And when the covered wagons set out to cross the continent, friends and relations remaining at home might never hear from the wanderers again. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Jr. asks again and I say I left the present at home and will bring it tomorrow, which I will. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Crouch would have been furious he got off, he would have talked about it at home.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It is getting harder to sleep at home. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you clean, then? There’s plenty to do at home,” she says. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Parthian campaign was in full force, and there were plenty of things to take care of at home. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The birth had taken place at home and, according to Mother, Emily had nearly bled to death before they could get to a hospital. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I ended up pretending I wasn’t feeling well, just so my mother would stay at home and monitor my health with me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mamita and Papito stayed at home, and I went with my good-natured aunt and uncle and cousin, who laughed at everything. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never used a toothbrush and toothpaste before; at home, we used ash to whiten our teeth and toothpicks to clean them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No e-mails, no instant messaging—not only couldn’t we afford a computer at home, but Mamá worried that we didn’t understand how to distinguish our real-life friends from dirty old men. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And as more and more women stopped drinking secretly at home and took to drinking openly in speakeasies, the “speaks,” as they were sometimes called, underwent changes. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Apa, I say, we can look at the papers at home. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t have a color printer at home, but I print a copy in black and white. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Compared to this, the one at home was positively scrawny, but to Shirley, it was special just the same. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I had a jar of tropical coconut scent sitting on my night- stand at home. Why didn’t I bring it?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because the lodgers sometimes also took their evening meal at home in the common living room, the door to the living room stayed shut on many evenings. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Personal calls happened usually at home, at night, when you were dog tired and in need of sleep. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And I was glad she was finally paying attention to what was going on at home. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Now I have only two brothers at home and Mam says her family is disappearing before her very eyes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

So I put on my hijab that day and never asked if I could leave it at home again. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I was freelancing then, working at home, and just keeping up with the few book cover assignments I’d taken on was a major effort. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. They would have succeeded, too, if I’d been at home. I was just lucky.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I could continue on as the picked-on new girl, I could give up on the Parkway and just go back to my toys at home, or I could attempt to earn DeeDee’s respect. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But he soon felt at home in the camp. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Unable to reach him by phone and confined at home because Ernest had the car, she let her imagination magnify “all the horror stories about what excess radiation might do to the men.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Shadow could have been in his bed at home, he thought, in the apartment that he had shared with Laura—in the bed that he had shared with Laura. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And of course the whole conversation was carried on in German, because not only do they speak it at home with their mother, but as their cousin I’m expected to understand it too. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And who, at the same time, as a human being, is far freer in a strange land than he has ever been at home. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s just, uh, things got kinda hairy at home. I didn’t know where else to go.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her how I often recalled Sunday mornings at home when I dandled her on my knee while Mum was in the kitchen making a roast. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It promised to be an important meeting, because Ohio legislators were gathering at the same time to revise the state constitution, but Stanton didn’t feel she could leave her three young boys behind at home. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But I found it difficult to concentrate at home. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The responsibility...,” the press release said, “is with the government and not with the women of America, if the lack of democracy at home weakens government in its fight for democracy three thousand miles away.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was farther than I’d ever walked on my hands, even when I had gravity on my side going downhill at home. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trapane would see Jason off to the school bus and would watch Jaime at home until Nancy came back from work that evening. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is why at home during our fire drills he had little interest in being a passive prop, even in a pretend crisis. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Our first game was at home against Regis and when we got out onto the floor they were already warming up. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Jacob would be with us out in the fields and Ashley staved at home to cook for the harvest crew. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed right off that they ate more meat than I got at home, but then again the biscuits weren’t as good as my mama made for us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never since have I felt so much at home in the Church, so easy at mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went straight to Mr. Pumblechook’s, and was immensely relieved to find him not at home. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

A few years before, Dad had convinced her parents, Rob and Diane, that public schools were little more than Government propaganda programs, and since then they had kept her at home. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her feet go forward and her heart ba-bamps as she walks into her room at home that night. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Ernest, however, had never been one to talk about his work at home. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They told him, “Nothing can stop you now except one thing: don’t let the people at home hold you back.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

That night we all ate dinner at home, at the table, because Grandpa Park was visiting. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I called it “ridiculous”; their own Northern ghettoes, right at home, had enough rats and roaches to kill to keep all of the Freedom Riders busy. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The middle-school director had called us at home to ask if I could be a welcome buddy to some new kid in school. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

"I fabricated the jib dummy at home on the morning of my escape," Howard recalled. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Several responsibilities awaited me at home before I could leave for church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured Mum, Dad, and Julia sitting at home watching The Paul Daniels Magic Show but their faces melted away, like reflections on the backs of spoons. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She told me she had several mice at home as pets. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

My real Thanksgiving at home was a special day of peace and joy. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had two dollars and eighty cents in my drawer at home to pay for the late fees for the remaining two weeks when we returned to Brooklyn. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, we became sad yet again when we remembered he wouldn't be at home when we got there, and we weren't seeing him very often anymore. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Each time this happens, even now, the nuns beam and kiss my cheek and shake my hand and give me fancy certificates that Maman plasters on the cardboard wall at home. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turns out he was at home that night. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Since it was Saturday, Melanie’s parents were both at home, but Mr. Ross always had to study and he was only too glad for the girls to get Marshall out from underfoot. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not like at home, where Mom was always asking me to calm down, keep quiet, or act my age. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“This time, the front lines are at home,” Hitler told them. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We ate at home, but Grandma said they’d be offering free lemonade. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even the bell captain made him feel at home. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Well, technically we were at home, and even though my dad was at work, doing drugs with my sister seemed like the next best thing. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Jo will stay at home with her parents, and for the next two months she and Theo will be living in different cities, in different countries. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Because at home was my mother with her dead eyes and my little sister, with her hollow cheeks and cracked lips. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Faced with trouble at home and pressure from abroad, P. W. Botha offered a tepid, halfway measure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was really unusual—he typically didn’t get off work until five thirty in the evening—but he had to get some papers for work he’d forgotten at home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We carry them everywhere, to and from school and work, at home while raising our children, at our places of worship, anytime we try to advance. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She had a disjointed moment of the sky above her and the trees that lined the street and the sidewalk under her—none of it was familiar, none of it was her bedroom at home. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And even at home, whenever Nya made the long hot walk to the pond, she had to drink as soon as she got there. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My coach at home always said, “You start thinking, you get your drawers all in a twist.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way back I picked some flowers, some wild roses that grow beside the road, and at home I put them in a vase and took them to his room. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They should be at home, fashioning bracelets out of old aluminum cans or just sitting at the kitchen table playing Lotería with Mamá. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I also refused to stay at home when Char traveled, and learned every language and dialect that came our way. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

At least when you turn the light on upstairs, somebody’s at home. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I were at home with my sisters, I would pick our subject and tell Vonetta and Fern which subtopics they would discuss, case closed. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Even though they had way more rules at home. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It is not like having friends here at home in peacetime. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Traveling the state and interacting with potential constituents, he was the same man I knew at home—funny and charming, smart and prepared. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Granny would prepare a lunch for the all-night praying session, and the three of us—Granny, Aunt Addie, and I—would be off, leaving my mother and Grandpa at home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden I was getting all kinds of attention, unlike at home. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

A rope ladder hung over the side except when Henri was at home. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been at home before when there’s been a tornado warning. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The cows were already waiting, at home, and when cows are not milked on time they do not give so much milk. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It carried news that those at home had almost despaired of hearing. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the father realized that Siddhartha could no longer remain with him at home —that he had already left him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “No, Phillip, I think it is best that you go with your mother. At a time like this, 1 can’t be at home very much.” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

So at home in Macún our latrine was far from the house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Let her get settled back in at home,” I said. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the Republican press denounced his warnings against political divisions at home and diplomatic involvement abroad as “the loathings of a sick mind.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“We play Holy Guardian on Tuesday, and then we’re at home on Friday against Frederickstown again. Over halfway through the season already,” Ellis says. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was the one place in this building where I felt at home. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Others were left at home because they weren’t right for where she was going or to make room for new, unknown stories she hadn’t yet read. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the Australian accent Finch says to them, “We’re professionals. Whatever you do, don’t try this at home.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Never cross the womenfolk! Still, I’ll see if I can't call this way in a day or two after all. Unless the squire o' the manor's at home, that is, by any chance?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Under pressure at work and at home, Elizebeth often worried about her family. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“You will find her at home. Hades sent her when you recovered his helm. Even the Lord of Death pays his debts.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her aunt informed him that she was not at home. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Did you really leave your packet at home?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I think you are right, there. You could do nothing at home, and it is a great comfort to them to know that you are well and happy, and enjoying so much, my dear.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Tang people at home had tried to boycott demon goods until the demons stopped persecuting the Tang people over here in the Land of the Golden Mountain, but it had failed. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used toilet soap for the first time, not the blue detergent that I had washed with for so many years at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I now invite you all to eat, drink, and make yourselves at home!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

So there had been no one at home that morning to make her think twice about the cat ears. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Now if burglars broke in again, and the family were at home, there would be a second round of locks for the thieves to contend with. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My dad hands him the documents we were given back at home. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I thought, I can unfurl the sheets on our old bed at home. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

