“I can’t even pronounce the poor child’s real name,” said Trotter, chuckling in what she must believe was a friendly manner. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I have never heard of them, but, if it was a child who showed them to you, they exist. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pilar Ternera, who lived alone at that time with her two younger children, did not ask him any questions. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The political empowerment of the working class, Galton believed, would just provoke their genetic empowerment: they would produce bushels of children, dominate the gene pool, and drag the nation toward profound mediocrity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And parents have begun to understand the need to keep our records current so that when those children are taken we can contact someone. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children were quite skilled at identifying animal tracks in the snow, although Penelope had to discourage them from actually sniffing their way along the ground. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

John closed the door behind him and stood in the narrow church aisle, hearing behind him the voices of children playing, and ruder voices, the voices of their elders, cursing and crying in the streets. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Who’d have thought a woman with two small children could run so fast! Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Too much media would be numbing, dulling, cheat her children of an engaged life, the kind she’d always craved as a child. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Which child," she says to herself all day long, "exactly which child shall I choose for my next squelching?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

They sounded more like crows than like children. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“First change your heart. The gift of the Many-Faced God is not a child’s plaything. You would kill for your own purposes, for your own pleasures. Do you deny it?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started to get annoyed, but then Auntie said to him, “They’re just children.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mothers and grandmothers gathered up children to take them to safety. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

We taught the children how to make pot holders out of yarn and how to glue rice, glitter, and tinsel to paper plates to make collages for their folks. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Cleopatra anticipated that she and her children would receive the same humiliating treatment as spoils of war. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mate’s eyes were a child’s, wide with wonder. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when DNA testing confirmed that male officers were the fathers of these children, very little was done about it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She’d never loved the city, so almost every weekend she took the children back to Clover, where she worked the tobacco fields and spent hours churning butter on the steps of the home-house. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“She is my last child. There is still a piece of her inside me.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

If somebody gave birth when Jaja first came here, the child would be talking now, would be in nursery school. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Another fifty children lined up at the wells are in the process of watering the gardens. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you know malaria kills 1 child every 30 seconds somewhere in the world?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

If the world of Mqhekezweni revolved around the regent, my smaller world revolved around his two children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each new phase seemed only to raise new questions: Why had Holmes taken the children? The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And wouldn’t it be something to see the child of not one but two victors chosen for the arena? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her brother O. V., his children and wife, and lots of cousins. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wayne issued an ultimatum to the alliance, threatening harm to women and children if the men did not stop fighting. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Betsy was his cow, but neither of us would have been prouder of that outsized calf had it been a child. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I hear people today complaining about the time their children will spend riding the bus, but I remember the time when minorities had to walk fifteen to twenty miles to attend school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They must, she said, produce a child if they could. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Go child. The Lord has come to you.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there were my ideas for planting a garden and looking to improve children’s health and nutrition on a larger scale. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Just behind them her little brother, Paolo, was shrieking with excitement, and the other children, too, were yelling and waving their fists in the air. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his hand is a child’s wooden sword. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one showed any interest in purchasing the women and children in the lot. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pray for a little child that’s barely two and already playing with his little brother in heaven? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You dare accuse—” "No more undetermined children," I said. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She wrapped up the family’s affairs, readied the children, and boarded the Illinois Central, resigned to whatever Chicago might bring. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

All told, more than seven hundred shots had been fired into the crowd, wounding more than four hundred people, including dozens of women and children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a picture of a blond child writing a letter, with tears falling down her cheeks. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What can that poor child be up to? She told me she was not seeing him any more.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, the air was noisy with children’s voices. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Lightfoot, I had a healthy disrespect for all mill children. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They follow their mothers around, waddling along on their flippers like children learning to walk, making crying sounds and sounds of pleasure that only the young make. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if her poor children even know what meat tastes like.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

She will be gone for one year—less, with luck—or she will bring her children to be with her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And that one, the fat one, the glutton, the bomber, the mutilator of innocent children. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

What they did, these Olinka peoples, was throw out they own children, just cause they was a little different I bet they do that same kind of stuff today, Mr. say. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was like I was killing their children.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You should thank the Father Above. He gives gifts to all his children.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He spread the blankets he was carrying on the floor, and while Asta carefully lifted the sleeping Pan away, he bent and picked up the child, feeling a little surprised at her solidity. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon by the time Peralta and his children headed home. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Nobody knows how I dread Christmas. Nobody knows. I am not one of those women who can stand things. I wish for Jason’s and the children’s sakes I was stronger.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A big yellow funnel collecting for some children’s charity that’s really unpleasant to think about. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“When your grandmother was a child, he was nearly a man already.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As children, Henrietta and Day awoke each morning at four o’clock to milk the cows and feed the chickens, hogs, and horses. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure the Mellower knows how to take care of children. After all, he raised mine,” Mother said. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She bore twin sons to Poseidon—but fearing her father’s displeasure if he learned of the children’s birth, she abandoned them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arm was delighted to find that the police carried baby bottles, in case they found an abandoned child. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, well, good luck explaining that to seven children. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

"I shall . . . guard your children as if they were my own," he said slowly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think he had one. He was one of those flying African children. They must all be dead a long time now.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not been much help to the dictator in that regard, since he and Dona Belen had never had any children. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, don’t worry about me, children,” Mr. Benedict said. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny tied up the boat, told the children to wait in it and went ashore. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you do not want your child to learn, take her home,” Olanna said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That sounds good,” Evelyn says, and she rubs my arm briskly with a gloved hand, like she used to when I came in from the cold as a child. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Ma Costa looked half-blindly over the little group of children and turned away to stumble through the crowd on the wharf, bellowing for her child. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

At first, the woman had resisted taking responsibility for this child because she didn’t think she was strong enough for the task. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Their mother had become old with grief, but she cried with happiness when she saw her children again. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then away for home! away to the quickest and nearest train! away from this cursed spot, from this cursed land, where the devil and his children still walk with earthly feet! Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He watched a young woman stumble away with a child on either hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Poe was a friend of Mr. and Mrs. Baudelaire’s whom the children had met many times at dinner parties. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Not more than a week later, I was talking at gatherings in Freetown about child soldiering and how it must be stopped. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Lyra urged the children on and out into the darkness beyond the lights. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The children followed Albert along the shoreline, until he bent over to pick something up. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I thought it might happen in the distant future, once I’m a grown woman with an important job and my own house and a husband and children. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He declared that every patient had to pay eighty cents, except for women, children, the truly poor, and anyone seriously ill. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But Charlotte’s children and grandchildren and great grandchildren, year after year, lived in the doorway. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“They think he might have...what? Rescued the child and floated away?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Richard, who was finishing a PhD in chemistry, had come down from Oregon with Kami and their children. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"If he has extra money sitting around, maybe he should pay his child support." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

As I woke up on the morning of 25 February I was missing you and the children a great deal as always. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were voices inside: a woman speaking roughly and a sharp-tongued child answering her in an angry, spiteful tone. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children moved off to the side of the loading area, dragging their suitcases behind them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had noticed him hanging around the children lately. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And King Fortinbras would be no ally to me or my child. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“You have a poem also, Alexander? Well, this is one delightful surprise after another, children! Let’s hear it, then. Beowulf, come here next to me, and let your brother have the stage.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Now that my oldest brother, Samuel, was a freshman at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, that left my sixteen- year-old brother, Chester, as the oldest child at home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The children were more tired than they knew. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“That’s sick,” Ron muttered, watching the smallest Muggle child, who had begun to spin like a top, sixty feet above the ground, his head flopping limply from side to side. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We sit on the mats and various people from the village come to sit near us—a few old men and women, many children and young warriors. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

What exciting turns would my life have taken if I had been as unhindered in my decision making as Alabama’s white children and youth? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

All of this means that the amount of food energy lost in the making of a Chicken McNugget could feed a great many more children than just Isaac. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Kuda, said the Praise Singer, spoke as clearly as a child twice his age. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Andrew came with her; not because he wanted to see but because he wanted to keep close to the children—there might be a chance of stealing their rings. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

For a while they just stayed there in comfortable silence . . . siblings, children from the past, children of the Underworld. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“What an extraordinary child,” said Miss Spink to herself as she closed the door. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Seeing a perfectly normal child here in the middle of the Greater Jungle was such an odd contrast that he wasn’t even sure what to say. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The two children wouldn’t even allow themselves a sigh of relief. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father was to follow, but he was waiting for his son, who was waiting for his wife, who was waiting to deliver a child in its last week in her belly. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Call’s grandmother told him that when she was a child, there had been a young waterman by that name, the only child of Captain Charles Wesley Wallace. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see white people, even the children, touching whatever they wanted. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“God listens more closely to children,” Mom said. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I was like the Christ child lifted out of the straw manger, crying with holy indignity. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I returned to the drawing room, a clergyman was talking about the hardships being suffered by children in Berlin. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The girls had never been called angel children before, and thought it very agreeable, especially Jo, who had been considered a ‘Sancho’ ever since she was born. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the sun had fully risen, the four children were back on the road. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She then reached in, pulled out an identical decoy box filled with real vitamin tablets, and offered some to her children, who accepted eagerly. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At Silsbee’s Cove there were no women, children, or farm animals about, except a couple of weaned calves in the calf pasture. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both the children unsaddled their horses and the horses had a little grass and Aravis produced rather nice things to eat from her saddlebag. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

In this way, even as he was dying, he showed respect for his children’s worlds. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If you are to rule in the north, you must think these things through, Robb. Answer your own question. Why would anyone want to kill a sleeping child?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Parents walked over and smiled indulgently at their children, and by the time the sun disappeared, the goldfish man had sold out of his wares. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I learned to look for little children playing outside a large, fine house. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She even proudly said: “You see, child, not all white people are bad; remember that.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the very young children couldn’t make up their minds whether to watch the man circled in blue on the roof or the bits of red flashing around on the ground. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We knew she would be the best of best girls, and the best of best children, and one day the best of best women. We do so love being right.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The two children and the woman watched without moving. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Early in the morning, before the sun had thrown its first ray or the redbirds chirped their first note, all four children were gathered in the boys’ bedroom. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It is barbaric to press the child into playing,” said my mother. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Catch children,” it boomed, deep down from the earth itself. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

An accident of geography sent me to a school where all my classmates were white, many the children of doctors and lawyers and business executives. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know why they don’t let children come. Not enough room, I guess. They should enlarge the Releasing Room.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

You still think I am a child—why can I not put my head in your lap and weep? All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

This book is about my experiences as a black child growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the 1940s and '50s under the umbrella of the rules and traditions of my oppressors. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As I hurried by, I looked for the half-starved child who had stood there watching me eat. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her uncle seems almost a child, monastic in the modesty of his needs and wholly independent of any sort of temporal obligations. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The scent touched him deep behind his belly, and he could feel the old anticipation stirring as it had when he was a child waiting for the first snowflakes to fall. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once the men are seated in the living room off the inside patio, they try to lure the children into conversation. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Others ran away, shouting, “Devil child! Leopard girl! I don’t want to catch your spots.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not find the children there either, but he did happen to bump into another nephew. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

She cannot afford to bear her next child until the previous toddler can walk fast enough to keep up with the tribe and not hold it back. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They hovered in a gray tide, watching the children. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

His wife had so recently borne him another child she was still abed. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went in search of the children to calm myself down. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I urge—I implore!—every man, woman, and child who has music in his soul not to miss one of his illustrious—nay, his glorious— concerts! The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elzenia didn’t say a word about it, but I could see as to how that was not the way to be an example for my own children. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were children there, but she was not among them. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Still, she remembered Adèle’s voice whispering, “Think of the children; think of them.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Yes, she was a child at the time, and he did not forgive her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Because income inequality is greater here, there is a wider disparity between what rich and poor parents can invest in their children. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Women and children only. Lower away!” he called. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mudgett’s only close friend was an older child named Tom, who was killed in a fall while the boys were playing in an abandoned house. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Not at all like a child being kissed by female relatives. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Framed photographs of their children hang on the walls, along with Chagall prints. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He took them to the only place he could think of, the lake my father had shown me as a child. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

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

She went without the children, which was quite unusual, leaving Charles to negotiate his work around them. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the back room with my children—my fifteen-year-old boy, my nine-year-old son, my two daughters—we were back there watching TV. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s just a child that has to be born, the by-product of good nights in Milan. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Way down Carpenter’s Road, where the concrete sidewalks started, children hurried to the sliding places before shopkeepers and old women sprinkled stove ashes, like ancient onyx, onto the new-minted silver. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

The children were wandering about aimlessly, not knowing what to do with themselves to stay out of the way of the grown-ups. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

One is the world of the thing they study: the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, the development of language in children, the Taiping Rebellion in China. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

There was an iron-bound convention in Brooklyn that children must have their picture taken by a regular photographer when they were confirmed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

C. J. knew that if people learned what this virus could do, there would be traffic jams heading out of Reston, with mothers screaming at television cameras, “Where are my children?” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His newest book, Monster Truck, is written especially for the child with machinery on their mind. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My arms lifted and reached for the child. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Already, though, he was picturing himself walking his bright, clean children up to Pastor Tom during an altar call, sunlight coming through the windows, the choir singing, the whole church looking on. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the garden they were always alone with themselves, but along the bank of the brook in summer lived five other mice families, all with children. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You will be glad to know that Lucy is better. The dear child is still asleep. I looked into her room and saw her, but did not go in, lest I should disturb her.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I hope my children take after their mother when it comes to organization. I’m sorry, probably not the sort of thing you want to hear from your prospective lawyer, heh?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Be good to the children on this trip, Bull. You hear me. They’ve been looking to your coming home. Don’t spoil it. I mean it too. This is your lover girl speaking.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank, George, and Horace had children, and these three sons also continued in their fathers footsteps: Frank was a botanist and edited his fathers letters and published the Autobiography. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We talked with the children, about the cats and the farm animals. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You sell those children a ticket. Right now." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Because of his height and his serious face he usually played the villain at the children’s theater where he worked. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It’s absolutely frightful! Bones under the windows! What can have happened? Oh, those poor children!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

About fifteen minutes into it, Jam had switched to a booklet about emotional abuse and Redemption was reading one about indicators of child abuse when she heard his breath hiss in a quick intake. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Someone must have found the child, taken it in, hidden it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

A child with a slice of bread came to the window and pressed his nose against the pane. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tea is light-complexioned children, who look more ethnically Dutch, and coffee is those with darker features. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

None of Brave Orchid’s children was happy like the two real Chinese babies who died. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” he said, his voice clear and sharp, his eyes glittering like droplets of ink, “your child, my Lord Asriel: I know about her. Evidently I know more than you do.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She throws away the empty soda can when the child is done with it. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

After verifying Phelps’s story, Anthony decided to help the woman and her child find a place to live in New York City. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Your training with me puts you far ahead of these other children.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judging from the gentlemen's remarks, Lord Fredrick had led them to expect a spectacular display of wolflike behavior from the children at the party. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

People were smiling or chuckling; a few of the children were holding their ears. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Greek name for Death. Now may I continue without interruptions? The goddess said, ‘The blood of Pylos is strong in this child from his mother’s side. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Sister Dolores, these are the children I was telling you about.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Apparently while I had been napping the schoolyard had been steadily filling with apprehensive children on their first day of school, many of whom were crying. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said he was too old to be bearing children, and they got hilarious and obscene on the subject. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The children came and sat close to him; he had paid more attention to them lately, knowing that it pleased Nancy, and they had grown fond of him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a short, plump woman in her late forties, with eleven children and a russet-colored wart on her chin. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Standing on her feet all day in the sweltering laundry was an opportunity if the tumbled military uniforms bought new school clothes, if each sock made a down payment on her children’s college educations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Four years later, her dad would unexpectedly die of a heart attack at the age of fifty-six, leaving behind his wife, five children, and eight grandchildren. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

There was every kind of person the children could imagine on the streets of Paris. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The four oldest children, who wore short pants in spite of the fact that they were on the threshold of adolescence, busied themselves with José Arcadio's personal appearance. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Had Ghost uncovered some ancient cache of the children of the forest, buried here for thousands of years? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Auditory discrimination exercises work the child’s ability to hear differences in sound in order to organize and make sense of sound. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She insisted that the child sitting on each side of her slide his chair toward the head of the table, so that no legs could possibly reach her. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It also claimed that suffrage would be harmful to children, because it would increase the likelihood of “discord” in marriages, increasing the “already alarming” rate of divorce in the country. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Penelope readied herself to leap to the children’s defense should it prove necessary. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

