| 单词 | grow up |
| 例句 | “I know you grew up seeing me and Gran make potions and such all your lives, but there are things in this world that you’ve never experienced before.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Every day, my little girl is growing up without me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For hungry children growing up in the citadel of the Mesarthim, there had never been a pantry worth raiding. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Goddamnit! You’re eighteen. How much growing up do you need to do? There are soldiers dying in the field at eighteen. Old enough to be left to die on the roads. Did you know that?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z One had to be an impossible wish, another a wish that you could make come true yourself, and the third had to be a wish for when you grew up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “But tell me your story, Grandpa! What was it like growing up during wartime?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The boys grew up, handsome, able to play music, to dance and to sing and with all the girls crazy for them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re growing up way too fast. Going on adventures without me!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z We pull onto our street, but for some reason it doesn’t quite feel like the same block I grew up on. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Like whether a particular tree—the one whose roots grew up its trunk—was in bud two days ago or a week and exactly where it was. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Long Beach is so different than the gated community I grew up in. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Then he dried his tears, grew up, got sober and monogamous. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl, who would grow up without a father, was named Theodora, after the scandalous empress of Byzantium whom Sourmelina admired. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Ghosts could walk, trees could talk, and broken boys could grow up to be knights. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I wanted the same freedom and the ability to make a choice about what I wanted to do when I grew up. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Gregor watched a gorgeous, gauzy funnel of silk grow up around them as if by magic. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z With a “dogmatic, pushy father,” as Wilkins would later write, Franklin grew up in a household where “her brothers and father resented R.F.’s greater intelligence.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Lord Asriel went back to his explorations, and you grew up at Jordan College. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z So I think your class had to grow up fast. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 Especially if the person doing the telling didn’t grow up here and doesn’t get how things have always been. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “You grew up because of an operation? Doesn’t that strike you as weird?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Looking at the replica Halliday had created of his old house, I tried to imagine what it had been like for him to grow up there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Mr. Terupt did a lot of wrestling while growing up, and even into college,” he started to explain. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z And there was the arsenal of course: guns, pistols, shotguns, slingshots, knives, and swords, It’s no wonder kids grow up to be killers with all that rehearsal. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Anybody who’d tried to grow up and sort out what to do and who to become in a world that is too confusing for me to ever understand. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Talking about how we would grow up and have babies at the same time, and eventually become old women together, walking around the square and holding each other’s arms for support. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z And do you know who that boy grew up to be?” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Though she had been too young to witness the spectacle herself, Cersei had heard the stories growing up from the mouths of washerwomen and guardsmen who had been there. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They grew up in a different era, with different concerns. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I was growing up to be even bigger than Wilfred and Philbert, who had begun to meet girls at the school dances, and other places, and introduced me to a few. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He and my dad grew up on the same street and were best friends. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z 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 I was beginning to see that growing up knowing only one other person had some serious disadvantages. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I’m a meteorologist, or will be when I grow up. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z What do you think I’m gonna be when I grow up? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Dante and I were the last two boys in America who grew up without television. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z I grew up in her house, back in Atlanta. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I get some flashbacks of when we were growing up. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “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 “I grew up in an orphanage in London. Horrible place.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z They began with the honeysuckle growing up around the front porch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I know what you mean. But that was all ugly stuff. Crazy love and jealousy and needing to rebel against the city. Every kid’s like that. But you grow up, you know?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Then she remembered about his own children; how most of them had been born but to sicken and die before they grew up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We both grew up thinking Scooter’s bed was the safest place in the world, like a boat in a sea full of crocs. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z It is not enough to say that I grew up a ghetto Catholic. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She would say, “I grew up in a village so small that it didn’t have a name.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z That night marks my life’s dark center, the moment when growing up ended and the long downward slope toward death began. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, she wondered what it would have been like to grow up as Pearl, to have Mia as her mother, to have this life as her life. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I wanted to talk to you, readers, about what it means to grow up looking and feeling different. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “What’s so American? We had a car, growing up. Don’t you remember?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom And on the other side, in my dad’s writing: Son, You’re growing up, my man. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “I go to private school now, but I grew up playing ball.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Ally, maybe you can be a waitress when you grow up. But can you read the flavors of ice cream for me? I’m having trouble.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “Did you forget that I didn’t grow up here?” she asks. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z One time when I was growing up in San Francisco, she looked at the way our new apartment sat too steeply on the hill. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the farm boy who grew up to be a billionaire or the paperboy who now has a dozen satellites in space. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have to. It’s not so terribly long ago that I grew up and I wasn’t a little girl any more. Do you know what I mean?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z That is, in mental ability New Guineans are probably genetically superior to Westerners, and they surely are superior in escaping the devastating developmental disadvantages under which most children in industrialized societies now grow up. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Besides where she grew up, I’ve gotten a total of twelve words. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Momma and Ms. Rosalie’s youngest daughter, Tammy, were best friends growing up. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “There was this day...I was seven or eight, and me and Mahvash had gone to the park to play. We were friends growing up. Did I tell you that?” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He knew something about growing up in a motherless home, and about the hole it left in a boy’s heart. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We all passed his course, and we should never, never grow up to be violent people. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z "I heard that from a man who knew all about him, grew up with him in Germany," he assured us positively. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z My sister says the only reason Mom married him was to give me a male role model so I’d know how to grow up into a man, and so we wouldn’t be on welfare. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z She wanted me to grow up in a free country. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Robbie grew up with the run of the nursery and those other parts of the house the children were permitted, as well as the grounds. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Just a house where Alex grew up, where he saw Henry’s picture in a magazine and felt a flicker of something, a start. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z We need to let him, help him, make him grow up. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z But when he grew up, the name turned out to be an apt one. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Zeitoun, though, was too much like his father: first a sailor, then, to provide for a family and to ensure that he lived to watch them grow up, a builder. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “You’re growing up so fast. It looked like it was from this year.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Walter McMillian, like Tom Robinson, grew up in one of several poor black settlements outside of Monroeville, where he worked the fields with his family before he was old enough to attend school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But I might grow up to be like Frida, one leg shorter than the other. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I gotta learn to hit the curve if I’m going to be a baseball player when I grow up.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z It’s a bedroom fit for a baby girl who’ll grow up to be a princess. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Flipping open an old notebook she'd written in just before she left St. Louis, she read, It is hard to find anyone else who will admit they do not want to grow up. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She was growing up, and was careful to avoid childish things, like sitting on a milk stool near a pigpen. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Name a girl Jack, my father said, and she can't help but grow up strong. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z It was a happy childhood, growing up in the center of an endless fair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “When I was growing up, I wanted so much to meet all of you. Now that it’s finally happening ...” I shook my head. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “It is only a party, after all. Anyway, I suppose this is what is meant by ‘growing up.’” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z But she said that growing up and as a young adult, she never had a dentist to go to, so she had done her best. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He starts by talking about his experience growing up Black in Mississippi and moves on to talk about systemic racism and how we don’t even realize how embedded it is in our world. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z She grew up in Manhattan, Kansas, where she got her first phone when she was sixteen. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z About what it’s like growing up on the levee in Stockton, where every other person you meet has missing teeth or is leaning against a liquor store wall begging for change to buy beer. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z "When your mother said that she was divorcing your father and wanted to move to New York where she grew up, my grandmother set things up with Dr. Gershom." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not curiosity. But I would like to know what kind of blood is in my boys. When they grow up—won’t I be looking for something in them?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But as I grew up, I understood that Malalai was a hero and a role model, and I wanted to learn something from her. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I did not want to drive my son away from God, but I did not want him to grow up a mind without a soul. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The town that grew up around it, once called Sing Sing, is now called Ossining. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If I were going to be something when I grew up, an architect is what I would be. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z So I grew up convinced that science was supremely dull, but suspecting that it needn’t be, and not really thinking about it at all if I could help it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z People who grow up poor, fatherless, and buffeted by racism don’t have the same commitment to social norms as those from healthy middle-class homes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa is one of nine children, and he grew up in the housing projects in Cleveland. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z ‘I grew up on a farm,’ he said, ‘but I never knew you could teach a pig tricks. Help yourself to more bread?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In one neighborhood near where Enrique’s mother grew up, fifty-two children arrive at kindergarten each morning. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z When I was growing up, I had no idea that I would ever have a story worth telling, let alone one people might want to read or listen to. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to be that person I was, growing up. I want to be the me who’s here, now. With you.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Oh, my son is growing up right in front of my very eyes. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I wonder if any of these scholars and authors grew up here, like you, Son.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z He had dream children—clean, pretty, smart children who were growing up sort of ashamed that their father ran a saloon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Over there; she thought, looking down the path she had ridden to get to the school, I can almost see the dwelling where I grew up. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Kids are like that, why worry? Someday she’ll grow up, someday our friendly local Gestapo will make her apologize—” “We all should live so long,” Bud groaned. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And I swear I see, down inside, the woman she gone grow up to be. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I am writing this book in the hope of enlightening readers about the journey an African-American takes in having to grow up and live under the laws and traditions of oppression. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Thorndike, who grew up to be a magician, and Fingers Halloway, who grew up to be a pickpocket. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He can’t have her grow up worrying about money as he did. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “I want to be a regular guy. I want to grow up. Have, you know, a regular high school experience.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z When the police asked what he thought he was doing up there, Joe told them he was practicing to be a sniper when he grew up. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z For her grandchild grew up protected and away from danger, and the only wish the old woman had was for that to never change. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I grew up thinking of strategy as finding weaknesses and exploiting them. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He asked her about growing up in New Orleans, but she got edgy at his questions, so they made small talk instead. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Later when Francie was growing up, she felt very rich having so much chalk and so many pencils to use. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When my mother grew up in the Bronx, despite rising poverty levels, the sense of family and community were strong. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z When I grew up, and I did grow up with black people, they were Calpurnia, Zeebo the garbage collector, Tom the yard man, and whatever else their names were. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Nobody grows up hoping to become a maintenance engineer. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z A strong affection grew up at once between father and son. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z As the children grew up, they all remained close to Emma and Charles and with each other. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She flung her head back and looked in the sky and then she slowed down again and said: “I grew up in this park, you know.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “And Dad never heard her mention anything when he was growing up?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z But Josiah said they would grow up heavy and covered with meat like Herefords, but tough too, like the Mexican cows, able to withstand hard winters and many dry years. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of that same year, Johnny got the notion that his children were growing up ignorant of the great ocean that washed the shores of Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Jeremy and Hannah’s children will grow up to love others in the simple and uncomplicated way of people who have always known where love comes from, and aren’t afraid of its loss. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He grew up running around their house wearing her neon vest, blowing her whistle. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z During all our years growing up together, he never complained about his affliction and I never gave it any mind. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z All my life, I grew up thinking of the High King and Prince Dain as our unquestioned rulers. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He got excellent exam results and—here’s an amazing coincidence—at the age of fifteen he actually found himself sitting next to a boy who would grow up to become prime minister of Great Britain. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Though, soon enough, Axel knows, with Byrd’s attention, and the sunlight from the window, those nesting plants will grow up too. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Well, my dad is. He sells lamps. And when I grow up I’m going to be a salesman, too. I’m going to sell hangers.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “To never grow up, never get married. To be a maiden eternally.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Then, when he grew up, they would probably ignore him and treat him like an ant! Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z For two weeks afterward she’d even decided she wanted to be a magician when she grew up. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He protected hikers and hunters and tree-climbing little urchins like us, and he created the most sacred tree of all, the Master Oak, for us to grow up in. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z When he was growing up, Wes would occasionally follow his mother to the New Metropolitan Church on Sunday, but even on his sporadic visits, he never felt any connection. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “I grew up near Kiev, but it’s been years since I’ve been back there. I lived with my uncle for some time, and we traveled a lot.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z You don’t have any of the things that kids should have in order to be children and grow up to be healthy adults. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Ditshabe was just like his father, and they had all watched with relief as he grew up, as they knew that they would be safe with a young chief like that. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Hilly chats, throwing things our way like, “Stuart, Skeeter here lives on a plantation just north of town. Didn’t the Senator grow up on a peanut farm?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He said to me, “Finn, I wish you would never grow up and go away.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I didn’t care if he grew up on Pluto, let alone some hippie commune. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I never saw many Black pastry chefs on the shows I watched, or in the cookbook section of the library, but I was still determined to be one when I grew up. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “I think you are a very impatient girl, eager to grow up into an impatient woman.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I had watched them grow up and they had watched me. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z “So don’t you want to get a car and drive the girls around? Don’t you want to get a job and grow up and make some money?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z This bridge has more traffic because it links downtown with the west side of Bartlett, where the high school is and the local college is and all these neighborhoods are, growing up in between. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He’d look at a boy and his father standing together and think, So that’s what that father looked like when he was little, and that’s what the boy will look like when he grows up. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z She looks at Alan: “And where you don’t have to leave again, even if you don’t want to grow up.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “If I’m going to be an artist when I grow up, why do I need to know how to spell?” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z They did not grow up like the children of the eighties and nineties, stripped of any semblance of family other than the constant presence of drugs and violence. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, what do you want to be when you grow up?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z His own mother had fallen to pieces when his father died, abandoning the house he grew up in and moving back to Calcutta, leaving Shukumar to setde it all. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z But would there be something—something—missing from her life if she were to grow up with them? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “No, ma’am. From right here in Alexandriaville. Well, I grew up here, but then I flew the coop.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z She had finished growing up when she stopped calling her mother “Mama.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the perks of coming here for more than a decade is that I know the hospital just as well as I knew the house I grew up in. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The deer, whose name was The Deer, was born about a year or so ago and grew up freely in the woods. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Would the family remain together long enough for them to finish school, to grow up? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z That sense of well-being was shattered the instant the bomb went off that Sunday morning in September 1963—the day I grew up. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I certainly didn’t when I was growing up. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “Always. When I was growing up, we didn’t have anything, but my mom understood how much school meant to me. She cried when I told her I was going to marry your father.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “Mami, I want to be an artist, and maybe a writer too, when I grow up.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Like many boys who grow up without a father in the home, I searched for ways to fill that hole, sometimes in places I shouldn’t have looked. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He grew up under the clouds, won glory of men till all his enemies sitting around him heard across the whaleroads his demands and gave him tribute. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever she had to warn us about life, my mother told stories that ran like this one, a story to grow up on. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But she wasn’t nearly angry enough—or foolish enough—to speak the words grow up to Minya. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “She grew up in a remote village,” said Sister Gladys with a trace of irritation. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The problem with growing up around highly dangerous things is that after a while you just get used to them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I don’t even know what he’ll be like when he grows up. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She grew up with a fierce will to help her people move successfully into the new day. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Ali and Baba grew up together as childhood playmates—at least until polio crippled Ali’s leg—just like Hassan and I grew up a generation later. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The milk bird stayed alive until the boy and his sister grew up and left that place. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z And he said, “‘He’s a rural guy and grew up on a farm. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I encouraged her to think about what interested her, and what she might want to do when she grows up. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Better his precious baby Cora grow up with new parents who could give her everything she wanted than with a half-wit like him. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Arm often dreamed of the countryside around Hwange, where he grew up, but this place was different. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps this was the result of growing up in Muscatine with a cosmopolitan mother who’d always urged her son to live “as if for eternity.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He wanted us to grow up in our own culture, among our own people. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z “If they keep loading you like that, you’re going to grow up crooked. Here, let me tie a zango on your arm. I have more than I need.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I grow up and become a famous dancer, I’m gonna move far, far away from here.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I dream that my son will grow up to be a good person, a free person, and an important person. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z That simple fact says a lot about the world in which I grew up. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I walk along the path, and growing up in front of me is the cathedral, spiraling towers reaching high for the sky. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Depending on where that fellow grew up, a league could be anywhere between two to three and a half miles. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My father and my uncle were very close growing up, but then they had a major falling-out. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I do not mean to be sentimental about suffering—enough is certainly as good as a feast—but people who cannot suffer can never grow up, can never discover who they are. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Samuel, of course, was bom in the North, in New York, and grew up and was educated there. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I grew up in a home with very little exposure to popular culture. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z All he knew for sure was that growing up meant he could get a dog. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We’ve even had a surprise or two from our own mother, who grew up way deeper in Dixie than we did. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d visited Jamaica often to see family when I was growing up. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Of course, he’d heard about the zoo—every Lkossan child grew up with stories of its wonders and terrors—but he’d never actually visited it or dared to come so close. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Vincent would grow up to think most of that was nonsense. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But Woundwort grew up very wild and, like Cowper’s hare, would bite when he could. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were determined I would grow up to be a totally self-sufficient, problem-solving expert. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I don’t want my kids growing up here. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Um, just because...it was sort of a bummer growing up an only child,” Grace said, covering. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z She grew up surrounded by books, spending just as much time in her school libraries as she did on the tennis courts. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Both my parents grew up there as well. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She told me what Hari was like when he was growing up. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He had written about growing up in Florida. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Kids that grow up in this environment and don’t see other things and don’t know of light beyond this tunnel of darkness—they don’t grow and they get stuck in this type of mentality. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Siobhan’s father loved tennis, but he grew up idolizing a team in another sport. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I wonder if you will ever grow up, Laurie,” said Meg in a matronly tone. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The view over their town, the place they grew up, makes them sentimental, and they grind together over the gearshift. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I grew up eating garbage out of dumpsters on the wrong side of town,” said Dozer, sounding sad. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He and she were growing up, growing older and further apart in this alien land to which they had never chosen to come. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “You two grew up around me working root—laying tricks, mixing up potions and powders, picking out plants and such. But now you know there’s more to it.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She had a son, and when he grew up and married a girl Lizzie didn’t like she did not speak to him for many years. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She had a feeling that even when he grew up, it would be this way. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I am like a room where things once happened and now nothing does, except the pollen of the weeds that grow up outside the window, blowing in as dust across the floor. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Flom grew up in the Depression in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Maybe we’ve told you too much? Maybe we made you grow up too fast?” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z He grew up in one of the few white households in a poor black neighborhood of St. Louis, where his parents had moved to start a church, which failed to take off. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “I’m telling you,” Baba said, “I wasn’t like that at all, and neither were any of the kids I grew up with.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A painting of Grandmother hung over his bed, with a picture of the farm where he grew up beside it. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Amma grew up in an orphanage and said it was awful. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I realized just how similar were the challenges the young boys here and kids like the ones I grew up with faced. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He told me his story, a South African story that was all too familiar to me: The man grows up under apartheid, working on a farm, part of what’s essentially a slave labor force. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “You do realize this is the house I grew up in, right?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The type who grows up determined to show them all what he can do. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think it’s hard to grow up,” Rashida said, holding her rag doll close. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z “A boy who peeks into the cooking pot will beat his wife when he grows up.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z No one could have guessed she’d spend the rest of her life with Day—first as a cousin growing up in their grandfather’s home, then as his wife. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I remembered all the good times I’d had growing up in Birmingham—at home, in the community, and at church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Your personality will be shaped by the world you grow up in. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Even if he was, I knew that boy. Watched him grow up with you. He was more than any bad decision he made,” he says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “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 “So can the boy, now that he’s growing up. Your face looks like maybe you had enough white folks’ meanness for a while.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Without his father, that boy was growing up a handful. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now trees were growing up again, but there were tangled old limbs in piles and ancient stumps overgrown with lichens and moss and little green leaves and ferns. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The silver lining was that Adria and I grew up as close as two sisters could be. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The new musical style was already well under way by the time Mozart was a young composer, and he grew up in a Europe experiencing a sea change in cultural attitudes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I don’t know what it means to grow up with a black president, social networks, omnipresent media, and black women everywhere in their natural hair. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “It reminds me of the village where we grew up.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z We grew up together, which is the only reason we’re friends. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z And Deborah couldn’t stand the idea of her own children growing up motherless like she had. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I knew she wanted to be a super architect when she grew up—she loves math and historical buildings and all that—but I hardly understood a word she was saying. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z There was even a rack of well-worn picture books for those days when fifth-graders felt like looking back at the books they grew up on. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z No, I did not want to grow up and marry Sam Washburn. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “That’s what I grew up seeing. It’s just life here, for some lands of people.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, that was a good point, and it wouldn't surprise me if Noodles grew up and started stalking Tasha. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Then you can grow up bothered by “neither ghosts nor deities.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You never tell me stories from when you were growing up.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z SCORPIUS: That they’ll never get to see their son grow up? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z When I asked Lily about this, she explained that our mother grew up poor in North Carolina, one of nine kids. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “Dutchdeefuddy, I want to be just like you when I grow up.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z I knew that what he really meant was that Negroes grew up seeing it from infancy. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “What are you going to do when you grow up, d’you think?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It’s like he didn’t learn anything growing up. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z “I had no idea she’d grow up so well,” he answered. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Unclouded by passion or desire—that pair of dogs that sleep so soundly inside children, waiting for them to grow up. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s weird to think that my mom’s and Lucy’s rooms are the same rooms they grew up in their whole lives. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Emma and Charles’s first grandchild, Bernard, grew up to be a lawyer and a famous golf writer. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Not many young people can pinpoint the exact date, time, and place they grew up and became an adult. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The place had probably looked good once, but now unchecked ivy grew up its sides. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I learned that Jerome grew up in Aliceville, Alabama, where his mother taught school. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He lay on the brass bed and went back in time over his sullen and miserable childhood and his fretful and vicious growing up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was hard to imagine Uncle Mbaezi and her mother, growing up together, brother and sister. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There must be a whole grove of weirwoods growing up above us. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Their quiet dignity reminded me of my great-uncle Terry, who’d lived downstairs when I was growing up on Euclid Avenue, mowing our lawn dressed in wingtips and suspenders. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When he was in first grade, he had told his dad that he wanted to be an artist when he grew up. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Where I grew up, there was no such thing as an African doctor, and going to see a white doctor was unheard of. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The part of Birmingham, Alabama, I grew up in was so classconscious that a boyfriend broke up with me in ninth grade because my telephone exchange was not the socially obligatory 871 or 879. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z While growing up in Cardston and later on the similarly broad scapes of Babb, Montana, Woolf couldn’t remember a time when his view of the world wasn’t framed by a set of horse’s ears. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A long, high bamboo bridge spanned it, and dense, prickly foliage grew up the high, steep banks on either side. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Alex grew up with a mother who was a sometimes baffling combination of intensely organized and committed to lines of emotional communication, like an overly invested life coach. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I started for the phone, and Margaret said, “You know, Connor, kids who grow up in a university develop smart mouths before their brains can catch up.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was born in He grew up poor in the Bronx, near Yankee Stadium. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She said she could not let Alba grow up there, playing with other children in the street and on the steps, and attending public school. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The third daughter had shared a room with Sofía growing up. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z They would look up at him from their seats and see he was serious and then quietly make certain to themselves that this was still the country they grew up in. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl would grow up highly educated and extremely powerful. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Oh, you will. You’ll want to grow up like all the other girls. Anyway, there’s compensations for a settled form.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z About three or four such Hasidic sects populated the area in which Danny and I grew up, each with its own rabbi, its own little synagogue, its own customs, its own fierce loyalties. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I wanted to grow up to become just like Grandma India, because she was always so certain she could do a good job. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I’m going to be a doctor when I grow up,” announced Emilia. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z George did grow up to find work he loved, as Aunt Jessie had hoped. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Fact is, friends I grew up with done passed away. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, Mehrdad woke up one day and decided that he wanted his nieces and nephews to grow up as close to each other as he was with his cousins in Iran. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z But a distinct tradition of singing competitions grew up separately, and attracted participants from all over the Greek-dominated eastern Mediterranean. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “But he only raised four. Seemed like they all died before they grew up. They were all born with consumption, you know, inherited it from their mother who had it from a girl.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z After a time he said, “I remember that when I was a boy, I thought I was going to grow up and map the world.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “What a small world, right? I grew up in that building,” Mrs. Hidalgo said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “Maybe someday you’ll grow up to be a stewardess like me.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This is where I really begin to remember things— this home where I started to grow up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was growing up, my mom spent a lot of time trying to teach me about women. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Lloyd: Would you want your kids growing up in these public houses? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As time passed, I grew more mature and more aware of the sacrifice it had taken for my people to live and grow up in the South all those many years before me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Some of the meaner mice told him their mothers said Ralph was spoiled and selfish and would probably turn out to be no good when he grew up. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z I grew up in Florida, where it’s a miracle if it gets cold enough to need a hoodie, but Christmas just doesn’t feel right without snow and hot chocolate and a roaring fire. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Did they indicate what he was going to be when he grew up? Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “It’s a lot more complicated than that, Kambili. I had many questions, growing up. The priesthood came closest to answering them.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Stuart said something about having seen a lot of Yankee countryside lately, and it was getting kind of dull, and slowly the noise began to grow up around them again. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking at them side by side, I realized that we were growing up together, so far apart. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I always thought when you grew up, stuff like bikes and bubble gum just sort of disappeared from your life. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He grew up very suddenly and quit hanging around the back and front yards with kids. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “I am a Delta girl, homemade, born and bred. So I did not grow up with air conditioners and I can breathe without a room being cold.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The thing is, I spent very little time with my mother when I was growing up. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t remember what the front door of the house I grew up in looked like. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I always thought Angie would grow up to be something awesome, like a designer or an artist, but it turned out she was another Mexican daughter who didn’t want to leave home. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Parents of such students need jobs and good housing; the students themselves need to grow up with three meals a day, in safe neighborhoods. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I have to ask myself: Is this where I grew up? Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z When I was young, growing up, I always thought I was invincible. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Morrow’s games had transported me out of my grim surroundings as a lonely kid growing up in the stacks. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “I must not cry to you. You are try to grow up. It does not help if I cry.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Isn’t growing apart a part of growing up? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He starts this way and goes on to talk about his days in school as a mixed-race Latino and how hard it was for him growing up. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Scyld grew up to be strong and brave, the terror of his enemies. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “Brent is really helping me. He grew up in his dad’s bait shop in a little Texas town like this one. He knows what it’s like to struggle, just like us.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z My mother had exposed me to a different world than the one she grew up in. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “When you grow up, sometimes life gets complicated.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I’m not sure what the hair sprouting on my leg and me growing up have to do with each other, but I nod as if I know. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I grew up on a little farm in Kentucky. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s how they grew up, and it's what they know. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I always complained about eating Iranian food growing up, and now I’d do anything to eat it at every meal. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z That means I must be a miracle and I might grow up to be a saint with people celebrating the feast of St. Francis of Limerick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z And that’s how she went at life, when she grew up. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Will the baby grow up to be a giant like you and Xan?” he asked. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Not much, actually. Obviously she grew up here. But she didn't like to talk about growing up a lot, I think because she had a tough relationship with her parents—your great-grandparents.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z On the ranch the little Hamiltons began to grow up, and every year there was a new one. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And when you grow up poor, certain worries about money just stick with you. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Jane, after some hesitation, eventually decided that a white dickey would be just the thing for Mr. Banks, and she bought Robinson Crusoe for the Twins to read when they grew up. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z “He’s trying to discipline you. He wants you to grow up to be like him.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh yeah—since we were two. Our families rent a house together every summer for a month. We kind of grew up together.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z But all he could do, he thought, was wait and pray and try not to grow up too fast. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the kids I grew up with in the Bronx—including guys like Shea, who stayed outside the law—never believed that they’d have a shot. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Nathan wanted to look like Uncle Jet when he grew up, tall and muscled, instead of being short and chubby. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z All during his growing up, boys would brag to Ben about their fathers. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “We don’t have to look like everyone else, Tally, and act like everyone else. We’ve got a choice. We can grow up any way we want.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Not only did men leave and children grow up and die, but even the misery didn’t last. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I thought about how maybe one day I’d grow up to wear black shoes with small heels that clicked as I walked down a hall. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z But there was nothing built atop it, just the hole cut into the earth like a dead mouth agape, tangles of briars and waist-high grass growing up all around. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Ms. Saintima’s accent, with its hint of something special from when she grew up in Haiti, adds music to the poem. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z We grew up in a culture that demanded good behavior from everyone, and especially from the young. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Where I grew up, tragedy is all over the place. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “The Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn. It’s close to the neighborhood where my mom grew up.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I wanted to be Daddy Warbucks when I grew up and live in a fancy mansion. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Until they grow up? he thinks, and instead — more sensibly— walks around covering his ears with his hands. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z What happens if the baby grows up and wants to find the birth parents? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They grow up to be eighth graders who remind me of sumo wrestlers, but we know to keep out of their way. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The chill that went through me was the same coldness of that winter day in 1941 when Caroline and I had begun to grow up. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "Listen. Let's get one thing straight. I refuse to answer any typical Caulfield questions tonight. When in hell are you going to grow up?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The babies must grow up with no knowledge of a world outside, so that they feel no sorrow for what they have lost. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Speaking of which, have you shown your boss that article yet? The one about growing up in Romania?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “You’d be surprised how much you forget when you grow up. Stuff that used to be an adventure becomes scary. You worry about getting hurt and not being able to go to work.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Staying woulda been a statement of solidarity with these guys I grew up with—and who look like me. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “You remember my ma talkin’ about that old house in the woods that your granddaddy grew up in?” she began excitedly. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z City boys get immune as they grow up. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I love the Heights. Can’t imagine growing up anywhere else,” James starts. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z The master suite in the residence was bigger than the entirety of the upstairs apartment my family had shared when I was growing up on Euclid Avenue. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew up among the islands and inlets of the busy eastern Aegean Sea.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Imam Malik grew up in Florida and can easily switch between perfect Arabic and English. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I grew up in the big house on Rose Hill, and even I didn’t have manners as pretty as Katherine’s when I got to Miss Preston’s. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Just fine. Seems younger every day. The boys must be growing up.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Better watch out, B. You know Justyce grew up in the hood. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Sometimes I worry when we grow up we'll never talk to each other again, and it will be because we didn't practice enough as kids. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “You grew up in an orphanage just like me, but the nuns never told me anything about sugar tongs or stuff like that.