger and younger. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I never wanted to feel grown up, to be like an adult. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

In turn, Dallas and Florida had come to think of most adults as trouble grown-ups, for that had been their experience, that most grown-ups they’d encountered were short-tempered, impatient, and quick to punish. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

An embryo needs a message to become an adult organism—but what carries this message? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But she said that growing up and as a young adult, she never had a dentist to go to, so she had done her best. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She treated him much more as an adult and she understood. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“When we tell you to open the door, open the door!” the German officer told the adults. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the adults were gone, they flipped over their library cards.There were images of book covers printed on the back. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dozens of adults and children fight for position. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Seven adults and a little blond boy were sitting there, their mouths opened expectantly. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the best evidence yet that the adults have infinite patience, but also that their brains have. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She went inside and the combined families, three adults and eight kids, ate hot dogs by candlelight. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Before the halt order, it’s estimated that as many as 100,000 children and adults were put to death. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t. But I can take you down to the station until you give us the name of a parent, guardian, responsible adult, into whose care we can release you.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The study looked specifically at how older adults could be taught to improve attention using a driving simulator. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were ten of us—my father, the silverback; my mother and three other adult females; a juvenile male called a blackback; and two other young gorillas. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It broke with a satisfying crash of glass, and instantly the monkey shadow leaped from the chair back as the adults gasped. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He forced the producers to simplify dialogue and abandon certain techniques they had taken from adult television. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an adult, I wanted to pass those words to a new generation. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He reminded me of the Big Boy at the Elias Brothers’ chain of restaurants, only older, coarsened and bloated by adult vices. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"Some of us adults went every time. There was a kind of entertainment to it, watching other villagers make fools of themselves. But you didn't usually attend, did you, Jonas?" Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now that I’m an adult with my own home, I decided to get in touch with my roots by purchasing my own watering can for my bathroom. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Many people turned to see what adult was calling, “Mama!” like a child. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked Mom if I could see a show there, once, but she said the themes were too adult, switching on another Disney movie in the VCR. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Kyle made his way through the glittering sea of dressed-up adults. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He finished sixty-ninth, beating more than one thousand adults, and was hooked. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had never met an adult who affected her this way. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was about the size of an adult, except its head was tall, and rather square. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The front of the folder shows a group of black women—adults and teens—smiling and embracing one another. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When they were young adults, the Grimkés had moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and become Quakers. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

At that age your body is changing, your imagination is galloping, your mind is in that zone between a child’s vision and an adult’s. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He will be admitted along with our adult patients, not with the teenagers alone.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I rose out of my squat and gave her my hand, like an adult would do. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They screamed in excitement, and the adults sat stunned. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The adults’ voices relayed the serious intent of their mission. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And every adult who maybe held some sort of imaginary report card as to what kind of human being she was. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Percentage of African American youths who do their time in an adult prison: 58. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Guards also allowed workers—about five thousand adult prisoners and a couple of hundred students from the camp’s secondary school—to catch fish and frogs from the river. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t that what adults were supposed to say? The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“You think that you know best, just because you’re adults! You don’t know anything about Sandy.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Nancy poured steaming coffee into big mugs, and Jenny placed one beside the plate of each adult at the table. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

These days I seem to be setting a record for being rude to adults. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was one thing to leave adults behind, people who were able to fend for themselves. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They stood leaning back with their necks stretched and their heads tilted away, way back, making a vain effort to see over the shoulders of the tall adult who always appears in front of them. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are all being tried as adults, not juveniles. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Throughout the rest of the quiet day, Nathan reverted to his familiar routine of dealing with an angry adult. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Not only did the adults prefer the nectar from certain kinds of flowers, but they laid eggs only on certain plants. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Lola sent the twins down to see if the pool was free—they felt uneasy being there when adults were present. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But other than one do-gooder teacher in sixth grade—who they ignored and was gone a year later anyway—no teacher or principal or any other adult had ever said a thing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

As an adult, she said that from her father she learned to rely on no one but herself, and from her mother she learned how to tell fortunes as a tent-show spiritualist. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Although it would’ve been fun to stick around and laugh at him, the man had drawn too much attention, and now adults were converging on us from all across the station. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Known as Jimmie, he had come to America in his late teens and settled in Palo Alto, where he had endured the social misery of attending elementary school as an adult. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Phil poured champagne for the adults while my friends and I drank fizzy grape juice. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“You will see him,” she said, as the room began to fade and emerge again, flying needles, adult diapers, floating around in the haze that was now my mind. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

An adult could only use magic, but a child, the theory went, could become magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“We're not supposed to be here. It says minors need to be accompanied by adults.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

But he’s the coolest adult in our school, and to prove it, he’s got a Grammy Award for best rap song sitting right at checkout, in plain view for everyone to see and touch. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nearly all the adults entering the airless dining room were nauseated by the prospect of a roast dinner, or even roast meat with salad, and would have been content with a glass of cool water. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

For once she doesn’t lecture me about yelling at an adult. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

So for our final exam, our teachers sent us into the break yard to spend an hour with no adult supervision to see what would happen. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

In a letter to a friend he wrote, 1 began my adult life with the hypothesis that it would be possible to become a Stone Age native. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had hoped that the woman might have some answers for him; after all, she was an adult. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Proposition 21, the law allowing prosecutors to file charges against juveniles in adult court, had been upheld by the California Supreme Court way back in 2002. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Here, Melody. Daddy brought you a play-pretty,” she cooed in that high-pitched voice that adults use with children. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He was looking solemnly out at the adult world that surrounded him. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The wagon was so low that children who spoke to her standing up were eye level with her, and adults, standing or sitting, had to look down at her. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He’d seen enough adult promises turn out to just be wishes that he wasn’t going to hold his breath, though. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were both sentenced to five years in adult prison. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then it switched over to thermal-imaging mode, and I could see the glowing outlines of over a dozen people, children and adults, sitting inside. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He said that’s why people love The Catcher in the Rye when they’re teenagers, but fall out of love with it as adults. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I hate how adults look at me now, ever since the “situation” started. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Tigers are easy to find, but I needed adult wisdom to know dragons. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the adults I don’t know is commenting on how much he likes the president because of his tax cuts. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

After the murders I was consumed by sadness for my brilliant and lovable twin, who had never been considered good enough, and would never be able to confront our parents as an adult. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

There were five young ones in this settlement, one almost grown and the others somewhere in between, and being smaller than the adults, they could not manage the seedpod wheels. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were no official- looking adults or uniformed Arkansas National Guardsmen inside. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed, therefore, to question an adult who might know everything, and between lightning and chickens, I could slip in a question on kittens. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I feel like anything I say will reveal how young I am or how much I don’t understand about adults, about my own confusing parents. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was also normal adults in regular clothes. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

All adults had to be addressed as Mister, Missus, Miss, Auntie, Cousin, Unk, Uncle, Buhbah, Sister, Brother and a thousand other appellations indicating familial relationship and the lowliness of the addressor. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched as passengers, both adults and children, formed a line by a glass partition. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was a crude outline of an adult male on the pulpit of a harpoon boat. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“You can’t be friends? At least be adults,” Barb fires at them, her voice filled with frustration. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“My gut tells me that those adults are the parents,” Axel says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I think being an adult must be confusing as hell. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The lawyer, who was subsequently disbarred and jailed for unrelated criminal misconduct, also never challenged the State's decision to try Trina as an adult. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door to the conference room swings open and half a dozen adults rush in. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He’d be sent to an adult prison, where the choice of programs was meager. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On the fourth Sunday of each month, Reverend John H. Cross asked the church’s youth to lead the service, teach the Sunday school classes, and take over jobs the adult members usually did. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If Pa wanted to save money, I wouldn’t be traveling down south as a thirteen-year-old adult. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Percentage increase in the likelihood that a person will be incarcerated as an adult if they have been incarcerated as a juvenile: between 22 and 41. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I remembered she was an adult and I had to think of boundaries. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And now she was talking to him in a way that was not foolish and childlike, designed to entrance, but instead was human and pained and adult. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

When you are sixteen, adults are slightly impressed and almost intimidated by you. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

More laughter sounded from behind the windows of the house, where all the adults, including Miss Perumal and the Washingtons, sipped apple cider and watched the gleeful battle below. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Having gone through puberty, adults are very unlikely to see Holy Beings,” Darkness said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I looked up and saw three adult bonobos at the other side of the clearing, muscular and nearly as tall as people. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I think we must be closer to being alive than adults. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I may not leave the island without adult supervision. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I had more than a few unsavory experiences with peers and adults who were quick to point out my problematic skin. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The neat children were mannerly not only to adults but to other children as well. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In that case, the daemons must have been released during the fire drill itself. And that widens the list of suspects to include every adult in the station. Had you considered that?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sunday actually began his adult life as a professional baseball player. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I had thought they were adults and maybe citizens of Brobdingnag, at least. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If this girl has so fully misunderstood or been so wholly baffled by the strange little scene that has unfolded before her, how might it affect the lives of the two adults? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I watched over time as the girls formed friendships, finding a rapport with one another and with the adults around them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In that case, adults seem to have no problem at all shutting their phones off and describing what a miserable future a kid like me is setting himself up for. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

An adult scheme to spare the two of them an upsetting farewell. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When I was a baby Chapter Eleven was a kid, when I was a kid he was a teenager, and by the time I became a teenager he was an adult. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There’s a straggly line of people, adults and children, along the roadside among the draggled weeds. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And there, in a tall tree, a tree that withstood the strong winds, is one gray fluffy baby and one adult eagle. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s his fault for asking us to act like adults when we’re just kids,” I said, restating Mom’s argument. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The steps to prevent drowning, meanwhile, are pretty straightforward: a watchful adult, a fence around the pool, a locked back door so a toddler doesn’t slip outside unnoticed. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a lull-sized adult. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every move she made, I realize now, was buttressed by the quiet confidence that she’d raised us to be adults. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But when he spoke it was in the harsh rhythms of coaches who had once been athletes who had failed in the same arenas they now presided over as adults. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third time I called, she said, “Hold on, Mira. Are you planning to use the oven? Is there an adult in the house?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The shops and groceries were dark now, and children were running and yelling along the walks, dodging in and out among the adults. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voice was deep, but it didn’t sound like an adult. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The hour for dinner came and I was wedged at the table between talking and laughing adults. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say you have to be a relation and you have to be adult. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’d heard the quills of adult screechers caused a miserable sting and took forever to remove. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Every adult at the table laughed, and Grace smiled. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It’s just like a school cafeteria, but for adults, and nicer. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

They wanted to know if I was acting too adult for my age. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was something scary about watching an adult sleep. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

A dozen or so adults were among the pews, several of them bearing pairs of small-size rubbers, soles up, in their laps. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

One baboon, though, was suspicious, and he decided to hide the next day and see what really happened when the adult baboons had gone in search of food. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Even if the adults were free of the shackles that had held them fast, bondage had stolen too much time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But now he stood with Seer and the other adults. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m an adult, but I’m also you. Technically, this is your time, dude. You got this.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

This aggravates his father no end, and several other adults have made nasty remarks about it too. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The New York Times Poll, which is the source of this and the previous charts in this chapter, was based on telephone interviews conducted March 9-14, 2005, with 4,764 adults throughout the United States. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And all over the country, teens and young adults who had grown up believing they would come of age in wartime rushed to military posts and recruitment offices to volunteer to defend their Motherland. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“He takes care of himself better than most adults. Here — I think this is where we turn.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, the talk turns to politics, which always happens with adult conversations these days. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I was counting on Lester to be more of an adult.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

What he didn’t know was that on those rare occasions when there were no adults around, my brothers would sometimes boost each other over the transom. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There were cigarettes, matches, and dark chocolate wafers for the adults. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

When I finally turn the last corner to my room, Lara and a few of her friends are huddled next to a couple adult agents. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

That, I guess, is why he is one of the few actual adults I know, as opposed to people who are just old. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The speed and power and grace of the adults was startling by contrast, and Mary saw how much a growing youngster must long for the day when the wheels would fit. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Recently, she had begun spreading her wings, taking adult courses in real estate and international economics and business management, dreaming of a bigger-than-family-size life for herself. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Usually we decided together what we could and couldn’t get out of without asking the adults for help. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And, truly, adult chimps in captivity often are dangerous because so many of them have not been well treated. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would be an adult, like his parents, though a new one and untrained still. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were legally condemned children hidden away in adult prisons, largely unknown and forgotten, preoccupied with surviving in dangerous, terrifying environments with little family support or outside help. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For instance, my best friend, Izzy, wasn't allowed to spend the night at my place, because her mom felt there wasn't enough adult supervision in the Saedi home. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I had to put the whole conversation out of my head because adults have no idea what they’re talking about—and if I’d thought about that any more, my brain might have exploded. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In those days it was chivalrous, adult long, religious, almost platonic. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Y’all better have some adult supervision over there, I know that!” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Some of them are kids’ books and some are adult books but I can read anything because my reading score is so high they can’t even rate it. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said how adults couldn't solve problem, let children try. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shouts of agreement echoed throughout the mountain, growing louder as more children and adults yelled their approval. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she had met made any sense. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Working-class life challenges precisely because it is an adult way of life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, rather like Michael Jackson in our own time, Mozart’s childhood had been forfeited to make way for a career as a freakishly talented boy prodigy to be touted around an adult world. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Meetings, called “Home Evenings,” took place in cellars, bams, empty buildings, and other places far away from adults. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I scooted a litde farther away from him because, if there was one thing I had learned from living with Gabe, it was how to tell when an adult has been hitting the happy juice. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Since the children were sometimes seated between adults, giving the look had its dangers—making faces at table could bring down disgrace and an early bedtime. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Still, as we went through the obscene ritual of shopping for the right box in which to bury our dad, Craig and I managed to have our first and only fight as adult siblings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At this stage in her life Briony inhabited an ill-defined transitional space between the nursery and adult worlds which she crossed and recrossed unpredictably. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Were these the same adults that preached how wrong racism and discrimination are? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Here he was, a man with an insatiable appetite for learning, forced for most of his adult life to live in intellectual isolation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Walking through the woods is more dangerous because there are no adults in the woods, just other kids. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

These boys were like adults in their knowledge of the ways of the world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the meal, the grandchildren went into my bedroom to watch a video of a horror movie while the adults stayed outside gossiping in the lounge. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were like so many of the adults around us, content to pretend that all was well as we began classes at Central High on December 2. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These boys have no money. Get rid of them. Do not bring me children. When I go over tonight, I want to take adults with me not children.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

This let me know he was, as Blanca had told me, an adult. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

All the people, all these adults, just started clapping, and one shouted “Bravo!” in a European accent. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