But the archbishop of the church in South Africa, anxious to keep children out of the streets, handed over the rest of the schools to the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Siobhan said I could use the staff room toilets for two days, but only two days, and then I would have to use the children’s toilets again. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I am the eldest child of the Right Hand House, and the youngest of my father’s four sons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got mad and then said she would turn the children to hate me, which she did, all but Perry. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people even argued that it should be permissible to kill such children as long as parents gave their consent. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Each of us recited Kaddish for his parents, for his children, and for himself. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would always say that she couldn’t do anything with him, but it’s hard to do anything with a child when they see these types of things going on. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boys were playing among the pillars, the only children that Pippin had seen in Minas Tirith, and he stopped to look at them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Come on! Hurry up! We must get going! And how many children are there left now?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

You remember that Samuel Hamilton said his children had gone to a dance at the Peach Tree School. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers are executing the entire families of those whom they’ve taken away, including young children. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of her seemed unalive, like a pale wax model of my mother: the woman who could not fight fire with fire, even to save her children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

To write about someone is so personal, even in a world with fire-breathing children and flying dragon services, and a lot of the good stuff between me and Hudson is there. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Every night, children gathered to sing and worship God. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without the twins, there were eleven children in residence at the Boxton Creek Home. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly not with a mere child, not with me—the only child in the house. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In April we went to Colorado to film foster children who were placed for adoption with military families and remained a few extra days so I could try skiing. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She was a small person, in the delicate way that a child is small, but with the quiet grace of her years. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government, it seemed, had never been in the habit of murdering people for not submitting their children to a public education. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They focused on children to raise, households to run, church, clubs, and local community events. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Two wings had been added to accommodate the yearly accretions of Marine children who came into town as Ravenel Air Base expanded. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first Dad was irritated, because he thought one of the older children was butting in. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been enough to think that even one of these dangers could befall a child. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How are we supposed to wait—with all of you eating like starving hyenas? I suppose he plans to push up the price, the dirty child murderer!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Merit has replaced the old system of inherited privilege, in which parents to the manner born handed down the manor to their children. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“The oldest goddess of all. She’s in a deep sleep most of the time, but she hates the gods and their children.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I thought children were supposed to respect their elders, but they were throwing rocks and sand at all of us, my parents included. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The children who lived were all scraps and eyes. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Emma found a site dedicated to missing children, and she tested herself looking at the page about the Emma from Arizona. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She got some juice and some glasses for the children. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

A group of staffers invited me to explain the problems faced by foster children. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The children didn’t like the lobster and the cold oysters had no taste and the caviar seemed too salty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if the children failed to make a good impression at the party, might that change? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

As a child and as a teen, his parents were exhausted, distant, and uncommunicative. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Twenty days after they lost Annie, on May 13, a new child, a son, Horace, was born. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the children had risked their life to attend the conference. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The way, I supposed, a parent must feel about a child. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

To learn music using the Suzuki approach, the child must replicate the steps of language learning by listening to excellent recordings so that beautiful music becomes part of their natural environment. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Come,” she added, and held out a hand to each of the children. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as if they want us to take Loki’s children out of Jotunheim.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Thus life at Elsinore, even for children, was full of competition. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But the children will be in them all right, something for the Wives to look at, downstairs, nibbling at the buffet and waiting for the Birth. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was a lion,” he says, “and I married and now I sit by the phone and beg to speak to my children. Do you see?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Very good, Percy. Elpis, the Spirit of Hope, would not abandon humanity. Hope does not leave without being given permission. She can only be released by a child of man.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, children, I guess we’ll have to have oatmeal for supper tonight.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we stood in the dark a while longer, calming ourselves, I had this eerie feeling that we were already dead and looking longingly at the house where our children were growing up without us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men had shouted at her to leave, screaming that a railroad yard was not a safe place for children. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It belonged to die half-grown child with the blond eyebrows and the long green braid. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“And those Quincey children. That boy wetting his bed and all. The poor little lambs.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She clutched them greedily as a child might and held them in her hand without speech. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He bade the boy, who was present when Teiresias spoke, “Up, my child, and fly with all speed from the land before the city learns.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although I had changed, the things that had made me feel sad and ashamed when I was a child in boarding school had stayed the same. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then why did you mock her for the number of her children?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Their children are taught the history of the Empire with a kind of disclaimer hanging over the whole thing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Whatever that means, it doesn’t sound like any child’s idea of fun. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

We’ll be wrapped in pink fairy dust and ride away into the sunset together, mother and child reunited at last? Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They have wives, children, occupations, and interests, they have a background which is so strong that the war cannot obliterate it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are whispers about terrible things happening in Poland, about low-flying planes that shoot women and children, about German soldiers who machine-gun Poles and Jews over mass graves. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly all parents are faced with the problem sooner or later, and then the child is lucky if the parent remembers his own childhood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She welcomed him and made him an evening meal, just as any mother would do with her child. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I heard about that. What did you do anyway? How did the angel child get grounded?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Be still,” said the priest to the children’s choir. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children watched him with a familiar intensity I couldn’t quite identify. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

People lost jobs, positions, and were threatened with having their children taken away. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The kind you let in your house because he was not dangerous, because you had seen him with children, bought his products and never heard a scrap of gossip about him doing wrong. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you’re worried about the children. Why is it that you don’t even think about them when it’s less convenient. When you’re partying with your women and your barroom buddies.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child’s blindness, added to a student’s thirst for knowledge. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You may think salt is sufficient protection, but you children are forgetful. Better to go without. As for dancing, once begun, you mortals will dance yourselves to death if we don’t prevent it.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Across the afternoon, children chased it through the grass and onto the sturdy white bandstand at the edge of the park. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The Others are only a story, a tale to make children shiver. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Pythagoras, the Greek scholar—half scientist, half mystic—who lived in Croton around 530 BC, proposed one of the earliest and most widely accepted theories to explain the similarity between parents and their children. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, then, maybe it means—” “I ought to know when I’m asleep and when I’m awake.” “—maybe it mean Sister Florida wants you to work with the children in the church.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a greedy child gorging on clusters of grapes, the Angel of Death tore all of the beauty and dignity from a person and left behind a terrible, dripping mess. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The community was extraordinarily safe, each citizen watchful and protective of all children. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

As always, her major concern was to live the life given to her, and her children were expected to do the same. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grownups and the children joined hands and stood there, studying the new sign. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

In those days, children wore heavy, practical shoes that felt like they would outlast a steel monument, so whenever you could go barefoot, you appreciated it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When Sourmelina was caught not with another girl but with a full-grown woman, a mother of two children, a scandal arose. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She answered his look saying, “So I called when I was a child and so I was fed. In such a year as this I was sold a slave.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But her fight against child marriage and her advocacy to end human trafficking are changing the world. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once inside, she was able to settle her three charges in a corner of the children’s section to watch the packages and flip through books. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Then she looked at me unnecessarily hard; Chinese do not have to address children directly. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other children looked to him as their strategist, their Clausewitz, and Matthew said nothing as they drove up to the main gate of the Ravenel Air Station. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone, even the youngest children, knew that you should eat with your right hand and use the toilet with your left hand. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They think I am one of them, one of the pure base children. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perkins was one of the first schools for black children in the region. Maybe even the state,” he said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Frear’s first job was to get the three children to safety, one of whom was an invalid. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Olanna looked out of the window and remembered the slanting lines crisscrossing the calabash, the white blankness of the child’s eyes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I am up on my tiptoes, trying to appear a mildly short boy and not a medically tiny alien child. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s just like raising any other child, I should think,” she said stiffly, stacking the plates in the dishwasher. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her eyes widened, and he knew she was seeing Morgun as a child, holding his ears and crying with pain. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Though married, Ogorodnik also carried on a secret love affair with a Colombian woman—who was pregnant with his child. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was Myrna, who had been appearing to him in a series of dreams that was taking the form of the old Batman serials that he had seen at the Prytania as a child. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think,” he asked Mrs. Richardson as they cleared the table, “that Mark and Linda really know how to raise a Chinese child?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Branded a felon, he is struggling to survive and to support his children. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Shhh!” responded the children, waving him away without taking their eyes off Mama. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Most of the meals Thula managed to put before her children consisted of thin stews made from parsnips, rutabagas, potatoes, and chipped beef. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

August started to sing then in a humming sort of way, “ ‘Mary brought forth her firstborn child and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in the manger.’ The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being a restless child, he quickly grew bored with the familiarity of the dances and chose instead to watch the audiences. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God, you look adorable. Take back what I said about you looking like your dad—you look like a doll. Oh, God, I see the appeal of dressing a child.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

All the children, except Charlie, had both their mothers and fathers with them, and it was a good thing that they had, otherwise the whole party might have gotten out of hand. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He keeps the letter short because he's still recovering from his last attack, but he longs “to hear that you’ve come through safely and that your child lives.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t mind my asking, sir, why did the other children torment you?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

For all her valiant resistance, though, the child was, after all, only a child. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Moments later the courtyard erupted into a melee of flung snowballs, scurrying children, and peals of laughter. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And two, we needed the help about as badly as the children of Moses needed Moses. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you an appointment?” she asked in poor Chinese; she spoke less like a Chinese than Brave Orchid’s children. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Which was it, by truck or by cart?” the children sometimes asked her on their way to play cops and robbers in the alley. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Alecto, the children, and Maria’s body dissolved into shadows, leaving Hades alone in the ruins. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

My aunt had asked me to go to Ohio with her so I could babysit her children. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the crowds of children swelled, firefighters continued to aim their thick hoses at the young protestors. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When she didn’t speak again, I said, “So you found safety. That’s when you started rescuing children.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was the dream of each child within those dreary walls that someday a real family would come and claim him. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

A mother’s oldest child always stays at home; he is an important member of the family. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I will," said Alfred, but Harold and Lynn had already turned and begun handing their leaflets to the children streaming out into the street. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She may consider herself too poor to raise a child. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Now the children were set to cutting grass and digging flower beds. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

This sweet, funny, sometimes annoying, sometimes brilliant, naive child of mine...This child who is now an adult and about to launch, like a rocket blazing in beauty through the night sky to worlds unknown. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

This kind of interaction simply doesn’t happen with lower-class children, Lareau says. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

"I forbid you to leave this house again. You are still my child, Hannie." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The clothes were worn on Christmas and New Year’s when families paraded their children on the streets in a pageantry designed to imply nonexistent wealth. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point a group of them formed a little ring around Mr. Das and the children. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They told me the black and white children just “couldn’t seem to get along.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“She was worried about you, that you could not hold a conversation with even the children upstairs. But she didn’t ask me to take you.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We can take her as a foster child while they work out the details.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"We're out trying to raise money so that we can open a children's center. Anything you'd be willing to donate would be greatly appreciated." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There came a night, however, when Mrs. Popper, having put the children to bed, stopped Mr. Popper on his way to the cellar. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

He decided we should wait until we moved into a better neighborhood before having children. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eyes brimming with tears, the child held out its pudgy arms toward the window. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

‘Colonel Nesbit said I was just a child. “Go buy a popgun, boy,” he said. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the child wouldn’t, or did and left too soon, Junior threw gravel at him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the closeness of it, had produced in them love’s illusion. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Months after Lee was arrested and charged with capital murder, six additional pathologists examined the body and unanimously concluded that neonatal pneumonia had killed the child—it was a classic stillbirth with very common features. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They took in many of the eleven thousand orphaned children. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Lovely children,” he said, to mask the obvious rejection. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t need to be patted or consoled, like a child. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“My great-grandfather. He named me after the Penn Relays. Not many children have a great-grandfather. My dad says I’m really lucky. Want to see my turtle now?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

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

He decided that until the danger was past, his wife and children must go stay with his father, who lived in a small town three hundred miles away. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bars of the gates were closely spaced: they would have stopped a grown man from getting through, even stopped a ten-year-old child... The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Over the next half hour Fadi met a blur of people, which included Uncle Amin’s two brothers and their wives and children. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It would help the children to cultivate the imagination denied them by television and would appreciably cut down on the incidence of juvenile delinquency. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Basta raised his hand, but when Capricorn almost imperceptibly shook his head he lowered it again like a rebuked child. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Was it because he knew of this coming child,” she wondered silently, “that he stopped drinking at the last?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some slept on the ironing tables, and the small children slept on the shelves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This child has lived in a fever house for days, weeks maybe. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katie blushed and the children looked down on the floor, ashamed of being found out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had washed up there on the riptide of my husband’s confidence and the undertow of my children’s needs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a lot of people do, out of relief that their children have been spared for another year. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Every man, woman, and child who had died in Weep since...since when?...and passed near enough the citadel in their evanescent journey for Minya to catch. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know, the same way I didn’t know what lay ahead for us in the White House, nor what lay ahead for the country or for any of these sweet children surrounding me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The woman had four children all under the age of twelve, and a jealous, controlling husband. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

For the first time, her heart began to shatter, thinking of her child out there among the world. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a record of her marriage to Oliver Blake, and a list of her seven children, their marriages, some grandchildren...Then someone else had taken up the listing. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Once they are walking to a steady beat and stopping precisely on the last beat, have children drop the recitation of the rhyme, and just walk the beat. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

What a pity every child couldn’t learn to read under a willow tree, Kit thought a week later. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The most important consequence of the miracle of the garment industry, though, was what happened to the children growing up in those homes where meaningful work was practiced. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

To the older children she said, “Four times four?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Villac Uma smiled down at me as a father would a child. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“The child will grow up and find out things for herself. She will know that I lied. She will be disappointed.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother made ten dollars a week sewing for a tailor down the street, and Harry was an only child. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I must. I have a child out there. A son. I must find him.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was one of the socially useful phrases Penelope had made the children practice. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He grinned at me like I was a precocious child. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Fond as he was of his only child, useful as she was in his house since his wife had died, lately he had begun to chafe under her devotion. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men turned her around like a doll, and then the strange procession moved up the broad walk toward the school, and the child was even more a mite because the men were so big. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Arya child," he called out, never looking, never taking his eyes off the Lannisters, "we are done with dancing for the day. Best you are going now. Run to your father." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Some draw on government help in the form of food stamps, housing vouchers, the earned income tax credit, or—for those coming off welfare in relatively generous states—subsidized child care. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ever had any children? Come on, George, sit still--I asked you a question. Did you ever have any children?" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She calls me in later and sends me upstairs to borrow a rubber sheet from a woman who had a child that died. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The voices of the children from the playground below could be any children’s voices, from any time, the light under the trees thickens, turns malevolent. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

With his steps the house filled up with the fragrance of the toilet water that Úrsula used to splash on him when he was a child in order to find him in the shadows. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The team had discovered the red chamber of the virus queen at the end of the earth, where the life form had amplified through mothers and their unborn children. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They are like us; he has a good job and he has ambition and they spank their children,” Aunty Uju had said approvingly. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My mother carried the brown package to a clearing where several men, women and children sat underneath a blazing sun; some rested, tired from digging; others munched hungrily at dug-up sandwiches and other viands. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I propped Raulito up on the baptismal font and gave the other children mints to keep them quiet. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly a hundred of the two hundred thousand children who rode the trains are still alive. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The children instinctively threw themselves onto his arms, separating him from the papers. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“This is Ashley Rhodes. She is one of the best-behaved children we have, and one of the smartest. She gets straight A’s.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He never married or had children of his own, but he loved his family more than anything. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He ordered the spirits to line up like naughty children in front of an elder. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The relatives there can send it on to the remaining aunts and their children and, after a good harvest, to the children and grandchildren of my grandfather’s two minor wives. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shrugged his shoulders, saying, “Don’t rightly know. She was a skinny little thing; could have been three months and she was already big with child for aught I know.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

No speak English, she says to the child who is singing in the language that sounds like tin. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

So whenever it looked as if anyone down the family line was about to skip, every older child would study frantically so that he could jump ahead, too. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Africa, where one of my children remains in the dank red earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slogging to the edge of the road with his back to the child where he stood bent with his hands on his knees, coughing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I know I'll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And now I was at Harper, listening to children talking about how to stay alive. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Whoever lived here could certainly pay ten thousand dollars for a child. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had made a sliding board that went down the stairs so the children could play inside when the weather was bad. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the children carried books too, but none were as big as the one he held close against his side. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have seen one speak very angrily to a child. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There were other children in there,” she said. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Don’t argue, my dear child, please don’t argue!” cried Mr. Wonka. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

