Two streets meet in front of my old house like an upside-downT,so you were walking up the middle of the road toward us. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The tunnels snake around Sing Sing, joining the various buildings, and at the beginning and end of each—sometimes even in the middle—there is a locked gate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one bedroll in the middle of the space. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It had been like seeing his dreams in the middle of the day. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He remembers hearing about Truman’s drama director as far back as seventh grade, when he started performing in middle school shows. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’ll get kicked out of middle school in my 1st week. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Papa always sat in the front pew for Mass, at the end beside the middle aisle, with Mama, Jaja, and me sitting next to him. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He ducked inside a stationer’s shop briefly and came out carrying a small parcel wrapped in brown paper and two fresh rolls, steaming hot, with butter oozing from their middles. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re in the middle of a lake! Can that thing fly?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I survive my 1st 2 weeks of middle school. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Being left out of social situations isn’t helping me make friends at middle school. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The first bomb hits the middle of the street, upturning the pavement and leaving a gaping hole. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time since I reached Nam we had been in the middle of it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found myself on a campus with golden children of western America’s upper middle class. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’m fighting the wind, this place called Detroit, my cousins and their walls, the prison that keeps my mother, my broken home country floating in the middle of a sinking sea. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the tools, a dead worm just sat in a Pyrex cup. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He grabbed Mike’s hand and jabbed the spike into the tip of Mike’s middle finger. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He’d been on a long spree, robbing banks throughout the middle west. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s because I’m not going swimming! I agreed to sneak out and meet you in the middle of the night, fine, but just to talk, not to—” “We will talk,” she insisted. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Then, in answer to a foreboding call from a dark part of his mind, he leaped from bed and landed on his bare feet in the middle of the room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She gets up and we go to the middle of the floor and shake our hips at each other, never touching, never talking, just smiling and keeping our eyes locked. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mami stood in the middle of the room, her dress bunched on her hips, hands holding fast a long-line brassiere that didn’t want to contain her. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Finally, the boats pulled up to an island in the middle of the river. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s one of a pack of siblings, the second son, a younger brother, a proper and well-behaved middle child. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It must have been Aunt Lydia who put the blue one in the middle. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dallas wished the silver bird would return and snare Mr. Trepid and carry him high up over the town and then drop him, splat, in the middle. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The policewoman had a little hole in her tights on her left ankle and a red scratch in the middle of the hole. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the floor were white posters covered with outlines of wavy writing. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it was a good thing, until the middle of my first semester. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I can be thankful to Scott for this: I’m too afraid, now, to go out in the middle of the night to buy booze. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

White Citizens’ Councils were formed in almost every Southern city and backwater town, comprised primarily of middle- to upper-middle-class whites in business and the clergy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Fullbrook fans kept chanting and chanting, growing louder and louder, and one of the guys from the other team took his glove off and gave all of us the middle finger. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Barely an inch of snow means that all the schools in the county are closed, including my high school and the middle school where Dad works, so it’s an unexpected day off for him, too. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore was standing in the middle of the cave, his wand held high as he turned slowly on the spot, examining the walls and ceiling. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There had been a few seventh graders scattered among the other teams, but all the rest of the middle school regional champs were eighth graders. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Turner thought he might start bawling right there in the middle of the road, in the middle of Phippsburg, in the middle of Maine. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

No sooner had the glass cleared his forehead than Bucky practically dove into the house, landing with a thud in the middle of our floor. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She laughed but reminded him that his middle name was Foster. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We came to Macún when I was four, to a rectangle of rippled metal sheets on stilts hovering in the middle of a circle of red dirt. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Next thing I know, I’m across the room with my arms wrapped around his middle. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

At least our middle names came from people and not instruments. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to wake her, but I feel strange, going to meet a girl in the middle of the night without telling her about it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

For a moment she looks off in the middle distance, somewhere above the bookcase. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Tushman is the director of the middle school,” Mom explained. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Soon afterward, the middle daughter gave birth to a girl of her own, and the celebrations were repeated. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Tally stumbled forward, utterly exposed in the middle of the street The roar of a hovercar seemed to pass right over her head, and she instinctively ducked, dashing toward the cover of the forest. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They began to walk down the middle of the road, keeping Jonathan in their midst. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

But with luck, in the middle of the crowd, it would be safe to talk for a quarter of an hour and arrange another meeting. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Instead of springboarding up, I sank into the rotting mush right up to my middle. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A table stood in the middle of the room. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can still hear the whistle—two toots for French’s, three for Van Camp’s—and she and Chizu would be out of bed in the middle of the night, heading for the cannery. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had rows of seats on either side, a stage at the front, and an open space in the middle for dancing. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

For once, he was the right size around the middle. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I felt like I was in the middle of a dream. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

However, there is no evidence as yet to suggest that the scientists and their families are the targets of the vandalism, although several of their children do attend the middle school. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

When I got back to school after winter break, Mr. Tushman, the middle school director, congratulated me on having started a coat drive. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

There was a loud clicking noise and suddenly he felt something long and hairy seize him around the middle and lift him off the ground, so that he was hanging facedown. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

They had come to the end of a long cutting, deep, and sheer-sided in the middle, by which the road clove its way through a stony ridge. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the yard, she turned around. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Charles, cigarette balanced between his first and middle fingers, wiped the sweat from his forehead with the heel of his hand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s split right down the middle,” said Major Sanderson, who had laced his lumpy GI shoes for the occasion and had slicked his charcoal-dull hair down with some stiffening and redolent tonic. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The suggestion was firmly rejected, a sergeant informing Mr. Muckle that handcuffing a bunch of middle- school kids wouldn’t be good for the public safety department’s image. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped his middle fingers under the coin, pushing it into a back palm, and fumbled his grip on it, ever-so-slightly. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Except for Ruth, that is, who remained silent in the middle of it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad talked my mom into naming her after one of his favorite writers, some weird old bird who’s buried out west in the middle of a desert. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He needed to remember it when he woke up scared in the middle of the night. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When he arrived in the middle of November, he had his Jamaican wardrobe: shorts, short-sleeve shirts, and a few pairs of slacks for fancy occasions. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I rolled into a ball in the middle of the mattress, cold sweat nipping my back. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Doctor Foster went to Gloucester In a shower of rain; He stepped in a puddle Right up to his middle, And never went there again.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Three days ago I was right in the middle of the herd. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other painters are there, and assorted turtlenecked women, who have begun to appear in long, straight hair, parted in the middle. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I turn around to see one of Mango’s ears sticking out from the middle of the pile. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I was the one the police stopped on Twenty-third Street in the middle of a workday. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In another picture, Ahmad was standing in the middle of downtown New Orleans. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Oh no, not in the middle of the program,” she replied, and turned the silence up a little louder. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her middle son in military uniform, smiling and holding a baby. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I turn back to see it sail ninety degrees the wrong direction and land right in the middle of Nat’s button box, tipping it into her grid game. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course not. But I can think of several more interesting things to do in the middle of the night than pull a trick like that. You’d better get ready for Sunday School.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But the middle of a respectable river, or the Other Side, was no place for children to Linger, Loll or Learn Things. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A friendly but fierce competition against all the other middle schools in our district.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

And in the middle of the exam he went and smoked a cigarette outside the window, but he watched me through the window in case I cheated. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Ray lives here. Doesn’t go wandering off in the middle of the night and leave his family for a barstool.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the middle of all this, the manager called out in a friendly way, "Good morning, Mr. Samsa." The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fared no better in her next posting in coastal North Carolina, where, in the middle of the school year, the school ran out of money and simply stopped paying her. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She’s funny, and she may be the only kid in the middle school who cares about music the way I do, but she’s also kind of weird. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next the paper said, “Masters of the New Jazz,” then in the middle of the flyer was a blurry picture of the man I have a real good suspicion about. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Even though the town is in the middle of the rez, the white folks in that town decided they didn't want to be a part of the rez. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now that I knew how very old she was, I worried that something would happen to her in the middle of the night, or when I was out during the day. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

One person uprooted the stem, then tried to split it down the middle by pulling it apart. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

He took the bowls from her hands at the kitchen door and he set them upon the table in the middle room and called loudly, “Eat, my uncle and my brothers.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

And rising up from these royal, liquid, silken bedsheets of a holy bay is a mountain, right in the middle. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Before she goes to the middle of the room, she pulls on a tailored blue blazer that she had set down beside her. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cattermole stumbled to the single seat in the middle of the floor beneath the raised platform. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I’ll stand in the middle of the pool, and if you can reach me, you can have the watch, okay?” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma took us in, waved to Papa, who was in the middle of a meeting, and hugged Jaja and me in her tight way before leaving. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The others in the middle of the desert watched her crying grow very loud as her face squeezed itself out of shape. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, the rubber bands still popped off in the middle of the night. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was instructed to have his search include not just their city, but all of MidMerica—which stretched nearly a thousand miles across the middle of the continent. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe the Gestapo will come in the middle of the night and pull me away from my machines. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They open onto a two-lane entranceway with a cement island in the middle. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those memories come in the middle of the night, when I'm trying to sleep. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He emptied the box and picked up a handful of dirt from the middle of the unpaved road. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was about to ask what was wrong, when a warm breeze rustled past, like a gust of springtime had gotten lost in the middle of winter. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the middle, his shoes stepped on eggshells. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

What new notes are added in the instrument's middle range? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

We’re in the middle of my bedroom, cross-legged on the floor. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She’s a little plump in the middle, but it is a friendly softness. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Really? Is this your top priority in the middle of this crisis?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t speak to Hassan until the middle of the next week. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course not. Very sensible of you both. After all, it wasn’t as though…” she stopped in the middle of her sentence, and dropped her bag. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Tad stood up and stepped over the cords and the stretcher and everything else in the middle of the floor. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure teachers are going to love that. A sugar rush on top of the hormonal mood swings of middle schoolers.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Charlotte tore quite a section out of her web, leaving an open space in the middle. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

A hush swept across the whole auditorium as all eyes turned to the tall, elderly white woman in the middle of the room. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Obviously something's wrong; he's standing in the middle of the road, waving like a lunatic. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I sit in the middle of the bus. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Dread rises up in my middle, but I put it to the side. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I can’t figure out how you followed him to the middle of nowhere.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later she said, “Well, just don't stand there in the middle of the floor.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess you don’t have streetlights in the middle of farms, but maybe I should save up for a bigger flashlight. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The object of the chase was in the middle of the alley: a young boy, eight years old at the most. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I stared intensely at the shiny circle of oil in the middle of my broth. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And in the middle of the fifth step the slow song faded away. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was growing colder, unseasonably cold for the middle of May, and the fog, though not heavy, was rising off the water, thickening imperceptibly, and obscuring the lowcountry in its passage across the land. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dogs flopped down in the middle of the street to take naps. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Nothing sounds so pure and sweet as a motor running when you’re all alone in the middle of nowhere. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she was shaken awake in the middle of the night by her hostess, who urged her, “You must get up, your airfield is being bombed, your aircraft are burning!” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

After they had been seated about the middle room with demurring and unwillingness to take seats, for politeness, Wang Lung went into the kitchen to bid the woman serve. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

And while Durham had one of the largest black middle classes of any city its size in America, Fuller knew better than to count too heavily on this group for financial support. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My parents are on a cruise. They left me to watch the house. I’m sure they’d come home if they weren’t in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She was sitting smack in the middle of the bed, outside the covers, with her legs folded like one of those Yogi guys. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

We stand in the middle of the room looking at each other. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Percy had been in the middle of a school of sharks when the water was full of blood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’d been in the middle of dreaming that I’d won the title of All-Time Greatest Scientist after discovering the first wormhole. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Remembering his manners, he tipped his hat, unveiling for just a moment a patent-leather hairdo, parted in the middle. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eilonwy dropped off to sleep in the middle of one of her sentences. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I usually stick my middle finger up behind my back, and they laugh and say, “Yeah, that’s Beni's daughter, all right.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

One, in the middle, was neatly done up with turf, and is supposed to contain the remains of the late Lord of Gosport. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“And it ain’t gonna get any slower,” says Earl, placing a hand square in the middle of my back and shoving me out the door. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A big color poster, at least six feet by three feet, hung in the middle of the back wall. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some seem old enough for middle school, high school. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We make it way out to the middle of the lake and we stop swimming. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Face cards in a few categories may land a player in the upper middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Out walked a person no one present had ever seen before—a man in his middle thirties, dull-eyed, wild-haired, and wearing a hip holster stocked with a .38-caliber pistol. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she heard the word turtle, she thought of a cute little thing the size of a jewelry box, sitting on a rock in the middle of a fishpond. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how much longer they beat me, but when I came to, I was in the middle of the street. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Behind us, the hat spun out into the morning air in a white blur, like a miniature flying saucer, and landed right smack in the middle of the highway. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I woke up in the middle of the night, and when I opened my eyes there was Mong. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Frankie stepped in the middle of the road, waving his arms wildly. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Everywhere, mopeds and bicycles race down the wide road, moving out of the way only when a truck honks and mows straight down the middle of the lane. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The still eddy waters next to the banks had frozen, but out in the middle, where the current was swift, the water was running, leaving a trough in the ice pack. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He plants a kiss in the middle of her brown and white head and crosses the little room. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was odd to be sitting on a million-dollar horse, talking to Priscilla Willis in the middle of the night, but then it was a relief to be talking to someone besides the cat. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The way the posse was lined up had the sheriff and one the ’nother men up front and me and Petey riding abreast in the middle whilst the other two men trailed behind. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

We headed over to the track, the bright white lines marking out the red lanes, the green field in the middle. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The problem is that there’s no hiding a First Lady-sized motorcade, especially on the island of Manhattan in the middle of a weekday. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He wanted her to be right smack in the middle of them, he said, for her first sight. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one reason why a middle pretty would be here in New Pretty Town: The wardens were looking for someone, and they were serious about finding him or her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Even if it was the middle of summer and so blazing hot outside that the road was melting, supermarkets were always freezing. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A high metal fence stretched along each side of the border, and a large building was set in the middle. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I was about to get up too, because I was sick of it all—I hadn’t started it, why the hell did I have to be in the middle of it? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Right there in the middle of the office of the president of Ballard Paper Mill. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Harry moved forward into the middle of the classroom, into the space that Moody had cleared of desks. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Put it here, Harry,” he said, laying the broom in the middle of the table and carefully turning it so that its name faced upward. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The memory played tricks, when one reached middle age, and then, the company of Mrs Helena Kingshaw had helped put everything into perspective again. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I was in the middle of letting them out when the keeplock officer reappeared. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Watch this,” Two Step said, standing in the middle of the wobbling cart and lifting both his wide arms to the sky. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And it was true: I could have been, which is always what worried Mami and Papi, too, especially after what happened at the middle school that I was zoned for. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

To the boosters, that story was music to their ears, further confirmation that when the middle of December rolled around they would be on their way to Texas Stadium for the state championship. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up in the middle of the night, restless. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, Grandma Caye would wake up in the middle of the night and ask my mom, “Am I dead?” and my mom would say, “Not if you’re talking to me!” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There it was, a big thorn that had broken off right in the middle of her heel. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s on a boat in the middle of the ocean! What else does he have to do?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Number 33 was a tall house, spindly-thin, in the middle of a terraced row. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He knew he was in the middle of something much larger than himself, and not just larger in size. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But right in the middle of the act, we had some bad luck. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “My father ran away with a dental hygienist. He left in the middle of the night.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was the middle waiting area between whatever hellish situation people had come from and whatever free paradise they imagined on the other side. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting almost exactly in the middle of the theater. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I walked to the middle of the cord and pulled it laterally. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our own attempts to penetrate toward the middle have been modest indeed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The spike of a helmet projected from the middle of his silken turban and he wore a shirt of chain mail. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Only, far below the Wart, there was a thump and a rattle of leaves, as the aerial torpedo went smack into the middle of a bush, regardless of obstructions. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It will have to button round the middle—” “—where we join.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was in the middle of an animated discussion with a group of perhaps two dozen people. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The only difference was the absence of photographers because it was the middle of the night. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Lili asked, running her fingers along Guy’s hairline, an angular hairline, almost like a triangle, in the middle of his forehead. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was in the middle of the night when I was asleep, but Stephen has taken to getting up secretly and looking out of his bedroom window at the stars. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe not right now, not this minute—it was the middle of the school year—-but I could wait until I finished eleventh grade. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next story is about a small freighter that runs aground off Far Rockaway in the middle of the night. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, there was a huge column right in the middle of the dining room. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of our two-block alley was a small sandlot playground with swings and slides well-shined down the middle with use. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Past that was the kitchen with its sink, stove, and a brown table that sagged in the middle. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She shaped the dough into a ball and set it in the middle of the counter. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She takes out serving dishes from the cabinet, and I pour the pretzels and nuts into separate bowls while she arranges the crackers around the chunk of cheese in the middle of a small tray. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They had a guy tied up in the middle of the room. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this moment, her face a portrait of scorn, Mary Anne walked through the middle of the war game and said, “Is the war over, creeps?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You must study very hard in middle school. You see what happened to your brother?” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Mary Webster called at the crack of dawn. Said you two were seen stark in the middle of the river last night at one o’clock!” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She pokes him gently in his soft middle, and he gives her a tentative smile. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the year the new kid would have reached the middle ground. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You already alone. If you want more alone, I can knock you into the middle of next week, and leave you there.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We will work with the teachers and the administration to see that the issues affecting all of us in middle school are dealt with fairly and honestly. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