More than anything, she wished to trace the path of each marvelous creature, from egg—laid on a particular host plant—to larva, to pupa, to adult. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When I look back, the four adults are watching me like hawks. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I mean, I personally am pretty okay talking to adults—maybe because I travel a lot and I’ve talked to a lot of adults before—but most kids really don’t like talking to grown-ups. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Like Yuko and Kathy, Mary was an American, born into a Christian household, who had converted to Islam as an adult. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

How encouraging it would be if more adults had your courage, self-respect and integrity. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The Muppets, then, were only seen with other Muppets, and the scenes filmed on Sesame Street itself involved only real adults and children. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around 10:20, after I had collected all the children’s records, I headed toward the steps leading to the sanctuary to collect the adult Sunday school records. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then he noticed a very faint trail of adult footprints in the light of the light post. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She read many grades above her level, was steeped in enrichment classes, and watched adults with a hooded gaze, as though privy to the darkness that lurked in their lives. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

For a second, she looked like she was about to question why a middle schooler wanted to look at adult crime books. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Juveniles housed in adult prisons are five times more likely to be the victims of sexual assault, so the staff at Apalachee put Ian, who was small for his age, in solitary confinement. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes. And I can’t believe the A train is running local today,” I say, trying out Libby’s catchphrase on my first adult. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The Party claimed, for example, that today forty per cent of adult proles were literate; before the Revolution, it was said, the number had only been fifteen per cent. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Less than an hour later, a dozen adults marched into our area. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The adults remained talking on the dock, circling politely around Ed, cooing over baby Will. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

In fact, we tend to judge children’s art according to the same criteria as adult art, only in appropriately simpler terms, and with good reason. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were chinch bugs and grasshoppers, months of drought, elections, slavery, secession, talk of war—the adult world of trouble, though, was not real enough to dim the goodness of an April morning. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He continues his story, but aside from my sisters and me, his audience is snagged on what would strike any sane adult as a considerable stumbling block. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

What is it about adults that makes them all just say the same things? Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He was only fourteen, but he cleared six feet and was as good as an adult to me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Two younger girls that seemed closer to Anya’s age followed, one looking just as enthused as the adults, and one looking sour. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

For every kid, there are like five adults helping them to prepare for the finale—all retired Bureau employees. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The adult finally confronted, and now must publicly say, what the child shuddered from knowing and could never admit to himself or to those many faces that smiled at his every success. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And luckily, no one had told me yet that adult acne was a real thing. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My good fortune, the fortune that saved my life, was that he was not only a young adult but a pliable young adult, an omega animal. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

After sentencing, Trina was immediately shipped off to an adult prison for women. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Even though she often misbehaved, adults never did anything about it, maybe because her father was a rich minister in our community. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were symbols and markers, never children or young adults. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But it might be hard finding a car with enough room to accommodate four kids and two adults. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He believed that most adults stopped thinking the day they left school—and some even before that. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again I was surrounded by a whole room of adults who were silent and shaken by the possible arrival of the Klan. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After Coach Hedge left on his shadow-travel expedition, Leo had decided that his three-legged table could do just as good a job as their ‘adult chaperone’. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In fact, none of the adults knew quite what to say. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

It was like he was born an adult, a father, a doctor. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A picture of an adult and a child. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

There were enough adults now to herd the boys to the building. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When the adults went off to the gift shop, I had her to myself. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

As you may know, complimentary remarks of this type are all too often made by well-meaning adults to children who are, to be frank, perfectly ordinary- looking. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“There’s no way he would let me and a boy sit in the same room without adult supervision.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The tyke rubbed her tangled hair and sighed, a strangely adult sound that made Kira smile sympathetically. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, few Indians carry the gene that permits adults to digest lactose, a form of sugar abundant in milk. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Did his parents get any nicer? Did he grow his hair out as an adult?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A few of the younger adults stood right away and joined hands, circling the singers in a chain. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The clapping stopped, children shrieked, and more than a few adults backed away as a ten-foot giant appeared. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There are about fifty kids, middle-schoolers by my guess, and four adults. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The adults in camp who acted as our caretakers had a long discussion among themselves and decided to head back into Sudan. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adult Sunday school classes met upstairs—each one in a corner of the large main sanctuary or in the balcony between the two great stained-glass windows. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Having lived in Southern strictness, I knew when to keep quiet around adults, but I did want to ask him why he said I peed when I was sure he didn’t believe that. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Part of the madness of our time is that adult men can use a word like humanitarian to describe an H-bomb.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As an adult I saw the way he treated other girls and young women in the program, often with the same disregard for their potential. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

By this time the other adults had come round to watch and encourage one side or the other. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Is a student behind it, or did some adult sneak into our school with a can of red spray paint? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Poppy had always been the leader, the more popular one, the one adults trusted more, and Seven was always second best. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Leaning against a wall was a muscular adult female bonobo; she was sitting there so quietly that I hadn’t noticed her before. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

"They fired question after question at me. They took my words, twisted them, and used them against me. They wanted to know what adults were involved." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

We could never watch television without an adult in the room, she said. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Often a little group was made up of a mother with her children, or two or three adult males by themselves. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The woman said that he had been born with his eyes open, looking at people with the judgment of an adult, and that she was frightened by his way of staring at things without blinking. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was caught up in the lonely thrill of being a teenager now, convinced that the adults around me had never been there themselves. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Jake’s mom was just one of hundreds of adults who were pulling for Riverview in the championship round because it had been their middle school, too. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Many had matured into adults who were much more thoughtful and reflective; they were now capable of making responsible and appropriate decisions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be begging for lenience and then have him go out and hurt someone else. But I also don’t want him sent to adult prison.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The village chief takes all five families to his house and gives us rice and fish for dinner before the adults leave to hear further instructions. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Production of young birds on the New Brunswick breeding grounds is definitely reduced, and adult birds that have been analyzed contain large residues of DDT and heptachlor. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Ratwatte is Sri Lankan, a lively man in his forties who has been flying commercial jets his entire adult life. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Mami stared at me, not understanding but knowing I was being rude to an adult. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The adults sat up front with the driver. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Okay, not a child, but not quite an adult. I think Dad and I rely on you too much to take care of things. We sometimes forget that you need us.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

A useful rule of thumb in this regard is to forget the adults and pay attention to the behavior of the children. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Loyal to my fellow kids, I always buy from the children and not the adults. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the perfect book, since Okonkwo couldn’t do right, and neither could any of the adults on this side of the creek or the other. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Claudette told of having been put into a car, handcuffed through the window, taken to city hall, and locked in an adult jail cell. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

What would-be gorilla or elephant rancher would wait 15 years for his herd to reach adult size? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently the adult mosquitoes had become sufficiently tolerant of DDT to escape from sprayed buildings and rest and recover in the open. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

People like the lieutenant, whom I had obeyed and trusted, had made me question trusting anyone, especially adults. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Their orders in and fresh drinks on the table, the grownups fell into the steady drone of adult conversation. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Different caterpillars developed on different timetables, however: some became adults within weeks, some pupated the entire winter. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

No adult would be going back to sleep that morning. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You boys want to help me carry some bananas to the village?” he asked in that manner that adults usually ask young people, so that we knew he wouldn’t take no for an answer. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Her tone is softer than usual, and I wonder if it’s because we’re around other adults or because she knows what’s next. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I watch in awe as she is rushed by children and adults alike. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was a college for adults, and many years later I found that it was on the House Un- American Activities list of subversive organizations. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never looked at her seriously before, she thought; until now he had always been like an adult indulging a child in a pretty trick. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

My teacher makes the outside world sound scary—full of adults who aren't any better at sharing than my classmates Shyam and Srikant, who play tug-of-war with every book and toy. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m working on a project for school,” I said, because adults love when you talk about school. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sober little adults they had appeared on that first day, dressed in fashions much like their parents’. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s also not controlled. Anyone can go there and play, so unsupervised kids are out there playing. Unsupervised adults are out there playing. And it’s not a healthy environment for kids.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Those numbers are so enormous they’re almost meaningless, even to an adult. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Young offenders, these reformers argued, were different from adults. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was inspired by the real-life actions of children, and did not emerge wholly from an adult’s imagination. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I thought all the adults were purged when their reprogramming failed. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And she never chose her husband, and never even grew up to decide what kind of stuff she liked as an adult, or dated anybody with the same interests. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He smiled like he knew something I didn’t, which is something I hate about adults. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At the next corner a man was beating a small boy brutally in the midst of an immobile crowd of adult spectators who made no effort to intervene. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I wanted adults to make sense of the world. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But the adults preferred to keep this special book to themselves. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But as an adult survivor, as his emotional distance from the camp increases, his fury has given way to guilt and self-loathing. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

If your neighbors are going out every evening and leaving their small son on his own and crying, you should certainly report it to some responsible adult. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

That meant that even though he was being charged as an adult, he could still serve his time in juvenile facilities. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Nne had the solemn demeanor of a child determined to please the adults in her life. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Dangerous for adults. Children can go there freely.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Young children climbed the tree and passed down the fruit, while the taller adults simply stretched and grabbed. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The baby isn’t perched the way the adult is. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

This made them distinct from most of my clients who committed crimes as adults. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, a lot of adults are too blind or cold-hearted to see our pain. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nobody except TC and the two adult facilitators could stop joking around. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Joaquin wore a new suit that made him feel like an adult, and a tie that matched Mark’s. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Now as a young adult I’ve realized that love is more important than material things. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In determining a parent’s influence, which dimension of the child are we measuring: his personality? his school grades? his moral behavior? his creative abilities? his salary as an adult? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I also wondered why white adults would treat black children so cruelly. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ve agreed you can join a team and start playing in competition with the adults, if you think you’re ready,” Frank said. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Only a few adults had ever really helped us. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Carlos: Mom says they won’t buy me one until I’m 18, because she thinks the Gov. wouldn’t challenge an adult’s as much. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The adult males spend a lot of time in each other’s company. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazing activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they’ll let you become an adult. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy stood with the adults and had a convivial glass of beer. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t think adults expect that anyone who is twelve years old and shouldn’t have any worries in this world could think about something like that, but I wonder about it all of the time. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I envy them their adult status and fearlessness of dark stormy nights. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She imagines the thousands of turkeys and chickens, the cows, and the hundred and fifty rosy-cheeked adults and children, settling in for the night. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Too often, adults try to suggest that differences in appearance don’t matter by pretending they simply don’t exist. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Its eggs were unwittingly brought aboard ships in water casks, where they hatched into larvae and grew into adult mosquitoes in seven days. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Previously, prosecutors wanting to charge a juvenile as an adult had to make their case in a fitness hearing before a juvenile-court judge. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You are living in a city. You are with adults here. You must act like one. Have some bhang. It will relax you.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Adults can’t read it, as I understand. As I am to human fighters, so you are to adults with the symbol reader.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He'd always been successful in getting adults to do what he wanted, and this time was no different. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It should be stressed that these works wouldn’t have been easy to read even for an experienced adult player: They aren’t accessible unless a person has the drive to excel in the abstraction of chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My dad asked which of those people would take in two adults, two children, and a dog who eats furniture. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I felt like an adult when I spoke with the FBI. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The scores of the students at City College were less, on average, than adult scores. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Professor Sahib found a group of women who were trying to get on the truck that night,” Habib explained to the other adults. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Apart from those months, for most of his adult life he has never been more than a four-hour train ride away. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They started making adult aprons, then petticoats, then women’s dresses. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But Sarah still has the magical melting effect on hardened adults. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Juveniles, for their part, can be transferred to adult court, where they can be sent to adult prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

All the people—the Lake Windsor players, the students, the adults—were staring at us with their mouths hanging open. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They wanted to find the adults behind the scenes. They thought there must have been a large ring that they could now break up. But there were no adults instigating us.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Jasmine was allowed to see him, six days later, the district attorney had decided to charge Richard as an adult and his name was all over the news. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In Haiti, TB still killed more adults than any other disease, but no one in the catchment area had died from it since 1988. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But like all parents—all adults—they didn’t fight and wheedle for their turn. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Anatole has reorganized the secondary school, which had been in pure collapse for ten years—hardly a young adult in Kimvula village can read. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keeping grizzly bears for longer would be suicidal; I am not aware of any adult that has been tamed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

During the years of puberty they begin to attract Dust more strongly, and it settles on them as it settles on adults. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep an eye out for those adults,” she says, slipping her baby blue cap over her head. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

After six more searches had been conducted in our alley, they were no longer exciting, but the adults I knew grew more and more tense. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, just listened. It was kind of pointless. I mean, you know, the usual, ‘If you need an adult to talk to, we’re here for you.’ Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

After service, the adults linger, talking while we play and run around until Deacon Boyd tells us to stop playing in the Lord’s house. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even though Gram lived her whole adult life in New York City, she was buried back in Unity Valley, next to her mother, my great-grandmother. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

A group of adults looked on, refusing to move at the policemen's command, and muttering about Clifton. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he was an adult I think I probably would have shot him. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In this new book, his first—and, ultimately, only—serious work as an adult, Fischer was anything but sparse. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They will say, She is an adult, and she made her choice. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was one thing for her to have known him as a child; it was another for her to come to terms with the nature of his adult wounds. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their mothers would visit with the adults, and I'd always hide and listen to them talk about our world and what white people preferred. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And somehow the Gustano kids had the sense not to ask questions in front of the adults, who were all shouting questions of their own. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Our girls had a beautiful home, food on the table, devoted adults around them, and nothing but encouragement and resources when it came to getting an education. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

By the end of 2007, more than 7 million Americans—or one in every 31 adults—were behind bars, on probation, or on parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Many adults convicted of attempted murder in Florida serve less than ten years in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But this was my first one-on-one lesson, and I didn’t feel comfortable in such close proximity to an adult male who wasn’t related to me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Even now, as an adult, he was still the litde brother full of desperate love, trying to win an approval that he feared he never would. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Children must do what an adult says to do, whether it is a parent or someone else from the village. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the summer and fall of 1955, Montgomery’s adult black activists thought hard about the buses—which looked increasingly like Jim Crow’s Achilles’ heel. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

In the first days after the outbreak of war, many adult males—both Jews and non-Jews—fled east, away from the front. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

To the adult I am today, my mother needs to say what she would never have needed to say to her child: the boy who faithfully kept family secrets. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Arden was too formal for a person like him, but George felt funny calling an adult by his first name, even though he had said “Call me Paul” more than once. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The All-in Conference called for a national convention of elected representatives of all adult men and women on an equal basis to determine a new nonracial democratic constitution for South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hardly any of the decisions he made had involved consultation with or the supervision of adults. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her week in the world of Cittàgazze, she had seen enough devastation, enough Specter-eaten adults and wild, scavenging children, to have a horror of those ethereal vampires. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Some of the parents, they’re too scared; but that’s not all the adults. I know others will resist. We have to ignore the haters and not worry about what they’ll think.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I had to stop and think, it’s one thing to lie to a grown-up, most times adults want to hear something that lets them take their attention off you and put it on something else. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