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z My father was Piscataway; he grew up in Baltimore, on the Chesapeake Bay. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Because I’m going to be a detective when I grow up,” he’d say, “I need to know forensic science and TV detectives.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z You grew up knowing what to eat and how to cook it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Enrique was talkative, full of stories about growing up in East Oakland. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “It targets explicit memories, like your name, where you grew up, your first teacher’s name, and leaves implicit memories—like how to speak or tie your shoes or ride a bicycle—untouched.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z There was a foot of water in the ditch, and the tall grass grew up from its sides. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up toward the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t grow up the way you did,” he said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Will I grow up and spend my whole life here? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Anyway, I think I might grow up to become a professional matchmaker if acting doesn’t work out,” Tats says. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an ‘instinctive’ hatred of books and flowers. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Between the times of Aristarchus and Huygens, humans answered the question that had so excited me as a boy growing up in Brooklyn: What are the stars? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I was growing up, we didn’t come here, because the area was so overcrowded with shops that this part of the city was congested and hard to get through,” she adds. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z I feel like a shadow as I climb the spiral stairs, as I pass through all the rooms I grew up in. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was talking about Richmond, Virginia, where he grew up. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z If I leave, I won’t get to see Oak grow up. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The tail feathers can grow up to 3 feet long! The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “I can tell you’re really growing up since you listened to me and got a job.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I grew up hearing my father's friends talk about religious divisions in the town, but I thought there must be more that unifies us than divides us. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “You have to grow up, Merci,” Edna told me when I sat next to her in class one afternoon, still sweaty from the game. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “I already told you I don’t want to grow up,” Akira said. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Is the message to Americans, “Mama, don’t let your kids grow up to be accountants”? I asked. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Grass and tree roots would grow up around it as the months and years passed, until it would seem as if it had always been there. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe this is what happens when a person grows up. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z No matter how regularly Samira and I brought each other to tears, my mom swore we'd grow up to realize we couldn't live without one another. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z But when Willow packed her toothbrush and told Henry to grow up, Henry was the one who cried. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to see my brother grow up. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z But she growing up and I know, soon, them few words ain’t gone be enough. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “I know this view. That drainage ditch...This is my mom’s old neighborhood, where she grew up. Hobby Airport is over that way.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Yes, I grew up Catholic, though my family worked so much, we didn’t go to church often. But trust me, there were no songs like ‘Goin’ Up Yonder’ at Sunday mass! Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Everybody makes mistakes. She was only trying to help. She’s growing up, you know.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z But I also knew if I named you after this street, soon you would grow up, leave this place, and take a piece of me with you. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He paid little attention to the boy, and Shin grew up indifferent to his presence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “They grow up too fast. So are you and your mom attending services somewhere now?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “I knew my brother, Potter. He learned secrecy at our mother’s knee. Secrets and lies, that’s how we grew up, and Albus...he was a natural.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was an old hymn they used to sing all the time in the church where I grew up. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Johns Hopkins University was only five miles from where Mary grew up, but it might as well have been a world away. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z One general theory for the origin of aids goes at, during the late nineteen-sixties, a new and crative business grew up in Africa, the export of primates to industrialized countries for use in medical research. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What form this temptation will take, I don’t know, but she’s growing up, after all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And I would always know what he looked like even when I grow up. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Every time she ate the head off one soldier, another grew up in its place, with a green military coat and a yellow busby. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z She wasn’t growing up expecting things like basic human rights, a real home, or a future. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The curtain parts again in about 1500 B.C., when an archipelago of villages, the largest known as Poverty Point, grew up in the northeast corner of Louisiana. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And after all those years we spent growing up together. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Around the corner of a fancy brick building with ivy growing up the walls. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Yeah, don’t. Easy for you to say, you’re not a boy. You didn’t grow up all your life scared to be ten.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Here in Chennai we speak Tamil, but my parents grew up in a nearby state where they spoke Kannada. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z They grow up and they grow down and grab the earth between their hairy toes and bite the sky with violent teeth and never quit their anger. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you ever sit still? You are five years old. You are the most troublesome child. Why can’t you be like your sisters? How will you ever grow up to be a proper young lady?” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The bus station, normally bustling with the chaos of brightly colored buses and hundreds of travelers, was deserted, and weeds were growing up through cracks in the paving. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “She lived right next door to us while I was growing up, so I spent a lot of time with her. She was quite a lady.” Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When I thought I could grow up and fly. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Nguyen grew up watching French colonists abusing workers at plantations and mines, ripping out and exporting the country’s natural resources. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It’s the story of a thousand young women who grew up inspired by Marina Raskova and who were ready to follow her into the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Maybe growing up the way we have, bad things feel good to us. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A she-bear took charge of her, nursed her and kept her warm, and the baby grew up thus into an active, daring little girl. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z One Red Calf grew up and went away and another came in its place. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z She grew up in eastern Washington and knew that anywhere inland in early April would be cold. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z After I grew up, I heard the chant of Fa Mu Lan, the girl who took her father’s place in battle. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The film’s narrator reminded every boy—from Ellis Carter to the Jameses, the Anthonys, and every other pants wearer—that they too could grow up to be guardians of our community. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z So: • Paintbrush Falls, New York: not real, but based in part on the town of Webster, New York, where I grew up. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “You know what you did. You know how remarkable it was. There were nine hundred kids out there who just grew up a little bit. All I can say is thank you.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z But then, I grew up just down the road from it, and I know the story behind it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z She was always waiting for me to grow up. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I do my writing either at Dar es Salaam or in England, in the dear old Birches where I grew up. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “You kids grow up so fast these days.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z He tells Malachy and me that when you grow up you have to wear a collar and tie and never let people see you carry things. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z If you grow up in the lanes of Limerick you’re bound to rob the odd orchard sooner or later. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Was born in Germany but grew up in America and is an American citizen. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z There are things I really ought to have said about growing up in Faerie. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It is okay to be a boy slob because moms think they still have time to cure you of your bad habits before you grow up and become an annoying adult slob for someone else. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z My parents didn’t grow up here or anything. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up, and who better to learn from than the best teacher I ever had? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “Did you know when you were a girl, growing up, that one day you’d be a maid?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z My parents grew up amid these conflicts, and were sometimes forced from their homes and villages. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Except: He did not have the quiet demeanor of someone who grew up in Abnegation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z It is galling indeed to have stood so long, hat in hand, waiting for Americans to grow up enough to realize that you do not threaten them. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The girls grew up knowing nothing of girdles, and the boys announced their manhood by turning the bills of their caps backward. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Because there’s no way a kid can grow up in an environment where ninety-three percent of the families are on some form of government assistance. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "I have one bottle left of a color that’ll be just perfect for you. It’s a little more red than what you were asking for, but it’s just right for a young lady growing up." The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I have told much about you to Farzana jan and Sohrab, about us growing up together and playing games and running in the streets. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z My whole family grew up at the far north of town, which is kind of like everyone’s dirty secret. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z It’s pretty disturbing to see war machines traverse the neighborhood you grew up in—and if that’s not troubling enough, the truck turns left, directly into the high school parking lot. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z "Ah, I do, I do! I am the librarian at the monastery where the boy called William grew up. I know him rather well." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z But Grandma was right there, keeping me from growing up. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think the place where you grow up is always really boring,” she replies. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “I’m not running around after him trying to make him grow up!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z You couldn’t grow up in my hood without learning how to defend yourself. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “You’ve been a mother’s boy since I got you. Now, go join your brother and grow up.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I knew I had to grow up and be a man, but oh it was so very hard. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His whole world growing up in the south was a ripple of this first arrival. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z LeAlan: Do you want that boy to grow up just like you? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There are seven trailers in all, different makes and models and years, and they sit in a line with the corn growing up around them. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z If she was ordained today, the home where she grew up would never be home again. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z But it suited David, somehow, as if growing up here in the wild allowed him to fuse with the animals that had donated their skins to his clothes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “My dad, growing up in the sixties, he thinks he’s a rock star, or he wanted to be,” Tyler says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z My parents wanted us to grow up speaking fluent French. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Stetson Kennedy grew up in a fourteen-room house in Jacksonville, Florida, the youngest of five children. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The pavement is smooth and pale, nothing like the patch-riddled street I grew up on. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A couple of the windows are boarded up, and weeds and vines grow up the walls. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z We found him in a place with a sagging roof and the customary ivy growing up the front wall. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “You know, I always wanted to be a teacher when I was growing up in Minnesota.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Finn stopped feeling like he’d reached a new stage of growing up. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z In the chaos of the world I grew up in, those were as appealing to me as Malcolm’s cry for revolution was to his generation. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He grew up in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers union housing across from Van Cortlandt Park, in the Bronx. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Because if growing up meant getting better at hiding your feelings so you don’t get in trouble, then he was all for it. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z I want to tell her to grow up and act like an adult and get a job and stop making my life so hard. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Like when I grow up, is it always going to be like this?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z I was growing up and he was probably already worrying about the road being a poor place for raising a young lady. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He’s such a happy baby, and the way he is now, he will grow up to be “cleverer than I am.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Throughout childhood my younger sister said, “When I grow up, I want to be a slave,” and my parents laughed, encouraging her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You grew up in a university, too, remember.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he patted all the little roaches once more, told them to grow up into brave little fish, and swam off with an air of importance into the gloom. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk- story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When he lived with us, Papi sometimes helped me with homework, and when he saw how good I was with maps, he said I would grow up to be a cartographer. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He asks farmers if they need any help, that he grew up on a farm and can do anything. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Well, in the tribes sons grow up to be like their fathers.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The rock musician known as Kenna grew up in Virginia Beach, the child of Ethiopian immigrants. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Scout has the kind of hair that grows up instead of down. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t want them to grow up with hate, their eyes fixed on the past. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And when the picture was finished, you didn’t see the dirt or the meanness; you saw the glory of innocence and the poignancy of a baby growing up too soon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When Dutchy lived on the streets, he never felt as alone, he tells me, as he did growing up in Minnesota. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z But the greater truth is that I was most like Joe when I was growing up, although I lacked his self-confidence and wasn’t as “out there” as he is. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Irina Rakobolskaya, who grew up in the “generation not from this universe,” was twenty years old and in her third year as a physics student at Moscow University when the Great Patriotic War broke out. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “I hate being on the road, but I don’t want to grow up here. I still want to be a pharmacist. You still want to be an engineer. We’ll never reach our dreams here.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z As I’ve said before, I grew up knowing little about the military. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Children now grow up spending much of their leisure time hearing music rather than performing or making it. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “I guess so. But I want to grow up fast.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z “Your life was taken from you. You were going to grow up to be a beautiful woman. You...” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Just the same, she is bound to go dry within a year, and then we will have a milkless, creamless, butterless period for a while, until the bull calf grows up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Teachers scolded it out of us, or maybe we just grew up. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z It was a product of the world in which they grew up. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z And while I imagined that Zimbabwe was radically different from suburban Pennsylvania, where I grew up, I had no idea how much. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Maybe Gus didn’t grow up in Greece,” he said, “but I’m sure you remember that I did. You are talking about my native land, Milton. And your parents’ own true home.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They were both Native, but they grew up indifferent coastal communities, on opposite sides of the continent. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Forget about becoming a pastry chef when I grew up. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “I didn’t grow up with a cell phone, and I survived.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “I grew up witnessing one just like it.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d been one of just two Asians in his class—the other had been Susie Chang; kids had teased that they would grow up and marry each other. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “When we grow up, I want to be a teacher,” I told you. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “She went without even grumbling. It’s almost like she’s growing up.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z As FOR his deliverer — we turn now to her story, which curls from this sad truth: that as much as Ralph, growing up, should have been her, she should have been him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “How do we know? Maybe it has a bad effect on a child to grow up with... someone like him in the house.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It only made her sad that he never, as he had promised, came to take her away, and that while she was growing up she saw him so seldom. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z What had it been like to grow up in the shadow of the king who had ordered so much destruction? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Despite the void left by the death of her parents, my grandmother grew up to be an ambitious young woman. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I grew up victim to a disabling confusion. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m tight with all of them. Being the baby and the only boy means I grew up with multiple mamas.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z This Jake was a baby she found, and he and Sing grew up together, and I guess rather than be packed off to some Quaker school, she ran away with him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “What did you want when you were a kid? Back when you were happy? What did you want to be when you grew up?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Some said it was tragic that he grew up so fast, but Wallace adjusted well. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He grew up in Newark, New Jersey, the son of a pediatrician, and entered the University of Chicago at fifteen. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Crazy as it sounds, growing up I always thought the teachers lived in school. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Of hideous creatures growing up from pale foam. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Not because I want to be a prima ballerina when I grow up, but because I intend on becoming a Broadway star someday. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Mom was thrilled and said it reminded her of the meals she’d had growing up. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z With twenty years of good eating, my shackles might grow up to be half the size of the sheriff’s. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z As a baboon who grew up wild in the jungle, I realized that Wiki had special nutritional needs. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Poppy says when he was growing up, it hummed with activity. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother first heard about Riverdale Country School when she was a girl growing up in the Bronx. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Then he grew up into a man with shoulders so broad, and a brain so fast, that he could only ever be a king. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Neither one of us had a proper home of our own growing up—you orphaned and me leaving home after sixth grade. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Although I had no regrets, I told myself sadly that growing up was not the painless process one would have thought it to be. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The sooner the better or he’ll look like an idiot when he grows up with that gob wide as a boot. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I grew up exuberant in body but with a nervy, craving mind. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Little girl, you’ll be a story writer when you grow up.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, Germans grow up appropriately aware and apologetic. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z They wanted me to grow up and fall in love and maybe get married and have children, like my friends would. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Osborne grew up in a wealthy household in Auburn, and, after attending prep school and Harvard, became mayor of Auburn, a newspaper publisher, and a manufacturer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Just like Darius the First probably did when he was growing up. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Daisy grew up in a house with a stream in back, and behind it were some woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “When I grow up, Mama,” I said stoutly, as I took my books to go do homework with a friend who lived in the neighbourhood, “I’ll fight for my rights.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Because she grew up in a house full of dead people she wasn’t afraid of anything. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z You could say I grew up in a school. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They will happily mate and their puppies will grow up to pair off with other dogs and produce more puppies. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There was happiness in his father’s heart because of his son who was intelligent and thirsty for knowledge; he saw him growing up to be a great learned man, a priest, a prince among Brahmins. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “When my children were growing up, they knew only that I came from Europe and had lost my family. They knew no details for thirty years because I did not want to burden them. “ Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Thomas wanted to say something, tell him to grow up, tell him to think, tell him to explain everything he knew. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “Yes, but what about later? When you grow up and have a family of your own? How will you feed them?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z My hope was that they’d grow up to be bright and energetic, optimistic like their father and hard-driving like their mom. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I knew that my life was revolving about a world that I had to encounter and fight when I grew up. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “You had a dog when you were growing up.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z “I thought you and me was gonna grow up and be old playas like the Ray brothers, but you closing your eyes every time you kiss a girl!” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Would it grow up Elsewhere, not knowing, ever, that in this community lived a being who looked exactly the same? The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Once upon a time there was a dragon who never grew up. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Well,” he said slowly, “it must be a miracle, then, that such useless creatures grow up into something as great and reasonable as you, don't you think?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Dorothy, who grew up without grandparents, basked in the stability and warmth of the extended Vaughan family, but loving in-laws could provide only so much salve for a missing husband’s companionship. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z ‘But supposing we eliminate all the others and—’ ‘Oh, grow up, Ted.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like, growing up normal.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z When I grew up I became an ethologist—a long word that simply means a scientist who studies animal behavior. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z But growing up he liked to spend much of his time alone. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z I knew that he would never grow up and say stupid things like, “a girl is like a tree.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z I pause for a moment, thinking about my hood and how even though families grew up and changed, things essentially stayed the same, until now. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I have since bought that set of books and have it at home for my children to read as they grow up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s because you grew up in the Midwest,” Charles said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In the village where she grew up, the women ate together after the men and the children were done. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z After doing time for assault in Alabama, where he grew up, and a second sentence for weapons possession, he had been in New York, dating a woman who was also dating a CO. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I grew up in Plano, a small silicon village in the north. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The best part about Winona was that she lived in San Francisco and grew up in the Bay Area just like me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “You don’t want—little man, when you grow up, you’re going to find out there’s a lot of things you’re going to have to do whether you like it or not.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s just about this boy who refuses to grow up, and when Wendy grows up, he feels very betrayed. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Amir jan, I know how hard your father was on you when you were growing up. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He was talking about Richmond, Virginia, where he grew up. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I practically grew up in this house,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It’s as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Besides, I had enough real worries just keeping her clean and helping her grow up all over again. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you can’t stay here all your life. Can you? One day you’ll grow up and then you will have to go and live in the world outside.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z He thought of his two sisters, grown women now who could deal, and the litany of their growing up. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “So,” he pushed his glasses up, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Maybe not, but you are afraid of growing up!” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “You get to your new school with all new people and suddenly you don’t want to be stuck with the same people you’ve known since the third grade. It’s like not growing up.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z To Lidell, it just seemed like the outside world didn’t grasp how easy it was for kids who grew up in poor neighborhoods to take that wrong turn. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Man is born, grows up and dies according to certain laws that have never been studied,” Quetelet wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We talked about sports and exercise, we talked about books, we talked about his family, we talked about music, we talked about all the things he wanted to do when he grew up. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Mostly what he will write about is his own life, including what it was like growing up gay in the little town of Paintbrush Falls, New York. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Seamus stops mopping again and tells us we shouldn’t be fighting over poetry because we’ll have enough to fight about when we grow up and get married. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Although he anguished over the future and worried about this country that seemed so impossibly hard to grow up in now, he tried to block it out of his mind. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Not forever, obviously, but long enough so I could grow up. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to do the assignment because I grew up not knowing anything about my family’s past. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “They’ll call you a colored man when you grow up,” she said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, I started thinking about how in all of my brawls growing up, I had never really got into it with a girl. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Even as a boy growing up in the village of My Khe, he had often worried about this. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When I grow up I want to be a pioneer girl and help Ma make Christmas pies. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z She wouldn’t be happy if we grew up with English accents but better an English accent than an empty belly. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z This was to show how brave they were, and what excellent admirals they would make, when they grew up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s a character, all right. He was just like that in college, too. He just never grew up. Some people don’t have to. They’re lucky.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Don’t you ever worry that kids might not grow up to be farmers anymore, or that even if they do, they won’t buy your special chickens because you won’t even write back? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “You know, growing up, I never felt like I was enough of anything either, or too much of what I wasn’t supposed to be. Not Mexican enough, too nerdy.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “I guess I grew up suspicious of both. Power and knowledge,” I say. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z People didn’t get the news of the party—the knowledge of it just slowly grew up in them. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She brought him the round table with five chairs from the house where they grew up. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Who here wants to be an astronaut when they grow up?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z So when I was growing up, me and Darryl would work on puzzles of my mother every single day. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They nodded, and another one said, “See there where it grows up out of the trunk? Sap running all over.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever pride his lord father might have felt at Samwell's birth vanished as the boy grew up plump, soft, and awkward. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Children in Levittown did not benefit from these things when I was growing up. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you grow up by yourself?” she asked him, and wondered how many people—how many women—had already asked him that. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Every day we walked home from school together, chatting about what we were going to be when we grew up, and whose father could saw the most wood in the least amount of time. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Don’t you dare grow up to be like that.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I had heard all these sounds growing up. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I was pretty much my mom’s sous chef growing up, which is just a fancy way of saying I was her kitchen assistant. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z So I grew up drinking from the same bottle as that little cow. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Did she grow up in Los Angeles, or was she born somewhere else? I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I wondered what King Jerrold planned to do with him when he grew up. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z From the time I was old enough to read, adults had asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z But how would he get this gold, if he grew up ignorant, fit only to be a porter? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It was hard to believe that anyone, man or woman, could grow up to adulthood without ever having used a gun. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z But then year after year went by, there was the war, Catherine grew up, and one day I realized I loved my husband. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Back in the Dominican Republic growing up, Yoyo had been a terrible student. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Our university grew up partly out of necessity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Seriously, I want to be as confident as Teacher there when I grow up,” she said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “You know, this is so hard. It’s one of the really hard things about growing up. Sometimes your friends change.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Only English colonies are allowed to taste the forbidden fruit of liberty—we who grew up under England. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know it’s silly, but that was my everything growing up.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “Experts agree children need to be close to their grandparents. It makes them feel secure, and when they grow up feeling loved they make better parents themselves.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Wasn’t no one growing up an only like me. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z “Well, that’s because I grew up and realized you probably weren’t talking to Obama every night.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I grew up in a poor, rural, racially segregated settlement on the eastern shore of the Delmarva Peninsula, in Delaware, where the racial history of this country casts a long shadow. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The boy grows up in a town house in London. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It’s a pocket of culture—some of it my culture—surrounded by the world I grew up in. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Do you think I want to grow up and weave the bottoms of chairs for people to sit in?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Jessie loved hearing about George; she could tell he was brilliant and told Emma that if he could find work he loved when he grew up, he would find happiness. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been Mom’s growing up, and it was one of the few presents she’d ever given me that I hadn’t asked for but had actually liked. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Then he said, “Junior, what do you remember about growing up in this family? What do you remember about your father?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ella says she likes to eat food that reminds her of growing up. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z No lakes where I grew up neither, just the river and the swamp. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z What do you think I’m gonna be when I grow up? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He believed discipline and rules were a must for children, especially young boys—and especially those growing up in Birmingham, Alabama. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z All in all, Narewka in the 1930s was a pretty idyllic place to grow up. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z So all the time I was growing up, right on into high school, I had this ambition to go to the United States and finish my schooling there. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Roza grew up in Poland in a town so small it had no name. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She grew up on her mother’s fried pork chops, spare ribs, and meatballs—all cooked with lard—and had become a pizza, hamburger, and french fry enthusiast in the United States. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It comes from growing up on the road, I think. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Roy would be like them when he grew up, if the Lord did not change his heart. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He started telling everyone he was going to be an astronaut when he grew up. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Especially since he always said I was different from how he was, growing up. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “It’s not like we’re going to run out. Those pines grow up like weeds, don’t you worry. Hey,” he touched her arm lightly, “you can smell the oil.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The house that stood in the middle of the compound was small, compact like dice, and it was hard to imagine Papa and Aunty Ifeoma growing up here. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Every so often a hermaphrodite was born, a seeming girl who, in growing up, proved otherwise. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “And I’d never see you grow up,” she said to me, sobbing. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Ralph was not religious in general, but in times of hardship, gods grew up, some to test and prod, others to look in on him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z No wonder she’d been so scared for me as I was growing up. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z He knew perhaps more than any white man about the Kikuyu, too, since his missionary father had allowed him to grow up almost as part of the tribe. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Siobhan's father loved tennis, but he grew up idolizing a team in another sport. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The imaginary conversations were back, but much worse than they had been after Peris had left A thousand times she’d fought with Shay in her head—long, rambling discussions about beauty, biology, growing up. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I felt sad that I was growing up in South Africa, where I would probably never get the chance to realise my fullest potential in the game. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead, I would be doing a one-on-one interview with talk show host Charlie Rose about my experience growing up in a conflict zone. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I like all kinds of music, but my favorite has to be R&B. It reminds me of when I was growing up. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “You are growing up so fast. It feels like yesterday when I was at your name-giving ceremony.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He was not at all like the descriptions I grew up hearing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. He ran after me in the street. He told me that when he grows up, I can live with him.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When the children grew up, they in turn invented words which they couldn’t tell their children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked reasonably well-cared for, but there was no denying that this was a grim place in which to grow up. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Moms pretty much thinks milk is what could make me and Diego grow up to be big and strong like our old man. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “It’s an idea of mine. The worse it tastes, the faster you grow up.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “When you’re my age”—Leslie gave a little sigh—“you just don’t play with paper dolls anymore. My grandmother sent me these. You know how it is, grandmothers just forget you’re growing up.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z A vine that hadn’t been pruned for years grew up one of the houses beside the parking area. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z A hundred blossoms grew up from the roots, and the fragrance was very sweet. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z We went to the river many times as I was growing up. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Whether at the Job Corps or behind bars, he had missed many of the milestones in her growing up. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And as she wondered the whisper of pain grew up from her side. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z For someone who grew up knowing only one person, suddenly knowing hundreds of them was a little intimidating. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z It didn’t make a bit of difference that I intended to write stories, not timetables, when I grew up. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Hubble was born in 1889, ten years after Einstein, in a small Missouri town on the edge of the Ozarks and grew up there and in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This is my son and he will not grow up weak. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Rahim Khan sahib and I have taught him to read and write so he does not grow up stupid like his father. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Like Flom, he grew up poor, the child of struggling Jewish immigrants. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z My cousins and I were thick as thieves, and we would stay that way even when we grew up and started our own families. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “You kids are growing up so fast,” she sighed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The boy would be lucky to stay out of prison when he grew up—if he grew up. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z What did I want to be when I grew up? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Seen this way, the making of a youthful artist is a process as fragile as growing up itself, and one that can be stunted at any step by the vicissitudes of life. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She told me I was her favorite grandchild and that I was going to grow up to be something special. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z If you ever decide to grow up, then maybe we'll talk about it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But Rashid wasn’t in the world that his father grew up in. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Ama grew up steady and honest and kind, like her mother, and had babies of her own, and then grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Compared to what I grew up in, it’s pretty nice. They have gas stoves, air-conditioning, electricity, TV.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Well, we grew up on the same cul-de-sac. We were like a nerd gang.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I was growing up fast, physically more so than mentally. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “A bit. Perhaps she grew up in the Fen.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And all the rest of the time she was growing up, she’d get these strong feelings whether or not to do something, feelings that told her which way to go. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z But really, my parents abandoned everything they knew and loved because they didn't want their daughters to grow up with a strict religious code. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Do you be sayin’ your prayers to the Little Flower each night askin’ that you grow up half as pretty as your mother. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing as he was growing up at home, nothing at Devon, nothing even about the war had broken his harmonious and natural unity. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Marshall was where I grew up, but since I left, there hasn’t been much reason for me to visit. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah?” he asks, picking up pieces of smaller glass caught in the grass that grows up through the cracks in the cement. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z And in Salinas, California, where I grew up, although we had some frost the climate was cool and foggy. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the contestants was from San Gilberto, which is really close to where I grew up, only five or six miles away. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z A typical Southern mill village, like the one in which C.P. grew up. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I knew my kids were growing up with more advantages and more abundance than most families could ever begin to imagine having. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Don’t you want a nice nose when you grow up?” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It’s familiar, the language they grew up with and met each other in. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z El Patron swam with his brothers, but, alas, they died of various things before they had a chance to grow up. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When I grow up, I want to be an artist. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I grew up with them. 8TH JUROR: Have you seen them used in fights? 5TH JUROR: Too many of them. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It can tell you the incredible story of Georges Melies, his wife, their goddaughter, and a beloved clock maker whose son grew up to be a magician. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z She looked a little older than me; the front of her striped dress already showed signs of her growing up. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z A block from where Lourdes grew up, children gather on a large pile of sawdust left by a lumber mill. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I grew up with them. My mom and dad—they were flat-out racists. I spent a lot of time hiding behind the sofa and bein’ scared.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z All we had to do was wait for Andrew to grow up, and it was going to be over, and now it was like she’d re-upped on the contract. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “You say”—Albert adds and then pauses to think—“that you’ll grow up to be nobody. But logically...if nobody’s perfect...well then, you must be perfect.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Later, when I was still growing up in Michigan, I would go to visit her every so often. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Had he really thought he'd grow up to work for the Governor himself? A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I grew up with an ambition and determination without which I would have been a good deal happier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Most boys reacted to the twins because they’re so pretty, but watching Pita interact with him with such self-assurance made me realize she was growing up before my very eyes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He is not the first that I have seen thus; but we grew up together and that always makes it a bit different. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I grow up, I’m going to find a way to know for certain who did a statue.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z One little boy won’t grow up and go to school or ever have a job or a family of his own. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z He’d been wondering how it would feel for him to grow up without relatives. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z It was okay when you were a little girl, but as you grew up, you were supposed to wear dresses and make yourself into marriage material. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The horses nibbled at the weeds that grew up between the broken stones while the clouds swallowed die last of the stars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I grew up with my teeth clamped on a faith in the big white man in power—God, the President, I don’t care who he is, he’d serve justice! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When Clara was alive and Alba was still a child, the big house on the comer was a cloistered world in which she grew up protected even from her own nightmares. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of everybody we knew growing up in the projects, Steve had survived it. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I guess I was starting to grow up, because for the first time I understood at least a little about the loneliness and frustration that often seemed to fill our house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z "When I grow up," Lakshman says in a grand voice, "I am going to become a lawyer who helps people who don't have money. You think I can do that?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up.’” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The volcano grew up seven to ten million years ago, producing fierce eruptions and explosions of ash, which repeatedly wiped out the forests that grew on its slopes, until it attained a tremendous height. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was time for the epileptic boy to grow up. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I used to tell people that when I grew up, I was going to be a pediatrician. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Papa turned to us and said, “This was the home your mother grew up in.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Tally remembered growing up surrounded by Sol’s woodwork, abstract shapes fashioned from fallen branches she would collect from parks as a littlie. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z These children have everything they need to grow up, but they are missing something inside. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She had her own struggles growing up, and they felt comfortable in each other’s presence, knowing they had imperfections. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “He said she was always impulsive like that, and she always loved movies. She grew up watching everything in black and white, because their mother refused to splurge on a color TV.