And right then I had to put my hands on my middle. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Byron flipped me double middle fingers and another finger sign I’d never seen before and said, “Just keep your stupid little butt out of the water.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And seated at a fancy golden table in the middle of it all is a smiling gray-haired man in blood-red robes. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

A drummer stood in the middle and gently tapped on the deer-hide drum under his right arm. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Down here, halfway to the river, Tally could barely tell there was a full-scale fire alert in the middle of town. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

My mom takes the middle so Charlie can watch the plane take off from the window. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Matt was left alone, curled up in the middle of the floor, like the unnatural creature he was. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry stood, in the middle of the chaos, applauding. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Just left me flat, in the middle of all that bad luck and broken sky. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

With towels around their middles and their hair tucked up, Grandma and Mary Alice rolled out endless pastry on big breadboards. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

After he quickly washed up, Nathan immediately noticed that Nali had put four large plastic trash bags in the middle seat of the front of the truck. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The deaf-mute still drank coffee by himself at one of the middle tables. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I look down, and I am wearing gray slacks and a gray shirt; I am thicker around the middle and thinner through the shoulders. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And from the middle of the misty, domed web, a spider the size of a small elephant emerged, very slowly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

There was a big plastic number nine over one platform and a big plastic number ten over the one next to it, and in the middle, nothing at all. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

What the heck did I get myself into by calling him in the middle of the night? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

"No!" screamed Wasp from behind the wheel “No!” screamed Tempest from the middle. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever she’s listening to must be amazing to cause her to lose herself right there in the middle of the sidewalk in New York City. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Right in the middle of all my thinking I heard two loud snaps in the hall. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But it is the masterstroke of the green spot, shining like a beacon in the middle of her forehead, that conveys the anguish of the girl’s confrontation with her inner self. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I stood in the middle of the quad, I thought of how much they looked like the people they hated. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

By the time she hit middle school, she’d won just about everything there was to win — science fair, debate team, gymnastics, soccer, synchronized Tae Kwon Do. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The two others have come down the hill and are watching, safely in the middle of the bridge. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t have nothing to separate our smells and sounds except for a big blanket tacked up in the middle,” she told us more times than we wanted, which was none. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re right in the middle of serving the main course. Go grab a seat in the greenroom. The speaker’s done using it. I’ll hook you guys up in about fifteen. Cool?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“The way he goes on you would think we had a grand cellar in this half-built house in the middle of nowhere,” Kainene muttered, combing her wig with her fingers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If you promise not to hurt me, I’ll tell you which button to push. It’s the middle one there on the right arm.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the middle pretty made it hard to be flippant He was wisdom personified, his manner so serious and formal that Tally found herself wishing she had dressed up. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I scooted to the middle of the backseat and looked up at the Colonel sitting shotgun, smiling, his face turned to the wind blowing in through his window. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Somehow, the Captain had changed from his wet clothes into my father’s bathrobe, which barely met at his middle. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the cobblestone courtyard, a dozen shaggy cow creatures were sniffing around the mossy base of an old stone well. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When he started middle school and began failing every subject, I finally realized that he and I hated school for very different reasons. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

One day I dropped a jug of orange syrup in the middle of the floor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime in the middle of the afternoon I opened my eyes and discovered that the bull was gone. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The middle one is Valley’s, and this is mine. We should all open them at the same time!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Come, come,” he said, and led them to one of the sprawling wooden tables in the middle of the room. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Two /’s in the middle, one at the end. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had a deal with my grandmother that I had to survive 1 year of middle school. I’m already the cleaning lady. I don’t need to stick out any more.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Christmas tree Laney had picked out was displayed in the middle of the table, right in front of the placemat Hyacinth had made. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Tiara’s ’do was short and spiky with a longer strip sticking up in the middle, warrior-style. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her body squeezed and crowded into a tight corset that shoved her middle up under her chin. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was the night of the homecoming dance and you had the biggest pimple ever in the middle of your forehead. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Not trying to get caught in the middle of the night with blood on my knuckles. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Lee folded his hands across his middle and he stood silently—waiting. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Near the temple we found a house set in the middle of a sprawling garden. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The Grimes family arrived in a body, always a little late, usually in the middle of Sunday school, which began at nine o’clock. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Henry lands in the middle of the night and isn’t even allowed to come near the Residence, instead sequestered in a hotel across town. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“We’re living right in the middle of history,” my father would say, but it seemed to me I could understand long-ago history better than history today. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I envisioned Mrs. Baylor taking a long swig from that jar in the middle of the night. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

By the middle of the eighteenth century Shakespeare’s sense of time had been replaced by our own. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Heaped in the middle of her room were all the possessions she could not take on a honeymoon. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of it was Bunny, his face resting on the tweed elbow of his jacket and one foot, still in its wing-tipped shoe, dangling off the edge of the bed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He found us in the drawing room, in the middle of a meal. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I slip, just remember that I’m a comical genius. It’s hard to split a man down the middle and always to reach for the same half.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I lie down flat on my back in the middle of the stream and let the water cover me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He stood on his long legs in the middle of the dirt road, his long neck towering above the car, and looked down his long nose at us. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

And out there, in the middle of the sea, is a line of—canoes. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of all this knocking down and getting knocked down and getting back up again, I could see Erik standing at the fifty-yard line, untouched by it all. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the wall in the middle of the room, a video of Otto Frank played. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Few people bothered to return for a second helping, but one girl in her middle teens sat quietly on a bench waiting for a third. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

After around eight hours on the bus, we pulled into the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City, an enormous, labyrinthine building in the middle of the city. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The trouble was, the crowd was getting thicker and we were trapped in the middle of it. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I turn a slow pirouette in the middle of the room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

On her left, she saw a long, narrow stretch of grass in the middle of a kind of courtyard of houses. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s in that vast boy middle,” she said. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Hush, Gen. Virgil and I are in middle school. It doesn’t work that way. Besides, Virgil’s shy. Can’t you see that?” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the night our ship stops. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

That left me standing alone in the middle of the burning gymnasium when the headmaster came charging in with half the faculty and a couple of police officers. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The village representatives have a few words with the truck driver before he drives away, leaving us in the middle of nowhere. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been working in the Ford River Rouge complex for the last five years when Ruth gave birth to their first child in the middle of a snowstorm. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In 1942, in the middle of World War II, some strange letters came to the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I had been too busy trying to survive after the attack, moving to America, attempting to navigate middle school. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Only in retrospect would he realize how unfair it was to Mary to put her in the middle of a dispute between her parents. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It takes me a moment to understand what she means—that she wants me to leave, now, in the cold, in the middle of the night. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Some of my panic from the night before eases, and the shock of standing in the middle of the opening game dulls. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Joey stopped the car, right there in the middle of the river of mud that used to be a road. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Their bright yellow house in the middle of green wavy grass appeared on the horizon like a sunrise. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The crib stood in the middle of the floor, and one gloomy lamp was all the illumination in the room, so the baby was in semi-darkness. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Eric stands in the middle of the room, his posture so rigid it looks like someone replaced his spine with a metal rod. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s just...there’s so much underground here, so many layers, it’s overwhelming. Like standing in the middle of an orchestra and trying to concentrate on a single instrument. I’m going deaf.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A big wooden table sat in the middle of their living room. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He got out of the car in the middle of the road. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The plan was to wheel Kuda straight into the middle of the gathering and announce that Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham was holding them for ransom. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Down at the bottom, sitting on a block of stone in the middle of the stage, the god Apollo hunched over a ukulele, plucking out a mournful tune. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As of noon yesterday, the northernmost logger showed 12.3 percent efficiency loss, the middle one had a 9.5 percent loss, and the rover recorded a 6.4 percent loss at its southernmost location. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us sit on the top step to our apartment building, Dad in the middle. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“The middle school science fair is February fourteenth!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Everything was either very right or very wrong—with no middle way. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He took the sack from her and tossed it over a shoulder, then set off toward the middle of the square. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I sat in the back with Father Amadi, separated from him by the space in the middle. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

All have long steel tables with stools bolted to the floor in pairs and an aisle down the middle. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In each hand he held up one half of a great horn cloven through the middle: a wild-ox horn bound with silver. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They moved aside to let Desdemona pass and there, in the middle of the linoleum, was my mother. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was a hard man of middle height, with a beard so dark and heavy that the lower part of his face looked as though it were molded of iron. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tight suits with his shirt always unbuttoned down to the middle of his chest like we live on some island or something. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His long blond flyaway hair stretched all the way down to the middle of his back. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He arrived back in the city in the middle of the afternoon, but went directly to his club, where he played a few hands of poker and dined, without successfully quelling his anxiety and impatience. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stands beneath the tree that bisects the middle of the loft. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, in the middle of the invading legion was Old Beefhead himself. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Making our way into the maze of many thousands of people, we move to a spot in the middle of the crowd and set up for the night. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A family squarely in the middle class may own a flat- screen television, drive a BMW, and indulge a taste for expensive chocolate. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Knowing that the road was forbidden to him, because of his poor sight and habit of walking stolidly in the middle, he had found a short cut across the intervening fields. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And someone was there, in the middle of it all, asleep.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She led him to the middle of the dance floor, where they stood alone, people staring and snickering. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He spotted Newt, kneeling there in the middle, leaning over a body. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She’d just set a plate of pancakes in the middle of the table when Mrs. Baylor came back into the house with a stack of mail. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Sticking on middle names was an atrocious American habit and there was no need for a second name when you’re christened after the man from Assisi. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was alone in the middle of the driving range, surrounded by acres of golf balls. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw no reason to do well in my new middle school. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Soon he was out on the middle of the plank with nothing to steady him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They were a bright yellow with a big black spot right in the middle. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I guess even Nora is haunted by the ghosts of middle school. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

They don’t have recess in middle school and I don’t like recess. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s an island in the middle of the ocean where people speak English and Spanish and sometimes a mix of both. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

You must have thought I meant storeroom B-376 of the middle school. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

But by the time Stanley broke past the crust, a blister had formed in the middle of his right thumb, and it hurt to hold the shovel. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He raced back down the unbroken section of the tracks and stood in the middle, waiting for the second train to approach. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Nathan’s foot touched the ground in the middle of a cedar forest that was near the ceremonial site. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Januka tells this like a horror story, the kind you scare your friends with in the middle of the night. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Stella at one end, me at the other, and Poe in the middle with Hope and Jason on either side of him. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

We must enter from behind the stage curtains three at a time, stopping at each X before it’s time to hit the X in the middle of the stage. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

For example, Jeanne lived in a small cabin in the middle of the desert, while I lived in a small hut built of straws and pine tree leaves. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There are lanes with channels running down the middle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

On the middle two pages are the order of the scenes and the names of the cast members. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was as if she lay in the middle of a huge slate-blue saucer or dish that went up and away on all sides to the horizon. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Wait, Johnny. What is that middle name? It begins with “L.”’ ‘As far as you are concerned, it ends with “L” too.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She steps into the middle of the hallway and spreads out her arms. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the day we were served a cupful of the unfermented grainbrew, orsh; before sunset we were taken back to the barracks and given dinner, porridge with some vegetables, and beer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

As some sociologists and marketing consultants see it, the commonly accepted big three—the upper, middle, and working classes—have broken down into dozens of microclasses, defined by occupations or lifestyles. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I can’t see how we could come down here, not now, anyway. I’m in the middle of a semester, and Mom’s got that job at Oxford Elementary.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

A photograph from his late middle years shows him as gaunt and sinister, like the villain in a Victorian melodrama, with long, lank hair and bulging eyes–a face to frighten babies. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They turned a corner and walked to the middle of the block to the grill, and went in. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, we went to her apartment after school, and her mom gave us cookies, the vanilla sandwich kind with chocolate in the middle. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, Christmas Day, in the middle of Christmas dinner, Jorge suffered a heart attack, flipped over in his chair, his mouth full of candied sweet potato, and died. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel drew a tiny fort in the middle of the page—an austere palace framed by four tall turrets. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Singer left his luggage in the middle of the station floor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“This is not an easy visit for me. We are having some trouble at school, and it appears that Nick is in the middle of it.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Crawl in and see for yourself. It’s right in the middle—a flaw in the weaving.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He’s the big hole in my life, in the middle of my soul. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle, in an ornamented sedan chair carried by four people, sat a woman, the mistress, on red cushions beneath a colored awning. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

And once they barely escaped from the middle of a hayfield when the hay was cutting. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My “West Point stride” was intolerable; his right foot flashed into the middle of my fast walk and I went pitching forward into the grass. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘We are beginning the story in the middle. I should like a tale in the right order, starting with that strange day when our fellowship was broken.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Her husband threw the loudspeaker out the window and drove home fast in the middle of the show. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a fountain in the middle of it, a round fountain spraying water in the shape of a dandelion gone to seed. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a long beard combed down the middle and pulled back over his shoulders and tied together in a knot behind his neck. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the night, they fled to the east, hoping to be taken in by the people of the jungle. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I liked her because she was a friendly woman, but I absolutely hated the idea that she would take naps in the middle of the day. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Kote was in the middle of it all, always moving, like a man tending a large, complex machine. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After Christmas, Mrs. Burke was right in the middle of writing a book, so she wasn’t available to help, which left Leslie the jobs of hunting and fetching.- Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Mississippi River wormed through the middle of the city. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The monster lumbered to the middle of the room, flinging guards aside left and right. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Two of the marks had faded, but the middle scratch must have been the deepest, because it still remained. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Right now I really wanted to be back at the crib, working on it, instead of tromping through the middle of Central Park in the wet snow. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. We throw this high school a big middle finger.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Now she stepped down to street level and turned east, moving down the exact middle of the sidewalk. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, when you help Pond, you go out into the desert to meet him? On your own? In the middle of the night?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

That night, I dream that Hideo and I are back at Sound Museum Vision, except we’re not in the middle of the dance floor. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Frederick stands in the middle, panting and blinking his long eyelashes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the night, Danny showed up hammered, and threatened to take Mitchell. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Two tables stacked with printed material stretched across the middle of the room, and in the far corner an oversized printer was spitting out page after page. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Across the country, the upper middle class so dominates elite universities that high-income students, on average, actually get slightly more financial aid from colleges than low- income students do. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Dell's pretty doughy around the middle, and his large stomach vibrates as if it's been put in a can and shaken at the paint store in one of those mixing machines. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

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

Hazel had to run right down the middle of the legion to reach her place. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Hague gallery is furnished like the home of someone from the new wealthy middle class: with upholstered wooden furniture, fancy, well made, and ornate. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When I first see Ann my jaw drops, and I think John must have been giving her all of his food rations along with her own, because she is very big around the middle. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The prisoners in the middle complained of it being too hot and too close, and of not being able to breathe. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the nut lying in the middle of the cracked sidewalk didn't squish under her foot. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I caught it in the middle of Spanish class, fourth period. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She wore a long one-piece dress, tied around the middle with a piece of rope. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they met in the middle, James asked, “Have you read ‘The Black Cat’ yet? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then, with only your pointer and middle fingers extended, wave your hand in front of it and speak the word Dispel. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. But were sitting ducks in the middle of the prairie here, waiting for all the shamblers in the Midwest to hear the call.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Villagers don’t go out in the middle of the night,” said Arm. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Right in the middle of the floor was her dog, deader than a doornail. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were going by, many of them, down the middle of the street. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Jordie refers to Pamela’s designer yoga pants as leggings, and she storms out, ripping one of the chains under construction right down the middle. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want any loose vials of that stuff rolling through the corridors in the middle of the night. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She looked behind Hecate at the middle gateway. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Now Chas was in the middle, and the way we play is that the guy in the middle gets to call out whoever he wants to have run against him. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His shirt was torn down the middle, as was what lay beneath the shirt. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It felt good to be back in a field uniform, and Root even managed to convince himself that the jumpsuit was no tighter around the middle than it used to be. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Is another subject foot—” She stopped in the middle of her thought. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

So her deft fingers tuck pieces of my hair into one braid that tickles the middle of my spine. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I got angry then because it was one thing to play this game in front of veterans; quite another when it was just the two of us, in the middle of a serious talk. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody’s worried about their stuff getting stolen in the middle of the day. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

A fire burned in the middle of the clearing, and its flickering light fell over a crowd of completely silent, watchful Death Eaters. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A very old Scotch terrier was scratching himself in the middle of a path. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on the verandah of a house in the middle of the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I rambled:... the relationship of the novel to the rise of the middle class in eighteenth-century Europe. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d almost made it to the middle of the bridge when something strange happened. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