—Going to the “movies” in my head, imagining what is happening at home right this moment. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of boys are sitting at a table, all spread out and loud like they are eating at home in their dining room. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then be said: “It is a pity you never had the opportunity of seeing the Orkneys at home. They didn’t have a happy family life like yours.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For your information, I’ve been teaching Karen the art of being a lady. And I’ve taught your sons how to be gentlemen. Training they normally never receive at home.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can smell them in the storeroom at home. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” I answered, “I was thinking for the moment we would be married at home. Naturally I don’t expect a church, or people, or anything like that.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Over in Italy, the composers who followed Vivaldi were fixated on the lucrative but non-progressive business of Italian opera, both at home and abroad. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In Elizebeth’s social circles, most married women did stay at home. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Switch out the ancient columns and ruined temples for cows and barbed wire, and Leo would’ve felt right at home. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I realize that I forgot to check our weather station at home today. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I wish we could turn the day upside down so that their main time at home would be in the morning, before they get all worn out. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He sailed on down the lane without further reference to me, and I wondered who was sick at home. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was at home, luckily. But it was scary, wasn’t it?” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Then, after the last person goes, we all meet at home plate. It’s a high five for the Renegades and a high five for Glenn Burke.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“Do you cook at home?” his mother asked. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I would see a Muslim brother at our restaurant, or Betty at home, trying to keep cool; they’d hand me the receiver, and I couldn’t believe it, either. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was back at home—wet and muddy, but intact. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Yet, here she is, my mother, who I left at home that morning in her bathrobe, with pieces of newspapers twisted like rollers in her hair. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“By the way, was that your mother you were speaking to? Do you still live at home?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My vision is still okay with lots of light, but by twilight I have to shuffle my way around even at home, or trip and die on one of Javier’s toys. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I am a punch line at school, a ghost at home. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My early successes in life were, I knew, a product of the consistent love and high expectations with which I was surrounded as a child, both at home and at school. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"We’re all caring for people at home," the woman presses on. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I remained cloistered by sounds, timid and shy in public, too dependent on voices at home. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is not your place. Mary and I sit in the kitchen sometimes, because at home we like to be free, even to license—but you are a visitor, and must go into the parlour.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Why not indeed?” exclaimed the bug, who seemed equally at home on either side of an argument. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

My relatives at home had dinners after funerals too. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I think about telling Nora about my dad not sleeping at home on Friday night, but I don’t want to talk about that right now. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Later takes garments to finish at home with the help of his wife and older children. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Ma would let us hang out at home, but only if we stopped by first. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I figured you knew I’d run away like Beatrix did. You were trying to tell me that Mary was standing in for me at home, taking care of things till I went back.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been baking at home for so long, but if I got on the show, I could learn from the mentors and judges—real, professional bakers.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Motherless candidates confused her, and in motherless elections she stayed at home. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I was a girl, maybe I would have been at home and not out politicking and getting myself into something like this. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

We are entitled to feel at home in Boyle’s universe, even if it is a mechanical apparatus; it is not clear that an immortal, immaterial soul has any business feeling at home in Descartes’ universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t figure out if she was simply ignoring his calls, or wasn’t at home. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was morning when I awoke, and I was still at home. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Albert gulps it all down and asks, “May I possibly have some more? We switched to water at home. I really miss milk.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“While you were busy becoming the most famous student in Pakistan, your rival stole your crown at home!” he said. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh that, that is what we call him at home only. But his good name should be—is”—he nods his head firmly— “Nikhil.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I think about him standing at home plate and giving Dusty Baker that very first high five. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

But there’s no shortage of company at home. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Omakayas decided she did not want to cause trouble at home. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Gum Baby popped out of my Story Box backpack, where she’d made herself at home. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Cole thought back to all the people at home who had tried to help him over the years. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Yes, at home or on the job, Dad was always the efficiency expert. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our mother wasn't at home—nor our father. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“And even if we sold it, you couldn’t possibly pay the price. What kind of animal do you have at home?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

By the only window was a handsome table with turned legs, but it was barely half as long as the one Mo had in his workshop at home. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Just like back at home, Saturday is the day me and Daddy run errands. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Whenever there’s a test I study at home for twenty minutes and get back to my Sims and stories. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“He’s supposed to have been in the penitentiary at home. They let him out to die.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Back at home in my room, I try to figure out how I’m going to make up with Patrice. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I'd planned for a million contingencies: Her at home, him at home, both of them at home, and this is the one I knew would be the best scenario for me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

One Saturday, soon before he is scheduled to take the SAT, his family drives to Connecticut for the weekend, leaving Gogol at home alone overnight for the first time in his life. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She appointed the eldest child at home to be “king” or “queen” to run the house in her absence and we took it from there, creating court jesters, slaves, musicians, poets, pets, and clowns. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! My brother got that picture hanging on his wall at home next to our mother and sister,” Deborah said, then looked at Zakariyya. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her commute is long, so I usually take care of the stuff at home. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I think she was frightened, but she frequently brought up her vexation with Mama Mwanza, who had spoken so matter-of-factly about having a strong husband at home. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

You spent the afternoon eating Walnut Whips off your lover’s toned six-pack in a fancy room at the Savoy, but you told your husband you spent all day at home. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I leave the good car at home for my wife.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Five boys and a girl. All living at home.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I better call it a day. I’ve still got some chores to do at home.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some women were even allowed to do all their work at home. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother works at home, like my father. She makes greeting cards and buttons like this.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Television cameras were set up in the Electronic Learning Center so spectators, in the library and at home, could watch the great flying reptile race. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then Joey said, “But if I used my own computer at home, and I bought my own paper and everything, like, then I could print whatever I felt like, right?” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Rock still looks clueless, so Rock tells her I’m looking for a job to help Mama out at home. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I wonder for a moment why I didn’t just set my alarm at home and come over at dawn, but I know I have to do this right. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

And he could now remember that he had once seen a photo of the same face in an old drawer, at home, in the country. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, talking with Moniba and my friends at home makes me more homesick. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“In school it was mostly English. But my dad was always making me speak French at home. I hated it.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He remembered he had a can of tuna fish at home and wondered if he really was in the mood for tuna fish. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shiva took me under his wing, just like Alex used to do, and introduced me to some of the neighborhood kids, helping me feel more at home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe he made the wrong decision leaving the phone at home. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

And I guess if we couldn’t feel white in school, we wanted to at home. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was worse than any family party at home. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She left every single one of her computers at home? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The first few weeks my father stayed at home awaiting the recall. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never been allowed to drink coffee at home and didn’t exactly know what to do. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, when I was around five years old, my gran left me at home for a few hours to go run errands. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the etagere. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine Violet at home right now, on the other side of the computer, her perfect mouth with its perfect corners turned up, smiling at the screen, in spite of everything, no matter what. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It took Meggie a little while to remember why she wasn’t in bed at home. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Gone was the desperate, urgent, intense feeling of being at home; rare was the experience of feeling myself individualized by family intimates. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at home, I sit at my desk thinking about my mother’s question: Why do I want to start a magazine? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He boldly struck up a conversation with Seward’s male nurse, just to make sure the secretary was indeed at home. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Pascal doesn’t come anymore to play because his older brother died and Pascal is needed at home. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were taken to a big burrow and told to make ourselves at home. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He now was fashioning a device by himself, without an army of technicians and engineers, working on a laboratory bench at home. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I had been spewed on at school, and now I was “Spewed-on” at home too. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

So, yeah, I spent a lot of my time at home studying math and memorizing French vocab, just like I had before Culver Creek. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“The more divided we are at home, the less likely the enemy is to negotiate at Paris,” he said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I fight to return to sleep though, wrapped in a warm cocoon of blankets, safe at home. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And if I had been at home, I would be dead now too. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I was jealous of him. He had you and Jem to himself all summer long, while I had to go home the day school was out. There was nobody at home to fool around with.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There was no singing this time; Joe had left his guitar at home. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Baz was more normal than any of the ones she had at home, but he had something of that watchful stillness I associated with her gang. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Christmas morning, instead of racing off to River Valley Farm, he remained at home, and later in the day he shared with his family the splendid dinner his mother had been a week preparing. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took Moon Orchid several weeks to figure out just how many children there were because some only visited and did not live at home. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The colored school. The official story is that I’ve been real sick and my grandmother’s been teaching me at home. But the truth is, everyone knows.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, tonight, he dropped me off at home. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

When we passed by, they looked up at us, right into our faces and said “Hi” or “Howdy,” and although it sounds corny to say it, we felt right at home there. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

After all he had been through, it was obvious that he still remained utterly disposable, even at the crew house, the one place he had started to feel more or less at home. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Lexie, Mrs. Richardson liked to say, would leave her head at home if it weren’t attached. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Looking at those crowds on television, Barry was relieved when Mom and Dad decided they were better off at home. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had the choice of being beaten at home or away from home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wish had settled like a cuckoo in the nest of her heart, where it kept fluffing up its plumage and making itself at home, no matter how hard she tried to throw it out. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“This is where the bar fell—the bar she tore off the lamp-post at home. It sank into the ground and now it’s coming up as a young lamp-post.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“If you want to be taught at home, I’d have to ask someone else to do the math. There is no one else with the—with the time.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at home we had fallen head over heels into the Christmas spirit and preparing for our yearly donation. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But the excitement soon waned, and the afternoon seemed to pass like any other at home. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling's like the one in my basement at home. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our parents demanded that we behave appropriately at home and in public. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth imagined that most of the locals had gone on summer vacation, or were holed up at home taking a siesta. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now that being in Yazd didn’t feel so different from being at home. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She said nothing of her plan at home, but fell to work next day, much to the disquiet of her mother, who always looked a little anxious when ‘genius took to burning’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with the water no longer rising, he knew he could do nothing at home. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Another police officer watched a drunk man spit chewing tobacco in an older woman’s face; when someone complained to him, he said, “There would be nothing like this if you would stay at home.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Are you sick? You’re so pale—I worry about you, Luke, all day long. But then I remind myself, you’re safe here at home, out of harm’s way.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

She looks like she’d be at home dating, I don’t know, a Hollywood actor’s son or something. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And later, at home, he said, ‘What are you hitting short kids for? Don’t you know nothing?’ When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The phone went straight to voice mail: his message from another lifetime, the voice of a busy, confident man with a beautiful wife at home. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at home Mam says, I don’t care. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I saw a cat like you in the garden at home. You must be the other cat.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I thought Andrew was at home but Narciso set off down the street, in the direction of the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s exactly why I left mine at home in my bedroom. Your dad is going to drive us crazy. He needs to let you go, dude.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I would leave my science book at home on purpose so I could use the excuse of sharing hers. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

