But the morning air was cool and fresh and it seemed to bring Charles around a little. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You’re doing a great job, son, but no more sneaking around at night—especially with your sister. You hear me?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Tired of letting other people move him around like a chess piece. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Jonas had blinked, looked around, and then tested his eyesight, squinting at the small print on the identification badge attached to his tunic. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I saw Dinitia around town once or twice after that, and we waved but never spoke again. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve played around on my piano and come up with some original stuff, but mostly simple melodies. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

There’s no way she doesn’t realize I’m in here....She smiles at something on her phone, tap-tap-tap-tap-taps around, and after literally two seconds, there’s the ping of an incoming text. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

But Gregory escorted her around the door and before either of us knew it, we were in the same room and in each other’s arms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked around Wall Street, recalling the hushed tones in which their parents had talked about the place in 1929. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I looked around the room that I had never in my wildest fantasies imagined I would see. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is definitely a surprise,” I say, looking around at all of them, so full of appreciation. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Forcing my feet to move, I made my way toward the boathouse and saw that the trash was strewn everywhere, like it had been kicked around. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Miles whipped around, yelling at them in rapid German. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Spirits flurried around inside her to rejuvenate whatever damage had been done as she rose and took an uneasy step forward. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

All around me is the pounding of Dauntless fists. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And he stood in the cockpit listening, perhaps, with the fog closed in around him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We stood silently around Dante’s telescope in the middle of the desert as we waited for our turn to see all the contents of the sky. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Local survivors of tragedy are invariably quoted on TV as saying something like, “I can’t understand it. Nothing like that has ever happened around here before.” Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too hot to do anything but lie around or read or watch TV. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons he played pickup basketball at the Y, and then at night he drove around town in his father’s car, mostly alone, or with a six-pack of beer, cruising. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of German soldiers is standing around a fire built in a trash bin. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She tries to smile around Taj and is trying hard not to let Dray unravel her. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Gabe knotted the rope around the slender trunk of a nearby sapling and glanced back at the small, leaky failure of a boat that he had been so proud of a short time before. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Several of the cubicles around me were unoccupied, awaiting the arrival of other new indents. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen boys were sitting around Slughorn, all on harder or lower seats than his, and all in their mid-teens. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Are you all right?” he murmured, stepping around to face me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And how the woods were so dark that you couldn’t see anything around you, and you’d look up and see a billion stars in the sky. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The robot didn’t pay any attention to me, so I wandered around the greenhouse, nibbling on leaves and drinking from puddles. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Peach slid his fingers around to the sides of his face and opened his eyes. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

His question curls around me like smoke, sliding over and under my skin, and through my dress. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

During the Mass, Ma tightened a leather belt around her belly, the way some old Haitian women tightened rags around their middles when grieving. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

They stood around a yard that seemed very large to Jimmy. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Michael tries to play it cool, whipping off his name fast, but Aimee’s tongue curls around the corner of her mouth as she writes. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The three of us are gathered around the open box. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was hopping around the shiny piece of foil, eyeing it from one direction and another. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The room began to fold in around me. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Shipments of opium had to go out every day to keep money moving around the empire. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, you walk a couple of quick blocks and then stop to look around: people with their coffee cups, people with their phones, people with their friends. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The desk was still there, but now it had a big aluminum coffee urn sitting on it, with Styrofoam cups, creamer, and sugar spread out around it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

You tell him about the invisible lines of meaning you feel stretching and winding through and around the people in your life. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Juniors and sophomores crowded around the punch bowl and snack table, and a few brave theater kids were already out on the dance floor. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A landscaping crew was setting pink and white petunias into the new pine straw mulch around the shrubs. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He just sort of hovers around us, and since Erin and I are pretty easygoing people, we don’t really mind, but we start to get curious. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk past one of the lean-tos and see a little girl crouching just inside the door, her arms wrapped around her knees. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He shouldn’t have left this spoor around, in case anyone was looking for him. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sniffed it all around and tested it with her tongue. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Soon we were being tossed around like rubber toys in a bathtub. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And I lay down next to Lil and I put my arm around her and felt her relax into me. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She gathered George, Florah, Maria and me around her and embraced us. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the guides usher me into a row, I scan the crowd around me and try to match up some of these people with their Warcross personas. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m tired of carrying around the weight of the world. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Triads are the chords around which every harmonic, or chordal, journey is structured, in virtually all the Western music written between the early fifteenth century and our own time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Just a big Saracen wearing the king’s colors, wandering around France? You two go hide in nice, safe houses. I’ll wait until they find me and set me on fire.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then, with an expectant glance around, “Well, let’s get started,” he threw the big, heavy ball at me. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she flew north and farther north, into the fogs and gales around Svalbard, the kingdom of Iorek Byrnison, the armored bear. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Back around the end of the World War and in the 1920s, players would quit baseball to make more money. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind strengthened and blew paper cups and empty cigarette packs in eddies around the parking lots. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he looked confident as he gazed around the room, waiting for his audience to settle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I looked around at all the other people sitting with us, wondered if any of them were going to Mexico too. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He saw a long line of dark wagons, a band of Provost guards, men gathered in groups around stacked rifles, small fires. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were getting good, too, until Major and Sonny and Hollis began hanging around the playground, making remarks and kicking balls out of their hands. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the car swerving around the corner and Dante standing in the middle of the street holding a bird with a broken wing. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He’s contemplating texting Henry, even though he’s probably somewhere over the Atlantic, when a voice curls around his ear, smooth and warm. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I don't have to wander around exploring it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners around me seemed to hold their breath, waiting for me to die. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Parvati had her arm around her and was explaining something to Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas, who were looking very serious. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to hear it if she did, but I wasn’t eager to leave the lighted room where my family sat around the friendly fire. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither could she see that around them there were islands rising high above the sea, many islands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every evening, Grandma insisted we read books around the table after dinner. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Although they tend to cluster in certain places–notably around the rim of the Pacific–they can occur almost anywhere. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I unwound my rope from where I’d packed it coiled around my waist and shook out a loop. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children ran in and out, as usual, and he took breaks for reading the mail, striding around the Sandwalk, listening to Emma read, playing backgammon, and writing letters. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She swung around above and loosed a dozen arrows into the melee. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly one of the boys leaped up, darted past Mrs. Ames, and ran around the corner of the house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They kicked the ball around for a while, then Beans said, “Let’s go to the park.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Taker tosses his arm around her shoulders. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It surprised her, how many men and women were in Abba, gathered at the square for the meeting, crowded around the ancient udala tree. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It wasn't too bad for a while because there weren't many people around and I could stick my feet up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

A few torches burned in. sconces at the near end where a group of Ser Amory's guards sat around a scarred wooden table, talking and playing at tiles. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Elves race around the pine in miniature Dodge sedans. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“And there are hundreds of kids here just roaming around unchecked?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The mariposas swirled and twirled around us like dark snowflakes in the surreal light of dusk, making the moment almost magical in its beauty. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

After a concerted effort, the body finally floats down the river, his long hair spreading around. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opens her mouth to say something, and then quickly closes it, spinning around to take us the rest of the way to our floor. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A muscle twitched unpleasantly at the corner of Snape’s thin mouth every time he looked at Harry, and he was constantly flexing his fingers, as though itching to place them around Harry’s throat. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m strong enough to make my way around the house. Mother Smith doesn’t have to worry about us no more.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned around, saw Rondell standing outside the store across the street, holding his clipboard, waiting for people to walk past so he could give them his magical pitch. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

At the front of the rank an authoritative cluster of state troopers and policemen marched ahead, heads bent, talking in low voices as a barking German shepherd dog circled around them at a trot. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After dinner, all nine kids gathered around the fire. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“They go around investigating everyone and then disappearing them.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She was wearing an orange dress with silver sequins at the hem and gold sequins sprinkled around its gauzy sleeves. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

But he wouldn’t take the phone, or even turn around in his seat to face me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She scooped a handful of silver coins from Hedge’s baseball cap, grabbed duct tape from the coach’s supply bag and began taping coins around her blade. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The dog, his barking more insistent now, ran past the children and around to the back of the house. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Peewee turned over in his bunk and pulled his sheet up around his shoulders. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shapes of people and objects burned themselves into my retinas and stayed there, floating around behind my eyelids like hungry ghosts. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He watched the other men at the party bow, too, clustering around Chief, jostling to outlaugh one another when Chief made a joke. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The owl dropped its letter onto Harry’s seat and began zooming around their compartment, apparently very pleased with itself for accomplishing its task. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Plus, a mosquito the size of a small bat has found its way around the screen, too. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And then she grabs my elbow with her sharp pincerlike grasp and turns me around. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Melissa Hoffman, one of the seventh graders, starts roaming around and comes across a radio, right by the entrance doors. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I ran until the sound of blood pulsing in my ears was louder than the thoughts in my head; then I turned around and ran back, swinging around the pasture to the red railroad car. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But Ash slipped around him and pushed through the doorway. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at my friends because I didn’t want to look at the puddle of yellow, growing bigger and bigger around our egg. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I look around, hoping something else will grab his attention. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her legs stop circling in the pool, the water still swirling around her calves, but she tells me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Posters of musicians are hung all around the room: Ella Fitzgerald, Beethoven, Bob Marley, the Beatles, Marian Anderson. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I can just imagine what your father and mother would say if they knew you were running around with filthy trollops like that one. Your father is a very distinguished man, you know.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I’d seen all the Star Wars movies before, but this time, the music swirled around the theater, bouncing off the walls, giving me goose bumps. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

One of the yellowish-green lights is behind it, coming out in rays from around the head. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We came to another crowd of people, gathered around something on the sidewalk. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Around and around their words circled, and Dorian stared at them blankly. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then he came around the curve, and she saw him. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Gryffindors were gathered around Ron, who kept belching large, glistening slugs. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

In the weeks I’m idle I can do anything I like, get up in the morning, stay in bed, take long walks out the country like my father, wander around Limerick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was fuzzily contemplating picking it up when Mrs. Bernoffski wiped the back of her hand across her mouth and wrapped her thick fingers around my knee. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Were they hanging from lampposts with signs around their necks? Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Baby Wilson messed around on the front porch—and Baby wasn’t more than four years old. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I thought I might get messed around with some chick and pick up AIDS, but I wasn’t that worried about it because I knew how it spread around. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, I spied the broken space in the latticework that wrapped around the foundation of the house. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is quiet for a while and I think I hear Arthur listening to the radio and the boys’ footsteps as they’re running around. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She told me that the other night she dreamed she had come into the apartment and set fire to all my books and notes, and that we went off dancing around the flames. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

One overcast morning, as I was pushing the boiled egg around on my plate, Ali walked in cradling a pile of chopped wood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached the entrance to the cave, Neel shone the light inside the hollow while his sister peered around his shoulder. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

But his eyes kept darting around, his jaw was clenched, and his arms were folded across his chest. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Highly enjoyable though it was to swim in hot and foamy water with clouds of different-colored steam wafting all around him, no stroke of brilliance came to him, no sudden burst of understanding. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I managed to sit up and look around. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m telling you to be careful around Joseph Brook,” said Mr. Canton. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The head editor, Mr. Stieglitz, stood in the doorway, his gloved hand curled around the silver head of his cane. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Here everyone, have a small taste. We have to save some,” Ma says as we gather around her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We circled around the drive and pulled up by the wide floodlit entrance marked Emergency. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He gave them rides around the neighborhood in his new car. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Lelia pulls my hand around her and tucks it inside the lapel of her blazer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys circled around to find blond and perky Anna Archie on one knee, aiming her price gun at a stack of electrical outlets sitting next to a box of massaging showerheads. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

As it was Halloween, a cloud of live bats was fluttering around the enchanted ceiling, while hundreds of carved pumpkins leered from every corner. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I feel around for a few seconds before I find it, and when I do, my throat pinches, and I can’t swallow. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When they sat on the couch Momma and Dad quit talking like nobody was around and got real careful about what they said. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think around three miles,” I said, and then explained how I made that judgment and how we’d measure it when the time came. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A sliver of a man could be seen looking out at them, a man with long black hair parted in curtains around a sallow face and black eyes. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“You were just playing with us, weren’t you? You just wanted to make sure that even after you left to go have your fun, you were still the axis we spun around.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They gathered the silver to them, mounding it around, piling it high. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were starting to dance around the bull. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

That means she hangs around María de los Santos to make sure nothing happens, rocking in her rocker and falling asleep after a while. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Coach turned stiffly around on the court, jerking his arms and legs as though he were a robot. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“A lot of ducks were put in the lagoons yesterday, and they are floating around contentedly and quite like life this morning.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We have finished the interior courtyard walls, and now we're working our way around the outside of the building. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Through the glass, I make out the shapes of three sea lions doing laps around the rocks, their flippers stretched out and noses pointed forward. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Glancing around her room, the assassin let out a long sigh. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The girl drew her shawl tight around her and pushed his hand away. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Even his face was different around animals, with the expression of polite distance he always wore for humans replaced by something concentrated and alive. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially having lost Anthony’s goodwill, I have to imagine, by sniffing around his Hanes. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

All around the cafeteria, people were doing the exact same thing we were doing at our lunch table: staring at Auggie and Summer eating together. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

So by the time Tata Ndu gets around to saying something, you can be pretty sure the whole village is talking to you. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I struggle to make sense of the voices that are boiling up all around me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

There she is in her violet dress over the green skirt over the yellow skirt, bare feet, orange ribbons around her ankles and in her chippy-choppy hair. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Snape was wringing his hands: He looked a little mad, with his straggling black hair flying around him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He shouldn’t have been pushing his weight around. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I watch as Auntie Seema flings a multicolored scarf around her neck and lets it drape down her back. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She moved to step around the doorman, but he shifted to block her. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Add that to all the chive, dillweed, and lemon balm growing around the porch and the smell could knock you over. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked in her pretty brown eyes and felt something flipping around in my stomach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They swarm around my framed art, hovering at the wall like bees, making bids for the silent auction and walking away, then coming back again to see if anyone else has made a bid. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Should we just sit around on our butts and wait to be snuffed by the Grievers?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Frowning, she gently arranged her covers around Fleetfoot, and stroked the dog’s head for a moment. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As I came back around I looked all over for Mitt. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama held Akira as if he were an infant, his hands around her neck the way he liked to do when Mama felt like babying him. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Shells were hitting the water all around us,” Jesse Smith told me later. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of us on the court stopped running around. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

And now...in some way he couldn't entirely wrap his mind around, she was...well...that was it, wasn't it? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The world around us changes, and suddenly we are no longer standing on the deck of the Pirate’s Den, but on top of a skyscraper, illuminated by a bloodred sky. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So while my friends got to have pool parties and sleepovers, I got to walk around one battlefield after another, posing for pictures with cannons and Colonial reenactors. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I got back to the lounge area around the same time as my sister—I guess she got a delivery too. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

On a number of occasions that meant that Spindle himself got buffeted around. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then we come around to the farmhouse, which is a totally different thing altogether. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

We eat around the fire, which turns brighter as the shadows grow out from the trees like darker branches. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looks around, and then back at me, frowning. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Reporters started following Mom around—even into the bathroom in a store—and she lost her patience. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Aid around the Chamber many Revolutions & that is good. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It was around this point, also, that I was able to establish some facts concerning her present circumstances. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

So I turn around, walk back to the library, and talk to the librarian. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

They are just taking advantage of her, bossing her around. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mine was simple: a “KK” with a circle around it, standing for Kid Kupid, an alter ego I assumed to advertise my largely imaginary prowess with the young ladies. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He tried to look away from the books, to the guards that were arraying themselves around the pyre. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We swung around back to the parking lot and—yes— there was a car, and another car. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Nothing’s happening here,” is what they say, and many of their conversations revolve around their plans for escape. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dale looked around as if someone might be watching. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to be playing shows around town?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

But, instead, he checked around the side of the church, found a door with a bell, and rang it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Later, when he visited his father at his clock shop, Hugo watched him carefully, and then when he grew restless he made little mechanical animals out of the extra bits and pieces lying around. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