So Marina made her first-ever parachute jump, alone, into the middle of the Siberian forest. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five is a middle- aged black couple who complain, with some justice, that the iced tea isn’t fresh and the tabletop is sticky. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nox swung wide, the rope wrapped around his middle going taut as he collided with the castle wall below. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She sat on a crate in the middle of the jumbled mess and laughed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a bit funny, isn’t it, that he can’t manage to come to the Yule Ball, but he can get up here in the middle of the night when he wants to?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Jessie had said, jabbing her index finger in the middle of the big A on Jefferson’s letterman jacket. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Elementary school goes through sixth grade here, so this is our first year in middle school, and even though we’re already halfway through the school year, I still haven’t figured out the point of homeroom. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The traditional spellings have just one s in the middle. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is standing in the middle of the path between the tents, just standing there as though she is waiting for him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He wakes me up in the middle of the night so much, I practically wake up on my own now. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says it’s good to remember the hard times in the middle of the good ones. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the track is our field that should be green grass but is brown because of the drought. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, in the middle of the night, she was too exhausted to go on. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

While she stands with her arms folded across her middle, I gag in the street, trying to rid my lungs of the stench inside, and my brain from the memory of all those people. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Someone’s always buying, someone’s always selling, and the hustle is about trying to be in the middle of that whole thing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

By the middle of the fifteenth century artists were experimenting with the idea of infinite, abstract, undifferentiated space. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Where else can you find grade A, top of the line characters roaming the streets spouting Shakespeare in the middle of a blizzard? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twins are awake, crying with the hunger, but Dad stands in the middle of the room, staring at the ceiling. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The fireplace was just a circle of stones in the middle of the floor. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Artillery has stopped for the moment, and the predawn fires inside the walls take on a steady middle life, an adulthood. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

He could not even hear any birds, in the middle of the field. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Faith kept the car in what looked to be the middle of the road, cutting her own path through the snow. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A few minutes after entering Langa, we stopped in front of an understated white home in the middle of Mshumpela Street. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The extreme heat in my poorly ventilated room woke me in the middle of the night. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“No. It can wait until morning. I don’t want to hit her with this news in the middle of the night.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They halt their horses in the middle of the country lane and wait for Grant to meet them. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of his forehead was a great pearl, which gleamed like the moon on a cold, crisp autumn night; but its luster was fading. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the middle of the letter when I heard the pounding at the door that would cut off my inspiration forever. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the brown landscape, like a dark stain, were three black old-fashioned cars and twelve army trucks strung out behind. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He points to a paragraph in the middle of the page, and I read it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

About ten feet away there’s a shrine for Khalil in the middle of the street; lit candles, teddy bears, framed pictures, and balloons. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I step closer and I see a small white label on the middle one. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I tried to wake myself but I couldn’t, which is the worst feeling when you’re in the middle of a bad dream. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

You could be standing in the middle of one and not know it, because the ponds are usually dry. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Ivy’s heart exploded, a lightning bolt through her middle, a thunderclap in her chest. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I was used to dust storms of early spring, but this one in the middle of summer was unnatural. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he finds a parking ticket in your coat, proving you spent two hours in the middle of the day parked somewhere in the center of town. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

By middle school, I lost the will to be charming and self-deprecating about my faulty pores. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But then again, to be fair, Nouri wasn’t in middle school yet. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Her mother didn’t like talking about her books with people—at least, not when she was in the middle of writing them. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I stood there awkwardly by myself in this no-man’s-land in the middle of the playground. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If only they could gather up the strings and wind themselves nearer, nearer, until finally meeting in the middle. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Unable to contain himself, Matthias sent his staff ripping through the middle of the articles. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Seven weeks she had in this world and died in the middle of the night, alone, Mrs. Leibowitz, all alone in that pram. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Gum Baby hung on to the other strap, and the weirdest game of tug-of-war ensued in the middle of the clearing. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When he had sealed the old man’s coffin he set it upon two benches in the middle room and there it stood until the appointed day came. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t been this scared since he was just a kid and woke up in the middle of the night calling for his mother. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in the middle of the night and I was lying on the floor, beneath the thin blanket I shared with my brothers, pretending to sleep. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"Why would you—" the middle one starts to say. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He never looked so handsome or brave as standing in the middle of the sickroom, his eyes searching all the beds until he found me. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood in the middle of the floor, shuffling from one foot to the other. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colin fell to the ground, moaning, waves of pain radiating from his middle. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She was in the middle of drawing his nose when he wriggled away from the table. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ash woke in the middle of the night from a dream of horses — tall, thundering white horses with foaming mouths and slender, wraithlike riders. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was left for Cradle to plant her boot heedlessly in the middle of the dropped cake. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smirks and runs into the pond with a splash, diving forward and swimming to the middle until the water is up to his chin. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know Richard, but she knew he was a student and it was the middle of the school day. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Mama, when I make my Confirmation, can I take Mary for a middle name?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pressed her way to a chair in the middle of the room and sat facing the experts. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Right smack in the middle of the village is a huge kapok tree, which is where they get together and have their market every fifth day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can a middle name do all that? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Their teeth are bright; their hair is smooth and parted in the middle. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A paper screen is set up, splitting the front of the room right down the middle, surrounded by a collection of round tables and chairs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

We are standing in the middle of a white sidewalk, next to a white street crowded with white cars, with white columned buildings towering all around us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dicey sat alone in the middle of the sofa, and the young men took two arm chairs. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night I got up in the middle of the night and took my blanket into the bedroom so that I could sleep on the floor next to Lynn’s bed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Andrea walks on the other side of her, putting her in the middle of us. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was that same map Joseph was now holding, in the middle of a snowstorm, a couple of days after Christmas, lost in a city he didn’t know. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I pause awkwardly in the middle of the room. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She said thank you but she looked unimpressed, and so, in the middle of a searing afternoon, he sneaked into Olanna’s room and poured some scented talcum powder into a folded piece of paper. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Right smack in the middle of flat plains were jagged peaks and steep gorges. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Rasheed, who took up the window and middle seat, put his thick hand on hers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She stuck the bag right out in the middle of the aisle, where the conductor and everybody could trip over it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She sat in the middle tier of benches, a long beige shearling coat wrapped around her. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stand stockstill in the middle of the room, wondering what seems off. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was caught in a particular moment of national history, smack in the middle of a city known as the nation’s hotbed of racial injustice and violence. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you really think that I was going to drive this buggy into the middle of the river?” he asked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dragged their gaping eyes from my face to the skateboard cracked in two in the middle of the street. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I got inside his next thrust and stabbed him right through the middle chest. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

From the early years of the twentieth century to well past its middle age, nearly every black family in the American South, which meant nearly every black family in America, had a decision to make. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“What happ—” At first Will didn’t understand what could possibly make his sister freeze in the middle of a sentence like that. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

My mother was teaching shorthand and typing to a lot of city college girls and wouldn't be home till the middle of the afternoon. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

My mind whirls with information, attempting to process all of it and getting jumbled in the middle each time. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Harry, who had almost pelted headlong into the stands, skidded to a halt in midair, reversed, and zoomed back into the middle of the field. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He came next to a window looking east and another torch above the door to a passage through the middle of the turret. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the middle of music like a bad pageant, and of music answered from outside, the heads turned round to the door. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hurled them across the donga, and they landed in the middle of the street, a few paces from the approaching policeman and his naked captive. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Into the middle of this talk came Sam, bursting in with his gaffer. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In middle school, your lunch table group isn’t always the same as your friend group. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Miss Esther came out of retirement to train the new middle school librarian, and she’d been glaring into classrooms and eyeballing teachers for weeks. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Now they were headed for some island in the middle of nowhere. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He worked the raft into the middle again and it started to move. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the rainstorm I remembered our bowl and reached out to get it, filtered off the stuff that was swimming on the top and drank the water down. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course my first period would wait to arrive until I was sleeping outside on the ground in the middle of the woods, surrounded by boys. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When I got back I found him in the middle of a snowball fight in a place called the Fields Beyond. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sai Fong put the cricket cage in the middle of the table and then went back and forth to the stove, bringing over steaming bowls of Chinese food. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaped from the box and ended up, somehow, exactly where he did not want to be: in the middle of the monstrous hair. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Above all, it didn’t answer any of the questions that the illustration stirred up in a normal inquiring mind: How did we end up with a Sun in the middle of our planet? A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

On the train and onshore, all eyes shifted from the leaders to the eight white blades barely visible out in the middle of the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The clerk noticed Luma’s middle initial—H—and asked what it stood for. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“This is the brain,” she says, waving her hand over the block section in the middle. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

But in reality, an invisible line ran down the middle of Berlin, separating the communist East from the capitalist West. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of the Willises’ dogs lay sleeping in the middle of the pavement. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Now I'm conflicted, standing in the middle of the kitchen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Smack in the middle of the season, star linebackers and star quarterbacks were suddenly lost to the team because of a grade below 70 in algebra or English or biology. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often the subject of a sentence—whoever or whatever is doing the action—is a two-headed creature with or or nor in the middle: Milk or cream is fine, thank you. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put down her middle finger, labeled three. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked through the middle of the boys’ soccer games in the street, impervious to their shouts for her to get out of the way. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But there it was, big and shiny and round, blue thrusters burning hot and loud as it lowered toward the middle of the settlement. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She stopped in the middle of the living room, looked back at me as she placed her bag on the coffee table, and said, “Let's start with the proper way to sit at the piano.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

In the middle was a blob of dark and the savage wrinkled up his face, trying to decipher the darkness. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Christina shoots again, and this time hits the target closer to the middle. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around and saw Mr. Crouch standing up in the middle of the bench beside him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Quickly he stepped to the horizontal girder and walked to the middle of the bridge, his orange vest catching the sunlight. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the middle of it there was a green silk canopy borne on four spears by four knights gorgeously apparelled. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In the middle of the room stood a big square table littered with playing cards, and around it were grouped boxes for the players to sit on. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only light came from great flood lamps mounted on the buildings and at the tops of poles in the middle of the larger squares. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She flew up the drive and suddenly she saw Miss Honey in the front garden, standing in the middle of a bed of roses doing something with a pair of clippers. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was boiling that day too, and right in the middle of the ceremony, Natalie took all her clothes off. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We say good night to Tío Ermenio and walk up the many flights of stairs to our rooftop shack in the middle of Old San Juan. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

One by one, each sixteen-year-old steps out of line and walks to the middle of the room. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, about a week ago. They at my cousin’s house. She live in like the middle of nowhere. Mom’s been a mess ’cause she didn’t know if I was okay. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Dad says the people should empty their buckets in the middle of the night when we are asleep so that we won’t be disturbed by the stink. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

To keep the giants at bay, Odin and Vili and Ve made a wall from Ymir's eyelashes and set it around the middle of the world. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

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

He doubted it was anything, but the fact that there was something in the middle of all this nothing made it hard for him to pass up. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

No wonder they found themselves exiled to the middle of the continent. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I poked my head into the twins’ room, humoring my sisters as they sorted through a pile of unfolded laundry in the middle of the full-size bed. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Their children quit school at sixteen and go into the army, the jails, the state hospitals; when troubled times come, they join the Klan and do the rabble-rousing for the middle class. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She stared up at the ceiling, stared at the big black hook in the middle of the room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The two officers on the sides wore brown shirts and pants, but the man in the middle wore the black of a senior officer. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She slid over and fastened herself into the middle belt. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“The middle distance is going now too! Here we are.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I awakened in the middle of the night. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When he got to the top, he carefully walked to the middle of a plank that was laid across the trailer and emptied the cotton sack. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Children made Mr. Coggin nervous, particularly when they opened the door of his darkroom when he was in the middle of developing a week’s supply of film. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blanca had already resigned herself to chastity, middle age, and her various aches and pains, but the shock of love had brought her a new youth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She always looked softer in the middle of the night, her hair down, her makeup gone. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Nothing” got his name when kids used to tease him in middle school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Our African first names became our American middle names. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sit opposite one another, Kat and I, two soldiers in shabby coats, cooking a goose in the middle of the night. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wake up in the middle of the night. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crane’s head is special and reminds Axel now of a Poké Ball, white and red with its circular eye in the middle. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

One time it had pulled loose from the tree, and both she and Peris had swung downward, then up and out over the middle of the river before falling off, tumbling into the cold water. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I keep thinking of the time you fell off your bike in middle school. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sticking up straight from the middle of his head was a small pigtail which I knew was to fool the gods and make them think he was a girl. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always was one to want a big meal in the middle of the day, and he told Miss Love so. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The mosasaurus was wide in the middle, where a worn leather saddle breached the water. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There was even, in the middle of the square, a fountain to swim in when the weather was hot. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was in the middle of the forest and she had no idea where the path was. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large wooden coffee table rested in the middle of everyone. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Down the middle of the valley ran a stream with marshy paddocks on either side. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to tell in the middle of the snapping, crackling, and popping from all sides. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Them frogs ought to be right here, right in the middle of the room with a piece of bunting on it and a sign that says, ‘Welcome Home, Doc.’” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold up my pendant to the sky, centering the dwarf sun in the middle of the obsidian. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He once torched a whole squadron of fighter jets on an empty airfield in the middle of the night and has on two occasions grounded airships by crippling their engines. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

While we were in the middle of the clearing, they signaled for us to lie flat, and as soon as we hit the ground, they motioned for us to continue crawling. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But she’s always talking about how brain-dead our school is, and how we have zero spirit and never get involved the way other middle schools do. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They marched into the gymnasium to meet their competition—Quiz Bowl teams from the five other middle schools in the district. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Light pours in from a glass ceiling atrium and down to where we stand, in the middle of an open space decorated with towering indoor vines. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I approached her, leaving the trolley in the middle of the floor, but then she made an impatient gesture, and I saw she wanted me to bring the trolley too. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I staggered back, still holding the sword, and there stood Dustfinger in the middle of the room. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There's a mark in the middle of his forehead from a piece of iron that flew from a machine in a factory. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I could feel the burning in my middle finger from the hand sanitizer I’d applied just before leaving, and so I was pressing the Band-Aid into my middle finger, simultaneously worsening and relieving the pain. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s only been since we started middle school—ever since she got popular—that Savanna’s become less nice than she used to be. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Across the holler, Z was in his own cabin, holding a lantern in the middle of the main room. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

At first it edged by inches, but it drifted more swiftly as it reached the middle of the stream. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She eased up the front steps, avoiding the squeaky middle one, and crouched on the porch, listening. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a platform, but it seemed like it was plopped in the middle of nowhere. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We arrived smack dab in the middle of summer, far from the nearest holy day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The junkie wouldn’t take an unmelted ball of foil because too many kids put iron washers in the middle to make it weigh heavier. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of all the darkness, there was a tiny boat. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

He is like a butterfly fluttering on a rock that stands out naked in the middle of a stream. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Lying in his parents’ house, in the middle of the night, she told him the whole story, about meeting Dimitri on a bus, finding his resume in the bin. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That look on his face told me that Needles was the person getting pounded on in the middle of that brawl. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Whose could it be out here in the middle of nowhere? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

One young woman lost her footing and nearly fell out of the train in the middle of a toilet break, but fortunately her friends hung on to her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He saw a red fox and a large black cat, with a white collar and paws, who sat conversing together in the middle of the path. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

A prominent leader of this elite black middle class was even quoted in a Johannesburg daily as saying that he didn’t believe many blacks wanted one person, one vote in South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When things were slow we’d wander back and forth between the container and the wall, talking and hanging out with the other people with nothing to do in the middle of the day. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t eaten in the cafeteria since the middle of sophomore year. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He sat in the middle of the seat, holding the repaired flower upright in his fist, his eyes serene and ineffable. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its black leather covering warms to my body, and I cry myself to sleep, right in the middle of the morning. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Robb was in the middle of it, shouting commands with the best of them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was out of shape, and was clearly tired by the middle of the third game. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t even want to hide from them for the rest of middle school. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Losing her was like being cleft down the middle. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the puffy cloud, there is a cluster of black round seeds like pepper. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I part my hair down the middle and make sure that it is straight and flat. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her face marked her as being of middle years, dotted with freckles and pox scars. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cannonballs are stacked in pyramids, and there in the middle sits the cannon, impossibly heavy—the copper planks beneath it buckle from its weight. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The whole place was boarded shut and taped up, but nothing could stop me from being there in the middle of it. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I cross my middle finger over my index finger—the sign for R—and tap it three times lightly against my lips. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

This camp is in the middle of nowhere, remember that. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A day was nothing, not a thing to remember—it was just sun coming up, sun going down, some light in the middle. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I squat and wrap an arm around the middle of Moonie. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He pulled himself into the van and took the middle seat. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mary Lincoln and Lincoln’s slumped body are in the upper middle. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He called me touchy just because I’d drawn an eraser line down the middle of the table we shared and asked that he not cross it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