True believers of school choice argue that their tax dollars buy them the right to send their children to the best school possible. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Stanton scaled back her work on temperance reform after 1842, when she gave birth to her first child, a boy, named Daniel Cady Stanton. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The other children had organized a system so that in case of visitors, whoever was closest would reach out and stop whatever might be moving on the table before the guests noticed and were startled. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Old MacDonald Had a Farm,” “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” “The Itsy-Bitsy Spider”— all sung by children who could not sing, the type of music grown-ups think is all kinds of cute, but it’s awful! Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“What’s that for, child?” asked the mother slowly, as though she were sorry she had asked and would like to take it back. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama didn’t pass her test today,” the first child to notice would say to the others. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He also left large holdings to his children with Cleopatra. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

She guessed that this tall man, both stern and gentle, might think her merely wayward, like a child that has not the firmness of mind to go on with a dull task to the end. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He would rather leave The Hague and move to the country with Sien and the children. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They were surrounded by children, curious to look at the animals and people that were arriving. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most civilized nations compensate for the inadequacy of wages by providing relatively generous public services such as health insurance, free or subsidized child care, subsidized housing, and effective public transportation. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had treated him like a child snatcher and when, full of rage, Victor wanted to show them his detective's ID, he realized that the little brats had robbed him as well. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Any children will be born with the tail of a pig.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He looked so terrible that the children were afraid of him. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could learn how to teach our language to our children. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I left the abbey with the king, I instructed one of the monks to listen behind a door at the side of the refectory, in case Michelangelo and the children revealed some treachery. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

She turned slowly and descended, lowering her body from step to step, as a small child does, her hand against the wall. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tumbled away into a doze, and was woken by the drone of a man’s voice in the nursery, and children answering. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Soon, there was a trail of children a mile long chasing after the peach as it proceeded slowly up Fifth Avenue. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

If their children were doing poorly at school, the wealthier parents challenged their teachers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Many of the children on this train have been at the Children’s Aid for so long that they have no memories of their mothers. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

So people came out of hiding and said ‘One Nigeria’ and the vandals shot them, men, women, and children. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now she realized that the hardest test for a child of Athena wasn’t leading a quest or facing death in combat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Rock passing games such as “Obwisana” start out very simply, but the rocks can be tapped in more complex polyrhythms after the children master the easier rhythms. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

They would not take the coast route along mountainsides that dropped into the sea—the way her children, who liked carnival rides, would want to go. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Character formation began early, with family games of tossing naked children into the snow. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But there came a time when the male children grew to a certain age, before they were old and when they ceased to be children, and then they were filled with discontent. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The squirrel bolted, with the children barking and yapping in pursuit. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The book about Johnny Unitas, with its cartoony cover depicting a football player wearing a number nineteen jersey and dropping back to launch a pass, was most likely a children’s book. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

In the early 20th century, Carl Orff met gymnastics and dance educator Dorothée Gunther and established an innovative school for children based on the idea that all human beings are musical by nature. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Popper worried a little, at the start, over the idea of having Janie and Bill miss ten weeks of school while they were on the road, though the children did not seem to mind. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most children rode the city bus to school or walked, as I did the dozen or so blocks from where I lived, in a two-room basement apartment. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He thought of the disapproving way Kamau sometimes stared at his fingers, the way other boys at the temple had laughed at him for using bigger words as a child. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Things will be very different without your father, children.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his immediate concerns lay with Etty and the other children. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, she would drive herself and the children, taking the most circuitous route possible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who lose jobs or decline promotions to let the children finish high school where they currently are sometimes relocate in place. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had thought the three-eyed crow would be a sorcerer, a wise old wizard who could fix his legs, but that was some stupid child’s dream, he realized now. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“And, Hazel Levesque...you will not believe me, but I am proud of your strength. Sometimes...sometimes the only way I can care for my children is to keep my distance.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The morning is wet and shining, and I am swelled with the idea that I'll be setting forth with the children. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“We do not pay for children. The fact that we will feed them, care for them, educate them, and find them good homes is payment enough to most parents,” the director said. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can music help inspire a well-rounded child? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Angelica and her little brother were there too, stones in hand, and all the children’s eyes glittered fiercely in the moonlight. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The word had never been used in front of the children, and never uttered by them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Picture of a skinny, miserable, rocking child, flies near her mouth. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

On hot days, Fred and I liked to take the spiral staircase downstairs and sit on the rug in the children’s section, looking at books. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Music is also a social and communal activity, and a child with autism can enter into the communal and social interaction of music making. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Jill would garner pledges from colleges and universities to train teachers and professors to better understand the needs of military children. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

His scientific conclusion: the Congolese do not become attached to their children as we Americans do. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children cheered and clapped each other on the backs, and when they were done cheering and clapping, they realized that the pencil woman had left them yet again. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first response is that disadvantaged kids simply don’t have the same inherent ability to learn as children from more privileged backgrounds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She put her arms around Miss Miss like a child seeking comfort. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The church members screaming, “My children! My children!” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The children scowled and clutched at their heads. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It happened at the same time that we were representing children sentenced to life without parole all over the country. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And there were the timid children of the neighbors, boys and girls to whom my brother and I felt superior in worldly knowledge. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The songs can also fit into other aspects of children’s lives and their school curriculum as well. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Average life expectancy was apparently just thirty to forty years, but this was due largely to the high incidence of child mortality. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A flower child is beautiful and doesn’t do anything to harm anyone,” said my sister. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Who was not a child prodigy but did end up being something of a genius. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Dr. Verwoerd announced that the government would permanendy close all schools that were boycotted and that children who stayed away would not be readmitted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When told of King’s suggestion, the NAACP’s Thurgood Marshall allegedly snapped, “I don’t approve of using children to do men’s work.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Your children need to know where they come from.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“If they beat him or anything like that, they could be arrested for child abuse.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Nat put his hands on the child’s shoulders and gently urged her forward. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

None of the children laughed—they didn’t understand it. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Assistant district attorney. Judge: family court, state supreme court, appellate division. Appellate has two p's and two /'s. Never married, no children." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even she herself knew that her fertility had outwitted the mustard vapors, just as Fernanda did not know until almost a year later, when they brought the child. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I also told the Court that to say to any child of thirteen that he is fit only to die in prison is cruel. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Poor child, it must have been lonely for her all those years. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a frantic child in there, behind that locked, sagging face. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Papa and I came to Würzburg, I joined the choir for the children of the symphony musicians. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, my mom would introduce me to people as the youngest child, and it bothered me deeply. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The children couldn’t see it, but Tialys and Salmakia, flying above, watched the little pale figures all moving with an effect that looked like the migration of immense flocks of birds or herds of reindeer. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And maybe like the woman and her child at the heart of the story too. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They taught reading The school, the same one my own children had gone to, was close enough to walk to. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will be honest with you. We do not have any children and have no interest in being surrogate parents. But if you are respectful and hardworking, you will be treated fairly.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I listened closer and I realized it was a song being sung by a child. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Suleiman,” she begged my father, “I want to see my children one last time before I die.” Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Dad said he didn’t know and Mam said she didn’t know and Dr. Troy said that’s why children die. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Like a child, I wish for a piñata like I always had before. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

A man cries all the time that he’ll never see again, he’s too young, his children are babies, he’ll never see them again. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

As the last group of women and children boarded the truck, the commander saw Ona standing up, sitting down, and pulling her hair. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The news reporter, meanwhile, had vanished from the distorted picture, replaced by a cheerful-looking weather forecaster, but it continued to be the child’s voice they heard. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Although she submitted applications for food stamps and aid for dependent children, the welfare officials told her that she was ineligible because her children were no longer living with her. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"Take the children. Fill her halls with noise and shouts and laughter. That boy of hers needs other children about him, and Lysa should not be alone in her grief." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

From up above, the guards’ children shouted at Shin and his classmates as they walked by. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

With the forest burning to the right and the left, the colonists' boats passed through a channel of fire, their passengers as goggle-eyed at the blaze as children at a video arcade. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She seated herself beside the door and took the youngest child in her lap. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The knee hole had boxes of toys that the married children’s children played with now. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph and Helen talked again about having more children; two sons would be perfect. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I was with child, if Mechtild’s eyes did not deceive her. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They did not answer her, for that would have taken time, and very basic enzymes of survival raced through the bloodstreams of the Meecham children as they headed for their preordained hiding place. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined him still standing in our yard, frozen under the deluge, baptizing an endless circle of children, who would slip away and return with new faces requiring his blessing. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed one grave, a child’s, from which grinned a faded plastic jack-o’-lantern. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was pleased by the familiarity of the arrangement: me, pressed into the corner, away from the other children, a precise reproduction of every Sunday school lesson from my childhood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“That child,” said he, through a mouth full of pulp, “could melt a liver with his eyes.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I would have loved to have another child, at least one more. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Frankly, Dr. Lopez, I don’t think having someone whose sole job is to clean up after the children sends the right sort of signal.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

"But what does this school think, sending children like you alone to a foreign country?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Whenever a child within his reach took too large a mouthful of food, Dad’s knuckles would descend sharply on the top of the offender's head, with a thud that made Mother wince. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am Pluto. Life is never easy for my children, but you have a special burden. Now that you’re thirteen, we must make provisions—” She pushed his hand away. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The children stood under the arcade, now hiding, now emerging from view. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I explained about my grandfather and the children’s home. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Eventually, her thoughts turned to Amman, her family, and especially her late grandmother, who had always told her as a child that things happened for a reason. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Only you would wear bowling shoes to your child’s sickbed.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And do you think it’s wise to discuss events in the future with children from the past?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

As small children, he and Kamau had come here to play when they were feeling brave or reckless. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Being someone’s child was always tough, always in its own way. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly black children could shop in department stores, eat at restaurants, drink from water fountains, and go to amusement parks that were once off-limits. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

My oldest brother, Tony, sat with my parents, his five children fanning out in the pew. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The suitcase also holds a Bible that belonged to Chris when he was a child, even though, she allows, “I haven’t prayed since we lost him.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That fall, they started the first school for colored children near Marshall. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Sourmelina’s belief that the soul didn’t enter the body until a child started speaking. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you see why anything we plant will not bear fruit?” said a woman whose child had died the week before. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They don’t want to call attention to the child. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She let Paula show her the kittens scampering around with their mother in the tiny garden behind the house and followed the three children to the house where they lived with their parents. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They danced with one eye on their partner and one eye on their children playing hopscotch, scullies with bottle caps, or skipping rope. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I was noting these things and enjoying them as a child might, when it entered my mind as it had never done before:— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Goat had some very fine children, of which she was justly proud. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Some were from peasant families, some were the children of intellectuals, some were the children of factory workers and had worked in factories themselves. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"Of course, but take good care of them. That copy of Lovelace's book was my mother's. She read the whole series aloud to us when we were children. Let me know what you think." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She pulled the child back, away from Edward. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Besides getting himself ready, each older child was responsible for one of the younger ones. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

With great tact the visitors continued, ‘Is it possible for you and your husband to encourage your children to practice their English when they are home?’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Y’all children can relax now,’’ Peewee said as he stood in the doorway to the hooch. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came out of the square, the children following him, and piped them past the café and down a side street. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was not always easy to be a Chinese child in a Jamaican schoolyard. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She meant the Gustano kids were only valuable to the leaders as long as the leaders thought the Gustanos were truly Mom’s children. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He struck a minor chord, looked into the eyes of his oldest child and smiled a crooked smile. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not every Commander has a Handmaid: some of their Wives have children. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was then that she decided not to tell him yet about the child. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she would teach children how to snare rabbits, make parkas, and carve; or she might live with some family that needed her help. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child looked straight back at the Queen, her face open and quite serious. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had the feeling, as he talked and laughed with the others, whom I could only think of as his children, that he was sizing me up, deciding something. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Instead, Huang Taitai hurried me upstairs to the second floor and into the kitchen, which was a place where family children didn’t usually go. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are women like Mam with children in their arms, babies like Alphie, and children playing on the pavement. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Only the children in the room were really enjoying it. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Buddy Ray’s smile would make small children flee to their mamas. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never heard of anything so fine in all my life, all those children helping out,” he wrote. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

From neighborhood to neighborhood and from school to school, black children and youth whispered the plans to one another, made their poster board signs, and waited with excited anticipation. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Around the year 80 A.D., a great Greek writer, Plutarch, received news, when he was far from home, that a little daughter of his had died—a child of most gentle nature, he says. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Romances began and ended there; children kissed at the verges of fields or walking home through the woods. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

My father says he doesn’t believe in brainwashing children. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She called her children in and we all started eating. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

His wife had died, and he had no children, so there was no one to check on him. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s as they say, fools and children have all the luck,” he said, but he looked relieved to see us. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There must have been some seed he left, to cause a child’s vacant fairy-tale to come alive in that garden. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will have the children read Hamlet as soon as it is practical. There are some useful cautions against eavesdropping to be gleaned from that. In the meantime, we shall deal with the squirrels.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

In the story, God tests Job’s faith by killing his wife and his children and his servants, destroying his house, his animals, and all his possessions. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was empty now, but sweetly expectant of clean, white, well-behaved children and parents who would play there above the lake in summer before half-running, half-stumbling down the slope to the welcoming water. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She twisted away from him like a startled child, but he took her arm and led her to the table and held her chair for her. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I will tell him, child, and I promise you, Barra shall not go wanting." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A few blocks south of Yesler, in a shantytown sprawling along the edge of Elliott Bay, children awoke in damp cardboard boxes that served as beds. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Mostly just the hearts of those who are trying to realize their Personal Legends. But they do help children, drunkards, and the elderly, too.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nightstand held her Bible and a framed photo of all her children. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Gogol does not know to whom these children belong—half the guests are people his mother has befriended in recent years, people who were at his wedding but whom he does not recognize. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

These children are more interesting to me than any book. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

At the age of five, six, well past the time when most other children no longer easily notice the difference between sounds uttered at home and words spoken in public, I had a different experience. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Saturday, but the other two children hadn't turned up yet. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was a child’s voice, bell-bright and as sweet as icing sugar. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

While I stood there trying to decipher the person’s handwriting, I was suddenly conscious of Ruth and Tommy standing behind me, not talking, waiting almost like children to be told which way to go. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You always had a great interest in little children,’ said Portia. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sensing his chance, Hitler approved the killing of Gerhard Kretschmar and then moved quickly to expand the program to other children. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They sent their children to school and went to church and attended meetings of the Masons and of forty-five other secret societies having lodges, kingdoms, and hives in the village. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"What kind of children's center?" he asks, giving a gentle tug on the German shepherd's leash. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A lot of people thought so, because she was eight years younger than me, and my parents weren’t “trying for another child,” which is kind of gross if you think about it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

"A little child shall lead them," the vet said with a smile. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city was home to a large laboring class, a small middle class, and even a few millionaires who regularly packed up their wives and children for the Grand Tour of European capitals. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Studies show that even very young children are quite sophisticated listeners. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In a station in the middle of the night, a few barefoot children—maybe orphans?—ran onto the train yelling and laughing. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I was in the third grade, Doc Lassiter came up to the school with an eye chart, and all of the children in my class were put in a line to read it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the face of a newly born child, red and full of wrinkles, ready to cry. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lift me like a little child That I may dwell with— I tapped M's. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The truth was there in front of them all the time, written on the children's faces. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If we were far enough away from the child, we just walked away as though we didn’t hear him. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then she’d have to be a Sicilian and kidnap little children and she didn’t want to do that, although drawing a black hand was fun. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may not be as filthy as it was in my mom’s day, but that water will still probably make you grow a third eye or have mutant children when you grow up. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But then I can’t hold myself responsible for somebody’s parents who should have been looking out for their child at that time of night. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he was right, children are supposed to keep quiet and not say anything, even when they know the grownups are wrong, but sometimes it’s hard. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will not suffer the murder of children. Accept that, or I’ll have no part of this.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to go to school for three reasons: I was reluctant to surrender my freedom and independence over to what I heard every school-going child call “tyrannous discipline.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was because he had never known a mother of Ms own, so that the rdle of mother love, as she stood with her children behind her, took him between wind and water. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is still attached to Sien, and he is sure he put her and her children in great danger by leaving. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then everyone starts talking, laughing, with children running and playing, and everyone getting up from their mats. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children were engaged in a whispered debate. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

For days Robin was cared for as if he were a little child. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

It is the same person who steals our children and poisons the water. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Who do you think you are, coming in here yelling at these children? I won’t stand for it. You need to leave this house. Now!” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

And it’s there, always, embedded in the hearts of children. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Some men did in those days. So the two new wives went to live with their new husband and his children, Light Hair and his older sister. That was in what is now eastern Wyoming.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Clarke has been telling everyone that the children were naked as monkeys.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She spent even more time with the debate team and at tournaments, once arguing in the persuasive category in favor of child support. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

