| 单词 | little girl |
| 例句 | Its branches reached high and stretched wide, and under it sat a little girl who resembled both Charlie and Zooey, staring at the stars overhead, a secret smile on her face. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Somewhere in some town on the other side of the river, the sun is shining and the water is sparkling like it did when I was a little girl. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Then she remembered the heat and sat down guiltily on the couch just as a freshly laundered nurse leading a little girl came into the room. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z One day, a little girl on Francie’s block was killed and it had to come out in the open. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she drew a picture of the.little girl dancing underneath the words on the paper. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z ‘Tell me, Mary,’ she said, ‘tell me quite truthfully, is there really a little girl sitting on my window-sill, or am I still dreaming?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Go ’head, cry, Delphine,” he whispered, rocking me like I was a little girl. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z As I was meditating on this discovery, a little girl, followed by her attendant, came running up the lawn. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I don’t understand why we have to do this, pretend I’m Daddy’s little girl when he hasn’t paid attention to me in years. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Gobbling their chow, they sometimes twittered in tones musical enough that people mistook them for little girls. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And there wasn’t nastiness, and there wasn’t any filth, and there wasn’t any odor, and there wasn’t any groaning—just the light white laughter of little girls and me. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Slight symptoms gave him away: the sparkle in his eyes when he saw the little girl, the expensive presents he bought her, the anguish he felt if he heard her cry. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girls had come into the kitchen and were leaning on either side of their fathers chair, listening with the same dark-eyed intensity. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind him, above the air conditioner's roar, he can hear the little girl shout Doña Tatica's name, and as if summoned back from the hellhole of her pain, Tatica's eyes roll up, her mouth parts. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He is holding a photo of Bernadette, and a letter with large cursive handwriting from the little girl. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Will you fight, or will you hide behind your mama’s apron like a little girl?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z When I finally came out of it, he looked at me like I was a different person from the little girl he’d known before. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The two little girls and I crossed the Delaware River where George Washington had crossed it, the next morning. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She did spot someone with a possession, though—a little girl clutching what looked like a piece of flowered cloth, not really big enough to be a blanket. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “She has hearing aids and she talks funny,” the little girl says. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z A little girl two pods away coughs too and gags up her own gelatinous lung slug. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z For a moment she was a little girl again, and scared, and the rain on her face felt like tears. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “But he had a tyke! He had a little girl!” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It made her think about being a little girl in New Orleans, before her curse set in and her mom got so bitter. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z "Did you ever see that painting, Grandmamma, with the little girl in it?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z A little girl in glasses put her hand to hef mouth, as if she had seen something incredible, and it made her momentarily speechless between screams. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z After we ate, he even allowed the little girl to take him into her lap. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It was a little girl—a baby—was it not?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d grown so much in the time he’d been gone, yet they were still little girls, clinging to their childhood and their need for his love. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “Then I came here to work for the Doctorita when I was a little girl.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She hugged the three little girls and Aunt Pearl, then hooked her arm into Alfred's, kissed him on the cheek, and pulled him inside. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It would break Cilia’s heart if the little girl did not live up to her lovely face. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He smiled at Cousin Eunice across the top of Dicey’s head, and she blushed like a little girl. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking at Prim’s face, it’s hard to imagine she’s the same frail little girl I left behind on reaping day nine months ago. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘No, leave the little girl here with me,’ the Queen said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t seem natural for a little girl to be so interested in animals. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z I know it is difficult, little girl, it said. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “How should I know how the stupid little girl got hold of it?” he said. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z One was the little girl he had known. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There's a little girl next to me, bobbed mousy brown hair, strawberries on her dress collar. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “No, I won’t,” she said demurely, a good little girl doing what she was told. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He took pity on the fierce, desperate little girl and didn’t send her away. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They would send photos, those lucky little girls who had found their perfect families, and Miss Mallory would frame them and hang them in the front hallway, just above Cady’s row of trophies. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z And as a little girl, she adored everything about Down House. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Two little girls are washing clothes in the river. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Michelangelo peered at the little girl on her wooden stool. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The next April Daisy had her little girl and they went to France for a year. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He didn’t mention his wife, not even in passing, but he wrote that he spoke Spanish to his little girl so she’d be able to talk with her grandmother someday. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z We passed the swamp, and I watched for Brenda, the little girl who had died. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The little girl nodded and looked down at herself, at the jacket with its row of large buttons that designated her as a Seven. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Nonnie slipped her glasses on and off her nose, trying to take in the sight, and finally let them hang on the ribbon around her neck while she clapped her hands like a little girl. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z She looked at me, then she spoke rapidly to the little girl in Italian, with a rising inflexion, then a pause, interrogatory. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I had to stare at the last picture for a minute before I realized who the little girl was. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He just looked down at Anya and said, “That was brave, little girl. Foolish. But brave.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I knew she would make some other little girl very happy. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Well, little girl, what is it?” replied her mother, in whose eyes the stately young lady still remained ‘the baby’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nobody home upstairs in your mother's house,” corrected the little girl. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The little boys are grand, too, but you need a little girl for yourself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It was the woman with the little girl in hot pink who had spotted him tearing apart the Barbie section. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The little girls have been called to their baths. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z As a little girl, I’d played all over the building—even up in the balcony and in the choir loft. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She did not mind very much when Pa laughed at her for being such a greedy little girl that she took more than she could carry away. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you really think he could ever love you?” the little girl asked. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The ride stopped and the little girl swung her leg over the pony to dismount. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The little girl managed to stand tall enough to peer through the window. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “What’s that—begat?” asked the little girl who was just five years old. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mom was dying to have a little girl, so when she and husband number two got together, she went and paid some doctor lots of money so she could get pregnant.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The little girl in pink started to cry. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girl doesn’t listen but drags her mother toward the elevators. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “It’s a pity you didn’t think of your little girl’s health before you deprived her of her pet robot,” he muttered—but to himself. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He told this to the little girl while he was pruning the rosebushes, simply to entertain her, because he adored her and it made him sad that she was mute. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I suppose it is obvious that I worry about you, a little girl all alone in the world. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In a prison yard selling pastries to help raise money for a little girl who had donated a kidney. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A little girl about six years old peeked out from behind the base of the statue. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The little girl got onto her knees and crawled over to Jinny. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Second, because the little girl, who I guessed was Tobias’s sister, began smooshing Delilah’s ears, which made Delilah wag her tail, and then lean against Tobias in total love with him. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Maria pulled off her hat and ran her fingers through her hair, and suddenly she looked like a little girl again. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A long time ago, a little girl was sent away to live with an old aunt and uncle at the foot of a mountain. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She kept her long grey hair in two braids like a little girl with a flowered kerchief tied over her head and under her round chin. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z When I was a little girl, we’d pretend the ceiling was really made of popcorn and we’d open our mouths wide, wide and let it fall in. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The little girl with her finger in the dam had run off. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “Come on, little girl,” he says, “I’m taking you to dinner.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “If money’s the issue. You know. We don’t have to tell our little girl. Just say you got a big bonus.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z That little girl from the department store deserved a role model. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The woman tried to tear the men with clubs away from her little girl, who was no longer moving, and so they hit her instead. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He looked up from where he lay wrapped protectively around the little girl and saw Trina barreling her way toward him, pushing others aside, her eyes afire and focused on Deedee. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “I think of it as more of a hunting story than a fairy tale,” Kaisa said, “though there are fairies in it. Another huntress told it to me, when I was a little girl.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z That was no rain for little girls to play in. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Some of the Gypsies gasped, and a little girl hid her face in her mother’s skirt. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z How had that chubby little girl weighed down with hair become a knife- m wielding would-be killer out to get her son? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Unless you want your little girl to see you dragged.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “My little girl wrote this composition in school and got ‘A’ on it and she’s only ten years old. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Take it,” the woman said, jabbing it at the little girl. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you’re the only one of us who can reach the city,” said the little girl. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Why? Why don’t you want to see me anymore? Are you going to take care of another little girl?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I took up the two packages and gave the bread to the little girl, the woman all iron-gray behind the counter, watching us with cold certitude. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel, little girl, that you’re rather missing the point of this being a hunt. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She one a those grown ladies that still dress like a little girl with big bows and matching hats and such. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A little girl in a room full of grown men, wondering which one is her husband. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Mr. Beach drove up in his buggy, bringing his wife and little girls to catch the train to Athens. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Once she’d hugged the stuffing out of her, Sam knelt down and held the little girl at arm’s length, scanning for cuts and bruises. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “She trains them. Oh, and by the way: I don’t care what the giggly little girl says.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I didn’t need to carry that doggone picture around, this wasn’t how I remembered Momma anyway, Momma was always excited and jumpy, not sad and poky like this little girl. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z On the old man's next birthday, she appeared at the apartment with her little girl. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Nothing’s changed, little girl,” he said, his voice sounding like the noise dry leaves make as they rustle across a pavement. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z When he was finally a famous Broadway actor, he would get me all the best parts for little girls, he’d say. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z And why did I mention the little girl? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she looked up with sad and loving eyes, and smiled at Ama with such brave, wise compassion that the little girl felt tears fill her gaze. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Or one of those summer makeovers, someone who leaves in June looking like a little girl and returns in September as a full-bodied woman, a ten-week miracle? Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Gradually, the applause grew from very small to a thunderous standing ovation for the little girl who took her bows with tears in her eyes. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want to see!” yelled the little girl. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s not something little girls need to trouble themselves with,” he said. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z An older man and a little girl came out of the busy store. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girl stopped mumbling, smacked her lips, and opened her eyes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She knew it wasn’t the little girl’s fault. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Ob lifted me up and carried me through the door Cletus held open and he took me to my room as he had done so many times when I was a little girl. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z The little girl is as light as a hen in my arms. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The little girl howled steadily, holding the bread. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The patients and their families paid me a few riales and thanked me with respect, as though I weren’t a little girl but a wise, grown-up healer. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He was staring at the batting averages, but he saw nothing except the image of a little girl in a brown plaid skirt, scared out of her wits, biting her lower lip. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z The other one said, “An early start getting killed? This is the Nightingale’s road now. It’s not safe out there, little girl.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z When had this gap-toothed little girl turned into that sad woman in her dark bedroom in Raleigh? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z My mind immediately went to that little girl who wanted my autograph in the clothing store. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Mr. Kapasi found it strange that Mr. Das should refer to his wife by her first name when speaking to the little girl. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She cried, like a little girl who fell off her bike, and then she collapsed with despair. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The refectory was totally silent as we waited for the little girl to speak. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Her pitch-black hair was nice, hairdresser tousled especially for him, and she had small pearls in her earlobes, like a little girl. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I speak Spanish, so I understand as she says what translates to: "This little girl has been through a lot." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “No, you’re not. I can tell by your eyes. You're playing with me all the time, just as if I was a silly little girl.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z As little girls, my sisters and I asked about ours, after being read stories full of mothers and fathers and their misbehaving children. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Charlie and I made hats and long, flowing gowns, trying to imitate the Arabs, but I expect we looked more like little girls wearing their mothers’ party gowns than like Arabs. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon as we came home tonight we got paid again, and the same little girl brought us a plate of egg and chorizo and tortillas. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Had he watched and laughed as the foolish little girl went off on impossible missions? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She was a solemn-eyed, shy little girl, slow of speech, but quick to laugh. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Like wind on growing corn, a rippling murmur came from all the little girls in the audience. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Opening it, he saw a little girl, quite unknown to him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wait a minute. Are you saying you took Mama to another dimension when she was a little girl?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Just by asking him such a question, I can see that my pa has realized I’m not a little girl. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Well... what about that little girl’s respect for him?. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z “She’s just a little girl. Why did you leave her behind like a dog?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “Yes, it is, Gloria. Isn’t it nice—soft and furry. It’s very gentle. It likes little girls.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “Then a little girl in the back raises her hand and says, ‘We’re all human beans!’” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Those little girls needed them, but I, I — “Join them, go to the airport, try there,” the guard said, waving me away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. McGowan, I did not do anything wrong. I was helping that little girl. What was I supposed to do? Just let her cry?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Bran wept like a little girl when the bright blood came rushing out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She made another such bandage above the little girl’s elbow. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z A little girl holding folded linens stops in passing. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “The main difference is that a little girl sits down when she goes to the bathroom and a little boy stands up.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Mae Tuck was the only one who spoke, and the most she could offer was: “Teaching our little girl... how to ride!” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z While they watched, Claire lifted one of the little girls and helped her weave daisies into the twigs of the bower. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z When they left, the little girl waved good-by to Eleanor, and Eleanor waved back, sitting in joyful loneliness to finish her coffee while the gay stream tumbled along below her. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “Did you see me in a vision, little girl?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z And later she also dropped the bags of wheat flour and rice and kept walking like this for many miles, singing songs to her little girls, until she was delirious with pain and fever. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A little girl falling asleep in her mother’s arms on the bus. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. Can you arrange away that dead little girl off of my kitchen table, Pastor? Work out a Lazarus number?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z That was the name of a little girl in San Juan, she told him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z That post on those four little girls who were killed in that church. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “Greet the lady,” the dealer commanded, just as the nice little girls’ mothers had when visitors came. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My poor little girl burst out crying, frightened by the terror in my voice. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Italian, whose head covered with patent leather curls aroused in women an irrepressible need to sigh, dealt with Amaranta as with a capricious little girl who was not worth taking seriously. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She flipped the page again, this time to a picture of a little girl cowering before a looming shadow. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “When she sang the song. While the little girl died.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But there was no way to get out, no way to run away off an island, no way to run with a little girl. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z If he had been a little girl, I bet his parents would’ve been more concerned. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Vega had told me that when his mother was a little girl in Santiago, her dad had accidentally set their house on fire with a lit cigarette. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The little girl made Cora wonder what her own children might be like one day. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A little girl cried out, “Mama, Mama, Mama.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “If anything’s happened to my little girl,” Dad warned in a low voice, “I’ll be back for you and your boss man.