One day when I was riding with him he said: “Richard, would you like to see this horse drink water out of the middle of the river?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped once, in the middle of the street, to say only “Don’t abuse my hospitality!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I never want to go back to middle school. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The golden Cornucopia sits in the middle of a green meadow with patches of gorgeous flowers. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I set my hair free from the Twiggy bun, part it in the middle, and let it hang loose. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My sister is very pretty and mean to boys and she is in the middle. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Just to the middle of the block, then we’re good,” she said, reaching into her pocket. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Someone had swept the floor, and the beer bottles and cigarette butts were piled high in the middle next to the broom leaning against the back of a chair. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Other times he would stop in the middle of a conversation and make me repeat everything said in the last few minutes, word for word. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And his white shirt and black pants looked like they’d decided to meet in the middle at gray. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He stood in the middle of the street when our cars pulled away on that sunny afternoon. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And the minister, Pastor Johnson, dressed in an oversize suit, a gold chain with a gold cross lying perfectly in the middle of his fat satin tie. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had a rough scarred face, the kind of man who would be most himself in the middle of a pack of loud men, eating peppery meat, drinking beer, and watching Arsenal. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was dark, yet it looked safe, like when you pull the covers over your head in the middle of the night. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He was impressively strong, if a bit thick around the middle. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Mother, it’s the middle of the night—” “What're you doing in my house? Get out of my house!” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He waved me over to join them in the middle of the key. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She strokes one hand down from the top of his shoulder to the middle of his back. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“She could go to your house for a few days in the middle of her stay. I expect Jean would like that.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put the key in the heart-shaped hole in the middle of the mechanical man’s back. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Through it all, one thing was constant: a factory job that was his ticket to the middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In the front half, the half where I was now, there was a circular stove, with a broad rack on top, that stood in the middle of the floor. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, there are the other ones, like me, who are in the middle. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Very conscientiously, he parted the canes and clipped one in the middle, holding the shears at a careful slant, taking care not to injure a larger cane adjacent to it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He left the room before Meggie could ask what kind of visitor, for goodness sake, turned up in the middle of the night? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I took the finals in the middle of June and came away from them sick with despair. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The librarian won’t let you take the Physicians’ Desk Reference home even if you hide it in the middle of thirty-two books. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of his chest, right on the breastbone, a furious red horseshoe was indented in the skin. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

On the scorched middle ground of Korea, however, Blake discovered the gray zone, where even hardened loyalties were tested and new alliances forged. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“What would I do with a leather boot in a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific? Do you think I go for hikes in my spare time?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo forgot that she was in the middle of an intense game of hide-and-seek, and instead watched the hotteok lady making fried gooey sweet pancakes. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

There’s a single light bulb in the middle of the ceiling, with a paper lantern around it, giving the room a warm glow. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He powered through the Lightning defenders and worked the ball back toward the middle of the field before blasting a shot that hit the right post and bounced in: 1-1. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It could even happen in his father’s lap in the middle of winter, when the shotgun had been locked away for months. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Among the many scapegoats chosen were elderly women living alone, who were charged with witchcraft: Kepler’s mother was carried away in the middle of the night in a laundry chest. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped up to the rock again, and lightly touched with his staff the silver star in the middle beneath the sign of the anvil. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

‘The most ancient temples to the gods, in the middle of Athens. That’s where Gaia will wake.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Puddles send water up my legs as my feet crash into the middle of them. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Cockroaches who sometimes land on us in the middle of the night. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He stood in the middle of the floor, looking at the walls. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She even sports it at the middle school she goes to. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Dribbling to the middle, gliding like a black eagle. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

But there must be some middle step when people disagree, before they try to rip each other apart. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Who could forget a death ride to Red Hook with thirty other eight-year-olds in the middle of summer?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

That was in the middle of math class, while I was staring out the window as the class checked the homework I hadn’t done. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was golden, gently waving to the middle of her back. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I ran my middle finger along the edge, softening the harsh line. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Robbie, Benny, and I got on one side with me in the middle, and Mr. Ray and the other two guys took the other side. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He stood in the middle of the road, looked one way, then the other. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I am in a city called Normal, which is in the middle of Illinois, Dad.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Even in the middle of summer, though it was so hot my face would sweat. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“It took everything I had not to jump up in the middle of that class full of children and —” He stopped abruptly, looking away. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I don't even sit down on the giant leather couch that wraps around the whole living room where a wide chandelier hangs from the middle of the high ceiling. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A quick move at the top of the key, drive through the middle, leap, leap, twist, and jam the ball through the hoop. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I recovered, Dad picked me up and heaved me back into the middle of the Hot Pot. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

An engine rumbled and a truck appeared in the middle distance. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

As he ran through the open space, Alec—still clutching those rifles—made a beeline for the middle of the clearing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The cook was in the middle of the room, and three sleep-haggard girls stood in the doorway. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In second place was the boat that had been second best all fall—the boat with big Stub McMillin in the middle and Roger Morris in the bow. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And if that wasn’t bad enough, when they set her down, they deposited her in the middle of an anthill, which started an ant stampede. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in the middle of the night before the Ceremony, Jonas would secretly leave his dwelling. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

She cries in the middle of the night, too. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

More than once, the young lady called her mother in the middle of the night in pain, and the pair rushed to the emergency room. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Luke stopped in the middle of pulling the attic door shut behind him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

From his position on the second log, the top of the third came almost to the middle of his chest. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

"This was right in the middle of the war. The US army had taken Baghdad, but things were really dangerous." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“It was funny. I could not believe the army would show it. The entire audience was in the middle of the war taking casualties every day.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The next day, a student brought in an empty Sparklet’s water jug and set it in the middle of the classroom. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the last cookie, an inspiration came to her. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I look at the two long tables in the middle with the bowling alley tops. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

They ran down the middle of the road, dodging pedestrians and bicyclists and rickshaw men. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

My friends and I were standing in the middle of the junkyard, mountains of scrap metal stretched out in every direction. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Seconds later Harry’s lungs expanded gratefully and he opened his eyes: They were now standing in the middle of a familiar small and shabby square. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Hey, was that you slamming doors in the middle of the night?” she asked him in the kitchen the next morning. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The middle head snarled at us, then barked so loud my eyeballs rattled. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Right now, if I came to my mother’s hut in the middle of the night and I wanted my mom to identify me, I would make this sound: Harumph. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pulse turned into a pound and Moss closed his eyes, then pressed into them with the thumb and middle finger of his right hand. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Over the summer, Audrey and I started sitting on opposite ends of the couch, our feet meeting in the middle. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Another bad move is to go climbing a tall metal ladder in the middle of a thunderstorm when lightning is looking for just two kinds of things to strike: tall things and metal things. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her expression was one of utter distaste, as though she were looking at something a dog had done in the middle of the floor. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dottie was standing in her nightgown in the middle of the living room, gazing around with a troubled, quizzical expression. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the middle of a war for survival, given the sheer volume of messages traded back and forth among Soviet embassies and the government in Moscow, making multiple copies must have seemed an insignificant decision. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was called Efifi and was stuck in the middle of a wilderness. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jerked his chin toward Cain, who was in the middle of examining his bulging biceps. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He knew nothing of that silent middle class that struggled between genteel poverty and the impossible desire of emulating the golden canaille to which he himself belonged. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it was best to not be out there in the middle of the day, alone. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The third guy scratched his cheek and gave us a smile made of a row of black teeth, the top middle pair missing. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I grab it, excited to deliver it to Aibileen, but when I open it, I see the middle section has been ripped out. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Roger crouched, ready to tackle me like he was a middle linebacker. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once in the middle of the night Laura woke up and heard the pig squealing. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wear a beard and mustache but shave my cheeks; said beard, having a dark skunk stripe up the middle and white edges, commemorates certain relatives. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

His middle finger stood at attention next to the first. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“What y’all doing out here in the middle of the night?” he asked, blinking at them. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“The day will come, Francie,” she said, “when you’re forty-five and have a shape like a bag of horses’ oats tied in the middle. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the night, I’d had a vision of the window framed in poster board stitched with super-bulky yarn like the edge of a quilting square. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

At night, vodou ceremonies were held around the shady banyan tree that rose from the middle of an open hut. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Britain stops in the middle of putting on his shirt. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I’m standing in the middle of Haley and Semaj’s room wearing my Renegades jersey and holding my Wiffle bat. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think the boys switch places in the middle of the game just to mix us up. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And once in middle school, when Toby’s dad came home from the Deuce smelling like cheap whiskey. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It happened December of freshman year, in the middle of a pep rally. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

A soldier stood in the middle of the road, swinging his gun as they approached, motioning that they go back. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And the fact that we’re raising a niece and nephew, that’s kind of a flag that we weren’t always middle class, just like saying you went to Berea College tells everyone you were poor.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They stood toe to toe in the center of the ring, whacking, slugging, thumping back and forth, flinging sweat, elbows, fists, knees, jab the middle one, hook the middle one. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were out in the middle of the Langer See here. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

By the middle of November I still hadn’t been called on again. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As soon as they were ready, the two knights stationed themselves at each end of the clearing and then advanced to meet in the middle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long the truck left the highway, turned onto a dirt road, and then onto another before it bounced to a stop beside a wooden building set in the middle of flat fields. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The rod in the middle helps, on account of we hang our belongings and dry towels there, and it kind of divides the room in two. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Er ... no idea . . . ‘middle of middle’... could I have the last bit again?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go get our room assignments,” said Mrs. Yunghans, the middle school librarian. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

What a shame so much land went to waste in the middle of the city, but what could one do? The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The women are supposed to wave palm leaves and chase the flames in toward the middle until all the trapped animals inside get completely nerve-racked and jump out through the fire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she would wake me up in the middle of the night. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure it would have been a very big deal if it had been a real, sanctioned game. But they supposedly played in the middle of the night at one of the high school courts.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

By half time Ben had scored twenty-one points and was in the middle of the best game of his life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told me that Nolan broke up with Miri in the middle of the cafeteria. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The doctor stopped with a jerk in the middle of his sentence. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

In the cabin in the middle of the holler lived a sixty-year-old man and his wife. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My name is Ixtali,” the beautiful young woman said as she rowed us out toward the middle of the quiet lake. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And I had started to climb over the middle seats to tell them that much when Chubs lurched forward, throwing Liam onto his back without touching him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We find our seats: 18A, B, and C. I slide toward the window, my mother in the middle, and my father in the aisle seat. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Later, in the middle of Mr. Fabian’s textbook voice reading about historical monuments in Washington, DC, Jax shouts, “It’s snowing harder!” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe the only cool thing I did in middle school was fight my way into the boys’ soccer games. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the commander was not prepared to risk a computer crash in the middle of an alert, and so doused his cigar in the coffee cup of a passing gremlin. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Francie woke up in the middle of the night wondering what had taken her out of her sleep. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sits right in the middle of it, head on his paws. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a small treasure in the middle of the day. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But something about the street bothered Mac as soon as he saw it: we were in the center of Cape Town in the middle of the day, and yet the street was empty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was still dressed in her bank clothes and her purse and keys were in the middle of the table. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the cell was an arrangement of sand and pebbles in the shape of a cross for my mother. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, that would be the escape hatch. We’ll find the main hole nearer the middle of the bush.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the river the current eased and the boat shot straight ahead. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A clock in the schoolroom struck nine; Miss Miller left her circle, and standing in the middle of the room, cried— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

After my mother leaves, we wake in the middle of the night calling out for her. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mama would kill me if she knew I was headed to a boy’s house in the middle of the night. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Children kick their feet rapidly in the middle of the circle touching soles with the others. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

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

Old and new are mixing together like oil and water, and I’m stuck here in the middle of it all. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Tony knew Wes had just finished elementary school and asked him what he was doing to get ready for the start of middle school at Chinquapin, pronounced “Chicken Pen” by all of its students. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Bigger stiffened as Jan walked to the middle of the floor and stood facing him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the old man hugged Mr. Dursley around the middle and walked off. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Quickly, four other families clamber onto the truck and fill up the empty space in the middle. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to be real careful, even if it was the middle of the night, even if I was crouching down, sneaking along the street like Pretty Boy Floyd. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was only one middle school, one high school, one biggish grocery store, and one run-down city pool, but about one million beauty parlors and churches. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It was the winter of 1975, the streets were icy, and on his way to Lawrence’s house, Rogers’s taxi was hit by another car in the middle of an intersection. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A bottle of Barbancourt rum was in the middle of the table. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Harry pointed his wand into the middle of it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Several heads snap up as the heavy door latches shut behind me, as I hurry to my seat in the middle of the room. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We were in the middle of lunch, so everyone crowded round to go “urgh!” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “It’s a kind of cake. It has four pink and yellow squares in the middle and it has marzipan icing round the edge.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A beige case with a lock and handle and a thick, dark stripe down the middle. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

They’d stayed as close to the center of the building as possible, in the structure’s middle corridors, to protect themselves from the sun’s ruthless radiation. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Those Halloween dances were the best thing about middle school. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She realized that there could be only one thing worse than being in the middle of this horror. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the third day, the owner informed me that Denna had left in the middle of the night, taking all her things and leaving her bill unpaid. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I had to crawl over Brian and sit in the middle because he and Lori had already staked out the window seats. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Moss watched as he began to look through them, then pulled out a set of papers from the middle of the stack. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Something bad is going to happen, soon. You’re going to end up in the middle of it. You should be more careful.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the battle, Will Solace ran up to him and said one word in his ear: ‘Octavian.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I probably shouldn’t follow a guy I only kind of know down a dark road in the middle of the night. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The touchdown came on a perfect pass from Winchell, who, rolling to his right and under pressure, threw off-balance to the middle of the end zone and hit Hill with a bull’s-eye. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark and middle of the night, I stumbled into Ma’s bedroom and crawled into her bed next to her. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the courtyard, a full-grown elephant—could that be Frank?—rampaged around the flagpoles, scattering Roman warriors. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The middle 60 percent were the B group, those who were doing “satisfactorily.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I wondered if that public defender was going to tell everyone how Mr. Griswald smacked Digger in the eye, too, the night before our Valentine dance in middle school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It had broken in the middle when he forced open the bolt. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Like Halley’s private life, the European world was in turmoil in the middle of the 1680s. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She stopped dead in the middle of the yard, groaning. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Instead of the sidewalk, the Jackboots marched us down the middle of the streets. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

It hit him right in the middle of his forehead, and as he cried out I picked up another rock. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The middle hinge came off the back door. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We came into Gorizia in the middle of the next day. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I never took my eyes off that shell. I knew it was in the middle,” Ned said. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She goes right on, talking about their firstborn son, and how they never made it to the hospital—they had Khalid right there in the car, in the middle of the road. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“With the white ring around the middle. If you throw them over your left shoulder and make a wish, it’s sure to come true.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

On the left was an American colonel; on the right, another soldier looked away, his face obscured; and in the middle stood a Soviet officer, whose face had been cut out of the photograph. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was the middle of the afternoon, but the village seemed to be asleep, the boats bobbing in the harbor, the streets and pavements empty. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Charlie and I were separated by the plethora of new people we’d never met before who went to the other middle school. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then he saw a red button right in the middle. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“And when she says ‘during,’” Kaisha added, “she literally means that in the middle of it, he stopped and told her it was disrespectful to wear anything on your head during the Pledge.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the middle he replaced the roll with a fresh one. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Since my first name is only one syllable, she has to throw my middle name in there to break it down. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The curate looked no different than the strangers he practiced on every day—and for a moment, he felt himself out on the lawn in the middle of a killcraft exercise. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene went first, which put me in the middle and Styx on the end. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tyson^ looked nervous, but he went to stand in the middle of the Council, and Zeus grunted. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Uncle Shepsel stood in the middle of the room and raised his hands and shouted to the ceiling, “This is it! It’s over! This is it!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A middle manager, she was sure, from his boxy suit and contrast collar. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Natalie had to get up earlier, because middle school started before elementary school. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the middle of his reverie, Macon was interrupted by rapid tapping on the window. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The only person in some run-down park in the middle of San Diego. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A scrawny cow, looking like a pile of bones, was slumped down in the middle of the courtyard. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

But what it feels like instead is that the dual boulders that rest on top of my shoulders have lodged themselves in the middle of my throat instead. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t look to me like you do. And I have a middling name, too.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I grew up with men sneaking up on me in the middle of the night.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I love pizza, meaning: Even when I’m in the middle of eating pizza, I wish I were eating pizza, but I wouldn’t jump on Dad’s train even if Michelangelo were on it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Clarence Monteith had a heart attack right in the middle of the closing ritual and before supper. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His brow crunched up in the middle, and his cheeks were a deep beet color, sweat pouring down his face. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“They dumped us into the middle of the woods with nothing but a wristwatch and told us to find our way out,” Dri said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up in the middle of a Led Zeppelin drum solo, and my dad was sitting on the beat-up old couch about 8 feet in front of my bass drum. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ice stood with me in the middle of the floor as our teams warmed up. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