His queen was the Mother of Dragons; he would not allow her children to come to harm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If Mr. Longridge would call Lintola 29 ring 4 tomorrow at noon she would try and have the child there and he could talk to her himself. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once he came when I was suckling Selvam, my youngest son, who had turned three, and saw that my breasts were sore where the child’s mouth had been. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child was like the return of a shame that she had thought exiled by her from the house forever. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The picture was probably taken in the late fifties or early sixties, and shows a big rectangular swimming pool with all these happy people—children, parents—splashing about having a great time. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the poor pigeon, taken away from his relations. Maybe he’s got children.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little children playing on the edge of the silky line of foam. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“A dactyl came with some grams today, children,” Von Marsh announced. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He had no quarrel with Agamemnon himself, but Atreus, who had had the children slaughtered and placed on the banquet table for their father, was dead and vengeance could not reach him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was said around school that she didn’t have any time for children who pretended to get out of doing work. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Pa Keating told stories and the big people laughed even though they didn’t want to laugh or they weren’t supposed to laugh in the presence of a dead child. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Though I was a child, I could no longer feel as a child, could no longer react as a child. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once upon a time there was a man and his wife who had fine cattle and rich farmland, but no children,” she began. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way someone might if they saw a young child being mischievous. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

From time to time she was handed a glass of tea, the cracker tin was passed in her direction, and she helped children shoot chips across the carom board. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“He gave me some perfect children, but He also gave me one that wasn’t so perfect, so He said, ‘Oops, I better take this one back.’” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Sixteen on my next nameday. And no child, but a woman grown and flowered.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The children’s furor matches that of the Met Bongs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he possesses at birth some qualities that make him less susceptible than others to poisons he is more likely to survive and produce children. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sansa had always seemed such a sweet child, tender and courteous. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

No doubt it was nothing more than a glib remark, meant as a joke, but it sounded as if Lord Fredrick had no intention of sending the children away. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The child meant more to him than his own children ever had. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A parent’s job is to protect their children, even from themselves. Especially from themselves.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The article that appeared the next morning called the Mosses’ mobile home “a living hell for children.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He had many children and grandchildren of his own, all of whom he loved dearly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the child crying lustily from the birthing hut and he gave a leap of delight when he recognized the cry as the cry of a male child. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The children were sensitive to Charles’s needs and routine, but they couldn’t help bothering him sometimes. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen or more children were playing there, dodging in and out of the traffic with a skill and indifference which I could not help admiring. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. But if they never did, children would not be so precious.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It irked him, but this wasn’t the time or place to let being called a child get in the way of helping Uncle Jet. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She was wild-eyed, like a woman who gives birth to an unwanted child. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was sturdy but well-loved, boxy and large as a small child. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Only the children could take full advantage of their dreaming. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He remembered hearing and believing, as a child, that if you died in your dreams, you would die in real life. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m not talking about the father of the child, I’m talking about our father,” said her brother. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children streamed after her, every one, dodging the snapping jaws of the wolves and racing as hard as they could down the avenue toward the beckoning open dark beyond. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to give our children a legacy of freedom, not a legacy of fear. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Most of them had known Carl Heine, a salmon gill- netter with a wife and three children, who was buried now in the Lutheran cemetery up on Indian Knob Hill. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dany cupped her fingers and lifted the sacred waters over her head, cleansing herself and the child inside her while the khal and the others looked on. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Develop a list of characteristics that make children’s songs so popular, unforgettable, and able to survive for generations. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

For that brief moment, Lazlo felt a tremor of the quaking grief within her: that she had not been able to keep her child safe. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My children would want to know who is this large, bald Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only he will listen to me one minute, I know I can make him understand there is nothing so bad about me that he shouldn’t allow white children to go to school with me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not war, Kaisa. We are going to free the children taken from us. And I hope the witches will help.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The concern isn’t limited to children, but many scholars say they are more vulnerable because their frontal lobes are still developing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Lots of people waiting and snoozing and telling stories about exasperating, amazing children. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I had to become like most of the children I knew. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Then I must say you have rotten taste. I can smell cream tarts burning from here, Rita. You are the most impossibly scatterbrained child I have ever seen.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Could they spare a calmante for a sick child out of their stock of kindness? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What bitterness was behind this I do not know, or what condemnation of his powerlessness to feed his children; but this I do know: his spirit was very strong, and he was an upright man. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am”—he wipes at his eyes with his shoulder so he doesn’t have to let go of us—“so very proud of my children. So very proud.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though many schools in the Black Belt had mostly black children in their attendance zone, all schools included some whites. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I referred some of my e-mailers to peacefire.org, a children’s rights website, for help in dealing with blocking and filtering software. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would continue to oversee all of the territories on behalf of her children, who were still young. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

What he couldn’t say was that he longed for his father as a lost child yearns for home. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among its provisions are establishing a forty-hour work week and a national minimum wage as well as prohibiting oppressive child labor and most employment of minors. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The girl who five years ago stood huddled with her mother and sister, as he presented her, the oldest child, with a medal of valor. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Of course, the hare slipped out of his skin again and enjoyed more games with the baboon children. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

We scattered as a family, the men, and later the children, going their separate ways. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light-skinned people deliberately married other light-skinned people so they’d have light-skinned children. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

We step onto it, and he rows me across the clear blue water, the way he used to when I was a child. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

His obnoxious remarks about the children seemed entirely in character; the man was obnoxious on every subject. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Blood spattered, frightened children wept, and the man with the gun offered the teacher and bus driver some meat from a freshly slaughtered goat. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“In the jungle there is a half man, half leopard that eats children.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, as a child, he had slid too quickly off his end of a seesaw. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, yes. She worries about our children, whether they'll be stupid like you, but I told her not to trouble herself." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They knew, for instance, that other children felt pain: wax children never experienced pain, and for this they were grateful. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The view of emaciated beggars and barefoot children lugging containers of water never changed much. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The laws were intended for her benefit—to protect her from the corrupting influence of the black man and the “tragedy” of mulatto children—but she was directly harmed nonetheless. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were coming home from church, a big group, my mom and Andrew and Isaac, her new husband and his children and a whole bunch of his extended family, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Inside the cabin the younger children sat huddled together near the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He became an engineer, married, and had four children. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps—what more can the heart of a man desire? Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, she went over to the crib that her youngest child had recently outgrown and there, symbolically, clasped her hands again, leaving enough of an open circle for a small neck. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I had no conception of what saying yes to politics might mean for us later, once we’d added two children to the mix. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And the voices wailed, Fire, fire, run, run, like a tragic nursery rhyme, a dozen voices, high, low, like children dying in a forest, alone, alone. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

My friends were having children, friends of friends were having children, pregnancy and birth and first birthday parties were everywhere. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others were clustered together beneath the shade tree, children and animals together. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She had become a teacher, and she taught five- to six-year-old children at a nearby school. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Or were they only stories told to children at bedtime? Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one that Mr. Morton had taught the children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They know that the school contains only women and children, and they do not care. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

With each sound she heard—a lorry rumbling past, a chirping bird, a child’s cry—she ran from the veranda bench to peer down the road. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

While the soup wasn’t as good as their mother’s, and the rice was scorched on the bottom and a little too dry, it was all incredibly delicious to the hungry children. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Capturing their sounds, however, is difficult to do in regular notation, and children do not have the ability to formally notate something using staff paper and lines. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The situation with respect to children is even more deeply disturbing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She was like a child, her sweet face paler than the moon. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was awarding cash prizes to children all over his province who did well in their exams. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

How could you become an ancestor if you didn’t have children? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It could do men’s, women’s and children’s voices, yet nothing was clear enough to understand. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He hid in the scrape all night; and the next morning, when the children were brought to play, he slipped out and joined them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before they knew how to walk, the children learned how to avoid fists and feet. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was aware of how difficult it must have been to get to Pretoria in the middle of the day in the middle of the week with two small children at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first child she asked looked up with wide, frightened eyes and ran away without speaking. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He never noticed that the three children were pea green in the spots where they were not beet red from the sunburn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

People brought her their sick piglets and their lame horses, their coughing children and fretful babies. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Their children were like distant but exposed wounds whose aches were no less intimate because separate from their flesh. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

For Prudence was an entirely different child from the woebegone shrinking creature who had stood in the roadway outside the school. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Cora had seen the wheeled platform in the corner of the park that day; children climbed and jumped on it all afternoon. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I think I might still be a child now, after all. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Mom, I put up with you inviting all sorts of people into our house. People you trust just because they’re women and children,” Natalie said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

As we walk to Rani's tent, other children wave and greet her. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Normal kids grow up too soon, stop needing you... go off on their own... forget who loved them and took care of them. But these children need all you can give—all of their lives.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Patron Saint of Gallarate: Saint Christopher, who watches over travelers, children, and bachelors, and protects against storms, holy death, and toothaches. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They were both older than Bran, even though his ninth name day had finally come and gone, but they never treated him like a child. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then she began to talk to the other children about the days of the week and the months of the year that I already knew. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were lots of kids messing around, and almost everybody, adults and children alike, wore jeans and shirts. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at Angel, who was still asleep, but she didn’t wake her; nor did she touch her to see if the child was feverish. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes watched them, silent as a child. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

As we walk back to the truck, I hear screams again, but this time they are the screams of a child. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was a light in the room and as the two reared up above the crib, with weaving heads and flickering tongues, the children woke. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few more stories followed, as well as chapters in two books about children of the civil rights movement. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Fie picks up two of the children and jumps out of the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could they steal from their own child? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The film ends with a woman who has a nightmare of bearing a mentally defective child. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I threw up what little I’d swallowed, and children around me jumped and receded into a tittery circle of faces with milky mustaches. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The old woman, shrunk by age and time to little bigger than a child, held on to a stick as tall and bent as herself with palsied and swollen-knuckled hands. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

What a terrible thing it was, Laila thought now, for a mother to fear that she could not summon love for her own child. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Some of his child geniuses had grown up to publish books and scholarly articles and thrive in business. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She had complained to her friends at the library, and they had told her it was inevitable, that eventually parents had to stop assuming that their children would return faithfully for the holidays. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A frail, thin woman and the children cringed against the wall when we entered. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes! So now they think the children are stealing from them and they called the police—” “The police? The police are coming after the hungry childrens?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

With small bundles on their heads or draped on their shoulders and small children hanging on their backs, the villagers wade across the chest-deep stream, desperately reaching for safety. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have started a project in Swat for girls suffering from domestic child labor. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"That is no mercy. These northern gods are cruel to let the child Unger in such pain." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I met children there whom I will never forget. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“More children,” said Mr. Fukida, and grinned so that his gold crowns glinted in the sun. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Men, women, and children were in the fields at their lawful labor, plowing, weeding, sowing, where they would remain till dusk. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

You got plenty to be a thinking of, child. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mommy’s house was orchestrated chaos and as the eighth of twelve children, I was lost in the sauce, so to speak. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked down at the child, who had quieted some, and was now staring at the Witch in the same way that she had stared at the Grand Elder—with a calm, probing, unsettling gaze. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

If you are traveling with a child, please attend to yourself first, then the child. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The children should have returned exhilarated and with a deep and abiding love for the sea and he should have returned with a fine mess of fish. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The fool child is in love with you, Robert." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the city, I hear they throw out whole entire children. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Dear God above, I don’t know why children have to die but that is Your will.You told the river to kill and the Shannon killed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The host was Clifford Nass, a sociologist who had been a math prodigy as a child in New Jersey and whose plan was to become a computer scientist. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“All the children will be out. It’s a tradition.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Oh, I feel just like one of the children! I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“All a parent really wants from his child is her happiness. So if you’re happy, Toby will be, too.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how much things for children cost.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you and Mr. Smith ever have any children?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In no sense—no mechanical sense, at any rate—did the words and sentences look as though they had been written by a child. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Benedict firmly insisted, however, that modesty had nothing to do with his opinion that the children had been the real heroes in this adventure. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

After viewing this scene, Frear and his nephew left the restaurant and hurried off quickly to search for his sister-in-law’s children. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They have no fins and tails,” said Mary Poppins, much to the children’s disappointment. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

With a friendly smile, Mr. Benedict stepped round to introduce himself to the children, shaking hands and calling each by name. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Beta,” my dad says, using the Urdu word for “child.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The house remained quiet, and though there were many men among them, no one wanted to enter a house that might have a demon’s child inside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Playing in the snow even for a short while makes most children ravenously hungry. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Would they have done something with it and passed it on, and then their children’s children would have passed it on? Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“A pretty one this time, I think. As pretty as your own. Who are you, child?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I admit that the edible stuff gave me a nice break from being the microwave Hot Pockets poster child, but the whole scene was kind of bizarre. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He married my mother, a white Jewish woman, when she had eight mixed- race black children, me being the youngest at less than a year old. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Donay smiles his old man smile, like a child listening to a story. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children squealed with delight and jumped up and down. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, I do think of them as my children in most ways. I never could get over my mothering instincts — did Edward tell you I had lost a child?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Three children dashed forward, their imaginary weapons in firing position. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I snap it at him like I’m talking to a dog or a child. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As far as the children knew, their mother was there one day, gone the next. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Dear Lord, don’t cry! Please don’t cry, child!” she implored. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the painter’s house, Mr. Peale. You know, the one who gave all those strange names to his poor children: Rubens, Raphaelle, Rembrandt, and I don’t know what other nonsense.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dearest child,” she cried, “I can think of nothing else! Ten thousand a year, and very likely more! ’Tis as good as a Lord! Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Daughter of Pluto, child of my master, you of all people should not wish me released.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The man’s face broke into a smile, and he tore our tickets and remarked on what pretty children we were. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

She was triumphant—a child pleased with a clever plan. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You are no better than anyone else, and no one is better than you,” Joshua told his children, a philosophy he embodied to the utmost. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“You’re only fourteen years old—exposure to that kind of stress might kill you or make you sterile, and I don’t want to be responsible for you not being able to have children someday.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never feared the night, not even as a child, but Blackcliff s night is different, heavy with a silence that makes you look over your shoulder, a silence that feels like a living thing. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The other children were staring at Reynie, who seemed dreadfully confused. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She tells him she was raised on a commune in Vermont, the child of hippies, educated at home until the seventh grade. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lotus complained many times to Wang Lung that his children were a plague to her and she wished there were a way to lock them out so that she need not be plagued with them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The princess who ran away with James Bond, who told her children to give back what their country stole, making a choice. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her chiseled marble features crumbled into the angry, helpless rage of a child. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The goldfish will teach your child about the cycle of life.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“You know I had concerns about this placement,” Ms. Willis replied, “but I always say that it’s best for children to be with their family, so I am delighted at how well everything is going.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Without stopping to ask, she grabbed it up and ran with the child into the middle of the midden. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he reached out and pulled the child from the woman’s embrace and ran. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Through that circle she saw—no, not the children— it was a ghost! The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“You know it’s true! Don't try to spare my feelings. Besides, we have a wonderful child. I can still raise Luke if I’m the Oracle, right?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It became chilly, and Second Wife and Third Wife, their children and servants returned home to Tientsin. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no record of Benjamin or Albert Lacks marrying or having any white children, and as with Albert, there’s no record that the black children in Benjamin’s will were his own. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The round-trip took us nearly five hours — time far better spent earning money to pay for food, rent, and clothes for the children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Older children may have an expanded vocal range, but it is important to remember that the pitches that are most comfortable to sing are in the middle of their range. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes parents used them in irritation at a child’s misbehavior, indicating that mischief made one unworthy of a name. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Come, come,” he says, coaxing me as if I were a stubborn child. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is going to be fine,” the grandfather said to her kindly, and then turned back to the children. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The way the government people reckoned a child’s age was to ask him to lift his arm, reach over the top of his head, and touch his opposite ear. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Writing one of my old children. I do miss ’em when they grow up and leave me, but the Good Lord knows I ain’t much at writing.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Let’s say there’s a new monster. Something...something that doesn’t want your money or treasures. It doesn’t want to eat your children or dreams. No.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The younger children scoured the beach for pieces of wood. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And your children have paws, last time I checked.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some states also initiated mandatory transfer rules, which took away any discretion from prosecutors and judges over whether a child should be kept in the juvenile system. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Another group of women and children stood naked on the porch as we exited. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Adult-led learning situations may be able to tap into or approximate the multi-modality that may increase arts and learning connections for children. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The scholars decided that they would fill that child to bursting with magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They called their path the Sandwalk, and it became Charles’s walking and thinking path as well as a place for the children to play. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of his lodge-mates had lost their parents to illness or accident, though one, Tarik, had been abandoned as an infant by an irresponsible couple who had no interest in raising a child. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She calls each child one by one and teaches her how to hold the rifle. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At least take the children with you,” the Duchess says. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The children’s gaze drifted between the two men, one huge, red, and robust, the other shriveled, bent, and so gray he was almost blue. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