"You do understand that a child would not receive as harsh a penalty as an adult would? That there would be no permanent criminal record?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adults were rich, and they were drunk on it. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Male citizens of age, who were entitled and expected to vote in the general assembly, made up no more than a quarter of the total adult population. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I draw adults standing in circles, talking and gesturing with their hands. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In 2005, the Court recognized that differences between children and adults required that kids be shielded from the death penalty under the Eighth Amendment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He would gather up one or two empty kerosene cans from my camp and hit and kick them ahead of him as he charged toward a group of adult males. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was the kind of question that had no answer, the kind of question that adults seemed to be overly fond of asking. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

My hands are clammy because I don’t love having to speak in front of a group of people, especially so many adults. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Its most memorable feature is a glass elevator that rises and falls ceaselessly at its center, much to the amusement of children and adults alike. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I listen to the swish, swish of Mother’s handheld fan, the whispers among adults, the bombs in the ever greater distance. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She could half see, as faintly glowing patches ahead of her, two adults, three children. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

For most of his adult life, Harry Gold had been a spy for the Soviet Union. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eliot is eleven. He can feed and entertain himself; I just want an adult in the house, in case of an emergency.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Because of all the great ideas she’s constantly coming up with, she’s even been asked to sit in on some brainstorming sessions with the adult researchers at the Department of Magical Science. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Hazel figured he would be huge when he was an adult—as strong and healthy as an ox. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I heard, from somewhere distant, the calls of the adult bonobos coordinating their foraging. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It meant adults had to be referred to as Don so-and-so, and Doña so-and-so, except for teachers, who you should call Mister or Missis so-and-so. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Why do adults get to have all the power? Mr. Kiley and Ms. Wyman both say, ‘Work within the system.’ The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was alone and orphaned, in the middle of the Pacific, hanging on to an oar, an adult tiger in front of me, sharks beneath me, a storm raging about me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, looking around for any sign of an adult presence. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He was a fast reader himself—faster than most adults—but compared to Sticky he must seem positively sluggish. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

While she lifted Ben out of his booster seat, Mr. DiAngelo poured more wine for the adults, and I caught a grateful look from my parents as well. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

All of the adults had seemed especially bleary, exhausted, and sad—except Milligan, who always looked that way—yet even so, there was a flicker of excitement, indeed of hope, in every eye. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But I was surprised to see white adults doing battle against children. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Devon even said that by the time I’m an adult I might be the best artist in the country! Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This topic had become the center of my thinking because all the adults around me were always talking about what it meant to be white or, among our people, light skinned. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Radio is new but it has adult responsibilities.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

As with humans, the basic plan for the adult body is furled into an embryo. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Over the course of his adult life, Jeff Martinelli has married three women and buried one of them, a cancer victim. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Young Africans asked me politically sharper questions than one hears from most American adults. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stumbled when she walked, but she kept her balance and she spoke correctly and fed herself, all because her mother treated her like an adult. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was listening to music with ear buds in my ears, so I couldn’t hear what the adults were saying. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the only adult males in the whole of Berlin’s population exempt from defensive duties during its apocalyptic fall to the Red Army in April-May 1945 were the members of the Berlin Philharmonic. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Laila marveled at her daughter’s manner of speech, her cadence and rhythm, her thoughtful pauses and intonations, so adult, so at odds with the immature body that housed the voice. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He can’t tell me to act like an adult one moment and treat me like a kid the next. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on the floor of this huge space were adults and children—ghost people—so many that Lyra couldn’t guess their number. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

My childhood and adolescent life had been made up of times with him, as I later wanted my adult life to be made up of times with Blanca. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

And, he added, “This conduct is very egregious and I don’t think anybody would argue that if it were committed by an adult that the punishment would be cruel and unusual.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine that any one of us would ever talk back to our folks or other adults. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eaglet’s adults are more worried about their nest than their baby, but to answer your question: Anything is possible. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

In certain cultures, both adults and children play games. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Half of them are in their early teens, and the other half are adults. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Adults wouldn’t understand something like this—that Kalinda and I are neither children nor adults. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The children were tired now, or else the adults had regained some authority, because people were lining up raggedly by the main door, with much jostling and pushing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He could burst into the shebeen and knock out all three adults with the bucket. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Whether this report is accurate or not, I’m convinced that a sizable minority of adult Americans wouldn’t be able to pass a simple test on percentages, decimals, fractions, and conversions from one to another. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Each of you is a David, and you will face many Goliaths in life. The job of the adults is to prepare you. And we will.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I look up to the faces of the adults who are all looking in the same direction. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my encyclopedia poignantly puts it: “The legs of the larvae have degenerated, and the adults do not fly.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The adults exchange phone numbers, and Ms. Sitton asks if I have any allergies. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We thought they were boring then, a form of adult gossip that did not concern us. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Screams of laughter covered completely the shouts of the adults trying to regain control, and then the three children were around the corner and out of sight. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Black and white babies were born in separate hospitals, lived their adult lives apart from one another, and were buried in separate cemeteries. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The youngest boy, the one Finn was already thinking of as Other-Finn, was perfectly snaggletoothed, with one adult front tooth partly grown in and one front tooth missing entirely. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

After the priest left some of the kids left, too, and some of the adults got up and started to talk again. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

What choice does any young child have but to do as the adults say? Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know better than to do this experiment without an adult present. You could damage the microwave, or worse.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Huffer has documented the tattoos, and the photographs can be viewed by adults only at the police station. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“We have to tell an adult about the letter eventually.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I believe there should be a total ban on housing children under the age of eighteen with adults in jails or prisons. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It all seemed so old and adult, but I was sure this was what a migraine felt like—having so many questions crowded in your brain, and not quite being able to touch the answers. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Right, this happens to a lot of adults,” Dad says. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I had never heard an adult speak with such respect to teenagers. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sounds like those annoying adults who take babies by the hand and talk in gibberish, in that childish voice. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“When I was a kid, I hated it when adults told me, 'Life’s not fair.’ The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He took factory jobs and minor civil service positions and eventually became a bouncer in a bar on Long Island, which was his principal occupation for much of his adult years. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

These songs are intended for adult voices, and are often out of the comfortable singing range of children. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The steps of the church defined the eternal square where children played and adults talked after dinner. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never seen a giant adult tricycle before. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

What if others— adults—had, upon becoming Twelves, received in their instructions the same terrifying sentence? The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Why did every adult send kids away from the table? Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s surprising how much stuff adults don’t know. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He had at least ten adult relatives pointing at him all at once. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

An adult mind that is brimming with chunks is a powerful engine of reason, but it comes with a cost: a failure to communicate with other minds that have not mastered the same chunks. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He thought he was going to be able to see and talk to them way into his adult years. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I mean, why not? We’re consenting adults. We’ve thought about it. We have a room to ourselves. We like each other...” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Raymie added this question to the list of impossible, unanswerable questions that adults seemed inclined to ask her. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

It meant, if you were a child, you did not speak until spoken to, did not look an adult in the eye, did not raise your voice nor enter or leave a room without permission. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Seventeen is not adult,” I say, but he pretends he can’t hear and doesn’t respond. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, you did the right thing by calling us so quickly. We’re going to take her to the hospital now. Is there another adult around?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we collected ourselves and walked toward the caravan, many of the adults were crying openly. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In theory, in 19 out of 20 cases, the overall results will differ by no more than 3 percentage points in either direction from what would have been obtained by seeking out all American adults. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Wes, now eight years old, was free from any adult supervision till then. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I looked back to the crowd where Joey and Kevin had been standing, and I saw that Coach M and some other adults were holding on to the other three boys. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Some college kids, maybe, but it’s mostly adults, and some of them are gnarled and weathered seniors. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“As an adult, you know these things occur, horrible tragedies,” he says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

We watched Milton’s adult character forming during those years, taking on the no-nonsense attributes of our future father. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When the adult insects emerged, they would be more like dragonflies than anything else, but they were not like any kind of dragonfly that the humans of Will’s world, or Lyra’s, would have seen before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They stopped walking hand in hand within sight of the adults, and they ignored each other so as not to attract attention. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mudbean house was mostly empty at this time of day, as adult witches were busy at work and younger witches were still at school. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As the adults continued their gloomy conversation and Zalmay played with a handheld video game, Fadi shrank back into the fading brown leather seat. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

To us, she was still our kid, long-legged and enthusiastic as she’d always been, though every day she seemed to become a little more adult. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The adults around me behaved so strangely that their images became a freeze-frame, forever preserved in my mind. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An adult voice urged, “Come on, boys. We have to stay with the group.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie had been an adviser and a teacher, the one adult who had stood by him and given him a chance when no one else had. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At times, though, I feared the visits from any other adults who would come to talk to Mother, Papa, and Grandma about what was going on outside our community. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In a blink, I'm pushing my way through the ring of adult bodies. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Henson and his coworkers created puppets who could walk and talk with the adults of the show and could live alongside them on the street. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell your friends to buy tickets. They’re now on sale in the student activities room. The price is seventy-five cents for students and one dollar for adults.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

At seventy-eight, he was giving as an adult and taking as a child. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This, he knew, could make even an adult nervous. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Florida is one of a few states that allows the prosecutor to decide to charge a child in adult court for certain crimes and has no minimum age for trying a child as an adult. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He still retained a childlike belief in magic, tempered by an adult determination to exploit it. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

In some plates, caterpillars and pupae are shown with the wrong adults. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As she grew older the group, the herd, which is any collection of children, began to sense what adults felt, that there was something foreign about Cathy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He asks her to read lines from the mother of the golden boy, a difficult role for any high schooler because she will have to play the part of an adult. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand how adult relationships worked; I’d never even had a girlfriend. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In other tests in which both pheasants and quail were the subjects, the adults produced no eggs whatever if they had been fed insecticide-contaminated diets throughout the year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Even though I wasn’t allowed to go over to Monday’s without an adult, I pedaled my purple bike down the sidewalk—not brave enough to ride in the busy street. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Infants, children, older adults, and people with health conditions are more easily affected by Carbon Monoxide and their symptoms are more severe. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Children, especially very young children, cannot express themselves fluently either through speech or writing—two modes of communication that adults use almost exclusively. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Except for Stanley and Hector, everyone there was an adult. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Too small for an adult, the wrong proportions for a child. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Lee had been their contact with the adult world, and Lee had managed not only to raise, feed, clothe, and dis- cipline the boys, but he had also given them a respect for their father. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That meant Charlie wouldn't be sent to an adult prison, and he would likely be released before he turned eighteen, in just a few years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But as he saw the sober faces of the adults, he was reminded of how his mother would always send baskets of food to Sunjin’s family and others. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They probably still loathe school, but when they go home, their computers are passports to a vast, complex, and communicative world, one still largely invisible to many parents, educators, and other adults. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is with this question all the time, adults? Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It made me realize how powerful adult claws must be. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

As she was answering questions, a couple of adults asked her what ethnicity she was, Croatian? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Finally he said: “I have no choice. I can only hope you will change your mind,” he paused, “and act more like an adult and less like a schoolgirl.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was adults, and somehow that was much worse. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The living room decor was sparse, with a velvet brown pull-out sofa and a matching ottoman and a TV console covered with adult diapers and unwrapped syringes. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He never talked about his career dreams; he wasn't the type to look more than a few months in advance, and I can't picture an adult Bas. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The adults all started talking and saying thanks and how wonderful it all was. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The door cracks open just wide enough for an adult to squeeze through sideways. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Unseen, from two stories up, with the benefit of unambiguous sunlight, she had privileged access across the years to adult behavior, to rites and conventions she knew nothing about, as yet. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I see fear in his eyes, and bewilderment, and, most astonishing of all, the fact that some adult worry is taking precedence over our walk together. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Every adult is shaped by the experience of childhood and adolescence. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And a curious one, too—for every person in the car, adult and child alike, realized just then that they trusted this eleven-year-old boy quite without reservation. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I watched those adults take off at the sound of Byrd’s crooning. That banging pot, too.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When Immie looked at her expectantly, she added: “Every day there’s time to actually see the sky, and to taste what I’m eating. There’s room to stretch out. No work, no expectations, no adults.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When order and peace prevail at Truman, it is because the administration and faculty keep a tight rein—or at least that’s what the adults running the show believe. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She smiled at Aaron, suddenly feeling very adult. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they catch me and I’m arrested, I’ll be charged as an adult. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He gazed up at the adults, evidently disappointed by the lack of reaction. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The consequences of uncoupling could indeed be disastrous for any organism from embryo to adult: in time it could lead to the death of the tissue or even of the organism. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t say that I was really an adult, but I wasn’t a child anymore, that was certain. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the zoo the adult lions and tigers ate on average ten pounds of meat a day. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some adults were excited too, but to be certain the whole young population had come down with graduation epidemic. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many critics of television, to this day, argue that what’s dangerous about TV is that it is addictive, that children and even adults watch it like zombies. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chief teaches and explains to the adults the philosophy of the Angkar while all the new people sit and listen. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He wants me to give up the organizers and tell him if anything else is being planned. Apparently, he thinks some adults are using us to forward their radical freedom agenda.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

For the first few minutes the adults exchanged news. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The adults said hello at the door, but after that, it seemed to be just kids. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“The kids are just imitating what they’ve seen adults doing,” he said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even if he took the deal, what guarantee was there that Richard wouldn’t be sent to adult prison when he turned eighteen? The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As the adults drank coffee, Mr. Rubin took a phone call and excused himself from the table. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Although closely related to mosquitoes, the gnat is not a bloodsucker and probably does not feed at all as an adult. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Because charging down the bank towards Rick were four of the big adult males. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be a baby, but instead, I was an adult who talked like one, a spooky man-child demanding more than his fair share of attention. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“And in exceptional cases we can make one ovary yield us over fifteen thousand adult individuals.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adults from church took every opportunity to encourage and compliment us. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then he turned and led us back through the rows of adult trees. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some days, I would eavesdrop on conversations among my parents and other adults. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His tone carried with it a heavy dose of suggestion, and she realized he hadn’t told either of the adults the actual story of what had happened. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The autumn before last, I’d seen two adult screechers eating spotted oak moths. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The women and older people in the village stood on their verandahs and watched as we were led away by the adult soldiers into the clearing toward the forest. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