There’s something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sensed already that he was more at home with the unruliness of the world than I was, more willing to let it all in without distress. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“What am I going to do at home until then?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farming I never cared for, nor life at home, nor fathering fair children. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dari gasped in horror and said, “I’ll have to run this experiment at home,” while Twig said, “We’ll have to make something up.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I can’t seem to wash away this feeling of deja vu as I think of my Freedom Writer family leaving me; this family that has always made me feel at home. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mam is in a terrible state at home. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’d be glad to stay at home from school and make sure everyone is fed and washed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I think about Sir Ott, hanging over the couch at home, and how much I would like to be there right now, kicking back with some America’s Funniest Home Videos. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Of course, we don’t have as much as we did at home, but it’s enough. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When he looked ambivalent, I lied and said, “I’ve been practicing with my dad at home. Even he thinks I’m getting better.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Many a road crisscrossed this part: you could be a tourist at home. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But at home he could sit in comfort. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The work at home was exhausting, and for Anthony taking a break from her reform work was agonizing. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Go past him, cast yourself before my mother, embrace her knees—and you may wake up soon at home rejoicing, though your home be far. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of Amber's desk next to mine in our lesson room at home: her quill, ink pot, and handwriting ledgers. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I told you he was crazy, right? I heard he does some weird stuff at home, too.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The next step in the plan was to homeschool me, which just means go to school at home, and Aurelia was supposed to be my teacher, all along. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ll leave the keys with you. Can you bring them downstairs when you’re finished today? I think I need to rest my head at home. A little bit of recharging will do me good.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Baba and Ma, though, always use Bangla at home, and speak English only with outsiders. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even though I was at home, with my parents and a police officer, I suddenly felt scared. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he was just one of those that wanted us to stay at home. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He can paint in oil, since his expenses are reduced by living at home, but he also keeps drawing—in pencil, black chalk, and colored ink—and uses watercolor. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I begged my parents, “Leave those two at home! They do nothing but make noise and try to take the gifts I’ve received.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But the Statement’s authors vowed not to end their demands for justice at home during wartime. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was so mad it took me a minute to see that I was safe and alone in my room at home. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I think Grandma Caye somehow knew that it would be her last Christmas at home in Belize with my grandpa. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He returned to England that summer, hoping to overturn the studies with his analysis, but was struck by pneumonia and died suddenly at home. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

My stomach rises and falls like I'm on the tree swing at home. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She might get out of being toadified somehow, even if Thorn and Seven didn’t defeat the Nightbeast, but Seven thought that maybe her life at home would be even worse than that. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As they listened, they began to understand the lives of the Forest, apart from themselves, indeed to feel themselves as the strangers where all other things were at home. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Arvydas stood under the stream of water, her hands raised above her head gracefully, unaware, as if she were in her own private bath at home. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Yet he had never loved Dragonstone, nor ever felt truly at home here. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was a half-moon and several million stars lighting the night as they never did at home. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When my fourth-grade teacher made our class write a paper about a typical evening at home, it never occurred to me actually to do so. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever they ordered Jamaican food at home, Ma always got ginger beer with it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Daddy stood back of it, alone, the way he usually did at home when friends came to call. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid we had never been at home with each other. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The mixture is a little soft, but as Elizabeth pours the ice cream into ziplock bags, she assures me that a few hours in the freezer at home will make the texture perfect. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She looks smaller out here in front of the school than she does at home. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“We had the same feeling that with refugee families we felt at home in a way that we didn’t feel in the rest of our lives,” Tracy said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Donna Lufkin has left her gardening clogs at home. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And this presented her with a problem that she had refused, at home in Maryland, to think about, but from which, now, she could not escape: the problem of their life together. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I wanted at least one lazy morning in bed before I went back to the grind at home. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

They would rather have us stay at home and work for them. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was making far more money than she ever had at home in Vermont or was ever likely to. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

We hoped that the government and ordinary South Africans would see that the principles they were fighting for in Europe were the same ones we were advocating at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anna and Dorus withdrew Vincent and Anna, choosing instead to hire a governess to educate them at home, along with the younger Van Goghs when they were ready. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Just as soon as she’s built up the fire and made gruel and tidied the whole cabin. With more than a day’s work waiting here at home.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I explained that I did not want to be at home for personal reasons. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When Maribel drops me at home, our garage door is wide open. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

But back at home, none of us talked about it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It looked right at home, lying on its belly, growling contentedly as it chewed the head off a combat dummy. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, he asked for a volunteer who was willing to tutor me at home. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the first Sunday in May 2011, I went to dinner with two friends at a restaurant downtown, leaving Barack and my mother in charge of the girls at home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Talk to me, please. It’s dull, sitting by myself,” answered Frank, who had evidently been used to being made much of at home. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom thinks it’s because he’s in a hospital, and she thinks he’d be safer at home. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“And since the men who built the early theatres were mostly sailors who had returned from the sea,” continued the voice on the tape, “Billy felt right at home.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She was learning to sew small pillows at home. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Just as before, she was based at home, as a “Special Investigator.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I’d rather stay at home and scrub the kitchen sink, the bathroom sink, the tub, and the toilet before I danced with Ellis Carter. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

There were many letters from both Jenny and Ross Milton that summer, letters that brought hope and comfort to the family at home. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

She finally got his response while she was at home. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Mom. I can’t. I have a biology quiz next period. And I’m meeting—I’m meeting somebody after school. I’ll just see you at home, okay?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her father worked as a housepainter, and her mother worked at home caring for the family. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I wait at home until Mom pulls in, take the keys from her before she can even get the door all the way open, and drive to school. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

P. D. was not at home, but I explained the situation to his wife, Billie. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got a good lawyer, who continued to lean on the court about the fact that he had children at home who needed him. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, Mom’s gone all day and now you’re at home. And neither of you are happy anymore.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Since we didn’t have a mother at home, Junior and I were the misfits in our community. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Later, she would always subtract one year from her age, as if to say that her extra year at home hadn’t counted. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Finally, when I had finished detailing my cluttered room at home, he paused instead of responding with another question. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He ventured into the occult—organizing séances and planchette sessions at home, or meeting his friends to meditate at a crematorium at night. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Those first few weeks at home took some getting used to. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lina stopped at home the next day only long enough to change out of her messenger jacket, and then she dashed across town to the Pipeworks. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My sisters will be placed at one of five imperial teahouses, or will stay at home to tend to Orléans's newborn citizens. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

For a wound like his, which hadn’t damaged any organs or blood vessels, the risk of infection in the hospital’s crowded poor ward was more dangerous than remaining in bedrest at home. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Wonder what Crouch says at home about him?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And it, too, was so much longer than the Kiddush she said at home. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He tried not to think about it, and they didn’t talk much about it at home, but he knew the whole family was waiting for Headmaster’s visit. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ultimately, I was alone, at home, waiting to restart my life-waiting to live my teenage years. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Why do you and the other big sisters wear veils now? You never did when we were at home." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I learned many of the things that American children learn in school, as well as some things they pick up at home. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to fall back upon tradition and since it was a political meeting, I selected one of the political techniques that I'd heard so often at home: The old down-to-earth, I'm-sick-and-tired-of-the-way-they've-been-treating-us approach. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept trying to make myself tell Howard about that squinty-eyed social services lady and how the situation at home had improved. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Every year she’d put up several at the Tongue River Museum, themed, of course, and we always had one at home, too. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

That’s much easier in these days of high-tech weaponry, produced only in industrial plants and easily monopolized by an elite, than in ancient times of spears and clubs easily made at home. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the attendants seal the door, one of them invites me to make myself at home. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But instead of lying on a bed suited for a king, I'd have preferred to be at home on my rickety pallet with bedding from the discount aisle at Target. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He had closed his store permanently and was at home all day now. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

In either case, his head would be splitting, but at home he could be sure of finding camphor on Sunday, while if he went on he could not be sure. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, they hurried from the fields, hoping to find Minli waiting at home. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

As a keepsake he put it by: it served him well at home in Ithaka. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell the County Chronicle I’m not at home,” I said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

If he hadn’t been at home they would have lost everything. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Mom insisted that I stay at home, although I told her that I felt fine. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time he chose different words: They gobble down all the food at home. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Just like when he practices at home in front of the MIRROR. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left her, saying that his master the mage expected him at home, and he did not come back to the meadow the next day. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

And now, to make the newt feel more at home, Lavender decided to give it all the pond-weed from the pencil-box as well. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered all the good times I’d had growing up in Birmingham—at home, in the community, and at church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing worse than sitting at headquarters would be sitting at home. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was minded to stay at home and help Mercy, even as her feet hurried her along the path beside Judith. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Nya s job at the lake camp was the same as at home: to fetch water. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Say, can I ask you something? Are you really at home? I read that JetBlue agents just work at home.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

She told me that something terrible had happened at home and I was wanted immediately. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even a picture of a bookshelf that looked just like mine at home. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She refused to be subservient to Abel at home, but she did want him to succeed as a man. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Amá says there’s no need for burgers and fries when we have a pot of beans and packets of tortillas at home. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

One day when we were sitting on the porch, I asked Richard, “Is your car at home like the cars that you rent here?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quiet at home, I sat with my papers for hours each night. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the course of a week, he might be given between one hundred and two hundred songs by new artists, and every weekend he sits at home, listening to them one after another. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Did she hope that staying at home would improve her chances of bearing a healthy baby? The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I have since bought that set of books and have it at home for my children to read as they grow up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, playing the hymns had made me feel sad, as if I were homesick even though I was at home. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

How could they be so at home, so sure of themselves, even in pajamas? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But as the Egypt Game became second nature to its six participants, and they began to feel more and more at home in the land of Egypt, they gradually began to forget about being cautious. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I could buy the furniture now hired for me,” said I, “and one or two other little things, I should be quite at home there.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