If the fool would just pay her child some attention, this wouldn’t happen! The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then she said, “There, there, child. Now you can get a glimpse at the rest of the world.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The letters and numbers are neat and careful, like they were drawn by a child expecting to be graded. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"Men fish the sea, dig in the earth, and die. Women birth children in blood and pain, and die. Night follows day. The winds and tides remain. The islands are as our god made them." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The next Sunday, Johnny and the three children set out for Canarsie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was a show that eschewed what turns out to be the most important of all ways of reaching young children. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone listening to us would dismiss our conversation as child’s play. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The moonlight came into the hallway through doorways of the empty rooms of Billy’s two children, children no more. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped eating in the house, even on the weekends, because without Clara’s catalyzing presence there was no reason why I should put up with my children’s bickering. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s hardly any way to keep the école secondaire open another term without funds, and parents are anxious that education is only putting their children at greater risk. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silently, Lillian and her children left their seats and walked to the opposite side of the gym. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the idle ceiling fan, children chased each other, hopping over the stretched-out legs of dozing fathers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I know so little about genetics—just what I can see passed down from parent to child, in my face and in friends’ faces. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Odenigbo had told her how, as children, he and the others, sent to sweep the village square in the mornings, would instead spend most of their time fighting over the fallen udala fruit. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If I were a teacher I would cook up some real scorchers for the children of doting parents. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The expense of that together with having two little children made a home beyond reach,” Richards said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

For us children, I know that the major attraction was the good food they served. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the ghosts were pressing close, poor things, and the children especially couldn’t leave Lyra alone. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

To give him more children you would first need to get him into your bed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She fell, looking as frightened as a child facing the dark. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She said, “This child is tired. She has saved somebody from drowning. Do you understand what I’m saying? She saved somebody’s life.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

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

A winter during which Tessie’s worries about her children immobilized her, so that she failed to return Christmas presents that didn’t fit, and merely put them in the closet, without getting a refund. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My roommates’ families—old women in bright shalwar-kameezes, children, men wearing skullcaps—shuffled noisily in and out of the room. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In fact all of them, if they considered the children’s education. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nudgings and jerks and winks of the bigger children surely didn’t belong in a church. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shows me sketches of Sophia as a child with Charlotte. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Why do they have snow falling? Are they teaching children that a Christmas is not a real Christmas unless snow falls like it does abroad?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All of those doctors and nurses were charging down the hall to try and jump-start a child’s heart. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are few educators and child psychologists who don’t believe that the show managed to spread its infectious message well beyond the homes of those who watched the show regularly. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he did not get along with other children, he had been unschooled since the age of seven. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He was only a child, but he was her protection. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hopkins made millions working as a banker and grocer, and selling his own brand of whiskey, but he never married and had no children. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Hall was born into a working-class Catholic family in Christchurch, New Zealand, the youngest of nine children. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

For no reason that anyone could imagine, children were beginning to disappear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Bevel gave another signal, and fifty more children ran out the church door, down the steps, and into the street. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was disgusted by the piles of dirty diapers, the snotty noses, and the screeches of children vying for any sort of attention. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Muhammad told me that his older children’s lack of formal education reflected their sacrifice to form the backbone for today’s Universities of Islam in Detroit and Chicago which have better-qualified faculties. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Principal Thompson promised me you wouldn’t see. No video. Only photographs. Some things a child should never see.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Cards with pictures and numbers on them held up in front of a child’s face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I had never forgotten the children I’d seen sorting trash at the dump all those years earlier. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

No, Penelope was certain; Lady Constance would rather endure a dozen wild children living in Ashton Place than risk inciting the kind of home wrecking that had transpired. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The natural assumption of children, Markman argues, is that if an object or person is given a second label, then that label must refer to some secondary property or attribute of that object. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all at once, when still a child, Onofre had awakened able to read. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have no deep connections here, no old friends, no parents to sit for their children. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The child's voice went piping on from behind the white conch. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They had eight children between them—all grown, all college grads. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A typical black child and white child from the same socioeconomic background, however, have the same abilities in math and reading upon entering kindergarten. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

As more and more children turned up, the Orphan Committee’s burden increased in scope until it was caring for 192 children. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There must be some gene that switches on at the birth of the firstborn child, and suddenly stuff like that starts to come out of their mouths. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone around the table begins shouting at once—"What? What happens next? What happened with Michelangelo? Did he punish you? Did he attack you? What about Hubert? And the children? And the dog? What happens!?!" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Like many Southern Black children, he lived with his grandmother, who was as strict as Momma and as kind as she knew how to be. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the children terrified it, or perhaps it was terrified all the time. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could have married him, maybe even had her children here by now . Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The children decided to follow a narrow, well-kept track of crushed stone that zigzagged up a tall hill by the dormitory. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There is also the distress, for all concerned, associated with the unwanted child, and there is the problem of bringing a child into a family already unable, psychologically and otherwise, to care for it. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Then some of the women in their greed began to claim to have more children than they had, and nonexistent relatives, and there were jealousies and spite and bitter argument. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bent low over it, looking like a greedy child stooping over a bowl of food, in a corner away from others. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Inside the back cover of one, something had been written in a child’s handwriting. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She drew Hannah’s slight figure closer against her, like a child’s, and presently the woman’s shuddering ceased, and Hannah drifted into the shallow napping of the very old. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeeka indeed,” she said, and reached down to pat the child on the head. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m trying to set a good example for the children.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They learned how to cook and prepare those foods and passed all this knowledge on to their children. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The idea which the children had was to hurt the donkeys. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adults carried babies and goats; children carried pots of food and dogs and younger brothers and sisters, the whole village of Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ares is my Greek form. But to these followers, to the children of Rome, I am Mars—patron of the empire, divine father of Romulus and Remus.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He had turned the corner many times, had fathered more than twenty children over the years, some of whom were now over a century old themselves. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Nero killed his new empress Poppea, their unborn child, then himself, and his regime collapsed disastrously, with Rome in flames. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Little white children were primitive in their own way, chirping and undeveloped, but it wasn’t the same. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She watched the two children decorate the dead branches with paper flowers, and wondered if that was the most that Weep could ever hope for. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He had opened thousands of them over the years to blow his dreams into children’s bedrooms. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

First of all, because the average black child is more likely to come from a low-income, low-education household, the gap is very real: on average, black children still are scoring worse. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

No. The child they call Redemption is important to you, and you are important to the hunt for the monster in the house of Redemption. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And my grandparents figured if these rules had helped their children successfully navigate the world, they would work on their grandkids too. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Millers, who was the other nurse, retired into the house, and by degrees the child’s wailing was hushed and stopped, as if it were a young ventriloquist with something in its mouth. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Heading to Fort Qaitbey on my first morning in Alexandria, to the site of the legendary Pharos, I encountered scores of children out on school field trips. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

You, on the other hand, found Lucera, and we see she has passed on her power to you, child. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Nowadays eight children sounds like a lot to most folks. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later it was gone, and the children knew that their brother was happy at last. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Thee is welcome any time, child. I’ll keep it safe for thee. Now show me what thee has learned today. What letter is this?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Returning, he gave the venison to his starving family and to Tallow, who shared it out to Auntie Muskrat, to LaPautre’s hungry children, and to Fishtail. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Parents often learn the instrument along with the child, acting as musical role models, and maintaining a positive learning atmosphere for the child to succeed. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

They would find harmony under their pillows the way that children, New Year’s morning, found chestnuts. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

If her child can walk through a storm then she can. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Which movements are different from those found in Western children’s songs? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Any child who stayed in bed for more than one day in our house was dosed with cod-liver oil. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Queen thought it was a little unusual, since the two children had just met, but they really seemed to like each other. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She acts like such a ninny. Imagine a girl keeping her parents worried sick all the time. But there are children for you these days.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They conferred and sped back to the children. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We just better pray—” A few days later, Harriet was hired out again, as a child’s nurse. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All the peculiar children they kidnapped over the years . . . this is what they were doing to them? I figured they just became hollowgast food. But this . . . this is leagues more evil.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I—and I am obviously only a child—say that we wait. We do nothing. We don’t know that they mean us harm.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I don't like giving strong ale to children. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

For hours at a time she would sit almost immobile on the bed, nursing his young sister, a tiny, ailing, very silent child of two or three, with a face made simian by thinness. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

On the boys’ last night, while the children were sleeping, I got up because I had to go to the bathroom. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her shouts brought the servants streaming from the house, as well as all her children, who came as fast as they could when they heard their uncle’s name echoing amidst the cries of mourning. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, no, no. Jude, no. He’s just a child.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As he has no children to play with, he befriends the wild rabbits, offering them food and stroking their fur until he can touch their twitching noses. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Some of the imprisoned fay looked like harmless children, and these horrified her the most, for she wondered if any of them had ever been sheltered in that nursery. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I thought about how it would be painful for the man’s children if they were to find out. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

How to begin to understand this child’s mind? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s probably just some fairy tale for children,” Uncle said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through a misunderstanding, some children reported for duty at Genoa, where no slave ships were waiting. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I decided to invite five children to the factory, and the one I liked best at the end of the day would be the winner!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The children who say they have the Luminous Stone That Lights the Night,” he said, looking at Yishan and Pinmei huddled in the corner, “is that you two?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

"Seven. The children's room is in that direction, and we have a section for teenagers there also. Enjoy yourself, dear. And welcome to the library!" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wake screaming from nightmares of mutts and lost children. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Nomenee, his second child, would end up with a degree from Harvard Business School. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Besides this, O-lan was again with child and the pressure of the larger child upon her from without was too painful to bear. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Lucia had kept the door to the garden firmly bolted ever since Ida had told her how the children had crept into the house that night. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a perfect child in many ways. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her solitary child, a little boy named Clever, came over and tried to play with Edina’s flock. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, small, had tucked her knees to her chest and nestled into her chair—the only cushioned one—like a child. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Would I have wished to leave that poor child alone? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I swathed the child tightly and held her against my body. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The proximity of children made everything lighter for him. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The child was laughing and trying to catch the smoke, to grab it in his small fist.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We said goodbye, and Trevor skipped down the steps to the children’s floor. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She laughed and called for her children, who all danced up, dressed weirdly in little elfin frocks. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In some other universe they are married, maybe with two children, or maybe with none. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I then uttered the phrase, “There’s a white man outside,” which to small black children had the same effect as “There’s a bogeyman outside,” but still he would not stop. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her only child’s wedding—die culmination of all she had been, thought or done in this world— had dragged from her energy and stamina even die did not know she possessed. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The elderly had bowed their heads in quiet respect; children had come bearing wreaths of laurels and flowers to lay at his feet. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The children who watched the fast-paced show were less able to follow directions and, in a separate set of tasks, showed less patience. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The door was flung open, and the old people and the children stared at one another. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Because, even as a young child, I could sense the unspoken terrors that surrounded our house, the ones that chased my mother until she hid in a secret dark corner of her mind. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s the way Chinese mothers show they love their children, not through hugs and kisses but with stern offerings of steamed dumplings, duck’s gizzards, and crab. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She waved, her children waved, and Zeitoun stood in the driveway waving until his family was gone. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And with him is the child from the car. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell us about the child, witch,” said Mrs. Coulter. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laughed at by her children, she still walked wherever she wanted to go, allowing herself to accept rides only when the weather required it. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She wrote, “Though gentle and tender, he had such a dignified repose and reserve of manner that, as children, we regarded him with fear rather than affection.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The children gathered up empty lard pails to collect the greens in and headed off to the coulee. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The nun placed the smallest down on the ground and picked up the fallen child. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She worries about the children’s clothes as much as her own. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

When Lourdes was a child in Cuba, she used to wait anxiously for her father to return from his trips selling small fans and electric brooms in distant provinces. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I appreciate your efforts in training the child, but I feel that this experiment has been severely mismanaged.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Unarmed men, women and children on a highway were attacked by uniformed men wearing gas masks and riding horses. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Irene had helped her raise her older children and had been like a sister to her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed they had gotten the message that we were not children to play with. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They spent months traveling with their small children, inspecting this town and that house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Something about the distance between children's songs and blue hair seems pretty Janeish to me. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“At home. She doesn’t know I’ve come here. She wouldn’t have let me come. Naturally ... she’s frantic with worry about the children. Hysterical.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, tell me my child, do you have a preference?” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Except for the children, the sidewalk in front of the three-story brownstone at the end of the block was deserted. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Upon hearing that, the Full Gospel Apostles enthusiastically assured her that the moment she began going to church, got us children and herself baptized, God would in no time grant her her request. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will you please take this troublesome child outside and play with her so I may focus on healing your mother without killing her by mistake?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Yes. He has come home only once. Everybody on the street came out to greet him and the children were fighting to touch his uniform.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The child’s parents speak English in the home. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And wondered now would she have done so had her husband lived or stayed or if she had had children of her own. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the drummers drummed and the dancers danced, hotel guests frolicked with their children in the water. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He, like a child, had thought this was because she liked to get up. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw the sleekness of their children, and they noticed how calm the parents were. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Then he tweaks my nose like he might a naughty child, and dismisses us. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“And ever,” says Malory, “Sir Lancelot wept, as he had been a child that had been beaten.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped, some time ago, feeling for each lost child. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

According to them, we were evil children, spoiled rotten and selfish. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Elzenia and me wasn’t going to have nothing less than their best work from the children.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If the children will come again tomorrow, I will show them how it is I make the cheese,” he said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Except for the voices of children, a deep silence hung over the place. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need to be voting! You are wasting your money, boy! Next thing I know you’ll be asking for charity to feed those children.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was no response from the child who had once been so curious and alert. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The figures came in all sizes, from small children to full-grown adults. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Our approach is more conceptual. We like the children to explore their environment during the first year,” the headmistress said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Odin called the gods to him, with Tyr and Thor at their head, and he told them that they would be journeying far into Jotunheim, to Giantland, to bring Loki’s children to Asgard. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

By contrast, sedentary people, unconstrained by problems of carrying young children on treks, can bear and raise as many children as they can feed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow he’d never thought about the Sports Family’s third child being a girl. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, people who hate stories in which terrible things happen to small children should put this book down immediately. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Come closer, darling child. I’m running low on beauty. You don’t have much, but it’ll be good for a bite or two,” said Madame Bee. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A child’s endless energy and my own insatiable lust for knowledge made the following year one of the happiest times I can remember. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Private Draper’s child, who hath for several days been quartered with us upon the Crepuscule, would not remove his shirt for washing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The Gallivespians flew back, having gone a little way, and perched on the children’s shoulders as before, she on Lyra, he on Will. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It is ever the lot of children to accept their circumstances as universal, and their particularities as general. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

People at the tables around them speak the language that Frau Elena whispered to him as a child. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Not in this car. Be careful, children. Be very quiet.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It tasted the way children’s medicine tastes when they try to give it orange flavoring. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“How stupid you are, child! He meant you, of course.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, her friends visited and they would sit in the kitchen talking until they all dashed off to pick up their children. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

You are not trying her for the murder of her child; why don’t you? Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ve been hunting Loyalists all day. I told Anne it would come to this. Come inside, child. Isabel, is it not?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her American children had no feelings and no memory. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The citizens of my homeland regarded my husband and children as primitives, or freaks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last Mrs. Grayson cleared her throat and called the children to attention. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He would not have been the first father to dispose of an unwanted girl child, the Shavepate claimed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“A child of Ares is destined to kill it!” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ma says even back then I was a fra-gile child, and the more he tossed me, the more she was fretting. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I gathered that the singing part of the rehearsal was over, and before the coach’s dissonant speaking voice could entirely break the spell the children’s singing had cast, I got up and left the church. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Still, it felt good having a child around again. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Poe sighed, and looked at each of the three children. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

These children—unoffending, innocent, and beautiful—were the victims of one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Atawallpa’s generals took the Inka as a captive to Qosqo and executed his wives, children, and relatives in front of him. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They think their children are ungrateful and bristle at the independence they show—the same independence that helped the children survive their journeys north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Fortunately there were six of us children, and it was easy to get lost in the crowd. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

A line of children already stood at the door, all of them accompanied by their parents, all fidgeting nervously. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