So they built a broad, straight highway, six lanes wide in places, with concrete dividers down the middle and outsized sodium street lamps that light the night sky for miles around. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Gay’s Beggar’s Opera was produced by the impresario John Rich, so the saying around town was that the venture had 'made Rich gay and Gay rich’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The mist was rising all around us from the fields. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept turning around to see what he was doing back there, but he was just strolling along smiling. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He tried not to, but he had to turn around again. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

From far off, it looks like hundreds of beetles ringed around a single dome of light. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

So it came around that she had been married a week and sent Pheoby a card with a picture on it. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I’m a little early for Thursday’s rehearsal, so I slip out the side door of the auditorium and walk around to the back of the school. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

On February 21, 1994, more than a hundred agents and other personnel quietly staked out the neighborhood around his house. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around; the dementors were falling back on both sides of them, melding into the darkness, scattering before the silver creatures. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But ten minutes later, when Roosevelt’s canoes came around a sharp turn, they were unexpectedly swept into another series of rapids. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

At the end of the path was a huge, rectangular hole in the earth that seemed about a half mile around. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I put on his clothes and drifted around the house looking for something but I didn’t know what. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I almost turn around twice on my way to Mrs. Janssen’s. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Liam whirled around, his finger on the trigger, his face set in stone. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was done by rotating the boom and wrapping the sail around it, like a rolled up window shade, until it was reduced enough so the wind couldn’t blow the boat over. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no one else around, though you can hear the cries of kids playing in their back gardens, taking advantage of the last of the summer sunshine before they get called in for dinner. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around them lights glimmered through the mists, a hundred candles pale as shrouded stars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The ice cubes made a weird rattling noise as they swirled around in the big drum. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Then, with every ounce of his strength, he twisted the foot around. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Water flowed in and around them, making pools that looked warm in the sun. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her long, greasy hair whipped around, and the demon swatted at it, trying to brush it back without touching it. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Always on the day when Doug ate six eggs for breakfast, he ran around and around a big track and people clapped and gave him a shiny medal. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk around one of the plates on the right side to the back of the stage, which rises at an angle from the ground. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Only to Gwydion did he bow; then, taking a seat at the table, he cast a cool glance of appraisal on those around him. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately, a wave surged up from nowhere and engulfed the boar, wrapping around it like a blanket. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The solitary gray animal loped along the shore, stopping every dozen strides to look around and sniff among the rocks. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But he shot out an arm to the back of the chair and braced himself as his spare arm wrapped around her middle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Although Dasch and his men were allowed to move freely through the U-boat, it was difficult to walk around much because it was too jam-packed. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She looked around and tried to envision what this city would have looked like when magic simmered just beneath its surface. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Whenever I went up there to clean the stable, I walked around the house, not through it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“You better not take this one, Mr. Randolph. It’s got all these fat women jumping around.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

And to have that rubbed in my face by my one kindred spirit, the only person around who was more of an outsider than I was—it was the ultimate insult. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It feels like only days ago she placed it around my neck. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t really like being around so many people. I find it kind of overwhelming,” I say truthfully. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Do you think we can fly around until we spot him?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He wanders through paths expecting to see Poppet around every corner, but he is met with only stripes and emptiness. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She cast bubbles around Fyrian, and bubbles around the goats and bubbles around each chicken and a very large bubble around the house, lest she accidentally allow their home to burst into flames. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But we circle around him like he’s still the baby he used to be. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Well, I thought, after dinner we’d go into the living room and sing around the piano. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a peek around because there’s a chance that after tonight, I’ll never be invited into this room again. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Small piles of old flowers were scattered around it. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

This topic had occupied my thinking for a while because all the adults around me were always discussing what it meant to be white, or the advantages of being light skinned among our people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The grooms were walking around with their faces fixed in permanent winces. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little kids play outside, kicking up dust while their parents mill around, faces drawn and blank, fear in their eyes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A rope runs up to the platform, around a pulley, and back down. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“They were two big white guys. And there won’t be too many people around at ten o’clock. I just think it’s a good idea to have some backup.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The Preacher said, “If it was me, I’d circle around and come from the south. You all go look north. I’m not expecting any trouble. These are my woods, I know what’s what out here.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It had what looked like rays of light bursting out of a roaring tyrannosaurus in the center, and the words “K of the G C” were scrawled around the circumference. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And yet I’d be surprised, I had to admit, if anything in myself could be as cold, as dark, as centuries old as the presence I felt around me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around us, the room was splattered and streaked with red, yellow, and blue. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He looked at the paper and saw a black-and-white map of the South Side, around the borders of which was a shaded portion an inch deep. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the break room later that night, I use a compact mirror to examine the green ring around my neck in the reflection. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He was already concerned that Bri wasn’t eating when he wasn’t around to supervise her. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Never blushes or turns around to hide herself, just changes her clothes. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

That night, we ate carry-out from the sushi restaurant around the corner from Dad’s office. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I helped him construct a sturdy stick barricade around the periphery so the jungle animals and village goats would not come in and wreck our tender vegetables when they came. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in silence and stared at the taxidermed school of fish the doctor had mounted all around the walls. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Hanako was chilly and knew her brother would be too, so she wrapped her arms around him. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Together they started sniffing around in the underbrush. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a mob of kids outside like always, pushing and laughing and standing around talking, even though it was still freezing and had started to rain. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Cain began laughing, and she felt the reverberations of his steps as he walked around the ring. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I handed it to the cashier, hoping she would read it, and no one around me would hear. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I do step into the knee-high grass—if you can even call the crunchy brown stuff grass—and head around the right side of the house. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He circled around Bobby, helpless to help but wanting to, even though he was told to “go away.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Truck drivers circle their vehicles, getting onto their hands and knees to check around the axles. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“All you people who think you can boss me around.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He sat in a wheelchair, striped in Bayside Press colors, and admired the golden hare medallion still on display around the bust of Poe. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I tighten the cloak around me and realize that I’ve started to sweat in the warmth of the night. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I looked around for Stephanie and found her in conversation with a few juniors. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Each noise bounces around the walls of my head like a rubber ball. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

In the courtyard around his church lots of boys hanging out, talking, playing with an old soccer ball. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma looked all around and said, “We can’t be dead. We were alive just a minute ago.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Next thing I know, Lara is throwing an arm around my shoulder and snapping a quick selfie. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I nod and try hard not to stare at the white fabric wrapped around Pri’s chest. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I tell Calvin, “Stuff goes missing, is all. That’s how it is around my house.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I spent nearly every waking moment around Nikki, and I loved her dearly. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

As I walked around the campus, this thought came to mind: How wonderful it would be to go to a university like this! While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It did not seem to be any nearer to the edge of the wood, the trees were thick, on all sides around them. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He heard the car door shut behind him but didn’t turn around. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The key seemed to get heavier around her neck and warmer against her skin. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The baleen began to bead around his lips. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After burning all the letters, he got out a hammer and nails and boarded up the cracks around the front and back doors so no one could go out. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She takes a moment to look around—at the ornate mantelpiece above the fireplace, the decorated oak moldings and brass chandelier. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

After a long while the snow ceased to fall around him, and the wind to blow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hunted around until I saw the broom leaning in a closet. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the only forest around here with caves, and I’m pretty sure the Nightbeast is currently hibernating. Otherwise, it would be roaming around freely and eating witches.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I turn around so I don’t have to stare at Frank while I talk. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

They wound their way around a group of students chattering in the doorway. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The boy’s hair was grayish-brown, cut short in the front around his face but left long and stringy on the sides. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He scooped up the bedding and he folded it and wrapped the tarp around it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She straightened, glancing around, but she saw only trees. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Eyes all around were turning to them, and she could only look up at Ma Costa for reassurance. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I swiveled around and stared down the blackened street, searching the night for a silhouetted figure. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As I finished the last weave, she turned around. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He wrapped his tongue around the toothpick, swirling it from side to side. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I’ve never been to a party before, didn’t know it was like being miles and miles underground, where demons walk around with their hair on fire. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

My father had wrapped a tarp around himself. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they follow you around the store, keep your cool. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They stood shyly around the basket on their front porch. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me go,” I plead, jerking my head around first to Grady and then to Bill. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember seeing those lines around her mouth. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

She looks around, under tables, in my cage, by the trash can. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

So they all got into the big bobsled, cosy and warm, and Pa tucked the last robe well in around them. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rifle fire from shore hits the water around her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"Is anything wrong?" he said, getting up hurriedly and coming around the desk. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marlena asks obligingly, lifting her other leg and wrapping the broad satin ribbon around her ankle. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Max swung around and followed him, and I did too, because I was swept up in all the silliness. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It softens the lines around her sharp nose and pointed chin. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt ice-cold tentacles wrapping around my stomach. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

There, at noon and again at around three in the afternoon, unnoticed by others in the furniture store, we would rinse our hands, faces and mouths, and softly meditate. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mohammed’s mother looked unchanged, too, with the ring in her nose and the silk scarves around her head. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This foreboding, this muted dread, was what she had sensed around her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As everyone stirred in their sleeping shelves, we looked around at one another, wondering where our jailers were. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t been around, but maybe he’s been too shy to reach out. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t even hear much speaking from anyone walking around us. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She hated to disturb him, but she was eager to take some turns around the Sandwalk with Papa. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We got a lot of food from the bodega. And Jimmy’s around in case we need any help until Papi gets home.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I looked around at the posters of LeBron on the wall, from when he played for Cleveland the first time. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He did some running around, but pretty much stayed out of trouble. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Taking Lillian’s hand and bowing dramatically, Bull pulled his wife to her feet, held her close to his body, and they began to waltz around the veranda. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three of them were chasing a raggy-tailed rooster around the courtyard. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fire Department sources said that replacing the ruined equipment would cost “around $50,000.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Undying were all around her, blue and cold, whispering as they reached for her, pulling, stroking, tugging at her clothes^ touching her with their dry cold hands, twining their fingers through her hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"I owe it all to my dad," he told reporters, and cameras flashed again as Doug flung an arm around the proud Mr. Hoo. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve noticed him sneaking around a lot lately. And I bet I know what he’s up to. He thinks he’s going to catch Slytherin’s heir single-handed.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Right now it’s hovering a few inches from my face, pale and smooth around the bone. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

What I know about her from Jupe: she does a lot of social justice stuff—organizes protest marches and goes around to high schools, ours included, to get students “active in their communities.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

She found her mother and Lai on the ground, people stumbling over and around them. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

For three days, the air around Nya's home was filled with the sound of the d rill. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one was formed of a heavy spiral of white shell and had a hole bored at the center to allow it to be hung around the neck. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were gathered around him in the courtyard. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

That the student council was in open revolt against Mr. Davies, the moderator, without Nicole around. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I don’t stick around to hear what else Mikey Sanders’s got to say. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The wind swirled around him, gravel crunched beneath his boots, while ahead the white ribbon followed the lines of the hills, rising higher and higher, until it was lost beyond the western horizon. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He’s still in his fancy work clothes, but the tie is loose around his neck. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the apartment, Jule shoved the stack of mail upside down in a drawer and hid her wallet while Brooke wandered around. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Right there, from her perch on her rollator, Aunt Nancy cups her wrinkled hands around her wrinkled mouth. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Ocean rollers can travel 12,000 miles around the globe at the sixtieth parallel and never bump into anything. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Werfel kept talking in this way until he looked around and realized that his guest was no longer by his side. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

For Terryl, the exhilaration around learning was a sign of the enthusiasm she tried to instill in her children, tried to exhibit for them. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was running as fast as I could around the fountain and through the town square with a bag of eggs to deliver to the Doctorita. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked all around the room before realizing that the voice had issued from Dedalus’s pocket watch. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

For now, we ran around on the playground until the lineup bell rang and our teachers stood at the head of our lines. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Her father turned around so abruptly that the book almost fell from her hand. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Digger had cupped his hands around the cigarette to relight it after the wind put it out. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was not only their tongues curling around toothpicks that kept Helene from asking information of them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The doors slide shut and she spins around to look at me, her face like thunder. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I turn in a circle, staring around at the fortune of librex cast in a magical haze. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was my age, with unruly black, punk-style hair, dark eyeliner around her stormy green eyes, and freckles across her nose. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe I let you talk me into this,” and he gestured around the room. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A growl echoed around the room before it faded to a soft purr. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Attitude, girl,” she says, switching her butt around, dipping and turning like a fashion model. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then, unfortunately, my dad took me to the movies at around that same time. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He tipped his hat at her and turned back around to wait for the trolley. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When no one is around, I bite my fingers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But three summers ago, he turned eighteen, moved in with Madrina, and started acting funny around us—with an almost full beard, and a much deeper voice. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

So the four of us sat around the table and shared our blessings. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Daddy sets the cake on the patio table, and everybody crowds around it and Seven. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He swung his arms around wildly, attracting odd looks from passing students. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I walk my bike around the skeletons of dead trees and desiccated vines onto the dirt path into the woods. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

His fingers closed on what he wanted, and he produced the key to the chain around his waist. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes—each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

As he grappled and punched I somehow managed to twist and wriggle my way around him and slip out the door. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Other strikes broke out around the country, and Debs began planning a nationwide general strike to begin in July. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I caught an abiding sense of insecurity in the personalities of the people around me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We darted around, trying to keep the white Camp Half-Blood van in sight. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Howard was pacing around Santa Anita, a rabbit’s foot working overtime in his pocket. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taisin met her halfway and put her arms around her, holding her tight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“So, Hiram, you got your wish to stick around in Greenwood a little longer. You been enjoying the extra summer vacation?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

His arm wraps around me and he lifts me up, holding me against him, his hands clutching at my back. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I let my hair drop as I spun around. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then she spun around to check on the biscuits in the oven. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I shot around Carl’s shop and then I went down and shot the two pit bulls outside the bicycle shop. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

When they arrived at the creek bank, Atticus turned around with a hearty “Everybody out!” and the smile froze on his face: “Where’s Jem?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Half happy, half sad, but content all the way around. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Jeanne’s neighbors had begun to gather around the edge of the yard or loiter in the road nearby. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The worry lines around her eyes, the pained tightness in her mouth reminded Jason of his sister, Thalia. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His gaze flitted around the hallway behind me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Before going up the gangplank, I turned around and looked at Hankow. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m going around fixing people’s lives, even just for a moment or two. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

All around stretched empty hills in the late, dusk light. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were hugs and greetings all around ... or at least Thalia was friendly. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The others gathered around and stared at the trio, frozen, unsure of what to do. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The other men and the equipment glided down all around him. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drove them into the middle of a forest, got out, looked around, shook his head, got back in the car, and off they went again. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

But my name has solidified around me, with time. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I dart behind the barriers on the opposite side of the course, getting out of the way just as a runner comes around the bend. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Both Zu and I whirled around just in time to see the SUV swerve back into the right lane. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Mars is in an almost circular orbit around the sun, at a distance of about 142 million miles. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waves foamed around the shore and the rocks that lurked beneath the surface. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned around as I said it, speaking too loudly by accident. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Woolf angled Seabiscuit out to go around Today and gave him a whack with his whip. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I dress in white like a nun, I feel the stain of sin, of mortality, around me like a bright girdle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The half-dozen men there playing pool turned around at the sound of Feather’s voice. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

What could spell victory louder than a happy Mockingjay twirling around to music? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

If you’re sorry, turn this old crate around and take me back. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

And there was no one else around, because tourists don’t like getting up so early in the morning. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

That suits me just fine, gives me a reason to drag around my beat-up volumes of Langston Hughes and Claude McKay. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed one at random and turned around. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“But you do. You know yourself. So how come you don’t go live somewhere with people? Tell me the truth. That’s the rule around here, right?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She looked at Lucas, who gazed around with curious but happy eyes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she was flying around with the other fairies. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Loud as the mower was, it still wasn’t moving and the blade wasn’t going around. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Nothing hurts more than celebrating your mother’s birthday on Christmas Eve when she’s not around. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then he repeated his efforts with several of the weapons lying around the bottom of the tank and managed to break three tridents, a sword, and a speargun. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He looked around once more in the entrance hall before leaving the house, but Meggie ducked down behind a chest just in time. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He’d brought the boy around on the lee side of him when suddenly the beach before them appeared shuddering out of the blackness and vanished again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He sat in his basement headquarters, recuperating, while we crept around the house and Mommy walked about silently, eyes still red-rimmed, on edge. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell them I went north,” I gasped as I picked up my skirts and darted around the forge to the south. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around the country, folks were having hard times. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, one at a time, he inserted two different metal probes about three inches deep into the wound, moving each around inside Garfield's body in an attempt to locate the bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There are other children hanging around the fence today. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Fasten this around your waist,” he says, then proceeds to untangle three adjustable straps that have little clamps on both ends. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Just make sure I ain’t dying, was what I was thinking as the cuff tightened around my arm. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The mountain was dark blue and all around it the sky was gushing and glistening with light. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other boys were all moving around the field in that deliberately languorous way they have when they’re warming up, but Tommy, in his excitement, seemed already to be going full pelt. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police car and the hearse had vanished around a bend in the drive. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Dad, sitting in a chair and holding a walking stick as if it were a tiller, would bark out orders while maneuvering his imaginary craft around a tricky harbor. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