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As Paul was growing up, a half generation before Reggie came of age, there was a coming together of these two fundamental computing principles, Moore’s law and Metcalfe’s law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z There had always been something inward and painfully shy about Mike, but the death of his father forced him to grow up even faster than he already had. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma called her peas “babies,” and Grandpop called his birds “babies,” and all Genie could think about was whether this was what happened to parents when their kids grew up. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z They had their traditions and values, and I was growing up in a different world, a different culture. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z They would grow up looking like that; standing the same way in other hangouts. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe I should be an actor when I grow up, Finn thought as he buckled his seat belt in Ms. Morales’s SUV. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I hoped to grow up to be at least half as rad as her. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z He grew up surrounded by people who convinced him he deserves everything he wants and that no one should refuse him anything. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It was a baby pike, absolutely rigid and probably asleep, and it looked like a pipe stem or a sea-horse stretched out flat It would be a brigand when it grew up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It made her suddenly not care at all about growing up or not. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z There also grew up a whole class of speechwriters, or logographoi. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “I grew up in the Old South in Richmond, Virginia,” said Brother Randall Robinson. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought about the walls of the house I grew up in. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She appears, overall—I don’t know how to say—like maybe a fawn who grew up with humans. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Because he was so dedicated to the Captain and the company, I saw little of my father while I was growing up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Now you and Bushra are making all the decisions. It’s nothing to do with her. I’m supposed to be making my own choices. I’m supposed to be growing up.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He had been there when he grew up in Carlsbad, New Mexico, where it was called New San Jose. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother had known him since she was a little girl growing up in the same house I'm growing up in now. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z After a while the other boys will grow up, she says, he should ignore them. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I get a lot of letters from kids—any age from about five years old and up—telling me they want to work with animals when they grow up. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z When I was growing up, my father took me to the barbershop around the corner one Saturday morning, but my regular barber—also the school board president—was not behind his chair. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z She grew up in Montgomery and went to Alabama State College, but she had a master’s degree in education from Columbia University in New York City. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The smell went along with her fatherlessness, and with growing up poor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The snow that lay over the glacier looked strange to him, as if it were a white grass growing up out of the ice. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z You know, sometimes I get so angry when I’m talking, because I look at all these kids and I wonder, “How many are going to grow up into men and women?” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who did not die grew up by the river, watching their mothers leave at sundown. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I was the one who had been born and raised at Garland; Rain grew up in San Francisco. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The windows were broken and sagging and weeds were growing up between the floorboards, and even one old rusted cookstove had fireweed springing from the firebox. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “It all been a mighty long time ago; that boy is growing up already.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I was pretty sure I knew everything about Constantine—she had one sister and grew up on a share- cropping farm in Corinth, Mississippi. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Girls and boys growing up in the Soviet Union of the 1920s and 1930s, like Marina Raskova, felt that preparing for war was their duty, just like going to school. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I remember his asking if I had had any heroes growing up, figures actual or imagined that I cherished, admired. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t mind being the one who showed them how to grow up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z My parents grew up in these towering mountains, the Hauts Plateaux, in a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo called South Kivu. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Do you think it’s easy, growing up without a father? Do you think it’s easy having a father who loves his guitars and the road more than he loves you?” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z When I grow up I think I'll be a dancer, but it is an awful lot of work. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Jaime and Nicolas were growing up apart from the feminine dyad, adhering to the then common belief that “we have to become men.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When Belky was growing up, night after night, year after year, she had the same prayer. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z With poignancy, Sissy realized that he was growing up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z For him, as for a handful of others who had the same skin color, the Crane he grew up in might as well have been on another planet. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m gonna be Percy Jackson when I grow up,” she told Hazel solemnly. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She used to tell Ellis and me stories about growing up where there were cornfields and hills to roll down. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z The idea of their children growing up and no longer relating to them was a terrifying prospect. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I say, thinking for a second of all those men who disappeared outta Prentisstown, all the ones who vanished while I was growing up. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z But she knew her mother had visions of the boy growing up. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Maybe you can grow up, study science, and explain it to me.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z But if Joey was right, growing up didn’t just happen to you—you had to work at it. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Gradually it became red and soft with rust and gradually the mallow weeds grew up around it and the flaking rust fed the weeds. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z "Grandma Knife," I say, "when I grow up, I'm going to become a lawyer and help you get out too, okay?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “You've got to be joking. I grew up in the country, but I never chased any kind of wild animal into the woods to take home and eat.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Their claims of growing up poor were without merit in my mind. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Like his father before, he grew up wild, in trouble with the English, or the Irish, or both. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z His mom and dad were always telling him he needed to grow up. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Of course, growing up in the community, she had always been adequately fed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Some of the difference lies in the way we have been growing up. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I grew up a little, and I gradually began to figure out that pretty much everyone had been lying to me about pretty much everything since the moment I emerged from my mother’s womb. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z For someone who grew up listening to Western music, Non-Western music will have a recognizably exotic sound. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z And she said, “Do you have air-conditioning? Thank goodness we have it here cause I grew up without it and I know what it’s like being hot.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I grew up in a house drawn between love and fear. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Before I was born, when there were lots of young children growing up in the community, all those diapers used to be fastened by squares of duct tape. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z It was obvious that Darling was going to grow up a good and charming dog. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want them to stop bothering us now. I want them to treat us like they treat their people. I don’t ever want to be treated like that when I grow up.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z For all she knew, it took more toughness than a woman could manage to help a boy grow up. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z For this reason, Alba grew up thinking that normality was a gift from heaven. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m proud of you, but don’t grow up too quick,” she says. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z She imagined Akira growing up, flying a plane and dropping a bomb. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z My own mother abandoned me in a park, and I also grew up in an orphanage.’ Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z So the kids in Chokecherry all grew up together—like from the cradle. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z She turned and added, "When you two grow up, I really hope you become more than horse and jockey, because people lose a lot of money betting on horse races." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z I figured since Cecile didn’t have a mink coat or ruby earrings to give me when I grew up, she had dreamed up a name that I would grow into. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Worse, he grew up in the South, and racism was all he saw. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Japanese Americans like me were locked up. Our family field was taken, the field I grew up in. The field of my heart.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z We’re here to decide whether he’s guilty or innocent of murder, not to go into reasons why he grew up this way. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sure, Marshall had its own paper. When I was growing up, it came out once a week.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They feared that Iran was never going to be the same again, and didn't want their children growing up without the freedoms they'd been afforded. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z While she was growing up, Petey’s mother, frank as she was, would talk to Petey about falling in love and falling in lust and everything in between, because surely someone would one day notice Petey. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Nothing, beta. You’re growing up. Hina was right. You are a wonderful young woman. May God grant you a long life and every happiness.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He said I’d grow up powerful if I had nothing else but two eggs in a pint of porter every day. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z All I can see is Lenny, who grew up with Frank for a dad and just spent four years carrying around bags of smelly old-people diapers for a living. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I knew how hard it was to grow up without a father. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Did you guys feast like this growing up?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z They reproduced and grew up so fast that there was barely time to sell the tickets for the raffle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z My grandma remembers growing up with lots of cousins around, and they’re as close as siblings to this day. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He grew up the way many youngest children grow up, pampered, adored, and inwardly tortured. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She mentioned her experience as a four- teen-year-old growing up in war-torn Bosnia. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z And then, “I wasn’t sure that you were going to grow up to be pretty.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z When he grew up, he might look a little like Charles Lindbergh, I decided, especially if he wore goggles. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The University of Chicago was an elite school, and to most everyone I knew growing up, elite meant not for us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I’d like to be a Jesuit some day but there’s no hope of that when you grow up in a lane. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He grew up soft in the head with a left leg that went one way, his body the other. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She grew up with him, found out how her eye could quickly level on a scene, instantly figure the possibilities, aggressively fight and broker the way they’d want to shoot him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want you to grow up too fast, baby,” Jay says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I think if s because she grew up poor in South Korea. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z We were growing up together, ten thousand miles apart, as she once wrote in a letter. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z And I also remember what it was like growing up with my father. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The girls might grow up without a father. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I grew up poor, but there’s poor and then there’s “Wait, I’m eating worms.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He couldn't grow up to be a lawyer if Simeon was getting ready to set something on fire. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Any one of them was a good prospect to grow up, put on weight and trim Dempsey. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Yet for some reason everything feels different, as if it’s not the same house that I practically grew up playing in....And then I notice why. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The child of a barely known glove maker from the Midlands—“born of parents not distinguished from their neighbors”—could grow up to be the most prominent writer of the English language. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “I grew up very poor and so did my husband,” said Wanda Brown, the fifty-eight-year-old wife of a retired planner for the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard who lives in Puyallup, Washington, near Tacoma. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “That depends”—Danny never hurries his mouthfuls—“on your mode of accountancy. I grew up in an orphanage.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “I was just being stupid. But when you said I was afraid of growing up, you really made me think.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z BD, Momma was smiling at me and acting like I was growing up. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z They grew up privileged, not deprived, because they had mothers, fathers, grandparents, neighbors, church, family, a system that protected, sheltered, and raised them. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A generation of children grew up who knew no more of violence than picking flowers and tumbling on the sands. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t know what Aunt Goldie contends with all by herself, and it’s none of your business to judge. Peach will grow up and he will grow out of this phase...” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The boy was literally growing up as I watched—growing up because I watched and because I helped to keep him safe. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “The mortal world is where we grew up,” Vivi insists, climbing onto a bench and walking the length of it, acting as though it were a stage. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Another way girls get married in the villages is if a father promises a bride to another father—then their kids grow up and get married. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Children born dark grew up to have their faces treated regularly with a mixture of egg white and lemon juice concentrate. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z You don’t want her to grow up to be like your big sister. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z As she grew up, a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects; and when she left school, I found in her a pleasing and obliging companion: docile, good-tempered, and well-principled. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “Have you ever seen a girl driving a rickshaw? I thought you were growing up, Naima, but you’re as careless as ever!” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z "But once you grow up, you can make sure not to do any bad things that might get you sent back here." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Marc’s grandfather grew up in this town, and has been a member of this congregation for his whole life. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “What? You think I don’t know soul music? I grew up on this stuff, honey!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I went to church there, and grew up in the richness of Harlem’s colors and smells and the seductive rhythms of its energy. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “We all grew up before we were grown up. Did he—?” Jutta says, “He died.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The assignments, quite honestly, made me feel guilty for growing up in a time with a life-changing advancement, sort of like how we have medicine to cure common diseases that killed others in the past. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z When you grow up you will get bigger anyway, but We are pleased to grant you another gift as well. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to tell him to grow up, but I couldn’t front. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “I asked the talking board what I would be when I grew up, and it said a lawyer.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was about a long-ago white basketball star named Rabbit who grows up and lives a miserable life. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When she picked up the jar again, I said, “Did you grow up in this house?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Compared to how it was growing up, when jobs were like unicorns, now it seems like opportunity’s always knocking. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s had to grow up fast,” Mother said. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if I would grow up too fast, I yearned for knowledge and understanding and yet I wondered if it would make me lose my dreams. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z How can a bar mitzvah be the right path for this kid who grew up going to church, hunting Easter eggs, and writing letters to Santa? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Though Scottish by birth, he grew up in the far south of England, in the New Forest of Hampshire, because his mother was convinced that Scots were feckless drunks. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z "If I was not corrupted long since, growing up in Alsatia among thieves and beggars, then I must be incorruptible." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “Say, Hello! Immie wants to grow up to be a vigilante, rather than a captain of industry. See how it goes.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “I am going to tell you. Yes. He grew up to be the bliddy prime minister!” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z We pretended the girl flipping pizzas behind the counter was going to grow up to be the first woman on Mars. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I become a robot who repeats how I knew Khalil since I was three, how we grew up together, the kind of person he was. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “Sure did. Your Great-Grampy JonJon and Uncle Jack grew up there as well, believe it or not. When his mother died, JonJon moved back to that house and raised my daddy in it.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z She explained that we were growing up, that we needed to be with our parents, that Uncle Willie was, after all, crippled, that she was getting old. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Jean Louise had lost touch with nearly everyone she grew up with and did not wish particularly to rediscover the companions of her adolescence. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z With eight siblings, it had been turbulent growing up, and when she converted to Islam, the battles and misunderstandings multiplied. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Woods grew up on both sides, pines and hardwoods, with none of the stone fences the children had come to expect. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let me help you with Rufus as much as I can. Let’s see what we can do to keep him from growing up into a red-haired version of his father.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I know he grew up on a farm in the backwoods of Nova Scotia, where they didn’t have running water or electricity. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He grew up in Ireland where Dad lived when he was a boy in County Antrim. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Going to be an insurance man when he grows up.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The girls grew up as lovely as the day was long. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z They said that when they were children growing up in a small Pennsylvania town, their father told them all about exploring the moon, thirty years before it actually happened. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the kind of wordless testimony of struggle and anguish I heard all the time growing up in a small rural black church. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She had just made her first communion and had given herself so wholeheartedly to the church that she thought she might like to be a nun when she grew up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe when I grow up I could be like a stand-up comedian, and just get onstage and make those noises.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “But I’m a huge fan of your work. I grew up playing Halcydonia Interactive’s educational games. They taught me how to read, write, do math, solve puzzles...” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They would want me to survive ... to grow up and make something of my life ... to honor their memories. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Coalwood, West Virginia, where I grew up, was built for the purpose of extracting the millions of tons of rich bituminous coal that lay beneath it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The house where they spent Christmas and Sunday dinners and where Ophie slept and argued and cried and did all the messy business of growing up. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z And in a whisper I tell her, “I want to be an artist and a writer. But don’t tell Papi. He wants me to be a secretary when I grow up.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z “I can’t leave you to grow up a cook’s helper. You must be educated.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z But I know the whole thing about shoes has to do with the way she grew up. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “You’re growing up to be a real citizen of the world,” Mrs. Richardson said, and Pearl, despite herself, blushed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “It means you got to wait for it to grow up before you know what it is.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Lots more pictures of the boys growing up, skinny boys with dark curling hair, Didi as lovely as ever, no pictures of Hugh anywhere. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Well, they’ve got to grow up some time,” said Mr. Arable. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “And what do you want to do when you grow up?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Siobhan’s father loved tennis, but he grew up idolizing a team in another sport. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But I know I’ll never turn my back on the kids I grew up with. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I had heard it many times, from various prophets, during all the years that I was growing up. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z 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 was growing up, I didn’t have any toys, but I did still own a baseball that Pete had given me a year earlier. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I said, “One of our most treasured feelings concerns roots, growing up rooted in some soil or some community.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Everybody used to listen to CDs when I was growing up, but my dad—your grandpa—kept a record player in the corner of the living room. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “I grew up with men sneaking up on me in the middle of the night.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z "Ain't that a wonder! I never heard of a rat-catcher could read and write and do sums. It don't fit. Don't forget your old friends when you grow up to be duke or something." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z This is what they would look like once they grew up. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z A Dinka man who follows these rules and maintains the values he learned as a boy can grow up to be a great leader, like my great-uncle. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z As the children grew up in the hills, they began to get better at the things that had to be done to live in such a place. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z And although it is hazardous to assume any of this had formative effects on his character, it is equally an exaggeration to say that Eratosthenes grew up breathing an atmosphere of pure royalist docility. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It took many years for me to realize that the names I had been called when I was growing up had everything to do with others and nothing to do with me. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z She and Campbell Junior could of had the upstairs room that was hers growing up. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “I keep wondering what kind of nest she will choose when she grows up and looks for an aerie. She might be a Gypsy nester.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Everyone we knew was planning on going to his funeral, which was being held in the town where he grew up, in the mountains a couple of hours’ drive away. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A year ago we watched them nesting; the young ones grew up too. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She is going to grow up without a father just like I did. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z There, most boys grew up to be shipbuilders or fishermen. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Her change in status has left Justice a little off balance, seeing the world from two vantage points at the same time: the one she grew up in and the one she occupies now. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She didn’t know whether it would be better to be a band when she grew up or an organ grinder lady. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “And she grew up in the South, so I swear it’s good.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “I spoke with your father last night. You deserve to have a little fun. You are fourteen; we’ve got to let you grow up a little.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The difference in our ages meant that my brother and I were never close growing up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And he watched this son grow up, a stranger to his father and a stranger to God. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She considered them old-timers, men of dignity and dedication who grew up in the South and remembered what life was like in the old days. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t understand the full meaning of my grandfather’s statement about the power of names until I grew up. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I saw her almost a recluse, watching those two doomed children growing up whom she was helpless to save. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z If you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s as I did, wives seemed to be a genus of white women who lived inside television sitcoms—cheery, coiffed, corseted. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z "We grew up in London," my sister says, and she already sounds more American than she had on the plane. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Innocent black children growing up, living out their lives, dying of old age—and all of their lives ashamed of being black. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He says they’re sad because they know Jesus will grow up and be killed so that we can all go to heaven. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The problem is people grow up thinking that material things are what makes them worthwhile. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I grew up in the projects, but where we lived at we had open fields and spaces. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If I was Mom I would have swatted him with a cast- iron skillet and left him conked out in the gutter until the weeds grew up through him. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I don’t think so. What else did you eat when you were growing up?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We loved playing pirates, too, and talked all the time about how we’d grow up to be Navy SEALs. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Alpert grew up in the Midwest, the son of a man who ran the first discount store in northern Minnesota. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “And that’s my problem? Just because he comes from the same hippie-dippie flea circus where you grew up doesn’t mean we have to adopt him!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I grew up on stories of holy men parting the river Bistrița, golems shaped from clay, and, of course, those possessive spirits called dybbukim. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “And those cowboys and Indians. What kind of place is that for a child to grow up in? Dodging bullets and arrows?” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “Good day, Michael. It’s been a pleasure seeing you. I always wondered if you’d grow up; now I know.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z These agencies were not always united; sometimes a bitter rivalry grew up between them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “So are you telling me to grow up?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He would have a child, and that child would grow up to rule my village. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z When I was a boy growing up in Boston, Route 128, the industrial belt around Boston, led the world in scientific creativity and imagination. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I mean, all right, I felt embarrassed enough—I didn’t want Chris to see my old man not being the Mr. Miller he knew growing up. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It was the same house both Myron and my dad grew up in. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I wanted to grow up and greet the world, and so did my best friends. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I think it’s because he grew up in an era of pure racism. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “You will be able to teach him all your tricks, so that he grows up to be the greatest knight in the world.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Cora’s mother and Ava grew up on the plantation at the same time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “I knew it would be you to take it the hardest. It's a lot, Zuri. First Madrina. And now this. But you gotta grow up. It's a big world out there.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It was the inevitable prelude to growing up. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Knacks don’t go away so easily as that. When I was growing up in Staup, I knew a young man with a knack. Uncommonly good with plants.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Poppy liked growing up because it meant he could travel “beyond the horizon.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I thought about how when you grow up in a refugee camp, you don’t know how terrible the camp is because you have never known anything better. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z How great it would be to grow up like that, to be able to stare religion down, especially living next door to a woman like Momma. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I grew up in a holler, I surely did,” she tells jurors as she lays out the boundary conflict. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z When she grows up she should be one of those TV interviewers on Fox Five News who doesn’t let anyone else talk even if they try. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Most kids in the township spoke only their home language, but I learned several languages because I grew up in a house where there was no option but to learn them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She was going to grow up and grow old and fill her head with memories that time would never be able to steal from her. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z But when she was growing up, I saw the danger that she was in, and three times now I’ve tried to save her from it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Victor was just about to announce what he thought of Scipio's growing up when the door opened and Ida walked in. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z It makes a difference where and when we grew up. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Knowing she had changed so much in such few years, she dared as Mrs. Tremain return to Boston, so her boy could grow up there, learn a decent trade. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z You grow up knowing each sound and what it means. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z As young animals grow up in such a herd, they imprint on the animals that they regularly see nearby. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We grew up in this house together when we were children, even though we lost touch some years ago. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I wonder what it was like for them growing up. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Alice, will you ever grow up and think of someone besides yourself? On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She grew up in town, in a yellow house with a white picket fence lined with purple irises. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But he had no close friends, until some of his younger cousins began to grow up. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z What I really wanted, I suppose, was to get straight all the things that happened between me and Tommy and Ruth after we grew up and left Hailsham. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Whereas those around me might grow up to be lawyers or movie stars, my only option was to take a vow of silence and become a monk. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “It’s a result of all your body heat trapped inside the cast. And you’re growing up—as fast as I feared! Good thing I put you in that body cast.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z When I was a child growing up in Salinas we called San Francisco “the City.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I know she was poor growing up in Mexico. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It would be a blessing for me to grow up and become like my parents. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z "Oh, yes. She grew up in town," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z One thing boys and girls growing up in Cold Sassy know a lot of is Bible verses. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z My father grew up in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, part of the city’s hardscrabble “river wards” that consisted of blocks and blocks of narrow row houses. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z In the cramped living room, surrounded by the dark oversized furniture from the old house they grew up in, they were children again in a smaller, simpler version of the world. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Was there a version where Lazlo grew up with a name and a family, and Thyon was put on the cart for the abbey? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He talks about the big bay window in the house where he grew up, and Henry doesn’t tell him he’s crazy for all the things he used to write and hide under there. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z My native land is the wide seaboard of Krete where I grew up. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He's a musician, and it turns out that he grew up playing in church. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Go home and grow up. You alright, kid?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My opponent, a white South African who grew up near Port Elizabeth, was used to playing under windy conditions and he won the match in straight sets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Jinx didn’t die. He grew up and lived a life.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “But it makes sense. Grandma grew up in an orphanage, right?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I don’t know what he’s thinking, but I could make a couple of guesses: He thinks I’m growing up fast. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z I wanted Maribel to grow up and get married and have children and friends and find meaning in her life. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z That girl grew up to be my grandma Ellie, who plotted to kill her husband and was exiled to England. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “She said if we work hard”—I tried adopting Parvathi Teacher’s persuasive tone—“we can do anything when we grow up.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Maybe that girl would grow up to be a master investigator, or at least a cop. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Her right arm had been horribly burned and she grew up with its skin withered and purple. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she grew up and went away to college and met her husband. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The man died without a penny, yet his children grew up to graduate from college, to become doctors, professors, teachers, and professionals all. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom said that when she was growing up on the ranch, they never named the cattle, because they knew they would have to kill them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Not that your mom doesn’t speak English. That’s not—I meant, because my mom grew up speaking English.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z When you grow up in Garden Heights, you know what “busy” really means. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Pattillo grew up in the thirties, the son of a blacksmith turned railroad worker in a small segregated Louisiana town. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I’m sure he expected me to grow up as a nice church lady with cute little hats, organizing good deeds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I had to get more specific, so I put “Malden” after his name, since that’s where he and my mom grew up. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z These teenagers were growing up in a time of extreme change, tossed about as the social order danced beneath their feet. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z His mother having married Granny’s daddy, they grew up together like brother and sister. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Regular people going to regular jobs having regular kids who go to regular schools and grow up to be regular people with regular jobs, and on and on. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z "You can try to do anything. If you study hard, maybe you can become a lawyer when you grow up." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I swore I wouldn’t grow up to be like him. I ended up having friends of every color at school, and I knew that none of the stuff my dad said was true.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “Fifty thousand people at the Pentagon, Holling. Fifty thousand. Something big is happening, and it’s starting right now. Maybe it’s time to think about growing up.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z They were growing up, and it worried her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z We earthlings are supremely well adapted to the environment of the Earth because we grew up here. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She seemed ...well, alive, like a regular kid with a good heart, who deserved to grow up and have a future. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I suddenly remembered the rituals my father had forced me to learn, and the many times he had said that he wanted me to grow up the way he did. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been so young when I last saw them, in the mountains of South Kivu where my parents grew up, that I could not remember them. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Your Honor, injustice blots out one form of life, but another grows up in its place with its own rights, needs, and aspirations. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I’d overheard Mom and Dad talking about that, and Henry’s refusal to grow up. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “In my family we all start on the ground and grow up, and we never know how far until we actually get there.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Keck and stinging nettles grew up as high as his chest, obscuring the path. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Lizzie also grew up on the reservation in Kansas, where she helped to provide for her family, harvesting corn and hauling wood over distances. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Most villages had craft schools, where boys and girls learned how to weave cloth, carve wood, and master other skills that would land them steady work when they grew up. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “I know you. I grew up with you.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I grew up with the Journal sitting on our kitchen table, open to the farm report or the local sports page. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In the Times poll, 45 percent of respondents said they were in a higher class than when they grew up, while just 16 percent said they were in a lower one. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He has watched them grow up to become clerks and bus conductors. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Paul grew up in a wealthy Quaker family in a New Jersey suburb outside Philadelphia. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Mom and Auntie Gemma have memories of doing “Filipino stuff” with Lola when they were growing up, too. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The foal grew up and Riddle named him War Admiral. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Amma grew up in an orphanage and had been getting too old to stay there much longer, so she was happy to get a job that came with a room in the servants' quarters. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I grew up a Catholic at home and at school, in private and in public. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I was growing up and becoming a man and suddenly I realized that I could make decisions. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “The real story is dead boring. I grew up in London with me mum and dad, sister, brother, and a parakeet named Benny Hill.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “I finally experienced it. I saw some of the people that I had wronged when I was growing up, and disrespected. And all their faces came in front of me.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Do you understand, child? That water—it stops you right where you are. If you’d had a drink of it today, you’d stay a little girl forever. You’d never grow up, not ever.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a part of growing up, they tell him, part of being a Bengali. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “If that’s the way he’s going to grow up, I wish he’d stay a boy,” she thought, with a curious sense of disappointment and discomfort, trying meantime to seem quite easy and gay. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fifth grade will be a big year to grow up,” Mom says. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I suppose these things are as real, and as oppressive, to the people who grew up there as this place is to me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Frank couldn’t imagine his mom growing up with Grandmother any more than he could imagine her on the battlefield—though the two situations probably weren’t that different. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z With many of my new American friends helping me, I raised enough money to open a medical clinic in Duk County, where I grew up. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, Miss Braden-Hammerschmidt. A project! You know that essay English teachers always make kids write? ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “It’s all part of growing up, Anthony,” Miss Violet told me one afternoon after school when I stayed to help her. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She said I was just growing up, and that I should have pride in myself. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “We grow up and older. We need to respect how things change and adjust.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Last night, as we lay on our mats in the closet, Mami started telling me stories about growing up on a sugar estate where her father was the resident doctor. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Hatsue grew up digging clams at South Beach, picking blackberries, collecting mushrooms, and weeding strawberry plants. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Europeans, who grew up in germ-filled environments, usually lean the other way. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If my son grows up to be like Bob, I’ll be a happy man. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Grasses grew up its banks, and a musical silence stirred in its depths. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z When they grow up they’ll be our new laying hens, some of them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z How can you grow up in this world and not think about it? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “This is where I grew up. Even if I hate it half the time, it’s mine.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I started to think that if I were educated, when I grew up I could take care of myself and my sister. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z What else do you think would happen when they grow up in a concrete world? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In third grade, Justin brought in a plane to school for career day and said he wanted to be a pilot when he grew up. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z My mother grew up with these rules and she questioned them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He’s the type of guy who could grow up to be a killer. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z He said, “I grew up in the South and I can be killed down there for marrying a woman of the other race.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z This neighborhood isn’t as expensive as the one where Cassie and me grew up, but it tries harder. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I feel like I might grow up to be somebody important. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z "My parents grew up in this city, remember? My mother and I always talked in Kannada—especially when we didn't want others listening to us in jail." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Two years ago Naheed had come home from elementary school and announced she was going to be a heart surgeon when she grew up. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z “Listen, kid, when you grow up and get your own apartment in New York City, you can get all the bathrooms you want.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z I used to sneak in here to play with the non-CFers growing up. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z She grew up in Baltimore and had never married but didn’t look or act like any other old maid in town. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The animosity I felt from the colored people I encountered growing up was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to deal with. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Yeah, we were going to play together and get great and then when we grew up we were going to join the NBA.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Mother Marie, when Mr. Muhammad was busy, would tell me about her son’s boyhood and of his growing up in Georgia to young manhood. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know how you grew up so fast. You know you’ll always be my sweet baby girl, right?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z This was where she grew up, and where her parents had built the Norvelt house we moved into once they passed away. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z We left the village my mother grew up in many years ago, right after my father died. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, you grew up in that community, and look what you’re doing. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “They can grow up to twenty feet and swallow a man whole.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “He’s normal! He’s normal! He’ll grow up like other people. Better than others.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I grew up in South Africa during apartheid, which was awkward because I was raised in a mixed family, with me being the mixed one in the family. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Some of the questions I was asked was what grade I was in and what did I want to be when I grow up. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “I still want us to be close, even after we grow up. Like Mama and Doc.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I am going to be a bird-defense lawyer when I grow up. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z My father grew up in a nearby village, and while his family wasn't wealthy, they at least had goats and chickens. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I thought growing up was just something that happened. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to grow up,” Akira said flatly, crossing his arms over his chest. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I had been well conditioned by the world in which I grew up, so I did not yet dare take the idea of becoming a writer seriously. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z He grew up on the Mississippi, where the fever liked to visit when the weather turned warm. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Dad’s best friend, from when they were growing up, he passed away,” she said gently. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z But when they do, we are in the part of the city where the factionless live, about a mile from where I grew up. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z And now was the time for him to grow up. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He said he likes to watch the sixth graders he teaches grow up to be teenagers and adults. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Including my sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Starr, you know, you sure have grown since the last time I saw you. You and Khalil both grew up so—” Her voice cracks. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z When I grow up, will I ever need to do math? The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Maybe when you grow up, you will see beyond your home, you will know people like that. Maybe that will be your fate. It is not mine.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I grew up in a black family in a black neighborhood in a black country. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Manly West was still a young suburb when I was growing up—especially compared to nearby Wynnum. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I wouldn’t care that I couldn’t grow up. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z She’d raised him on her own, and he said he’d had enough Korean words and foods and customs while growing up. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z "So you grew up in that house alone with your aunt," Matilda said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z She thought she’d be a nun when she grew up, and live a quiet, contemplative life serving God. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Sharon lived with her husband, Karim, and they had a marriage that wasn’t punctuated by violent fights and lonely tears like the relationships she witnessed growing up. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “I grew up with very normal, stable people,” Brooke continued. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Maybe I can be a famous singer when I grow up. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She grew up listening to the work songs of the black women shucking oysters at the J. S. Darling processing plant that wafted up to the pedestrians on the Queen Street Bridge above. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z "He wanted to be a police officer when he grew up." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Ophie couldn’t wait to grow up and have her own prerogative. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “He donated a bunch of money to create the memorial room at Perkins. He spent most of his life in Colorado, but we thought maybe he grew up in Lambert.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I have three. We save our money to get photograph three time when your father growing up.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Even though growing up as a twin has had its good points and bad points, at least I always have someone to talk to, share clothes with, and experiment with. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z With Chapter Eleven out of the house and me growing up, Tessie found herself with too much time on her hands. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Though I knew nothing about animals, she said that when I grew up I would go to Africa and study them. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z What if noticing was a sign that Finn was growing up? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “I want to be just like you when I grow up. Except I don’t want to fence. I’m going to the Olympics to run track.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Little trees growing up in the concrete cracks. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, as I nursed my wounds, while my father was at work, I told my mother that I hated him and promised her I would kill him when I grew up. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Do I sound like a broken record when I say that you’re growing up so fast? From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Yes, I grew up and live in one of the most liberal states in the nation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I knew it wasn’t better, but it’s one of those questions he had asked me a hundred times when I was growing up. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “He made us laugh all the time we were growing up.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t believe it was a good thing to grow up. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I want to go to school and college and have a real career when I grow up.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Jose Cruz, first baseman on the school team. I am ten years old and I am in the fifth grade. I want to grow up and become a falconer.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z And in Cal there grew up a passionate love for his father and a wish to protect him and to make it up to him for the things he had suffered. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In the past, she thought, children took a long time to grow up. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z To the kids growing up in a housing project on Chicago’s south side, crack dealing seemed like a glamour profession. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He grew up very much apart from the jocks who dominated the schools, the towns, his world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She was standing bare-legged in the jungly weeds that grew up between our houses. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And what you plant is a bare seed . . . not the full-bodied plant that will later grow up. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “He’s growing up. They’ll attack him soon, and then his life will become a blank, indifferent misery. He’s doomed.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Samuel, of course, was born in the North, in New York, and grew up and was educated there. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone tested it when they were growing up: seeing how far they could pull apart, coming back with intense relief. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Must be something you know. What your mama teach you growing up?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z With a fun mom like Ishtar, she'd had to grow up being the serious one in the family. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z And now he’s thrown everything—all his talent, all his energy—into helping us paint and draw and sculpt and grow up. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I was such a disappointment to her. Do you know what it is like to grow up under that shadow? To have your only parent look at you with disgust?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z That’s when Van Riper decided that when he grew up, he would join the Marine Corps. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z And she had a daughter who grew up speaking only English and swallowing more Coca-Cola than sorrow. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Can grow up learning and voting and walking and riding wherever we want. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z I might do anything when I grow up. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z I figure, I grew up there, I already knew what Marshall was like. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The twins would grow up and move out like children do. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But overlaid on top of that are tendencies and assumptions and reflexes handed down to us by the history of the community we grew up in, and those differences are extraordinarily specific. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z These are the words I grew up hearing. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Mom and Mr. Stokely said they were going to go around the other side of the observation deck and look at Brooklyn, where Mr. Stokely grew up. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Enough for me, at least, because I am going to be a meteorologist when I grow up. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z And she never chose her husband, and never even grew up to decide what kind of stuff she liked as an adult, or dated anybody with the same interests. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It was a whole clot of Hamiltons growing up on the ranch to the east of King City. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But it didn’t seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “She has to take her obligations more seriously. She has to grow up a little.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “You want to grow up and have children and only have this to leave behind as an inheritance?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The thing about Axel's home is that it isn’t like the place Byrd grew up. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z What kind of man was he going to grow up into? Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He had so many adventures and took part in so many great enterprises that there grew up a saying in Athens, “Nothing without Theseus.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Her father talked to her all the time about growing up in slavery and how he learned to read and write but kept it a secret. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “My mom had one growing up. They’re in a lot of her pictures. If she was still around, we’d probably have one by now.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z But I knew I was being stupid and that I had to do something to make myself get over being afraid, if I was ever going to grow up and get better. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The fact that I grew up in a world run by women was no accident. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Almost nothing at all is ever about sex, unless you never grow up, that is. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Then I added, “I’m not sure that love and like aren’t like cats and dogs: One can’t grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As he did, he saw some mushrooms growing up from a cracked paving tile. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He often longed for the countryside near Wales where he grew up. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I have told much about you to Farzana jan and Sohrab, about us growing up together and playing games and running in the streets. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t have a lot of money growing up.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z I could have done without the flies and the primitive theaters, but I wouldn't have minded growing up with a houseful of servants. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Even though my dad grew up in those woods, Askar knew the best part of the woods to find pheasants. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The cuticles grew up over the half moons. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he did that, probably so I would remember him as being a good father when I grew up and left home. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z These two deprivations, he maintained, along with a third one— that of “a good model of a decision maker to look up to” when they were growing up—were behind most of their criminal careers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “What do you want to do when you grow up?” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z And about him having a hard life growing up and so that was why he was gruff. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z “Then he grew up and started a fantastic restaurant. I wish you could have seen it.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She had never realized before that growing up would mean being by herself more. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Charlie and I ate popcorn and drank soda and talked about stupid stuff, like kids from school and what we daydreamed we’d be when we grew up. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “I don’t know, sweetness. I’m not a real science teacher. When I was growing up, there were nine planets. It never even occurred to me that that could change.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z But while Charles always felt alienated and alone, James grew up surrounded by loving family and friends. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I told myself that I would live in New York when I grew up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Well, like I said, I think it’s tragic that you all are wasting your summer away. I didn’t grow up in New York,” Dad says. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Hazel saw herself growing up—her hair became longer, her eyes sadder. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Poppy said he became a doctor because he grew up with such superstitious people. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “I grew up surrounded by concrete and brick, crowded freeways. People everywhere in cars, on buses, subways, trains.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Despite growing up around images of the Confederate South and working in the Deep South for many years, I was pretty shaken by the symbols. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He learned to fight when he was growing up in Cairo. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Those of us who aren’t chosen will likely return to New York to grow up in an orphanage. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z As in many rural white families, Butler grew up in close proximity to black people. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z After that, Robin decided she was going to be a librarian when she grew up. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Like a child touched by tragedy, who grows up suddenly and abandons his playthings, Chacko dumped his toys. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you grew up surrounded by people who are gay. Have you ever thought you might be like them? Just seems like something someone would wonder, being around it so much.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z It means that I wouldn’t grow up at all. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I wanted to know about growing up in Iran. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z One day, we will grow up to preach God's word, take it out into the world and maybe we'll save some people. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z I loved the walks with my uncle, because they gave me a chance to talk about my childhood, about growing up with my father and older brother. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The “GDs” grew up in the experiments, where they only had to learn enough to survive until the next generation. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Look at what they grew up to be. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I grew up here, but I do not think I have ever seen these furnishings before.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He was probably around six, and just knew that he was going to grow up to be a famous singer. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Nate grew up crisscrossing the ocean with Papa and his crews. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “Wrecking a rickshaw is growing up? Doesn’t sound like she was trying to help. Something must be wrong with that girl.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z I reckon they’ll be good friends growing up, with Miss Hilly teaching them both how things is. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “You are a stubborn old man. Your sweet-faced boys will only grow up to be Sons of the Harpy. Kill them now or kill them then.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We held him next to our cheeks and told him he was going to grow up to be a strong bird. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z "Because that's where we lived. That's where I grew up. So don't tell me what I know and don't know, Ghost." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z He felt he had to, given the neighborhood he grew up in. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z When he was growing up, his mother loved animals, and they always had cats and at least one dog. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “She’s a Chinese baby. She’s going to grow up not knowing anything about her heritage. How is she going to know who she is?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Just maybe, I thought to myself, just maybe this is what I want to be when I grow up. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But when my dad was growing up, she preferred bright red lipstick to a chador. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I grew up in the pastures and hills of Texas, but I had been to thirty-four states before I learned how to drive. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I grew up in a world run by women. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He was rail thin and quiet, and when he grew up he would probably be tall, like his father. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was putting to work his tenacity and work ethic, the way he always gave to his teammates growing up, and blossoming into a leader.. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I have nothing but the fondest memories of growing up in a zoo. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Who cares about her? She ’11 grow up like Granny—you can hear it in her nasty little voice. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Walt grew up in Greeley, Colorado, an agricultural town on the high, windswept plains up near the Wyoming line. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Emma Slater is survived by four loving children who grew up in Norvelt, but none of them live in town any longer, having left to find jobs. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I read the first line: “All children, except one, grow up.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Reyna had trouble imagining the coach as a father, but she understood what it was like to grow up without parents. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z As people grow up, they generally get better at making thoughtful decisions even when under pressure. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The so-called “GPs” grew up in this community, their worlds saturated by experiments and observation and learning. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I had to deal with it a lot when I was growing up, but only for a day. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z She grew up with nothing and wanted something to call her own. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z For my brother Alex, who was born small, my mom spun a song that he was kindhearted and genuine and would grow up to become strapping and tall. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z When my father was growing up inside the Old City of Jerusalem—that's the ancient part of town inside the stone wall—he and the kids on his street liked to trade desserts after dinner. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The kind of child, perhaps, who wouldn't live to grow up... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z I was growing up, and for the first time it occurred to me that our world was changing before my eyes, and not for the better. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I’m not programmed. I didn’t grow up in a city.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “You could do worse. I even worked that out. And you know, when the kids grow up, we could even work our way south in the winter and north in the summer.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know what Cordelia says she wants to be when she grows up?” she says, in her husky, mock-serious, confiding voice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “I grew up in Yana Urku,” I hear myself saying in Spanish. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I grew up wanting to make dreams, too. Your husband gave me a great gift that day. I hope one day I can repay him.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z He could not bear the thought of Buchi growing up to resent him, to lack something that he should have been for her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z At least Oak would not grow up as I have, with death as my birthright. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Jessa grew up with a very strict family, so she didn’t have as much freedom to question herself or who she might like or might not like.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Unloved children grow up to become serial murderers or alcoholics. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Nobody cares anymore if I grow up to be a cook. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I imagined that Carole would become the president of something when she grew up or a leader such as Dorothy Height or Mary McLeod Bethune. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z That experience would see me growing up into an adult with great speed—an adult that had to deeply develop her relationship with God in order to survive. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Then she sighed and said: “Sometimes I wonder if growing up isn’t the saddest thing that can happen to a person.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z They were determined to raise us peacefully, even though we were growing up in a conflict zone. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The house is a shrine to the War Between the States and I wonder what it must’ve been like for Stuart, growing up in a home where you can’t touch anything. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She said I would grow up a wife and a slave, but she taught me the song of the warrior woman, Fa Mu Lan. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And so as the boys grew up, it was as though they had two sets of parents, especially two fathers. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When I was growing up my guardian kept one in a cage. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z It’s the same room she shared with her sister, my auntie Gemma, growing up. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z “What do you want to be when you grow up, little girl ?” “A lumberjack in Oregon.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The man asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I couldn’t fathom how the Colonel grew up in such a small place. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z You deserve to grow up where you don’t worry about saving half a bite of sweet potato. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Please don’t grow up to be one of those men who lie for the sport of it,” she said, “and most men do. That’s a fact.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Cleopatra—historically known as Cleopatra VII—grew up with five sisters and brothers at the palace in Alexandria. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z My dad grew up in three different states, all along the East Coast. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z What do you want to be when you grow up? the Norfolk Journal and Guide reporter must have asked. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Just that I grew up in the wild.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z And we have difficulty convincing you that we believe in you, that we don’t believe that you will grow up to be members of gangs, that you can achieve anything that you want to achieve. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She celebrated all the Jewish holidays and, when she grew up, had an unorthodox bat mitzvah ceremony in the woods upstate. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Yes. They both grew up here, and this was her television set. When Edith got her first job, Theo said she went out and spent her entire first paycheck on this thing.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z His mother gave him the gift of music and Thrace where he grew up fostered it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When we grew up, she stayed and became our housekeeper. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Hassan taught him to read and write—his son was not going to grow up illiterate like he had. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Cal had told her all girls had it, it was natural as breathing, it was a sign they were growing up, and they had it until they were in their fifties. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z These are familiar sounds to many children growing up in India. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z You probably raise goats or sheep, and the kind of culture that grows up around being a herdsman is very different from the culture that grows up around growing crops. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She said it was entirely possible, for instance, that Estha could grow up to be a Male Chauvinist Pig. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If I could draw like that, I’d study animation when I grow up. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Whose whims had been taken seriously by adults and who grew up to be the stingiest, greediest people on earth and out of their stinginess grew their stingy little love that ate everything in sight. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Of hideous creatures growing up from pale foam. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Are you ever going to grow up and think about other people?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z She wanted to be a Bedouin when she grew up. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 If Mama wanted Little Arliss to grow up to be the biggest liar in Texas, I guessed it wasn’t any of my business. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z As I’ve mentioned, my brother didn’t pay much attention to me while we were growing up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Huh, yeah; I want to be you when I grow up,” says Johnny. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z I would have to grow up a warrior woman. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t let them grow up. I taught them useless things like ancient military strategy. They didn’t even know how to go to the store and buy rice!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z That the Careers have been better red growing up is actually to their disadvantage, because they don't know how to be hungry. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I don’t want any kid growing up here the way it is today. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a four-million-dollar house, and they grew up in it. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Even though Dad was Baptist like Gran, he’d only gone while he was growing up. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “Around anywhere. This hasn’t been such a bad place to grow up, has it?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “I grew up with Ali,” he said through clenched teeth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He is certain that baby Vincent would be healthier growing up in the countryside. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z My father was bom and raised here in Florida, so he grew up on the water. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Once upon a time,” began Albert, “there was a junk shop in the desert. That’s where your mother and I grew up. That’s the place you visited, Joseph, with the fireplace.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I had just turned twelve and he said I was growing up into a young lady. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Lloyd: What do you think we’ll be when we grow up? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1872, Charles published his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, in which he was able to use all those notes he made about the children growing up. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It reminds me of growing up in Chicago and having to shovel snow. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s just...well, this is where my hero grew up. And where my best friend grew up too. I don’t know, it just feels really special being here.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z It also meant something that affected Joyce even more personally as she was growing up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z You know how adults love to ask, “So ... what are you going to be when you grow up?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I had heard you were growing up to be a good, upstanding student. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The tomboy in the family was growing up. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He says I need to grow up just like you!” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z A little house by the river, right down the road from where we grew up. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Sean was her big boy, and he would grow up to be a great man. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z When Buchi said “Amen!” with that delight, that gusto, Obinze feared she would grow up to be a woman who, with that word “amen,” would squash the questions she wanted to ask of the world. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When Blanca grew up she never shook it but embraced God even more, and now she needed something her church couldn’t deliver—some sucker to marry a girl from Colombia. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z And so there grew up a great wall between the scholars and the people. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “That reminds me so much of my maid growing up.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He says he wants to be a saint when he grows up, which is ridiculous because you can’t be a saint till you’re dead. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “You know I grew up with your mom?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “I grew up idolizing him, but when I saw what he really was—what he could do to his own son—” His words choked off slightly. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Instead, I ask him, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z “So what? You Spanish, this is your neighborhood. You grew up here, got beat up here, and I hope beat someone up too. Sapito tells me you used to paint R.I.P.s?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z They were grown when I came along, but Trey made them grow up way before that. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z This was one of those uninhibited dreams that come free with growing up. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The two of us speak English to each other, even though we both grew up in homes where our parents spoke Bangla. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Even though my mom is Christian, my father grew up Buddhist, and so my parents didn’t force religion on either me or my brother. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z We’re studying hard so when we grow up we can get good jobs and go wherever we please. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother used to say to simply start with “Hello, how are you?” but my mom ain’t grow up in this neighborhood. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But Göbekli Tepe suggests that the temple may have been built first, and that a village later grew up around it. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He said nothing; the slight sardonic raise of his eyebrows said that she, too, would have to grow up. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up,” I say. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z And I plan how when I grow up I will help people prepare for the disasters and save their lives and their money and advise governments on how to manage the weather. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty- seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “The girl grew up in a traditional village. She belongs to us, not the Catholics.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He loved his two nephews and it would be a sad blow if they turned out to be lions when they grew up. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Huge cylindrical bales of hay line the fields on either side of us, but the grass has begun to grow up again. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Lloyd: Mookie, what do you want to be when you grow up? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well...I’ve had them for years. Just less intense. I thought they were, you know, just part of growing up.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “That’s all the time the falcons need to grow up and fly away.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z It had taken years to solicit this information about where she grew up. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I suppose it resembles Killdeer, Mississippi, where Father grew up, and played the position of quarterback in high school. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I get tired of dreaming about how life’s going to be different when I grow up. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Quit listening to people on the streets and grow up to be a man. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And the other ones will grow up to be fried chicken! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s birthed babies, and when they grew up, helped birth their babies. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Consequently, the four daughters grew up having little communion with their father. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Facts are important to scientists, which is what I want to be when I grow up. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The child was a boy and he grew up strong far beyond others, so that when his mother finally took him to the stone he lifted it with no trouble at all. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When he was a boy, growing up, his mother told him, over and over, that he would be like Moses. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus it came about that a kind of affection grew up between the two boys, but it was more like an association between brother and sister than between brothers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When, as a young boy, I had been asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I had never answered “black” or “Negro” or even “colored.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I will always wonder what it would have been like to grow up with my mother. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z And she was pretty sure she wanted to be exactly like Cymbeline when she grew up, except for the acting part. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Some of Vaughan’s children, including Martha’s father, went to live with Osage families, where they grew up speaking Osage and learning the traditional dances. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When he was growing up he had never once gone out to dinner with his parents or to the movies. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The family then moved back to Britain, where Mack grew up in Aberdeen, and became a scientist, a tinkerer, a great piano player, with a bit of a short attention span himself. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z "Why wouldn't I know him? Didn't he grow up in my village? Didn't he save my life, a week ago? I know him." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Taking a whipping was bad enough, but to learn that his subjects dreaded the day he'd grow up and become king had deeply shaken him. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z If she could sound like she grew up right around the corner, she would. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “He deserves to see his daughter making out with the preacher’s kid as punishment for making me grow up in this hick town. But come on.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z "We grew up together. I'm older than Richie, but this is a small neighborhood, and I've put in my time at the Rail. . . ." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z And then I mumble, “It...it makes me feel like I’ll grow up to be a nobody.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z I grew up in a country settlement where some people lived in tiny shacks; families without indoor plumbing had to use outhouses. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z And there’s one called Tuck Everlasting—the kid never gets to grow up. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Not to mention her asking me the whereabouts a Constantine, her maid growing up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I grew up in Juba, the most important city in Southern Sudan. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I grew up learning to be afraid of la migra and listened to my parents and family members go on and on about papeles. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “All my life I been waiting to grow up,” he whispered. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I remind myself that she’s a California girl and probably grew up swimming in the ocean. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Probably because they knew cute kids grow up into ugly, problematic teenagers. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I was to grow up an ugly child. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “When you grow up are you going to wear the same thing on your head like your mom does?” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “I can’t believe how fast you’re growing up. I remember when you two would watch a movie together curled up on blankets in our living room. Now you’re going off on your own, meeting friends.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z What if he grew up to be a junkie, and when I caught him with a bent spoon under his thin dirty mattress, he'd scream that he learned how to do drugs from watching me? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Oh, these days everybody wants to know what Daddy eats and what foods he grew up on.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t mean to spend my life here watching my children grow up as slaves and maybe get sold.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She rolled down her window as we cruised through Felt Lake, then Crystal Springs Reservoir near where my moms grew up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z They grew up made to talk about their feelings a lot, and then his mother became president, and life became less about feelings and more about international relations. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He grew up in his father’s castle, far from the sight and smell of suffering, much less the experience of it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “You two, you grew up with families. You’ve probably lived in this house since you were born, right? Right?” he said again when Maya didn’t respond, and she reluctantly nodded. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I want to he just like him when I grow up! The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Marie-Laure still lives in the flat where she grew up, still walks to the museum. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “You’re a Pole, and you say I’m the liar? I grew up in Poland, and I say all Poles are liars.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z There Ernie Lawrence and Merle Tuve grew up together in tidy houses facing each other across the street, Merle the elder by a scant six weeks. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was just one of the ways life was getting more complicated as they grew up. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Fool? No. No, but tell me, I mean, listen. Everybody I grew up with is down home. We don’t have children. He’s what I got. He’s what I got.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z His half-brother Charles, only a little over a year younger, grew up with his father’s assertiveness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Hazel grew up—did four years in grammar school, four years in reform school, and didn’t learn anything in either place. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The visit restored me and revived my feelings for the place in which I grew up. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It takes several days to grow up a virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I had told my mother about my dreams, and she said they were visions from God and she was happy, because her own dream was that I should grow up and become a priest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Just thinking of it again made me realize how, growing up, we three were together all the time: camping out, exploring the woods, shooting baskets, fishing. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z People grow up, move away, or even pass on, but I now knew it didn’t mean they’d left me alone. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Caroline grew up picnicking by the Shaker lakes in the summer, skating on city-flooded rinks in the winter, caroling at Christmas. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Did Marshall have a newspaper when you were growing up?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ve been trying very hard for a very long time. All I ever wanted for you kids was the stability I didn’t have growing up. I never wanted this to happen.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The white parent smuggled them out through Lesotho or Botswana, and they grew up in exile, in England or Germany or Switzerland, because being a mixed family under apartheid was just that unbearable. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z My mother, her health failing rapidly, spoke constantly now of Granny’s home, of how ardently she wanted to see us grow up before she died. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know many trick,” Jiichan said, “and I will teach you everything I know. We have many long time until you grow up! Many long time!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z When I was growing up it was different. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The one thing I want more than anything is to grow up so the Doctorita can’t hurt me, so I can leave and start my own life. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared back at the menacing detective and remembered what it had been like growing up here in the Dakota—a gated island on an island. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “What did you want to grow up to be when you were a kid?” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When mice grow up, they don't ever have to go to war and fight against other mice. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Maybe when I grew up, but now I had more important things to think of. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “I can trust them. I mean, we grew up together.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z One day our teacher told us to write down on a piece of paper what we wanted to be when we grew up and pass it up front. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I don’t mind the stink — I grew up with it, being the son of a butcher. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z 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 Some of my classmates are going through a war ... an undeclared war, waged on innocent kids just trying to grow up. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “So she is. Dear heart, how fast you do grow up,” returned her mother with a sigh and a smile. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I grew up among nineteen first cousins, and they each played a pivotal role in my childhood and teen years. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Although Geoffrey, Gilbert, and I grew up in this small place in Africa, we did many of the same things children do all over the world, only with slightly different materials. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z You can tell by his British accent that Professor Swann didn’t grow up here. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The old public library, the one Mr. Lemoncello had loved when he was a boy growing up in the small Ohio town, had been bulldozed to make way for a multilevel concrete parking structure. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Roosevelt would grow up to be “as fit as a bull moose,” but when he was a child, he was very sickly, frail, and nervous. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z MidPass should’ve been a peaceful place, somewhere you could play, grow up, sing, dance, and let the magic of the world carry you along. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “We couldn’t suffer them to live, not with magic that would set them above us, to conquer us all over again when they grew up. The risk was too great.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “And I’ve loved you more every day. Watching you grow up. Watching you grow into yourself. Watching you learn to cope with a world I can’t always protect you from. But I wish I could.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z His little face was so like a human’s, and no one grew up in Congo without knowing what stomach cramps looked like. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Sure, not every kid would want to grow up on the sea. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z But the matchmaker laughed and said, “Not so, not so. She is a strong horse. She will grow up to be a hard worker who serves you well in your old age.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When he ticked off the names of friends he grew up with, it was a litany of trouble: one was an alcoholic and divorced at twenty, with a child and no job. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Laleh grew up with the ear for it—the uvular fricatives and alveolar trills that I could never get quite right. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Ifemelu imagined him growing up, riding his bicycle down the sloping street, returning home from primary school with his bag and water bottle. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z To Dr. Cable, “growing up” meant having your brain changed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Into her son she beat a loud desire to run away, and into her daughter she beat a fear of growing up, fear of other people, fear of life. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z They had speculated that growing up in the American military could affect the personality of an individual in one of two ways. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Billy named him after his lost brother, Marcus, and the child grew up in the theatre, eventually becoming a great actor. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z And until I turned nine and turned to video games, that was what I wanted to be when I grew up: a mapmaker. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Maybe someday, after all this, after we find a new life, a new home, with plenty of water and food, then I could grow up and have full rosy cheeks and a soft round belly. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In fact, he wanted to be an astronaut when he grew up. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The grass around the well was tamped down, but everywhere else it grew up in weedy thickets that reached higher than some of the ground-floor windows. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z If he doesn’t change, he will repeat his mother’s mistake; time will slip by, and Jasmin will grow up without him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z How many times did I hear that growing up? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z To Shay, her new attitude was simply the result of growing up, moving on, leaving all the overheated emotions of ugliness behind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I grew up in a world of violence, but I myself was never violent at all. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “When I was growing up, it was still in business. It was huge and had these great wooden banisters and old wood floors. Everything smelled of wood.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was every little fairy’s dream that one day he would grow up to don the stealth-black jumpsuit of the Retrieval commandos. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z And she would, she swore, move Heaven and earth before she would let her sister’s daughter grow up with such a man. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z They came from the mountains where my parents grew up or they came from the next town over. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then: “And you? What are you going to be when you grow up?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As a matter of fact, I’m even planning to be an archaeologist when I grow up. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z His bangs are still crooked, but my little brother is growing up. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I drew them vivid pictures of Alexandra, of black life, of the hardships I faced not only as a tennis player and a student, but also as a young man growing up in the ghetto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After Jocasta’s death and all the evils that came with it, Oedipus lived on in Thebes while his children were growing up. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It pained me to have to tell her that he was at the orphanage still and growing up away from the other children, away from everyone, really, and would not talk at all. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z My dad grew up in Jordan and met my mom in Boston. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z She described the camp and her years growing up there. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But Nick reminded James that his two-year-old daughter would grow up and go to college someday—and besides, hadn’t James once given Nick his whole baseball card collection? Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And I knew your daddy all his life, we grew up together, we were childhood friends. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I grew up on reggae music but had not heard it for a while. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Your father and I grew up together, as you know, and Ali had been with him as long as I could remember. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Whitiker was struck by his manners and how he spoke like the teachers and social workers she had known growing up— enunciating his words, slipping in a few she didn’t know. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to say anything that might offend him, like “Tricycles are for kindergartners—grow up!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “What are you talking about, Aunty? We spoke two languages growing up.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I suppose, in general, I never appreciated in those days the sheer effort Ruth was making to move on, to grow up and leave Hailsham behind. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z When the second of his three children was born, his sister had a stern talk with him about getting a legitimate job so he could watch his kids grow up. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z As a reward, I took a handful of them to see the documentary Hoop Dreams, because both the book and the movie deal with what it’s like to grow up in an urban community. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “I grew up with a roof over my head too.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “From all over around here, boys we grew up with…” The tall man’s next words were nearly drowned out in cries and shouts. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I grew up, a curious woman, a woman of story ghosts and story devils, a woman prone to bad dreams and bad insomnia. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Billy wasn’t a Catholic, even though he grew up with a ghastly crucifix on the wall. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I had not seen my son and daughter since before the trial and they had become adults in the interim, growing up without me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Long weedy grass grew up, as high as the porch floor. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z We talk first about his family, or three families, really—the one he grew up in, the family he built with the woman he married, and his most enduring family, the one at Truman High. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Rose said her mother didn’t grow up in St. Nick and never really visited Rose’s grandma Betty much. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “Some people don’t know when it’s time to grow up, that’s all,” you add. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Most of his memories of growing up at the Temple of Lkossa were good, but that didn’t mean it had been perfect. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Grandma was born in Belize City, Belize, where she also grew up. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He would grow up and she would be proud of him and he would take care of her all of her days. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought she had been cheated out of something very important and might grow up thwarted. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Don’t forget I grew up right around the corner from you.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z This was exceedingly hard to do, because one of the heads was immortal and the others almost as bad, inasmuch as when Hercules chopped off one, two grew up instead. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z That I am going to grow up, and what is going to happen to him? The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “If someone is a janitor, that’s noble, it’s a respectable job. But they should make sure their kids grow up to own a cleaning business.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I grew up in a house where the only regular guests were my relations. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Johnson: Another thing you learn about growing up is you got to leave a tip. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A child growing up on a farm surrounded by animals would naturally befriend some of them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Henry already hears nearly everything about Alex’s current life, but talking about how they grew up has always been some invisible line of demarcation. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z |
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