When he caught those eyes in his glance, invariably there wavered upon the child’s face a flickering smile that broke his heart. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

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

Here, she says, put some sugar and water in the child’s botde. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Summoning his power all at once and with no thought for himself, he sent his spirit out after the child’s spirit, to bring it back home. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“By the time you throw this flyer in the recycling bin, thirty children will have died,” one will say. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Two young children came running into the hall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The air was full of buzzing and murmuring, and the figures wandering around the parking lot looked as if they had escaped from the dreams of children and not the words of an old man. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Two or three small children of various sizes, all pale, with smudgy faces and bare smudgy knees, wobbled along in the shadow of her skirts. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

A cloud of ash billowed, blotting out fireman and child. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His children sold his house with the black wreath still on the door. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Since being denied housing, he has lost custody of his children and is homeless. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The only photograph of Shadow as a kid that Laura had liked enough to frame showed a serious child with unruly hair and dark eyes standing beside a table, laden high with cakes and cookies. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion on my poor nerves.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Young children ogled at them when they appeared because it was unimaginable, even by the standards of children, to find anyone as dirty as these men were. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is no place for children or friends. The emperor...” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I’d seen him play earlier, I realized, as part of the Gypsy children’s band. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The other children tormented him, but he was so desperate for company that he put up with it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This here’s a dog, not a child, and it’s not our dog. I want you to quit going on about it. Hear?” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weylin complained that she was like old Mary with the children and the sewing, but he brought her his clothing to be mended. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Papi would never have threatened to starve a child, no matter how dirty his shirts might be. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

My father used to say he wished he’d run away when he was young and had no wife and children. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

This, to defend a castle crammed full of women and children. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In many places, the Nazis rounded up Jewish men, women, and children and executed them, rather than sending them to concentration camps. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll ask another way. Would it surprise you if I told you Jerome Rogers, the child you killed, was no taller than five feet, ninety pounds?” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

No, my child, you have a long way to go. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

At last, but how no one ever tried to explain, two children were born to this shapeless nothingness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It pained me to think that other children were wondering if I were hungry, and whenever they asked me if I wanted food, I would say no, even though I was starving. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he, like many others in Odessa, resented the federal government’s coming in and telling good, hardworking people how they should live and who their children should go to school with. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It has been many years since a child of the Sea God has been born. We have watched you with great interest.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Again and again he shook his head at his foolish child. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The first had been a widower with four children. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You will get them soon, child. I bought groceries with what I would have used for your books, because your father didn’t give me grocery money this week. Have patience.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had lived together nineteen years and had produced four lovely children. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women who gave birth earlier, when the infant’s brain and head were still relatively small and supple, fared better and lived to have more children. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he had been an only child or if Aron had been a different kind of boy, Cal might have achieved his relationship normally and easily. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But it was the two guards whom the children’s eyes were fixed upon. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He had often told Jaja and me that he did not spend so much money on Daughters of the Immaculate Heart and St. Nicholas to have us let other children come first. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It is also possible that he used it to scare his children with,” Theodora said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She, who was obedient and respectful and cheerful and patient, she could arch her back in child pain with hardly a cry. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeman took up the whole doorway, “Then Bailey ought not to be in there with her. Unless you want a house full of sick children.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little children cry for their mothers, snot dripping from their noses into their open mouths. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has no rival in Greek tragedy except the four plays of Sophocles about Oedipus and his children. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman had had a child, and her boyfriend did not want to marry her; she was seeking to institute an action against him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His two children had grown tall and confident, vibrant advertisements for what the next generation could do. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They both do portraits, Babs of children, Marjorie of dog owners and their dogs; they are doing Life Drawing as a refresher course, they say. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And who, may I ask, are these?” he said in his soft, terrifying voice, looking at the children enquiringly. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Principal Jenkins sent a letter home to every student’s family saying it was the right of all children to receive a public education. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The buffalo grass around Perilee’s house was tall but thick as moss; I had no trouble picking up the tracks of three barefoot children. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Now one nearly blind old warrior gathered the people together and announced that his life was far behind him; for the common good he would determine whether the Raven would turn his children into stone. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must have looked like a child throwing a peculiar, slow-motion tantrum. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was like she was speaking to a child. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

At Sophie Mol’s funeral and in the days before Estha was Returned, they saw her swollen eyes, and with the self-centeredness of children, held themselves wholly culpable for her grief. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

School hours had ended and the children had gone to their various volunteer jobs in the community. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Through no fault of their own, they were subjected to the most humiliating procedure that a child could go through. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was a child, my grandmother told me that the sly speaks to those who look and listen to it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

All the children turned around to look at a little girl whose parents had not come from the old country. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were strange rumors too: people said she was the only child to have escaped from the Gobblers, and she had terrible secrets in her possession. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, there were just the three of them in the world: the Lady, who was almost 350 years old, and the two children, who were almost twelve. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The story she danced was about a lost child, a child who feared the darkness but found the light with the help of the wind and the stars. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tore the house apart looking for documents to prove we were her children. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“My dear, dear child,” said that sweet voice. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ve seen the children, too. Just glimpses of them in the woods or at the gate. They say they’re evil spirits.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Gently, timidly at first, they put their hands on the children's shoulders. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“The orphanage stopped taking in children when Jason was five years old. All the orphans were placed out, with foster families. Except him.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Men, women, and children wearing straw hats to keep off the sun straighten up, turn our way, take a moment to stretch their backs as they watch our train go by. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Although these exercises were developed for children with special needs, they are highly applicable in developing crucial musical listening skills and for helping children recognize categories of music, instruments, and timbre of sounds. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I hissed at my mom, “Who are all these people?” and she whispered back, “Funerals are different when it’s a child.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Havens’s mother home- schooled the family’s six children for at least a few years each. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Every time, before I can make out what they say, the cyclo’s rusty bell clangs noisily, forcing the children to scurry out of our way. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We decided to publish a report to draw attention to the plight of children in the United States who had been sentenced to die in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There were two boys found in London in 1887, young Jews, just children. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But the thing that flew down swept them aside with a brutal blow from her wing, and then settled heavily on a ledge just above the children’s heads. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“In this house I am the mother and you are the child,” she said so adamantly that I stiffened and fluttered my gaze to a corner before she could attack. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Briefly I left Florida to return Betty and the children to our Long Island home. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like most wealthy white Southerners, her employers no doubt felt genuine affection for Ann and her children, and, if asked, they probably would have termed their relationship “close.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I know where the children are,” he said. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to share it,” he said and Ugwu wondered how he managed to get it, how a child so young seemed so flexibly in control. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They are repeatedly reminded that they must have some sort of structure to their nocturnal schedule, being the only children in a rather unconventional household. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He left behind a wife and six children. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We would have a garden, swings for the children. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey and James were tall enough to touch bottom, but the water was over the heads of the smaller children. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children almost laughed in the silence that followed. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It is the largest population of child offenders condemned to die in prison in any single jurisdiction in the world. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She worried about Charles’s and the children’s illnesses. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After losing his wife, his children, his medical practice, and most of his fossil collection, Mantell moved to London. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The children made it to their rooms almost exactly when the Executives were supposed to come for them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She taught her three children the art of debate and tutored them on current events, translating for Jim the images of famine and war that upset him on the TV news. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

For all his talk of looking after the women and children of Salt Licks while the men were gone, I knew he’d never turn a hand to any real work. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

At each door, the children crowded against each other to see. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Gievers checked her notepad and asked, “Do you recall—” Seeing Mrs. Moss’s smirk, she asked, “Is there something funny about children being abused?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The chaplain loved his wife and children with such tameless intensity that he often wanted to sink to the ground helplessly and weep like a castaway cripple. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the bedroom, she settled Lexie onto the mattress again and spread the comforter over her and patted her back gently, as if she were a child. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He adjusted the pillows under his head and nuzzled into the skin of the made bed like a child. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

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

The divers would hope to find the child within sixty minutes, a time span known as the golden hour. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the corner of a separate cage a mother rat lay over her litter of blind naked children and let them suckle and the mother stared about nervously and fiercely. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drew her up out of the nest and eased her to the stage, where he’d propped the child puppet beside his carved fox. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I know you dont intend to make it more difficult for me. But it’s my place to suffer for my children,” she says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care what you say! My children and I are getting on that plane!” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

At night, each child had to weigh himself, plot the figure on a graph, and initial the process charts again after he had done his homework, washed his hands and face, and brushed his teeth. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is the Baba of my child­hood, Toophan agha, the towering specimen of Pashtun might, not the withered man under the blankets, the man with the sunken cheeks and hollow eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s enough excitement for one night. Off to bed with you children,” Ma said. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he watched as the figures of Mr. Das and the children grew smaller, climbing up the steep path, pausing every now and then for a picture, surrounded by a growing number of monkeys. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Surely it was a lot for them to process, but I was learning that each child took in what she could and from her own perspective. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Jon's brothers and sisters had been seated with the royal children, beneath the raised platform where Lord and Lady Stark hosted the king and queen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Merchant ships plied to and fro on the blue oceans, and fishermen hauled in brimming nets of cod and tunny, bass and mullet; the forests ran with game, and no children went hungry. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But like a child who eats his sweet before his main course, I was so eager for news that I opened the paper in my cell immediately. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably separate unions altogether for child jugglers and people who can do the splits. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Probably she would have hoped for more than one child. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then began the awful crooning, the grimaced smiles, the mothers clapping for the death of their children to deceive the god. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Two men in suits had climbed into the front, and as the gate opened for them, they waved cheerfully to the children and drove away over the bridge. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Marcos and Clara were utterly convincing, especially because the child had no need to look into the crystal ball to guess what her clients wanted to hear. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come, child, drink your tea. It’s not the end of the world. I’ll put an extra blanket on your bed tonight.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“But—surely, the children didn’t ask to be taken in.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Music expresses identity, and children often take part in family celebrations that represent an ethnic or religious heritage. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Father President,” said Brother Louis, “I shall of course do as you command, but may I know why you need the child’s hair?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Up, my child. Let me have a look at you," the queen says. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

My grandparents were almost done raising their boys, and now here we were, four young children who needed the kind of attention and care that Grandma Nellie thought she was about to retire from. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

That night after the children had been put to bed and Johnny was away working, Katie sat in her dark kitchen with blushes coming and going. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Bran, child, why do you torment yourself so? One day you may do some of these things, but now you are only a boy of eight." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Other times he saw their children playing, with silhouettes oddly blurred in some places. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As of 1920, about 13 out of every 100 black children died in infancy, or roughly 20,000 children each year—compared to 28 people who were lynched in a year. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Good morning, Miss Lumley! Reading to the children, I see. Is it one of those delightful pony stories, by any chance?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“And perhaps that will be true. Perhaps I will succumb to the perils of the forest, and it will be the Witch who comes to claim my child.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When later that same year she sent for a child who kept falling down off die porch across the street, she said the same thing. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even the young children, some of whom Pinmei recognized from her past visits, were strangely silent, gaping at them with hollowed eyes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He got a good lawyer, who continued to lean on the court about the fact that he had children at home who needed him. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She could be the main character in a children’s book series, Dimple thought. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

For a few seconds nobody said anything, and the children wondered what Mr. Poe was doing there at Briny Beach, when he should have been at the bank in the city, where he worked. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

They were capable children; they could do servants’ work. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Congress recognized that many children on applications were aging out, due to extremely long processing times for applications. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Lucretia encouraged her children to keep up their summer activities—seeing friends, going to the park, riding horses, and taking swimming lessons. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was a crofter's child, orphaned when her father died of fever, on her way to . . . well, nowhere, really. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Better leave him alone, children,” said Mrs. Popper. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was twenty then, and although his job as a waiter at the Hotel Medallion was a blessing to his parents and their seven other children, it wasn’t nearly enough to support a wife. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Blind and deaf children could join provided their disability was not inherited. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

One of the children was a girl, younger than Alby, still with her mother’s arms around her. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lean against their bags, shoes kicked off, three small children lying beneath blankets next to them. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can still taste that festival: the tart air, caramel in the mouth, the hope at the door, the belief in something for nothing all children take for granted. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

With the help of teachers around the state, Terman chose some seven thousand gifted children, who have now been followed for almost sixty years. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Our church placed high value on its children, and I was there in the middle of every opportunity that was offered. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I heard your father and mother were running down Henry Street with the child in their arms. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And this strange woman of his, who worked about, saying nothing, seeming to see nothing, she had first seen the child thus clothed! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“I could take any child off the street and teach them as much. Incomparable is a matter of your personal opinion, and easily disproved.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Though I had joined the world of women, I still felt like a child, ignored and lost in this new realm. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He could brag about this for eternity, to his future lovers, to his wives, to his children, to his grandchildren. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was an illiterate black child with a baby whose father she did not know. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said it was no wonder the children were never found. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I dreamed that it would be a man, for then, some time in the future—it is a dream, I know—there might be children in the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Jethro laughed then, a clear child’s laugh, freed momentarily from the heaviness of the times. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They had guns and land mines just to keep children from looking for their fathers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was illiterate, and had a wife and six children back in a tribal reserve. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some take the little baby shirts just to put under their pillows, to hold like real children. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

During the day no rays of the sun could penetrate into the gloom of this hut, and so the wax children were quite safe. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

With Santos here, Lourdes tells herself, she will save enough to bring her children within two years. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

My trusty underthings saved the day for me and for those three children. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Now that I know she's there, it's hard to ignore the child. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He said the issue at hand was bigger than race—it was about the value of human beings as children of God. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

To be accepted, honored, loved, like someone’s child. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The children burst out of their seats and ran from the room, leaving poor Olive behind until someone took pity and came to unbelt her from her chair. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Try not to look down on those other children,” Mom said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Baby Kochamma would call out when she saw him, with a smile on her lips that completely belied the viselike grip that she had on the thin child’s soapslippery arm. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s full of rage, a fractious child screaming, “I hate you” at a parent. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I tried to picture this, a child-sized lump on top of an actual child, but I could only imagine a giant balloon, carrying her away. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Their parents gave it ten months but decided that they didn’t like the influence of the rough-and-tumble children from outside the Protestant world. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“What my father calls a natural talent. I find it harder not to influence my surroundings, I was constantly breaking things as a child.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So serious has this situation become that Boston has established the first hospital in the United States devoted exclusively to the treatment of children with cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Not now. Now that I know my ‘inquisitive’ children aren’t wanted.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He comes back moments later and reports that a family, a doctor from Phnom Penh with his wife and their three children, have committed suicide by swallowing poison. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minority parents had to get up before the sunrise to till your land, pick your cotton, clean your house, and get their children ready for school, then walk to work. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Hamlet appeared, carrying the herbs I had dropped, I uttered a small cry, like a child delighted to be found. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I’d spent hours making calls to senators and representatives, trying to convince them that our children deserved better than what they were getting. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The children and the horses joined the crowd. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

My brothers and my mother, Hamameh and her children all joined in the stair madness. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

A child’s voice, coming from behind a nearby bush, made the sound. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He could feed his wife and children if he had a bicycle. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is hard to hold even a small child very long in such a position. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The youngest of five children, he had grown up riding the Montgomery city buses in a triangle between school and home and his job with a newspaper. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“What then, ser? I say she would want us to protect her city. Her children.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He offered a bite of bread and butter to each of the children. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Honduras, Leti and her three children ate once a day—usually two pieces of bread with a watery cup of coffee. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A two–three-year-long study concluded that children attending a musical play school exhibited significant differences in auditory discrimination and attention compared to children not involved in music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

We made our children gargle with warm saltwater and wrap mufflers around their necks. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

In another few moments, she decided, she would fashion some excuse for her and the children to leave. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Uncle Tommy said that even the children felt it before they were old enough to be taught. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Generose hadn’t thought that living in the United States would force her to decide between working and watching her children. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Not only was she opposed to this one aspect of tribal culture, but to others as well, particularly those involving relations between men and women and the upbringing of children. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You still look very pale—and so thin! Poor child!—poor girl!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