So Billy moved a little farther back, but not as far as the part for adults only. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The euthanasia, or “mercy death” program, targeted physically and mentally disabled infants, children, teenagers, and adults living in hospitals and institutions. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A dwindling bail fund made many adults reluctant to participate in demonstrations, so King, himself finally out on bail, organized a children’s march on May 2. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once we leave Blackstone Prison, Lord Kensington brings me to the Department of Supernatural Investigations to be debriefed, same as the adult agents whenever they get back from an important mission. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

One by one, more doors opened, and more adults appeared. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“This is supposed to be a family of all adults.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was even one thing to put a teenager—almost an adult—out of his or her misery, like Alec had done to the Toad. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And the Star Children, as they were called, grew from happy infants to kind adolescents to gracious adults. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We walked around the Quonset hut, through the rows of adult trees, and out to the baby trees—the Golden Dawn tangerines. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been a competitive swimmer and boxer in school, too, and as an adult was a fan of every televised sport, from professional golf to the NHL. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But I did not think it likely that the adult crows would venture down the steeple into the church, or that they would even realize where the baby had fallen. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But those adults a lot of times have no clue about the answer. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They were brittle and peeling—smaller than I remembered, too—and looking at them now, as an almost adult, it struck me how blatant the fakery was. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

As we make our way to the main entrance, I see adults who remind me of Hollywood movie stars and fashion magazine models. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Still, the man had adult muscles and was plying the oars with determination. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was one thing for black and white adults to clash, to fight against each other. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Could she trust it now, the hilarious freedom of the upward flight, the blind trust in the kindly grip of adult wrists, when the fifth person could so easily have been Robbie? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But youth culture has frequently been offensive to adults—that’s often the point—and culture has always evolved. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its good to have frends... nov 21—I did a dumb thing today I forgot I wasnt in Miss Kinnians class at the adult center any more like I use to be. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now that a lot of the adults have “jobs,” most of them are occupied during the day. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

From them, you get a peek into what’s in the hearts of the grown-ups, buried under all the emotions and rationalizations that come with adult concerns. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

They had four boys, and only one lived to be an adult. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They did a few circles overhead, then got their bearings and began stinging every adult in sight. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly adult. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They put the young people’s presentations on first, before all of the speeches and the musicians and the adult poets. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Later the adults kissed Grandpa, giving him gentle abrazos so as not to cave in his eggshell chest. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now some adults wanted to send Spares to live on the same island. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

His youngness and single-mindedness were obvious enough, but perhaps his general demeanor altogether lacked, or had too little of, that sort of cute solemnity that many adults readily speak up, or down, to. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The community was always attentive and supportive; each adult had been through this experience and knew how important it was. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The three adults paid tribute to Amaroq until he was almost smothered with love; then he bayed a wild note that sounded like the wind on the frozen sea. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Franz, a devout Christian, had spent most of his adult life in the army, stationed in Shanghai and Okinawa. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For older children and stouthearted adults, Lakewood boasted a large roller coaster that filled the air with the clacking of metal on wood and the delighted shrieks of its riders. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He says, “I can take one side of George’s sheet. Together we can spread out and hide the nest from the adults.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We lost a few adult soldiers on our side and my friends Musa and Josiah. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As his voice rose and fell, the other adults sang out and the puppies yipped and bounced. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He greeted the adults, hugged the kids, and kissed Franz right on the lips. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

If it would be better for her to tell an adult the truth—the one thing I’ve been too afraid to do. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

A lot of kids brought letters from older demigods in the outside world, adults who were veterans of the camp. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As an adult he lived in England while owning two thousand people on the distant island. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Like most of the adults in this school, Mrs. Parker is white. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I’d seen Psycho Mong mess with almost every kid in the Lighthouse, heard stories about him breaking residents’ arms and all that, but I’d never seen dude go after an adult. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Most times if you tell a adult that they’ll leave you alone, but not this man. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the adults were closer to the exit than we were, and rather than running around them, we tried to barrel straight through. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how to respond, because it’s always so awkward when adults comment on your age. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I blink in surprise as the adults in the room exchange glances. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You know what the worst thing about adults is?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Discovering, while scuffling with an enemy at a circus, that adults would give quarters to fighting kids to pacify them, Louie declared a truce with the enemy and they cruised around staging brawls before strangers. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“You’re now an adult,” explained the old woman on the first one, which happened halfway through my stay on the mountain. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the adults would come and take us and the other kids for a break, we'd go downstairs to eat some of the fancy food they had prepared. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They were definitely not adults, though, and they didn’t seem dangerous. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how adult I seemed, she told them, I would definitely grow out of it when I became a teenager. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

With just nine hundred Jews in the village, this meant every able-bodied adult male had to work. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had never heard of these adult education classes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole world was arranged for people who had money—for adults who had money. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of us bring children—some are adults now like my daughter, Kellie. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The spells that make the attic impenetrable function only if it is occupied by children. Without children, or with adults in the room, the barriers become ineffectual.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Max and I sure have turned all the adults into emotional wrecks. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We look adults in the eyes ask, How are you? Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was a strange feeling for Brian, the role reversal with an adult. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed tears were streaming down the faces of many of the adults. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was uncomfortable with it, the business of being in control over an adult—or anybody, for that matter. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Being an adult with a fairly steady history of supporting myself, I figured the test could do no real harm. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He is seen as special and as a person worthy of adult attention and interest. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He gives us a disappointed look like adults do so well when you are not doing what they think you should be doing. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The adults were looking around, and then the woman put the monkey down, and it began to cast this way and that on the grass as if it were scenting or looking for footprints. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night after dinner Ben came downstairs with Mary Anne to say good night to the adults. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spot the elevators at the back of the lobby and make my way through the crowd of adults. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Max has her eye on a group of green-shirted adults and kids huddling by the entrance. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

CLAUDETTE: When I came out of the courthouse, I was surrounded by adults. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“There’s an information session happening in two weeks. I have to bring an adult.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I want you to imagine you’re an adult. And I want you to picture the life you want to have. Oh, and hold on...” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

They demanded the names of the adult ringleaders. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The way his legs were bunched up, looks like there’s not enough room for a full-grown adult.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Once they landed in adult court, young black and brown offenders were also much more likely to serve time. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Yet I like hearing adults murmuring, feeling the sun through the window, lying on my tummy on a soft carpet, worrying only about jumping checkers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The voice was reasonable and kind, in the way that pleasant adults sometimes have with children. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The girl looked at once childish and prematurely adult. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

From a flat upstairs, an adult yelled, “Nee any a, if you children make patches on the garage walls with that ball, I will cut off your ears!” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

With their kind parents dead and Count Olaf treating them so abominably, the three children were not used to kindness from adults, and weren’t sure if they were expected to do anything back. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The same fate befell every adult in the party apart from the two who had fled on their horses. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Honestly, I was grateful to have a skill I could use. And to live on my own. It’s a relief to be an adult.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

On the coffee table a dish of rose jelly reflected light from the sparkling glasses of wine the adults were drinking. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

An adult voice said, Where are you supposed to be right now? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Coraline could hear the smile in his voice, and she tried extra hard to sound like an adult might sound, to make him take her seriously. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Humans learned that it was to their advantage to hunt only adult rams and old or sick sheep. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were too many of us for adults to take care of, so the adults put some of the older boys like me in charge of the younger ones. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seymour and I were both adults—he was even long out of college—by the time you and Franny were both able to read. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Had it not been for the tribal law which forbade children from intruding in adult conversations, I would have long said something, for I too had strong opinions about what was being discussed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom held and comforted the adult bonobos while they slowly fell asleep. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In that way, many adults can coexist in the herd without constant fighting and with each knowing its rank. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I talked briefly about my experience and my hope that the war would end—it was the only way that adults would stop recruiting children. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

For almost three months, he had put up with the adults from the Circle Justice committee. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I feel like an adult—his equal, and his friend. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Will sat frozen, with his heart thudding so hard he was afraid the adults would hear it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the average adult knows fewer than 1,500 other adults, or, more likely, most of the people he or she does know live close by and are not spread about the country. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the adults drank coffee and laughed in the kitchen, a parallel scene would unfold outside as Craig and I joined whatever pack of kids came with those adults. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On the trip home he sees his sister being groped by the judge's adult son and he reacts violently, striking the man in the head with a piece of wood. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Either he has accepted that I am an adult now, or he has accepted that I am no longer his daughter. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Many states lowered or eliminated the minimum age for trying children as adults, leaving children as young as eight vulnerable to adult prosecution and imprisonment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It engineered a successful campaign to force an adult bookstore out of the downtown. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poultry plant bus came each day to pick up adults and take them to the factory where they would daily pluck, hack, and process thousands of chickens. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Lelia has cookies and juice ready for the kids and coffee for the adults, who usually leave after five minutes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adults each had their own foam mattresses, and there was one big one that we’d roll out into the middle, and the kids slept on that. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Was anything more annoying than big kids and adults telling little kids they weren’t old enough to know something? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ho, even though she and Brian were eighteen and therefore legally adults, even though they had been together for so long. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You know we need an adult with us. Besides, I’m happy wearing one pair, thank you very much.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“No. I didn’t see any adults other than the soldiers,” I answered, feeling the pain in my shin and my stomach. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We played a game called “river kids,” imagining we lived alone on the river, scavenging for our livelihood and hiding from the adults who wanted to put us in an orphanage. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The vast majority of child prodigies don't become adult geniuses. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

So if you’re wondering whether it’s harder for the adults here than for the children, the answer is no, it’s certainly not. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Then the adults themselves noticed that their noses were getting bigger and that they were growing hairier. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Abraham stayed with me for about two months and then went to live with other adults. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At some point, George mentioned to one of the white adult searchers that he and his sister had seen the girls earlier in the day. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were too small to have come from an adult human. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“People don’t notice all sorts of things. Especially adults,” Elena says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ammu felt a sudden clutch of love for her reserved, dignified little son in his beige and pointy shoes, who had just completed his first adult assignment. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it did, Richard would be transferred to an adult prison when he turned eighteen. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But graduation meant that, at age sixteen, he had become an adult worker. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Most American adults owned a cell phone, and most cell phones had a camera. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We demand universal adult franchise and we are prepared to exert economic pressure to attain our demands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew this shark as well as any of the adults on the boat. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The app is designed mainly for adults, not teens. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ernestine used to remark, in a tone tinged with envy, that Lill was probably New Jersey’s youngest gold digger, and that few adult gold diggers ever had received more, in return for less. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the while, I could hear the trickle of conversation going on between the adults in the kitchen nearby, my parents' laughter ringing easy and loud over the yard. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I count five adults—five people who came when I called for help, even if they didn't exactly know what to do. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Why do all adults think smiling is the answer? The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

With only a few adults to supervise us, we had to create our own ways of living from day to day. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the adult service ends, we meet Uhmma in the fellowship hall. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

There’s an old wedding picture and Coach is the best man; he’s rocking a huge Afro, wearing a powder-blue tuxedo, and looking more like my classmates than an adult, which makes me smile. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truth was, they were both still trying to find their feet as adults and feeling a little in over their heads as a married couple. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“It will be easier to protect the children if adults aren’t there,” he said. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An additional five million people serve in the army reserve for much of their adult lives. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

More like, she took up for Candice when people—usually adults—said she couldn’t do something. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The next step is to a find an adult representative to sign the paperwork. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In grade ten we had to do a week of work experience, to see what life was like in the adult world. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

After graduating from North Carolina A&T, Blair left the state for a job in Massachusetts, where he continues to live, working with developmentally disabled adults. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But adults know that life frustrates meticulous planners and makes a mockery of control, so onstage, that is what Volpe takes away from Wayne. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

For us Dinka, elders are the respected adults who guide us and care for us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mr. Wilkinson was an adult, a man, a man she barely knew. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I learned then that the whiny thing isn't just for kids, but also for adults that adults had been hearing about. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Because I loved being around little kids and I quickly learned that it was a pleasing answer for adults to hear. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of coming from old money, apparently, was having old-person habits, those gross, adult needs and desperate palliatives. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Now, for the first time, I felt the equal of an adult; I knew that I had been beaten for a reason that was not right. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been taught not to argue with adults, anyway. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Nothing much happened in court, other than Du Bois announcing his plans to file a motion contesting the decision to try Richard as an adult. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"Not when they see that we can think like adults." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Teachers and other adults seemed to value me as an example. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at this man who seemed to have none of the fears and hesitation of my parents or the other adults around us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes on those hot summer days, we wore swim trunks, at least if we thought any adults might be around. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Conference of Mayors, 67 percent of the adults requesting emergency food aid are people with jobs. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe adults thought a teenager’s testimony wouldn’t hold up in the legal system. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Even Nathaniel Blackwood, the high-priced criminal defense lawyer hired by his dad, told Cole he might be tried as an adult. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Well, in order to do anything, we need an adult witness.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For three weeks, Anthony wrestled with the issue, torn between loyalty to her closest friend and devotion to the organization she had worked for all her adult life. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But still, for Twelves, though they had begun their adult training, there were the endless lists of rules to be memorized and the newest technology to be mastered. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even adults slightly tilt their guess about where a person will look for a hidden object in the direction of where they themselves know the object to be. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

We may not look it, but around these parts we’re adults. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She says the words in a fake adult voice. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Here and there, adults herded the children along, and I heard one say, “Don’t worry, you’ll see your mummies and daddies again soon!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He learns the skills he will need as an adult. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He looks at my mom, and they share one of those meaningful adult looks, like they don’t know I’m right here, watching them, and that I have a brain of my own. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Soon after, the pupa ecloses, or splits open, and the adult crawls out. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And it was only the children who spoke; the adults all seemed sunk in a lethargy so ancient that they might never move or speak again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Young bonobos were mischievous and charming, but the adults were a different story. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You could,” said Alec, “but only if you try very hard to look at things as an adult does.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Going into the state hospital was easier having an adult with me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe your parents were going to give away Sir Fig! Why do adults always want to split up friends?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Most adults abandon fallen or missing babies for one reason: HOPE. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Like winning the lottery, finding Halliday’s Easter egg became a popular fantasy among adults and children alike. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

His shiny eyes, bony hands, and shadowy smile all seemed to be things only adults possess. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The rest of us wait with the bags while the adults talk quietly. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The prosecutor insisted that Charlie be tried as an adult, and he announced that he intended to seek the maximum punishment permitted by law. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I pointed out to my father that Danny was anyway reading on his own now, without direction from an adult. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There were always adults available to encourage this relentless preening. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

One of the three adults would read to us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

You can hardly show me a black adult in America—or a white one, for that matter—who knows from the history books anything like the truth about the black man’s role. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then most of the adults started to gather around the cleared tables and I went over to the deserted horseshoe pits to see what was so all-fired important about throwing horseshoes. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Freud by then was a fully adult male, but he still spent time with his family and often played gently with both of his small sisters.Young brothers or sisters can sometimes be very useful. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed violently angry in a way I’d never experienced alone in a room with an adult. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Now that your nephew has an adult with him,” Taylor finally said, “I’d like to ask him some questions.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Whatever the case, the mouse was bitten by a young viper but devoured—and immediately—by an adult. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