For him the fair had been a brilliant light that for a time dispelled the shadows that had accumulated around his life. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She adjusted her bonnet and pulled her cloak around her against the early autumn breeze. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The marble street echoed with our footsteps, and the mist curling around our waists was the only other thing moving as we made our way to the gate. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There were tracks of the wild dogs around the spring, and among them I saw the large ones of Rontu. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lark is busy clapping her hands and twirling around the living room. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I looked around the chapel and was again struck by how many women were wearing skirts cut above the knee. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In total silence, hundreds of cockroaches were dancing around Boots. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How would it be if we simply asked where around here Einstein lives?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voices of the angels blew in through a vent above my head and echoed in the room around me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“He found him, down there somewhere. Lone Bear had been shot through the chest. But it was so cold, the blood froze around the wound and stopped the bleeding.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

This Sun Maiden world of baths and fine jewelry and formal hair weaving was foreign to her, and she was no longer the prettiest girl whose beauty demanded the attention of everyone around her. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He was standing there, hopping around as he aimed his weapon, waiting until he could risk firing the Transvice at the woman. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He eases his arms around my waist and my whole body warms. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The midnight air is hot and dry, but that doesn’t stop me from wrapping my arms around myself. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We crept slowly closer, finally coming around a tall tree, and there we saw Mama sitting in front of a headstone. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Heads all around the room turned in their direction. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I felt her legs wrapped around mine and I wanted her. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He looked around for the bird now because he would have liked him for company. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why would you want to be around sadness all the time?” she asked. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The girl walked up the stairs so quickly that Victor hardly got a chance to look around. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

As she picked hers up, she looked carefully around. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They step inside, joining a line that ascends a curving stairway around the perimeter, separated from the interior of the tent by a heavy black curtain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

White Shell Girl leaped and tried to wrap her fingers around its neck. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His other hand is draped around Isaac’s shoulder, whose sunglasses are turned not quite toward the camera. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It’s kinda cool to watch the blues and pinks and yellows swirl around and get soapy. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“I am just one man. I don’t know how to fight everything that is happening around me. I don’t understand how one man can own another. And I don’t know how to stop it.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need to look around a bit,” she said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We walked inside and sat down on logs around a fireplace. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My socks are puddled down around my loafers, and my headband has slipped back on my head. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The grass around the grave behind Gram’s—the one belonging to Isabella Fortune, Gram’s teacher who died really young—has been tidied up recently, and someone’s planted a little rosebush by it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They gathered in the drawing room around the piano. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached up to stretch my arms partway around her waist and hugged her as tight as I could. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She wore a traditional Korean costume, the shortened brocade vest and billowing long skirt in bright yellow and red silk and rainbow bands around the oversized sleeves. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at Vocational when they read about the Jew in ‘Ivanhoe’ the other kids would look around at Harry and he would come home and cry. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She looked around in alarm, then rolled over and threw up, water splashing everywhere. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Young men and older boys were posted around the large horse herd to keep watch. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Most of my life revolved around school and church. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

For weeks, my father and I fumbled around like ducks in a fit. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Two days after publication, Victoria Woodhull and her sister Tennessee Claflin were distributing three thousand copies of the paper around town when US marshals stopped them. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They were moving around on the hill to the east. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The floor around it was cracked—but it still held his weight. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The nice librarian, with glasses dangling from her neck, comes toward us, stops, her face puzzled, then steps around me and squeezes Sarah’s shoulders. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

She lay in the snow, a pile of bones, feeling the air whip around her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

That is, until she felt iron clamp around her arms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They crowd around me, flashing signs and breathing close. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Wedged among mattresses, bed frames, chests, tables, and stacks of cardboard boxes, a big golden dog panted and lurched around, excited by the smells of the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m just looking around. I was thinking about applying.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But I beat the throw and heard the umpire call out, “Safe all around! One in!” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I allow myself a glance around the room. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“You really think we gon’ let them talk to our daughter and twist her words around because she doesn’t have a lawyer?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He had, since the whipping, seemed in a perpetual irritation, glowering around the rooms, leaving company often, saying he wished to ascertain whether matter still subsisted in his chamber. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even if it was just Christina, and no one else was around, I would still want to strangle her right now. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We start walking around the main path in the park. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He walks around the front of the car. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I just turned around and told her to keep the door dosed and don’t stay in the tub too long and bring her towels down to the laundry when she was through.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear him in there banging around. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was blue-collar all the way, located inside a corrugated metal shell; metal shavings covered the floor around the heavy equipment, which filled the shop with a regular hum. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Still, he was one of the finest cooks around. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stooped down and put his arms around Adam’s shoulders and helped him to his feet. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hearse fishtailed and swung around on the empty road before it stopped. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

As the pastor leaves the pulpit and the choir stands, Justyce looks around the packed interior of the church. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Dionysus’s twins were walking around in the strawberry fields, making the plants grow. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And somehow we end up horizontal, his hands curved up around my back. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He threw his arms around Coll and wished him good fortune. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

My uncles were quiet and the odor around them was deep and quiet, like damp earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull the comforter up around me, as tight as I can—so that I can’t even see the room anymore—and lie back on my bed like a mummy. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Kin groaned as he walked around the forge to her and leaned over the tall counter, a condescending smile on his face. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Almost everyone in the room started singing along and eventually my dad put his drink down and cut in on Benny and my mom, sliding his arm around her waist. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I was still ticked off because I wasn’t starting but I figured that once I got to play in a game things would turn around. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

And Mom—well, Mom has her own sordid history with the bottle; we’re not even allowed to have root beer around the lady. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

People looked around at them as they passed along the back of the hall, and a few of them pointed at Harry. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The school yard has been more packed than usual with guys from around the way. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The streets curved up and around as the ground rose away from the coast like a spiral. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He dragged me off balance, twisted me around. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s concrete all around the pool, but people have set up deck chairs and sun loungers, and they’ve got large parasols to keep them in the shade. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad dropped onto the couch next to my brother and threw his arm around Daniel before tipping his head back too. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m surprised to see Haymitch moving around his kitchen so early, though. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I liked watching them, all three of them around my truck. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Guitar ran his finger around the rim of his glass. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They kept their distance, forming a half ring around the entrance to Mark’s restaurant. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I do my signature Dinosaur Walk, where I stomp around like a T. rex with Penny in my arms, which always seems to relax her. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She came around the table and hugged me and Bobby Gene to her sides. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He’s holding his left eye shut and there’s blood around his mouth. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“First, we went to Yana Urku and asked around about you, and your parents couldn’t remember where you live, but finally someone at the school told us you were here in the Hotel Otavalo.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran my fingers over the bow tied around the beast’s neck, over its frightening claws, its dangerous tail. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“That ought to teach him not to laze around like this the whole day long.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

She turned her chair around to face the table and occupied herself with her water glass, twisting the stem around, making damp links on the white cloth. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

All around them, women bolted in and out of the kitchen, carried out bowls of qurma, platters of mastawa, loaves of bread, and arranged it all on the sofrah spread on the living-room floor. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Come with me. You can see for yourself. I was horsing around with the cat one day, and I could definitely see it was a ‘he.’ The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She ran around the side of her house and came back rolling a ratty pink bike. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

But what was truly unnerving was that the people around her were not speaking any language she’d ever heard before. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I make her eyes the color of a stormy gray sky to honor the people of Orléans, but add tiny golden sunflowers around the middles to mirror the royal chrysanthemum. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She wore her decorous dresses to morning mass, and around her neck displayed the short single strand of pearls she had received on her fifteenth birthday. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark poked around more, hoping to find some kind of weapon for when that door finally came open. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He waved his hand and cut around the corner to his street. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had deep circles around his eyes, as if he hadn’t slept for days. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When Celeste’s giant hair roll reached the top of her ponytail, she grabbed another hair band and wrapped it around the base of the bun. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I watched him walk around the front of the car, amazed, yet again, by how graceful he was. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He looks thoughtfully at the earmuffs around my neck. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Just as in the Americas, in Australia all of those few candidates except the red kangaroo became extinct around the time of the continent’s first colonization by humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They, too, went to war and conquered other nations around them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looped his greasy hair back around his ears and leaned forward eagerly. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Inside the hogan, a crowd passed brown bottles and silver aluminum cans around. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Stole some stuff. We got in touch with his mother. She says it’s not her fault because he hangs around your place all the time.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn't even stuck around to help us clean up, saying he was "too upset." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

You started hanging around my classes waiting for me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Close around were thick cedars so that she was completely hidden by herself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I turned to peek as Mommy wiped her reddening nose with a handkerchief, a camera strapped around her wrist. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air seemed to fold and bend around him He became a hologram, then a wind, then he was gone, leaving only the smell of fresh-pressed grapes lingering behind. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I look around the room for something to take with me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She looked wildly around and met Lord Roke’s eyes for a fraction of a second, glittering in the darkness near the ceiling. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When Ben turned around, the blade of the knife was up against his throat. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sprinted ahead and vanished around the corner and into the darkness. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But something always made me turn the car around and head back home, something I’d seen from the corner of my eye. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was always meeting one of them—crawling naked on a floor or engaged in a game of marbles or even on a dark street with his arms around a girl. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Every so often she tied a bit of red cloth to a clump of grass or around a conspicuous stone. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In August 1978, the hospital did a scan that showed a half-inch-wide pocket of infection around some of the bones in my forehead. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

When Violet looked closely, she could see there was a large piece of tape across her sister’s mouth, and ropes around her body. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

And from around the wagon stepped a large beetlelike insect dressed in a lavish coat, striped pants, checked vest, spats, and a derby hat. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth put her arm around my waist and leaned against me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father stood there looking around the room. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“No way,” James says, finishing his last bite of burger, wiping his mouth, and looking around the cafeteria. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, they did notice the large, fancy metal box hung around his neck with a chain. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in an olive green dress with a black shawl wrapped tightly around her face against the night chill. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just nice to come home after being around kids all day and have amenities like that,” she said. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There’s the loud yell of Oscar Diaz coming around the corner, dripping and apparently fresh from a swim. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She turns back around and doesn’t give any more looks back. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Thor looked around to see what the noise was, and then he turned back and saw Hymir’s shoulders shaking. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The world within and around me seemed to fade into the unknown. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She sobbed as they dragged her around the corner and out of sight. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Then a seaborne death soft as this hand of mist will come upon you when you are wearied out with rich old age, your country folk in blessed peace around you. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned over and wrapped my arms around Mom’s waist, and we gave each other a big squeeze. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Respected Chairman”—she bowed to Chacko—“mydearjudges and” —she looked around at the imaginary audience crowded into the small, hot room—“beloved friends.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned around and began walking to the west, back toward the bus, back into the fickle heart of the bush. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate crazy girls,” I hear her say more than once, even though there is always plenty of drama swirling around Krause herself. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I turned around and was surprised to see Lynn sitting on the floor next to the couch. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

Then he said, “Excuse me,” and tried to get around Victor. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d driven her around and gotten lost in the dark—a young girl alone in a car in the middle of nowhere with some strange guy, no idea where I was taking her. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Many of the older children were in summer school until around noon, making the mornings especially boring. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He would do the same with very young children, provided no one was watching; when there were other people around, he preferred to play the strong, solitary man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they arrived, Ash followed them into the center of the Square where hundreds of people were gathered around a huge bonfire; the smoke of it rose like the breath of a great dragon. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran up to Candy Man and flung himself at him, wrapping his arms around Candy Man’s legs. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She searched all around the floor, but the camera wasn’t there. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

A livid bruise was rising around Black’s left eye and his nose was bleeding. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Moody and Izzy and Lexie clustered around her, and she saw how they must look to her mother, flushed and wide-eyed and curious. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Halmoni, who is old and has a sleepy blanket face, says that a long time ago Apa was young like me and she could boss him around. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He started hopping around, all fleet of foot. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He never used to fool around,” said Alice quietly, meaning her dæmon. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Its huge, frowning mouth was framed with lashing barbels as thick around as pencils. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They played tag, ring- around-the-rosy, and hopscotch, and danced around the field singing until Grandpa Tommy yelled for everyone to go to bed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Before I left, I took a look around my room and suddenly felt as if I’d returned to it after being gone for fifty years. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was bright over the mountains and sent a shimmering glow across the yard, making shadows that snaked around the dogwood tree and crept along the garden fence. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

"Let's talk about that tomorrow. Today was a lot for us, and I feel almost like I'm walking around in my sleep, scared this is just a dream." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When she was done, her lighter hair bounced into ringlets around her face. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

On a visit back to New York, while driving around Manhattan with his friend Bernard Zuckerman, Bobby made a reference to Satan. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, there is no way to get around this unpleasant fact. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was looking left and right, though the collar around his neck prevented him from seeing the pole and Keepers behind him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The broom dog rested on his lap as he scribbled words and phrases trying to describe the environment around him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Plus if cargo is going to shift around or break things, I want to know about it now. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were playing volleyball in the alley when he drove up in this great big yellow Cadillac with whitewalls and a yellow scarf tied around the mirror. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He winked at the girls, kissed his aunt on top of her head, and cakewalked around the kitchen table. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a split second, Birch had a hand around Massey’s throat, and I found myself joining him in pushing the inmate against the wall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn the villagers on their way to the fields would stand around the fence and look. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Uncle Jet told Nali what he had been feeling, Nali called around and, with the help of the IHS Zero Suicide Initiative, was able to figure out how best to help Uncle Jet. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He looked around and saw that Hermione was beaming back, if possible even more brightly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She looked around desperately and then began to yell, “Help! Somebody help!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

A man who had slicked-back hair and wore Bermuda shorts came around the back, carrying a bowl of water. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we all sat around the table again and waited for either Jan or the police. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The one from the party, with my arm around her waist, looking like I was having the time of my life. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I said, “Uggggh ...” A little crowd of kids started bunching up around us and Byron decided it was time to put on a show. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very soon it was visible, and a murmur of excitement went around the crowd. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then she turns around to me one last time. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The wind closed in around me, and the darkness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Let one stay around white people for a while and he’s not worth killing. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The number 85 jersey around his expansive chest nicely matched his earring with the numeral 85 embossed in gold. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And because if he isn't around to help me rescue Amma now, it's all up to me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I’ve gotten used to it, walking around as if I have a time bomb glued to my back, except the bomb maker forgot to tell me when the thing is supposed to go off. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I grabbed Fern’s wet hand and Vonetta’s, and we made our way around the angry washroom lady and through the line of waiting tsk-tskers and pointers. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

When they began speaking the angel language again, they looked around as though they weren’t sure what might be lurking in the darkness. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt around the riverbed and pulled up an-other flat, jagged rock. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Her sweater was tied around her shoulders like a cloak. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He pushed past the white dude and stood huge in the living room, looking all around until he turned and found me sitting on the couch. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

At lunch, Hazel sat in a corner, stirring her macaroni and cheese with her fork and studying the people around her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He tapped his thumbs against his revolvers and said, “When the bullets start flying, you may find I’m nice to have around. Those pretty pictures aren’t going to keep you alive.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Looking around for El, I find her sitting on our lawn chair, talking to a girl and a guy. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There are no drops of rain at all; instead, there is sunlight casting a soft glow around him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When he went away, I looked around me: three bare walls, a toilet, and a cot. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Sit around collecting dust while the rest of the world earned their living. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the rush to rebuild, Chicago never got around to realizing his vision. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He kicked a spray of pebbles in my direction, then turned around and looked at Maribel, who was still standing basically in the same place she’d been the whole time. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I were folded into the scent of flower nectar, and arranged ourselves around a table. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She could feel the emptiness, the vast black gulfs of air that yawned around her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Looking around, I can see they’ve been busy here for a while, even though it’s only six thirty a.m. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