In Natal, fear of violence and intimidation kept many of our voters at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But every one of us, except the Negroes forced here as slaves, are descended from the restless ones, the wayward ones who were not content to stay at home. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as I could see, there were no big trees like the giant oak that sat outside my bedroom window at home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I kept my mind busy trying to remember details about each Christmas at home. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Mabel tried hard to make me feel at home on the night I told my story, and I appreciated her kindness. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The name, so closely associated with Mary’s death, was one that was never mentioned at home and was perhaps more evil to Jethro by the very fact that it was so carefully shunned. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said we must not allow fear to keep us at home. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Willow told her that if they didn't get their small sunflower plants at home into the ground soon they'd be stunted. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile I bought clothes, shoes, a cardboard suitcase, all of which I hid at home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It must have brought back memories for you — did you feel at home?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him that I had left it at home by mistake, and casually recited a fictitious pass number. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made her feel at home and at ease. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It has stars in the bottom, and she always drinks her milk from it at home. She calls it her cup of stars because she can see the stars while she drinks her milk.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Santa’s elves themselves would have felt at home. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I was at work, I’d wish I were at home. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

How could adults complain at home about the insulting way they were treated at work and then put on a happy face for their white employers? Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I felt disloyal for wanting to learn English, for liking pizza, for studying the girls with big hair and trying out their styles at home, locked in the bathroom where no one could watch. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we can make it at home. I don’t know. We’ll see.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I slid way the hell down in my chair and watched old Ackley making himself at home. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“And we have the stars above us, even if they’re fading. Perhaps I ought to have a few holes knocked in my own roof at home.’ Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I thought of our warm kitchen at home in Tilsit, the soft ring of the lids trembling on their pots, and my sister’s laughter echoing throughout the house. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It didn’t work out for me living at home. I mean, Camp Half-Blood is my home.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been going door-to-door all day asking for donations for my Operation Save Fig bike ride in two weeks, but I don’t think I’ll ever raise enough to keep Sir Fig Newton at home. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I hop into Dee’s car and jump on her like a lonely dog after a day at home alone. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The room was warm like our kitchen at home. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was painful for him to walk, and Jonathan was needed at home. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

But here, even more strongly than at home, I feel my impotence. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t have in my suitcase—or even in my closet back at home—enough office-type outfits to get me through a week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I failed to see the hissy S as a solution to the problem and continued to talk normally, at least at home, where my lazy tongue fell upon equally lazy ears. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Stranded at home in yet another day of oppressive heat, many took to the open air, sitting out on porches. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had only two days at home before I was off to Newfoundland with the Public Schools’ Explorers. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jack, let’s talk at home,” his mom said. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

This climate is unsuitable for tender-skinned women of course, so I prefer to think of you at home, soaking your stockings or drawing a bath. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I have some better ones at home, but these are quite good, really.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was “not clever,” but was fond of using her hands and felt at home with machinery. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I tell myself it’s because that wouldn’t be wise, when I’m supposed to be sick at home. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The tall stone wall rose up on the other side of a brown river about half as wide as the Sogozha River was at home. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

At four o’clock Grandma sent me to see if anything was happening at home. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father, meanwhile, has taken on a new responsibility at home. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was small and less noisy than the farm tractor which he had sometimes watched from the edge of the primrose wood at home. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hardly spoke Igbo, and although Jaja and I spoke it with Mama at home, he did not like us to speak it in public. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“No governess! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without a governess! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your education.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

They were more interested in Sam and Pippin, who were now feeling quite at home, and were chatting gaily about events in the Shire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Before I came here, whenever anyone at home or at school talked about sex, they were either secretive or disgusting. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It’s a place where everyone fits in, more or less, but where, if you look hard enough, nobody feels really at home. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Even in their own countries, some men are not at home.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the first campfire I’d ever attended, back when I was twelve, and how I'd felt so at home. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Junior claimed his dad let him drink it at home, but not while anyone else was around, so we had no evidence to back this up. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

About the same time, a strange traffic began at home: college football coaches, come to entice Jim to their schools. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I found myself in a dimly lit office, half the size of my cramped bedroom at home, with no memory of ever having walked into it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I practice at home, too, until I get good at it, and I’m pretty sure that no one will be able to notice my vitiligo at school. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Probably. We’ll see. I need to do some stuff at home this weekend. If that works out, then yeah. You know, maybe.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time she persuaded herself she remained for Briony’s sake, or to help her mother, or because this really was her last sustained period at home and she would see it through. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She cooked a meal for Abuelo every time he dropped her off at home. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother never wanted me to be like my uncle, one of those men, unemployed and still living at home with his mother. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Because I had been working most recently with Kosti,” she said, “I felt more at home with him in the new programs.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Everything that was Gospel to her she got at home from her father. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like being with the other kids and I’d rather play in the yard at home or read in the park with her. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But when you are once more safe at home remember Medea, as I will remember you forever.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had one at the store so he could phone orders to the wholesale house in Athens, but he was too stingy to pay for one at home. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know things could get any worse at home, but apparently they can. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It had an earthy sound, not like the metal drum at home, of something burrowed out of a tree trunk with an animal skin stretched over the top. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“If there’s an invisible assassin in this place, I can only imagine it’s the Devil himself. I dare say he feels quite at home.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was morning when we children at home got the word that he was dead. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since staying at home meant hunger and chores, I began attaching myself to gangs of five-, six- and seven-year-old neighbourhood boys who daily roamed the filthy streets of Alexandra in search of food and adventure. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Really, being at home for two weeks was just like my entire life before Culver Creek, except my parents were more emotional. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

My spear was broken, so I left it at home. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“We'll fix it up. Don't worry” But Montag did not move and only stood thinking of the ventilator grille in the hall at home and what lay hidden behind the grille. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I studied at school every day with Catherine, after school every day with Mrs. V, and every evening at home as well. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The boy was at home with his twin brother and Grace, but he was unhappy. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He said that since I was the oldest living at home, I had to watch out for Mommy and my little brothers and sisters because “y’all are special,” he said. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe there's nobody at home,” Hornet whispered hopefully. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to have it at home like I done with the boy. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

His troubles at home only reinforced his tendency to bury himself in Level 4. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel fresh and lively and I’d be in great form if I could be at home with my mother and brothers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They would be beautiful anywhere, but Greece is not a rich and fertile country of wide meadows and fruitful fields where flowers seem at home. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that afternoon, back at home, I stood tall in my brand-new black rubber boots and jutted out my chin and announced to Mamita, “I am never going back to school again.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been waiting at home with the news for four hours. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“See you back at home! Have fun!” said Mama. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When they came to town next and the carriage stopped before Mr Coldfield’s house, one of the negresses came out and said that Miss Rosa was not at home. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the oldest kid living at home by then, my other siblings being away at school. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For me, I felt at home in this sort of discourse. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I do not believe,” she wrote in her diary, “there ever was a woman who esteemed it such a privilege to stay at home.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Some at home did not appreciate my cleverness or abilities. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

On that particular day my mother was lingering at home and it was a nice change from her running out with briefcase in hand. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Evidently this belonged to the couple, for they settled down as though at home and made no objection when Hazel did the same. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matty saw a fat spotted dog sleeping on the porch, but it appeared that no one was at home. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

But there was only endless talk that led nowhere and I began to keep away from home as much as possible, preferring the simplicity of the streets to the worried, futile talk at home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was a lot faster than I thought and when she collared me from behind at home plate all she said was, “Mister, you are in deep trouble.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When I showed up at home, my family thought I’d been arrested! Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“John, please do whatever you like. Make yourself comfortable. If you want something out of the refrigerator, help yourself. I want you to feel at home.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

When we slept at home, we trembled and huddled against each other in our bed in the dark. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Maddie was interrupted in the middle of a bedtime cocoa, very cozy, at home with her gran and granddad in their house in Stockport. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“I been in trouble with the law before, and I can take it, but like I said, he knows Pa and what’s been goin’ on at home. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Coming from a world where clothing was sewn at home by hand or made to order by tailors, this was a revelation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Your mother is simply saying that we should do our best to make a community here. Before you know it, we’ll be back at home.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Not like the church at home, painted white with pews inside. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Christmas at home had meant eating Momma’s bread pudding with maple syrup and nutmeg, and reading the Gospel of Matthew out loud whilst Ruth played in Momma’s lap. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the time at home I didn’t wear my artificial legs. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I can't take a day off and be sad, not when there's bills to pay at home. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He had plenty of work to do, a newborn at home—the fourth for Baird and his wife. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In fact, the only reason an Iranian wedding would be “black tie optional” is to make our American friends feel more at home. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Fred had played trumpet in the school jazz band since sixth grade, but he didn’t listen to jazz at home. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She’s usually shy—outspoken at home, but reserved around other people. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When l am not worrying over our valiant doughboys, I worry over what's happening here at home. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mister Raleigh Leefolt still at home this morning, which is rare. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She could sleep without keeping one eye open, as she had to do at home. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“If you want to stop by or anything, I’ll be at home.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have a TV at home, so I watched it a lot. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He loved the water, and was as much at home in it as the other two hated and feared it. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 4:40 P.M., my father was released from the hospital and told to get some rest at home. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I run my fingers through her stiff hair; the strands remind me of hay in the carriage-house stables at home. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

We call it paraffin at home, but the Americans call it kerosene, and that is more or less what the word sounds like in French and German too. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And the mad me decided that I was not going to sit at home like a kicked- around puppy. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Jamie didn't tell them what happened at home—he just told them I was coming to look at colleges. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Intimacy thus continued at home; intimacy was not stilled by English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in another part of her head, the dark part where her oldest fears were housed, she knew there was another sort of reason for staying at home: she was afraid to go away alone. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would later give an interview to a local paper, estimating that during the six or so months he campaigned for Congress, he spent less than four full days at home with me and Malia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My coach suggested practicing at home, so I started doing that with my dad on weekends. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He stayed out of trouble, was helpful and obedient at home, and spent evenings doing his homework with help from his cousin's husband. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His unmistakable compact frame and booming voice yelling commands at his opponent immediately made me feel at home. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The bats were stiff with discomfort, but the crawlers seemed at home. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Shin telephoned me at home and told me in broken English that he had become my neighbor, I invited him over for tea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I’d said my lines in front of the mirror at home, trying to maintain eye contact with myself. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used to say that we were kept at home so we could get a better education than other kids. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, at home, she reads it in bed until Nikhil comes in to join her— then she puts it away and opens something else. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She usually stayed at home with their two sons, Ron II and Adam. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then turning to Mrs. Weston, with a look of gentle reproach—“Ah! Miss Taylor, if you had not married, you would have staid at home with me.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“Oh, they live upriver, at Hermonthis. Did you wonder why I do not sleep at home?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