They began packing on Saturday morning, loaded the truck in the middle of the night, and made three trips back and forth from Richton Park. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm just standing there in the middle of the room because I don't know what he wants me to do. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I stuck my middle finger up—the way Dusty did when he was mad at someone. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Then it became a habit, and by the middle of February, frindle was just a word, like door or tree or hat. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the middle of that happy moment, I had a tiny seed of a thought that I hurried to push out of my mind before it had time to grow. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I bent in the middle, holding my stomach. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hop to a rooftop, spread out to opposite ends and sweep each chimney until they met up in the middle, jump a dactyl to the next block and start it all again. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I gagged, swallowed, feeling the fluid course slowly to my vague middle. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Into the middle of all this commotion clomped my little sister, Merry, wearing Mama’s high heels and a red slip that pooled around her feet. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Stephanie told me I shouldn’t have said those things, but I didn’t get it. I thought, This is middle school. People are mean all the time.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Waves of it poured down the stairs located smack in the middle of the hallway. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Edward was pulled out of the garbage by his ears, dropped, and then picked up again, this time around the middle, and shaken back and forth with a great deal of ferocity. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Finally, finally, finally, in the middle of December, we drove down to New York City in my father’s new pickup, my father, my mother, and me. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Buddy stopped for a breath, the way you do in the middle of climbing something very steep. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He was in the middle of one of those dreams when he finally awoke, he said. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Like all hogans, there was a fire in the middle of the red sand floor with an opening to the night directly above. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She’d all but forgotten the mural, and the sight arrested her: six dead gods, crudely blue and dripping red, and her father in the middle: hero, liberator, butcher. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, she says, “So—in elementary and middle school, I was the only Native person in my neighborhood. But that changed when I got to high school.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“So why in heaven’s name are you screaming in the middle of the night, waking everybody up?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Directly ahead of them, in the middle of the straits, an island had shimmered into existence. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“What about her middle? Lin Nai-Nai says there’s something wrong with her middle.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The redheaded girl sits back, unsure, as the host begins shaking his head in the middle of her response. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A black toilet seat, worn through to wood in some places, is set in the middle of a rough-hewn bench. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When he saw the big pumpkin in the middle, he knew immediately that that would be the best pumpkin to eat. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

King Lords in gray bandanas and Garden Disciples in green bandanas stand on a police car in the middle of the street, chanting, “Justice for Khalil!” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I thought ‘Mr. Britling’ a very good study of the English middle- class soul.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A long embrace in the middle of this fancy lobby is probably inappropriate; people are staring. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

At the end of the summer vacation he went to the seventh grade at the middle school, while I was in the sixth grade at the grammar school. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

An innocent teenager in the middle of God’s green hell with no telephone, and not on speaking terms with her parents? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait, he didn’t say anything about middle child syndrome, did he?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the middle of winter I usually did not go; there was no heat and it was too cold to sit there. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In a heartbeat, her arms were around his middle, and she slammed into him so hard that the breath was knocked from her chest. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Coming up from the basement, Kyle saw Andrew Peckleman in the middle of the Rotunda Reading Room, opening a long metal box sitting on top of the center desk. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“You never told me why you were out here in the middle of the night,” said Finn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’m sure that if he were planted down in the middle of the desert, in half an hour he would have gathered together a supper of roast meat, dates, and wine. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was such a long shot that all three of us would be accepted, especially when almost no one else from our middle school was. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I was. It was more a passing hobby in middle school and high school. But I’m not going to have time for all that. I have a real career to focus on, you know?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Nor could she push it through, since it was embedded in the middle of his body. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“She is the girl in the middle,” I said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

With her in the middle, Kim and I huddle closely on either side of her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk over to the area where people are trying on shoes and Kay stops in the middle of the aisle. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Upper-middle- class Americans live longer and in better health than middle- class Americans, who live longer and better than those at the bottom. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Grace, skipping in the middle, turns around, touches the driveway, kicks up one foot sedately, smiling her little smile. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He frequently paced the length of the gym, wrote so often in his notebook that he had to get a new one, and would occasionally start his sentences in the middle of a thought. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In the middle of each plot stood a hut made of mud or cement. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moments later, Mandela broke free again up the middle of the field. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Bernadette is the middle school secretary and one of my mother’s friends. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The note lay on the floor in the middle of us and we stared at the four words, each one capitalized. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Helpfully, the middle C key had a full corner missing, a wedge about the size of my fingernail, which got me centered every time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

What was I doing on this road in the middle of the night? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She takes the folder and spreads it open on the coffee table in the middle of the room. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Dad tapped Mum’s shoulder and when she looked up at him, he kissed her on the middle of her forehead. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk down the middle of the road. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Vincent led them down to the left, stopped in the middle of nowhere, rocks and small trees, said to Chamberlain, “All right, I place you here.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other bunk was in the middle, on the bottom, where I knew it would be dark at night and without a corner to protect my back. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Even when she was in elementary and middle school, she always chose computers as her choice of centers while all the other more popular girls seemed to cluster together in art or reading. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A peculiar pocket of stillness in the middle of all that color and bustle. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

There’s a bench in the middle, and Abby’s sitting on it sideways with her legs tucked up. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Every bedroom was empty except for the smell of gasoline and a small crackling fire set directly in the middle of each bed, as if a demented Girl Scout had been camping there. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Things went from bad to worse at the beginning of the school year because my brother and sister were both in high school and I was stuck in that yawning chasm of nothingness, middle school. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s bad enough my clothes don’t match with the latest fads, but wearing high-waters is considered social suicide in middle school. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They stood in the middle of the room, guns in their hands, with looks of utter stupefaction on their faces. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Basta pushed aside two women who were kneeling in the middle of the nave cleaning the floor and strode toward the altar steps. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He rarely showed up when a particular movie was about to begin, so he’d seen beginnings, finales, and middles of dozens of movies, but hardly any in their entirety. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A man just turned shambler in the middle of Baltimore County and nobody cares how it happened?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He sounded as if there was absolutely nothing remarkable about the fact that they were prowling around in someone else’s garden in the middle of the night. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

A San Francisco middle school must have a very rigid idea of acceptable clothes if James had taken her question so seriously. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the village a deep hole was dug. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The door opened to the middle of the room. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

So we piled in around him, and he stuck his hand in the middle. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After just a couple weeks in Rochester, I began another weird new adventure: middle school in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Which is so much harder and bigger and better than anything middle school has to offer. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She entered in a rush, and swept to the middle of the floor where the girl sat, hunched and stiff, ready to resist to the last. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The old lady in the middle took out a huge pair of scissors—gold and silver, long-bladed, like shears. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“There is only a little rice left in the basket,” said the old man, seating himself at the table in the middle room and stirring with his chopsticks the thick yellow gruel. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I pulled the Dancing Fan to the middle of the room and then propped my suitcase against it to hold it in place. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When I woke in the middle of the night to find the room full of ghosts, the reassuring sound of her soft breathing sent them away. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was right in the middle of a front tuck, and I started toppling. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Something had happened, deep in the middle of the night. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

A nursing student pulls her up, she leaves her conga aside and starts wiggling her big butt in the middle of the circle—we yell out encouragement. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

But how could they know, they’ve never been in the middle of a war . . . or so I thought. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m not gonna faint in the middle of the road and wave a white handkerchief!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He passed the pool room and then stopped in the middle of the street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Overnight we went from being a family desperately trying to stay in the middle class to one with hopes of sneaking into the upper, or at least the upper-middle. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

El Genius thought it looked classy for DeLeon to be spelled as one word, with a capital letter in the middle. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the console there was a viewing screen. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Poor ol’ Matt,” Ben said, twirling the basketball on his middle finger. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are in the middle of our summer because the air is hotter and drier now. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a half-eaten cinnamon bun and a bottle of water left from our pit stop in the middle of the trip. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In peacetime, heat like that would have shut down the office, but in the middle of a war, they had to carry on. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He peered around the corner in time to see Diana step into the yearbook office in the middle of the hallway. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Jam leaned against Pet’s torso and rested her head against the goldfeathered curves of its shoulder, two unseen things in the middle of Lucille. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It must have been 9:00 when I was sitting in the middle of Central Park, alone, no one near me, no other bench occupied. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The war was not a long way from where we were; we were in the middle of it, and it was deeply within us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tract 14,” he said, which was in the middle of the rich Burbank field. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Knitting supplies were mixed with quilting supplies, a scissors display was smack in the middle of a rack of corduroy, and the aisles turned and twisted rather than running in straight lines. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Freshman year is so close to middle school; there’s a huge possibility I said or did something extremely stupid. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I turned to ask Mom but she was in the middle of refreshing her red lipstick, and when Dr. Mertz appeared from his office door she quickly hopped up. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Never going to happen,” Jessie said, flicking the remains of her chocolate croissant at Allegra and hitting her right in the middle of the forehead. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Whatever the reason, I didn’t notice the car until I was in the middle of the road. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Instead, she robbed him and left him stranded in the middle of the desert. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I had seldom felt so exasperated—to have to go home in the middle of this unfolding drama. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

More recently, Benny was the boy who helped her find her locker and walked her to classes on the first day of middle school. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He ate, smoked, went to bed, sometimes came back in the middle of the night for a brief and, of late, quite rough session of coupling. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

And she said, “That is the hottest middle name ever!” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

No one came and burned someone’s house down in the middle of the night if that person was white. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Coach, with the key ring now on his middle finger, spun the keys like cowboys do with their guns on the old movies Mr. Charles was always watching. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

For Axel’s special bowl of pasta, and digs the serving spoon deep into the middle of the bowl. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He stands in the middle of the small, spare room in his underwear. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But the thing about being a Yellow Shank is this: once you move into the middle of the picture, you’re that much closer to the dark woods. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was a scrubbed wooden table and chairs in the middle, and Harry sat down on the edge of his seat, looking around. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I was in the middle of it all, falling, screaming, crying and hacking away at every opportunity. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had gone in the middle of the night and my father was still there with her. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was built exactly like the inside of a ranch, only in the middle of a New York apartment house. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Madam’s linen chest, the one that she had fussed about when we arrived, was in the middle of the library floor, the top thrown open. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I read somewhere that they need to close one middle school this year. Tear down the building...” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose the school board figured that if Mrs. Sidman could pick up two huge rats by the scruff of their necks and carry them through the halls, she could certainly handle middle schoolers. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but they don’t taste funny,” I bragged, breaking the cookie down the middle. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Joanna carried her baby into the house not caring that the carriage stood in the middle of the sidewalk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the seven racing lanes in the middle of the river remained clear and open water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Phorcys stopped in the middle of the tunnel and spread his arms proudly. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, they have,” said Lyra, “and it is. And we’re here in the middle of it.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quinton brought me into his room that night after Mama fell asleep, and we had the first of our thousands of talks lying in the middle of his bedroom floor. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the floor were Miss Wren and Miss Peregrine. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I made it very snappy on the phone because I was afraid my parents would barge in on me right in the middle of it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“What’s a bike messenger with visions doing in the middle of Nowhere, New Hampshire?” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I would use the ejector for steam and oil so those gauges would swing back and forth but come back to the middle. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran naked into the middle room and began to dress. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dumbstruck, I watch Emmett wander, zigzag down the middle of the street. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I’m in the middle of a story about our cute math teacher when Sonia reaches out and touches my hair, which hangs loose to my waist. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What you doing here in the middle of the night?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Black eyes, black hair almost over his eyes, a little less than middle for height, a little less than middle for weight, sort of middle for everything else. already know.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

When it was hot in the middle of the day, they moved deeper into the forest belt, toward the lake. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the dirt floor there was a large, fairly deep hole covered over with loose boards. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story really began in the middle Sixties, the period of the great purges in which the original leaders of the Revolution were wiped out once and for all. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She made a little joke about it—how she kept her mother in the middle of the living room because she didn’t want her to think she was missing anything when people came to visit. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I place them in the oven and heat them at 350 degrees for thirty-five minutes until they’re crispy on the outside and soft in the middle. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

These puny trees were growing right out of little patches of dirt in the middle of concrete. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I been in mad fights before—with Diego and random kids in school or at the park—but I’d never seen somebody smile right in the middle of one. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We hate when they fight because we always get stuck in the middle of their wars. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go back and look at that table sort of thing in the middle of the room.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the middle was a picnic table piled high with food from all the different trucks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

On Sunday, in the middle of page ninety-two of my new book, the doorbell rings unexpectedly. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I drag one of the target dummies out into the middle of the room and, using some chinning bars, hang it so it dangles by the neck. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a mirage, Khalid told me once—like the mirages you see way out in the middle of a desert, but instead, they shimmer over the cracked pavement and potholes of our little town. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He throws back the comforter and the extra blanket he’d placed on top of it in the middle of the night. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The giant hands squeezed me around the middle, lifting me into the air. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

A group of factionless has already gathered outside, in the middle of Michigan Avenue. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He gripped his wand tightly again and took up his position in the middle of the classroom. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even climb past the middle of the trunk. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Chess helped Finn up into the SUV, into the middle row of seats again. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The cloth tent had been set on the flatlands in the middle of a field near the railroad tracks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere near the middle of the morning a square white truck came into the driveway. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Later, he would describe it as a one-legged fat man wearing a stiletto heel standing on the middle of his chest. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it is a memory in the middle of the day as I stir iced tea or wait for soup to heat. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

One day—but “one day” was not the right expression; just as probably it was in the middle of the night: once—he fell into a strange, blissful reverie. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the night on April 22, 1956, American agents guarding the Berlin Tunnel warehouse observed movement on the street located just above the tap site, in the Soviet sector. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A large crack runs through the middle of it, and there are streaks of lighter rock near the edges. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

His eye stopped for a moment on a little pile of hairpins in the middle of the floor. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the night, they dropped hundreds of leaflets at the University of Munich. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of one of the tests, a loud bell began to ring and kept ringing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the floor was a small mess. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Across the middle of the cake, in yellow frosting, something was written. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She stepped on, set Chestnutt down in the middle, then raised an eyebrow. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We pull in for the night at a small motel in the middle of nowhere. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Chucha is locking up the garage and hosing down the driveway, which seems a strange thing to be doing in the middle of the night. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Once, after he’d caught Louie wiggling through a window in the middle of the night, he delivered a kick to the rear so forceful that it lifted Louie off the floor. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that it was right on the other side of the hill from a highway, it felt like it was in the middle of nowhere. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Dr. K sits cross-legged on the rug in the middle of the roof. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Three other gateways, one in the middle of each wall, led north, east, and west. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A table, covered in carved wooden bowls and handfuls of branches, stood in the middle of the room. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The middle layer was singed and burned clean through in places. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood in the middle of the field waiting for the two teams, her broom in her hand. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Atanabi had us take our positions behind the curtains: Ximena in the middle, me on the left, Summer on the right. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

In the middle of all this, proudly displayed on the side of the spectator’s wall, was something that made no sense to me—a green banner with the trident of Poseidon in the center. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I grit my teeth, heft Hector the Neglected higher onto my hip, and walk into the middle of the road. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The living room sat empty, with a big ghost of furniture crowded in the middle, and whenever I passed by, I imagined the severed television huddled somewhere in the scrum. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She’s only at school two or three times a week because we share her with the other two middle schools in the district, so I didn’t think she’d have a clue about the sports schedules. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Although they were old stairs, the worn moons in the middle of each step were not very deep. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the one they thought rode hyenas in the middle of the night. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And let’s face it, middle school students aren’t the politest people on the planet. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The old man was right where they’d left him, in the middle of the food truck parking lot. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

By the time we met in the middle, I was wearing a smile as wide as the gorge, and I said, “Did you fax it to him?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two tables were set up in the middle of the room with twenty-four bottles of cold Coors beer on each one. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of sixth grade, Mrs. Wexler pulled all the Frequent Flyers together in her little office. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Banks, more confident about measuring risk, now extend credit to low- income families, so that owning a home or driving a new car is no longer evidence that someone is middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It was my older brother’s, when he was in middle school. I helped him make it for a costume contest. See, I drew the mustache.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I just didn’t really want to go into all that standing in the middle of the bodega. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Most people find it disconcerting being woken in the middle of the night and dragged off for questioning, but I simply could not take it seriously. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

At some point deep in the middle of the night I broke—she did not, but I did. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

His eyes were fixed on a particular spot in the middle of the “jungle.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Now twenty-eight, he may never reach the middle class, he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I stood in the middle of a drunken crowd and I called 911 because I needed help. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

They formed themselves into a pair of wings, lifting me and carrying me away over Tent City and setting me down next to my Torito who lay in the middle of a lush-green alfalfa field. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She withdraws her big emerald ring from the apron pocket and puts it on her middle finger. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“But what if we have soccer practice?” asked Ruby, in the middle of a plié. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

There was a table in the middle of the floor, under a lightbulb that hung from a wire. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sit them right in the middle of the kitchen table. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He lifted one of the crisp bills, creased it in the middle so that it made an angle, and then he scratched a match under his desk and lighted the bill. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