All six of us sit at the dining room table and pass platters and bowls around. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

That we have fun when we mess around at work? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

No one could persuasively explain how it had managed to cross two thousand miles of hostile ocean but then failed to find its way around the corner of a 200-mile-wide island. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Patty turned around and looked us up and down. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“He did come here a couple of times. A nice man. Very polite. I knew he didn’t come from around here. He was looking for a book...” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Then what is it like? What are we? Just Fresh Prince and fooling around?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Conversation washes over me, slips around me, snagging now and then when I’m expected to answer a question or laugh at a joke. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She had, before coming out of the garden, looked around carefully to be sure Dragon was nowhere in sight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the ring, their heads encased by black leather guards, two fighters danced around each other, ducking, bobbing, bouncing on and off the quivering ropes. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She buttoned the waistcoat snugly over the shirt and sat down to lace on her boots, then pulled her hair back and tucked it beneath the high collar before tying the cravat around her neck. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

B.J. put down his book bag, slowly turned around, and tensed his short, wiry frame to face the much larger boy. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seth moved around the shack, not taking his eyes from the ragged woman in the doorway. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Or that Granddaddy wouldn’t have stuck around for tea at gunpoint? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s been kind of weird not having my mom around since she got that promotion. Are you used to not having your dad around?” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Instead we huddled around the coffee table, without conversing, our plates perched on our knees. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was throwing my free arm around Hassan and we were hopping up and down, both of us laughing, both of us weeping. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had spent endless hours doing so back in his other life, when the world around him was not green but brown and yellow. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

For someone who didn't get around much, Miss Sadie never seemed to be short on information. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Myron works his lips around his cigar, foul and intimate with his own juices. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then we sit around behind the warehouse and stare at each other with nothing to say. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around and now everbody got a copy in they hands. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He flicked out his tongue and wrapped it around our friend like a boa constrictor. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She turned to look at the women who were circled around them. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bateson knew that he needed a name for the discipline that was being born around him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Gold shorts, royal blue singlet, three medals around my neck, and two legs. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I could crawl around okay without them on and I was more comfortable. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m angry too, but let’s be patient. We’ll see what happens,” Imam says gently as he puts his arm around Mustafa. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“So you’re just going to let him push you around like that?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It must have been around five o’clock in the morning when we found Heritage. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And after I was done, I would run around the wood with them, all of us acting out the story I had just read while Gram watched and laughed. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I twirled around, and the full skirt of my pink and white dress floated around me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, Bryce and Aurora are driving packages of Matchbox cars around in the toy aisle when my mom shows up again. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Clay, for example, slept on a soft, clean feather mattress, with perfumed sheets and silken curtains around the four-poster bed. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edwin pulled out a key and turned Cole roughly around to remove his handcuffs. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Doug raised his arms, pointing his index fingers to the flaking gilt ceiling in the I'm- number-one sign, and acknowledged the clapping with a victory lap around the room. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel rivulets of sweat running down my forehead and around the edge of my visor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He reached for the ticket of the woman in the nearest seat, who—based on the numerous crossword puzzles scattered around her—appeared to be a Talented solver. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

From questioning Rollins, Baker discovered that a man with a broken leg had crossed the river the day before, around noon. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of them squeezed in around the table; elbow to elbow and with barely enough room to move, they started to eat. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But Louis Swift and his fellow industrialists could not rest easy; a new standoff was always just around the corner, requiring new strategies to keep the bosses one step ahead of their workers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Four turns around and walks backward a few steps- backward, on a narrow path with no railing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I pushed myself up and shook water from my face like a wet dog and glared at the circle around me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She went around the bed so she could see Janine’s face. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It curled around the trees in ghostly white, seeping through their clothes and into their bones with its chill. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

She hadn’t tied her scarf around her head yet this morning, and her bare scalp looked too soft, too fragile in the morning light, like a baby’s. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was a sugar cube kicking around in his pocket. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Declaration flailed her arms at me, her gloves flapping around her fist. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The others were already around back, pulling their bags out of the SUV. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He sat on my bed and looked around like he was trying to figure out if anything had changed since the summer, which was the last time he’d been home. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“What does she understand?” said Harry distractedly, still looking around, trying to tell where the voice had come from. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

"Now do stop fussing around," his wife said to him after he had been tossing and turning for about an hour. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

In crimson red, golden yellow, and fiery orange, it lights up the world around us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would suck the fruit-flavored air down their nostrils and roll it around on their tongues. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

And when I get one eye at the edge of the bricks to see if I’m being followed, I catch a flash of a policeman’s dark blue hat with the gold around its brim. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There are people on welfare strutting around in Air Jordans, so there’s obviously some footwear money coming from somewhere. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When he returned, he looked around carefully for servants coming down the hall.The minute he opened Maria’s door, Furball yelped and scurried under a sofa. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edgar jumped down from Beto’s lap and twined around Henry’s ankles. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We passed around the bottle till I could feel it in my stomach, sour and warm. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Enraged, I caught up, reached around her neck, and choked her. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I glance around for Rémy or any onlooker before reaching for it, feeling like I'm reaching across worlds, oceans, skies, and realms. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

My mother passed me to my father, who raised me high above the crowd before passing me around to be held by everyone present. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She was a vision in cowries: they rattled from her wrists, were strung through her curled dreadlocks, and looped around her neck. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

On the next page, two girls sat laughing on a blanket, their arms around each other’s shoulders. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He startled a bit and turned around, blinking at me like his eyes were adjusting. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Werner tries out various theories on Frederick, but Frederick, he’s learning, moves about as if in the grip of a dream, his trousers too big around the waist, the hems already falling out. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

These were the self-same chickens Ruth May had chased around the house that very morning before church. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The closer I get to the rim the less time I'll waste going around it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I’d better not come walking up to her front door because her father would just turn me around and send me on my way. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I looked around the room wondering whom she meant. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, around three in the morning, Clarence and his twin brother, Clement, came to escort the kids to their sleeping quarters. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I started looking around the bodega for the cookies. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She softly swiped a warm towel around my face and began rubbing my hair clean with a second wet towel. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Separated though we were, all of us maintained fairly close touch around Lansing—in school and out—whenever we could get together. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polynesian seafarers also took canes with them as they sailed from island to island until they reached Hawaii around A.D. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Six seconds later Lavadie called, wanting to know could he shoot her or not, because she went through a fence on his property and zigzagged around a field, killed a couple of sheep, then left.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few employees crept around, watching their shopping spree. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No. It’s in the middle of the road. Make sure there’s no other kids around.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I opened them, Stick was tossing clothes around the room as he dressed for bed. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The last I heard he still lives somewhere around Highlands North, not too far from my mom. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe she hadn’t been around when her cabinmates got cursed, or maybe she had a way of breaking the spelL With a chill, I wondered if Clarisse could be Kronos's spy at camp. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Next I gathered up the mouse bones that I’d kept in my pockets, realizing I didn’t need to carry them around anymore. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, this game is being broadcast globally by satellite. People will be watching you from all around the world. This could be the most widely watched television event since J. R. was shot.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Thoughts were flying around in my head, but I didn’t want to think at all, because a sober part of me knew that what I had managed to get myself into was insanity. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny shouts, and puts his arm around me. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I don't want to see my friend thrashing around, that lost look on her face. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He still seems to want to be around me. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I went whilst my courage was fresh straight to the window on the south side, and at once got outside on the narrow ledge of stone which runs around the building on this side. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I look around at the room I’m lying in, with two bureaus, one of which has a picture of Ollie’s parents. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And we sat in the sorrow for a while, until the mosquitoes collected around us and chased us indoors. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the others copied me and went around the house showing everyone what I had just taught them. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Winston showed Thomas around for the first hour, pointing out which pens held which animals, where the chicken and turkey coops were, what went where in the barn. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Slowly at first, just a slide of wet lips on mine, but when she wrapped her arms around my neck and opened her mouth, God, I devoured her. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I draped my arms around her small shoulders and filled my lungs with air, waiting for his explanation. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Roy got a bad feeling, but he didn’t want to turn around to see if he was right. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Jacobs writes my three things on the board and then looks around the class. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She and Dorus took the family out for an hours walk every day around the village. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mom follows me around the house and Dad keeps asking me who I’m hanging out with. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Turn around. I want you to see something.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Her hair, long and wavy, spilled around her head and tumbled over the side of the lid, so lifelike that Celaena could have sworn it was real. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Archie heard the voice in all its fury at the same instant that he felt the hands spinning him around. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulls her chair around to my side of the table. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

One minute I was spinning, and the next minute my mind was dragging itself around in a circle, like an old, arthritic dog trying to lie down. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He could see out of the other eye, but not well enough to get around. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t turn around and look at her in the rocking chair. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I threw my arms around Dad and kissed his cheek. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He sent to the rest of the Brigade to form around the hill to the right, below the crown. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I study myself in the mirror one more time and dab concealer around the patch of zits that have decided to accompany me on my first day. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

As Harry shivered and drew his robes tightly around him, he heard what sounded like a thousand fingernails scraping an enormous blackboard. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He turned around, barked out a brief instruction, and two policemen led Alba by the arms to a van. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, the machine had a rubber strip around its base and every time I bumped into a baseboard, the machine bounced back, giving me a slight jolt in protest. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I look around for guards asking us to leave. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The valet trotted up with the requisite fig leaf, and Woolf, smiling out of one side of his mouth, wrapped it around his waist, rode into the winner’s circle, and posed for the photo. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I knew she was still laying around in her bathrobe in the dark, drinking diet soda for supper and not thinking about me one bit. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I can’t keep it all straight because of all the shouting and running around, plus my heart is beating so loud! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

No, she doesn’t want to take us around the house, because she already explained everything to the office on the phone, but Maddy stands there, with Rosalie and me behind her, until she relents. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed on the porch holding the roses with the twins and Pita around me, waiting. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Leave now, he thought, come back some other time, when it's less crowded, when Henry's around. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only in this century have we been brought close enough to each other, in great numbers, to begin the fusion around the earth, and from now on the process may move very rapidly. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Arabic numerals came around, money counters had to make do with an abacus or a counting board. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I stand and put my arms around me like a force field and squeeze my eyes almost closed to try to shut everything out. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boys and girls together, men and women, with arms around each other’s waists. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t notice a fence around Warren,” I said. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I glance around, take the list from under my arm, and drop it in. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I counted my way around that circle of branches like numbers on the face of a clock, slowly, one deep breath for each number. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around and around the fire he circled, his arms spread like wings, banking left and right. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Because his bed is stacked with clothes and books, he drags a comforter out of his closet and we lie on the floor, the blanket wrapped around us. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He turned around, saw me being patted down, and realized my escape had lasted a mere four steps. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

After it was determined the stems and seeds were a bust, I spent the rest of my time wondering just how long I had to hang around before politely leaving. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

But Taisin couldn’t sleep anymore; her thoughts circled endlessly around Mona’s strange words, the awful vision, and the black mark. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I shook my arm free, but her fingers closed around a handful of my jacket. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Through a grand arch lay a grander chamber beneath the central dome—a rotunda where hundreds of scythes greeted one another, engaging in casual conversation around an elaborate breakfast spread in the center. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The old prison wall was studded with nine of these towers; there was a total of eighteen towers, including the ugly new square ones around Tappan. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sighed, pulled her hair back into a ponytail, and snapped a rubber band around it. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t even think our gifts from the Seasons will work. I couldn’t get the bakery box from Spring to open, and the only stuff around here is rocks and the big ole fire.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She stood up and walked around the desk to the other set of doors. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m having trouble wrapping my head around it, the size of the world,” he says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Toby watched the taillights of the El Camino disappear around the building. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Rick crouched nearby, painting a black line around the edge of a hay bale. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

And my heart tightened as the first crowd swung imperturbably back to their looting with derisive cries, like sandpipers swinging around to glean the shore after a furious wave's recession. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you have a bowl full of blood, you take a stick and swirl it around in the blood for five to ten minutes to remove all of the clots. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

For half an hour I hung around on the north end watching little kids kick rocks into the yellow-green water of the Yazoo when their mothers weren’t looking. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

At the mouth of the alley, he peered out and looked around. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We tried to ignore the cold billows that swept through the house and made us clutch the blankets around us even tighter. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“You don’t pay your mother to drive you around. I am not your employee. Not now. Not ever.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of a pole, the holster held a bronze trident, flickering with green light around the tips. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, don’t bother coming over here tonight. Lolly and me ate up all the supper. We finally caught that ghetto chicken that’s been running around here.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

All its feathers were weird too—they twisted in every direction, like they’d been blown around in the wind. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She directed the boat around a peninsula and began to paddle east. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess it was the sound of the siren or the people pushing around me that shattered my hypnotic gaze. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why else would he have been snooping around the old house like a burglar?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The nurse walks around us and out the back door carrying a white tin box. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They sang all the silly songs they knew until darkness had gathered around them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took notes as he moved the parts of the worm around. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It didn’t touch the interior, but in a flash most of the smaller monsters around it were incinerated. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Things snapped and popped and groaned around them. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When I get around to Miss Walter, she don’t take but one little old half a sandwich for herself. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A few other people I don’t know stand around, drinking cans of Coco Frio and mingling. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I knew I’d ruin my hair if I turned around to look at her, and I knew she didn’t want me to. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“How does he feel about you hanging around with Goddard?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Many times in my life I have felt them around me, observing, witnessing, when no one in the living world knew or cared what happened. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

We drove around back and parked in their bus lane, which was exactly like ours. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of feeling cheered by it like she usually did, Hyacinth felt as if sewing needles were poking around in her stomach. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He skids around the corner and into the living room. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The pod wrapped around the cable without breaking it and detected the signals through a process called induction. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Just to be certain, he hurried around the room, checking the panels. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We had talked around him, alluded to him without quite mentioning him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Turning around, bawling as he did, right back in the hole he went. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It floats down around my shoulders in a glossy curtain. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t speak, but glances around with the same nervousness I first noticed on the bus. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

In Greece alone in the ancient world people were preoccupied with the visible; they were finding the satisfaction of their desires in what was actually in the world around them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around for Josh but then remember that he’s not out at this recess. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the chain was snapped around the bull’s neck, the farm hands pulled it over the crossbar of the chute posts and hooked it. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dust cloud began to thicken around Nathan, his hands were moving so fast on the top layer. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It’s bandaged from around my thumb to just shy of my elbow. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

One shivering second of silence, the shock of the moment suspended: and then the tumult broke around Harry as the screams and the cheers and the roars of the watchers rent the air. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Before he started talking, he looked around quickly to be sure no one who mattered was looking. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We want to look around for ourselves,” Dad declared. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You are a mosaic of people from all around the world,” the judge says. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Louisiana pulled on the velvet curtain, and another galaxy of dust rose up and swirled around them. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Service starts and after a few announcements and some hymns, the collection plate is passed around. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We walked slowly toward my uncle’s house, his arm around my shoulders. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“What this be called?” he asked, looking around the wide space where he stood. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roza dug around in her backpack and pulled out a paper bag. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

James II had succeeded his brother in 1685 and, after a cautious start to his reign, by 1687 he was starting to throw his weight around. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He keyed open his door and we all climbed in and he turned around to face us, said: “So, where you wanna go?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And they flex their pint-size muscles around the house for the rest of the afternoon. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He shook cologne into his hands and slapped it around his face and behind his ears. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I sit at the edge of the group, wrapping my arms around my legs, willing him not to see me yet. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Dunno. They never stick around long enough for me to ask.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Nathan leaned forward and wrapped as much of his arms as he could around the water monster’s broad neck. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was nearly heaven, with that cool water rippling and a high, clear sky all around us, and trees waving along the banks. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He untied the cloth around his neck and rinsed it in the pump water before adding in a lower voice, “As are we all.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They open the back door of the ambulance and bring out the wheeled bed and slip me onto it and wrap the blanket around my legs. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Another wolf snapped its teeth around his wrist, and they dragged him off, away from the fire, until I couldn’t see them anymore. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had me curve my hand around an apple and keep that shape when playing chords. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