"Sorry to bother you at home, but I'm doing a survey about your experience with a Sears electric blanket." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So soon, so soon...Why couldn’t I have had just a few days with him—a few days of peace at home? Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I soon felt at home in the country. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I’d once been someone who threw herself completely into every task, I was now more cautious, protective of my time, knowing I had to maintain enough energy for life at home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Toto was in his mid-fifties and still had children at home. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

That flavor has little to do with the flavors of hamburgers or french fries you might make at home. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And I am nauseated at work, sick with fear about what might be happening at home. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

So much for a quiet night at home. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Butterscotch, at home in our backyard, would be having a doggie fit if she could see Penny trying to bolt. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

All her activity began creating tension at home. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He added that Neeley would continue living at home and wouldn’t require a transfer. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weichmann told the detectives John Surratt was not at home, but in Canada, and offered to help them with their investigation. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you have three denarii for the bus? Because I left my wallet at home, and I’ve got to get to work, and—” “Don,” Hazel chided. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

If the extraterrestrials stay at home, there are at least two ways in which they might find out about us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on the wall next to her was a large black cat, identical to the large black cat she’d seen in the grounds at home. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

But his manner was relaxed, confident, as if he couldn’t feel more at home. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Just keep it at home, okay? I got my kid here.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I’m at home with the wisps of boys filling the cemetery. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

A boy who remained at home tied to his mother’s apron strings was regarded as a sissy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The picture hanging in the hall was the same that they had hanging in their hallway at home. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“The next time we call for artillery, we’ll aim right at your pad at home,” I said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had stopped playing tennis, too, so he could be at home and Ugwu would not have to take her to the toilet. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Were they all right, or were they also stuck at home? Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

After spending a petless year with only one child still living at home, my parents visited a breeder and returned with a Great Dane they named Melina. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I thought about Elzenia being at home and maybe cooking dinner for us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry to eat and run, but I’ve got to work at four and I need to do some stuff at home first.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I overheard one voice gently wondering, ‘Do your children speak only Spanish at home, Mrs. Rodriguez?’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the same time I got threatening calls at home. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I can help Mom and Sam by being nicer at home, but I can still be embarrassed about being poor. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There would be the risk of trouble at home while they were away. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at home, it turned out, they had all felt the same way: as if they were different from the other children. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I’ve always wanted to rent movies and watch them at home, like other kids. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He scribbles a notation and then hands Helmuth a paper to sign and another to get signed at home. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you challenging me? Because pretty much all I do when I’m at home is play video games. I’m like a professional video-game player.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I imagine you at home, finger twirling in your hair while reading one of your beloved books. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

So my father began talking about Christmas at home in Pennsylvania and before long all the grown-ups were talking about old Christmases. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They give you rides to the doctor and help with getting your G.E.D. at home. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I guess a new baby is rough on any parents, especially if they already have a kid like me at home. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“I arrived home on the same day I had left. Don’t ask me how. I don’t know. After eight days at home, I came back here.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Navid had been infesting my personal space—at home, at school—with his many guy friends since forever, and, generally, I didn’t care for it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her parents had encouraged these expeditions, believing she was at the library, or attending lectures — they hoped she would go to Princeton for college, live with them at home. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thirteen thousand students in the three cities that had moved forward with integration—Front Royal, Charlottesville, and Norfolk—found themselves sitting at home in the fall of 1958. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Divine Kalypso, the mistress of the isle, was now at home. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has no head at all for math, so in addition to keeping the books at the store, I balance our accounts at home and pay our taxes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“She’s at home,” I said, putting a forkful of cake in my mouth to stop myself from having to give out any more details than were absolutely necessary. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I shushed them and reminded them we weren’t at home. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

To Kit’s relief a distraction awaited them at home. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

My father, on the other hand, seemed very much at home; I wondered why. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t that wonderful?” said Werfel in his perfect Elven.“Lady du Burgh and her whole family have learned the language of your people. They want you to feel absolutely at home here.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Maudie was an orphan who lived with two maiden aunts who worked at home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I wonder how long we’ll sit here with Malachy and Eugene hungry at home, hours from the porridge, which Eugene didn’t eat anyway. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Neel would never forget those long days of studying, spending hours first in the classroom, then in Headmaster’s office, and finally at his desk at home. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have to call people at home. It’s going to be a bunch of phone calls.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Hannah didn’t tell them was that her hands on the instrument felt instantly at home and at work in a way that they never had with the Oxford alethiometer. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Religion at school and at church was never nighttime religion like religion at home. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her boys—fifteen, thirteen, and seven—were at home alone with an infant. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

As more and more African nations achieved independence, the United States government was compelled to defend racial equality here at home. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Baba is at home. She couldn’t sleep last night. She’s afraid another catastrophe will happen. The doctor gave her pills to calm her nerves.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She was going to set him on fire, then patch him up right at home! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was different from her bedroom at home. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Then sometimes I get problems at home. With three kids, my wife’s very nervous.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at home, I opened my e-mail and saw that Angelo had sent me some pictures under the subject heading Look the great hunter! The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Many of them clasped my hand and told me good-bye and bid me to pray for their souls and their families at home. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

So here I am, fingers and toes crossed that everything is calm at home. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

After school they would head to each other’s houses, since neither had parents at home during the day. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We die at home, which at the moment seems a far desirable alternative to what lies in front of me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Muhammad turns to me, raising his eyebrows taut in an effort to prod me to answer without thumping me on my back, as he would have done at home. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I even went to sleep at home last night thinking being around my mama would help, but when I got there, she was watchin' Judge Judy! Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Dad’s wearing a suit and tie, but I can tell he’s at home because he’s holding Luke on his knee. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He had never called her by her family pet name, Fifi, even when she lived at home. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He wondered how he'd ever felt at home in these dank, smelly sewers. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I would open the car door and all the animals would tumble out—except Nanky-Poo, who stayed in the car, and the rat and the hedgehog, who stayed at home. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed no longer the bright arms that Odysseus left at home when he went off to Troy. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell her I said thanks, the next time you stop at home to breast-feed and pick up your allowance.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

That night at home my mother convinced me that men could fly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She became our teacher in a way that, because we rarely held school at home, she’d never been before. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Heck no. He even call me up at home a few weeks later to make sure I didn’t have no plans to quit. Say he afraid he gone starve if I left.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“This is my room. Please make yourself at home.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Ivy let herself imagine they were at home, sitting on the worn brown leather couch in their living room, and there was no such thing as tornados and lost notebooks. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The men in charge said that since I work with animals at home, I should be in charge of caring for the cavalry's horses. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

But wherever I go, I know I will feel most at home with the wounded of the world, who hold their heads up high no matter how broken they may seem. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

That night at home his father brought him a new book—The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I had been at home for eight days when the dizziness finally came again. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He just told Lisbeth to be a good girl and help Mama out, like she was used to helping out at home. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

CLAUDETTE: I was afraid, but I couldn’t just hide at home. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Soon she had twenty-four migrants at home, so many she could barely open her front door. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I have three hours to wait out at home before I leave, so I do some homework and clean my room. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had never washed a car at home. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, although it's made from the same stuff, it looks a lot more appetizing than the ugly drop biscuits that are the standard fare at home. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The Coloured people rallied against the Separate Representation of Voters Act, organizing a tremendous demonstration in Cape Town in March of 1951 and a strike in April that kept shops closed and schoolchildren at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Telemakhos, now strong in the magic, cried: “Come with me, friends, and get our rations down! They are all packed at home, and my own mother knows nothing!—only one maid was told.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rosa said they didn’t give you dinner. She’s so mean! I have a dog at home, and if he doesn’t get fed, he howls. Do you like mango juice? It’s my favorite.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited for Scott to come and calm me down, hut he wasn’t at home. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, back at home, they were once more treated as unequal and unworthy of respect. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It will be very nice to have you at home for a vacation, of course, but it is a little hard to sweep with a man sitting around reading all day.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was not at home enough, though, even to fall ill. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence at home, however, was finally more than a literal silence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president would receive better care at the White House than in a crowded hospital, which was generally for people with no one to nurse them at home. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

With her affinity for the Americans holding protests at home, she hoped the soldier would say something to help her understand why Americans had to fight so hard against the Communists. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sally was married and Max was drowned and his father was at home watching baseball on national TV. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later at home, I pretended to find the jars in the back of a cupboard. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They argued nearly every day—about a flaw in the schematics or a tool that had been left at home. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

That a woman with this medical history, a woman so obviously high-risk, should be advised to attempt a second birth at home seemed reckless to the point of delusion. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure my last two visits here have aged me quite a bit, no matter what my calendar at home says.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They stayed at home and rested that night, but the next night they went to a show and after that they rode around on the trolley cars and sort of looked things over for themselves. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I graduated from high school when I was seventeen, and by that point life at home had become toxic because of my stepfather. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My memory of a field hand being whipped suddenly seemed to have no place here with me at home. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Not all immigrants believed that was true, but as one historian has written, “Whenever life could hardly be worse at home, they came to believe that life was better in America.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Aureliano Segundo had slept at home because the rain had caught him there and at three in the afternoon he was still waiting for it to clear. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Like me on that first night at home. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It worried her so much that you could feel her worry no matter where you were, even if you weren’t at home. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Few days. Then he goes to this rehab or something for a while, but he gets to sleep at home, I think.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Even with some tension at home and a lot of long-distance tension with Theo, he’s been working well. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mary was the only daughter who remained at home; and she was necessarily drawn from the pursuit of accomplishments by Mrs. Bennet’s being quite unable to sit alone. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Grandma said when I first mentioned Anna at home. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

And because some food came in, it was probably the right decision to keep Julie at home. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I call them Salty Snackers, but only at home. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, um, sorry, but I left my science paper at home this morning?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Alba did not go to school; her grandmother held that anyone as favored by the stars as she was needed only to know how to read and write, and she could learn that at home. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama was at home taking care of Charlie and getting ready for the new baby that was coming. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