It wasn’t clear, though, what happened to the children they left behind in the camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was a disturbing sight, and many of the children looked on with openmouthed shock. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I told him, “Sir, I only said it ’cause I hear lots of children say it.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I would swing my patent leather shoes back and forth like an impatient child riding on a school bus. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only women and children were in this room—all the men and older boys were on another part of the ship. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Apparently she decided she could, because she said in a sudden rush, “He scares the other children.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He knew that when the parade to the trains came by, a child might be safer away from home. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The older children turned in their papers within ten minutes. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lillian felt the silence and knew that the children were waiting for her to speak. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been pitying myself for not having books to read, and now I saw children who had never read a book. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The anchor’s lead-in: Adoptions are about giving new homes to children who don’t have families. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t alarm yourself, Doctor. Fra Pavel has told me that the child is in another world. Please go on. The force of the bomb is directed by means of the hair?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Watching Jenny, Charles asked himself questions: How much was an ape like a child? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others gathered up their bare-bottomed children and moved out into the darkness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was an artful child in many ways, and more than a match for us. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the reaction of any parent when a stranger lays a hand on the body of his or her child. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Although prison guards and their legitimate children belong by blood to the core class, they are fringe functionaries locked away for most of their working lives in the freezing hinterlands. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He said that if outsiders could understand what political prison camps have done—and are doing—to children born inside the fence, it would redeem his lie and his life. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The child lowered her head, looked up through her lashes, smiled knowingly and shook her head, “no.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eleanor was his oldest daughter, and this was her first child. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corpse was mummified by the cold, and this time the lawmen had no trouble identifying the victim: Henry Roan, a forty-year-old Osage Indian who was married with two children. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

However, much of the music in children’s lives is “unchosen,” in other words they are passive recipients in much of the music in their lives, and not actively engaged in its selection. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Another relative said he “always found her a child whose heart it was easy to reach.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even remembered that they were often Poseidon’s children. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their Match, which like all Matches had been monitored by the Committee of Elders for three years before they could apply for children, had always been a successful one. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Shotgun houses with wide spaces between them, a few dogs, chickens, children, and the women with nothing in their hands. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wylla has always been a willful child,” her sister said, by way of apology. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Except that now he had sent his child a daring and extraordinary present, which his wife fiercely opposed. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Trunchbull sensed what the child was thinking and she didn't like it. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He is a cute child,” the strange woman said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped over the two children who slept nearest to me and made her way over to my comer. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mother wanted to please Dad, but at the same time thought it would be nice to have a girl for her last child. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not really lies, Alyce. I just wanted a sister, for all Cook’s other children have brothers and sisters. Have you come to take me away?” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Poe had never called the Baudelaire children “my dears” before. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

One of the first things they did at school was to teach all Indian children how to line up and march in step. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes seem to be looking far off, past the Kiblers’ feral children. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In 1924 he funneled $150,000 into the establishment of the Charles S. Howard Foundation and built a home for children suffering from tuberculosis and rheumatic fever. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Younger children, five and six years old, dot the curbs, thrusting fistfuls of tomatoes and chiles at shoppers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And the house was full of little children playing. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

If you succeed in giving guilders to petty children such as this,” I gestured to Ambrose. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There is no place like home, Wilbur thought, as he placed Charlotte’s five hundred and fourteen unborn children carefully in a safe corner. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

But it becomes easy to understand how you would make a children’s show even stickier than Sesame Street. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

White parents are outraged, threatening to remove their children from public schools and place them in private education. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“They bankrupt our country, starve our children. Your families will not be safe, this war will never end, until every...last...Jew...is dead!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Who had inveigled the child with promises, and thought of the hiding place under the willow tree, and persuaded her — no dragged her against her will — to meet Hannah? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, as a mother with six children by five fathers—a situation sociologists call multiple partner fertility—she faced more obstacles than most. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They were no doubt idle and deserted children who generally swarm in great cities, nurtured on vice and daring, said Mackay, and ready for anything. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He should have kept a guard on them, but he'd deemed it more important to have men walking the walls and protecting the gates than to nursemaid a couple of children, one a cripple. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“His mood,” Watson recalled, “was no longer that of a confident master lecturing hapless colonial children.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We were also graced by the presence of little children running around totally naked except for a string of beads around their bellies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The girl. Daenerys. Only a child, you were right . . . that's why, the girl . . . the gods sent the boar . . . sent to punish me . . ." The king coughed, bringing up blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“And anyway, why should they all get free sweets and not the children?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As a child, I pictured a naked child sitting on a modern toilet desperately trying to perform until it died of congestion. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It meant one thing to be a child in the White House. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

These children need constant review because they don’t retain information like the rest of us.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“The big one’s simple. They’re a family of beggars. Where do you want to go, children?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was just after three o’clock, and there were no bearded, caftaned men or kerchief-wearing women on the street, but the children were outside, playing, shouting, running. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Whatever accounted for the unnatural stasis that had kept her a child for fifteen years, it was beyond the reach of reason or persuasion. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I'd coached my students through half a dozen episodes, giving them background information and explaining that missing children do not just march through the door ten minutes after the critical delivery flashback. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“The child’s right, Lucille. She’ll be fine. We must accommodate our lives to the fever for a few weeks, but we shan’t overthrow our daily routines. It’s important that we not lose our heads.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all we had was Aunt May’s worn-out copy of Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care, which she had reached for every time I threw up as a child. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

But when they tested the two groups to see how much of the show the children remembered and understood, the scores were exactly the same. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

There's much to be done to get three children ready for a wagon ride. lam lingering over a second cup of coffee while Perilee and Karl shepherd their flock. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Reb Saunders stood with his back to the congregation, swaying back and forth, occasionally clapping his hands together, and the child stood at his right, swaying too, in obvious imitation of his father. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But as a child from a black family—a black whelp—I felt awkward around a Red Guard leader. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Be content with woman’s work, child. It is enough.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consider what happened one spring evening at midnight in 1987: seven million American children suddenly disappeared. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He had a theory that this would weaken her so that she and her child would die in childbirth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a flurry of hurried footsteps in the hallway before Mariam and the children were in the living room, their eyes shifting from her to Rasheed and back. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She had even written her own children’s stories to use in the classes. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told her that he and his wife had adopted a black child and their neighbors looked at them as though they had chosen to become martyrs for a dubious cause. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“If you laugh, can I use all the blood of your Christian children for terrible Jewish ceremonies? That’s what Red thinks Jews do.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He followed the road the way the wagon had taken his father as far as he dared leave the fire and the children in the cabin, still in hollering distance. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would remain a child, in perpetuity, always, or I would lose him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The tantrums, the afternoons she spent locked in her room with the drapes shut, her severe manner with the children occurred less frequently. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But if an adopted child is prone to lower test scores, a spanked child is not. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In those days you generally named your children in the same way as we name foxhounds and foals today. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vernie smacks at the child's backside, like a reflex, but her hand just glances off. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Once they had taken their share, the women and children settled on the floor around the sofrah and ate. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The smallfolk said that a long summer meant an even longer winter, but the maester saw no reason to frighten the child with such tales. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sarah’s family, with seven children, had little money to buy Sarah a custom-made eye. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Shocked and silenced, the two children moved through the carnage, while the spies on their dragonflies looked around more coolly, accustomed to battle, noting how it had gone and who had lost most. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mama says that was the poor woman’s bad luck, because now she has got to go right on tending after her husband and her seven or eight children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put down his hand and felt a weed rise up like a child brushing him. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma always says, “In this neighborhood, getting a child to adulthood is perilous.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Men, women, and children all watched it with mouths agape, eyes wide, their cheers stuck in their throats. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

One particular letter came from a schoolteacher in Pennsylvania who taught a special class of nine children; every child in the class had suffered the death of a parent. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do you feel sorry about killing twenty children? for instance, and Why were you angry about Furball when you did something far worse? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The iron monsters rattled when the man got between them and the children. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Candy Man suddenly transformed from a champion to a child, and I suddenly got it—he was just desperate for some company. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But who, if not me, and for how many generations must we be forgiven by our children? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Dad would listen to Miss Billsop for a few minutes, then drop you what might have been a wink, and burst out of the room again, to go to the classroom of another Gilbreth child. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Blanca saw the long unpolished wooden table where two rows of children were awaiting their portions with pleading eyes, she began to cry and wound up spending two days with a splitting headache. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nonsense,” said Maxim, smiling at me, “you know you’re as excited as a child at its first party.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He told me that these children were supporting their families, selling whatever they found for a few rupees; if they went to school, their families would go hungry. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Stop a moment, I am coming to that. No, she was not an only child; she had a half-brother. Her father privately married again—his cook, I rather think.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The meaning was plain enough; Khal Drogo was as like to return from the dead as she was to bear a living child. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

How badly, she thought, they must want to have a child. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Show these children more courage than your husband did.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I’ll give you a list of my children. There’s a boy in Wisconsin. Two girls in Los Angeles. A few others. Will you see that they get to camp?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She had seen others of her children die in early childhood or at birth, but none had caused the sense of loss that she felt now. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never thought to see a child again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Soon the nurses told Day he couldn’t bring the children anymore, because it upset Henrietta too much. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A woman who doesn’t have her first child until she is at least thirty is likely to see that child do well in school. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

They didn’t, so he played a song about a miner’s child who dreamed her daddy would die if he went to the mines that day, but he went anyway. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A week later, when Principal Marcelo gives me the good news, he hugs me, a natural joyful hug, the kind of hug he probably gives to his children every day. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like offering candy to a child and then yanking back your hand with some excuse about saving his teeth, I thought. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had decided to save fifty centavos to fulfill a dream he had cherished ever since he was a child: to have a cup of Viennese coffee. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside they saw rows of crematorium ovens filled with the charred remains of burnt bodies, including the bodies of several young children. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He happened to be an unusually bright child and his mother had worked hard with him at home on spelling and reading. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

If their families were nearby, the child would invariably be shooed away by a mortified parent, and the interaction would be over. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It is this kind of guidance that distinguishes middle-class children from children of working-class and poor families, according to sociologists who have studied how social class affects child-rearing. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Evy, loving talent in music and lacking it herself, sought for it avidly in her children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a little child stumble and fall and the mother bend and yank him up, and he thought about home, about his little cousins and his parents and Anulika. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

HARRY: Because I’m a parent—who hasn’t seen his child. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

On the lawn a lady sat under a tree reading a story aloud to some children. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were playing music and dancing, children were running around, and there was that familiar good smell of cooked cassava leaf in rich palm oil. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Dicey picked out a one-quart aluminum saucepan, four ponchos in children’s sizes, a packet of hooks and the smallest, lightest reel of fishing line she could find. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both children were banished to their rooms for the rest of the day. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Now what Pechvarry and his wife and the witch saw was this: the young wizard had stopped midway in his spell, and held the child a while motionless. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

An experimental study of the effects of improvisation on the development of children’s creative thinking in music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Stick and I stood quiet, the children’s energetic whoops and giggles swirling around us. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then, in August 2009, the city decided to pardon the children who had participated in the 1963 D-day and Double D-day protest. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Giving up the nomadic lifestyle enabled women to have a child every year. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the family has to stay together, child.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A child, on the other hand, stays impressionable and eager to learn. Catch one young enough,” Dad insisted, "and there’s no limit to what you can teach.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is extraordinary, thought Miss Honey, how often small children have flights of fancy like this. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You should know that the king will soon abdicate his throne in favor of one of his children,” Madoc says, looking at all of us. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He went the next day into the town and to the house of the merchant and he said, “My daughter is thirteen years old and no longer a child and she is fit for marriage.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She shrieked, “There he is, poor child!” and pulled me into a hug that nearly jammed the brass buttons on her jacket through my head. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he smiled, he resembled a turtle from a children’s picture book. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“It is an eternal atonement, to watch over the children of the sun, the children of my people, the Azteca bloodline.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

‘Did you search the slain? Were there no bodies other than those of orc-kind? They would be small, only children to your eyes, unshod but clad in grey.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Even today, children are taught “Nature abhors a vacuum,” while the teachers don’t really understand where that phrase came from. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Everyone lived below the deck— men on one side, women and children on the other. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

"Commander, take the queen and her children into custody. Do them no harm, but escort them back to the royal apartments and keep them there, under guard." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the next few days she learned so much that she felt like a child again, bewildered by school. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“As his children he should buy us food all the time.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now the scene, their slow and deliberate gathering actions, broke apart insanely as the two men began to pelt Linda and the five children in deadly earnest, aiming their rocks, trying to murder them. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed rude not to drink it, so I sat opposite him at his kitchen table, my face set in my most professional smile, mouthing reassurance and unnecessary directions for the child’s care. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she produces the child, which in the intervals has done something in its napkin. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other kids spread rumors about her—the witch’s child who lived in the old shack by the docks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Do the Americans punish their children by making them sit on a punishment chair, the way my parents once did? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Rosaleen glided along, gathering rain in the pan and flinging it out like a child would do. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was in 1924, and taking out a child’s adenoids, and often the tonsils as well, without any anaesthetic was common practice in those days. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

So this, dear child, was how I came from Troy, and saw no more of the others, lost or saved. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In exchange, the au pair was to help out with child care for up to forty five hours per week, five and one half days per week. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I came here as a child, he would always remove the bullets as soon as he walked in the door. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I can’t keep taking him home forever. My spouse is already somewhat annoyed about it. The children enjoy him, though. He's been sleeping in my sons room. He seems to do well there. But...” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As we scoured the farm, people were weeping for lost children, whimpering in pain, or sitting silently, staring at nothing. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was a child, he saw now, and therefore it must be Briony, in the white dress he had seen her wearing earlier in the day. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Chris leaned back in the chair like a proud father who just watched his child figure out how times tables work. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And we have never talked about finding out that Papa had anonymously donated to the children’s hospitals and motherless babies’ homes and disabled veterans from the civil war. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tobias was his only child—and his only family, since his wife died giving birth to their second child. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But children do not comprehend the complexity of the situation; they simply see their father being taken away by the white authorities without an explanation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the children devour the tasty morsels, it’s revealed as human flesh. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Roy didn’t understand how a mother could kick her own child out of her life, but he knew such tragic things occurred. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those widening differences have left the educated and affluent in a superior position when it comes to investing in their children. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“And is he behaving like a man that will deny his child? Aunty told me he’s even talking about coming to pay her bride price.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When she opened her eyes at last, she looked at him with her strange speechless gaze, and he felt as though he faced a child. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“There are better ways to teach a child compassion.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Please, Metatron, hear me. I have just come from Lord Asriel. He has the child’s dæmon, and he knows that the child will soon come to search for him.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Katie looked at the candy, at the new bills and then at her children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was also children that asked me, “Why is your skin so dark?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled down at his children, who looked up at him adoringly. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

On the other, increased advocacy is required in order to justify music’s existence and terms of benefits to the child amidst the threat of constant budget cuts. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Most of all, I wish those children hadn't died in that cellar. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Keeping in mind all those old ladies who have passed on, today is the eve before we honor the first English child born in America—Virginia Dare in 1587. Don’t forget your history,” she murmured. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Looks like we’ve got a full house this morning. Nothing better than a store full of children!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The whole ride home was like that: silence in the trolley car, weeping men and women, groups of people standing about dazedly in the streets, little children looking bewildered and wondering what had happened. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Jeweled dragonflies hovered like shrill children’s voices in the sun. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun filled the car and the children, sleeping in the back, began to stir heavily against the new day. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are leading these female children like lambs to the slaughter. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was preoccupied by this thought, though I was also comforted by the knowledge that other mothers and children had successfully done this before. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The children who waited for bread had gone to play outside. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The population most affected by this misguided law is formerly incarcerated women with children, most of whom were imprisoned for drug crimes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Girls were not worth much, and Old Rit already had a passel of children, but they did not say this. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

John looked with a child’s impenetrable gravity into the preacher’s face, as though he were turning this question over in his mind and would answer when he had thought it out. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Most of their children were in state custody again. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was Dad who suggested having a dozen children, and that both of them become efficiency experts. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child hadn’t spoken a word since her arrival. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I offered to go with him to help with the children, but all that got me was a look of suspicion—a look I couldn’t help understanding. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I knew Mother would have strong opinions about where I’d wind up, with curved legs and weak bones like the poor Congolese children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Octavian countered by threatening to execute her children if she did not eat. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Don’t look down, children. Keep looking straight ahead.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Women love their children and their husbands at the same time—and men often feel a lusty thought for one woman while they are feeling a love of the heart for another. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twelve per cent of all deaths in children between the ages of one and fourteen are caused by cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Grandchildren, then, the woman insists, and so after more deliberation they pick out three ebony elephants for the children of the children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No one disrespects me, especially my children,” he said. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Now, what kinda greetin’ is that for a man who just wants to see his children?” he asked in that gravelly voice that Gerald hated. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve told you about letting people in without getting my permission, child.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The good Lord gave her a mind and she intended to use it to support her mother and her children. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are but a child! You know nothing of a queen’s desires,” she said bitterly, thrusting me away. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I figured a caseworker would be coming in the morning and was surprised when Simon Parker, a child protection investigator, came to the door a little while later, along with a deputy sheriff. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Enough, child. I can still stand on my own. I am not so old.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