While thus fascinated by the pitiable clean space hedged around by neglected tufts of wool, the man turned a hard, belligerent face to him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the kids around the bus stop giggle, too. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were sitting around your house all lonely and waiting to die.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

After talking to Mom, I looked around my room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She stands and spins around so that her new white back-to-school dress lifts a little and I can see her knees. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept my head down, but tried to look around with my eyes to see what was going on. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s been hanging around again,” I say, “so whatever you said to her the other day didn’t do the trick.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t get my throat unstuck; it’s like there’s a ring of ice around my neck. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t hold her gaze, I looked at the table, I let my eyes wander around the room. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She called Curt and asked him to turn around and come back for her because the salon did not do curly. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mama gave him the look. and he wrapped his hands around his glass instead. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The area around my eyes looks inflamed, a typical outcome of crying when you have sensitive skin. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

As they crossed the station floor, Tucker pointed out the local sights of interest, such as the Nedick’s lunch counter—Tucker spent a lot of time around there—and the Loft’s candy store. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What can I get for you? We’ve missed your business around here.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Butler grinned with grim satisfaction and ducked around the corner. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Even though the bell has rung, some of my classmates are still milling around on the ground. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I could see the same thin lines etched around his neck and he’d developed a nervous habit of running his fingers along the ridges over and over again. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach walked over, his shadow making the red track burgundy around me. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The young man and the sailor waved at each other familiarly, and the sailor drifted out of sight around the front of the cathedral. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wait around the corner for a minute, watching, making sure I wasn’t followed. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The woman turned around and fastened on her the most sorrowful eyes Ruth had ever seen. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept hoping they would say something, but if they did, the rumble of the boards and the splash of the waters around him obscured it. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Leon stood at the top of the hill, a black coat draped around his shoulders. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Music, and the colors it produced, flowed around her as easily as her clothing. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I turned around and ran inside the tent. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He looked around for a board or something he could jam into the door to break it open. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

You can take my game to the bank and wait around for the interest. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

With trembling fingers I lifted a bundle of letters from around my neck and held it out by its satin string. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I was counting on her being timid around Oscar, too afraid he’d jump or slobber on her to enjoy herself. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Carlyle wrings out his mop and looks around, satisfied with the cleanliness of the deck. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She looked around at her friends’ worried expressions. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then she pushed it across and spun it around for me to read. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Guys from the area circle around us, hooting. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reaching bravely into blackness, Calder groped around for the light. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing it now around her own neck, Kira lifted it against her cheek, hoping to recapture a feeling of her mother, perhaps the smell of her: herbs and dyes and dried blossoms. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“On behalf of the gods and storytellers around the world, we hope you leave with your life intact and your imagination brimming.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her hair frizzes around her head in a lovely disc shape. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She took out her phone and dialed Tim, while everything around her creaked and wires hung from the ceiling like a scene out of a bad movie. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He splashed around, acting like he was a pirate on a sinking ship. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

My vision tightens around the roof edge, trapping it in the center of a pinhole. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I struggle into the bathroom where I sag against the wall, staring bleary-eyed at the ring of products around the sink. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The next day Humble isn’t around for breakfast. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Instead of going to the door, he walked around the house and looked in every window. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She slid her phone back into her pocket and turned around to me, squinting into the sunlight. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Folks around here wouldn't be too happy to know you cheated them out of their church money.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Kiyo and I were too young to run around, but often we would eat in gangs with other kids, while the grownups sat at another table. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she was smiling, too, which was a good thing or I would have turned right around and dashed into the house and locked the door. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Freak is riding me like he's the jockey and I'm the horse, he's steering me around the classroom, showing off. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

It is an amazing sight to see as many as thirty young chimpanzees all gathering around the Congolese staff for their morning mugs of milk or their evening balls of sticky rice. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Then the trees all around began to murmur, ‘If not for Tumbale, there would be no victory.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A murmur of surprise went through the prisoners around us, but Moonface silenced them with a glare. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Luke studied her face, seeing lines of fatigue that hadn't been there before, noticing that the hair around her face now held as much gray as brown. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

More lightning flashed around them, and as the storm came closer, Lee began to fear for the gas in his own balloon. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Good luck finding cities full of romance now. I hear they're all in ruins. But lots of people around here seem to be finding love." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He ripped off another hunk of meat and chewed it thoughtfully, looking around the clearing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

First he would do his exercises and run around the ouse, oblivious to the taunts of the hardy peasants looking on. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the import of the history all around us, though very few people like to think about it. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The Americans must have put cannons all around the city. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

She told him of her old life and he held her, then turned her around so they faced each other. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They trudge up the attic stairs, poke around, and then track dark dust onto the hall carpet when they come down again. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You won’t go through me,” he told her, and she threw her arms around him and squeezed him so tightly he could hardly breathe. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

As they came around the bend and into the final stretch, the Cal freshmen tried to rally, edging their rate up to thirty-four. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s in here,” she said, holding the box out dramatically until they had all gathered around. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, hey, Noodles," she grunted, and rolled her eyes around the world. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Then all the women of the House of Wong gathered around to fuss over her. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

No. Above us, on the giant screens placed around the City Circle, everyone can watch the whole thing being played out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She twisted her whole body, from the hips to the waist to the shoulders, then unwound it like a spring, throwing her left foot around high and fast. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I scan around, but I don’t see my dad in any of the pictures. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

But Hamilton had run that way and I figured the police would be milling around out there. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Quentin hefted it while the machinists who built it circled around. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he’d toss it away and grab another one while the headless chicken would fluff and flap around, give a few heavy shakes, and die. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad turned back around and started raging again. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

No way am I walking around with a shimmering “Look at Me” badge attached to my jacket. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The Army Intelligence soldiers, those black spies in civilian clothes, hung around in Harlem with their ears open for the white man downtown. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The edges of the grass were clipped very short and neat around the gravestones, and the hedge was straight. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Gunshots started blasting around them, pops from the piers and matching splashes in the water. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I took one look around the empty house before I opened the front door. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Lizzie put her arms around her grandfather, and he stroked her hands. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

That night, as they sat around the fire eating cheddar sausages, the robbers were in awe of Ethelfritha. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I had never been away from Soraya for so long, and when she locked her arms around my neck, when I smelled apples in her hair, I realized how much I had missed her. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He sighs deeply and wraps his arms around me in a hug. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I got all angry at Mom for never being around, especially in front of Dad.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Miss Walter gone tell this woman everthing Miss Hilly been spreading around. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And still the king carried Jeanne around the room, beaming up into her face, singing, “We found it! We found it!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I look around the playground, wondering where to go. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Amelia is flat on her back, her eyes unfocused, long blonde hair fanned around her head. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He seems young for his age, but in a year or two he'll grow out of his awkwardness and have willing girlfriends lining up around the corner. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kekrops looked around at his army, now reduced to six guys. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Deborah knew her mother’s cells had grown like the Blob until there were so many of them they could wrap around the Earth several times. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his nose and looked around at his papers. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It's not like the Pathfinder team is hanging around JPL just in case their long-dead probe is repaired by a wayward astronaut. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking around, she saw that the other women were already slipping into whatever they had chosen. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chaol looked around the cavernous hall; in fact, most of the Champions’ sponsors went about as usual. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I worked my way around the crowd, trying not to, be too obvious about it. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She, too, looked around the room, as if she noticed in the lampshades, in the teapot, in the shadows frozen on the carpet, something the rest of them could not. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Lord Eddard Stark sat upon a rock beside the deep black pool in the godswood, the pale roots of the heart tree twisting around him like an old man’s gnarled arms. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After reading about Bobby Hutton, I had begun to look around at the Panthers who helped out at the Center. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bailey walks around to face her, reaching out tentatively to touch her hair. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Might be tough talking Arthur into that one, but I think he’ll come around. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She wanted to see his ugly face, to wrap her arms around him and press herself against his chest, but she knew that if she turned around Ser Jorah would be gone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Agitated people swirl around us, speaking of rebels and hunger and me in their affected Capitol accents. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He looks around at the rest of the room. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The way his small hands curl around ours when we watch TV. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I looked down at my hands wrapped around the lemonade bottle, not sure what to do now. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The front door slammed and I could hear Charlie banging around under the stairs, putting his tackle away. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Clear up?” said Ron, looking around at the partly destroyed café. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

On the ground, I have to weave around people, trees, lampposts, and trash cans. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I like that I can be myself around you.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

My favorite way to get around with Ma is the cyclo because the driver can maneuver it in the heaviest traffic. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You should come,” she said, but he did not respond, as he carefully snapped the bracelet around her wrist, and told her he had checked the water in her car. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Velia jumped on the rickety wagon and looked around for a way to navigate the newfound vehicle. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Shoot, he might've turned around and took me back to the school if I said the wrong thing. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Grandpa had started coming around again while we were still there—he did live with Adele again after we left—and maybe the authorities found out. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And suddenly a voice boomed behind him: “Turn around slowly. I have a gun. Who are you and why are you here?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“This is nice,” he says as he looks around. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

All around the edges of the carpet, I put my Essential Equipment. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m looking around for some smokes,” the short guy said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, just floating around is great fun, but then after a while it becomes annoying, and you want to stay in one place. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was asking about water, and I told him you knew more about that than anybody around here.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One woman phoned from Holland to say she and her husband had swum around the room together. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Somebody’s out there. It’s the janitor. He’s around the corner, heading our way.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Some individuals occasionally would come up to the door and ask if they could peek in, and if the house was presentable we’d usually show them around. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

If our uncle plans to ignore us unless we speak to him in Urdu, there’s going to be a whole lot of silence around here. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Okay, so I admit that the first day of school I was so nervous that the butterflies in my stomach were more like pigeons flying around my insides. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Seeing that he had emptied out the dockers’ stand and reporters’ booths, Smith had simply turned Seabiscuit around and worked him over on the main track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they are ejected into the emptiness of space, never to be seen again, but sometimes they fall into a long orbit around the Sun. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t exactly walk around giving little earnest speeches about how deeply and sincerely I appreciate my friends. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Brother Luke put a strap around Robin’s waist, then ran it under the jennet’s belly to keep him from falling. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

All the Renegades take stretching seriously, even though we like to goof around, talk, and eat. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Moving as if animated with destructive desire, it gurgled down the backstretch, banked around the far turn, bore out in the homestretch, and mowed down the entire grandstand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy curled his fist around the money, then headed into PJ’s. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As I stood up, Coach put his arm around me, and the two of us walked into the locker room to join the rest of the team. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Everybody was checking their jerseys out, putting them in their gym bags, or jogging around the track. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I shuddered to think of John’s sisters, who slept three to a bed, jumping from a window, their nightshirts billowing up around them as they fell. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

And now I saw the youth members and some older men move around to the back of the crowd, and up to meet the advancing group. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he can answer, his mother turns around and rolls her eyes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Also, from the backseat it was not possible to see Louisiana’s grandmother’s head, and so it seemed as if they were being driven around by an invisible person. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

A young woman with ocean-green eyes and a white scarf draped around her face peeked out. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I spin around to see a treasure of Earth’s stories recalling his final words. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But the engineer, one bulging arm still around my shoulders, suddenly yanked me towards the train. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“There are so many rumors flying around, the army probably wants to put a stop to the panic.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The elevator dings; we get in and turn around, each taking a corner. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I looked around the little dead girl’s room and could see that even a hard-up thief wouldn’t find nothing much worth stealing in here. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I carry them around because they are long and detailed, because they remind me of my worthiness, because they tug at my feelings. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had replaced the glass in the upper part of the window with plywood, and wrapped tinfoil around the opening to keep the coal smoke from leaking into the room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her words were hammering at my brain, the horrible syllables were beating the air around me, the whole place was full of their sound. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No way. So when you actually showed up, it made everyone nervous. They don’t know whether they can trust you. Even David’s been acting weird around me.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I noticed people staring at something behind me, and that's when I turned around and saw that Mrs. Williams was still standing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Before turning back around, I shut my eyes for just a moment, and breathe. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The pledges, who weren’t as fortunate as I was, would always laugh and joke around about what happened to them the night before. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Leale weaved his hands gently through Lincoln’s hair, and as he worked them thoroughly around the head, discovered that the hair was matted with blood. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lose count around twelve because the guns in their holsters are all I can see. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The balance of this book will take these ideas and apply them to other puzzling situations and epidemics from the world around us. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he turned around, the man pointed a gun at him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

There’s a pair of women with scarves tied around their heads coming up the steps from the sunken front doors. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Plastic flowers were planted around the edge, and a weather vane topped by a spouting whale stood in the center. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was pulling papers out and flinging them around. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Except sometimes we drive around again after, riding in Brick's car, usually, and cranking the music so loud the thumpa thumpa sets the car lurching on its tires. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then he saw the little chain around her neck and lifted it clear and unsnapped the clasp—a small gold watch, a little tube, and two safe- deposit keys, numbers 27 and 29. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Hamid frowns as I lift up my shirt, her dark eyebrows knitting together as she looks at the infected skin around my G-tube. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When I'm done, the bedroom will be two adjacent hexes with walls around them and a crude ceiling. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I ... I just ... I don’t know. Weird things are knocking around my noggin.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Warm days turn chilly, and the trees around the teahouse start to blaze in brilliant shades of gold and orange and red. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

No one else was parked there, so I was sure it was off limits, but I decided I would get directions inside instead of circling around in the rain like an idiot. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I wish I could run outside in the night and dance around in them. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She had a kind of power—money, enthusiasm, independence—that glowed around her. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She laughs, her arms wrapped around his neck. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In comparison to the new colors I see around people, my colored letters now seem very dim. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He dashed around to the sliding doors and opened them to reveal the “magic” drawers. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I hear the voice as soon as I walk into the children’s section at the library, and when I turn around, a group of guys bust up laughing. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She was the Goddess of the Hearth, the symbol of the home, around which the newborn child must be carried before it could be received into the family. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to his brother, keeping one arm around Dimple. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

From her bed, she could see his large-framed body, his long legs, the smoke swirling around his hook-nosed profile, the amber tip of his cigarette brightening and dimming. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The paper chain is complete, and this once-unknown town has become a household word around the world. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

His arms were sore and his foot hurt a lot when it wasn’t raised, but he hadn’t been able to lie around doing nothing knowing Pax was still out there. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We scoot around a combination pretzel/hot dog cart that already has a line. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Kelley could feel blood squelching around in his boots, and his uniform was crusted with fresh and dried blood, sweat, dirt, and vomit. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

My hair was receding and streaked with gray, and lately I’d traced little crow's-feet etched around the corners of my eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mom turns back and smiles as I let the camera dangle around my neck and take Charlie’s hand. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

If there is a girlfriend around, she won't like this one bit. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wore a headband and a gold chain around his neck, and a diamond glinted in each ear. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