And I said, “Yes. I like computers. I have a computer at home in my bedroom.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He expected complete obedience to whatever rules he laid down at home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, his duties at home gave him a sense of responsibility and self-reliance that made him seem older than he was. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The night of the big dance, I suffered at home, barely paying attention to the book—Steinbeck’s Sweet Thursday—I had borrowed from Dad’s bookcase in the upstairs hall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed relaxing at home, reading quietly, taking in the sweet and savory smells emanating from pots boiling in the kitchen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From all sides comes the whir of tiny wings, which I used to confuse with the sound of insects in our woods at home. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I often find,” he casually explained to his dazed visitors, “that the best way to get from one place to another is to erase everything and begin again. Please make yourself at home.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cora and Molly had an appointment at home. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There were stalls that sold food and drink already prepared, and stalls that sold vegetables and fish for cooking at home. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

That meant sticking me in the back row with all the kids who didn’t take lessons over the summer, never practiced at home, didn’t come early for extra rehearsal. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Doma was a gentle soul, never comfortable but at home with friends and kin around her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“If Ben is at home he won’t be more than ten minutes.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the first day back after every vacation, school lunch came with a cupcake, so Bridge left her bag lunch at home. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

We decided to feel at home on the day that Grosie gave a formal tea in Mother’s honor. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I copied names at home, Liz copied names at church. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If word came to them that a fever victim was shut up at home without anyone to care for him or her, Jones and Allen sent a representative to investigate. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“I am that. And me with six kids at home.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had five kids at home and seven who were away at college. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I nod, he asks, “How’s everything at home? Your brothers okay?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Apparently Daedalus was not at home, but the workshop looked like it had been recently used. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m not going to just throw him in the garbage. I’ll bury him at home.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

And I, of course, forgot my jacket at home. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Sam, you can’t take it, we need it at home. Father needs it.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was very calm, not at all like she was at home. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn around and find Michael Clark watching me from behind the chain-link fence at home plate. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The only reason Momma lets me off restriction at home is because I started that new job, and she thinks that’s gonna change me somehow. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The string's tighter than the one I use at home. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

If he doesn’t pick up soon, I’m going to stop calling his mobile and call him at home. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still had the butterfly hair grip in my sock drawer at home. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So even up at Oxford, other than playing her gramophone a little louder than she was permitted at home, she continued to lead the same small, tight life that she imagined she had escaped. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get all my headlines from Libby; we still have a dial-up modem at home, and thus all Facebook monitoring is done at her house. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Yes, the nights at home were dark and still. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At this point I wanted to explain my situation at home, but Mr. Penney kept on talking. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Most of them seemed to know each other, but I felt right at home. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If Lenny’s at home, just blame it on me. I wanted to take care of my friend.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

But I was quite capable of using the stairs at home, so there was no reason I couldn’t use the stairs at school too. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Yep. You leaving your phone at home makes me think you and I have something in common.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

My parents refuse to hear my explanation of why I need another day at home, and come Tuesday morning, I’m forced to put on jeans and a sweater. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She had never really felt at home anywhere. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

At first Aunt Victoria said it wasnt right for a young girl to be here, but I made her see that I couldnt set at home when others was needing help so much. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can choose to keep her at home, or you can send her to a special school for the developmentally disabled. There aren’t many choices here locally.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Gurgi, making himself completely at home, snored under a pile of hay in the bam. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

But the child at home is given the opportunity to shout out an answer of his own. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newspapers, television, book publishers—they called him at home, followed him to school. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were impressed with the facilities there, and the school’s winning record, but I felt more at home at UCLA. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how we’re going to get it through the door at home,” Mom said. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When we were at home, everything was the same. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He didn’t come to the school for the interview and he got to take the admissions test at home. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

But I was rarely at home to enjoy these things. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If there’s a boy who likes you,” she rubbed my hair, “and you like him, ask him to visit you at home. That’s the proper thing to do.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Think of something you could never get at home. What do you want, an ice cream cake?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You were a good boatbuilder at home,” I said. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

After I refused, she gave me songs to practice at home in case I changed my mind. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I know too well his look of despair and disapproval when I have just thought that he must be left at home. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

While still at home they had removed all identification on their cases as well as their clothing. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, I should go on back and make myself at home. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did not have a telephone at home. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

When he came back out, Radar had made himself right at home and was stretched out across the big lounge chair in the living room. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

NB: Youngest son currently at home, seriously ill, Ministry inspectors have confirmed. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Joseph was to stay at home with me. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

My mom doesn’t have any hours at the restaurant today, and I find her at home sorting through the mountain of laundry while Hector takes clothes out of the pile and flings them around. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I wonder whether I actually took DayQuil when I was in the bathroom at home, or whether I accidentally swigged half of Hunter Marsh’s Alopeesh-Sure. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I parked the minivan at home, changed into a polo shirt and my only nice pair of jeans, and walked down Jefferson Way to Jefferson Court, and then took a right onto Jefferson Road. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

When he’d been moved to tears at home, when he was much younger, his mother had known what to do: she gathered him into her arms and rocked him gently till the crying faded away. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

First thing she had to remember was she was not at home. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Even so, I never drop off the game while he’s at home. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Taken together, his overlapping themes lend themselves to easy summary: unity at home and independence abroad. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

However, the soldiers say that Meng, at eighteen, is too old to live at home with us, and they force him to go live in the labor camp with Khouy and Laine. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning at home I found the card. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

That was probably when there was a crisis at home. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked a little embarrassed now—all the Aberzombies did, actually, Dimple noticed—like they didn’t know what to do with someone who was so obviously at home with his uncoolness. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Local commerce was robust—too robust in some cases: a sign reading please wash at home awaited customers of a Norfolk Laundromat enjoying too much of a good thing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Milking was one of his tasks at home and the familiar pattern of sound soothed him. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was sure the Gran would ask Valley if she was okay or if there were troubles at home. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I mean, we were really making ourselves at home there after awhile. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

A stomach virus had kept JimmyTrotter at home with Miss Trotter that day. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“And when you were there, something bad was happening at home.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I told her I had prepared some egg curry at home. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The situation at home had become even more tenuous. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Boo had insisted that she wear them whenever she was at home. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Two days later, coming back from school, Gogol finds his mother at home again, wearing a bathrobe instead of a sari, and sees his sister awake for the first time. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I’d be glad to see him, and have him at home: but still I felt it was partly his fault that Father had died. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted the kitten from the straw and tucked it into the bib of his overalls, where it looked at home and produced a rumbling bass purr remarkable for something its size. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The arrangement came to be known as the Pennsylvania—or “separate”—system, and it attracted much attention, both abroad and at home. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You might as well stay at home all day long for all the money you bringing in,” Mrs. Reilly screamed at the door. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's something I need to ask. Did you feel safe at home?" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Or how he’d roll his eyes at me when he got dropped off at home from some white chick’s car. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“With some money down,” I replied, for an uneasy remembrance shot across me of that symmetrical bundle of papers at home—“with some money down, and perhaps some anticipation of my expectations.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra wasn’t sure why, but she felt instantly at home at Club Kalfour. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She dragged her bags upstairs and made herself at home in the second-best guest room. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Today the puppy was left at home, whimpering behind the closed door as they walked away. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

For both of us, it’s been quite a blow to suddenly realize that very little remains of the close and harmonious family we used to be at home! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got to get to work a little early today. One of the girls has a sick baby at home. Don’t let me find out you’ve been out that door. Understood?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

In addition, things were seriously beginning to fall apart at home. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Have always felt at home everywhere, even in Virginia, where they hate me. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The message read: “Don’t wish to disturb you. Are you at home? J. Wilkes Booth.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For most Soviet citizens at home, 1940 remained a period of uneasy peace. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I did the shopping at home, and I fell into the pattern of the familiar task gladly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It climbed the Titan’s arm, made itself at home on his shoulder, and closed its eyes, purring like an earthmover. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They have become better over time, since this is all he does when he’s at home. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“She never felt at home. You know that was true about her. She said it in the note.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His shoes were still floating around in his living room at home; his socks had been ripped off in his ride through the flood. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

A few of them make ugly faces at us, just like the twins do to me at home. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Behind the store there was a clearing, larger than Pa’s clearing in the woods at home. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the living son, the child, Roy, was headlong already, and hardhearted: he lay at home, silent now, and bitter against his father, a bandage on his forehead. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

With one week left of summer vacation, Ms. Antilly called me at home to see if I’d meet her at school. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The bookshelf in their living room at home now held only an assortment of religious bound volumes and his father’s periodicals on agriculture. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He had to start kindergarten at home, with his mom. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They had to have a name, or not be referred to at all, and talking about them—especially if you were safe and snug at home, or in Jordan College—was delicious. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, when I was at home I tap the little ones on the behind to make ’em behave, but not hard enough to hurt. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of my mother’s friends tells her that art is something you can always do at home, in your spare time. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mam tells them a cousin gave her that coat in Brooklyn, that her husband has no work, that she has other children at home, twin boys. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And how come the lights never go out at home? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When Dad was twenty-seven, Luke was born, at home, delivered by a midwife. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Just fine, I tell him, and since my dad ended his days in an Alzheimer’s facility I feel almost at home—which is, creepily enough, the truth. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, he was not there. Just my husband and my children was all that was at home.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Marcus stared at the floor, which I’d just noticed was tiled with tiny white hexagons like the ones in our bathroom at home. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I cared more that he had helped found the League of Nations, promoting freedom around the world, than the fact that he had repressed freedom at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some children were seated in a ring at the front of the room with their chairs, and they had some of the same books Grandma had me reading at home. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Dad finally shelled out for central air-conditioning, now that he worked at home, and it was too easy to stay inside and comfortable rather than go and help Charlie wire the tree house. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was not permitted to Praise there or at home, however. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the glee certain folks at home would feel if I were expelled. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, what if I sit at home all day and watch TV, and then tomorrow, I wake up and I'm my regular self again? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother will come in with all her documents. We just didn’t want her to miss a day of school and have to stay at home alone and all.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In those days Greek immigrants were beginning to use funeral parlors, but Sourmelina insisted that the viewing be held at home. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to get into what was going on at home, about how Mom seemed to be falling apart, and how I couldn’t think about much else than keeping us together. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night and for several nights afterward, she will spend hours in her room at home practicing lines and trying to hit what seems to her the right pitch. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s almost like the stuff that happens at home, it gets in my head like an infection. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