To the racket Of chicharron Being devoured By adult teeth In a fourth grader’s head. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, outlaw or no outlaw, he was an adult, and I still felt unsure of myself around adults. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The average lifespan of an adult mayfly can range from: A. One minute to one hour B. Thirty minutes to one day C. One day to one week D. Two weeks to one month.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She's looking around, waiting for an adult to appear and claim me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That is as much of an apology as any child will get from an adult in Cambodia. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children today know a lot more about these sorts of things than most adults did when I was your age. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Will it get any easier when I’m an adult? The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The children were brought up next, and then all of the adults. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The adults supervise you, but they don’t get down on your level and talk to you. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Thomas asked, thinking it kind of strange that Chuck was suddenly acting like an adult instead of the little kid desperate for a friend he’d been only moments earlier. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The letter was from two groups that might have been expected to support O’Malley’s decision to charge Richard as an adult: the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the Transgender Law Center. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I saw myself holding an AK-47 and walking through a coffee farm with a squad that consisted of many boys and a few adults. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A sign in there said that adults only were allowed in the back. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is difficult, as an adult, to watch Blue’s Clues and not wonder how this show could ever represent an improvement over Sesame Street. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the crowd in the mysterious room at the bottom of the basin was comprised of adults, and Harry knew there were not nearly that many teachers at Hogwarts. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Peña: two adults, two minors. Nice to meet you. I’m Ben, the children’s Monitor for the ship.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At a party I got into a conversation with an adult I didn’t know. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Nobody is saying anything about babies, Holmesy. This is about one adult person who happened to be human falling in love with another adult person who happened to be a Wookiee.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The adults rush to huddle near the door. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Dr. Johnson was just inside the glass doors talking to two other adults—Tomas Cruz and a woman who I recognized from the soccer games. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a surge of pride as I read my first adult book—and a book about Africa written by an African. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Jeanine has spent most of her adult life developing the serums. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The adults in Volpe’s household—his mother, father, and maternal grandmother—spoke Italian to one another, but not to him or his younger sister, Rosemary. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Emily Sue was already, in her opinion, an adult, unlike certain other members of her class, such as me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The adults move from the porch, and Ray circles back. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Most of the adults, with good reason, were afraid to risk the little they had worked so hard to gain. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Our family allowed some romance, paying adult brides’ prices and providing dowries so that their sons and daughters could marry strangers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She uses her adult voice, so I know that she’s very serious. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In Switzerland, every adult male is issued an assault rifle for militia duty and is allowed to keep the gun at home. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Victor,” he asked, “what do adults do all day?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In church the adults kept saying Reverend King would eventually be driven out of Montgomery or they’d murder him, since whites would never give in. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I’m used to it, my brother and his friends say it all the time, when there are no adults listening. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They have a lot of my favorites in the thriller and young adult sections. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Their trailer became the local hangout because there was no adult supervision. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Don’t distract her,” said one of the adults. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was indeed an adult version of the sickly white faces of the boys in the playground. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The three adults looked at each other, and then they smiled. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even as an adult, he seemed haunted by that place.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

My siblings stood in a loose half circle around the room, facing the four intruding adults: three large, unfamiliar men, plus a woman I’d seen before, from the welfare office. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The notion that juvenile offenders are fundamentally different from adult ones lasted for more than eighty years. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As an adult, he found his magic in the manipulation of electrical currents. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Here Roy let Beatrice take over the story, as she was more experienced at fibbing to adults. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you two doing here? This is adult talk. Go upstairs,” Salma Auntie scolds as she peers behind the sofa at us. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Chastened, she resumed the tones of adult conversation. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The first thing to worry about was Rules and Things number 547, or something, that was the one about when a adult tells you, “Don’t worry.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The one in front was young, with well-groomed, glossy black hair, somewhere in age between Otto and the adults farther in the background. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then she sits down across from me as one adult might sit down across from another, her legs crossed, her back straight, her hands folded in her lap. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

This was just something adults said to make a kid feel better in the moment. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Nhamo! Having a few periods doesn’t make you an adult. You have so much to learn—and you’re so clever.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adult lacewing feeds mostly on plant nectars and the honeydew of aphids, and in time she lays her eggs, each on the end of a long stalk which she fastens to a leaf. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Peeking around the opening, she saw the room was full of adults who she didn’t recognize. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Three adults waiting at a bus stop eyed them suspiciously. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I held many debates with Mother, Grandma, and other adults. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I know her. She’s just going to run and blab to the first adult she sees, because she figures she knows what’s best for me. But she doesn’t know.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It was the most beautiful thing an adult who wasn’t my mom or dad had ever said to me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Though I was only seven, my images of certain people from this period are very precise, because I had begun to see adults for the first time. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

What a strange word in an adult voice. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the growing months, quite a few of my schoolmates had—as adults liked to say—“developed.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was being charged as an adult, which meant he no longer had the protections given to juveniles, one of which is anonymity. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In addition, measles and some of our other “childhood” diseases are more likely to kill infected adults than children, and all adults in the tribelet are susceptible. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In Germany, 93 people are in prison for every 100,000 adults and children. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Reassured, he stands again and starts asking the adults questions about what happened. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Most adults would have gone straight to accusing a kid of stealing. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

If Canada had a second hockey league for those children born in the last half of the year, it would today have twice as many adult hockey stars. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

As the adults ushered the children inside, with everyone staring back and pointing, the ground crew clambered up the ladders in the mast and prepared to attach the mooring cables. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It’s true that in terms of pure intellect, teenagers are just as smart as adults, just as able to reason, and just as knowledgeable about the consequences of risky behavior. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen little kids chased each other in and around the adults, who watched with smiles. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Now the adults seemed to talk a lot about some kind of recession thing that was going on. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was delicate, thin, with a curiosity that unnerved the adults, but unlike the inquisitive and sometimes clairvoyant look that the colonel had at his age, his look was blinking and somewhat distracted. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Say good morning to your aunt,” Brave Orchid would order, although some of them were adults. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although we associate rounds with children, there are many complex and lengthy rounds with more serious topics for adults. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“How about that Elizabeth! How’d a little kid like that know how to handle those two creeps? I’m pretty good at handling adults and people like that, but boys! Yick!” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m more of an adult than you. I balance your checkbook, remember?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It was a fine morning; many people around him were troubled, he knew, but that was a part of the adult world which he accepted as a matter of course. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was told that because of his past record and the violence of this attack, he would be kept locked up while prosecutors filed a motion to transfer him to adult court. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Children died in droves, and adults ate bread by the sweat of their brows. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

No adult has ever winked at me, other than the science teacher in elementary school who had the neurological condition. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She knew adults played Book Scavenger, but she didn’t think that meant teachers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They’d slaughter the adults for food, keep the young bonobos as pets or for sale, and do who knows what to me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Citing the severity of the crime, the district attorney will charge him as an adult, stripping him of the protections normally given to juveniles. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Don would spend most of his adult life in Costa Rica. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I kept my eyes on the ground, carefully avoiding both the adults’ faces. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Panic over the impending crime wave expected from these "radically impulsive, brutally remorseless" children led nearly every state to enact legislation that increased the exposure of children to adult prosecution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They must get away, because dangerous as the Tartars were, far more dangerous were the adults of Bolvangar. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I listened in as adults spoke about what they thought of themselves and other community members based on color. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I swear, adults act worse than sixth graders sometimes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Moss didn’t know much about him; he’d been reelected the previous year, and most of the adults in Moss’s life hated him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Some adult members of Abnegation are herded toward one of the nearby buildings, along with the Abnegation children. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Which is good, because those kids don’t have any reliable adults in their lives. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

One day our adult caretakers, including Abraham, decided that it would be unsafe to linger in Pochala. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids and adults, hanging, enjoying the nice weather. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the demon boys threw stones, and other times it was a group of restless adult demons who were out for a little “sport.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adults were all taking their time over coffee, and the cousins were in the family room watching SpongeBob, so I took Jeffrey up to bed. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although as boys they had done everything together, their work as adults had been different. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I had to sit with the adult chaperone who smelled like Funyons. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it’s because he’s worried and he means well, and he is one of the few adults in my life who pay attention. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I know that I have a budding geek, and if I can get him sane through the next thirteen years, there will be another decent adult on this planet. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, after the war Massachusetts sold more than a thousand Indians into slavery—perhaps one out of every ten native adults in the region. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Chess wasn’t one of those kids who yelled at adults—neither were Finn or Emma. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

No adult had ever said that to me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Many caterpillars looked almost identical to one another but ate different foods and hatched into very different adults. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The adults never mentioned it, and neither did most of the kids—about half of them, only lived with one parent, anyway. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, adults helped them in many ways, but basically the boys knew that drawing as little attention to themselves as possible was their best chance of survival. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Now they were adults and eager to begin anew. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Geez. Look at it this way. If you add our ages together, we're not minors; we're one adult. Freebie isn't a pet. He’s a hotel guest and family member. And I showered after basketball.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I straddle our bags, finally as tall as the adults, and look down at Chou. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I really wasn’t in the mood to have one more adult tell me that doing nothing was the greatest thing I could do, but I figured my mom deserved an update. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

At home we grouped into a tight knot, two adults and seven children inside two rooms. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I could hear the gruffer voices of adults arriving on the scene. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the federal system, adults who unintentionally commit arson-murder where more than one person is killed usually receive sentences that permit release in less than twenty-five years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But when I realized the adults actually wanted to hear my thoughts, I relaxed. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I was tired of adults complaining about how badly they were treated and not doing anything about it. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

So he continued teaching his adult classes and planning for the Madison Square Garden rally due to take place in the last week of February. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The old courtesies poured out of him at the approach of an adult. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an emotional explosion that was as surprising as any of today’s weirdness, Otto hauled off and hit TimeStar—an adult—in the chest. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Someone was going to have to be the adult in the situation, since the matrons were all too busy worrying about each other. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t entirely comfortable talking with an adult he had just met about almost dying in the desert and being saved by a Holy Being. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Yep, not the kid stuff I used to pretend with, but seriously expensive adult woman makeup! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Plus, it must have been a little embarrassing that they were on really fast motorcycles and he was pedaling an adult tricycle. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Two-thirds of the adults have had four or more years of college and earn more than $100,000 a year, twice the American family average. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I wish I didn’t have to move,” I said, wondering why adults always thought kids had it so easy. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It resembled MacGregor, of course, because it was his clone, but MacGregor was an adult with differences that made it hard to see the connection. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re enjoying it extremely, thank you very much,” she says in her voice for adults. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

For months he had moved along the edge of the furor that raged among the adults of his family, of the neighborhood, and even of the church. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christine dutifully submitted to civil defense drills at school, ducking and covering under her desk, practicing the maneuver that adults said would protect her and her classmates from that telltale flash “brighter than the sun.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Now that you’re older, the doctors have an opportunity to work out what you might look like as an adult,” she continued. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The uncut lawn had dandelions tall enough for the adult rides at Six Flags. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He doesn't seem to care that I'm not with an adult. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One of the adults went off to filter water and fell in the creek. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But they’d been taught to keep quiet with adults, so they never told their teachers how much they were missing. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was a throng of children and adults by the main entrance, but this time the adults were more agitated and the children more fearful: much more fearful. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Hilda had the rest of our siblings herded into a corner, as far from the adults as possible. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned to adults to solve her problems. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the adults were threatening to hang one of us, some of the Central High students appeased themselves by hanging an effigy on the front lawn. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His voice is high and meepy, and it breaks my heart for an adult to sound that way, so broken, so desperate. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The adults raised their wineglasses, and Joseph and Frankie toasted with apple juice. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She is taught how to interact comfortably with adults, and to speak up when she needs to. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

"Even if we are caught, we won't be tried as adults." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I know this is a conversation for adults. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The possibility of meeting a white adult here frightened me, more than the possibility of street violence ever had at home. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

In short, there would be a multiparty democracy based on universal adult suffrage on a common voters’ roll. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since children are smaller and still growing, the danger for them is greater than for adults. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Shepherd was an acquired taste: He told tales in novelistic form about his childhood in the Midwest, his life in the army, and his adult misadventures in New York City. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The other adults filed out of the room. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Any adult male citizen, that is, was eligible for the 6,000-strong jury pool. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Kalinda is good at hiding her expressions and emotions, as the adults often are. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her father added, “How were you going to fight two adult men who might have turned on you as well?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And though it horrified her, it was another entry, a moment of coming into being, another first: to be hated by an adult. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Kapugen had said that with one sniff a wolf knew if you were male or female, adult or child, if you were hunting or not hunting—even if you were happy or sad. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were about thirty boys of my own age on the expedition as well as four experienced adult leaders. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adults get mad, evasive, and shut you up if you ask. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew that an adult had no business with sweets. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He explained that he had seen some adult refugees playing soccer in the park and had assumed they were affiliated with the Fugees. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The redbeard had never seen Scipio and so he probably thought he was dealing with an adult. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I look longingly at the adults in the crowd. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An adult blue whale can be thirty meters long and weigh 150 tons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some children want to be babies and some want to be adults. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When they became adult, these geese left him and flew off with wild geese. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I know the adults in your life have not made it easy.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“All that worrying. Seems like the worst part of being an adult to me.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

There were three adult supervisors and seventeen Boy Scouts, all charmingly incompetent. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Many deaths, and not only of the war-sick, the adult males. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had a beautiful wife, an adult woman with curves. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I've represented abused and neglected children who were prosecuted as adults and suffered more abuse and mistreatment after being placed in adult facilities. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Right now the hospital is undergoing renovations and we’re very tight for space, so your son will be admitted with the adults.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was the only adult—except for Aunty Uju—who treated me like a person with an opinion that mattered. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

This warlike name was faintly familiar, with its whiff of school and adult certainty, but the twins found their courage in each other. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Each unit had an outdoor grill and picnic table, and they shared a swing set; inside, I was told, there was a television, a kitchen, and separate sleeping areas for kids and adults. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many times when I felt shame, and all the hope drained from my soul as I watched the adults in my family kowtow to white people. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, very strange things. People said that a few turns on the merry-go-round of the Merciful Sisters made adults out of children and children out of adults.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was proud his father was speaking to him as an adult. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Did any adult witness this incident?” the woman clerk asked in an unsympathetic tone. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No deeper, longer hush from an adult bird to its baby. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