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I’m walking along the dog food section when a woman walks past me with a little girl sitting in the trolley. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Maria Teresa pipes up in her little girl’s voice, not wanting to be left out of the future. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She grabbed Deedee from him, wrapped her arms around her tight.The little girl was sobbing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z 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 I see a father put his arm around the little girl next to him and pull her closer. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Let me tell you now about the breasts of little girls. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I was certain I would be allowed to speak with the Sacred Rock and that it would right the wrong done to me when I was a little girl. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z And the little girl was the reason why. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z After the big, deep, claw-foot tub was filled—too full for a little girl, almost too full for a grown woman—Momma sent the girls away. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Mary admired the two little girls I’d brought, mixed them in with her own children, sent them all upstairs to play games and watch television. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She held Olive in the crook of her arm, the little girl’s head resting sweetly on her shoulder. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I take it from her, glance at the young man holding a little girl on his shoulders and at the woman standing by his side. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z The old people said nothing, allowing the little girl to do as she pleased. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “When you were a little girl, did you ever play come-into-my-castle?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When Maya was a little girl, her favorite movie was the Disney version of Alice in Wonderland. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Francie, in company with other little girls, roamed the streets carrying a bit of white chalk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girl said, “Oops,” and stuffed something from her hand into her mouth. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Mrs. Weston’s friends were all made happy by her safety; and if the satisfaction of her well-doing could be increased to Emma, it was by knowing her to be the mother of a little girl. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z But they quickly look away to avoid meeting our eyes, except for the little girl who is staring at me right now. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Who-e-e-e. Tell it to him, little girl. Tell it to him.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not a little girl anymore and I’m not an old lady yet,” Baba replies. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Citra was in the same dance class, back in that magical childhood time when little girls nurtured the delusion that they were as graceful as they were cute. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The little girl clutched her rubber duck and began to cry. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The little girl did not look at the howling crowd but from the side the whites of her eyes showed like those of a frightened fawn. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He was always hovering around her like a gigantic shadow as silent as the little girl herself. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of our old drawings are in there, my brother’s spaceships and red and gold explosions, my delicate, old-fashioned little girls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I didn't want to distract the people who were saving my life, so I muted my mic and screamed like a little girl. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And for this little girl, some of those dreams did indeed come true. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Keep right on chewing, baby! This is a great day for the Beauregardes! Our little girl is the first person in the world to have a chewing-gum meal!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z At night, she dreamed of a little girl—and once of triplets. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z One pattern had a little girl younger than me sitting in the lap of an older girl, probably meant to be her sister. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z When I walked into dance class with Mia and ten other little girls, my expectations were high. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z She took such good care of the little girl—making her a spot to sleep, helping her wash up in the stream, telling her a story as darkness settled on the wooded valley. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He has taped a picture of a doe-eyed little girl to his beeper. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Whenever she saw the little girl stop to look at the trees, the sky, she repeated the same harsh-voiced warning: “Overseer’ll be settin’ you a task any day now. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Francie was in her yard one mid-afternoon when a little girl came out alone into the school yard and importantly clapped two blackboard erasers together to free them from chalk dust. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z With what Meg called ‘a great want of manners’ Jo had saved some bonbons for the little girls, and they soon subsided, after hearing the most thrilling events of the evening. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z It was all right for little girls to go to school, he said, but he still insisted that girls over ten should stay home, in purdah. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z "Grandmamma," I said, "when you were a little girl, did you ever meet a witch?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z The little girl leaped over a fallen tree trunk, her sneakers squelching through the forest muck. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Pattie only hoped that the group assembled to care for the odd little girl with the dark, wet eyes would do a good job. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “You need to stop taking yourself so seriously, little girl,” Dina said when Molly asked her to knock it off. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Bertha told me a story about when she and Mama were little girls and went to a lake one summer. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z As I work, I remember when I was a little girl pretending to be a rich indigena. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I told her she was about the prettiest little girl I’d seen all day. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Her eyes were closed, but the little girl, because of the shadows, her own distance, and her imagination, thought she saw a supplicating and humiliated expression on her sister’s face. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Very softly, she half sang, half hummed a song that her grandmother used to sing to her when she was a little girl. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z What a pity I missed seeing my little girl! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When she was a little girl, she lived in a big house surrounded by saffron fields. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Well, that’s a hard thing to ask—see a little girl perform a miracle and not tell her parents or no one about it. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z There were grown-ups around the table and three other little girls in bright dresses, who were giggling and staring at me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The little girl turned her head to Sister Fenella and gave a broad happy smile, and her dæmon became a squirrel like Geraint and chattered with glee. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And that is how they knew the little crooked white child, the little girl without kakakaka, had been eaten. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why she so happy when little girl not?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I got right next to where the door used to be when the guy came out with a little girl in his arms. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the door will open, and in will crowd a horde of snide and treacherous little girls, whispering and pointing, and I will be servile, grateful. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She gathered up the eggshell-thin fragments with care and placed them in a small blue box which had once held a bracelet that her grandmother had given her when she was a little girl. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The woman's niece and another little girl came out instead and saw the peculiar package. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “And what about your little girl in her costume?” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She tells Mr. Freeman she hates clowns; a clown scared her when she was a little girl and it put her into therapy. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z She loved her little girl because she felt sorry for her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When they finally returned, Yoren had a little girl in his arms, and March and Cutjack were carrying a woman in a sling made of an old tom quilt. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As a little girl, I longed to be given the honor of the stool, but now I just feel too tall and awkward, with these children staring and whispering about me from below. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere to the right of me, the little girl giggled. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He’s about to pull the fridge open, but he stops and looks at me like I’m some little girl hiding an ice cream cone behind my back. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z So, after all, she wasn’t a little girl. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And another one of a little girl in a pink party dress and black shiny shoes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I think it was a combination of Lynn dying and seeing the little girl in the blue dress that changed my mother’s vote. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “Come here, little girl. I know what you want, little girl.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Any young woman walking off a plane with a little girl could have been me. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Probably tomorrow. Drink up, little Bekky. Drink up, my squishy little girl.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z He was a gentleman, kind to little children...or so everyone thought until that sunny afternoon when he inveigled a little girl into his dismal back room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “And this little girl risked her own life, over and over again, to save it.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z They killed a little girl just about 2 months ago and she was just sitting on her stoop. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z A little girl drifted behind her mother, her arms overflowing with princess dresses, glass slippers, and a sparkling tiara. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z You get to know a guy in a different kind of way, sitting on a park bench side by side, watching little girls play. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was like Pearl’s, like her own had been as a little girl: the more you tried to smooth it, the more it insisted on springing free. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Madoc would be so proud—his little girl, remembering all her training,” she says. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl’s kiss on your cheek. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I was a poor little girl thing who was caring for my drunken father, who had stayed too long at the fair. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, sir, I just hated to see my little girl feeling unhappy like that, so I vowed I would keep up the search until I’d got her what she wanted. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z The little girl with the dolly put her finger to her lips and nodded. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Then turning toward the door, blinded by water and light, Ben spit back, “Yeah, Dad, and this little girl just whipped you good.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In space, no one can hear you scream like a little girl. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girl was about four, and, to pass the time, she leaned her back against the glass showcase and stared up at my unshaven face. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The little girl flopped down on the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There are portraits of a woman and a little girl, small amateur photographs taken against an ivy-clad wall. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A little girl who can’t be more than two or three. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “I have one little girl who is very nervous and she kept saying...‘I don’t want to die.’...If such programs continue I will make kindling wood of my receiving set.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The little girls’ bed was only rumpled covers, and there was movement and quiet talking from the kitchen. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Spies are big this year too, and a little girl in a tiny trench coat and dark sunglasses is absolutely hilarious. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z And now that little girl would be in his classroom again, the room where he was supposed to be the teacher. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was because she reminded me so much of another little girl from another time long ago. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Have you seen a little girl, a baby, walking by herself? In a green jacket, with a hood?” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z By the mast pond, where the great spars of ships lay refracted, we saw a little girl with a bucket, a vain and minute assay at extinguishing the flames. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z A sweet little girl; the young lord of Storm's End had doted on her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Like a good little girl, Janina was obeying her father: she did not go with me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z It was a little girl and she had on a real pretty blue dress and big, yellow wings and something tied around her head. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A young mother and her little girl were waiting around, too. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “Yes, moon, little girl. Look, Dad, it’s the moon!” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And a gold bracelet for a little girl. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The respect in which we held Grosie was heightened the day after our arrival, when she gave Mother a quiet reprimand which Mother accepted just as if she were a little girl again. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Seeing’s you was the one that really knowed the little girl.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Him pretending that on this very day, every year, he could have a piece of his little girl back through me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Something in me worried about Nofaleyyah, because she was like an older person in the body of a little girl. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z I had me a little girl finally, something I’d wanted all my life. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z “What about the little girl and that crybaby in the cupboard?” he asked. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z My face burning, little girl, he called me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “Not my best, I’m afraid. This sweet little girl had to keep me from falling right down on my face.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z The lights from the stream below touched the ceiling and the polished tables and glanced along the little girl’s curls, and the little girl’s mother said, “She wants her cup of stars.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z When they were gone Kate went to her room and put on her pretty new print dress that made her look like a little girl. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The two little girls shook hands like gentlemen. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She was holding the hand of a little girl. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z This is the elegant, delicate picture I have in my mind, about other little girls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z How could his little girl, or her fretfulness, be evil? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A red ball rolled to his feet, and Macon picked it up and threw it back to a little girl. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do that part again. It doesn’t flow. You don’t sound confident—like that other little girl. That little white girl from down the street. ” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Maybe I used to play dress-up with it as a little girl? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I get caught up in the excitement and clap like a little girl. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z It seems as though everything tied together; the Jews and a little girl, both victims of a hate crime, and now the graffiti we saw in the nation’s capital. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z When I was a little girl I had two baby dolls and carried them everywhere. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She insisted that they focus their energies on raising a little girl who was, by nature, a tangle of mischief and motion and curiosity. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z In the commercial, the little girl took a bite of buttered bread and said, “Gee, Ma. This is the best butter I ever ate.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment I got a funny feeling that I was the older sister and Lynn was just a little girl. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “His name is Virgil,” the little girl adds. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Their house was new, and always very neat, because Mrs. Peterson had no little girls to muss it up. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Did one of the little girls get bitten by a rat? I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z Mama brushes the hair out of my face and fixes the collar of my shirt like she did when I was a little girl. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I opened my eyes to the sounds of a little girl sobbing a few seats in front of me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z A little girl on the right combed her hair with a sticky red lollipop. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “You aren’t any part a little girl any more. Can you tell me?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Then because I was filled with daring on this special day, I added in my sweetest little girl voice, “I’m going to get my pic-ture made.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I change it, just as I will the little girl, shaping the flower's fibers and veins and petals. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She was a quiet, intense little girl, rather prim in her way, and this outpouring was unusual. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The villagers were now looking away from the little girl and her family. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z At eleven years old Delsa looked like a woman, but her tiny body was still that of a little girl. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I wanted to not be the weird little girl in school. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z And yet this little girl no doubt got hungry as well! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The little girl had been in Hooverville the longest so she got to tell the rest of us what to do. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z He set down the little girl, who was still howling. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I tried hard as I could to see why she was pretending that me and the little girl were kin, but nothing would come, doggone-it-all! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I envy this little girl more than I would have thought possible. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I mean, that cute little girl in the ruffled dress had already grown up, gotten married, lived her life, and was underground somewhere. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z As a little girl, I remember hearing stories about my grandmother, Mama Lessie, sitting at the front window of her home holding a loaded Smith & Wesson. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “What do you want to be when you grow up, little girl ?” “A lumberjack in Oregon.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Two little girls entering the Night Bazaar with enchanted objects bearing the marks of Lord Indra and the Dharma Raja? How curious.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She shifted the little girl to stand in front of her. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “There must be other little girls you can play with instead.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The little girl’s eyes traveled up to the great monk’s red face. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “Is there any poor little girl in the audience named Mary?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She said it like a little girl hoping that I wouldn’t leave. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z That morning, when I came to the house, when I took the little girl. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Or what it was like for the little girl who couldn’t perform at the school talent show because her parents received the Death-Cast alert while she was dreaming of pianos. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z George was heading back toward home when he heard a terrible sound, like a little girl screaming. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t think men went to the bathroom when I was a little girl,” Karen added, “because Dad never had to stop during a trip.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A little girl played with a floppy stuffed bear near my feet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It happened to a nasty little girl, years and years before, who had no chain on me at all. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I dreamt that as well! I dreamt there would be a little girl sitting on my window-sill in her nightie and she would talk to me!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He explained that little girls need to be instructed in how to behave appropriately around men, so as not to be too inviting. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Rémy holds the hand of a little girl a quarter of his size while two others fuss over him. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Who was given away? What can you tell us about this place? What about a virus? Do you know anything about two women and a little girl, maybe captured outside?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “Take him in. You stay here, little girl,” he added, as the nurse moved away with her still howling charge. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The nun stopped playing and said something, at which all the little girls jumped up and ran to different parts of the playground. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z This led the little girl to write the stories down. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Love has done much for our little girl,” said her mother softly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Theresa bent over and roused the little girl. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “You and yours were most convincing. Your good-daughter seemed to want me dead most earnestly, and the little girl...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z You were just a little girl, but when you saw her in the papers wearing that ridiculous silk gown that cost 80,000 dollars, you said, Mami, is that our queen? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Suddenly, she was right there before me, that busy, priggish, conceited little girl, and she was not dead either, for when people tittered appreciatively at “evanesce” my feeble heart—ridiculous vanity!—made a little leap. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She holds Daniela's arms down, but the little girl starts to kick and scream. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I want to tell her exactly what happened, or what I remember happening, and then I want to say to her that as a little girl she was absolutely right. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z On the inside of the paper there’s a full page of her, with women curtsying to her, little girls presenting bouquets of flowers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And the two little girls might have looked like equals that night in the garden—like playmates—but they weren’t. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I open Daddy’s notebook instead and read a story about a little girl seeing the ocean for the first time. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z I dared to look at her then to find out if I could see the little girl in her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z "Yes, Madam Du Barry," we say in unison, like we're little girls in her lesson room again. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Well, I must say, I’m worried about you. You seem to be a very lonely little girl.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Do you understand, child? That water—it stops you right where you are. If you’d had a drink of it today, you’d stay a little girl forever. You’d never grow up, not ever.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “A little girl was crushed underneath one of the wheels as she was helping her mother drag a box of canned beans.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama Lessie had five little girls to protect, one of them my mother. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A little girl said, “Mama! That boy walked out of the river. “That’s nice, dear,” her mother said, craning her neck to watch the ambulances. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Ay. It had happened some three or four years then, he said, and you brought into his mind the little girl so tragically lost, who would have been about your age.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z "Just this one time, I let you go. For the little girl. You and me, we're even then. No more owed. You understand?" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Out of the shadows a little girl comes running. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z A man with a little girl looked at us, then grabbed the little girl's hand and crossed the street. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z “Did you see a little girl run by?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Nothing more than a deluded old man and a silly little girl. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z A she-bear took charge of her, nursed her and kept her warm, and the baby grew up thus into an active, daring little girl. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Mariam was swallowed up in the dispersing crowd, a tiny little girl in a sea of strangers. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Among the sellers with their ropes, cages, and water tanks were the sellers of little girls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And, of course, the reaction I got from the little girls in the bungalow was dramatic. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z She had seen this little girl all of her life. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “August used to take care of her back when she was a little girl in Virginia,” I said, trying to explain. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked outside and lifted his face to the sun, and Ophie watched in surprise as he began to sparkle and fade just as the little girl had. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z She sounded like a little girl who didn’t know what she was doing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And now this little girl in my lap, this little girl whose call silences the tramping Jackboots. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Every day—every day—the little girl had demanded to know what he’d dreamed about, and what Sarai had unleashed on her father. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There were jacks that two little girls could play together sitting on the steps of a stoop. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Xan picked Luna up, feeling the weight of the child’s face on her shoulder and pressing her wrinkled cheek against the little girl’s hair. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “What can we do?” said Maria, a sturdy little girl in white overalls. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Another little girl came over and joined in on the hug. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad would always say I was the most understanding little girl in the world. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Grown-ups were kneeling down by them and the adults’ hands fluttered down toward the little girls, then, before they touched anything, fluttered back up, over and over. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girl had on a blue dress and little blue frilly socks and black shiny, shiny shoes. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “You remember the little girl with the doll?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I heard her clapping, the way she had applauded our good deeds when Caroline and I were little girls. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Perhaps because he is grown, or a man, and she a little girl. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “She picked it up from a little girl who came to visit who kept smiling at her. Now, say something she won’t like, wouldn’t think of eating....” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Yes,” she said, slowly, “we’s all going to be together there. Mama, and you, and me, and Deborah—and what was the name of that little girl who died not long after I left home?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “No one for three hundred thousand?” the little girl says, looking around. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I didn’t want her to call me a little girl. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Nhamo had a bowl of porridge in her lap, and as soon as the little girl opened her mouth, she popped a spoonful of it inside. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They are holding hands and crying like little girls. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z In one of the canoes sits a little girl. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The identification of the monster is a crucial part of the hunt, little girl. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z For once the three little girls were separate, each with their families. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But not Katie Brindle, the little girl from the other side of the tracks. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z My mother would buy her slave from a professional whose little girls stood neatly in a row and bowed together when a customer looked them over. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girl smiled and bowed and turned to leave the stage with the doll. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z All three little girls are now crowded at the window. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The frame contained a picture of a woman in profile, her head bent toward a little girl who sat in a high chair with a smudge of baby food on the side of her mouth. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Another cannot shake a nightmare: back home, her little girl is killed, and her little boy runs away in tears. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Henry is talking to a little girl with leukemia named Claudette, according to the board on her wall. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The innkeeper stops and eyes the little girl with something close to hatred. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The little girl sitting on the floor with Ruth May said something in their language. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have you eaten rice today, little girl ?” they greeted me. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He settled down next to Trina and the little girl, thinking about the past, and drifted off to sleep, only for the darker memories to come and stamp out his foolish hopes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I would sooner my men die fighting for the Ned’s little girl than alone and hungry in the snow, weeping tears that freeze upon their cheeks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My daughter Kathleen tells me it’s an obsession, that I should write about a little girl who finds a million dollars and spends it all on a Shetland pony. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Auri gave me a whirlwind tour, proud as a new mother, excited as a little girl. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She wishes she had one little girl all for herself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “A shiny white Cadillac comes to carry you off to be Tinker Bell on TV. But your precious little girl—” “Lootie Belle!” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mary wants to give the doll to some poor little girl in the audience who is named Mary.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “She’d never let me have it,” the little girl said regretfully. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The little girl turned to frown at him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Good, good. Well, Lizzie, you’re a lucky little girl. Those huntsmen who found you brought you to the best place you could be.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The innocent blood of these little girls may well serve as a redemptive force that will bring new light to this dark city. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He said that the little girl’s red coat reminded him of his friend’s blood. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Jesse and Leslie and the little girls climbed happily into the back and sat down on the old sacks his dad had put against the cab. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z A little girl with a fountain of beaded pigtails tugged on Vola’s overalls. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z When I was a little girl living here, it was a country of year-round greenery, of birds streaming color across clear skies. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She summoned a few hundred bracelets, which leaped at the guards and lashed around their ankles, leaving them hanging upside down from the bottom of the catwalk, screaming like lame little girls. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z As I sat there in the conference room at Mattel, my mascara running from my tears, I tried to explain why this doll was going to be so important to so many little girls. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The little girl disengaged one hand without thinking about it, and clapped an expressionless golden mask over her face. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He moved away, confident that his little girls would not lie open-eyed like that, staring, staring. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, maybe it was just the little girl.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The little girl wiggled her toes in her sandals. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Every morning as the couple leave for work, the little girl cries for her mother. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Don’t threaten her. Please, little girl. Your king is asking you to share your gift with him.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z They were crying, a-course, because they loved that dog, and they loved their little girl even more. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “It would make some little girl awfully happy.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z The little girl’s eyes locked on his, and he came to a decision. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He was growing to quite like this wide-eyed little girl. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Mama’s little girl wasn’t here, but would she like the new me? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Matt thought they made a pretty picture until he realized the little girls were eejits. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girl walks up to her sister so they’re both facing me. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He felt that he hated this little girl almost as much as he did old Trueba. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A mom holding the hand of a little girl in a pink hoodie. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Outside, in the distance, the little girls were moving about in the gradually lightening meadow, their arms filled with flowers. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Oh man, I spent so much time at your house. Olga, Angie, and I were inseparable sophomore year. I remember you were such a sensitive little girl. Always crying about something.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Maybe 1 do think of her as a ghost, the ghost of a dead girl, a little girl who died when she was five. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I had promised myself and all of the little girls who looked like me that I was going to go all the way. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I don’t mean the kind a boy has for the pretty little girl that lives down the road. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “My brother and this little girl have scurvy. And we can’t find one of our friends.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He took the little girl’s shovel and handed her a pink sweatshirt. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “A little girl just like you, and we will call her Obianuju because she will complete us.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A mother covers her little girls ears and tells the guy that there’s no need for that kind of language. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Women smiled at him until they noticed the little girl clinging to his hand. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Apples,” she mumbles happily in a cute little girl voice. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z A little girl with a much smaller broom, helping. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z There was a sink and a toilet and a bathtub, and in the bathtub a little girl of perhaps five. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Her eyes were wide, her voice peepy like a little girl’s. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z “Although perhaps predictable for a little girl who needs her mommy. If you thought coming back here would dissuade me, you were wrong.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Tell me about when you were a little girl in Washington, P.A.,” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girl imagined her mother had gotten lost in the desert, and she woke up night after night, crying that she could hear her mother’s voice. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But that didn’t mean Ophie was alone: a little girl with pale blond braids and a pinafore sat curled up in a wing chair, reading a book. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Giti was a tightly wound, bony little girl who wore her hair in twin ponytails held by elastic bands. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “I’m the father, and you both are my little girls.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course it’s dangerous, you silly little girl! Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She was born in China and moved to Cambodia as a little girl. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered a cheerful little girl with black hair, who worried about him and was punished for bringing him food. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Three pictures of the little girl, in a pink shirt and pigtails, stand as a constant reminder near a television in a corner. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z There was a lump in my throat as I said, “I’m sorry, little girl, I should’ve known.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Even while they played the game, the older little girl started to sing a toneless song, one children sang when they chose sides for games. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Another little girl, much younger than the first, sat in front of a deck of cards at a picnic table covered with a polka-dot cloth, a friendly looking couple beside her. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z "A little girl like you can't play by herself all day." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He dreamed of little girls, dancing a cotillion. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t want to go off on a little girl, so I start with a simple question. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z The little girl watched me, holding the bread against her dirty dress. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t fret. Jacob here will take good care of him. August, go get this little girl some breakfast, will you? We have to hit the road.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He saw pictures of dragons and a volcano and even a little girl with hair like starlight. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Unfortunately,” Eleanor said dryly, “there was not at all that much money. My sister put her share into the bank for her little girl’s education. I did buy some clothes, to come to Hill House.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “Too bad about that little girl; the things she’s been through make a body wonder if God’s in heaven.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z But then he releases my wrist, takes the apples, and says, “Choose wisely, little girl.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “Byrd and that little girl were carrying on. Such a ruckus. What song was that?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Turner saw a woman with a little girl at her side talking to a shop assistant who displayed a different shoe in the palm of each hand. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Sandi set hers on the table and tried to look pleased: it also was an iron statue of a little girl with her jump rope frozen midair. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z As a little girl, I hated those mestizos. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Merely pointing out facts, little girl, it countered. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z When I was a little girl, they all played with us between their lessons with Du Barry. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z When she was a little girl she ran barefoot whenever she could. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Her friend the able seaman was nearby, and he paused as he adjusted the canvas cover of the forward hatch to look out at the little girl’s daemon skimming and leaping with the dolphins. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “When I was a little girl, I used to insist on sleeping under the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve! I wanted to catch Father Christmas in the act. Wasn’t that ever so naughty of me?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z ‘After all, you is only a tiny little girl.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did little girls have to be as good as that?” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She'd been just a little girl the first time she saw them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z While the rat and the spider and the little girl watched, Wilbur climbed again to the top of the manure pile, full of energy and hope. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z I am “Mommy’s little girl” no matter how badly I am doing in school or what type of drugs I’ve tried. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The little girl sneezed, and her mother said, “Come here, let’s wipe your nose.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can’t that little girl do something on her own? You two just want an excuse to go hiking.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybeth let go of Dicey’s hand and walked slowly over to where the little girls were gathering. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys sat up, wrapped their arms around their knees, and watched the little girl stroke the dog. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z But when we got inside the trailer, it became plain to me at once that they didn’t need to do any great changing to make a little girl happy. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Two little girls come up with tremendous bouquets of flowers. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I was just about to the end when this little girl with barretted braids appeared in front of me and said, “What’s in your nose?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z People came and went, grandmothers and doll collectors and little girls with their mothers. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “Dude clipped a chain lock and rode off on some little girl’s banana seat, handlebar tassels all blowin’ in the wind.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z He rolled the huge stone to one side and said, ‘Peep out over there, little girl, and tell me what you is seeing.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched a little girl in a blue dress catch one on her tongue like snow. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The little girl threw herself on the ground in a trembling kowtow before the beast. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Maybe she recognized the sound' of my voice, but anyway, before I can excuse myself and slink away, the little girl throws her arms around me and buries her face in my middle. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The little girl sat up in her bed and immediately started to cough. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “Then how do you make things better?” the little girl asks. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Smeath says, “Have you been good?” and the little girls say, “Yes, yes” again. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He put her to bed at night, and tucked her in all soft and warm, as little girls do their dolls. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “He never spoke an unkind word to me or our little girl, or my mother. He was never vexed or irritable but was always happy and free from care.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The little girls in the audience smiled up at her and some of the boys who were approaching adolescence whistled shrilly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “But this is different. A little girl is one thing, a little runty pig is another.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z They pressed in close, reaching toward the little girl who could see. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I am light on my feet and feel like I am a little girl in Cuba again, lifted by the breeze, way up to the sky. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The third, a little girl dressed in something long and light colored, was allowed to fall to the ground and scramble away, ignored by the men. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He grabbed Deedee out of Trina s lap far more roughly than he meant to, ignoring the little girl’s cries of protest. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “She appears to be a very glum little girl today,” Anatole said. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d been living here since the night after Papa died, when Mr. Grasso carried her upstairs and tucked her into bed with the two little girls. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z Shadow asked the dog, trying to put the little girl at her ease. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “Bri, can I get your autograph?” a little girl with a ponytail asks. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Her husband got sick then got caught whilst they were getting free, but her and their two little girls got through. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Three scarlet post-balloons, carrying three trays, float up to the little girl's stand. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Koffi gave him an exasperated look before crouching down to meet the little girl’s eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The little girl with the dolly waved excitedly to me, as if reunited with a long-lost friend. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Finally, one day, they cautiously followed the little girl as she left. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The blurred child staring back at me looks hollow and distorted, not at all like the little girl in Phnom Penh whose neighbors called her “ugly.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’ll make a fine sight—a little girl carrying a sword.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Informal and cheeky, as though I were a little girl. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Pop Pop would always tell me that when I was a little girl. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Her little cup,” the mother was explaining, smiling apologetically at the waitress, who was thunderstruck at the thought that the mill’s good country milk was not rich enough for the little girl. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z ‘Stop, little girl, don’t hit, use your words’—and shut up at the same time. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z One woman led a milk cow with a little girl on its back. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z By the time we rolled into the parking lot, we were two happy little girls, the beat still playing in our heads. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I would be a little girl of seven the day I followed the bird away into the mountains. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And watching two boisterous little girls was a whole job unto itself. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Pong watched the monk—who had aged now, into the wrinkled version that he remembered so well—as he blessed a little girl. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I try not to be the little girl who always jumps as soon as she walks into a room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Well mark my words. I just don’t want you to be disappointed. I can still remember how disappointed I was when I was a little girl and Santa Claus skipped my house.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not my fault that I don’t have more, cariño. I was just a little girl when...” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z When we were almost next, the little girl in front of us got cold feet about going down the tall slide, so she turned around to let us pass. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “Lily,” Mother said, beckoning to the little girl, “go on now and get into your nightclothes. Father and I are going to stay here and talk to Jonas for a while.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z A plump little girl, dressed in brilliant red, was running toward the tiger! Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z A few feet away, the little girl lies on her back on the rooftop. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z But no, they pulled a little girl off the bus.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “The Commandant told us to finish them off before they left the Gap, and you go running into the woods like a scared little girl—” “He stabbed me, all right?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I’d pay the children’s fare like my sisters, and Pa would have told one of the bus-riding mothers to keep an eye on his little girls. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I was only a little girl, but I knew what he was doing was wrong. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z She nods her encouragement, so I turn back to the little girl. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I never even had sleepovers when I was a little girl, so this was all new to me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I looked at the little girl with the dolly. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I feel like she's treating me like a whiny little girl. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z "This is a very sensible and quiet little girl," you would have said to yourself. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Olly’s rejection has made me feel like a little girl again. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Besides, stories kept the little girl from asking for Aunt Chipo, who proved useless even after she recovered. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z So began the making of the doll for the little girl. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z She peeled another stamp from the book and walked over to the little girl on the swing. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z The pale little girl in the kitchen chair giggled. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Watching the little girl wash up, Jinny couldn’t help thinking about how absolutely new she was to all this. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Now,” said the lady, “this doll is named Mary after the kind little girl who is giving her away.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girls fell in love right away and things got put back together. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When you’re a demigod and you find a sweet little girl alone in the woods—that’s typically a good time to draw your sword and attack. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “I build towers for kings, not little girls.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I stare at a framed picture of a little girl on her desk. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “They are making a fool of that little girl. I wanted you to see her, but they have spoiled her entirely. She’s nothing but a doll tonight.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish, I truly wish, that I had the time to explain the intricacies of cross-dimensional portals to you, little girl, but I don’t. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Late one afternoon Kit had come upon the little girl standing alone by the rail, and seeing the child’s wistful, adoring gaze, had moved closer. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z When she was a little girl, on one moonlit night Fernanda saw a beautiful woman dressed in white crossing the garden toward the chapel. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Back then, when I was growing from baby to little girl, I had two white dresses. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Laughing, one little girl splashes water into the faces of her siblings who bob up and down in the water beside their boat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girls were wearing white party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She had been an adorable little girl, seemingly happy and unafraid and loving. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z The little girl who was watching me kneels beside a motionless woman, screeching and trying to rouse her. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The mother of the little girl and boy looked into their cups carefully. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Why should he and everyone else respect this little girl’s claim just because her grandmother had kicked the dirt over once? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Did you ever think about being homesick? If your home was Hill House would you be homesick for it? Did those two little girls cry for their dark, grim house when they were taken away?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z And then the little girl was lifted into the air. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The little girl inside of the car looked at me, then turned to look at the trees. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Is there a little girl called Jane Eyre here?” she asked. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Ma had told them to ask that, and Mary was a very good little girl who always did exactly as she was told. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lady, I think your little girl has lost her speech.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I know that the stupid little girl I’m reading to starts crying because she says I’m yelling at her which I’m not. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Charlie asked me about the people in the pictures, and I described a little girl in a green dress named Evony. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Icelandic friends said that Fischer was kind to the little girl, played with her, and bought her presents while she was in Iceland. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And daddies didn’t lie to their little girls. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I remember when I was a little girl, on Sunday afternoons my father and I would sit at the kitchen table playing chess. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “C’mon and show some love for this brave little girl and her cat,” the pastor said, ushering me off the stage. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The little girl, Angel, was humming quietly to herself and licking maple syrup from her fingers. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As one of her great-aunts had written about her when she was a little girl, she possessed “so much affection in her nature as will secure her from selfishness.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In the library, a little girl stared at the doorway, waiting for her papa. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The man and the little girl looked at each other, recognizing themselves in the other’s eyes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d only ever seen one black person, a little girl, the adoptive daughter of a family at church. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I know something’s wrong when I get to school the next morning and a little girl with twists in her hair stands in the middle of the aisle of the church. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z A ripple of wind pours in with a whistle that sings a telling message: “You ain’t a little girl no more.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The little girl dug in her nose with a finger. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z And that grandfather and the little girl—Dicey didn’t know why they had made her feel better, but they had, even though it wasn’t going to get any easier. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z However it got in the church it had killed four little girls, blinded a couple more and sent a bunch of other people to the hospital. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girls from apartment 2C are sitting on the front steps when we arrive. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “I have to. It’s not so terribly long ago that I grew up and I wasn’t a little girl any more. Do you know what I mean?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Whatever misgivings he’d previously had about them seemed to have been abandoned, because he was fastidiously studying Nkrumah’s journal while two little girls decorated his curly hair with flowers. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She left her little girl with her husband’s family. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The man winked at the little girl, then started up the stairs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Carefully, he raised the little girl and placed her on his broad, flat shoulders. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The little girls took on that task, happy to find beetles and hoppers in the grass and bring them to Yellow-wing. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She reminds me of a little girl, six or seven maybe. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The little girl with the dolly began to cry. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “I’m coming to get you,” she promised the little girl. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course I remember him. Glorious man. Sad news. I remember that family well. You tell that little girl I say hello, okay? She was a sweet child.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z It is a disturbing sight to see a good-sized little girl in a ruffly dress, and not a hair on her head. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z At the door of a cottage I saw a little girl about to throw a mess of cold porridge into a pig trough. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “Do you dare come in here with me, or would you rather go on hitting little girls?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Look at the way you’ve captured this little girl. You can almost see right down into her soul.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The little girl whimpers, and Christina walks over to her, mumbling something in a reassuring voice. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z You are the best little girl I ever did know. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z As I looked at the fire, I saw a little girl in a brown dress tending the flames. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Back when I was a little girl myself, full of hope. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z "Put the blade away, little girl, no one wants to hurt you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I pointed at Otto, who was dangling in the little girl’s arms, and asked if they knew where any more bonobos were. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Kings and Presidents and Prime Ministers and Rulers of every kind showered the enormous giant and the little girl with compliments and thank-yous, as well as all sorts of medals and presents. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She was in no mood for tiptoeing around the little girl’s whims right now. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They were still little girls, trying to get in good with Daddy. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “Sorry, little girl. I have only enough for my family. I have none extra for you.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In answer the little girl shoved her slate forward. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She looked the way that I had imagined all my little girls would look. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I also knew there was somebody she really liked, because her and her little friends were always giggling about something, and boys are usually the main thing little girls giggle about. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z ‘Well done you!’ said the BFG, smiling down at the little girl. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z With only occasional, and increasingly rare, encounters with the little girls he could persuade to be entertained by him, he lived rather peaceably among his things, admitting to no regrets. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z A little girl pushed her way through some legs. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’d leave a sweet little girl to die because she might be sick? No wonder the other people from your village didn’t stick with you.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z "This little girl's grandmother had sent her some sneakers for her birthday from New York, not knowing she had gotten so much bigger, and the little sneakers wouldn't fit her." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I do my homework and show it to them like a good little girl. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z She thought about it as she fell asleep in the very old bed where Mother had slept when she was a little girl. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I was jostled forward as the other little girls made a break for the door. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Of course not. Do you think I would tell him when I won’t tell you? Don’t be silly, darling. You’re such a funny little girl.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Would I trade any of my troubles to be back in Iowa, never having known this sweet little girl and her family? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z They were on their way to the cottage at the edge of the woods where Bryn lived with her fisherman husband and their little girl. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then he waved at two old country ladies sitting on their front steps picking through a little girl’s hair for cooties. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And this little girl didn’t look any older than me, and I was only twelve. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa Nyles said sadly, “But they lost that little girl. She got sick with a disease called cholera. She died from it, and she was only four years old.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z That look had frightened her as a little girl, haunted her, and she’d never wanted to see it again. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m just a little girl. Who cares about a little girl?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “Little is what I have heard, but what you have here is no little girl. She is a young lady,” Yitzchak said, grinning at her. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Matter of fact, that summer, a little girl was hit by a bullet when she was sleeping. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She spoke to her again, the little girl looking at her across the end of the crust, pushing it into her mouth with a dirty hand. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z That was what bad parents did to defenseless little girls. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “The little girl did her aunt and uncle a favor,” Auntie Meiya said slowly, her eyes closing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “Michaela, what a clever little girl you are! This is the Balanchine Nutcracker, performed by the New York City Ballet!” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps he didn’t want to waste a precious bullet on a little girl. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Jacob can fight it,” the little girl said again. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He laughed like Fern was a silly little girl. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sam!” the little girl shouted, and we all looked up. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Someone had seen two policemen going into the Professor’s store on the morning after the little girl had disappeared. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z There they were, awaiting PapS, four little girls in look-alike pale yellow gingham dresses. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z While the little boys ran around pretending to shoot each other and fall dead in the road, it appeared that little girls were running the country. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “They just want to make a generic little girl. You know, one that will appeal to everyone.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She took the little girl’s face in her hand and turned it toward herself. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I took two little girls with me, my daughter, Nanny, and her best friend, Allison Mitchell. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Put the little girl up with the driver.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It was okay for a strange man to put a knife at my throat, but it wasn’t okay for us to speak to a little girl playing in the back of her house? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z With the way he said my mom’s name, and the way the little girl just keeps looking up at me with her big eyes, I’m not sure that there’s anything to say. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Don’t you want to be Mommy’s good little girl and blow kisses and get a crown?’ Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The man said he knew that some people at the church came from Kakuma, and he thought they might have heard something about two little girls on their own. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a little girl in ruffles, a teenager in ripped jeans, a young woman in bathing suits and wet suits, a young mother holding a baby—holding me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z This is not how a hunt works, little girl. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The four men, wet from their long walk, paused and asked a little girl where Mr. Iii’s house was. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z When the madwoman was a little girl, she drew pictures. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The seriousness in her voice made the little girl pause. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Once upon a time they was two little girls,” I say. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z They made for a pretty portrait, the proud old woman all in green surrounded by the little girls robed and veiled in white, armored in their innocence. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When first I saw the five-and-dime’s lunch counter as a little girl, I was in awe. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Then he said: “How many lemons, little girl?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Then she leans over and I’m sure she’s going to kiss my forehead like she used to when I was a little girl, but I roll away from her, still feigning sleep. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In fact, I said that little girl could have been Fern, which made Vonetta jealous. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girl reached out and touched the purple coat sleeve, first tentatively, then curiously. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Behind the little girl is a whole pack of shamblers, their clothing in tatters, their gray skin hanging loose. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Our little girl ran about in the sun bare and beautiful as she grew, with no clothes to hamper her limbs or confine her movements. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “Broom! I found us a broom!” the little girl announced happily, and scraped the sand with it. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Being almost thirteen, I was too old to go trick-or-treating, but being almost thirteen, I also really loved candy, so I volunteered to take the little girl from down the street. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She took joy in butterflies and scolded the little girls for catching them. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He could hear the breathing of the little girls in the next bed, strangely loud and uneven in the quiet. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z When he first moved to London, he made a book of drawings for Tersteeg’s little girl, Betsy, back in The Hague. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She draped her arms around her sister’s shoulders, rested her chin on the little girl’s head. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Her voice was high and light, a little girl’s voice struggling to be heard over the thud of the bass. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The little girl occupied herself by buttoning and unbuttoning a pinafore on the doll’s plastic body. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I smile back at the little girl even though that cut was the cheesiest thing I’ve ever seen. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Even when she was a little girl, she never fantasized about running away. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “We,” she said, “are Eleanor and Theodora, two little girls who were planning a picnic down by the brook and got scared home by a rabbit.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z I hoped there would be room in heaven for that poor little girl, in whatever condition she’d arrived there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He had never negotiated with a little girl before, much less a peasant girl. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The little girl wore a bib with a teddy bear on it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “So, you believe our little girl will be...all right?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z That it was probably true that Slim Jim Trotter spent more nights over the creek with Miss Trotter and her mother than here with Great-great-grandmother Livonia and Ma Charles when she was a little girl. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z In the play, the policeman asks, "Is that your dog, little girl?" and Sandy is supposed to bark. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z I sat down, they watching me, and the little girl with her streaked face and the gnawed looking loaf, and the water swift and peaceful below the path. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z With little girls it is all clean and good and friendly. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Take you over to Charleston to that big glass mall and go in that big department store and buy everything pink and yellow for little girls. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z “Took ’em thirty-nine years to convict that hateful man who killed those little girls. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z We all burst with laughter, imagining the late-night newspapers circulating all over the kingdom with pictures of Edel's little girl, the word shaved into her hair beside a picture of cow feces. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z A short time later he received letters from little boys asking for his autograph and from little girls asking him for dates. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They took him away and their two little girls were in the street crying. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Two of the little girls cried for their parents, and the teachers took time to calm them down. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Now all three little girls, still in their sleeping garments, were giggling nervously in the small room where Bryn groaned and twisted on the bed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But I often heard stories of a ghost who tried to take children away, especially strong-willed little girls who were disobedient. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo had a weird memory of a missile hurtling towards him and screaming like a little girl. . . what the heck had that been about? Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z ‘I has bottles and bottles of dreams about little girls.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He said he was charged with protecting me and he couldn’t trust no one with a little girl around. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “One of the sisters, Aisha, the one Professor Sahib spoke to, felt bad that a little girl was out there all alone, so she came out to look for her.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z I throw my spear, which I'm not too bad at actually, if I don't have to throw too far, and see the little girl from District 11 standing back a bit, watching us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But what kind of liberation movement shoots innocent civilians, children, that little girl? A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Lita said there was a time, when she was a little girl, she didn’t dare speak Spanish in public, or share her stories where others could hear. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A little girl who liked playing hide-and-seek and studying science. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “What was wrong with that little girl in the blue dress?” she said. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He ripped away the tin, and a little girl flew at him with a hammer. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I know a lot about when I was a little girl, because my sister used to keep a diary. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Besides the killer usually attacked little girls of six or seven. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A little girl ran back from the line to clutch her mother again. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z She was about to ask the little girl to repeat her name, but the clever child had been watching the other two and beat Penelope to the task. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Get out of my way, little girl,” the magistrate snapped. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Nino Carlitos is always telling her to treat me more kindly, re- minding her that I’m a little girl, yelling at her if he sees me with a black eye or split-open lip. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of my dreams when I was a little girl, dreams of be- coming a rich indi'gena with long hair wrapped in a fancy ribbon. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She says it with such authority that I am reminded that she is not just a little girl, but a princess. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Maybe they carried on because she was a little girl making big sounds. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of the little girl, Holly, standing on the platform. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z If I could save at least one little girl from my ex-baby-sitter, I would be satisfied. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “What happened to the kid sister, to the little girl?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Presently a little girl came around a rusted ship’s engine, pulling a smaller girl by the hand. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We followed the path, the two others watching Julio and the little girl and the boys somewhere in the rear. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She put down the glass of milk and touched the little girl gently on the hand. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z A little girl, her left leg amputated below the knee, sat on a ratty mattress and watched, smiling and clapping along with the other children. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Or Ellis, who is still a scared little girl trying to fit in. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z A little girl in the row behind me begins to cry, and soon I can hear muffled sniffs all around me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The little girl said, “Scott, you talk too much, let him sit down.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z All the children turned around to look at a little girl whose parents had not come from the old country. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you remember when you were a little girl, and I showed you how to make bubbles around the blooms of flowers, holding them inside?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I try to resist the urge to fall into her arms like a little girl. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And the fat man and the little girl lay awake in silence. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He referred to a little girl who had died the night before, one he felt shouldn’t have. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z So no one paid much attention to the little girl with tumbling brown hair and button shoes, or the fact that her shoes did not quite touch the floor. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z If it was unlikely for a scruffy little girl to turn up in his cell knowing the very man who figured in his obsessions, the Regius Professor didn’t notice. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z How beautiful, the queen tried to tell herself, but inside her was some foolish little girl who could not help but look about for Daario. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “God bless you, little girl,” he said, helplessly. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z These braids were not delicate like a little girl’s but heavy and womanly, possessing a natural power, like a beaver’s tail. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “It’s time for me to retire. You my last little girl,” I say, because this is the truth, it just ain’t by my own choosing. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z When Eleanor was a little girl, she'd thought her mom looked like a queen, like the star of some fairy tale. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z All that mattered was the label the media had put on our school, the little girl who had lost her life and that all of us were there together. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Chung had died recently and his wife was going to have to get a job to support her three little girls. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z And our little girl Tricia, the six year old, named it “Checkers.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He grabbed the little girl by the hand and pulled her close. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Really, little girl, a knife against my magic? Is that wise?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Haircuts for all the Tens, with the little girls losing their braids, and then the sweepers coming quickly to the stage to remove the shorn hair. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z "The little girl who was with her," Uncle Tony made plain, his voice sharp. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z I went over there and had me a good look at her and her little girls with no clothes on. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He seized the little girl around the waist, grabbed the neck of Ron’s robes, and kicked off from the bottom. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z "It was sweet of you to come and play with the little girl." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I thought she might change her mind, but suddenly she scribbled something and threw the pen down, committing herself and her little girls to twenty-five years. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Hazel saw herself as a little girl, grinning, with her hands covered in finger paint. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He motioned to a little girl at the edge of the fire and guided her hands to mop the insides of the hog with the mixture. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Yes, across two yards she saw a little girl sitting on a fire escape with a book in her lap and a bag of candy at hand. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “No moon, little girl. No moon tonight,” he said. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As for the little girl, her cries had been replaced at some point by silence. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z When I was a little girl I had three best friends who happened to be Chinese, African American, and Caucasian. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Das headed up the defile with the children, the boys at his side, the little girl on his shoulders. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “When I was a little girl up at Grandma’s,” Mother said, “I was certain that Maple Hill was the place where all the miracles had happened.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Neither of them was aware that just outside the cottage, beside the door that had been left partly open for fresh autumn air, the little girls, wide-eyed, were listening. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z "But the little girl who became a chicken didn't disappear?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “That little girl has more courage than you will ever have. And don’t you ever call me a liar again.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Nicolas was also close to the little girl’s heart, but there was something ephemeral and volatile about him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z So far as the little girl could see, there was only the one little house where she lived with her father and mother, her sister Mary and baby sister Carrie. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes her voice takes on a hard edge when she talks about her little girl. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The butterfly dipped up and down, and its black-spotted yellow wings flapped slowly, as if teasing the little girl. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z And there was a little girl running as hard as she could down the sidewalk, straight to me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The terror and pleading of little girls and boys old enough to understand what was happening. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Once, there was a China rabbit who was loved by a little girl. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The little girl had a big smile and the boy was looking at me kind of hard. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Is there a little girl sitting in one of those bouncy baby chairs up there on the kitchen table? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Little girls learned them from other little girls and it was the most frequently played game in Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She whispers, "I'm sorry," and then we're little girls again, slipping in and out of each other's beds, full of worries and wishes, falling into dreams of the future. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “You don’t want to go in there. It’s not a nice place for little girls and boys.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z What would become of us—my little girl or boy and its ignorant mother? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A chipmunk, tamed by the little girls, sat on Eiras hand nibbling at the seeds they gave to it. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I went into my mother’s room and put my sax on the bed that Momma used to sleep in when she was a little girl. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z When I looked up, the little girl was on the step. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z She looked at me, tears rolling down her cheeks, and hugged the little girl on her lap. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The little girl who came out holding a doll was older than Baby, perhaps about eight years old. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z ‘Well, may Priscilla be on my side if ever I’m accused of anything. What about the little girl—is she really as bright as she looks?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, the boy and the little girl are Minerva’s, and the baby girl is Maria Teresa’s.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Where was the little girl who planted the bean seeds? Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He paused and looked at everyone from the first little girl in line to Frankie, who was at the end. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z “She just makes me want to fight for justice, so that no little girl or little boy, or anyone that age—or anyone, for that matter—would have to experience this.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Because the curandera saw you and picked you out from among many little girls for this honor. You should be proud you were chosen.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I pulled Otto from the protesting little girl and wrapped my arms around his sweaty skinny body — Sorry, but the bonobo comes with me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Joseph Goebbels’s little girls, wearing long white dresses and white headbands, presented Hitler with a bouquet of flowers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The storekeeper said to Pa and Ma, “That’s a pretty little girl you’ve got there,” and he admired Mary’s golden curls. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the little girls who came through the orphanage doors were matched within days of arriving, sometimes hours. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Didn’t realize we could do that, huh? I’m gonna pop into the little girls’ room for just a moment, get back to myself. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z This time a little girl answers the door. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It always helped to have a little girl in tow. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Well done, little girl, it said in her head. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “He hurt the little girl in her. Too many times. You know about being hurt too many times.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z And then as the crowd shifted I noticed that in his other arm he held a little girl. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I realized this morning that this room don’t look one bit like a little girl’s room,” Bertha said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “You don’t like some poor little girl”—she throws on a Little Bo-Peep voice, fluffs her hair—“following big, manly Craig around the ward?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Leslie came and leaned over May Belle, putting her hand on the little girl’s thin shoulder. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z In the present situation she was less dangerous as an indignant little girl. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But Will knew that the little girl was tearing her heart out of her breast. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z No one is more surprised than I am that the little girl with the big muscles ended up on a path from foster care to an Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She felt ill now, too, looking into the burning eyes of the little girl who’d given her a life, and asking herself how...how she could just stand by and let her start a war. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I grab hold of Mami’s hand as if she were a little girl lost in the woods. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z When I was a little girl, my love for Matilde was as thorny and tangled as a blackberry bush. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This baby in my belly makes me forgetful, one little girl had said. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The little girl is back by the door, staring at us, wondering why we were crying. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The little girls lined up and when they came to her, turned round, lifted their heavy braids and bent over. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, go sweep the stairs, little girl. This doesn’t concern you,” the mustached one said. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She set Olive on the sidewalk and was about to chastise her further when tears began streaming down the little girl’s face. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z As the minutes ticked off, little girls clasped their daddies’ necks, lovers hugged as though the embrace had to last through all eternity, and an old woman got teary-eyed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mine just be born. A little girl” She cradled an invisible baby in her arms. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Deep down inside I was just a scared little girl who was simply misunderstood. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The tumblers who came next failed to move her either, even when they formed a human pyramid nine levels high, with a naked little girl on top. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Not that my Leandro wouldn’t have preferred for me to be just his wife and his little girl’s mother. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You'll have to finish your bottle after I clean you up, little girl!” she said with a chuckle, and lifted the infant to the table. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “He can’t even face me? Sends a little girl to give me the boot? Maybe I’ll just shake a few coins out of you.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But when he later ran into Zafoona, wandering in a daze among rows of little girls’ pink party dresses, he wanted to go home and hide in the kitchen pantry. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “Can I still have your autograph?” the little girl asked. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “It’s like Trip said. This is just to celebrate Lexie. We’re going to get dressed up and have a little girls’ morning out.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The raw fear in the little girl’s voice plucked at something deep within him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The man fed them, whittled toys for the little girl, and, through a line of intermediaries, contacted the railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The little girls singing, the older boys laughing, the babies crying, and the two of us moving through it all. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Her eyes were on the little girl, expression hard. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The skin of the thing that had once been a little girl took on a horrid grayish pallor. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He picked up the little girl and started running toward them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I recalled the little girl I'd seen in Ishtar's World War II memory. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The little girl peeped at the way she was wiggling her toes in the dust. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d dreamed of her little girl, sometimes crying because she missed her so much. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z As a baby, even as a little girl, I possessed an awkward, extravagant beauty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As we approach, a wilted little girl with blond hair and cuts on her face looks up from a pad of something and scurries into a nearby room. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Fifi nodded eagerly, then looked over at her mother, who was eyeing the little girl. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “I thought my little girl could be like the girl in that book—Alicia in Wonderland! But I was wrong. My baby girl didn’t see all the beauty—just the strangeness.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z "He said, `See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner,'" Peeta says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z If he has a little girl, she’ll never get a response when she says, “Daddy.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z That’s who she reminds me of: a photo of a little girl, probably her age, staring through a chain-link fence into a photographer’s lens. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He saw a little girl pick her way through the snow and stop at a corner newsstand; a man hurried out of a drug store and sold the girl a paper. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z All the other little girls were singing and clapping their hands, but Maybeth was staring at the nun’s hands as they played on the instrument. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “They remembered seeing a little girl standing on the side of the road, crying.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “Listen, my sweet. When you were a little girl, were you ever forbidden to read certain books, and did your father put those books under lock and key?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z By then the little girl had scuffed her way to the car. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come sit on Jordan’s lap. I don’t spend enough time with my little girl.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When I get out, she continued, my little girl will be my age when I came in. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Want to see the hanging! Want to see the hanging!” chanted the little girl, still capering round. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A fisherman had caught a human torso in his net, and three weeks after that, a little girl foraging for crayfish had found a skull picked clean by the fish. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I looked at my little sister, Tzipora, her blond hair neatly combed, her red coat over her arm: a little girl of seven. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Because she really is a smart little girl. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z When I was a little girl, sleeping on the floor always seemed like a treat. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z "There is a little girl in my class called Matilda Wormwood..." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Cassiopeia was content with that solution, but Penelope had to bite her lip not to comment as the little girl explained its new living situation to the attentively chirruping squirrel. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I was a little girl, I lived by a stream. I used to catch my own fish.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I looked at the young woman standing in front of a building holding a little girl in her arms. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Before Dicey could answer, she heard running feet and the little girl caught at her arm. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, the deep blue eyes framed by thick lashes that stared straight into a little girl’s heart and the perfect miniature hands extended, appealingly asking, “Please, won’t you be my mama?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When a valued band member died, the Aché customarily killed a little girl and buried the two together. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I paused, ready to pick up the baby and find its mother, but the little girl met my gaze squarely, ready to do battle, clutching the crying baby around its middle. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “I will never have a little girl. I was the Mother of Dragons.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Do you all know this little girl? She sort of took up with me and I cant find where she lives.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing next to the glass jar is a little girl, the auctioneer, wearing a top hat nearly as tall as herself. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My mother, who taught herself to read as a little girl in Haiti from the books that her brothers brought home from school. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I wanted everyone I met to know that there was a beautiful little girl whose life was stolen and that she is my little sister—she would always be my little sister. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The white socks, the Mary Janes, the always-inadequate birthday present swathed in tissue paper, and the little girls with their assessing eyes, their slippery deceitful smiles, tartaned up like Lady Macbeth. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I stare at the door with my heart beating, but I don’t have to wait long before it opens, and a little girl is standing there. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Mami winked at her, and smiled a high-watt smile to reassure the little girl that these Americans need not be taken seriously. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Miss Duncan-the-second looked back at the little girl and all the sudden slapped both her hands over her ears, her mouth jumped open and she ’peared to be dumbstruck. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “Well,” she said thoughtfully, “I used to play here as a little girl, too. And one day, I came across a fairy who had flown too close to the stream.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Well, she did, on June 11—a little girl, Charlotta, and I helped deliver her! Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “I wonder if that little girl has any older brothers or sisters.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It’s about a little girl and her dog dying. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The little girl ran past giggling, followed by a boy of similar age. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I may be a fast runner, but really, I’m just a little girl who could never run all the way back to Yana Urku. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Maribel was a little girl when Mom got pregnant, so she met Dad. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z “Since when is it wrong for a father to take care of his little girl?” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A little girl leaning out a window watching the world fulfilled the promises Marilyn Monroe made with her eyes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “You got a lot of stuff for a little girl.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “But I haven't seen Bathsheba since she was a little girl! Is she well?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Watching my little girl die was the hardest thing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was surprised that this woman, whose Christian name is Catherine, saw me in this light She has a little girl, Tashi, who plays with Olivia after school. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girl made a small contented sound with her own lips against Kira’s face. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She tried not to cringe as the little girl slid down from the bed with one finger still in her nostril. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z My mother had known him since she was a little girl growing up in the same house I'm growing up in now. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z When they were driving through one village she saw a man by the roadside sticking a Band-Aid on the grazed knee of a tearful little girl. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Why is it when a little girl plays Cowboys and Indians everyone says she’s a darling little tomboy, but when a boy plays with a doll they say he’s queer? The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z A little girl with braids and pink pajamas with padded feet. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z She thrust her girlfriends into the circle and whispered to her little girl to plant the next kiss on her grandfather's nose. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “The little girl was sorry for them, and asked an old woman what she should do to help them. ‘Your geese will tell you, they know everything.’ said the old woman. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She used to play in the Spinney as a little girl, too. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z In a minute she had returned, a frightened little girl. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z When she was a little girl, she had heard stories about the Witch. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z No Mary would stand up, no matter how much she wanted the doll, and be a symbol of all the poor little girls in the audience. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I was a little girl in Mexico, there were flowers everywhere that same color,” Señora Oralia said, pointing to my Day-Glo fuchsia leggings. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The anthem's playing yet again and we rise as President Snow himself takes the stage followed by a little girl carrying a cushion that holds the crown. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The Imadas, on the other hand, were consistently hard workers, including the five little girls. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I once read an English story where a little girl got a big pink cake and presents wrapped in shiny paper and bows for her birthday. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I'm going to dance so furiously at that recital that every little girl watching is going to want feet and eyes and legs and hands like mine. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She came out around the counter, but she didn’t touch the little girl. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “No sight so sad as that of a naughty child,” he began, “especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Death was the true end, and his little girl was gone forever. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Here this little girl could read in two languages and I could barely read in one. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z In those moments, Deborah pretended he was her father, and she felt like a regular little girl. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In the hospital, Bailey told me that I had to tell who did that to me, or the man would hurt another little girl. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t notice the little girl in the aviator’s cap stealing up on a banana bike. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And he’s got this thing for little girls with yellow hair—yeah, I worry about the kid sometimes. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of myself as a little girl perched in the tree, pretending to be an elegant, beautiful indigena riding in my truck to exciting places. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girl with the dolly sat on her knees near the door. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They may only be little girls tagging after their mothers, but believe you me, with them it’s all business. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Bronwyn scooted next to her and wrapped the little girl in a bear hug. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He had never in his life thought of Leslie Burke as a little girl, but still God was sure to. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z But right now there’s a little girl cross-legged on wooden bleachers peering at me from beneath a hand held aloft at her forehead, a smile on her face. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Her name is Jacalyn, and she has two little girls in the Silk Isles, and they drink rose lemonade and lie in hammocks on their private beach overlooking the Bay of Silk. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z When I was a little girl, way back in kindergarten, I took a liking to Sally Kimmel. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The little girl scowled down at the cake. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girl looked at him, and even though her features didn’t change, something in her eyes almost made him think she had a smile hidden inside somewhere. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z When I was a little girl, I would go to the bakery, and the owners—two sisters—would tell me to sing for them. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I manipulate the camellia flower in the little girl's hands. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z "The design you shaved in that little girl's hair was rude," Padma says, then giggles. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The children are always clean, and the little girl, whose name is Jane, wears pretty dresses and patent-leather shoes with straps. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Within moments a little girl with hair as gold as the horse’s tassels stood above me pointing and screaming, “He’s a dirty Jew!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “Yeah, little girl, I know what a thumb is,” he said, smiling down at her. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Geyer met with the lead police inspector and learned that a physician who had just examined the child’s skeleton had ruled it to be that of a little girl. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They were too rich for little girls, Ma said. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The dog is gone, and so is the little girl. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z But she couldn’t have been a little girl. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z She left behind two little girls, ages four and eleven. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “I don’t know where you came from, little girl, but I can assure you that where you’re going won’t be nearly as pleasant.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z His father said, “The hurt just never went away. It’s like she’s still that little girl waiting at the window.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “She knew my mother back when she was a little girl in Virginia,” I explained. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The surprise was a lovely little girl, exquisitely dressed, who came from the wings carrying a beautiful doll. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When one of the Freedom Writers talked about her friends who had been killed, a little girl in the corner started to cry. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Every little girl needs her mother,” she says, and that’s all she says about that before she pulls out a book from her shelf. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I smiled at the little girl, wishing her the best of luck, and told her to never give up on her dreams. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Can I have your autograph?” said a little girl. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He says, “The only place your brother is going, little girl, is into the mines. As soon as he turns fifteen. Same as every other boy in this house.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The little girls turned from their cartoon show at the TV to look at him and then turned quickly back. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “Did you see a little girl walking by herself just before the lights went out?” she asked. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And then, suddenly, when V had been just a little girl, the factory had shut down. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z It told me that this woman was my mother, and that little girl was me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z My first real interaction with white kids came when I met two little girls who lived next door. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z A little girl of maybe seven or eight was playing with colored blocks. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z First, she was a little girl again, struggling to climb Half-Blood Hill. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I was watching a little girl on the opposite curb lunching on the snot pouring from her nose when I heard a familiar cry: “Fatman! Fatman!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Yes, Francine’s sister had been sent to Mobile, poor little girl. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The little girl didn’t look so well; the singing really seemed to have freaked her out. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z No one saw him come; all eyes were on the car, the crumpled bumper, the van driver getting out, and on the little girl. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Daddy!” the little girl in the wing chair said. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In a lifting voice she asked, “Why are you so sad, little girl? We are all joy here.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “It means you don’t have to pick her up in the car like she’s a little girl,” he said sternly. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Even Danielle, the little girl who asked if I was Lovey’s boyfriend when we first got there, ran over to pile on. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Beating on a little girl! If you ever touch her again, you’ll be out of here so fast your head will spin.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I heard the little girls crying, and I realized my own face was wet with tears. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Theseus succeeded in kidnaping the little girl, just how we are not told, but the two brothers marched against the town she had been taken to, and got her back. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There were radios everywhere, and little girls jumped double Dutch to Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Glenn Miller. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “Did you want to be a beautiful swan, you ugly little girl? Did you think you could fly?” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The doctor ran tests, so many tests, so many punctures in the little girl’s arms, so many tubes hooked here and there. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “That little girl down the road said I’m her sister.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The little girl smacked her lips together a few times and cuddled in close to his damp chest, warming him through. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The lady saw it and stopped the little girl from leaving the stage. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I again heard my mother’s words: “There were four little girls in the restroom who never made it out. They’re all dead.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “We understand that you’re in the process of adopting a little girl. Are you aware her mother is fighting to regain custody?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The second time, the policeman asked, "Is that your dog, little girl?" and Sandy walked across the stage and sat at Stage-Annie's feet, and once again the audience broke into applause. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Right after he left I heard Rondell snickering like a little girl. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z It’s been raining since dawn, and so Minerva’s plan of walking to the church on foot like Patria did and seeing all the campesinos she’s known since she was a little girl is out. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Minerva just held my hands like she used to when I was a little girl and was having an asthma attack. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a patty-pan, or at least a broken cup or a saucer, for every little girl and boy. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The first customer was a little girl with her father. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The little girl looked up at me with huge, unblinking eyes. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Considering how much I had loved my Barbies as a child, the thought of little girls, both Muslim and non-Muslim, playing with a Barbie who chooses to wear hijab made me so happy. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z A little girl ran barefoot toward a big house with a red door. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Oh. Well, Signora Mondopoco is very big and she loves dollies. She is like a little girl in her mind sometimes.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Minnie is right and Mam gets her wish.There’s a new baby soon, a little girl, and they call her Margaret. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He turned around and found himself face to face with a little girl with braids and embroidered socks who was staring at him from the doorway. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The chauffeur took the little girl to school, where the first activity of the day was mass and obligatory communion. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She walked over, sat down on the bench, and swung her legs as if she was still a little girl. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z He used to do that when I was a little girl. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z That night as he started to get into bed, leaving the light off so as not to wake the little girls, he was surprised by May Belle’s shrill little “Jesse.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The little girl, her beautiful brown eyes wide with interest, never seemed to mind these remarks of her mother, but they made Cilia cry. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The one the little girl left behind when she came to see him. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I wrap my arms around her and we're little girls again, two spoons side by side in a drawer. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Then a little girl had seen the Virgencita swinging on the bucket that was kept decoratively dangling above the now dry well where she had once appeared back in the 1600s. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This little girl, the one with the heart-shaped face—God, I don’t want that light taken from her. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z As Johnny read, McGarrity pretended that it was his little girl who had written the story. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe they carried on because she was a little girl making big sounds. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But a small sound came through to me, a little girl’s voice. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “He way older than me. Matter of fact, I barely saw him because he had already been drafted into the army. But his mama used to babysit me when I was a little girl.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I saw a little girl who wore a white flower, but dismissed her as improbable. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There was one of a little girl around five years old, with short, curly hair and these solemn eyes staring straight into the camera without smiling. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The black brother left ten to guard the wagons and the whimpery little girl, and split the rest of them into four groups of five to search the town. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Magdalena doesn’t say much about herself, but she has a little girl, too, and so we are always talking about our daughters. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She stares at me, but it feels like she’s looking at who I used to be, her little girl with ponytails and a snaggletooth who swore she was a Powerpuff Girl. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “Think of the books Hugh Crain hacked apart to make this. Now here is a Goya etching; a horrible thing for a little girl to meditate upon.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z David had a chance to be a hero, to both Jeremy and that little girl. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The idea of this little girl under a simulation nauseates me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z "Well, ever since I first heard about it, even when I was a very little girl, I've wanted it to happen to me." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Shucks, the little girl, Kim, talked with milk running down her throat, some of the time her words got gluggled up in what she was swallowing. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The little girls wore pretty dresses and shiny black shoes and ribbons in their hair. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z You get to know a guy in a different kind of way, sitting on a park bench side by side, watching little girls play. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z As the clumsiest hunting dog of Old Tallow’s pack, he needed to stand tall over something, even if only a sick little girl. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z A little girl’s pink balloon floated by my face, and I pushed it away rudely. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He rolls his eyes, as if I'm being a difficult little girl. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z She was dressed in a shimmering blue gown, surrounded by a cluster of little girls as attendants. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked out the window and saw a slender little girl hanging up the wash on a wire. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m trying to understand why you’re so committed to acting like someone you’re not, considering you just told that little girl in there that greatness means being true to yourself.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z We were sitting at a table with a man of about my age and a rowdy little girl who gave way upon the slightest provocation to uncontrollable laughter. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Like a little girl with stars in my eyes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Not like his mother, but like a little girl. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z It barely weighed anything at all, the sort of toy a little girl could carry everywhere. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I gave her one last bath and slipped on a little yellow dress that I had sewn while praying that one of my little girls would come along further than three months. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “See? Your little girl with the cut-up face just left it.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “Sorry, little girl. That horde is picking up speed. And we ain’t about to be turned.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Those little girls weren’t as old as she when they were carried off by the typhoid. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Citra found it next to impossible to imagine Scythe Curie as a little girl. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He thought about the little girl Julia, the families with kids, his new friends in the Fifth Cohort, even those silly fauns. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Against all logic, he continued to hope that sooner or later the quiet, awkward little girl who glided through his house would display the Frenchman’s elegant manners and refined charms. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He loved Mom’s Texas cousins, but all of them, five wild little girls and their grumpy mama, lived in a tiny little house. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Once, there was a rabbit who loved a little girl and watched her die. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Yet ever since she had been a little girl she hadn’t known what to do with herself. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Bring a little girl up in the party way and when she married, she’d see to it that her man voted the straight Democratic ticket. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not my fault if he screams like a little girl.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The little girl at the meat counter is gone, and I can’t quite see the polite face of the little doll on the plane. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Rufus came back, came to the house carrying the dark little girl and leading the boy who seemed to look even more like him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z But she hadn’t kissed her father good night since she was a little girl. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Drowned possibly, as the cat would surely have been except for a little girl.... The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “When you get to the Rydells’ house, you find that little girl Naomi and give these to her. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z He turned to watch as the little girl ran toward the car, the wide purple bows of her sundress flopping on her narrow brown shoulders. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I passed a little girl on the stairs smacking a child even smaller than herself, telling it to stop crying. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “If only you could see how ridiculous you look when you threaten people. Like a little girl telling me she’s going to strangle me with her jump rope.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She’s a smart little girl, though this guarantees nothing, of course. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He has already had one or two little wives, but Louisa Biron is his favourite, a pretty little girl of five years of age. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z “That chubby little girl is the key to the future. So you’d better hope she likes you.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z You needn’t take the little girl back with you, you know.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The one Otto had made his favorite, and was now probably serving as a blanket for one of those little girls sleeping in the airport. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But if that sneaky son of a gun thought it was going to terrorize Rex Walls’s little girl, it had by God got another think coming. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z My mother strokes my hair, something I can’t remember her doing since I was a little girl. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Little Mary is a very rich little girl and received many beautiful dolls for Christmas. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the memory of the little girl Lyra, whom he had named Silvertongue, and whom he had last seen crossing the fragile snow bridge across a crevasse in his own island of Svalbard. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I realize, all of a sudden, that this is the first time since I was a little girl that I’ve felt she has something to teach me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She flashed the same kiddie smile the little girl in the picture had. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z A little girl with her hair tied up in braids swung on a porch swing and watched us with wide round eyes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There were four little girls, and two little boys, besides the baby who might have been either, and the baby’s next successor who was as yet neither. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The only one seem to pay her any tendon at all is Harpo and Squeak’s little girl, Suzie Q. She sit cross from Sofia and squinch up her eyes at her. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Before I left for college, Faizah had been a little girl of twelve. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z A family strolls by: father, mother, two little girls. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They would even stand outside the girls’ room first thing every morning and make the little girls give them their milk money before they’d let them go to the bathroom. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z She smells like the outdoors and a little girl. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I remember feeling rage over this injustice as a little girl. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Obinze said, “The little girl that played the angel was very good.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The little girl had heard this many times. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girl only needs a few small refreshments—a new coat of skin paste, an eye brightening, reinforcement of her hair texture. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “What you know about boyfriends?” she teased, tickling the little girl under her arms. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z An ugly little girl and a sad fool, and maester makes three . . . now there is a tale to make men weep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I call them glimmers. Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve seen them.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The little girls scrambled off, but curious Oscar stayed on, looking around. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “My wife — Helen, you remember — is asset. Also I have two little girls.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s okay with me. And that reminds me, we might have a first student for your lessons, a little girl named Aisha. Her mother was inquiring at the Islamic Center.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z She’s dreamt of marrying Prince Henry since she was a little girl. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “To hunt, little girl. I already told you.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She hopped through a game ardently wishing someone were playing with her as she was sure she won with less hops than any other little girl in the world. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Kira asked, remembering the sound of Jamison’s voice speaking to the little girl. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Though no one made fun of my spots in America, sometimes a child would point at me and ask his parent, “What’s wrong with that little girl?” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “Those two poor little girls,” Eleanor said, looking into the fire. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not. I’m not a little girl. I can take care of myself.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t help but stare back, imagining how life would be for that little girl without her father. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The family that lives there once had a little girl my age. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He said to Mama, “I adopted these three little girls, but I hardly ever get a chance to see my princesses.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you see a little girl run this way?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z What my little girl lacked in size, she made up in sweetness. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t know it back then, but now I can tell that Metias felt like he had shot me when he killed that little girl. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Dicey took the little girl’s hand and walked slowly out through the gates. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought of all the secret passageways, of the halls and closets, of the tiny, added-on rooms in the Spencer house, of all the spots a small, frightened little girl could hide. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Bet all the little girls are after you.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The ones I saw hanging from trees when I was just a little girl. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I found a coin and gave it to the little girl. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z When Ethyne was a little girl, her mother told her story after story about the Witch in the woods. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The little girl said, “That’s a strange name, Bud-not- Buddy,” and even though she was kind of young and scrawny to be teasing folks I could tell that that was exactly what she was doing. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the morning she would lock the little girl in the room they shared, leaving her on her own with some porridge, and go to work to train new—male—cadets to fly. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In my reflection, I see a narrow face, wide, round eyes, and a long, thin nose—I still look like a little girl, though sometime in the last few months I turned sixteen. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z "You are not going to work! The tensions are high now!" the mom shouts back, and the little girl starts crying. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve been proud to live in Little Rock. Proud to be from the South. But this...it s been going on too long.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t stop wondering if those two little girls I saw on the lawn were okay. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I can imagine him putting down the phone, picking up his little girl, giving her a kiss, embracing his wife. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “A headband? I’m trembling with fear. Now, let’s be honest. I could kill you easily. Two little girls. No training, no valor. Do you really think you can get the celestial weapons?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z "It looks like you've broken those fingers. The last two. Treacherous work, being a Belle at court, isn't it? Fixing up spoiled little girls and boys." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z A little girl clutches Ishtar with all the strength she has in her thin fingers. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I let her know that we had two little girls in school in Chicago and that I was pretty attached to my job. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She felt so tiny in his arms, nothing but a scrawny little girl. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I remember the two of us walking through Lake Elizabeth Park in Fremont, a few streets down from our apartment, and watching boys at batting practice, little girls giggling on the swings in the playground. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “You best be careful out here all by yourself, little girl.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I remember eavesdropping as a little girl while the Beauty Minister and Du Barry spoke in her office about beauty trends and body parts, and how much the masses should pay to be beautiful. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She was always looking out of one corner of her eye for twin babies, then little girls. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I was a little girl, fairy tales were my favorite books because even before you opened them, you knew how they were going to end. Happily ever after.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “Destiny wants us to write,” piped another little girl, and took out her notebook and pencil. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z As a little girl, I did not know I was a descendant of the Inca, the most powerful ancient civilization of South America. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was only a little girl when my home was almost split in half. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Is she a nice little girl?” he asked. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The little girl they chose to read the scripture can’t read. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The little girl picks up the steak and closes the clamshell box. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Gloria has lost five pounds in the last month and my little girl’s health is more important to me than your comfort.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z This little girl was hungry, had maybe been hungry before the ghetto. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “You are very kind, but I don’t mind my old dress if you don’t, it does well enough for a little girl like me,” said Meg. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z In China there were solutions for what to do with little girls who ate up food and threw tantrums. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girl standing a few yards from them had dark, sunken eyes, a tangle of uncombed black hair framing her gaunt face. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The same image I used to have when I was a little girl. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Miss Duncan-the-second studied the little girl then said, “She don’t look like no one I know. Who you talking ’bout?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I was convinced that I was going to lie before I entered the courtroom, before I saw the woman, before I saw the little girl, but now I wasn’t so sure. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It was written in pencil on the desk blotter: “The little girl on the plane/ Who turned her doll’s head around/ To look at me.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Clara was in such a hurry to make her literate that at the age of five the little girl was already reading the newspaper over breakfast and discussing the news with her grandfather. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And half the students had been kept after school one day last week—including his own little girl. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "Oh, but you must have been a little girl once, Headmistress. Surely you were." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z She saw a picture of a little girl on a bus. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I still remember what you said to that little girl in the hospital about Luke Skywalker: “He’s proof that it doesn't matter where you come from or who your family is.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z His beloved little girl was about to give him away. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “Will you see the little girl sometime soon?” he said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z That little girl brought out something in him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He introduced them to two of his daughters who happened to be there: Amparo, sixteen, dark like her mother, and Remedios, only nine, a pretty little girl with lily-colored skin and green eyes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Look at these. I think they’re silver- prints. I think it’s your mother as a little girl.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z After that little girl had left, I touched the metal head too. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “Some of the people are saying the Eight Sages took you away to teach you magic,” said a little girl cousin. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She lowered her eyes, and for a moment, I thought that maybe I could see the little girl under all those years. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z But I saw this: Across the room, on the raised step leading toward our kitchen, stood two little girls. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z There were some new clothes and we both got Barbie dolls that Mrs. Moss allowed us to keep in the house, but we had to let the little girls play with them too. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Once, he knew, her mother would have leaned down to tend the little girl at the sound of such a cough. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z A little girl with bright yellow boots slides out. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “There’s Julio,” the little girl said, and then I saw his Italian face and his eyes as he sprang upon me. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, instead of teasing the little girls, the three of them wandered off arm in arm to watch the big boys’ football. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “Pretty summer day, you can’t think of anything better to do than hassle some helpless little girl? That’s flat- out pathetic, son.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Every day, my little girl is growing up without me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had gotten married and bought a run-down Victorian house on Long Island that he restored, and he and his wife had a child, a little girl. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t want to be owned by a little girl who loves you?” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z So I could be generous in my comments when my mother bad-mouthed the little girl on TV. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you found us, my brave little girl. I don’t know how, but you did,” he said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The only one seem to pay her any tention at all is Harpo and Squeak’s little girl, Suzie Q. She sit cross from Sofia and squinch up her eyes at her. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I brought breakfast in bed for my little girl,” he said cheerfully. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The pretty little girl was just unlucky, as Shin saw it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She’s the youngest of the three little girls, all of whom have María as part of their name. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I clipped out flowers from cans of Carnation milk and pinned a wreath around cutouts of the little girl under an umbrella from the salt box and of Mr. Quaker from the box of oatmeal. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She started bouncing, excited like a little girl. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “This family has two little girls with golden curls and big blue eyes.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girl continues to shout out the number, waiting for someone to take it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She picked out a sky blue one, because she said that when I was a little girl, I had told her I wanted our first house to be sky blue. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Three little girls dressed in identical black dresses and white scarves clung to the slight, bespectacled man behind the counter. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z On his morning drive to work, my father had been seeing visions of an irresistibly sweet, dark-eyed little girl. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Standing tall before the brush is a white house with a garden of yellow flowers, and standing on the porch is a little girl. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He might have killed the little girl himself, and burned her afterward. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “There was a little boy that I was afraid of when I was a little girl.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “I am not a little girl,” said Eilonwy, tossing her hair in exasperation. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Many of the little girls towed baby brothers and sisters along, some in homemade wagons, others in busted-down baby buggies. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girl had the crust edgeways in her chewing mouth. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The worst part is that he has a little girl that’s eight months old. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The last time it had broadcast a local event live at such an hour had been when a little girl named Jessica McClure was rescued from an abandoned well. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z One who dined on little girls and had terrible indigestion. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Once upon a time, there was a little girl who had big dreams. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The little girl nodded and ran away, obviously happy to be the bearer of bad news. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The little girl, who was only seven at the time, had learned to read from her uncle’s storybooks and been closer to him than any other member of the family because of her prophesying powers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We have a little boy and we have a little girl. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The woman smiled at her in the kindest way, and Nhamo knew the white bread and yellow margarine were meant for the little girl. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Kinda like how little girls on old TV shows be having tea parties, but you know how it don't ever really be tea in the cups? Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z I saw that turbulent emotions possessed her, so I asked what I thought would be some sedative questions about her little girl. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z They’re giving him some space tonight, though, and when I look closer, I realize that he’s kneeling to sign a poster for a little girl. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I am not from this world, little girl, it said, and I am tired of trying to make my ways fit into this one. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z A little girl traveling to New York from Chicago had gotten on the wrong flight and had ended up in Miami. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Nearby stood a little girl with hair gathered in two fat puffs over her ears, and Nhamo knew the bread and margarine were for the little girl. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I had heard a little girl chant it as she played hop-skip. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The little girl points at me and smiles. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Before I could ask about the kittens’ names, Mattie was off, playing tag with a little girl I didn’t know. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “This little girl’s pretty important, huh?” he said after several minutes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Well, it’s a good thing someone told me about a little girl out here. Are you hungry?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z We found the little girl beneath a slab of broken ceiling. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “I had a little girl once, with eyes like these. God bless you, my dear! Good day, madam.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Pennsy, ever busy, always on a schedule, rushed the little girl and her mother through Union Station so that they could catch their next train. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z That meant Terryl, the little girl from the broken home, would be the mom trying to keep the pattern from reproducing itself. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Pattie only hoped that the group assembled to care for the odd little girl with the dark, wet eyes would do a good job. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z They are Aiyi’s oldest son and his wife, and standing next to them are four other people, around my age, and a little girl who’s around ten. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The chuckle said what he didn't: She was just a little girl who didn’t understand the world or the creatures in it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Aron was first, and he turned away from the little girl, but the lady said, “Aren’t you going to say how do to my daughter?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Once, when I was in the fourth grade, a little girl with golden curls named Dreema was called out of class. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The little girl held the thread of Sarai’s soul, and so she as good as held the thread to his—and to his power, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Minnie says it’s lovely, all the same, to see a man so charmed with his little girl for isn’t everyone charmed with her? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I was a little girl, not even six years old, when the happy days with my family in Juba disappeared forever. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Emma was only a little girl—why had she thought she could do anything? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She looks more like a little girl ready to play dress-up. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Those two little girls in this picture,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z It was a little girl, with bright green eyes like her mother and curly dark hair. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s about thirty, is pregnant, and has a little girl who is four years old. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z For a long time, he had been molesting little girls, and although the police were on a continual lookout for him, he was never caught. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the examination, the pariahs were made to stand before the class while Nurse gave a lecture about how filthy those little girls were and how they had to be shunned. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As a little girl, I secretly wanted to do this. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girl rolled over and buried her face in her pillow. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Oh, she liked it, and she kissed me, and I liked it. Don’t little boys like little girls?” asked Demi, with his mouth full, and an air of bland satisfaction. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “That one! Over there on the left! The little girl in the silver mink coat!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z The room behind the woman was full of wonderful things, but what interested Nhamo most was the little girl. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s this fellow loose that killed the little girl on our block.