An old wooden table filled the middle of the room. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Goocheys had a greengrocer’s shop in the middle of the High Street, and the family lived above the shop. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bomb had landed in the middle of the camp, near the Appelplatz, the assembly point, but had not exploded. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the creek, I brought the oars inside the boat and let the boat drift. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

They remain aloof from the modern temptation that captivates many in America’s middle class: the temptation to relieve the anonymity of public life by trying to make it intimate. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We think the transition to middle school is hard enough without having to place greater burdens or hardships on these young, impressionable minds. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The rise of a middle class - and a growing, wage-earning working class, as London’s industry expanded - was to have a greater effect on changing musical tastes in Britain than the whims of aristocratic patrons. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And anyways, who would be crazy enough to pick up three group-home-looking kids in the middle of the night? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

His girlfriend and Dan follow the neuroscientist’s gaze to a group of three people standing nearby in the middle of the packed room. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At once there was ah enormous mulberry growing in the middle, of the courtyard, with its luscious blue fruits ready to patter down. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can buy fresh tomatoes in the middle of the winter, flown in from Israel or Holland or Mexico. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When I laid my foot on the middle cross bench, its hardness had an invigorating effect on me, as if I had just stepped on solid ground. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The music cuts out in the middle of it fading, and there’s a brief silence before every single person in the auditorium claps. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The interesting thing about Thanksgiving this year was that it fell almost right in the middle of Ramadan, so we’d be breaking our fast and having Thanksgiving dinner all at the same time. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It may be because I have not budged from my spot, so I’m still standing in the middle of the crowd, and my translator horn is not being amplified. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up, blowing fine Whfll spray across the raft Then the stars came out We stayed in the middle of the raft, side by side, as it drifted aimlessly over the sea. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its beak stabbed at him fiercely, and Bran felt a sudden blinding pain in the middle of his forehead, be-tween his eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore moved carefully into the middle of the room, scrutinizing the wreckage at his feet. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I feel like a funny-looking rock in the middle of the most beautiful clear ocean when I read the kinds of things you write to me. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I felt like it was safe, I sat in the middle of the board, and it wobbled in a way that felt like bouncing. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once I see what’s on it, I have to force myself to keep my feet moving so I don’t collapse in the middle of the hospital corridor. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I thought of our beloved, big old house and how sad it looked in the middle of the yellow dried-out lawn. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the blades, a round brass boss proclaimed in curly script, Chicago’s Finest Wind Machine. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We just stayed in the front and sat at an old card table they had set up in the middle of the living room. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

As August wore on, the square of unkempt grass in the middle of Grimmauld Place shriveled in the sun until it was brittle and brown. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

This beautiful Mission-style chest was started by Devon for his Eagle Scout project—his voice stops for a moment—and then finished and donated to our middle school by his beloved father. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here I am,” he sang loudly, “In the middle of a terrifying wood. Trada-la!” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The front was completely covered with hundreds of oranges, except for one blue one in the middle. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the summer Moses the raven suddenly reappeared on the farm, after an absence of several years. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Zack bounds down the steps of the bus, thrilled to be in middle school at last. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Nobody peeked their head in the door to see if I was absent or sick or maybe having a convulsion in the middle of the floor. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Then, as the sun reached the middle of the sky, Hosteen Mitchell stood up. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were about to march into the middle of an enemy army. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Now it’s you, too. Drinking too much. Wandering around drunk in the middle of the day. Rolling down the road to ruin.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I stayed in the middle of the road. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

All my friends back home had their first kisses in middle school. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I do not believe he knows that middle schools and even grade schools now compete in the Relays. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Doctors had done a small operation just after I was born to remove the tumor that split the middle of my face and caused my facial deformities. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It’s wooden and has dark blue curtains because the middle school colors are blue and white. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the middle of the night, I was awakened by something choking me, as if two steel claws had locked themselves around my throat. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was exactly like a man in early middle age, tall, powerful, and commanding. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It wasn't strange to see him pretending to crawl up the lockers, or for him to perform tactical movements like barrel rolls in the middle of the hallway. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

On this show there is a man who talks in a raspy voice and another one who says “Pickle in the middle and the mustard on top.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle stage of a grueling distance race, Seabiscuit had broken the half-mile world record by two seconds, the equivalent of more than thirteen lengths. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shouted, standing in the middle of the bedroom. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our middle grades’ entry,” Mrs. Grayson continued, “was written by Carolyn Malone. She wrote about the loss of her baby sister. Her essay is very brave.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Even from the middle of the river I could see the plane trees marching up the Bund in their white socks. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another I was drowning again, this time in the middle of an ocean as the water raged around me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Early in the afternoon on the first day of summer, I found myself sitting in the middle of a bright green pasture. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Father was poised to go on with the story when suddenly Tata Ndu stood right straight up, cutting him off in the middle of hammering home his message. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all stared at the middle of the table like something dead with feet had just turned up there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In three paces he was at the middle of the boat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dell woke in the middle of the night. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She picked up the book and opened it to the middle and read a single sentence. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Besides, he couldn’t go taking us out of school in the middle of the year. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jason climbed the stairs to the middle deck. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It’s the middle of a workday, and he never takes sick days. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She running in the yard and get to the pink pot in the middle and pull up the lid. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“No, but I keep him in my closet in case I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep,” I said. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The symbol that is also drawn on the middle of his spine. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

His attention filled the hole in the middle of me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And how their noses curved around a little bump in the middle, just like mine. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I have a feeling that could be Traft Martin’s middle name.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

My dad slowed down on Water Street and we both checked out the brown and yellow Century 21 sign planted firmly in the middle of the biggest lawn on the street. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I set myself against the rolled-up edge of the tarpaulin in the middle of the boat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m up before my sisters and in the middle of my book, a highlighter and pencil in hand, just like Papi taught me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Last, he rummaged through the supplies until he found a candle to place in the middle of the low table. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When the bell rang the fighters came out of their comers and took a stance in the middle like they were going to box. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Their children were grown up and gone, they were both entering middle age, and yet their sex wasn’t all that bad either. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The middle one rummaged in her pouch for a long cigarette stub to smoke. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left her standing in the middle of the kitchen floor, exactly as he had found her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lance does not show me his middle finger. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She ran stupidly, down the middle of the street, ignoring the shadows. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

They wore fine dresses, though the one in the middle—the raven-haired one—wore the finest. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The way she says “Seurat” is funny—it’s like she starts gargling in the middle of it. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I took off my coat and sat in a place at the middle of the table, with my back to the fireplace. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tall woman with short hair and a wrinkly smile stands in the middle of the gym holding a clipboard. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“One side a sheer cliff, the other side a thicket of brambles with no way through, and in the middle a big fallen tree. You had to have noticed it.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Long and narrow they were, with a dark sleepy look in them, and in the middle of that dark sleepiness a wakeful light glittered like a jewel. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The tree grew taller and thicker, until only the Titan’s face was visible in the middle of the trunk. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I remember men in ski masks taking me in the middle of the night, my parents screaming, and the sound of my father being beaten. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After spending all her life at Towac, she didn’t need to be wasting her time there, in the middle of nowhere, some place worse than the reservation she had left. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We then rolled each pile into the middle of a piece of oilcloth, tucked the ends of the cloth over, and tied the bundle with plenty of wire twisted with fishing line. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed to take forever, but finally the helicopter thudded to a landing in the middle of Fifth Avenue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The shame of the dream lasted until the middle of the day. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mariam stood in the middle of the living room, looking around. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He ran fingertips over his bony cheeks, over lines around his eyes that looked like those of a man of middle age. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The floor is covered with mats, rugs and scraps of carpet, in the middle of which sits a woman surrounded with papers and documents. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, trying to sound somewhere in the middle. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Ishmael kept to the middle of the group, swimming and keeping low, breast- stroking, and tried to think of himself as a dead marine floating harmlessly in Betio’s lagoon, a corpse borne by the current. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Standing there, in the middle of the floor, in front of everyone, I lift my hands and reach for the ceiling, the sky, the stars. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He agreed with all those who said middle schoolers need extra sleep to grow and develop. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Angular nose, wide middle that narrowed into an aerodynamic tail. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I shout, stopping in the middle of the sidewalk. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel her lips on my forehead and then she runs into the middle of the street. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Those memories come in the middle of the night, when I'm trying to sleep. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was in the middle of that happy reunion when a whole series of tweets from Carlotta began coming through. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At once the bricks began to whirl and spin: A hole appeared in the middle of them, which grew wider and wider, finally forming an archway onto the narrow cobbled street that was Diagon Alley. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A fire trench had been dug down the middle of the earthen floor, with a row of smokeholes in the roof above. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When she was younger, before she went to middle school and her arms seemed to grow longer in the night, she knew the easy latitude and longitude of her world. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was that same year, in the middle of the summer, that a woman covered in a sky blue burqa knocked on the front gates one morning. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My dad parked in the middle of the road. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the square there was a heavy stone with an anvil on it, and a fine new sword was stuck through the anvil. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m hoping that in the middle of her dozing off, she’ll do me a solid and give me a good score. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We left a slight hole in the middle and that’s where we spilled the buckets of guts. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There, in the middle of the small crowd, against the bright blue sky, a big red umbrella opened up. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She chose a little boy to stand in the middle. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Bill Gates, who started off squarely in the upper middle class, made a fortune without finishing college, drawing three aces. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Both of the car’s other passengers gasped as their seat belts locked over their chests, but I had nothing holding me back from flying between the two middle seats. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Less than a month later, in the middle of January, some of the monkeys in Room C began dying with bloody noses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like a huge barn out on a farm in the middle of nowhere. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Luckily, it sits right in the middle of everything. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

While physicists in the middle decades of the twentieth-century were looking perplexedly into the world of the very small, astronomers were finding no less arresting an incompleteness of understanding in the universe at large. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I evidently dozed off at some point, because Mama came and woke me up in the middle of the night. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

A small jagged piece of plastic, black, with a bit of silver in the middle. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In the middle of watching my second episode of Kids Bake Challenge!, From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

So when I took time out of my busy schedule and burdensome duties to attend a middle school basketball game, I expected to see orderly students, good sportsmanship, and happy alumni. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Why do you have a suitcase? It’s the middle of the night. And it’s snowing!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My mother would stop right in the middle of doing something inside the house and walk out the door. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She would stand in the middle and they would tell her how pretty she was, how lucky she was to have naturally curly hair, and what a sweet, quiet girl she was. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cleared these things to one side and laid the cigar down in the middle of the dressing-table. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were well toward middle age when Caesar destroyed the Roman republic in the process of saving it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overall, 1 percent described themselves as upper class, 15 percent as upper middle class, 42 percent as middle, 35 percent as working, and 7 percent as lower. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I'm in the middle of a good people-watching spot, on a busy block of fancy stores. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The fountain featured a life-size statue of Mr. Lemoncello standing on a lily pad in the middle of a shallow reflecting pool ten feet wide. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

It was the middle of December, a week before winter break, when it all got really ugly. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Both veterans were now standing in the middle of the pavement, letting people with pushchairs move round them, waiting for us to put up a challenge. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why? And who was that kid with the puppy who just wandered up in the middle of it? How did he know Charlie Sheen?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was a charcoal grill in the middle of the garden, the big round kind that looked like a miniature red Starbase. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A cat got into the stadium and ran through the crowd and out onto the pitch in the middle of the game. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was a tall, sallow man of middle age. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once enough Eeople had crowded around, Nicolas proceeded to remove all is clothes and, naked as a baby, lie down in the middle of the street with his arms stretched out, making a cross. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing in the middle of the room was not exactly a table. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

But here he was, smack in the middle of it. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Myers is one of only two men who teach in the whole middle school. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

In the middle of my circle, I made a tight spiral pattern that spread into a wide band to join the circle’s edge. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

After the older girls leave, the group huddles together in the middle of the room, facing the walls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I came to a few conclusions about the middle school experience: Clothing was very important. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Bailey notes his place in the middle of an article that is comparing the interplay of light and shadow in a particular tent to Indonesian puppet theater before putting the book down. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One December afternoon when An Yi and I came home from a walk, we saw a big crowd gathered in the middle of our alley. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d drift off in the middle of conversations; whole lessons went by with me not knowing what was going on. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, blacks tend to be first-generation middle class, as in Whitiker’s case, which means they have fewer resources to draw upon as they navigate the middle-class world. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was a few steps below; Ugwu could see the bald patch on the middle of his head. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Harry, Ron, and Hermione stood alone, in the middle of the corridor, as silence fell among the mass of students pressing forward to see the grisly sight. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The hands of the Masks reached out to him from all sides and carried him to the chair in the middle of the room. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the arena floor, with its back to me, was the biggest hellhound I’d ever seen. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was now getting dark, and so they carried the great pumpkin down to one of the fields and placed it in the middle. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They were skirting the well in the middle of the square, trying to give the cow monsters some distance, when Hazel stumbled on a loose piece of cobblestone. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As they were running toward the bam, Arya spied the crying girl sitting in the middle of the chaos, surrounded by smoke and slaughter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe if I played that hard middle section, just me in the band room, playing a solo, Ms. Fender would hear it and reconsider sending me to the back row. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She taps her pen rapidly on her desk and asks, “Are you familiar with middle child syndrome?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She strikes tinkling notes at the top of the keyboard and then ones in the middle. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Then he moves the three guns on the floor, around and around, until my eyes can't follow the middle gun anymore. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They rode the subway out to Coney Island and found that hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers had beaten them there, fleeing the stifling heat of Manhattan even in the middle of the workweek. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then the even more important cat was let out of the bag: since the middle of the summer Rosy had had evidence for a new three-dimensional form of DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The cow-boys were galloping off down the road in the direction they had come from, leaving the cattle and the wagon standing in the middle of the field. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a step forward, and a seam appeared in the middle of the waterfall. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Nor did she understand the attitude of the armed forces, most of whom came from the middle and working class and had traditionally been closer to the left than to the far right. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reyna herself was only now getting used to it, and she was pretty sure the statue did not appreciate being relocated in the middle of an ancient Roman city. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Luckily for me, it was the middle of the day, so the train was pretty empty. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then, there was a single screech, and the terrible beating of wings, and the crow swooped down and landed in the middle of his back. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Only, in the long years which bring women to the middle of life, a sense of balance develops. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It being February, we were in the middle of basketball season. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She stopped as they stepped out of the hallway and into the quad, the massive room in the middle of campus where the lockers were located. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They built a small fire in the stone-lined pit in the middle of the clearing, and they boiled water for tea. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Multiplying the average by the number of Tododahos, the two researchers estimated that the alliance was probably founded in the middle of the twelfth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I start to get up, and that’s when I see Jace standing right in the middle of it all, laughing with the rest of them. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

After perhaps four hours, his right arm aching with the effort, she at last lightened; the water was a shallow puddle in the middle of the cabin floor. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The class talked about her like they knew her, like they knew what she went through while she was in the middle of the war. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Once more I advanced and started stamping on the middle bench with my foot. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Scalapino took the jar and placed it on top of a desk in the middle of the classroom so everyone could see it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And right in the middle of her thought, Cal’s dark face hung in the air in front of her and his lips were smiling with cruelty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I try to push my diaphragm down, my middle hurts and my legs begin to tremble. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As I approached, their heads snapped around like I was a magnet, and the god in the middle raised his head and glared at me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Behind him, the tiles were light blue with tiny seashells set in the middle. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He poked me quite hard in the middle of my chest. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

On the right a road went down to Osgiliath and the bridges of the Anduin; in the middle the road went on southwards. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“She could have conked out on the road in the middle of the night.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Pushed her foot to the brake, right there in the middle of Argyle Road. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A tree with broad brown leaves grew from the middle of what looked like a well, circled with the same stones that lined the ground. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The filing cabinet in Dad’s office was locked, but I found the key right away, in the middle drawer of his desk. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Will made his way through the middle of it, brandishing the knife, remembering how the Specters had fled from it before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Without thinking I grabbed the harpoon in the middle like I was a javelin thrower. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I hated feeling like a concrete block in the middle of the night. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That meant the middle day of the month. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He’s cut off mid-sentence because Alex has stopped in the middle of the corridor and yanked him backward into a kiss. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He starts on the crust of his toast—he ate the middle first, just like he used to when we were little. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when I got tired from a long trek to another valley, I could make a drink in the middle of the day. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I blink away tears and sit down on the ground, right in the middle of the lobby. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

More phone calls eventually followed, however, often in the middle of the night, and they also started a pen pal correspondence. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Our car was a tin can on wheels, and we lived in the middle of nowhere. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It always seemed to catch me right in the middle of something engrossing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right in the middle of downtown Cincinnati, we walked with our heads held high, acting as proud as could be. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Jim Weinraub says that when he slept over at Russell's once, they sneaked down to the basement in the middle of the night and looked at a dead woman. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to the middle of one of those rays, at a tiny, faint dot. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Placing them in the middle of another blanket and tying its corners together, I make a big bundle to balance on my head. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were cruising Main Street one morning, passing the Grand movie theater, when Piper McNab came screaming down the middle of the empty street. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben swung his body toward the priest and the middle of the altar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that time of day, during the middle of the week, word-of-mouth news just lumbered along. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