All the adults had said it would be best for me to watch my manners and be a good girl—in following God's will and obeying His rules. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered I had not yet collected the adult Sunday school reports. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was already considered an adult—that happens at age fourteen in our society. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Though I never paid attention to “adult matters,” this time I was all ears. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I might be able to get some of the adult slaves freed while they were still young enough to build new lives. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

So he quit college instead, and with that, Andy Blevins joined one of the largest and fastest-growing groups of young adults in America. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Now they were kindly adults who appeared on TV and came to the schools to give talks. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Some died of thirst and hunger, and the two adults were shot when we ran into an ambush. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been thinking about the adults that we spotted last night. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When the adults huddle around an unfolded map of the zoo, we leave them behind. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And he would appreciate it more if the adults talked with him about stuff like this instead of awkwardly pretending like everything was okay when it clearly wasn’t. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We sat on laps several children deep as the four adults in our party climbed into the front with the taxi driver. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can count the number of times I’ve cried as an adult on one hand. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Imagine thousands of children and teenagers all in one place, with only a handful of adults. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pupils in this half-secret group were helped and guided by two or three adults, who were rumored to be special governors. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The beast was going at a good clip, and it was no small animal; it was an adult male that looked to be about 140 pounds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it was always an uneasy look he gave us whenever he was summoned by an adult in the family. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Devon even said that by the time I’m an adult I might be the best artist in the country! Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After lunch I wander up to the fifth floor, to an adult surgery wing where waiting family members concentrate on the television. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Whose answer counts if there are two or more adults at home? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were lots of kids messing around, and almost everybody, adults and children alike, wore jeans and shirts. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine,” he said, in that uber-calm voice older adults used when they were trying not to lose their cool. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It meant something different to try to emerge from it as an adult. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As a boy, he’d been so quiet that adults must have thought him timid, but he had a secret bold stripe. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

"This defendant acted with the thought and cunning of an adult! Consequently he is to be sentenced as an adult. Without exception this precocious young man has long since outgrown his youth." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The second break was that Wes’s case was sent to juvenile court instead of adult court. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

You tell some adult about what’s happening but all they do is say it’s normal. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the adult caretakers from Pinyudu had managed to string a rope across the river, and boys who couldn’t swim were pulling themselves across. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miyax laughed at the sight, for although he ran like an adult on the tundra, he was still a puppy with games on his mind. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was clear that the children couldn’t see the Specters, and the Specters weren’t interested in them; they made instead for the adults. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan tried to help Uncle Jet into the mobile home, but the two of them told him to let them have an adult conversation. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A third adult, a small male, came slinking up. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since there are no other kids, my brother and I are stuck eating with all the adults in the dining room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

That’s when I realized that sometimes adults lied because it was easier than telling the truth. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk- story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

An adult might be very ill from the sting, but a baby could easily die from the poison. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t give the other witches in her class or the adults who were snickering and looking sorry for her the satisfaction. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They’re way too big—nearly an adult size—but I don’t care. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The young bounced around the adults, ambushing one another, rolling in mock battle, and shrieking for protection when an older animal lost patience and bared its teeth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We split up by age—the adult class, the high school class, the middle school class, and then there’s a class for the younger kids, and a nursery for the babies. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Katzenjammer kids were fun because they made the adults look stupid. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We met fifteen boys and two adults along the way, and we all decided to walk together. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Spray paint requires adult supervision. Put this box down so you don’t paint the lawn.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The adults spend at least twenty minutes talking about traffic. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There is no adult on this side of the Atlantic who has reason to take any interest in me, no one to guide me onto a boat or pay for my passage. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The horizon is a million adults zooming past me, is a line of yellow taxis, is more than you could possibly imagine. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The idea of living long enough to be an adult and have kids of his own—that seemed like an impossible dream. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There were clouds painted on the ceiling, and the few pieces of furniture left seemed too small for an average adult. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Frantically I looked around to see if there were any adults nearby who could be trusted to help. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the adult beetles, emerging from hibernation to feed in late April and May, that transmit Dutch elm disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Plus he was an adult and nobody would ask any questions when we bought the tickets. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

These same qualities would cause me a lot of unnecessary heartbreak and grief in most of my adult relationships, but in high school, they set guys like Evan apart from the jocks and drama geeks. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then they put me back in the car and drove me to the city jail—the adult jail. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

We suspected he was not a boy but an adult. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early in 1942, the Nazis had rounded up all the Jewish adults in the village and deported them to the death camps. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were probably afraid to try him as an adult and send him to jail. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It was a strange thing to want to hold an adult man in your arms. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

You don’t have any of the things that kids should have in order to be children and grow up to be healthy adults. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

You think maybe they’ll put you in one of those adult diapers, and then realize that maybe they already have, but you can’t tell, and don’t want to find out. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have much time to examine the nest last night, but do think it is possible that the adults were the former habitants of the nest and, therefore, the eaglet’s parents. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My guess was it was from an adult. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

At 8:00, around 200 residents of Hayti, including about fifty children and a sprinkling of white adult supporters, gathered in the church. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But she understands something, because she says: "So we need an adult, a credit card, and a car?" Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Their disapproving glances matched those of the adults. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your parents are adult humans, Pet replied, pulling on the thought behind the words. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

In so doing, he successfully shifts the balance of power away from the adults and toward himself. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

At the end of every week, the male adults would gather to discuss matters of the community. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The crowd is gone, except for ten of us kids waiting to see what the adults will do with the body. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to calm me down by saying that he meant an adult like a teacher or a guidance counselor. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a bit sorry for all the adults. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Jessica, I need to tell you some things that even adults have a hard time understanding, but I need you to try, okay?” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t wake up. I think it was the adult Cog.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Through the lens Axel watches the adult preen the baby, touching it with his beak. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She clasped her hands together and spoke with the kind of false, high-pitched cheerfulness adults sometimes feel compelled to use when talking to children. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The cries from earlier are gone, with the occasional shrill note coming from the adults in the tree. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sometime before 5000 b.c. they began mummifying bodies—children at first, adults later on. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

How long before an intrusion from the adult world terrified Sekai? The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Noticing this brisk trade in “fire relics,” some adults joined the business. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, the rule in the house was, Do what adults say—otherwise you’ll get hurt. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The closer we got to Little Rock, the more I saw my mother and grandmother losing their power as adults, acting more like children or humble servants. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Is there an adult here with you?” the woman asks. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Convicted at the age of fifteen, he had served ten years in a combination of juvenile and adult penitentiaries on charges of arson and second-degree murder. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

One day I was looking through a low-power binocular microscope at a newly arrived batch of adult Drosophila immobilized with a little ether, and was busily separating the different varieties with a camel’s-hair brush. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adults on T & T were always going bananas over something, so I wasn’t surprised when the police, the superintendent, the principal, the bus company owner, and Mrs. Donnelly all took turns screaming at me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I had felt loved, love pouring from their fingers when the adults tucked red money in our pockets. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the adults say anything about Boy21’s shirt, and he remains silent through the entire meal. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tough business,” Freckles says, stepping back, wiping his hands on a bar towel tucked into his little waist; no adult man where I’m from has a waist so trim. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Nationally, 58 percent of all incarcerated African American youths are serving their time in adult prisons. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She could not remember ever being truly happy in her adult life; her years with her mother had been built up devotedly around small guilts and small reproaches, constant weariness, and unending despair. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

This is an adult party—what goes on goes on in bright light. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a silence from the kitchen, and then Flora’s mother came into the living room with a big, fake adult smile plastered on her face. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I realize this is a concept that even adults have difficulty wrapping their heads around. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Lola had come to the nursery that morning in the guise of the adult she considered herself at heart to be. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

If she were an adult, I would take the hand, shake it, I would know what to say. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a preschooler’s pause, several beats longer than any adult would ever wait for an answer. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That experience would see me growing up into an adult with great speed—an adult that had to deeply develop her relationship with God in order to survive. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She had never seen an adult cry like that, with such an animal sound. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

While the quantities so received by human infants would normally be small, they are not unimportant because children are more susceptible to poisoning than adults. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The adults headed down to the basement to commiserate or whatever, leaving the three of us alone in the living room. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Curtains flap and papers rustle and the two adults have a standoff in the study. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Even societies without notable fondling of infants develop nonviolent adults, provided sexual activity in adolescents is not repressed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Director Van Helsing breaks off from a group of adults once we get close. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

At the hearing, I pointed out that Justice was an adult, and was not obligated to return to Mqhekezweni merely because his father ordered it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see if we can find those adults. Get a closer look at the nest too.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The three adults were looking at the photographer and smiling. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

As people became adult, their daemons lost the power to change and assumed one shape, keeping it permanently. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The judge sent him to California's dangerous, overcrowded adult prisons. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Konrad Lorenz found that adult male and female geese are very faithful to each other. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Young adults with this kind of intelligence are usually singing or drumming to themselves. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The research, which took place over four years and cost $300,000, entailed training 174 adult subjects to play a targeted video game. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There are enough guns in the United States that if you gave one to every adult, you would run out of adults before you ran out of guns. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

By the time the adopted children became adults, they had veered sharply from the destiny that IQ alone might have predicted. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Just me now,” he answers, and I wonder if there were any other adults like him who were successfully reprogrammed. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

By 1941, some sixty-four million pairs of nylon stockings had been sold—more stockings than there were adult women in the United States. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Comparison of children’s and adults’ vocal ranges and preferred tessituras in singing familiar songs. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And then I saw him as the adult who had drifted away, thin and frail, his face bony from the chemotherapy treatments. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could probably even guess what Harry would say next in that calm, amused voice of his that seemed to mimic every adult you never wanted to meet. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I’d seen the adults in the enclosure play that way with their infants, lifting them into the air with their feet and holding on to their arms as the babies whizzed around. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The figures came in all sizes, from small children to full-grown adults. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I should have changed the subject to syncope in older adults to take Maddie’s mind off the fact that we are so far apart now on most issues that we practically live on different continents. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I used to resent it when my mother would forget I was an adult, but I’m approaching the maundering phase myself, digging out the yellowing baby pictures, mooning over locks of hair. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was an intuitive two-year-old soaking up language and behaviors from a crew of rowdy adolescents who were trying on adult attitudes and habits. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

When I was seven, I used to go to the town square to recite monologues from the works of Shakespeare for the adults of my community. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The little cousins, come forward to join the laughter, eager to be a part of the adult merriment. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

That’s who the minders are like—the adults of Omelas, the ones who smile and go about their day and revel in the false illusion of freedom while their souls are withered, desolate things. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Because in six months and one day, he and Anne will head to a Florida fifty-five-plus retirement community for their “active adult years.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The adults walked staidly among them, as elders should, and now and then pulled a tail to maintain order. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was heading west with no adult supervision, no backup plan, not even a cell phone. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about this more often now that I was an adult, especially when people applauded me for my achievements, as if there weren’t a strange and cruel randomness to it all. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was this thing where the adult gave you a little shove and you glided about eight feet to the other end of the line, feet dangling a few feet above the ground. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dr. Johnson led the adults to her inner office. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Maria discovered, all butterflies and moths undergo complete metamorphosis, which means they move through four very different phases: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was so small, so innocent, and yet there was a precociousness about him, but it was a sunny one; he did not nurse dark intentions about the adults in his world. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And some­thing else, something I hadn’t noticed right away: Hardly any of them sat with an adult male—the wars had made fathers a rare commodity in Afghanistan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even more striking, in the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I look up because I don’t want her to say what adults always say when you don’t want to look at them: Look at me when I’m talking to you! Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

At some point Lyra and the others became aware that there was some kind of subdued emergency going on, because the adults were hurrying to and fro or standing in anxious groups talking urgently. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We want people who are adults to take the time to listen to teenagers and respect what we have to say. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The woman had not been without a boyfriend for more than a few days of her adult life. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Last night I found out that on August 7, 2007,” he wrote, “a Harris Poll was released showing that 89 percent of American adults believe that sending text messages while driving should be outlawed.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

After we ate and did drugs, we would guard the perimeter while the adults rested for a bit. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t a psychotherapist exactly, but she was a counselor on staff, and most importantly, she was the only adult in all of Fullbrook who I considered a friend. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was adult and self-reliant, and there was nothing she needed from anyone. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I have done so—as a young boy, and then, when destroyed financially and forced to go back to the woods, as an adult for a couple of years. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

What a child did was considered by his or her parents as something separate from the adult world and not particularly consequential. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When he’s not fighting crime, Bruce dresses like a normal adult. advocate. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

An adult passed by and patted her on the head. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Just one-third of white youths were sentenced to adult or juvenile state correctional facilities in 2012, while two-thirds were given probation or sentenced to serve time in county jails. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But it was only an occasional, terrible visitor in the Americas, which meant that most adult colonists had not acquired childhood immunity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I find that most adults take a nod for agreement when really all I’m saying is Yes, I hear the words that are coming out of your mouth. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

These places are unable to provide for the long-term needs of so many distressed adults and frightened children. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was the same story day after day: restlessness, anxiety, the adults’ arguments. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes later, they walked into the adult detention center and stood in front of the receptionist. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Some of us adults, and even more of our children, pick up infectious diseases from our pets. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Was it kidnapping if it was an adult? Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

She was evidently repeating what she had heard some adult say. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used adult words and simulated, insofar as she was able, adult attitudes and emotions. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cry of a girl ready to be forgiven, years after having sold her sibling out to a pair of adults who would, a short time later, die on a distant continent. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was a particular gift of Oliver’s that he could say things that adults couldn’t hear but his sisters could. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Most days I try to stay near adults. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Many people have observed that adolescents tend to be more reckless, impulsive, and vulnerable to peer pressure than adults. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She needs to know that the baby and the adult that she saw earlier today are the injured baby’s family. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There are now only two or three dozen robins to be found each spring on the entire 185-acre campus of Michigan State University, compared with a conservatively estimated 370 adults in this area before spraying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We just followed what the adults told us to do. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know how adult Haitians can talk in riddles and never give you a straight answer. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There was a main structure, then a thirty-acre electrified enclosure where the adult bonobos lived, and the nursery, where the orphans spent their early years. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The waiter turned instinctively to Butler, who was after all, the adult. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Like when we were kids at school or wherever, and some adult told us to be quiet. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I felt very alone on earth, as if there were no adults to protect me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

You take adults, they look lousy when they're asleep and they have their mouths way open, but kids don't. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

If he could defeat adults at chess, why shouldn’t he be treated as an adult? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The tribal cops had to pull twenty or thirty adult Spokanes off the court before any of them assaulted a teenage white kid. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

An adult considers constant repetition boring, because it requires reliving the same experience over and again. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hyena came very close to us, but hyenas are easy to run off—at least if you’re an adult. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you say something to them? You’re an adult. They might listen.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The concentration of DDT used is many times the amount that will kill an adult pheasant. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