When the store owners would trade the old rolls for new bills, we’d open them at home to see what was inside. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

When I wasn’t at home or in school or at Cynthia’s house meeting with the Cavalettes, my parents knew I was at church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He feels totally at home wherever he goes. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were supposed to be at home, waiting for your boyfriend to come back a hero?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Church didn’t really bother him, anyway—unless it was going to be a month of Sundays—even though it wasn’t really something they did at home. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“But the thing is, my stom-ach is all messed up because I, er, forgot my wallet. I left my money at home, man.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly through the night, my telephone at home kept ringing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He understood why Aron could not work at home in an atmosphere not conducive to hard clean thought. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And the more plans you made, the more it became like living at home away from home,” I interrupted. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither Mr. Weasley nor Percy was at home much over the following week. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Anything happening at home that you need to talk about?” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

They’re having dinner at home, and he’s going to try to make sure she has a little wine. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She told him about her little brother and sister at home, who loved to crayon every piece of paper they could find, whether or not it already had type all over it. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

These blessings were so much longer than what Babulya and Mama said at home. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It's only after Ollie leaves me at home, after finishing the hot chocolate at Mama’s insistence, that I realize he never told me where it was, this meeting of his student group. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I have been having some trouble at home and have had to miss a lot of school lately. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Mine is to stay at home safe with Father and Mother, and help take care of the family,” said Beth contentedly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She protested, saying she still had two children at home. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they had just bread and potatoes too many times at home, Francie’s thoughts went to dripping sour pickles. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though she dreamed of a room that appeared to be the bedroom in Elinor's house, she knew that she was at home. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Of course, there was always work to lie done at home. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Switzerland, every adult male is issued an assault rifle for militia duty and is allowed to keep the gun at home. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The boat was gone, already at home on the river, I supposed, but my little friend was there. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the rest of the household sleeps, he and Sonia fight over the Walkman, over the melting collection of tapes Gogol recorded back in his room at home. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then we have a looonnnnng assembly and watch Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, which you know by heart from listening to it fifty-eleven times at home. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s not as if we got into a fight one night at home and I went for him with a golf club, taking a chunk out of the plaster in the hallway outside the bedroom. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remember that Amanda is going to drop me off at home so you do not have to come back and get me. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The road went into trees, where it would be shady, but June foliage in New England not much thicker than April at home. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some kids cheat at home but not at school; some kids cheat at school but not at home. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not often at home when I came by—she continued working at MIT, as Morrie wished—and I was surprised this morning to see her. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children encounter music at home, in their everyday cultural environment, and while at play. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

From the very beginning, Katherine felt completely at home at Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Just do your homework. We’ll talk at home. And please—no spinning on that stool.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I left my jacket at home because I wanted everyone to see my new shirt. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

His will, it turned out, was that Emily give birth at home at twenty-six weeks’ gestation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She can go be sad and lonely at home. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silent sisters would have seen to it at home, but this was Slaver’s Bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

People tended to stay at home most of the time. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I usually slept naked at home, where there was a door I could lock, but I had no intention of doing that in my grandmother’s house. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Knowing that we ate at school, Mrs. Moss scrimped even more at home, often serving only thin sandwiches for supper. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They would play the questions over and over—at home, in the car, everywhere. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder what would happen if I just walked in and sat down and made myself at home. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dad even said I could hang out at home again the next day if I wanted. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I have a phone at home,” I respond in a low voice. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She was finespun in the way that used to make Olanna wonder if she wasn’t uncomfortable, dressing up every day and simply sitting at home. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even at home, where I am less pleasant, I avoid discussing tricky topics. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He has to stay at home from this out. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But saying it made her think of Mamma, at home. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Back at home, I tried Monday’s number again, and the same automatic lady told me I was wrong. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

He seems to have overdone it with a couple of young recruits on the ploughed field at home and unknown to him the son of the local magistrate was watching. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As modestly as we lived at home, I never felt poor because our lives were so rich with experience. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I dreamed a giant called Hagrid came to tell me I was going to a school for wizards. When I open my eyes I’ll be at home in my cupboard.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She said that was the reason the rest of the men left him at home to sort of look after the womenfolks and kids while they were gone on the cow drive. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jeremiah lived at home with Geoffrey and their mother and often helped on the farm, but it was well agreed that he didn’t like hard work. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

But occasionally he found a chance to rest for a moment at home. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Go ahead, just the way you did at home.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She really did love her family, so much, but being at home was starting to feel like wearing an iron corset, painful and breathless and pinchy in all the wrong places. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I battled guilt when I had to take work calls at home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I admired your integrity, standing up for that boy in front of that dirty cop, especially if you got troubles with him at home. That takes courage.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guess that means if I figure out a way to survive the radiation, I’ll be right at home. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The thin, patchy blanket didn’t protect him from the cold desert night like his thick blanket at home did. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Do you have a schedule at home that you follow every day?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Let’s face it, I could never have been popular again at home. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She actually lived at home three days after it happened. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the glossies I’d pored over in my bedroom at home, admiring the gymnasts who’d reached the top of the sport. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My older brother, Nation, managed to get one somehow, and we hung it on our wall at home, using bubble gum as tape. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I'm reminded of those last few kernels that burst when Prim and I pop corn over the fire at home. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He’d left a widow at home with a child to raise. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He had four other kids at home who needed looking after. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t feel at home without my chamber pot,” she exclaimed, and it was the first item to find a permanent place under the divan. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We never talked seriously about girls and sex at home. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

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

“I’ll go and get it — my father’s just sent it to me —” Wondering what Malfoy was going to show them, Harry and Ron sat down, doing their best to look at home. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

So, after a couple of weeks, I felt like I had earned my place and felt right at home. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still don’t feel entirely at home among men. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They were the postal workers and the struggling bookkeepers and the men lying on their couches at home without any job at all. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I can clench my teeth against pain in a railway car as well as at home. I’ll go with her if you say the word.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were planning to take Melanie, but since Marshall had a way of going to sleep at concerts, it seemed best to leave him at home. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, life at home seemed kind of boring compared to life at church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Barack was more at home in Nairobi than I was, having been there once before. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It’s a new sketch, one of Baba and the twins playing Jenga at home. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“He is currently at home with his family, and wishes he could be here. He did write something that he’d like me to read to y’all, and I hope you’ll listen.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to sit at home any longer.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Behind me he said, “Wait till you try the banister at home.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He relayed all of this to me one night at home about six weeks after our wedding, before delicately dropping a final bit of information: His mother had found him the perfect cabin. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He often disappeared for a day or two, arriving at home sullen and exhausted. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She even threatens me, saying if I try to get out of it she will take away all my rights at home. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

It frightens me the way he yells and cries and sings and I wish I could be at home with my three brothers, no, my two brothers, and my mother. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I gathered my little sack of clothes and said goodbye and thank you, wishing I’d finished the bread and the coffee, because it would be nothing but potato soup at home. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Felicia knew that her mother, who stayed at home reading her books and rocking on the porch swing, had an instinctive distrust of the ecclesiastical. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

President Kennedy, looking worried too, was on the television at home, explaining we might have to go to war against the Communists. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“He wasn’t like this at home,” she said. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but most people call me Thomas. Well, except Newt—he calls me Tommy. Tom makes me feel . . . like I’m at home or something. Even though I don’t know what home is!’ The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Always blond or redhead, nice girls with sick or crippled parents at home. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everything is just right here as it is wrong at home. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

"And the boys are already making themselves at home. How wonderful." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I realized that these demons were like the Tang boys I knew at home. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe getting your period in the middle of gym when you’re wearing white shorts and the teacher is a man and you left all your sanitary napkins at home. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Images of the boys at home, watching television too late, popped into his mind. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There were times, at home, that we never crossed paths. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The part of the theory requiring some revision was that guests would feel at home if they were treated like one of our family. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom, when she’s at home, she loves to sing in Spanish. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh, sorry, friend, your mother’s at a funeral. You’ll find only water at home! HA! HA!” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

"I always have lunch at home with my parents," I say. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I should think every young man would want to go, though it is hard for the mothers and sisters who stay at home,” she added sorrowfully. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I have work to do when I am home, the little time I am at home, she lets me have the quiet I need to work in. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he did come again, Uncle Hermilio happened to be at home. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I've done the same thing at home when my mother's asking me to get out of bed or if I've finished my reading homework. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Although his education in Florence continued for another couple of years under the supervision of monks from the same order as those in Vallombrosa, he lived at home under the careful eye of his father. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I announced it at home, and Papa exploded. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anna wasn’t in the car with him—she was at home. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But he’s been cooped up at home for the last two days, and he needs to get out as much as I do. Look—he’s all spent!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Cinna shows up, I am irritable and exhausted from comforting the prep team, especially because their constant tears are reminding me of the ones undoubtedly being shed at home. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

What are the odds he hasn't heard weird stuff at home? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But I think he’d like to help your mom with things at home. That would be the best thing.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“I suppose. But if you’re the same cat I saw at home, how can you talk?” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

‘This is poor fare,’ they said to the hobbits; ‘for we are lodging in the greenwood far from our halls. If ever you are our guests at home, we will treat you better.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Once or twice they tried to play the Game indoors, before the grown-ups were at home of course; but it wasn’t the same at all. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the tea was done, he started to heat the oil for poori just like Kazi used to do every morning at home. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His father fished with flies that he tied himself at home. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I see. Where are you now? Are you at home?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most had thought Miss Love would go over to the Baptists right away or else hide at home, one. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Your mother never felt quite at home, and this made the possibility of some other place essential to her, propelling her to The Mecca, propelling her to New York and then beyond. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But it didn’t happen at once because his father was not at home yet. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