After dinner, we sat around the kitchen radio listening to a music program on the Brooklyn Haitian station. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I saw the people around me, calm, happy, excited in the way of people open to the spirit. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are too many bad influences on you around here.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“It reminds me of Tara in Gone With the Wind except for its garden. Maybe it’s hard to get help around here.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His knees bent; he could feel the sea breeze wrapping itself around the cupola and leaning into it some, setting the frame to creaking cheerily at the familiar nudge. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It flew a short distance before a string she’d tied around its foot snapped taut and it hovered, caught in the air, like a dog straining at its lead. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I wrap my arm around his neck and cradle him, rocking back and forth. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Others appeared nervous, flittering around like caged birds. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I tell the doctor, and the nurse pushes past me and heads to the back like she knows her way around. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“How can you be sending me money from Nigeria? It should be the other way around,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All around him, kids stagger under massive armloads of chain, waiting to be loaded. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The boys mostly flocked around the punch bowl and tried to show off with each other. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Many of the young men around me sneak glances at her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Max, so help me God, I couldn’t do nothing when I turned around and saw that woman coming to that bed. Honest to God, I didn’t know what I was doing. . . .” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That makes me nervous, kids gathering around like I’m going to kick the bucket.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Several fat brown chickens were pecking their way around the yard. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But when I looked around, then down at my body, there was nothing. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had no time to ask her, for at that moment several sailors, with cloths tied around their faces, came down, unchained the feet of the women, and led them up out of the hold. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew death was all around, breathing down her neck like some ancient god, like the giant painted throng haint now rushing toward her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She was walking around with her mother, clinging to her arm, happily greeting the guests. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She chose to speak to everyone around her in the same serious and direct fashion, whether they were adolescents in her Girl Scout troop or engineers in the office. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“My bad. And I was just messing around about the couple thing.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He swings his legs around so that he’s sitting at the edge of the bed. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Our ship is around the back of the island. You and Grover—” “No way,” they said at the same time. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of other failures occurred around the country. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But now there were many people pushing around me and the sound of the siren grew louder, more urgent. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they got to the railroad site, David announced that they had to clear more track, using vibrasaws to cut through the vegetation that had grown up around the metal rails. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Platt’s circumnavigation of her supper table completed, she began to revolve around the parlor, the plates being lain on the mantelpiece or the gaming table. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There were a few small birds around in the hazel branches but that was all. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around at the adults and they were all leaning forward, but were frozen as if they didn’t know what to do next. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred thirty-six evenly spaced square pillars had been erected around the perimeter of what would become the two-story colonnade. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The string he wears tied around his neck is in his mouth now, and he chews it absentmindedly. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A jolt goes through me, and I turn around. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He glimpsed black hands buried in white fur, swollen dark fingers tightening around his direwolf's throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then Dad put his arm around my shoulders, and we walked out together. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

They were hanging on the walls all around her, sitting, roaring, grim-faced, along with peaceful lions with and without wings. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They sat around for a while drinking cider and listening to a Christmas carol program. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jed let out a piercing, horrific sound that cut off all the new ones coming from the forest around them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Turning around quickly, he looked straight at me and said, “Say, young—” Not waiting for anything more, I scooted for the door. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted me up effortlessly, his large fingers wrapped around my neck. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He developed chest pains around 1:05 A.M. and was rushed to hospital. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Been banned from the kitchen and I don’t like Mister Leefolt thinking all I do is set around playing with the kids. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Most people around here didn't even know about me training at Malloy's for years, punching the bag, and learning how to snap my jab and move my feet. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Ryan puts his arm around me and kisses me, and for a minute I kiss him. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Iggy comes into the room and his eyes are darting around. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

There are so many things he hasn’t gotten around to telling me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I gave Julia back her phone, turned around, and looked at the moon as I pulled my tank top up over my shoulders so she could see it. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The room was warm with the nine of them around the table and heat still rising from the turkey, the sweet potatoes, the small mountains of stuffing and green beans. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, she could try to have fun in whatever little time she’d be around for. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And judging by the fact that there were no men sitting next to her in the pew, her dad wasn’t around either. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was not panicking, banging around to stow gear below. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace asks me as she walks around to the trunk. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

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

When I wobbled back to Camp Four around 7:30 Saturday morning, May 11, the actuality of what had happened—of what was still happening—began to sink in with paralyzing force. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I closed the book on my finger and turned around to find Joe. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

They were a little splattered with rain, and the storm around them bent the trees and shook the earth, but the drawings were safe. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He always arrived around nine or ten at night carrying his flat tan leather briefcase which along with his scholarly look gave him a resemblance to a hard-working lawyer. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked around me, I realized that Crenshaw had vanished. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

This is where I see words swim in and around my neighborhood like dust from overhead train tracks. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The headphones’ cord is wrapped tightly around the player. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Jane takes off running ahead of me and I don't know whether I'm supposed to follow her or not, but then she turns around toward me and starts skipping backward. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

She got up, walked around the table, and gave him a lingering hug, running her fingers through the back of his hair. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Near the center of the fields there were thin lakes of muddy water which I had to make my way around, my unrecognizable shoes making obscene noises as I lifted them out of the mire. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, he walks around faster and faster in a circle and his arms are like propellers about to carry him off like a helicopter. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman comes around to take my plates and refill our water glasses but Pete waves her off. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to determine when it had been built, but except for the sagging screen all around the long porch, the house was like the mesas around it: years had little relation to it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Billy has a guy who comes around just to get his coffee and bring him refreshments? You know who Billy is?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They hung around together in gateways and at the corners of buildings, leaning lovingly on their weapons as they talked. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he thought it inappropriate for scientists to engage in political activity of any kind—“political fiddling around,” as he called it in a conversation with Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When she was around, he felt alive and believed things would be all right. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

By the time Jinny reached Loo, the others had formed a circle around him. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The medium began to stalk around the clearing, skewering the villagers with his gaze. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I walked around the side of the house toward the front. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he grabbed the skin around the belly area and took it outside himself, throwing it several feet from the cabin but where we could see it from the window. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His joints seemed loosely attached, and the woven bracelet around his left wrist looked dirty. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sansa heard a soft murmuring from the lords around her, but it was quickly stilled. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The communists I'd known in the past had always operated on the assumption that come the revolution, they'd be the ones lying around party headquarters with clipboards in their hands. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He stopped and searched around with his numb hands for the gun. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He yelled as blazing rays of light began flaring around him, and ducked underwater again. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Starks piled fodder under the big tree near the porch and the mule was usually around the store like the other citizens. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

You didn’t notice it all that much unless you looked at him straight on, and not a lot of people did, because Billy was always moving around like he was itchy. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stood by Shads bed, and there was sick boys all around, but they all smiled at me. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world flew around them like something out of The Wizard of Oz. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were soft brown with a perfect halo of sea blue around the edges. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Because if seventh grade is going to be hard, I need my big sister around. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You know, to get stuff done around the house.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He even looked a true hero, so slim and beautiful, with golden roses around his slender waist and his rich brown hair tumbling down into his eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He tore off a strip of shirt and tied the ndoro around his neck. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

So, clutching my dog blanket around my hips, I stepped out of the truck and limped awkwardly to the passenger side while Cade slid in behind the wheel. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

When the fiddles warbled and the drums thumped, he grabbed Nan and paraded her around the dance stages until she was breathless with laughter. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I pull myself out of the bath, shivering, wrap a towel around me, and open the door just as Lily is marching back down the hall, Mom behind her. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I heard a rock ricochet off the trim around my window. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Aileen was with him, standing between them and Lianne, by the edge of the table, and she got a few more first-year girls to huddle around her. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He drew another loop around me before swimming away, and as he sailed by, he made a ping. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

At the time, a local kid nicknamed “the Nebraska Wildcat” was the hottest boxing property around. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma was staying at a hotel nearby, and we were all supposed to get brunch later—but Mom wasn’t around. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Winter was coming, and the men and women in line held their coats tight around them and stamped their feet to stay warm. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

With the dogs curled up around them, their nest was cozy enough. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I took my teeth around them as I sat behind a column at the theater, waiting to step out and play. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We each take one, pull him one hundred and eighty degrees around, and start to drag him into the saltwater. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The audience gives a big laugh and the president puts his arm around me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to get her arms around it but it was too big. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big Meadows had a campground, a lodge, a restaurant, a gift shop/general store, and lots and lots of people spread around a big sunny grassy space. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Got to crawling around on her bosom, I reckon, because she commenced screaming and hitting her chest, and the car went clean out of control! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And I guess we’re being a bit exuberant, because Eric Hollander in one of the seats in front of us turns around and says, “You got A’s? Dude, I got a D.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Somehow, Mom, I always feel like a case study around you.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

We were out of breath; the truck was bumping around on the uneven cobblestones of the quay in a cloud of dust and sun. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“TV is a great medium for education. But people up until now haven’t explored the potential of it. They’ve been using it in a rote way. I believed we could turn that around.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was twisting his finger around his goatee and looking agitated. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I soothe my conscience with the thought that it’s better for unkind words to be down on paper than for Mother to have to carry them around in her heart. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I turned the other way around, and there on the far side of the store was the nervous young man who had come to Phoebe’s house. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Even with the dragon snoring behind her, the fire crackling, and her blanket around her shoulders, her eyes did not close. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't know," I said, realizing that I could feel nothing beyond the pressure around my head and the tender surface of my body. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trying to make no sound and clutching my cross of lead, I went around by the side of the church, where windows had once been but where only gaping holes remained. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

We knew that because he was working on his car, throwing tools around the garage, and he didn’t say anything as we walked into the house, even after my mom said, “Salaam,” three times. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

You ran a finger around the edges of what felt like a painful bruise blooming on my cheek. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When I reach the doorway, I turn around because I’m hearing odd strangled noises. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A foggy mist swirled around us and before us lay a moonlit path that led straight up to the stars. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Naomi crept around to the front porch of the house where the window into their bedroom was. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I twisted around so that I was facing her, because I wanted her to see my face—I wanted her to see how serious, how sincerely I meant it when I repeated myself. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“This Jones goes out to lunch from twelve to twelve- thirty. So you come around about twelve-forty-five.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of the party proudly parading around in Batman underwear. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Perfect,” I said, and her smile stuck around. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Juana dropped her stone, and she put her arms around Kino and helped him to his feet and supported him into the house. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The demons spread out around him, taking up all the space in the museum lobby. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The clay and snow were churned into a muddy trench along the gate where the cattle had milled around, pushing their bony heads against the juniper poles, working for another escape. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He drove into a vast parking area and said, “Why don’t you two go look around? I’m going to get a little shut-eye.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Asta was impatient to go and see to Pan, so they moved up to sit on the grass beside Lyra, exhausted, shaking, and looked around. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly they came pouring around the bend of the road into sight. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around one o’clock the door opens and, with a burst of color and noise and raindrops, the boys tumble in and throw their slippery arms around me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put an arm around the captain's daughter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it felt like I only got happy this way around Christmas. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I look around and notice sealed, unused boxes against a wall. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There’s a seating chart, though, so they don’t sit near each other, and there’s not as much walking and moving around as there was in Mixed Media, so they don’t really talk. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She says this the same way my brother says “slug juice” or “snot” when Carol’s around, and Carol does the same thing, the same wrinkle of the nose, the same wriggle. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn't tell you what it was like to be around my dad's side of the family. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I press one hand between his shoulder blades and curl the other one around the back of his neck. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had one arm around Cara Clifton, who was crying uncontrollably; he was shaking hands with Coach Warner with his other arm. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, ten minutes later, it’s like it never happened—everyone’s back to hanging out, back to the hustle, coming and going, running around. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The two horses stood motionless while the field was loaded around them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet it’s against our rights or something,” Rawiya suggested, then looked around the group for validation. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Skeletal birds with glowing red eyes blinked at her from the branches above; animals or...something made weird noises in the darkness around her. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Naheed was scanning the room for Eliza, but she began to notice the teachers standing around the outside of the circle of students, their expressions solemn. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

And soon, the concrete, the stones, the marble tiles, the dancing rebar, all fell down around me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The ceilings were high, but no cherubs danced around garlands, and no braided molding curled around the borders. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Hermione’s lip trembled, and she suddenly dashed at Harry and threw her arms around him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

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

Now I could see swelling around Arthur’s eyes. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I curled my fingers around that green pencil, and I started to draw. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had an extremely difficult time communicating with the people around him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He put his arm around her and gave her a quick hug. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The camera slung around his neck, with an impressive telephoto lens and numerous buttons and markings, was the only complicated thing he wore. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

For a moment, despite all the chaos swirling around him, his heart felt full. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It curved around until the outside world had completely vanished. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we’re not just any group of people,” he says, coming over and putting his arm around my shoulder. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

In the mirror the dress hangs lifelessly around my stomach and hips. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The wind howls around me and I realize how strange this place is with all these little houses, and on most days, I barely see any people. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As he tried to put on the brakes, she grabbed hold of his arm, and together they spun around three hundred and sixty degrees. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You seen a young girl hanging around the docks tonight?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The timepiece’s cool weight comforted me, and when the passing streetlamps permitted, I watched the second hand continue its steady revolution around the porcelain dial. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She went to the corner where she and Thomas had hidden the day before, the same corner they had peered around to see where the crying was coming from. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s just one more thing you have to do for me, Tally. Do you mind getting the pendant from where you’ve hidden it? I don’t like to leave loose ends lying around.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Never around Grandma because she’d make them scrub floors, and iron drapes, and weed the garden until they were too exhausted to scuffle. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Their surviving amphitheatres, dotted around the eastern Mediterranean, are among the most vivid reminders to us of the artistic sophistication of their civilisation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mrs. told me to try on her royal blue coat, a winter coat with rabbit fur around the collar and cuffs. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Everything was going okay until she turned around from the stove and asked why I was wearing my African hat at her table. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he was down in the kitchen fixing around to let her sleep. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The three of them are sitting around the table, my parents in their pajamas and Uncle Carlos in some sweats and a hoodie. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Exactly one year earlier, Hall had turned Hansen around on the South Summit at 2:30 p.m., and to be denied so close to the top was a crushing disappointment to Hansen. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Behind me the sounds of footfalls and murmuring rises, and this time when I crane my neck around I get a glimpse of the crowd, gathering in the first bit of sunlight. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The Master replied in an undertone, and looked around with his hooded, clouded eyes before leaving through the door he’d come in by. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I am in love with everything around me, the dotted white lines moving across my teacher's blackboard, the smell of chalk, the flag jutting out from the wall and slowly swaying above me. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

A piece of something silvery—it looked like wire—was tangled around one of his legs; the other end of it was caught in the fence. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They made me wait around outside the door for half an hour before they let me in. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I twisted around in my seat to see Noah sneaking out of the tech booth and leaving the auditorium through the back. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Across the landscape weeds advanced; weeds corkscrewed their way into the walls around him and worked the walls until the weeds became their own spore. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

But you still had to have the Moon orbiting around the Earth, and you still needed epicycles to explain why the planets seem to slow down and speed up in their orbits. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He slipped his right hand around my waist and took my right hand in his left. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I looked into the dark depths of the lake and saw the golden carp, and all around him were the people he had saved. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama walked to Daddy and put her arms around his shoulders. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Joel puts his arms around me, tight, like he is fighting a bloody, bloody murderer. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp—everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Harry clutched the Cloak tightly around him in the darkness, traveling deeper and deeper into the forest, with no idea where exactly Voldemort was, but sure that he would find him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

This time around, I don’t want you to identify which is Coke and which is Pepsi. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Then we came out to the yard again and Jupiter smiled and laughed and she waddled around my parents. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Madan flew a short distance up the Cwm before bringing the aircraft around, so that its snout pointed downhill. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a shame Mr. Gordon wasn’t around earlier to help solve these little final problems.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Maddy, calm down,” I hear Elizabeth behind me, and I jog a few more steps ahead, letting other kids swirl around me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing her bathrobe, hand around a cup of tea that went cold a long time ago. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the middle, various stone buildings clustered around a central yard with a platform in the middle: the hanging gibbet. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The sky was a pale grey, and smoke eddied all around them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He glides a finger around the steering wheel. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Linda draped an arm around her daughter, softly shook her head: “But they won’t hurt you, honey. They don’t bite—” The house was literally crawling with daddy longlegs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the story, all of us kids would be in one tight huddle around my mom. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It waits around for their return, trying to quell the panic rising in it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The snow began to fall—gently at first, but then heavier and heavier, flakes dropping and fluttering all around. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The boy turns around and I realize he’s older than I first thought, maybe early twenties, with stubble darkening his cheeks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“It wouldn’t be middle school without big, bad Marcus Vega patrolling around.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Sahil leaned farther out of his window, and then I felt his strong arms around me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My wife over there needs me to be around to support her — all the time. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Floatin’ in space, around and around earth, ever and ever, cold and way out, Lord! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It all felt rather distant and untouchable, fading to smoke around the edges. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When I handed it to him, he turned it around and around in his hand. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He’d always been a mild kind of kid, rolling with the punches, loose and carefree, running around the track while the other kids sat uptight during practice sessions. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he's not around the Kings, he can be real thoughtful. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I stumble around and crash straight into Hamza, huddled behind me. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was like a compass, with one leg swinging around the globe and the other planted in Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Cari had had some practice in San Antonio, but still hers came out ruffled around the edges like the collar of a dress. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And here were the great-great- grand squabs cooing in the morning and rising to fly like a whirling white scarf around the wagon shed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a rustling behind them and Dustfinger spun around, but it was only a mouse scurrying over the quiet yard. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I tried to look around me, my body refused to obey. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“So he got the bright idea of coming around to Henry’s to scare him,” said Francis, pouring himself another drink. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There are looks around the room and we wonder if it’s suicide he’s after. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It’s not every day you see a remotely attractive girl hanging around a hospital, no more than five doors down from yours. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The sound—if it was a sound—had come from all around. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otis Bottom stopped them both, since the So-Called Gym Teacher was nowhere around. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Auntie Fatima marches around the table clockwise, making a sample bag to show us what we are aiming for: a muddle of cheap, kitschy candy. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Ivanito knows his father is a merchant marine and sails around the world. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been stacking pillows and blankets as they cleared the gym floor for the blood drive, right around the time Ivy had been looking for her notebook. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around to check that Hermione was well out of earshot. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mom and I kept swatting at mosquitoes that were buzzing around my father, who hadn’t bothered to use the bug spray. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The ant chases the elephant, and around and around they go. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I look around, try to think of a lie, but finally I just sigh. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Spurge was fastening a strap around his head. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She turned halfway around and left the room. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I just wanted to throw my arms around his neck, snuggle into his chest, and smell him. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"You weren't but four years old," he says, and now his big hands are starting to curl around my neck, except he's holding me soft. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The cat wound himself around Beetle’s ankle and purred. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why did those annoyingly persistent butterflies hang out with me every time he was around? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They laughed as he twirled her around and around. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” he said, and Alice followed as he splashed around to the garden, to the storeroom, to the lean-to, where he kept the canoe. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I watched English spin circles around Tooms, moving so quickly he could have been on skates on ice. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was around them, exploding around them, the lightning cracking around the shelter, so close it seemed to Brian that it came from inside him. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The men next to the butcher harrumphed and walked away, while the blue-eyed man swung his bags around and left the store. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Don’t come around here talking to my boy. I will call the cops, yuh hear? Lolly, cut upstairs!” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