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When you were a little girl, you used to dream that you were lying among the dead and all the spirits were begging you to scream. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z And I like to watch it spin... watch the chain... all bunched up and twisting and spinning... and a little girl is watching me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He noticed a jubilant little girl with a grenadier bearskin hat on her head, half over her face. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z That we had survived and the little girl had also were two miracles in one night. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But it was hard to think of the little girl as a horrible witch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If only she’d allowed the Assassin to act sooner...If only she hadn’t been so harsh with her...If only she hadn’t allowed herself to be so distracted by that little girl... The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Whatever she was, this cruel little girl—his own would-be murderer, not least—the sight of her sprawled out like that at Rasalas’s mercy shamed him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He took on the elaborate manner of little girls when they are mimicking one another. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Two little girls in pink polka-dot sundresses toddled by, holding on to their mother's hands. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “He will use his nice dagger to cut off the pretty girl’s face so that I can have it for myself, just like the last pretty little girl I found all alone in this jungle.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z And the three horrified adults, as they stood frozen in their tracks, saw what the excited little girl did not see,—a huge, lumbering tractor bearing blindly down upon its appointed track. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The little girl was howling, holding the loaf in both arms. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Swallowing the knot in my throat, I said, “I’m sorry, little girl. I want him just as badly as you do, but there’s no way I can get him.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mommy, what does that say?” asked her little girl, who was clutching a stuffed toy dog by its bedraggled tail. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z A cloud of ravens was pouring from the cave, and he saw a little girl with a torch in hand, darting this way and that. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "You're already very pretty. I'm going to make you the most beautiful little girl in the whole wide world." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “He sure did, especially when his little girl died. He stayed at her burial scaffold for days. He didn’t eat, didn’t drink water. He just cried and cried.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z I returned to the backyard with the tomato patch and the little girl of the eyes. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “And it doesn’t stop short at little girls. So never mind the empty threats, just start reading. Now. At once. And I want to hear something out of that book first!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z A little girl came running up to me, screaming, “Look, Mommy, it’s Miss America! Will you sign my autograph book?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Her son had been born that summer, and she did not want to be traveling in November with a four-month-old and her little girl. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She could have thrown herself down on the ground like a little girl having a tantrum. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z A little girl in a yellow dress, oh God, I had nearly shot a little girl who couldn’t be any older than my sisters back home. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She did not hold the little girl’s hand as they walked to the rest room. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “My experiment has succeeded. The little girl’s gone—vanished—right out of the world.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z “He’s had nary a word of human feelin’ fer what happened to that little girl, nary a word of thanks that Matt saved his worthless boy from his neighbors. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Unless a group of little girls chanted some especially clever riddle, my mother, who distrusts people with public concerns, braggarts, went over to the quiet older girls with the dignified bows. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is one of my students,” Mr. Reilly explains, over the thunk of the little girl doing judo kicks. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Not knowing that I watched, fat men ate meat; fat men drank wine made from the rice; fat men sat on naked little girls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Her grandmother had taught Luna, when she was a little girl with scabby knees and matted hair, how a caterpillar lives, growing big and fat and sweet-tempered, until it forms a chrysalis. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The little girl looked at the animals, she looked up at Shadow, and then she ran off, her feet pounding the sidewalk as if all the powers of hell were after her. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “We’d be good friends, I think. Why, the little girl and I, we’re friends already. It would be a great relief to see her safely home again, wouldn’t it?” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look! There’s writing on his foot,” the little girl cried. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z One by one the little girls were let go. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I thought about it over and over until I felt I knew this little girl. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z She had run down these same stairs as a little girl, with her nurse. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Her husband did business with my father. She’s known me since I was a little girl.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Mama says there’s another man and lady with two little girls and a baby living in our house in Bethlehem, Georgia. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mi amor, can you help me with the website? I forgot what I needed to do to post something with photographs. And a little girl from Andalucía sent a comment. Can you respond to her?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I guess the idea is that she’s supposed to be me as a little girl. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The villagers went after, surging toward the little girl and her captor. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z "Aha! Look, it's an airplane!" the father cries, making his hand swoop around before bringing a spoonful toward the little girl. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Well, this just screams out ‘I'm a little girl,’ so forget this one.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z But the little girl slipped her hand nervously into Jinny’s as they made their way over to the table. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z This time, however, I visited not as the little girl in the corner of the basement when Mama Lessie had died but as a hospital chaplain. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Francie felt that Sissy understood how it was with little girls. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z How was I going to feed a little girl? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She was not tall enough to see over the case, so she went to the end of the counter and looked at the little girl. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It is just like the dress I used to picture as a little girl, when I imagined myself a famous singer. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We passed that house, and three others, and another yard where the little girl stood by the gate. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z And Mama sounds like a little girl when she says, I won't. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z I was a rebellious little girl in my own quiet way, but I wasn’t so rebellious that I wanted to risk my own life or anybody else’s life. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I was just in time to catch a little girl trying to get the top off my Excedrin bottle. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z They were the best confidantes for a lonely little girl. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Another door opened, and in walked a little girl, smaller and younger than all of us. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Jesse made peanut-butter sandwiches for the little girls and himself, and because the kitchen was still hot and almost nauseatingly full of bean smell, the three of them went outside to eat. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z "Go on, pick it up. Or do you only fight little girls?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The little girl was named Laura and she called her father, Pa, and her mother, Ma. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The little girls were jumping up and down. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z “You be a good girl, now. Be Mama’s strong little girl, and you’ll be okay.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I’d seen the two little girls on the grass in the red and blue dresses and I didn’t want to see my little sister that way too. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They used to have dolls, for little girls, that would talk if you pulled a string at the back; I thought I was sounding like that, voice of a monotone, voice of a doll. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z This pretty little girl who was born by day wants to get taken to the candy store. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I heard a few shrieks of laughter and stopped to let a few little girls rush by in front of me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She would be there somewhere, in the background, making tea or feeding the little girl, her shadow falling over him. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “She loves them. Just like every little girl. We buy her dolls, and my sisters buy her dolls, and our friends buy her dolls—” She giggled again, and Mr. Richardson’s jaw tensed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I hear the whoosh of the little girl's blood racing through her body, and the thrum of her pulse floods my ears. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Respect the ladies,” she told Ess, as the little girl stared up at a hen roosting in the low branch of a tree. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Tía Mari came back from the beach with some seashells Oscar and the little girl collected. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “Ain’t that the little girl that works at the same place with you?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She pointed to a little girl about eight years old sitting at a table with kids her own age. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z But the little girl squirms to look away, causing her parents to laugh with embarrassment. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She went everywhere with her little girl clutched to her breast, nursing her constantly without a set schedule and without regard for manners or modesty, like an Indian. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I went just once. When I was a little girl.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “And hungry too, no doubt: let her have some supper before she goes to bed, Miss Miller. Is this the first time you have left your parents to come to school, my little girl?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She looked like a little girl, and he almost smiled. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Three little girls all alone? For ten days? In the winter? Where are they? Are they still in Kiev?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Even as a little girl she hungered for learning as a child does for cookies in the late afternoon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Thousands remained outside Meereen’s thick walls—men and women and children, old men and little girls and newborn babes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It had recently carried off a little girl. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Well, look at me now,’ said the little girl. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m ashamed of you, little girl,” I said. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “But neither one a them little girls knew. So little white girl say, ‘Well, let’s see. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z As soon as I realized this, I felt like I was no longer a little girl but had become a big girl. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z She began to bawl like a little girl. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He scolded me for not giving my jump rope to a little girl on the playground who didn’t have anything to play with. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I doubt the little girl it’s being made for will even want to cut into it. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I didn’t really think of myself as a little girl anymore, but I smiled. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z So she gave the doll to that poor little girl who is named Mary, too.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “And what if someone says, ‘But I have heard voices in your apartment, little girl...’” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The last photo—the last thing he’d ever sent her, in fact—showed my grandfather at middle age, holding a little girl. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He had seen the marks of the little girl who drags her right foot, and the lion tracks, very fresh, covering over her footprints. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “They have a little girl with them,” Mark said quietly. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “She reminds me of a little girl I knew a long time ago.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The only place your brother is going, little girl, is into the mines. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z And then he asked, “Is there more, little girl?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z His only regret was that he’d never had a daughter, for he loved little girls as much as he loved little boys. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z It was okay when you were a little girl, but as you grew up, you were supposed to wear dresses and make yourself into marriage material. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He was pretending not to give the limes to the little girl. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Such nice little girls, he thought, warmth spreading through his stomach. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z A little girl who lived in the neighborhood had been killed. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Shan looked delighted, like a little girl showing off her singing to her parents’ eminent friends. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “This little girl’s brother has got caught in a trap.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z As a little girl I had sat on Dr. Philobosian’s knee while his fingers climbed my spinal column, counting off the vertebrae. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She and her little girls all wear their hair in short spikes bursting out all over their heads, giving an effect similar to a pincushion. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Biddy,” said I, when I talked with her after dinner, as her little girl lay sleeping in her lap, “you must give Pip to me one of these days; or lend him, at all events.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Mamita serves me first, giving me the biggest piece of chicken and the biggest potato from the soup, what I yearned for so much as a little girl. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “She’s like my brave little girl. You are brave and ready for adventure, right?” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z When Xan was a little girl, she lived in a village in the forest. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The little girl who is now dead sits in the back seat, with her two best dolls, her stuffed rabbit, mangy with age and love. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, it was that song. I’ve heard it once or twice since then. On the radio, on the television. And it’s taken me back to that little girl, dancing by herself.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Pained moans cut through the noisy square like silver knives as the little girls endure their transformations. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Then a little girl sitting on her father’s shoulders pointed at something above us and screamed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z More than that, she weren’t the happy little girl anymore. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I pick out a purple faja for around the waist, in honor of the rabanito flowers standing tall in the song I sang for fresh rolls as a little girl. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, I Boots!” said the little girl, tugging at his beard. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Is that how it works?” the little girl asked. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A little girl was walking toward them from the direction of the dead. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z And now it simply wasn’t there, and she wasn’t Lyra of Jordan anymore; she was a lost little girl in a strange world, belonging nowhere. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Would my father have been as patient as this little girl's? Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z There was a little girl sitting on a swing, kicking her legs, flying back and forth, static electricity for hair, happiness for a face. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Well, little girl, it replied, I suppose you can call me Pet. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z When I was a little girl, my entire notion of love was to marry the soccer star. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z There was a Cealdish boy with lace on his shirt, a little girl with bare feet, and myself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And seven and a half months later, they got married at Los Angeles’s Mormon temple, like Terryl had dreamed about as a little girl. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I’ve also scrubbed the laundry and the house, been to the market, worked two shifts, and helped extract a little girl from the ghetto. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “I hope that little girl’s all right,” said Will. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z You gotta understand: Gwenforte loved that little girl so much, and was so protective of her, that nobody worried about it. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “They’re just little girls, dreaming up an adventure. I can’t drag them down to Mexico. I can’t sacrifice them to follow my path,” I whispered fiercely, still holding the ear pendant in front of me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z After that, Jinny reached for a book, and for a long while she read aloud about a little girl with a pet horse and a monkey. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z A little girl named Hina grabbed the seat next to me, the spot where my friend Shazia usually sat—forcing Shazia to sit on the bench in the middle, where we often put our backpacks. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z His father stood in the doorway and Ben heard him say so that the whole family could hear, “You’re my favorite daughter, Ben. I swear to God you’re my sweetest little girl.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was strange, even though this was the bedroom of some little girl who’d kicked the bucket, I wasn’t feeling scared or nervous at all. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z I am a little girl again, holding on so tight, my hands hurt and the cold chain of the swing gnaws itself into my knuckles. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “Well, for my special little girl, why not?” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Mary was a good little girl who always kept her dress clean and neat and minded her manners. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Shaking her head, she tightened her grip on the little girl’s hand. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Every little girl needs a skipping rope,” he said with a smile as he replaced the odds and ends and hauled the junk box out back. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The little girl’s face was filled with horror. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z All I could do now was hope I didn’t cry like a little girl in front of the hundreds of kids having breakfast. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "Quiet," she told them, putting an arm around Weasel when the little girl came running up. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Ivy recognised her as the little girl she had seen in the bakery all those years ago. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z There are the pictures of little girls I now remember, with their puffed sleeves and pink skirts and hairbows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A little girl’s scream comes out of the Mexican’s mouth as he covers his face and crumples to the rug on Jimmy’s limp body. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z But we listened for the one who would say, “Poor little girl,” or, “Poor baby,” but there was only head-wagging where those words should have been. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She sat on the edge of her chair and looked at the tips of her shoes like a little girl. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The little girl slinks over to her, watching us the whole time. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “I’m old enough. Stop thinking of me as a little girl. You have to understand—I’ve grown up.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Then Jeanne’s mother cried, “You have orders to kidnap little girls?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “Have you lost a little girl, a girl who fell in the water?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ona!” she cried, pointing to a group of little girls skipping rope. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Again, I think back to when I was a little girl, practicing at being a rich indfgena in the pasture. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Before anyone could stop her the little girl had flung herself to her knees and teetered dangerously over the edge of the boat. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Within seconds, I’m blubbering like a little girl. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She remembered her words to the little girl: “The cliffs won’t let you fall,” she had said. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The little girl looked at me, secretive, contemplative. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, well. Don’t worry about it. It could happen to anyone. It happened to the Queen of England when she was a little girl.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It is also clear to me that the person who really wants to see the trains is not Grace, or any of the little girls, but Mr. Smeath himself. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Would you be married now and have little girls of your own? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She yearned for playmates but did not know how to make friends with the other little girls. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagine it’s different for him now, no lazy Saturday sex or scrambled eggs, instead a different sort of joy, a little girl tucked up between him and his wife, babbling away. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She pointed down the beach at Ess but then noticed the little girl had abandoned her letters, and was now seated and burying her feet in the sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z As a little girl, despite everything, I wanted Papito to want me, to feel proud I was his daughter. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “You won’t find her,” said a little girl with ice cream melting all over her hand. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Once every year he takes his family, his wife and three little girls, to the zoo. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z |
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