My chest rises and falls, which is the only way I know I’m still breathing and standing here in the middle of my room. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

We are in middle school, and she’s putting us in a time-out. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Petey dumped the moped in the middle of the drive and stomped over. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

His wife, Lili, was squatting in the middle of their one-room home, spreading cornmeal mush on banana leaves for their supper. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Looking at it, you see right away that the biggest problem is the massive chunk of clay in the middle of the face that’s not supposed to be there. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And now, she was showing the same disdain for them that the middle class might have felt for her in her other life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Chris picked up the hunk of meat and took a big bite right out the middle of it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The foresail was ripped down the middle, and the ship listed badly to starboard. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was too shocked to wonder how Grover had gotten here by himself in the middle of the night. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle, framed in gold like the photos but much larger, hung a portrait of Capricorn. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In lower school, every class would get its own picture taken with its own teacher, but in middle school, it’s just one group picture of the entire fifth grade. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

For the next eight months he worked in Zizmo’s rum-running operation, observing its odd hours, getting up in the middle of the night and having dinner at dawn. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A large, middle- aged Negro woman sat in front of us to the left, a young Negro man occupied the seat in front of us to the right. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We been here since the middle of November. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Somehow an archaeologist’s wife ended up with this huge stone eye in her bedroom, and in the middle of the night it exploded and a big cat started biting the archaeologist’s wife’s neck. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was in the middle foreground, walking apparently self-detached from the crowd, her arms down at her sides. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Singer sat at the middle table three times a day. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We were always doing the skedaddle, usually in the middle of the night. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Florence and she had met at work in the middle of the summer, a year after Richard’s death. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

But now is the middle of the night. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

And the whole time, Winn-Dixie was standing right in the middle of everybody, wagging his tail so hard that I thought for sure he would knock Miss Franny right off her high heels. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

An argument ensued and in the middle of it, one of the African secretaries turned to me and said, “Sir, can you speak English?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s late afternoon and stormy outside the Residence, and he’s on his back in the middle of the Solarium, catching up on drafts for work. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She put her bouquet in a glass in the middle of the footstool and set out four little cups and saucers. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw him and that red cap, and Martin’s right hand was raised high, his middle finger a sign of defiance in a sea of anticipation. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was a tall bonfire in the middle of town, and smaller ones outside the houses where people would be giving cider to the weary workers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later they walked up their hill and down the other side, ending up in the middle of a stretch of shops and restaurants. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Miyax shaded her eyes; her wolves were barking from points around a huge circle and she was in the middle. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He actually voted to stay, even though his throat wobbled in the middle, and he went outside right after and disappeared down the road. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The crack on the back of the ukulele had been neatly mended with sticking plaster and the round hole in the middle was covered by a piece of wood. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to be on my way to the moon, instead of fooling around in the middle of an empty jungle. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, middle school is like this endless horror show. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Byrd latches the door behind as Axel pulls the chain in the middle of the room for some light. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I don’t really remember much of what happened after that except that my older brother came to Mr. Vaughn’s office in my middle school and told me to stop crying. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The ball tipped over toward the middle of the rim slightly, which gave it a little speed. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the mess is an old, faded greeting card propped up next to a teddy bear. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

We came to the middle of the bridge. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He jiggles his marker in his fingers and mumbles words that rhyme with “middle,” and somehow that leads him to bring his pen down on Vienna. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It’s this cluster of boulders in the middle of the west woods that, if you look at it just the right way, looks like a huge fist sticking out of the ground. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“In the middle of what we just got done with? Maybe not. Might’ve been something besides a Berg, anyway.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Still she kept trying, first lifting on the middle of the door, then on one corner, then another, straining every muscle. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

All three women knew, with sinking hearts, that they were going to run out of fuel in the middle of the Siberian wilderness. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Here, they’re in the middle of nowhere with a signal that blazes five fiery bars on her phone. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I’m going to let him go. I’m not going to save him...and then eat him. That’s like one of those horror movies that comes on in the middle of the night.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Alone in the middle of the pumpkin field, the great elephant lay on his side. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“He’s mad!” said Harry, staring at Krum’s dark head as it bobbed out into the middle of the lake. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Only their middle names, which perforce became their given names, were their own. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pay her? For what? To live in this hole in the middle of nowhere?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Ben stood in the middle of the road, listening to the sound of their footsteps. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They inched over to the craggy overhang and, standing side by side, with Babi in the middle, gazed down on the valley. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You let them go, right here near the airport, in the middle of all these crowds of people?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Last night we had another little scare: we were in the middle of dinner when suddenly someone knocked on the wall next door. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She flicked her eyes to the other Champions, who were all in the middle of sparring. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We found ourselves in the middle of a circular chamber with eight tunnels leading out, and no idea how we’d gotten there. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the room five display cases form a pentagon. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, I would be demoted to middle child. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But even stranger, the view outside was of the middle of the day. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

My dad had said, “That’s what you think?” and clutched my mom by the wrist, sending her into a small spin in the middle of the kitchen. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She handed him a glass, sat down, and folded her hands across her middle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side it was not dark as midnight, but rather bright as sunshine in the middle of winter: blinding, dazzling on the snow. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder where that road is in the middle of all this wilderness. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He drove his boys hard, but he wasn’t about to let a boatload of them drown in the middle of Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Especially in middle school, whenever I felt a little lost or discouraged, she was there for me, knowing what I needed without my having to say it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A tablet might contain, say, two hash marks, a box, a circle with a cross in the middle, an asterisk-like shape, and an arrangement of three triangles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The priest stopped right in the middle of the prayer and extended his right arm in the direction of my mother, who then started speaking in tongues. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘One time in the middle of a play-off game I had to splint a quarterback’s leg with nothing but tree branches and strapping tape.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her dress was flowery, and a little apron with pockets was tied around her middle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now I see Mom's shadow stop in the middle of the room. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A short way on either side of our village the road falls into a frenzy of hard dirt ruts that look like ocean waves frozen solid in the middle of a tempest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowdy was our star quarterback and kicker and middle linebacker, and I was the loser water boy, and we lost to Reardan by the score of 45-0. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes drop, sweeping past my breasts, landing with confusion somewhere in the middle of me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was the middle of the Cold War, and the Soviet Union opportunistically filled the void we left by providing money, supplies, and technical support to the new government. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

One of these games was to stand in a circle, while the junior ganders, one after another, walked into the middle of it with their heads stretched out, pretending to hiss. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a seat in the middle of the row and started making her way to it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He picked up every dish and jug and bottle they had, looked into ’em, shook ’em, then tossed ’em into the middle of the floor so’s they shattered. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He had returned a sweater and got drunk in the middle of the day instead. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I think so...It’s just...it’s middle school, Mom. I’m trying to figure things out.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“A’ight, I got a few of the brothers from the church to help us out. That makes six of us. Three on each side. Put young blood in the middle. Should be smooth.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He’d been going on like this since the day before, throwing out one theory after another about how horseflies could end up in the middle of the ocean. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Analyzing her past when she had reached middle age, she decided that the main reason was her fear of her father. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though he seemed like a mild-mannered man, more like a middle- aged storekeeper than a Marine, I also saw what he looked like when he was angry. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shows me how to make a spotlight in the middle of the stage. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

‘This is the middle of London. It’s called Hyde Park. I know exactly where we are.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family sat frozen in the dining room, as if they were in the middle of a nightmare. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His neck connected to the middle chest like normal, but he had two more chests, one to either side, connected at the shoulders, with a few inches in between. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe it would have been different if the coaches had let him start at middle linebacker his junior year. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I actually tried playing basketball in middle school. Loved it. Still do.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“This is a reminder that you can be middle class but in a very unstable situation.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He placed it in the middle of a paddock where his cattle had been three days ear- Her. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Don Berto was in the middle of the living room, dressed in a clean white shirt buttoned all the way up. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was a rough map, showing the garden, the big stone near the middle, and the way the furrows made by the plow would curve around it, rather like waves around a boat. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I know what I’m supposed to do to solve the equations; somehow I just manage to get all mixed-up in the middle. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

We don’t say nothing about it, just watch it gleam in the middle of the church. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

In the middle of my junior year, I went to Miss Katona, the high school guidance counselor, to ask for the names of colleges in New York. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, I hung out around Red Witch Bridge in the middle of the night, but that was in the cover of the trees with an urban legend and a baseball bat as weapons. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I believe him because he simply sits there and lets his eyes grow round and black in the middle of all that yellow. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She’s been around for a few months, but you don’t really know her because you don’t come to the Bean Bar as much as you did in middle school. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

After the verdict, he walked out of the courtroom in the middle of the day, walked home, and took a steaming bath. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The eldest daughter and the middle sister have been living with the king all this time. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

After I quit, Ms. Hawkins told me that I had until the middle of October to choose a different club, and that it would have to be approved by her. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

When I wake up it’s the middle of the night. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The railroad bridge downriver had a draw section in the middle that was raised up. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But most immigrants then were Europeans, and though they spoke different languages, their Caucasian features helped them blend into New York’s middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

If I try to run off in the middle of the night, I don’t know what will happen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Even though it was the middle of the summer, and I had a sweatshirt on, it was still pretty cold. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It reminded her of something she had felt once, but the memory eluded her, like an itch in the middle of her back that she couldn’t quite reach. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The landing strip at Kasane was waterlogged and we came in at a drier strip several miles away in the middle of the bush. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a lone voice of encouragement: the middle school teacher who gave him a gold star. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

One large, calf-brown eye, right in the middle of his forehead, with thick lashes and big tears trickling down his cheeks on either side. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The penguins began to drill very nicely, wheeling and changing their formations with great precision, until Mrs. Popper stopped playing in the middle of the piece. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I decide to talk to her about it later, when we’re not in the middle of a ritualistic ceremony. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I got as close to the mirror as possible and picked at the only pimple I had, which was right in the middle of my forehead. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She moved into the middle of the path in front of him. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he asked why she was in bed in the middle of the day she told him she was bored. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I had no father at graduations, milestones, my wedding. “I lost out on a whole relationship in high school, middle school, college, without a father.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nurse Cramer was there in the middle suddenly like a spinning policeman, trying desperately to restore order, dissolving helplessly into tears when she failed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was right in the middle in almost every respect. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

How he lit up when he realized I was gay too, even though I was in the middle of telling him about my breakup. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The middle of the lake was a whirlpool clutching and flinging him to the depths. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

When they met in the middle, James asked, “Have you read ‘The Black Cat’ yet? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Like the train we took in the middle of the night, this one is also pretty empty, maybe a dozen people. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He would have to look instead for flanker Robert Brown over the middle. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But finally I told myself that I had to stop being scared, I had to stop just standing there in the middle of the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the middle of the Botany examination it comes to me, like a sudden epileptic fit, that I’m not going to be a biologist, as I have thought. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A haint could sit in a theater seat, turning the room frigid even in the middle of summer, and simply watch. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“He’s in the middle of a school project and can’t be interrupted. Perhaps later? Or I could show him your research.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“It was smoking when we got home,” said Perilee, slowly stroking her burgeoning middle. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She was standing in the middle of a vast plain in the snow-shimmer night. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

At sunrise, I had gotten up and tugged a comb through my hair, then my best to part it down the middle. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

By the middle of the third week the pain began to fade. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I was in the middle of chores, I’d learned enough about Montana ways to know I must invite him in. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A chunk of shrapnel the size of a golf ball had lodged in the poncho in the middle of his lower back. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He stared at it briefly, then inserted his four-year-old letter in the middle pages, where the stapling in a manuscript is tightest. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

We kiss right there in the middle of the vintage store, in front of a fitting-room mirror, for all these hipsters to see. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I changed lanes to drive around them, but stopped when I saw a small object lying in the middle of the highway. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

That evening in the middle of the dog watch, Captain Prince took his departure from Cape Ann. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feet were freezing in the sandals that in my humble opinion no one should have to wear in northern Illinois in the middle of December. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Soon they were lined up on both sides of the stairs, leaving a clear path up the middle. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I did not put capital letters in the middle of the sentences. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wondering how it is she can show up at my house in the middle of the night and not at the event earlier this evening. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Covered in brown, leathery skin, it stood taller than his middle finger. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Were we two objects in motion, hurtling through space, and then an external force—middle school, volleyball, life?—hit us? The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

There was a bunch of girls hanging around on the first floor, and Manny was in the middle of them. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water dripped somewhere, and Celaena looked longingly at the middle archway as she approached the crossroads. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Flanking John Becker were more female faces—brown faces, peering out from the middle distance. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The temperature drops in the middle of the night, when you are asleep.' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Nathan woke in the middle of the night, shocked that he wasn’t in his own bedroom. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The last horse he rode came to a halt right in the middle of his race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m outside my body, watching the chaos unfold as if I’m not in the middle of it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She came storming home in the middle of the morning and herded Abby upstairs. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Billy had committed himself in the middle of his final year at the Ilium School of Optometry. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyler has the middle name Jacob to honor the memory of my grandfathers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

If I die in the middle of a coughing spell like I just had, I need to be able to detach from the horror, I need to say, ‘This is my moment.’ Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His doublet was divided down the middle; the left side was purple velvet with bronze studs; the right, yellow wool embroidered in green floral patterns. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’m in the middle of a page and I see your face on it—not blurred like those in my past, but clear and alive. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The most famous Greek statue of all time. It was forty feet tall, covered in ivory and gold. It stood in the middle of the Parthenon in Athens.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As I’m sitting here in my cell, middle of the night, trying to write so nobody can see or hear me, I don’t know how to think about all that. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I said, ‘We’re on a raft in the middle of the sea!” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We broke for lunch in the middle of the game and I sat and chatted with Frank. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In the middle of that valley was a glittering blue lake, with three small islands like a vacation resort in the Bahamas. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then, realizing I was in the middle of a conversation, he looked at Love and said awkwardly, “Oh, excuse me for interrupting.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They lag behind the middle-class kids by only a modest amount, and, in fact, in one year, second grade, they learn more than the middle- or upper-class kids. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The arms were divided down the middle; on one side was the crowned stag of the royal House, on the other the lion of Lannister. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Bodega had had a beautiful row of five newly renovated tenements and now the middle one looked like a missing tooth in a pretty woman’s smile. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I stood precariously in the middle of the room, trying to find somewhere to look and something to say, wanting desperately to leave and powerless to do so. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I was half in love with that kid for most of middle school. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Our hands dive into the middle of the table, grabbing fistfuls. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I catch him slipping out the door in the middle of the night, I follow. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When Baba was six, a thief walked into my grandfather’s house in the middle of the night. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She stops walking, standing in the middle of the ballroom. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They play in the middle of the front line. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ball was loose in the middle of the floor. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

You should imagine yourself walking through the verse, he said, stopping at the chiasmus, the middle line: He knows that which is in front of them and that which is behind them. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Come on, what are we, in middle school? The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You lucky he didn’t die in the middle of talking to you,” Trey says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Its boards were warped beyond hope, and its roof slumped in the middle like a fallen pudding—and there wasn’t a house in Phippsburg where she’d rather live. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The dead lay in a row in the middle of the Hall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

At first, they tried to salvage the essence of their first model, placing the phosphate backbone in the middle, and the bases projecting out to the sides. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Each vase was placed carefully on three seashells set in a triangle atop one of the clay shelves, in a position near the middle of the kiln where Min determined it would fire best. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Merlyn stood in the middle, holding his umbrella high because of the owl. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Mr. Samsa," called out the middle lodger to the father, and pointed his index finger, without uttering a further word, at Gregor as he was moving slowly forward. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even the kids who have been here a while, well, middle school is a brand-new ball game for everyone. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The dead man’s hand was propped back on the headrest of my seat, holding a crisp, neatly folded twenty dollar bill between the index and middle fingers. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I slunk down on the middle of my spine, my nose level with the rim of the window, and watched the houses of outer Boston glide by. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then, in the middle of the map, comes the nose. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was all I could do to sit down and squeeze my shoulders together toward the middle of my chest. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the semidark I stare up at the blind plaster eye in the middle of the ceiling, which stares back down at me, even though it can’t see. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I vaguely recognize a couple; the rest must have gone to the other middle school. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Closer you get to the coasts,” Clarence whispered, pointing east, west, and then north, “the more water’s left that can be drunk. The middle grounds?” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I'm in the middle of a bunch of craters that form a triangle. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nsukka is a little patch of dust in the middle of the bush, the cheapest land they could get to build the university on,” Kainene said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“He has to sing to her. A whole song. In the middle of the Bean Bar. In his underwear.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He walked slowly into the middle of the clearing and looked steadily at the skull that gleamed as white as ever the conch had done and seemed to jeer at him cynically. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mark took a moment to get his bearings, then got up and felt his way to the end of the cot toward the middle aisle of the room. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be in the middle any more than I am,” Harriett says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The dog, still yelping, was circling the girls, who huddled together in the middle of the room. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The splitting-up of the world into three great superstates was an event which could be and indeed was foreseen before the middle of the twentieth century. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It's easy enough to find directions on a map, but I had very little knowledge of directions when I was smack in the middle of somewhere. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the night, I am abducted by crewmen I don’t know and taken to clean the cannon. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a large, curved shard of glass rocking in the middle of the street. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was little sound out in the middle of the river, except for Moch’s chanting, the rattle of oars in oarlocks, their own deep rhythmic breathing, and their pulses pounding in their ears. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ali called for me to come over to the middle, where the DJ was set up and where parts of our cities had been moved. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I still had one more year at Maplewood Middle School, and sometimes I couldn’t help but wish I could skip the last year of middle school. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But Charlie and Zooey stood in the middle of the kitchen, smiling and smiling, waiting for someone to congratulate them or tell them they were ruining their lives. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Redheaded Gawaine lost his temper when sent on an embassy and killed a man in the middle of the negotiations. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, it was usually packed with students from a dozen different elementary, middle, and high schools. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