An idea took hold in his brain and raced around like a rabid dog. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Headmaster fingered the intricate carving around the chair’s back, the shining sundari wood, the careful joints and brackets that held the sturdy legs in place. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I look around as if my mother’s eyes are in the walls here. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to keep up with the speed at which the ball flew, the rate at which their bodies raced around the field. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Turning the ring around on her finger, Ash decided that when she was out of the cellar she would finish what her stepmother had begun and cut the rest of her hair off. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chicken flapped its wings wildly; downy feathers floated around Mami like a nimbus. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Because after three days of building a prison around my head, I'm out on the town. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bran could feel the menace around them, but his brother was too young. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They were finishing up the rosary before bed, so I ducked back around the corner, but it was too late. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The squirrels would be curled in their nests in hollow trees, with their furry tails wrapped snugly around their noses. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matty, rolling the blanket around the remains of their food, glanced over. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Everything Taryn told me is still rattling around in my head, reminding me how little I know. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Before she turns around to walk to her bus, she gives me a signal that I know means “Call me after and tell me everything...or else!” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“I’m trying to get my head around it,” Debbie said two years after that first conversation. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was small, with brown walls, and the metal bars, so thick his hand could not go around one, reminded him of the chimpanzee’s cage at Nsukka’s dismal, forgotten zoo. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Addison walked on all fours with his snub nose in \\ y\\\\j the air while the man-thing called Grunt scampered around us like a psychotic puppy. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Because of all his hair, I had no way to put on a bandage, and I told Dad I should shave the area around the cut. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had obviously never been in the company of a black who had no inhibitions around whites. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She throws an arm around each of us and runs us back the way she came. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He nearly threw up as he pushed the durian skins, orange rinds, and banana peels up around him, packing them over his head, covering his face. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He lay face up on his thin mattress and listened to the ugly sounds of snoring around him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her dæmon was fluttering around her head now, moth-formed in the bright sunlight, whispering anxiously. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked downstairs and shuffled past Hollis Wells, who was too distracted by all the papers around her and the blaring Home Shopping Network to notice him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The blackness encroached around my field of vision as I pulled myself up, eighteen steps, steep as hell. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Not in the heart of the minuscule town, nor in the surrounding fields, nor in the area around Jot: Mondragon’s house, nor around the lawyer’s home either. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other pilots crowded around him and did likewise. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when he came out, a towel around his neck, sucking on a bottle of water, I flung myself into his arms and kissed him openmouthed and sloppy in front of everyone. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big Time looked up and saw the kid that Sweet Jimmy let hang around. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chet Douglass shouted, throwing himself around my legs, knocking me down. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned me around and draped the necklace in front of me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He had spent the years after college traveling around Asia, Latin America. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner TJ and I take a power walk around the neighborhood because according to him, “pageant boot camp has begun.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I peered in one of the gaping windows to look around, only to have a chunk of the windowsill snap off in my hands when I leaned on it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A predator approaches: gray jock buzz cut, whistle around a neck thicker than his head. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But people all around the country are fighting the status quo. Things are changing.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

His old checkered tie hung loose around his neck, as if he’d been pulling at it. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She turned around in her chair, and gripping its arms she bent over backward, dipping the back of her head to the plate. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s only the whole point of tonight, Mom,” Seven said, holding up the amulet that hung around her neck. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They’d been around each other too long, knew each other too well to make another sound. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

You might be hanging out with some people, but when the deal goes down, you won't be around. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too weak to move around, he balanced a typewriter on his stomach and typed reports on what he’d learned in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, around one o’clock, Carole’s mother, Mrs. Alpha Robertson, phoned Mama. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She needs to keep moving, flickering around the room. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sweating in the equatorial sun, some of the researchers admiringly fingered the plump, pendulous green fruit, each the size of a baby’s head, wrapped in clusters around the trees’ sturdy trunks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s right, Smith, he is,” muttered Harry, grinning to himself, as he dived amongst the Chasers with his eyes searching all around for some hint of the elusive Snitch. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was only a good baseball throw away, but it looked like forever with darkness all around and wolves behind me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Scrubby trees stood out from gravel banks, and beneath them, here and there, were the red-flushed, spawned-out bodies of salmon, insects happy around them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Several around here done that,' Grandma said, “though I don’t recall him being out of town any length of time. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

While he waited, Joseph poked around, opening drawers and cabinets. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When I crawled under it he jumped upon me and followed me around, never letting me out of his sight. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel so peaceful and safe with his arm around me, knowing he’s near and yet not having to speak; how can this be bad when it does me so much good? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Are you going anyplace special, or are we just driving around?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly, though, there was no one around and the woods were calm and peaceful. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around at all the people clapping their hands and singing Gwendolyn Brown to heaven. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I put out my hands, indicating the walls around me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a relief to be free,” he said, jumping around the shelf. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn't visit around, or try out other things. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But it was also comforting to hear that something around here has a history. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lizzie looked around to see if anyone might be nearby, half wanting to show off, half wanting to be sure that no one had seen Preacher Griffin’s granddaughter throwing a hatchet around. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

We drove down the street and turned to the left, then came around to the right in front of the station. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I tried not to turn around to stare right back, but it was the closest I had been to a boy my age since we had been sorted. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She looked at the sunlight filtering through the canopy, how the trees swayed in the wind with their long, bony arms around each other. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She started sniffing around, and I was afraid she might mark her territory, but Nico said, “It’s okay. She just smells the way home.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She looked desperately around the room—the cracked ceiling, the floor mosaic, the wall paintings, and the carved altar. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This is what I want to do with Violet—give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He crept around to the side of the building, where he could keep the door in sight. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

So saying, she wrapped her arms around the scabbard and dropped back to sleep. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He knew that if he went in they would ask one another: Who’re them white folks Biker’s hanging around with? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a brown nicotine ring around that room that ended about a foot from the ceiling, like the tide-line in an old bathtub. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

From his jacket pocket, he brought out a brassiere and wrapped it around a chair. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t remember the last time he’d seen so much meat passed around so casually. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I began to write stories—secret stories about myself and the restless men around me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The winds around her did not jet, but swirled and bumped. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She bowed her head, ponytail curled around her neck, and resumed her code-breaking work. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The thorns had captured Father’s gleaming new rickshaw, bushes closing around it like a trap. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

She reached out and grabbed the camera he was holding in his hands, apparently forgetting that the strap was around his neck. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Milkman reached around and pulled a bottle out of its case. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thorn was standing practically across the street, her arms wrapped tight around her own body, her face red as if she had been crying. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He looked around at Sirius and saw that he had his face in his hands. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m the only one small enough to fit,” he said, swaggering around like a bantam rooster. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken him thirty minutes and he was almost back where he had started, but shining the flashlight around him, he saw why Ian Rider had sent him the long way around. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

August and Zach had already extracted most of the honey from her bee yards, but there were still several stacks of supers on pallets sitting around. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around, taking in the strange surroundings. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

His chest sprouted more arms than I could count, in rows, all around his body. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Scattered around the cobblestones, the remnants of bassal were sputtering out like tiny blue-white stars. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They’d been sitting here in traffic for over a day, the battle raging around them, and I hadn’t even noticed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Now she’s circling around the kitchen table, brushing a crumb here, straightening an already straight chair. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Out on the streets, two big gray military trucks pulled up, and Jews from our apartment building and all the buildings around us were herded into them by German soldiers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He shook it, trying to clear it, and the moths on his brow and cheeks took flight and fluttered around his head in a corona. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

One cold winter afternoon, Erasmus gathered some friends and family around his dining room table. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her beige apron with the green palmetto trees was around her waist. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Last night. After I saw you and your mom. He was at Charlie Valentine’s house, sneaking around the yard,” Finn continued. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

"The trailer's upside down. Those rectangles scattered around are solar cells." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trevor’s storm door creaked open and shut, and I turned around and jetted back into the kitchen. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

They followed the water around to get to the drawbridge. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd that hung around the practice field was up and smiling again. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking of closing my eyes tight in case the dog’s around. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Charles is simply upset,” said Mrs. Chiltington, draping a protective arm around her son. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He looked around for Mr. Donatelli or Henry, but neither was in the room. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her legs are encased with jeans that have frills around her butt. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Now she’d have to pretend she was all filled up on tomato water while everyone else ordered $50 desserts and ate them around her. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In my father's study there was a large globe with all the countries of the world running around it. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To be honest, I just decided once and for all to use this paper topic last night. It rather goes against my nature. Anyway, pass these around.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He felt his arm go numb, but he clenched his teeth as he was clenching his fingers around the hilt, and the pale form seemed to boil away and melt back into the darkness again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Although no one spoke of it, Uncle D had put the medal in the pawnshop when he was sick and moaning, rattling around like a ghost. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

In the silence my hiccups ricocheted around the room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn whipped around, scanning the endless waving, twisting bodies, a vast sea of faces, searching for the pocket of stillness. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I peer over his shoulder, curling my hands into fists around his shirt. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mam tries all the bars around the station before she gives up. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He put his arm around me and we sat there together on the porch, two people being completely pitiful and lost. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

In the clearing he had made last year, Pa was plowing around the stumps and putting in his crops. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Earth, which includes Brooklyn, is a planet, and it goes around the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, the silence wraps around me like Caleb’s embrace did, calming me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Marco hooked an arm around my waist and jerked me up against his dazzling white suit. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Colonel, already halfway across the dorm circle, turned around. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He just stands there, letting me get all these protests out of my system, letting me feel how heavy the air around us has grown. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Not because he was so brilliant, but the government had just announced plans to send a satellite spinning around the earth, and most of his department seemed to be planning on being launched with it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it was fantastic, because it gave you another chance to notice things you might have missed the first time around. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Did you know many people around King City?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled out two long, dark-blue dresses with intricate beadwork around the sleeves. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I looked around, confused, as I tried to locate the owner of that voice. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He was always with his captors, held by the rope around his neck. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Thalia looked around cautiously as we picked our way through the rubble, past blocks of marble and broken archways. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They fluttered off to the flowers and trees, and Brer turned around with a glare. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They left the question lying there, walked mentally around it, stepped over it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A little while later they all stood, dressed and ready, around the fire circle. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

You’ll find black poplars in a roadside park around a meadow and fountain—all Athena’s— but Father has a garden in the place— this within earshot of the city wall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ferris looked at me for a second and then said, “Let’s all sit down and get started,” except that I turned around and walked out. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Looking back now, it feels like we spent ages in that steamed-up kitchen after breakfast, or huddled around half-dead fires in the small hours, lost in conversation about our plans for the future. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colin woke up, exhausted, to the rooster, and rolled around in bed for a solid hour before making his way downstairs. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I glanced around to see if anyone else had seen him. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

By that time, the entire class has gathered around and is watching. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Greed, delusional visions of grandeur, the mercenary mercilessness that made every relationship expendable—Midland perfected all these long before they became the standard of the eighties around the rest of the country. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, this one finally got under my skin when I found I couldn’t seem to eat a meal in the hotel without seeing him somewhere around watching me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know how your son is,” Ma said, giving Grandma a quicker hug, then swinging around to make sure Genie and Ernie were right behind her. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I pulled up to the speaker box, thinking I could just shout my order and circle around without stopping the car, but of course it didn’t work out that way. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Then with a bit he bored a hole lengthwise through the square part, and with his knife he whittled the wood till it was only a thin shell around the round hole. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only there were a sledgehammer lying around. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

As they reached the gate, he pulled off his clawed gauntlet and the sweaty glove beneath, locked one arm around the dwarf’s neck, and roughly rubbed his head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As they lined up next to the German and Italian crews, Olympic officials went down the American line, hanging gold medals around the boys’ necks and placing small laurel wreaths on their heads. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He stood and walked around the desk, sitting on the edge of it directly in front of me, arms across his thick chest. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The raised eyebrows around her told her she’d been quiet for too long. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I find myself looking around us now, wondering how much I could get if I nabbed some of these items for resale. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And the arms were all around her, and Jinny was safe. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The afternoon Mama left, Ugwu found Amala in the vegetable garden, crouched on the ground with her knees drawn up, arms around her legs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Miles grabbed the black duffel bag stashed behind the driver’s seat and dumped the contents on the floor, where they rolled around. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Mama was so happy to see me and my brothers and sisters would crowd around the wagon. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We nodded to acknowledge other soldiers as we walked around town looking for Jumah. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Ever since Billy had been thrown into shrubbery for the sake of a picture, he had been seeing Saint Elmo’s fire, a sort of electronic radiance around the heads of his companions and captors. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The album was flipped through and, finally, the customer was satisfied and seated, frayed plastic hoisted around her neck, her chair height adjusted, and Mariama all the time smiling a smile full of things restrained. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once we go around the pillar, I spot a doorway with a plaque that reads Office of the Director. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Neil, with some blond girl who didn’t go to our school, their arms around each other’s waists. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They came on slowly around the last bend, a long blue smoking snake, spiked with guns and flags. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The question flew in desperate circles around his head. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Fortunately for Pizarro and unfortunately for the Incas, smallpox had arrived overland around 1526, killing much of the Inca population, including both the emperor Huayna Capac and his designated successor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she had lost someone dear to her—Clara?—and instead of putting it aside like Mama, she carried that hurt and anger around with her like a sin. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Scourge of the East had left his territory around Liccaro for this? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The show over, I sat trembling in the stands, watching the contestants who now gathered around the concession booth showing their battle scars to anyone who would look. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Pima and the rest of the light crew swarmed around them as they hit bottom. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then Blackjack took off, circling twice around the monument before disappearing into the clouds. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I stood there baffled while Ema moved around the tombstone, using the light from her cell phone to see. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I handed her the Littmus Lozenge and she moved it around in her hands, feeling it. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere in Annapolis fingers of water would appear at the ends of streets or around corners, unexpectedly. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I danced around the shack, hugged everybody, sent my brother to the store to buy two liters of Coca-Cola and a packet of Tennis biscuits. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a fire in the fireplace, and students were scattered around in armchairs, talking quietly or reading. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the bra and the opened white shirt makes it look inappropriate, but Charlise is known for walking around the hood in just a sports bra, basketball shorts, and her Adidas sandals. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He has a shiny black coat with some brown areas around his face and legs. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She was tired of hanging around with the kids. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But when my grandmother shouted in Greek, “A boy!” the cry went around the room, and out into the hall, and across the hall into the living room where the men were arguing politics. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Without soccer, he would be free in the afternoons and evenings to roam around Clarkston, to get into trouble. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Her fingertips brushed against dust and finally something slightly curved, and after another moment of straining she managed to get her fingertips around it enough to pull it out. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I look around and catch sight of the papers from the cooking club last night, lying on the kitchen counter with a bunch of unopened mail. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I looked around and saw Brew kneeling by the side of his bed, praying. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always gets the knot twisted around his finger and spills water all down his shirt and has to start over, and I can always tie mine no problem. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered around the town and back to the road. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lady turn around, turn around, turn around, Lady touch the ground, touch the ground, touch the ground; Lady show your shoe, show your shoe, show your shoe, Lady, lady, twenty-four skiddoo! Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She moved the butterflies around, starting with the red one and finishing with the purple one—the one that might just as easily be called violet. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Momma has her arm around me on the sectional and won’t let go. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Now he wrapped his arms around himself and swayed. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He looked around fearfully and began to stagger up the bluff. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She drifted to one side, coming around finally to get a look at him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“How dare you try to turn this around on me,” snaps Lenny. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