"And have you read any books all by yourself, any children's books, I mean?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was told to measure pills with the younger children, and his quota was twice theirs, “to teach him the value of labor.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The names of the various hues were one of the first things small children learned. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was probably the only child in America who was horrified when Dustin Hoffman forgot to thank Tom Cruise in his Oscar acceptance speech for best actor back in 1989. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“That’s just another example of your sneakiness. You had a love affair all summer and got this girl with child and now I suppose you’ll sneak off.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

At that time there was so much activity in the town and so much bustle in the house that the care of the children was relegated to a secondary level. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

With both children now buttoned into their jackets, Kira headed to the door with Annabelle in her arms and Matthew by one hand. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The children remembered Mr. Poe because he always had a cold and was constantly excusing himself from the table to have a fit of coughing in the next room. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

There were now three healthy children for Charles and Emma to love. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents, however, could not forget, even though they both agreed that demonic possession was a sin too great for such a tiny child. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother sponge-bathed the children while the husband and I shaved. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Aunt Aggie blubbers,To see Pa there with a child on his lap an’ me with no hope of having my own. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Slaves done ris,” was whispered in the cabin and at the master’s gate: slaves in another county had fired the masters’ houses and fields and dashed their children to death against the stones. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The debils had taken machetes to many of the people, but the majority of them, even small children, had been shot in the head. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

And would not the child be better off in a home with a mother and a father, studies showing the importance of a strong male figure in a child’s life? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You have to believe me. I only go to see my children. I’m not involved with their mother anymore.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked him where he was from, and when this child tried to speak he stumbled horribly. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In crowded trolley cars, people huddled away from those Nolan children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’ll be our job to remember the parts we got wrong and make it better for our children and grandchildren. Embrace our differences, and still find a way to make peace.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

A woman’s voice spoke from the corridor outside: “Dr. Malone? Have you seen the child?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much to the chagrin of some of the servants and to the consternation of Emma’s sister Elizabeth, the children even used bad language such as “the devil take” or “I wish to God.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s not like some mothers she knows who leave Honduras and forget their children, never call, never write. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I shook hands with him; it seemed silly not to, for I felt suddenly as though I were talking to a child. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Just then Trapis came back, carrying several flat loaves of bread under one arm and a squalling child in the other. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There a woman is waiting with a child. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a game we used to play in the brush when there were children on the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need my basement back,” she’d said, laughing, making sure each child got something, even if only a yo-yo. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was a child of the working class who, through ill-considered choices and circumstance, slipped into the welfare class and had to fight her way out. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Some children’s singing games have their roots in circle dances, while others reflect social traditions of courtship and marriage, friendship, overcoming childhood fears, or just expressing the fun and merriment of childhood. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“To tell him the children are well,” he said, then hesitated, and said quietly, “Nusuth, no matter,” and left me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They spent the rest of the weekend trout-fishing in the nearby river and roasting their catch on a fire of brambles, exploring the hills like children, and talking about the past. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The result naturally was that her husband Samuel and all her children had a good lusty love for a drink. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Other than an occasional sleepy “Ahwoo” from a dreaming child, they traveled in silence, through the forest and all its mysteries, back to Ashton Place. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

And when the baldheaded proprietor would pass by, we black children, poor, half-starved, ignorant, victims of racial prejudice, would sing with a proud lilt: A rotten egg Never fries A cheating dog Never thrives. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked him to his room and, as if he were still a child, undressed him and tucked him in. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The challenge with older children is their desire to vocally imitate the pop singing style. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“For Fatima—she's a child who works at the estate. I’m teaching her to read.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Yes, child? Be quick, be quick,” he said, his long gray beard wagging with every word. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She, on the other hand, shuddered from the certainty that the deep moan was a first indication of the fearful pig tail and she begged God to let the child die in her womb. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“My...my momma said I was the devil’s child,” she says quietly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And children, weaving between the groups of adults, not confined to a particular color of clothing—factionless children. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What will she bring?” one of the children asked. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No one. My sisters have children of their own—besides, they live very far away, we have not seen them for many years. My sons—well, they have made their lives elsewhere, as you know.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some children were standing under the mango tree in the school compound, throwing stones up at the fruit. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the child was six months old, she asked the mother of the baby’s father to keep it, and left the island for Pennsylvania. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to run, but Finnick’s acting so strange, as if he’s lost the ability to move, so I take his hand and lead him like a small child. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

As she left yesterday, Madame Rubenstein touched my shoulder and said, “You have real talent, my child. Treasure it.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps there is a Rochelle all alone, though the child does not know it.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They transferred this Anglophilia to their six children and sixteen grandchildren. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two children played for quite a while, climbing trees and drawing in the dirt. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He could do something to help other third children come out of hiding. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor patted Angela's cheek as though she were a child. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her implacable anger followed them and their children too. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of us: men, women, and children, Poles and Jews. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t have much pep any more. I guess I feel sad because I won’t ever see my children.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The sounds of the north bank grew behind them—clattering and shouting and children squealing at one another. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Last month they had put a sign out in front saying that no children were allowed on the lot. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We decided that it was about Mother Africa losing her children like Cecile had lost us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thrust the child at him and darted into the undergrowth. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

That’s my fault, of course, because I behaved stupidly, like a child, because I didn’t like feeling rejected. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was also a daughter of Ares, and I’d had a very serious disagreement with her father last summer, so now the god of war and all his children basically hated my guts. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He feels ill at ease with the praise, just as he had when he was a child and destroyed his drawing of the cat, the clay figure of the elephant. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They had their supper and the children got some sleep. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

In no time, the nine children were eating a fine omelet and the sweet roasted plomms. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“You see, there was a boy, their first child, two years older than I. I barely remember him. We both caught some kind of fever. I got well, except for this leg, but he died.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

There are dozens of children’s stories about the trains, but what she’s interested in is the documents, the artifacts, the self-published train- rider stories, each one a testimony, a telling. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And to the children standing on the road she cried out, ‘Jump back into the car! We’re going to the doctor!’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could only conclude that his attitude came from an overwhelming love for his child, so profound it spilled over to all humanity. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, children, this is an ‘A.’ How many of you can say A? Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“He’s got a wife he cares about. He’s got a child he surely loves. He’s gotta know what it feels like to be crazy with worry for them.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His wife was carrying the baby and the small child walked beside her, holding on to her skirts. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gloria spoke as if she had ended the discussion by using words the school used to describe children such as herself. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Each child, mesmerized by the assault of color, stared into the drift of presents with a seasonal greed as pure as angel hair. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, no,” she said, “don’t grab your skirt like some clodhopper. Think of making wings, like an angel. Like this. Now sink. Slowly! Don’t plummet, child—you’re not a rock.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I am leaving now. I want to see if I can buy a few Christmas things for my children at Oye Abagana.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was also a science book, which must have been for young children because it was filled with glossy illustrations. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“The board should have been consulted about whether Beecher Prep was the right place for a child like that,” Mom continued. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was this that grew inside her, and eventually led her to love by night the man her children loved by day. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And may God grant that you never have a child who dies in the ocean.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The Andals burnt out the weirwood groves, hacked down the faces, slaughtered the children where they found them, and everywhere proclaimed the triumph of the Seven over the old gods. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her scolding made me more unhappy, as if being a child were a fault I had committed and must atone for. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The gates have been thrown wide open, and natives—men, women, and children—are walking in. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

The thought of a child being shot through the chest with a neighbor’s gun is gruesome, dramatic, horrifying—in a word, outrageous. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Jam reached for the pamphlet he’d been reading and looked at the children illustrated on the cover. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I thought we agreed the children are going to be American,” puzzled Helen. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again I thought, He is a child after all, still tender, still eager. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How charming. And I presume you have paperwork for all these”—he scrunched up his face like he’d just swallowed a slightly turned piece of fruit—“children.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I made sure that each of the children learned to read. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered how many other Olympians were thinking about their demigod children right now. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

One child Lareau follows just misses qualifying for a gifted program. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I imagine the child my mother was, crouched in one of those lean-tos, scrambling for weapons because they meant an ounce of safety, choking on smoke to keep warm in the winter. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The children turned and bowed to the rest of the knights. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She showed the baby to Pa and he said, “We got some nurses what’ll tend your child, ma’am. How long she been ailing?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Kunthi’s child was born a few months before mine, a fine boy who nearly took his mother’s life in exchange for his own. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

We soon lost interest, though, for there was no suspense at all: the Congolese children always passed us right by on their march to victory. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she took the calabash of milk to her children, who drank it all and asked for more. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He was parked under a towering oak tree outside Johns Hopkins Hospital with three of his children—two still in diapers—waiting for their mother, Henrietta. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And here he came along the guarded walk, a tall man dressed in light gray, leading his frightened child by the hand. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, he thought, the two children of the depression had fought the misery of past holidays by spending a modest fortune on their own children. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they taught, they were at best bloodless and inoffensive; at their worst, they could ruin a child’s life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and had a well-developed sense of independence. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Holton was the first to untangle herself from the crying party when her two children saw what was going on and commenced bawling too. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

In the morning everyone did chores and Ginny fixed breakfast before the six children hurried off to school. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The younger child, Monty, age six, noticed blood on the ceiling. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A person’s indentured status did not pass to later generations, but children born to an enslaved person would also be enslaved. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Also, why I couldn’t have been an only child. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I condemn myself in so many ways that I’m beginning to realize the truth of Father’s adage: “Every child has to raise itself.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“It is a child whose birth his mother did not wish for.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, he’s pushing people, just shoving ’em out the way, bellowing at the top of his lungs, “Stop! Stop those children!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The child angel had been cleared of moss and planted all around with snowdrops and white narcissus that poured out an overpowering scent. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I turned right around and ran into the house where the children were, and slammed the door,” Aunt Eliza answered. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, early on, Woody would call to see how the children were doing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the winter, children cleared snow, chopped down trees, and shoveled coal for heating the school. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The jails were packed to capacity.1 Reporters and photographers captured in undeniable images the confrontation between the children and the police. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Fewer than nine people in the town remembered when Eva had two legs, and her oldest child, Hannah, was not one of them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

No one knows what the Witch does with the children she takes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

As I had suspected they would be, my discoveries were naive ones, like those of a child. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to my humble restaurant. And these must be your beautiful children.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The children were supposed to be doing their homework. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It not Everybody say how good I is to Mr. children. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, I thought, they are just children who do not have school fees. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some studies relied on children’s fuzzy recollections of their parents’ income. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“They moved,” now Leper was smiling, a charming and slightly arch smile, like a child who knows he is going to say something clever, “they moved like an engine.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

So this is what the Republic thinks of children who fail the Trial. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The two children turned and ran, leaving their stricken brother, and Lyra, frightened and guilty, withdrew inside the room again and shut the window. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while he even thought that maybe the child was right. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The prisoners were supposed to be standing in orderly lines, too, but the children had run up to the gate to wait for the Governor's boat. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

More quickly: The child who learns to read about his nonliterate ancestors necessarily separates himself from their way of life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had cousins visiting, and normally Annie would organize games for the younger children. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She chuckled—mother of two sons—and she looked like a child. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Jo, your little friend is very welcome, and I hope Meg will remember that children should be children as long as they can.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Halley seems to have mentioned this event as a curious benefit of the sea voyage or the air in St Helena on the childless couple; Aubrey implies that Halley was the father of the child. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

We would be moving to Puerto Plata with the children by the first of December, opening up a little store at the front of the house. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear would accompany the child home, where the woman of the house always consented to let him sleep under the eaves. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I wanted what all parents expect for their children: for them to become happy, healthy, educated, productive citizens who contribute to American life in a positive, successful way. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Losing a child ruins many a marriage; he could not bear to live without Emma. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

All countries and islands, afraid for the same reason, refused to receive her and give her a place where her child could be born. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children kissed their parents and then wanted to kiss Mr. Griffin. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember this stuff, because when we were children, Auntie An-mei didn’t let us touch any of her new furniture except through the clear plastic coverings. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I must be mad. He has a beer belly and Dracula teeth and a wife and children and he’s old.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And so the legend grew of a mysterious group of enchanters who spirited children away. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Jasmin and the other children have already taken turns whacking her pinata. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In autumn, she appears With a pomegranate, Each seed the heart Of a child she took away. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later, Alba organized an outing for the children from the soup kitchen. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You all stay here with the women and children,” the father tells us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child grabbed the phone, pressed it to his ear, and ran for Day. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

That night, the children went upstairs and slept in the loft, and Nokomis slept there, too, instead of downstairs beside Mama. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She reached out and found the hand of one of the children. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was expected to hand over my life to a house, a husband, children. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Unlike other children I don’t have to do any chores because our maid does them for us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is a child. He will slow us down.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven thousand husbands and fathers, wives and mothers, brothers and sisters, and children had been taken to their deaths—or so we heard from survivors. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Meecham children were gifted in the fine art of brooding. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

There is a plethora of evidence regarding the critical role that the arts play in children’s lives and learning. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

To the Kathakali Man these stories are his children and his childhood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To be a child and to be passionate, eh?” he said to my mom. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The scraps of cloth, he was beginning to think, may have been a child’s pajamas. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to ask you to do just one thing for me. Live here—with me. You’re like my own children. I'd miss you so.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It very hard to be in different country from your child. I never tell him this when he leave, so he don’t feel guilty.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At twelve, David was the oldest of the children. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents had dreams that each of their children would graduate from college, so Dad earmarked the money from this job for college savings for the six of us kids. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The inspiration, he explained, had come from an old children’s book with the back cover missing which he’d found behind one of the sofas at the Cottages. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lupita asked herself for the third time, as she looked over her shoulder at her mother, who stared sadly at the three younger children lined up against the wall. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Many of the residents, including Luke, attended Park- hill School on campus, which was designed for children with behavioral or emotional problems. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I guess from that moment I knew I was going to marry Joseph Wojtkiewicz—God, pope, three motherless children, unspellable surname and all. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the children in the High King’s Court are royals, sent from smaller Courts to gain influence with the princes and princesses, and have no time for much else. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Was that boy in an accident?” the child says, pointing at Jason. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the line at Yankee Stadium, whole families stood in single file, some with little children tethered to their mothers to keep them from wandering off. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was like the scene in Jurassic Park when the children turn and the T. rex is right there. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I don’t like to waste time, so when I at last turned around, I did so abruptly and asked directly, “Are you the children who have been missing from Greenwich for a week?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve taken away your husband, robbed your children of their father. You must despise me for it.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Farmer crouched down and wrapped his arms around the child. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me? Do you have any information about the missing child?” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Making these visuals simple and accessible will greatly help autistic children in the class. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She did not once lecture her as though she were a slow child the way Amelia often did—or offer a single explanation as Prudence would have felt obliged to. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t the duty of peculiar children to worry for the welfare of ymbrynes—it’s ours to worry for yours.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I could see the crowd, too, aghast at this interruption from a mere child. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

On the side of the road, a mob of angry Congolese people stood—men, women, and children. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The children and Brave Orchid’s husband had to sneak out. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The exhaustion from the long night of worry had made her feel heavy and clumsy, but the children’s happiness seemed to carry her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the tone of his voice or the reaction of the other children told me this was a purely rhetorical question. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looked at Tayo, and then he looked at the women and children. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You know our children look on you as their second parents, Paige,” Lillian said softly. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older children from the crèche are walking into the theater. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Frear, his sister-in-law, and Mr. Wood fought their way down the street, jumped into a horse-drawn cab, and set out to find the children. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He forced the door open, cast aside the chair and boxes hastily piled against it with one lazy wave of his wand...and there she stood, the child in her arms. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Knowing that a grown man entered a child’s bedroom stealing his innocence, makes me sad. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Malvonne could feel the wall of life pressed up against the woman’s palms; feel her hands bashed tender from pounding it; her hips constrained by the clutch of small children. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dell felt the fur touch his ankles and he shrieked like a startled child. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Take for example, the forty-two-year-old African American man who applied for public housing for himself and his three children who were living with him at the time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The combination of mother’s milk and conversation transformed Blanca into a healthy, almost pretty child who bore no resemblance at all to the armadillo she had been at birth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I saw a picture that I remembered in my mind when I was a kid and the children in the block let me play with them, hide-and-go-seek and I was IT. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Relations among musical skills, phonological processing, and early reading ability in preschool children. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had had dreams as a child, dreams every child had, of the witch who chased him down dark alleys, between lawn trees, and finally into rooms from which he could not escape. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z