These studies have shown that youth of color are more likely to be arrested, detained, formally charged, transferred to adult court, and confined to secure residential facilities than their white counterparts. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We were able to make persuasive arguments about the differences between children and adults, but that wasn't the only obstacle to relief. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I start asking other adults in my village to be my representative, and by the afternoon, I’ve found a kind young woman who will do me the favor. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If this was how adults felt all the time, you could miss me with that mess. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They expected their children to talk back to them, to negotiate, to question adults in positions of authority. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I want to tell her to grow up and act like an adult and get a job and stop making my life so hard. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We were forbidden to enter the lavatory, let alone use it, unless accompanied by an adult. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Few Americans knew that a group of adults was plotting a different sort of mischief for October 30,1938. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

There were over fifteen people, mostly young boys, some girls, and a few adults. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The adults were afraid the government-backed militia that had attacked us could still be nearby, and they wanted to keep us moving as fast as we could away from our village. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want you coming back without an adult, you hear me?” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

This topic had occupied my thinking for a while because all the adults around me were always discussing what it meant to be white, or the advantages of being light skinned among our people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

That was because enough enslaved children were born, lived, and grew to become adults. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

As an adult, Dad would develop fierce opinions about women working, radical even for our rural Mormon community. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Luke preferred it when the adults had children with them and he could concentrate on them. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Later, when the adults had a boring discussion about what was wrong with the world these days, Rafik wished they’d be quiet. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

So I tried my best to avoid speaking Navajo when any adult could hear. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not one of those white adults attempted to rescue Elizabeth. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only adult I know who bluffs kids is Mr. Nixon, our headmaster. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She looks over at the cluster of adults in the corner. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Timothy hadn’t quite figured out what was ticking inside the vast adult mechanism beside him. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fewer than 5 percent of the neighborhood’s adults had a college degree; barely one in three adult men worked at all. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In any case, this was a problem for the adults, not for them. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears ...” I always recited speeches from Macbeth and Julius Caesar, as those were the adults’ favorites. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I made it so that our own adult leaders couldn’t just be nice anymore. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

At least twice a week, I would accompany one or more of the adults in my family to his store. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always felt loved, protected, and wanted by all the adults in my life. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

By age fourteen, she would be considered an adult. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The adults, civilians and soldiers, spoke about the weather, planting seasons, hunting, and nothing about the war. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps all the adults in the community were friends—or at least acted as if they were. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he’s so much older than them, like some animated character: AdultBoyMan, with a high schooler’s fatless body and a kind adult’s face. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Ruta Skadi was four hundred and sixteen years old, with all the pride and knowledge of an adult witch queen. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, adults and children stepped forward for vaccination. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The Phoenix comes the closest to being a conventional animal, all bird for all of its adult life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

With no help from Luma or any other adult, the boys quickly worked out a solution. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He looked around at the room full of red-eyed adults. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes adults don’t know quite what to do, so they make the best choice they can with the information that they have,” Ms. Dale says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was beginning to suspect Raven must be an adult who worked at a computer all day, because she always seemed to be there. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He had counted on the silence of a child, confused and embarrassed by the actions of a trusted adult. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

At the other end of the dormitory, the adults dreamt of rich food and friends from years gone by. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is okay to be a boy slob because moms think they still have time to cure you of your bad habits before you grow up and become an annoying adult slob for someone else. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They are adults, and adults are supposed to be able to care for children. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we gathered about the tree to exchange gifts, Uncle Charlie told Christmas stories to the children and then the adults spoke of all the blessings they had enjoyed during the year. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We visited a set of converted buses where local artists were doing art therapy with displaced children who, despite their losses and thanks to the adults around them, still bubbled with hope. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Whose whims had been taken seriously by adults and who grew up to be the stingiest, greediest people on earth and out of their stinginess grew their stingy little love that ate everything in sight. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just because Laura Friendly was an adult and a billionaire and the mastermind of their spending game, he didn’t have to do what she said. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d said what I felt, despite the fear that it would be considered talking back to an adult. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Hornet saw two adults walk through the gate: a woman with a black hat and a bearded man. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

An adult female orangutan cannot defeat an adult male spotted hyena. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of the things she’d begun to suspect about Shadows was that children and adults reacted to them differently, or attracted different kinds of Shadow activity. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

No adult, or child for that matter, had ever described him as beautiful. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

In Chicago, under the law, most places were open to both blacks and whites: children attended school together, and adults rode streetcars together. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There’s more about s and x sounds on page 153. adult. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t like being near adults who were fighting. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Statistically, it's young adults who are most likely to die in a quarry accident. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Even the Matching of Spouses was given such weighty consideration that sometimes an adult who applied to receive a spouse waited months or even years before a Match was approved and announced. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Warden found a job teaching at a public school and worked a second job helping mentally impaired adults. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“You’re too small and too dirty, and you must be accompanied by an adult,” she said. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She was so...Nathan couldn’t finish that thought without saying an adult word. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

My parents talked to us like we were adults. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It took the cops and other frightened adults three hours to persuade him to put the gun down. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember how Sasha, too small for her presence to register amid a sea of adults, stood proudly on a footstool in order to stay visible. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Eric, who hadn’t seen or spoken with his father in years, had emerged darker, angrier than his friend, a part of him beyond the reach of teachers, peers, and well-intended adults. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were men and women of all ages, some white-haired, and some not even yet adults. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“But where are the adults? You don’t tell me the whole world is full of children alone?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

While California voters effectively repealed Proposition 21 in 2016, many states continue to routinely treat juveniles as adults. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Gun violence with no reported injuries frequently result in sentences of less than ten years for adult defendants, even in this era of harsh punishments. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His face tightened, like he was about to do something adults found uncomfortable, like plunge a toilet, or apologize to a kid. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Scones would be baked and gallons of Kool-Aid or cider made to give to children on New Year’s, while the adults went about each other’s homesteads, drinking free liquor. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually there’s so much going on in the cafeteria that the adults haven’t noticed Sneaky’s operation. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

That seems a little silly to me, but sometimes adults just can't stand saying nothing. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Up at the parking lot, a bunch of adults were overseeing the dismissal, and some of them wore uniforms. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Around him, Aziza had taken to giving an exasperated, queerly adult headshake. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. van Daan agreed with her, but felt it was wrong as a matter of principle to let youngsters read books written for adults. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was exactly the kind of noise that people in an all adult trailer park do not like to hear. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

A pale adolescent speaking with the authority and vocabulary of a powerful adult. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was easier to do this at lunchtime, when children spent more time coming and going between the tables and the counter, where bland-looking adults served equally bland food. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

No normal adult would believe in tiny people who lived under the floorboards. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I looked around at the adults and they were all leaning forward, but were frozen as if they didn’t know what to do next. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She might as well tell me in her adult voice to stop it, stop it now, stop acting like a child. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Pete radiated a gentle but impressive authority that led everyone he met, even adults, to be swayed by his opinion. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

There are certain chores adults need to do, and back then, they needed to do those things in person. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you don’t. And that’s why we went to bed together yesterday—like infants—instead of being adults and waiting.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would even threaten us, and the adults in my life would only reply, Yes, sir, or Yes, ma’am. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don’t the adults around here just say something? Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Ivy had never heard an adult say anything like that before. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Tidbit looked at her and nodded with a look of almost adult understanding. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A look passes from one adult to another as if they are playing musical chairs with their eyes, trying to decide who’ll be the one stuck answering Yo’s question. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Most days, after a cry, there is an adult eagle who responds. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin often talked to him about his childhood in Scotland as though Matt were another adult. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite his phenomenal memory, Bobby as an adult could never remember the moves of that game with Pavey. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was quick and powerful, an adult not a pup. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were exchanged by adults you knew and by adults who thought they knew you. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Somehow, even his long hair that he didn’t like to comb made him seem more adult. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

In those days, adults in the black community didn’t talk to their children about painful happenings. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Luce in his leather chair, with his longish hair and ankle boots, was the kind of adult a kid might open up to. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Two thousand student, six thousand adult,” he said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Natasha and Daniel enter the adult world of practicalities and responsibilities. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She knew adults played Book Scavenger, but she didn’t think that meant teachers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I hate to be that frank around all you adults. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, the adult males were dominant over her, but she could boss all the other females and even many of the adolescent males. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was always an easy tale of woe to tell inquiring black adults, and whites didn’t care, unless they were looking for sport. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were more than 150 kids on the floor for their Saturday morning lessons and dozens of other adult students and coaches, so it took a moment for the noise level to die down. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Even those of an adult persuasion who have called him a young hooligan have never combined the accusation with the word “lurk” or any of its derivatives. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The three adults took it in turns to walk in front because the lead person always received the heaviest dumping, as well as having all the hard work of dibbing holes in the snow. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The final bowl contains payesh, a warm rice pudding Ashima will prepare for him to eat on each of his birthdays as a child, as an adult even, alongside a slice of bakery cake. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the adults exchange glances, and I’m glad that they don’t glance at me. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

That the absence of children, all children, would heighten the adults’ remorse. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But whenever we met her old students, now adults, they still bowed respectfully and called her Teacher Cao, which made me so proud. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was almost like a child who had been forced to sit down with adults. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A chorus of adult voices followed his through the screen windows. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Virtually every adult rider, and most of the kids, naturally tended to weigh too much. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we get downstairs she says, “My name is Mrs. Kimble. I am the adult librarian, but Miss Cook at the desk will help you with your selections.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Her face had lost its fat and was eerily adult, sunken and thin-skinned. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The consequences of the sublethal poisoning of the woodcock are now seen in a marked decline in the proportion of young birds to adults, first observed in the season after fire ant treatments began. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As a result, the three researchers suggested, adult Indians were—and possibly still are—more vulnerable to infectious diseases than adult Europeans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I notice that most of the adults here have tattoos. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Many times, however, adults are at a loss to understand or interpret what it is children are saying to us, or to appreciate how profound it might be. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She may not be a director like the other adults, but they all move aside for her. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“He’ll do five years in adult prison if he gets one bad progress report,” he said. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She was practically an adult now, it seemed—she certainly spoke like one, often more measured and circumspect than her parents. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know why, but adults are strange, and maybe the night was just sad for everyone. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’m twenty-two years old now, and I’ve gotten used to living like an adult. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

That happened all the time, until our adult caretakers showed us how to dig our latrines downstream from camp. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adults looked out the window or studied their phones. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

You have every right to be ticked off at the adults of Chokecherry. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They reported teachers, priests, religious leaders, and other adults who made derogatory remarks against the Nazis. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was against the rules for children or adults to look at another’s nakedness; but the rule did not apply to newchildren or the Old. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

All the adults, including Ms. McMillian, wore work clothes—jackets and slacks and blouses. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The doctor looked to the adults in the room. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph’s circular talking would make a kid want to swear off talking to adults for the rest of his life. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“She’s not very fond of all the silly sideshow antics down at Luigi’s library. I suspect she wouldn’t mind seeing the place run by more responsible adults.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

When the adult butterfly is fully formed within the pupa, and the outside conditions are just right, the walls become transparent, revealing a glimpse of wings. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“How many adults do you know who ride around on a giant kindergarten tricycle?” he replied. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I wish I was an adult and could skip church whenever I wanted to. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The adults’ entries were delicate works of art, collars and antimacassars as detailed and fine as a spider’s web. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They would turn their backs on her, her mother, the policemen, her brother, and go off with Robbie Turner to indulge some adult cabal. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It felt as though the adults all around me were worried most of the time too. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A line of cribs along one wall, and small beds along the other, with an adult’s bed at the nearer end, where a nun was sleeping and, as he’d heard from outside, gently snoring. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Where were the protestors and civil rights leaders when their children were tried as adults and carted off to adult prisons? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

‘People’—adults, people bigger than me, older, smarter, with more ability to do something, I thought they’d keep us all safe. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Students came to the pulpit to tell of their experiences as demonstrators, while speakers from black churches around Dallas County urged adults in the audience to follow the students’ example and get involved. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think it’s time for us to change things a bit, to be more...adult?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Our tables were covered with white paper instead of tablecloths, so everybody, including the adults, had been given crayons and markers. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

In order to successfully transition from twelve years old to being a teenager and then to an adult, will I need to be able to move my hips to a song? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The Corps participated in several cross burnings with the adult Klan members, always in the context of a rally. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There’s something so adult about it, as if I am some terrible disappointment to her. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

An assignment to enter into a scientific correspondence—of sorts—with an adult. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There was no adult among them, except, some distance away, in front of a cage filled with playful spider monkeys, a tall wiry white man with silver-rimmed glasses stood bemused. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The surveys found a range of prevalence of “Internet addiction” among young people and adults across the globe. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

If you were an adult Jew, he would walk right past you, but he went out of his way for children. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“You take things too seriously, Chaplain,” Colonel Cathcart told him bluntly with an air of adult objectivity. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Being caught between black and white as a working adult was far more unpleasant than when I was a college student. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ben said that the real reason was cuz a small group of people on an isolated planet need all the adults they can get so thirteen is the day you start getting real responsibilities.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A healthy adult bonobo is much stronger than a human, but this little guy couldn’t have resisted me no matter how hard he tried. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They are not yet adults, but in that middle stage, late adolescence, coming of age. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

None of the adults seem to care at all where two trainees are headed. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

From an adult’s point of view, I was destructive and out of control, but as a child I didn’t think of it that way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The summer food of the white-breasted nuthatch and the brown creeper, for example, includes the eggs, larvae, and adults of a very large number of insects injurious to trees. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

By now, voting-age adults were stepping forward and volunteering to join the cause of voter registration. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The office is barely large enough for four people, especially when three of them are adults. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, nursing-home residents resemble oddly dressed graduate students, and beautiful women in adult diapers are driving very slowly and blocking the grocery store aisles with their carts. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

One problem is that the official tolerance levels are set for adults, not children. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She’d hung handwritten signs on every wall of the store: one for “Sam the Man Snowballs,” others for sports clubs, church groups, and free GED and adult literacy classes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then on heavy feet, made more ponderous by the guilt of the living viewing the dead, the adult church marched up to the coffin and back to their seats. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose if I were older,” he said, quietly enough to be speaking to himself, “I would say that you were being ridiculous. That our students are adults, not squabbling, bickersome boys.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I have so many friends who still, as adults, wrestle with feelings of betrayal. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She treated me like an adult, asking for my thoughts, listening keenly as I described the various worries and administrative tangles students had brought in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Kids raised in interactive environments—with zappers, Nintendos, computers, sophisticated games—often struggle in environments where adults stand for hours droning at them. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Curtain, he said, was too smart to be outfoxed by adults. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, all the adults in the ballroom started clapping. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