It fades around me until I’m back in my hospital room. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hold him, but then he is gripping me around my shoulders and clenching the back of my blouse, my hair. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Adah pulled her chair up next to him and opened one of the old musty bird books she’d found in this house, which she adores to carry around. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's the only person I know around here who still has one, other than Malloy, and it's cool that she doesn't try to make the rest of us feel bad about renting floors. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

We move on to ping-pong and score based on who can hit the most surfaces around the room with a single shot. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He sauntered around me like a cat ready to pounce. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

North Korea had just conducted a nuclear test, and Barack was soon to leave for Egypt to deliver a major address meant to extend an open hand to Muslims around the world. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

True, those things happened, but not the way he described them, as though there were wardens with bad intentions lurking around every corner. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“How I’m going to blow with all my people around me?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The clerk scooted around the counter to talk us up about the bike. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

For example, she doesn't know that Mom got pushed around by Chicago cops when she was eighteen during the 1968 Democratic Convention. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I creep around the house, sticking close to the shadows of the com. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The green light flashed around the room and she dropped like her husband. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He spent hours each day running around the house measuring the angle of things with his new steel protractor. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She shivered and wrapped her coat around herself even tighter. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We can figure that all out later. We know the Nightbeast is probably around here somewhere. Let’s go find it,” Seven said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He drank what water he had left in the sealskin pouch, and steered around the westernmost headland until he came into a wide strait between it and a second island lying to the west. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I fished the handkerchief from my pocket and tried to tie it around my upper right arm. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They hated floundering around in the deep snow and balked constantly. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was around this time that Dad lost his job. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Arion was playing a dangerous game of tag, charging around the giant while Alyconeus swiped at them with his staff, knocking over walls and cleaving massive chasms in the ice. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“But you have to help me do my magic act when the spring talent show rolls around. Deal?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

His ears twitched and then swivelled right around. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The other end, good and tight, went around my chest, under my arms. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around, men, women, and children freeze in their places, stone still. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I shift the words around, trying to form a sentence that makes sense, and when that fails, I move the letters around to see if each one might be an anagram for something else. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Whatever this beast was, it seemed to ignore all the frozen things and people spread around town. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was rumored around the neighborhood that when Sapo came out, the nurses cleaned him up and brought him over to his father. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Well,” says Kelton, looking around at all the dead fish, “they definitely didn’t come for sushi.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I follow Zohra’s lead and cover my hair with the scarf hanging around my neck. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Kaede reached out and wrapped her fingers around one of the rings—it was as thick as her own wrist—and when she lifted it, the door swung open. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Emperor gazed around him slowly, so that each one of the thousands of spectators might imagine Caesar was looking personally at him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I sobbed and coughed, and she wrapped her arms around me. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

We trudged silently around the curve and kept going as ordered and then turned to wait for Jack. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring they appear around the corner of the house in their baggy gardening pants, smudged with mud, to see me off. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Doesn’t this sound like something that two people who can’t find their way around the block would get themselves into? The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

About three weeks after the fire, Mother announced that the skin around the edges of the burn had begun to grow back, and that she had hope for even the worst patches. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A sound rose up around him, people calling for help. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

The wine bottles kept coming around, and the cigarettes. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shoelaces,” he added vaguely, looping the Polaroid cameras strap around his neck. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

An adjutant came around and asked if any of us were from this area and I said I was, and Colonel Parsons brought me into town this morning to show him around.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The general stood quietly for a moment, as the men gathered around him. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Big Skiff around?” is the first thing he says. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The escapees were caught not far from our house and I was disappointed that I hadn't spotted them slinking around. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I threw my arms around her and hugged for all I was worth. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I paused and spent a few moments rolling my tongue around my mouth, trying to bring life back to it. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The jellyfish slowly wrapped its tendrils tighter and tighter around its prey. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Until then, they wandered around the maze of roads in the development, watching the children at evening play. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra whirled around, but it was just Big Jerome, finally succumbing to the team of ninth graders that Little Jerome had rallied. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Many have bells tied on strings around their necks, which chime when the animals slowly move their heads. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were driving through a valley jam-packed with rows of houses wrapped around hillsides like serpentine belts. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

With so much around me going the wrong way, I figured the boat was my exit. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Shoot anything that acts unnatural, and don’t fool around about it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deep creases curved around his generous mouth, showing signs of humor, though he was studying the sea, and not smiling now. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think it’s safe for Nat to follow me around,” I say. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shapes of people bustle around the room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She walked in and looked around at my tiny living room and the attached kitchen. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And so Esme left with the four scythes, thankful to be alive, and trying not to think of the many around her who weren’t. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I wondered what next year’s bead would be, if I was still around to get it. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I felt his weight jerk around my waist. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“That’s not what I mean. Look ...” I pointed to where the pigs had rooted around in the dirt and leaves, going after some choice morsel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“No cause to be roaming around after dark.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She’s sitting at the kitchen table with cardboard boxes all around her, folding a stack of letters and putting them in envelopes. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw Jordan Baker and talked over and around what had happened to us together and what had happened afterward to me, and she lay perfectly still listening in a big chair. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then I turned around and started to push the girls back into the safety of the barn. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“There’s a lot of that action around here, nights: you’ll see it. ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reminded Mia, oddly, of herself at around that age, traipsing through the neighborhood, climbing over fences and walls in search of the right photograph, defiantly spending her mother’s money on film. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We turned away from the courtyard and walked around the University aimlessly for a while. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I pull my jacket tight around my shoulders. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He looked around to make sure no one was listening, then leaned in close and whispered, “But you know what pays even better?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Let’s scout around the palace. Maybe we can find some extra Greek fire or Hephaestus traps.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They could just go around the corner and find another bathroom the way I had done and leave me in peace. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She stared up at the antique plane, which was now banking around for another strafe. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I pictured them in there crowded around the kitchen table. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They were loose because his legs had atrophied beyond normal clothing size—you could get two hands around his thighs and have your fingers touch. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For writing books? People would have thought she was a hero around here. Maybe she could have made movies or something, too. That would have been cool.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only other significant addition to our ancestors’ cultural repertoire that can be documented with confidence around that time was the use of fire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The people sit around the table as if suspended, like props in a play, or puppets on strings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He stroked his hair thoughtfully and fiddled with the ribbon around his ponytail. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He put his arms around me, squeezed hard, and roughly kissed the side of my head. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The tall English driver came around and looked in, “I’ll take it very easily,” he said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But I keep pushing, as hard as I can, until the disc lifts from my skin enough for me to get my fingers around it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I spun around in time to see a bag of garbage—into which I’d tossed the match I’d used to light the stove—flare into a small conflagration. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I pulled the rattling old wagon and the smelly dog crate around and parked them next to my bike. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He must have heard us approaching, because he jumped and turned around. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Kate turned the spyglass around and handed it back to her. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I ran plan after plan around in my mind. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed the Scoreboard and took a long look around my stronghold, wondering if it was for the last time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Tied to the new cars are balloons bouncing around at the mercy of the wind. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Movie night or Honor Pictionary or Book Club?” my mom asks while inflating a blood pressure cuff around my arm. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She framed hand goggles around her eyes and pressed her face against the back door screen. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it around my neck. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Three of them were still clutching scarves and shawls around their heads. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The glittering girls giggled and twirled their gum around their fingers. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

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

So indeed was the entire mantelpiece around the fireplace in the living-room, a splendid design of fruit and foliage and intertwining branches carved in oak. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Saline and I sat around the courthouse, we realized that his girlfriend lived and worked not too far from my home. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to explain, as I looked around. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Too expensive for my family to eat. Unless it's gone very stale. Of course, practically everything we eat is stale," says Peeta, pulling the sleeping bag up around him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Pretty blond pigtails,” the guy said, shifting his head around to see me behind Charlie. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’s like Mikey Molloy, never made his First Communion, wandering around in a state of sin, never made The Collection, never saw James Cagney. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The door of the room burst open in a shower of red sparks and Harry wheeled around as Professor Lupin came hurtling into the room, his face bloodless, his wand raised and ready. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She glanced around and saw that most of the slaves, and some of the sailors as well, had difficulty adjusting to land after such a long time journeying on the ocean. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d bleat in bliss, and the chickens and rooster would cluster around his feet as if they, too, welcomed him home. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The beads around her neck are small and expensive, glass coated with real gold paint, and her blouse shimmers with flowers of finely stitched gold and pink thread. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first ten or so minutes we spent walking around the store, Zu kept turning to look at our linked hands, as if she couldn’t believe what she was seeing. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I crept around the back of the stairs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Fezzik could not get his arms around to his back and dislodge the enemy. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Flecks of gray salt the dark brown bob that curves around her heart-shaped face. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Jonathan wrapped his arms around him and pressed him to his shoulder. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

A girl bumps my arm rushing around us, walking two black poodles. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the potatoes came around, Phoebe explained that she was on a diet and could not eat starch. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baxter put her arm around my shoulder and gave it a squeeze. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“It's our bad luck they had a photographer hanging around doing nothing they could send out to take a picture of you laying in the street like a drunk bum.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Stupid thing gets stuck," he tried explaining, but I couldn't wait around to hear about it. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Each secret, each unspoken thing was round and hard and heavy and cold, like a stone hung around the necks of both grandmother and girl. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When she caught up with them, she put her arms around their waists as if they were three schoolgirls just walking in the yard. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she stood up and sat beside me on my bed and she put her arm around my shoulders, and I began talking. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once the officer got in, the van began to move, backing down the driveway until it reached a space wide enough to turn around. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rose and me walked into my place after a long day stumbling around town. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I even walk around, bouncing lightly on each floorboard in hopes that one might be loose. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The dog ran ahead of him, at full cry, but held back by the rope that his master had looped around his shoulder. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know how she is when she’s around Jordan,” Angel replied. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just didn’t want this to happen, she replied, wrapping her arms around her body. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Tendai wondered what she did when only the robot was around. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

His arms were tightly clasped around his legs, as if they were all he could rely on. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Then suppose we go down to the chandlery and look around.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Pa looked at Ma and said, “Nobody’d starve to death when you were around, Caroline.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around with desperation, knowing that they wouldn’t last more than a few seconds if they stood here. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still dim enough that these spotlights continue to follow us around, but a bit of light reaches us from all the great big rooms blocked off by dark red curtains. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

In less than thirty years, the U.S. penal population exploded from around 300,000 to more than 2 million, with drug convictions accounting for the majority of the increase. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even though winter was long over, there was still some snow in piles around the building. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His naked eyes shrank to fluttering little dots as he went down to grope around his feet. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But even with my eyes on my feet, I can still see people parting around me, giving me a lot of space as I pass. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mounds of paper were scattered around, ashtrays and wastebaskets were filled to overflowing, and, where visible, the flat olive carpeting was freckled with cigarette burns. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn around, and everyone from my old table suddenly looks anywhere but here. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

"Ah, that bank," I answered, and explained that it was "around." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They catapult toward me, casting their eyes around in search of the suicide bomber. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a small body of water, maybe only a mile around. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The great volcanic plumes of Io reach so high that they are close to injecting their atoms directly into the space around Jupiter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has a black bow tie around her neck and is wearing black net stockings and black high heels. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A scream, "I'm going in!" spun me around. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t want her mad at me,” I laugh, and we join our winning girls in pogoing around. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Blue Eyes came over and put a chain cuff around Pima’s wrist, then turned to Nailer. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Pulling back out of view, Kate eased her slingshot from her bucket, snugged a marble into it, then peeked around the corner again. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Far down the course, his assigned lane was going to carry the Husky Clipper under the railroad bridge right at the point where water swirled around behind an abutment and flowed back upriver. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes fingering the brown tooth around his neck. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There is talking around me, I hear words, but the words don’t make sense. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I guess it was a church thing I didn’t know about, but all of a sudden my mom slipped her arm around me and rested her head on my shoulder. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s like Grampa said. The sheriff just wants me to stick around in case I have to answer questions or something. I’ll be all right.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He figured he’d just run the play he always ran: Toss the ball around. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

This thing my brain’s been circling around for years. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She hopped off my shoulder and cupped her hands around her mouth. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They stopped her and started slapping her around. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lana asked as she moved up to the corner of the building to look around at the clearing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Many of them were worn around the edges, as if they had been handled often. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember how I warned you, Tayo? I told you I didn’t want that crowd hanging around our ranch with their drinking and carrying on.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them had runny noses, or there was a kind of blood-spattered green crust caked around the nostrils. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You might as well be walking around without pants. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Security bots glide around the floor, looking like ladies with mechanical jaws and long-nosed masks and black parasols. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I chose a seat around the large square table and listened as the two students nearest me discussed the lecture topic, which was Isaiah Berlin’s two concepts of liberty. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She turned around and walked out of the room. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

His voice sounded cross as he put on his gloves and boots and wound a scarf around his neck. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Otherwise there are going to be dozens of girls running around with baby Trips. Horrific thought.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Loki put something into it, closed Hod’s fingers around it. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He comes around the desk and sits upright in the wing chair beside mine. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paper, cardboard, and Styrofoam piled up in drifts around us. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone has an Aunt Matilda who had a vivid dream of a fiery car crash the night before Uncle Mortimer wrapped his Ford around a utility pole. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made two flannel bags, sewed a bud of garlic in each one, attached a clean corset string and made the children wear them around their necks under their shirts. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we came into the campground, the hunters came out of their tents and gathered around us. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time a car came around the corner, he stood up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He turns around fast and his eyes are big which means surprise I think. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father says the Shannon is a killer river because it killed my two brothers.When you look at pictures ofjesus He’s always wandering around ancient Israel in a sheet. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Far below she saw the Wood, a sea of trees all around Taninli. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Geak is giggling and trying to catch up with me as I run and spin around and around. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around us we could hear the wights spreading throughout the camp, kicking things over, throwing open caravan doors, shoving people. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The walls of fences and unpassable hedges rose around him. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of May 8, Richard Nixon announced that American planes had begun striking industrial targets in and around Hanoi. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“We need to get aboard. I wish ... I wish I had more time to look around. But it’s gone now.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Just when I was heated up enough to go upside Willie’s head we heard this squealing on the corner and we looked up and saw two police cars come tearing around the corner. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something slithered in Emily’s belly, as if a snake were winding its way around her stomach. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I was so tired that I walked around in a daze. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rope wound around a pulley attached to the outside of the building and ran up to another pulley fixed beside the window directly above hers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I dug around, then pulled my hand up and held my closed fist out for Joey. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

With shells exploding all around, the bus sped to a military airbase and stopped in front of a complex that had once been General Westmoreland’s headquarters. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And Sunny crawled around solemnly biting each of Edgar and Albert’s shoes, leaving small teeth marks in each one so she would not be forgotten. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

They strode down corridors, up flights of stairs, and around and around until she hadn’t the slightest chance of finding her way out again. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I said looking around the empty room, eyeing the closed doors, trying to think of some way to persuade him to let me in. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My prince had his arm around a girl with red hair. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He was always wearing these giant, old-man sunglasses that wrapped around his face. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She imagined a door to the Otherworld with a tether of light wrapped around its handle. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z