So the first thing the morpho software did was take each side of your fece and double it, like holding a mirror right down the middle, creating two examples of perfect symmetry. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Watching her adjust the straps of her bikini top, I want to tell her I know how it feels to be split down the middle, too. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nora sits in a seat in the middle of the bus, and Oliver sits across from her. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It wouldn’t be middle school without big, bad Marcus Vega patrolling around.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The figure teetered wildly in the dim light, and then sprang forward to land in a horrible threatening crouch, right in the middle of Egypt. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whereupon Amarante Cordova, shining in a triumphal light, pirouetted clumsily in the middle of the plaza area to acknowledge the attention and admiration of any other onlookers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her back is arched with fatigue and sorrow, and she clutches Luke Messenger’s shorts around her middle. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I had been in the middle of a pep talk with the foil fencers, but I turned my back on them to deal with my sister. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“All right, Greenie,” Alby said, looking much better as he sat in the middle of the semicircle of chairs, next to Newt. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the night I awoke. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And twenty points from Slytherin! Wandering around in the middle of the night, how dare you —” “You don’t understand, Professor. Harry Potter’s coming — he’s got a dragon!” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The worst for me was the painful aikido grip where you placed your thumb between victim’s pointer finger and middle finger, grabbed his thumb, and twisted his hand up under his armpit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coyote had probably been hit by a car on the highway and then limped out here into the middle of the wash to lie down and die. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as he spoke, one of the monkeys leaped into the middle of the road, causing Mr. Kapasi to brake suddenly. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I don’t know the name of the prisoner who dies in the middle of the night. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having crisscrossed the floor, they progressed to the middle terraces, but the results were equally disappointing. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Here, in the middle of myth and the Bridge of Forgetting, the landscape was different. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I ready myself to leave a breezy message, but a breathless female voice answers in the middle of the fifth ring. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The driver was a middle pretty, radiating confidence and authority. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The marker is straight ahead—a wooden stake poking up out of the ground in the middle of a pile of stones, no wider or higher than a pitcher’s mound. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They even had to send a special van to the middle school just to get me and this girl named Annette Watson, who’s the backup piano player. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like I’m sneaking out in the middle of the night and running away from home. I just want to go to Twig’s for a couple hours.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Not even Stick had ever dared leave in the middle of one of Father’s demonstrations. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But driving off like that in the middle of the night didn’t make sense. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The bedcovers were in a tangle, and there was a greasy spot in the middle of the pillowcase. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent adds diagonal threads from the corners to create an X through the middle, so it looks like the Union Jack British flag, or a six-pointed asterisk. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She came into my room while I was in the middle of reading Johnny Tremaine. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I am in the middle of the stack. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

On the third day, I found myself in the middle of a thick forest, standing beneath huge trees whose leaves and branches made it difficult to see the sky. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“This w as the middle of the day, during the week, wasn’t it? Why did you think your husband would be at home? Had you called to find out?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you didn’t include Oliver because he was a boy, that left Hyacinth taking the true middle spot, fending for herself in a household of loud, strong-willed, attention-grabbing siblings. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But before you disparage it, you have to taste just how hungry these kids are to escape the lower end of the middle class and move up. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He rips one of Jude and me down the middle, cuts me right out of it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Here, take a bite. Just be careful with the seed in the middle.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I did not park the minivan so much as I stopped it in the middle of the parking lot and jumped out. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were huddled together like a circle of mushrooms after a rainstorm and hand sewing a big quilt with huge sunflower stars in the middle. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

More deaths come, more telephone calls starde them in the middle of the night, more letters arrive in the mailbox informing them of aunts and uncles no longer with them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the middle of February, nearly 3,400 demonstrators had been arrested, filling up the jails and several prison work camps in the area. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

We find our seats in the auditorium, which is pretty incredible—way better than the cafetorium at my old middle school. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the second time, I got a little caught up in him. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Sitting on its back, my legs hang to the middle of its stomach. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its roof beams sagged in the middle, its shingles clung loosely, and the chimney pipe swayed with each wave, trying to be jaunty but not very good at it. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Finally, in his despair, as the entire room started to spin around him, he fell onto the middle of the large table. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she walked over to the middle of the room where Frankie had shoved back a few desks to clear a space on the floor for dumping anything useful they found. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

‘There!’ he said, pointing with his staff to the middle of the floor. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I dip the ends of her hair into the silvery pot of color and spread the color upward toward the middle. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Behind them the spires of New Pretty Town rose from the center of town, and around them was the greenbelt, a swath of forest that separated the middle and the late pretties from the youngsters. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Even here, even in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The stage has no curtains, but the ropes that used to open them still hang from their pulleys, swaying and ghostlike in the middle of the stage. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She’s standing frozen in the middle of the revel, looking lost, as faeries swarm around her, swinging their partners in dizzying spirals. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Some shook their heads north and south, some shook their heads east and west There were others who, in the middle of our presentations, simply pointed us to the door. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if that’s the kind of place this is—where dissent can be expressed in public, in the middle of a normal conversation, instead of in secret spaces, with hushed voices. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He felt as if he were marching down the middle of a broad boulevard with crowds of people cheering from the sidewalks. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Plus, Sunny had already opened the back door on my side, and I just wasn't into sitting in the middle. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Back then, more than five years earlier, the capital city was mired in corruption, with crumbling roads and buildings, slums in the middle of the city. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“This is your floor. There are four classrooms up here, all fifth grade, two on each side of the hall with the bathrooms right in the middle.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The man mountain stopped, right in the middle of the squad. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Up in the bleachers Darryl popped straight up in the middle of the crowd. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I scanned the crowd of students pouring out of the middle school building and quickly spotted Jeremy. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I had woken in the middle of the night and imagined I saw the German standing above me in the dark. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When did middle schools eliminate weekly spelling bees? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

With a handful of horsemen he came in the middle morning, riding as escort to a line of wains. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then she tentatively puts her ear to the wall, I suppose figuring it would be easier to hear them that way than by standing in the middle of a silent room. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She was in the middle of dropping runs when she stepped from her office out onto the flats to gaze up at the front-side galleries. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our house in the middle along with what’s left of the orchard. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I accidentally bend the card, forming a crease down the middle as I read and reread these three sentences. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Quill is her middle name, and she goes by that instead because witches get all weird and starstruck if they figure out who she is,” Valley said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

My family lives on a third-floor apartment in the middle of Phnom Penh, so I am used to the traffic and the noise. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, he walked out into the middle of the clearing, and looked briefly around. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The hallway seemed longer than usual, and even though it was the middle of the afternoon, it felt like midnight. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The mute still sat by himself at the middle table. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I was driving my truck and it was raining. I didn’t see him standing in the middle of the road. I couldn’t stop. I couldn’t.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I could maybe find some mad scientist to cryogenically freeze me, but chances are I’d die in the middle of that wacky experiment. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He would have personally punted me out of the van, preferably at a high speed, in the middle of a deserted highway. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He shoves a ball of clay right in the middle of the face you’ve made. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was the middle of Christmas shopping when everyone was in town. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Your daddy called me when you took your first step," Uncle Tony, peeling the paper from his cupcake, explained in the middle of an I-remember-when session. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was wonderful to see, wonderful to be in the middle of: we mud frogs awakening all around. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He set him down in the middle of the sidewalk. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Ahead of us, something black and skeletal seemed to loom up from the middle of the road. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

How they all had laughed when her stays burst in the middle of meeting with a loud pop! Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Janny Scott took as her map the newfound statistical evidence showing that the upper middle class lived longer and healthier lives than the middle class, which in turn did better than the working class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In the middle sat a big pot of white rice. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Still, race continues to shape the experience of being middle class, sociologists say. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I go back and take the middle passage. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the middle of the week and she has offered to meet him someplace near his office, so he’s told her to come to the building where he works. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I only know that whatever waits in the middle of the square is meant for me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In middle school, kids cast sideways glances at one another; like they’re suspicious of one another. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She always experienced a moment of panic in the middle because she couldn’t swim, but she planted her feet firmly in the coarse sand and struggled on. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We set out, retracing our route like Gram said, until I spotted something shiny in a muddy puddle in the middle of the bumpy farm road. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In middle school she hardly let me spend the night at any friends’ houses, even if she’d met their parents. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Sonny and I follow our moms and Aunt ’Chelle down the middle aisle. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“If you feel like occupying the middle ground at the Third Battle of Manassas. If I were you, I’d keep well out of it.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Genus Homo’s position in the food chain was, until quite recently, solidly in the middle. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spread her blue silk shawl open and laid her things in the middle. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Its three integrated computers and most of its housekeeping functions—for example, its temperature-control system—are localized in its middle. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sooner or later, they were sure to meet, and I would be caught squarely in the middle, up to my ears in muck-water. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the summit of the slope she looked for the last time at the Dust stream, with the clouds and the wind blowing across it and the moon standing firm in the middle. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Finally Toby left the shed and walked to the middle of the yard. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sixth had once been the top grade in elementary school, and was now the bottom grade in middle school. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

They must demonstrate through words and deeds their ability to live by and aspire to the same moral codes as the white middle class, even while they are being discriminated against wrongly. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then I fell down on my knees in the middle of the cell and started crying again. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted to hug the big oaf except he was standing in the middle of killer sheep. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

So here he was, in the middle of the night. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Right there in the middle of Tartarus, Percy grinned. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I stood there in the middle of nothing. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only hard wooden floors and an intricate, diamond-shaped design in the middle of the ceiling. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I hear the screech of the rails as the train slows, which means we must be nearing the middle of the city. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The growing economic power of the South has helped lift evangelical Christians into the middle and upper middle classes, just as earlier generations of Roman Catholics moved up in the mid-twentieth century. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I even get up in the middle of the night and walk down the street just to see if their car is in the driveway. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then their eyes were riveted; a slate-colored pigeon swooped down to the middle of the steel car tracks and began strutting to and fro with ruffled feathers, its fat neck bobbing with regal pride. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was the middle of the night and I still had a big pile of paper to sort through. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It’s the middle of a Monday, and nobody but us is going to the beach. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

On the day Seabiscuit settled in at the Detroit Fair Grounds, Pollard was in North Randall, Ohio, sweltering through August at a middling racetrack called Thistle Down Park, which was wrapping up its summer meeting. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the hole I can see Hector sitting in the middle of the bed, waving my mom’s phone/flashlight around like a strobe light. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then she asks if my mother has a middle name. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Eventually I remember I’m supposed to be in the tub, not standing in the middle of the room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“We’ll join other flocks at a beautiful lake in the middle of a great, sprawling field,” said another goose. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The telephone rang in the middle of the morning. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could think better of it, I tore the article down the middle, cast the pieces to the ground, and stomped on them. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The middle of the yard was cleared and swept for a dance floor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

From the early years of the twentieth century to well past its middle age. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They seemed to be in the middle of an argument. “—told you he was a bum!” the older woman said. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Once, I got up in the middle of the night because I was thirsty, and I saw Mom standing outside Auggie’s room. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Here it was the middle of February and I hadn’t set one fence post or plowed one foot of dirt. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I hated that I was a guy standing there in the middle of a situation like this. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They rode back to the middle of the village. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She was laid out in the middle of the boat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know where it is, but it’s the middle of the night, Ben. And I’m in—” “YESSSH! YOU have to come right now. Right now!” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the middle of our choreography, we split into two groups to make a path for our emcee to walk down and grace the audience with her beauty. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When the fire truck arrives, Saucepan Lynn folds her arms as she looks up at the giant pine tree in the middle of our neighborhood. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Favonius set them down in the middle of the ruins, next to a broken column the size of a redwood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He had good protection and saw Chavez break free down the middle of the field from his tight end position. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a middle ground, giving without opening the wound. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The crisscross metal fence around the apartment we rent sags in the middle from the weather, from the weight of too many kids leaning up against it, from the neglect of the owner. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She could feel Chaol's eyes on her, though, reminding her to keep in the middle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I expect to hear him getting into bed next, but instead he hovers in the middle of the room. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He picks up the middle gun and puts a bullet into the first slot. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The traffic is astonishing, there’s honking and barging, people drive right out to the middle of the intersections and sit there when the light changes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Our air conditioner decided to take its vacation in the middle of August, just like everybody else.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Right before I started middle school, I had a physical. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

There were shanties just as poor in Georgia, on the edge of Atlanta, where black and white divided, and that was smack in the middle of America. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until the middle of the nineteenth century that thinking symbolized the prevailing scientific thought about the human neural network. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“But,” Miles says, “it sucks being one of the only Black kids there. There are, like, four of us total in the whole middle school.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

These last words were more than he could bear, and bursting into the middle of the ring, he strode up to his master’s side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Both boys got on the raft and crouched in the middle like two birds perched on a branch. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been unrolled to just past the middle cross bench. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

After Japan's defeat in 1945, control of the Korean Peninsula split down the middle, at the 38th parallel, a line that cut the nation neatly in half. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The raft settled down in the middle of the landing space with a gentle bump. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The tunnel widened into a huge dark cavern, and in the middle was a chasm the size of a city block. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He has these gigantic eyes that look right through you, especially if he’s in the middle of one of his fantastic everyday lies. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The stove was burning so hot, it felt like the middle of summer in the house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Out into the moonlight where the ground boiled and there stood Mother like a tree rooted motionless in the middle of a storm. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dalio and I continued walking down the middle of the street, but our conversation now turned to the odd interaction we’d just had. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

‘We have to find out what words have those letters in the middle.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now, here I am, staying in a huge Marriott, right in the middle of Times Square! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I never bothered with a calendar, but I heard them saying it was the middle of the month. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh yeah, dances and dodgeball: the two Ds of my middle school nightmares. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Tomahawks were in the middle of a protracted, two-pronged war against rival gangs, the Mongols from Sixteenth Avenue and the Dirty Dozen from Eleventh Avenue. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night he stayed in the middle room. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The lot itself was full of tents, with a large stage in the middle surrounded by lights, two large speakers, and a microphone stand. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Bren and Mop are in the middle of tossing free throws when I get to the court. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There was no free space in the car except for an aisle in the middle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later they walked up their hill and down the other side, ending up in the middle of a stretch of shops and restaurants. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There was a photograph of a colored man being attacked by a white mob in the middle of the street. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Lee read the papers to him to keep him from getting restless, and often in the middle of the reading Adam went to sleep. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lyndon must have been a pretty powerful person to get a man to fix his generator and get a sheriff’s escort in the middle of the night. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Epler was egg-shaped; narrow at the top and bottom, bulging in the middle. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slices we cut off are heaped together in the middle of the floor. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had two high-tech-looking antennas on top—one on the back that looked like a corkscrew, and one in the middle that swiveled. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then suddenly, in the middle of the service, her name was being called. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

My mother arrives in the middle of the night, and sleepily, we pile into her arms and hold tight. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

"Try again, favorite. And give me larger breasts. The size of grapefruits. They always seem to shrivel down by the middle of the month. Also, a creaseless eyelid. Those are trendy now." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

We crossed lines in sand drawn through palmetto scrub, lines down the middle of highways, soup-kitchen lines, lines of worry, souls lined up awaiting the burning tongue of salvation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Paulette nodded, teeth chattering, Stella asked, “What in blazes were you doing in the pond in the middle of the night?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There is a chandelier in the middle of the entrance and a seating area on each side. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

And I definitely didn't have the guts to walk out in the middle of the day. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

On both sides of the sofa, there are armchairs draped in throw blankets and a worn coffee table is in the middle. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Dobby came to visit me in the middle of the night.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Here and there was a cup or basin of polished bronze; and a goblet of plain silver was set by the Captain’s seat in the middle of the inmost table. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There was a round grassless patch in the middle of the lawn, like an island in a green sea, where a thin palm tree stood. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Right in the middle of the aisle, the heritage-but-not-hate-loving cherubs observing her impassively with their lifeless, alabaster eyes. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z