No wonder that swastika was such a big deal for the adults around here. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I asked him, “Does that mean adults aren’t passionate about anything?” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She’d been by herself, lugging a duffel bag big enough for about three fully grown adults, but she actually looked kind of hot. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The only problem: No adults were around to drive them. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Just hazy recollections of long, adult legs shuffling around our apartment and hands lifting me from my high chair. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

"Very important. White people have always run those centers and they don't always understand the problems. Black children need to look up to black adults." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess the sneakers are supposed to put me at ease, make me think I can trust her because she’s young at heart, or not like the other adults I know. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

And wherever I was, there was a child with me—and a child might answer my questions more readily than an adult. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were so stupid, surely they weren’t adults yet. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since 1947, although the adults have occupied the nest and there is evidence of egg laying, no young eagles have been produced. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Every time Mom introduced the two of us to adults, she’d always gush about how adorable we were together the first time we met. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Apparently, there’s a frequency that most adults can’t hear,” Mr. Jacobs explained, handing the document to Afnan, who began to examine it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the wide arena in front of the main group of buildings, a hundred or so people, adults and children, were milling about: some in excitement, some in irritation, many just bewildered. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

No child of twelve, thirteen, or fourteen can defend him- or herself in the adult criminal justice system. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When they were kids, it was easy enough to hide Toby from any adult. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I valued my membership in that group and received adult approval daily. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But with his laugh, both adult lions shook themselves from their platforms. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of the meeting, Mr. Clutter said, “Now I have something to say concerning one of our adult members.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was just about filled, mostly with high schoolers and adults. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only two adults in the Johnson family who don't get along now are my grandmothers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It meant adults were always right, especially if they were old. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The adult riders all had their faces buried in laptop computers or magazines. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There had been several sudden and unexplained deaths, not only among adults but even among children, who would be stricken suddenly while at play and die within a few hours. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She taught classes in the evening for adults, and many of the adults loved her as well. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“The best thing we can do right now is get to Abuelita Remedios’s house as soon as possible and ask for her help. I think it’s about time we let an adult handle this.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Around them, adults wrestled with babies and strollers, while older children stood around waiting. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

This was probably more than he’d bargained for: bright lights, too high, having to deal with a hostile adult. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I tried to explain that it was all an accident. But you know how much everyone loved the Hideout. And, like, the one rule was to not let adults find out about it...” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Two adult elves, one with a flute and one singing, threaded their way through, the singer occasionally rocking a group of hammocks gently. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the early stages of these fishes, even more than the adults, are especially susceptible to direct chemical poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Some adults and kids sit in chairs spread around the room, talking and laughing. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard even took books from upstairs, books for adults, with heavy titles about history and science. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Finds it easier to talk to adults than to other children, I gather. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There are about ten adults milling around, and a half-dozen train riders left—me, a few sickly looking teenage boys, and some homely children—undernourished, walleyed, beetle browed. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But there was barely enough work for the adult laborers, and no one was giving it up. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he loved the girl dearly, and he felt half-proud and half in awe of the beautiful adult she would be, so soon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Children and even adults are exposed to and learn many, many of these popular film songs. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She estimates three for each adult, one or two for each of the children. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, stop babying him. He's nearly an adult.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

My father had always taught me to address anyone I took to be an adult as “mister,” but Timothy didn’t seem to be a mister. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many educated adults would be left out of a discussion that criticized the president for not engaging in more “quantitative easing,” though they would understand the process if it were spelled out. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The adults let us sleep for a couple of hours before we moved on. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rage mingled with the general melancholy that had been growing in her steadily since the bombing of Pearl Harbor; it was one of the rare times in Fujiko’s adult life when she felt inconsolable. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mom was standing with some other adults along the home sideline. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I down my sour strawberry lemonade in four sips, like some depressed adult throwing back shots, and I chew the ice because I paid for that too dammit. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

On one wall, like coats on a coat rack, hung the desiccated, skeletal remains of two people - an adult and a small child. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

How could adults complain at home about the insulting way they were treated at work and then put on a happy face for their white employers? Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Not that it’s not a horrible crime,” one explained, “but it’s also a crime to try a child as an adult.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A little farther on, there was another, larger pit for adults. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some crimes, mostly sex crimes, now had to be prosecuted in adult court. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“But we don’t need the whole world worrying about kids riding on a bus without an adult.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

A minute later Pima appeared, chaperoned by a third adult. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were still trying to find the ideal compromise between adults of twenty and adults of six. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the only adult in hippie clothes—peasant blouse, long cotton skirt, Day-Glo headband with a yin/yang disk in the center of her forehead. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t want a child who feeds on praise and expects a star for effort and talks back to adults in the name of self-expression. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My father, a lawyer with a small-town practice, was the only college-educated adult I was aware of among all the parents of my friends and classmates. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I am sure it is surfeited with babies and is now coming after adults. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked scraggly and freakish, permanently stuck in its twisted, tortured position, and it made me think of how some adults tell you not to make weird faces because your features could freeze. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Passengers ages twelve and over may travel with no adult supervision as long as they have a valid boarding pass.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If we examine its successive stages, we find that the youngster must develop all the skills that go into adult art: coordination, intellect, personality, imagination, creativity, and aesthetic judgment. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

You will use algebra in your adult lives. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Stay with me,” she mutters into her phone, and I make out a series of slams and yells and the general hubbubery of angry adults in the background. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was cool to see an adult man not caring about society’s artificial rules for masculinity, though. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As an adult, Champollion succeeded; fulfilling his childhood ambition, he provided a brilliant decipherment of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adults went into the bathroom together and closed the door, but we could still hear them talking. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is an adult man, bigger than most men in the village, and much fatter. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“From the start we have been opposed to Richard’s being tried as an adult,” he said. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He discovered early on that “being referred” was the adult term for passing the buck. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He went on to say that, despite this awareness, “amazingly,” 64 percent of the adults in the survey said they had sent a text while driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Why did adults always say stuff like that? The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

But luckily, there was such disorder inside, with the adults trying to hurry the children through so as to clear the way for the passengers from the zeppelin, that no one was watching very carefully. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The doors burst open and the adults came pouring in. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

In my household, questions were considered a nuisance; adults imparted information as they considered necessary. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I poured coffee for the three adults and we sat and visited. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have to wait to be considered an adult for her wants around her body to be acted on; her parents understood how important it was for her well-being. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A few moments later the adults began to emerge from the earth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But to be the object of adult hatred was an initiation into a solemn new world. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Buy stolen property from a kid, and next thing you knew you’d have an enraged adult accusing you of having given little Johnnie or Matilda a tenner for their wedding ring. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I had done something a lot of adults hadn’t done. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

As Fischer’s losses and draws mounted, it became clear that he was having the most disastrous tournament of his adult career, perhaps even worse than his Buenos Aires debacle. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it’s me, the presence among them of someone they think is an adult, and has power. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I would ask older children and adults, who would only reply, “They’re lights in the sky, kid.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Babies as young as one or two days old synchronize their head, elbow, shoulder, hip, and foot movements with the speech patterns of adults. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of these embryonic segments, Lewis knew, gives rise to a congruent segment found in the adult fly. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“We found to our surprise that our preschool audience didn’t like it when the adult cast got into a contentious discussion,” he remembers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My comprehension of the adult world came from reading Dear Abby. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And children, weaving between the groups of adults, not confined to a particular color of clothing—factionless children. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When it came to the adults, it was better not to talk. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

From the clucking sounds of adults I knew that the doll represented what they thought was my fondest wish. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

His original estimate had been close—there were probably fifty to sixty of them, ranging from boys in their midteens to young adults like Alby, who seemed to be one of the oldest. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“They’re pushing you too fast. You’re confused. You want to be an adult, but there’s still a little boy inside you. Alone and frightened.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The man's eyes scan the sidewalk as if to find an adult to assign us to. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Tonight they would all begin eagerly to memorize the rules for their adult Assignments. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Erlan’s brothers and sisters all had friends over too, and there were a couple extra adults, so there wasn’t much room. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Children wrote to us saying they look up to us and adults encouraged us to keep going. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

With the passage of time, I became increasingly aware of how all of the adults around me were living with constant fear and apprehension. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And he can keep on standing while the adults talk,” I shot back. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then both of the adults looked to their left, for the monkey had heard something. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Increasingly it became the case that albums were for adults and hit-parade singles were for the youth. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine standing up and speaking in English to an audience of adults. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Children and adults and even the animals would see her, and no one but she and Kelly would know a thing. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Most of the adults and older children who fell ill recovered at least enough to work again, although they might continue to suffer off and on for years. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like starting school all over again, having unsuspecting adults pass me on the stairway. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Except everyone here isn’t grown—Kay and her three friends are here, nodding and snacking, and fitting right in with all of the adults. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They never called the adults “Mr.” or “Miss” or “Mrs.”; they used their first names instead. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The dolls seemed like they were made for adults, not kids. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But Ambrose is still laughing into his phone, so that must mean he’s got another adult lined up to take Ma’s place. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then—and I hate when adults do this—she shouted, “I know you’re more excited than that, so let’s try it again! Good morning, everyone!” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She was supposed to be an adult, when childish indulgences were supposed to be set aside, not dived into headfirst. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had not seen my son and daughter since before the trial and they had become adults in the interim, growing up without me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children sat silent while the adults talked about who Will and Claire were. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spindle didn’t need a mother like Mel did, and he was spending most of his time with the adult males. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

And for that moment, the Vanderbeeker kids forgot their troubles and joined the adults in loud applause and cheers. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He used the tone adults employ with children. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s an adult term, and it’s disrespectful, and I’m more than two thirds adult and I’m pretty disrespectful, so what the hell. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

In February 1562, Tycho left Denmark to complete his education abroad, part of the usual process intended to turn him into an adult fit for his position in society. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

There was an army of adults, whose motives and movements I just couldn’t understand and who made no effort to understand mine. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He writes: Most likely at least one adult — probably a coal miner from Poland, Czechoslovakia, or Italy — brought the virus to Limburg. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I long for my days at the gallery, prettied up, hair done, talking to adults about art or films or nothing at all. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adults among these children from the war zones would be lost in their thoughts during conversations with the elders of my town. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Because he was still in foster care, he needed an adult to bring the legal actions on his behalf. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In the narrow world of Dallas and Florida, an adult was someone to escape. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“COOSA LIQUORS’ entire business model is built around selling cigarettes to minors and alcohol to adults.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

When I heard on the news that it was Rosa Parks, I had several feelings: I was glad an adult had finally stood up to the system, but I felt left out. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He mostly ignored adults when they stared, or told them, “Pull your head in.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t anybody understand that he was not really a freak but a normal, lonely adult trying to lead a normal, lonely adult life? Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I want to have our own adult to take care of things, build houses, put up tents, and forage for food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am standing against a building, the back of my head pressed against the bricks, watching adults take my place over Max. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I'm sandwiched between two adults who both look like they've got lots on their mind. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I was kind of surprised no adult stopped me from walking right up to the church. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after the county home, after I survived that miserable, miserable place, I entered the world as an adult; I moved through it as a solitary being, and I did not mind at all. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When adults of the community became older, their lives became different. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The other people in the corridor—three children, two adults—were somehow too insubstantial to touch the door. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He thought the adults were the ones being taken to work, while the younger ones would be killed. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t try to force me to speak or tell her everything that’s wrong, like most adults would. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She was an adult, her word would go better with General Putnam than mine would. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven years after I saw the pictures of those doors, I received my first adult passport. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

His mother and father were as good a fit for each other as an adult’s foot in a child’s shoe; even at nine years old Kendrick recognized this. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We walked through the forest single file, a long, long line of children broken here and there by the figure of an adult. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her legal case had died with the appeal decision, and Claudette had lost contact with all the adult black leaders except Rosa Parks. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Every young person could use a caring adult in her life.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I had heard from adults that this was a revolutionary war, a liberation of the people from corrupt government. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Some of the adults left first, probably because they’re more accustomed to being patient. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

If dropped to the floor by a child or careless adult everyone nearby could be splashed with the same chemical that has sent spraymen using it into convulsions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In one of the rivers, the young of a run of 40,000 adult Coho salmon were almost completely annihilated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It must be because I’d never spoken to an adult like that before. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve heard what the adults said as they spoke across my prone body, talking about diagnostic tests and next steps and recovery plans. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A succession of heretical readings o/Paradise Lost, television chocolate ads, and styling decisions for emporia of “adult toys” indicates, Milton wasn’t the only one of whom Blake’s remark could have been made. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Anthropologists who lived with them for years report that violence between adults was very rare. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you ever choose the path of medicine folk, I will gladly reunite with you. Remember that in your adult years, Nathan.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The adults would do their best to answer his questions, but their answers were often vague, or confusing, or contradictory, and then Bod would walk down to the old chapel and talk to Silas. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He said he likes to watch the sixth graders he teaches grow up to be teenagers and adults. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I am also convinced that very young children should never be tried in adult court. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t cry, not in front of her, or any of the other adults. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Children gathered around and stared longingly at the luscious fruit while the adults gulped with their mouths watering. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Teddy having just turned eight and me being seventeen means that we are long past giving off that sour-milk smell that makes adults melt. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had to be half the nursery here, and a handful of the adults. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In response, one state after another enacted direct-file laws that allowed juvenile offenders to be transferred to adult courts if they committed certain crimes. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Yes! Just one. I guess so adults can check it out, too. That means the only copy in the whole building is right over there.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

In our family we fought with vigor, adults as well as children, even though we knew we weren’t supposed to. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You shouldn’t be here alone. You should be with an adult.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

By the time I left for college, Otto was a full-on adult bonobo, slender and elegant, with a part right along the center of his head, wiry hair flopping on either side. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I did not wear a prayer shawl; they were worn only by adults who were or had once been married. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

This is a man who spent his adult life at the bottom of a bottle, trying to anesthetize himself against the Capitol’s crimes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And the three horrified adults, as they stood frozen in their tracks, saw what the excited little girl did not see,—a huge, lumbering tractor bearing blindly down upon its appointed track. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

A quarter to a third of the adult urban population is engaged fulltime in the nurture and education of the children. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

David was easygoing and also more of an adult than any boyfriend I’d had. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

George knew that coughing was the adult equivalent of groaning. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Behind them, adults were shouting, and there was a rumble and crash as another part of the building fell in. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was settled and the playwright was about to begin her little speech summarizing the plot and evoking the excitement of performing before an adult audience tomorrow evening in the library. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I was standing in a long dingy bar with black walls, neon signs, and a bunch of partying adults. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

His position was similar to adult prisoners known as jagubbanjang, or crew managers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He was in charge of an adult and he supposed in this situation it was the best way. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if every adult felt compelled to give us young people basic instructions. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z