We know only a few dances at home, the kind that go with fiddle and flute music and require a good deal of space. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Back at home, we tried to calm Dad down. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I should say something about Rue, and Thresh, too, really, but every time I tried to write it at home, I ended up with a blank paper staring me in the face. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Puzzled, he said, “You go to school at home, and don’t know what grade you’re in. Who teaches you?” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not my father, but the voice’s familiarity makes me feel at home in an unfamiliar place. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I have a few — ah — items at home that might embarrass me, if the Ministry were to call. Mr. Borgin fixed a pair of pince-nez to his nose and looked down the list. “ Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I know I’m safe at home and that Mama is at work, but it still feels like having this book is wrong. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

If he hadn’t set fire to his draperies, I might still be at home. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Old Mr. Fleming, a classic country lawyer more happily at home with land deeds than ill deeds, opened the cross-examination. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a note on the refrigerator door saying that they had gone for their turtle walk and to make myself at home. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

And that afternoon she seemed to accept the idea, granted me the right, the freedom so crucial to adulthood, to become a person very different in public from the person I am at home. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alexa’s family always eats dishes we never have at home, and her parents talk to us like we’re not little kids. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of being at home, submerging my head under bathwater and hearing the pinging in the pipes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But Baba is waiting for us at home, and I start school in a week. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The forty-foot ceiling has been transformed into the night sky, and the stars look exactly as they do at home. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d be safer at home. Safer than on some stupid camping trip.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

At work he was dapper, but at home he lived in flannels, khakis, and suspenders. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He tells Ray that he hasn’t seen a bald eagle the entire week that Ray’s been resting here at home and that, no, he hasn’t seen Braviary. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Despite repeated questionings and stern talking-tos both at school and at home, she had refused to say anything about what had caused this outburst. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And now the conditions at many schools had gotten so terrible that every kid with half a brain was being encouraged to stay at home and attend school online. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I feel a little better as soon as I see it on the wall above the couch, exactly where it always was at home. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Almost my entire salary went to feed the eternally hungry stomachs at home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He frantically reached for his phone to text Amelia, and realized that he’d left it at home again by accident. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“My mother and baby are at home,” said Miss Rossit, wringing her hands. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“In case you want to work on it at home.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But he was still a cop through and through, and the strict expectations he had at work for his officers were the same ones he had for his children at home. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Not that Mami encouraged our fights at home, but she never said, “Don’t fight with your sisters.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Things were quiet at home since the departure of León and Eugene. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because this year we noticed he has a new routine: lots of times right in class he makes himself at home and pries off his sneakers. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I would practice at home, putting on nightly news broadcasts for my family, speaking in French. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“How come Olga never felt the need to be out in the streets like some sort of Gypsy? She was always so comfortable here at home, spending time with her family. Bien agusto, mi niña.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It made us think of the empty chair at home; so we got up and walked down Piccadilly. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Just behave as if we were back at home,” said Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t at home, and this woman wasn’t my mother. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know how I’ve wanted to be with you. I keep imagining myself waking up at home some morning—alone.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Was she trying to tell us that there were more demons waiting at home? Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The best thing was to stay at home for a while. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, I never used them at home. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But these rules had little to do with the way we lived at home. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I usually make the potato salad at home. Now she got him I guess she wants to eat his nasty potato salad.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The perfect home that could move around, a home that didn’t close you in or tie you down: and a sailor would always be at home if he was on the sea. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mam tells me at home, You shouldn’t cry but then again tears are salty and they’ll wash the bad stuff from your eyes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

"Camellia and Edelweiss, when I ask you for something, no explanation need be given. Whether at home or here. All of you should remember that." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I’ll ever feel at home in this house, but that doesn’t mean I hate it. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He sighed as he pictured the tattered nursery rhyme book in the box by Boots’s crib at home. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I know I do—teaching those tiresome children nearly all day, when I’m longing to enjoy myself at home,” began Meg, in the complaining tone again. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, is that so? You know what, I'd love to help but forgot my wallet at home this morning," he says with a disappointed shrug. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Had I been at home that afternoon and not with Zephyr raining down bad luck, I know everything would’ve been different. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She sits at home because she is afraid to go outside without his permission. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come with me. Come to New York. You can sleep on my couch. We’ll find you a job. I’ll hassle you about the Bible and give you guilt trips to make you feel at home.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

With the exception of Mr. Mayflower, I’m beginning to feel at home with this little group. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was the only time she sang aloud at home. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We had one of these at home that actually rolled. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

In April, Melissa called me one day at home to let me know about a snarky column written by Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Right from the beginning, he was a poor, scrawny little blighter, always weeping during his first week in the dormitory because he wasn’t at home with his mommy and daddy anymore. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“As a matter of fact, one of those Gypsy—blighters—called here this afternoon. Around four o'clock, when housewives and children are likeliest to be at home, unprotected.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Here it was: all the stuff of her activity that I had expected to see in her room at home, the “office” whose location 178 she would not reveal. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Truly excellent, guys! And you might want to practice this at home, too. I’d recommend in front of a mirror.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He thought they sat quietly at home and that Johnny read the Bible out loud to them. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he’s not with Raquel, he’s probably got a girl or even three at home. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She invited me in to meet her dad, who was at home. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used to get sick quite a lot back at home. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

His stomach growls and he wonders what there will be for dinner at home, what his father has prepared. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Growing up, he used it to talk to his parents; Sunny and I stuck to English at home even though our parents spoke Bangla. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“They’re at home chilling. I’m going to try to sleep. You good?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Just as he said he would, Coop has slept at home since the night he said yes. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I go home to Kenya during the school vacations, and I spend two or three weeks with her, telling her what I’m doing and finding out from her about life at home. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were what she held close when she had to spend a night without her mother at home. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I tried to be at the apartment during the day in case Arturo stopped back at home, either to eat or to drop off applications. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

We all help clean up and put away the leftovers, and then we make ourselves at home on the newly acquired, used furniture. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Some said they were at home or at a friend’s house. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Ma shook her head like she was annoyed at Dad, a look Genie saw all the time at home. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe Styx and I should’ve left him at home for this one. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“My mom has me punch a pillow at home,” Daniel says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“And at home I have a lot of clothes sent by your New York cousins.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

"Yeah. I'm here. But look, can I try to explain this later? Like, could I call you at home? It's not what you think." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though our sacrifices at home are small compared to yours, we make them with a sense of humor! Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She was at home in bed this time. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

After working near one congenial-seeming inmate for a long time, he’d become so comfortable talking to him that he’d confided to the inmate about some problems at home and a shortness of cash. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He claimed he’d left the key at home and the new owner asked no further questions. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I know about ovipositors, for laying eggs, on leaves, on caterpillars, on the surface of the water; they’re right out on the page, clearly labeled, on the diagrams of insects my father corrects at home. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

One night, after another hopeless job search, Gold was resting at home when a friend came racing through the door. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is something happening at home? How’s your family doing since...you know, your sister and everything?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Lizzy,” cried her mother, “remember where you are, and do not run on in the wild manner that you are suffered to do at home.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

"What did Miss Trunchbull call your father when they were around the house at home?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could practice there as well as at home. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Letters from college coaches landed regularly in his mailbox at home, holding out the prospect of scholarships. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They read about Egypt in the library during the day, and at home in the evening, and in bed late at night when they were supposed to be asleep. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said her mom was at home, too, and she didn’t want to listen to her crying all day long. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“If you see anything else they got over here that we don’t have at home, stay away from it. What these people use on a daily basis will kill you as fast as an RPG.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We always celebrate the Harvest Festival on the final day of the Victory Tour, but usually it means a meal at home or with a few friends if you can afford it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s none of his business I can’t afford fancy brushes and watercolor paper at home. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when you do be at working she teaches me to do things with the Tub at home.' The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at home he was our humorous, kind, and wise Dad. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All these potions came from my chemistry set at home. My mom saw it. It’s safe,” I said, trying my best to convince Mr. Terupt. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Then she adds, “Oh! And Merryl didn’t even bother to show up. Kyro called her at home when the bus was set to leave and her mother said she was sick.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I was never going to live at home forever,” I point out. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

If I remember, when I was in high school, the counselor was there to help kids out who had academic problems, or problems at home. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No! That was the plan. No purse, no nothing for me or Aileen. That was the point. I left mine at home after I called for the car.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had made a treasure map, and after cake at home, Daisy and Mom and I got into the canoe and paddled down to Pirates Island. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She dreamed that her mother was at home, scolding her in the morning, telling her to get to school on time. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Kyle figured being locked in a library with computers on Friday night would be better than being stuck at home without any gaming gear at all. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

When he’s bored at home, there are plenty of books to read, and his parents see it as their responsibility to keep him actively engaged in the world around him. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When she was at home with me, Maman used to spend her time following me with her eyes, not saying a thing. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Bad on top of the bad I was already feeling over everything else going on at home. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

With his shotgun waiting in reserve at home if he needed it, William George marched over to French’s house. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Soon Horace, the youngest boy, would go to school, too, and then it would be just the two girls at home. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s Saturday so I’ll have to go looking for him at home. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lance, please don’t ask. You know that Arthur is at home, and it is much too dangerous.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, though, he started to take Dickon and leave me at home, and he no longer cared whether I sat through his audiences, so long as Dickon was there. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I always feel at home and I never feel at home. That’s just the way it is.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of place where I’d once been so at home. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, Melanie’s mother had been after her, too, to make the new girl feel at home. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, lie’s not at home,” Mr. Levy told the audience in the office. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, as I swung along the streets, I thought consciously of how I had conducted myself at home. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The writing was in his fine careful hand, in the black ink from the bottle in the cupboard at home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spent afternoons together at home often, with Emma doing needlework in Charles’s study. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today he was supposed to be working quietly at home, but here he was, come in for an unexpected visit to his staffers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just put it all on a disk and give it to me. I’ll run it off on the laserjet at home.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands rest on the arms of the sofa; now I make myself at home and draw up my legs so that I sit comfortably in the corner, in the arms of the sofa. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come in, come in, make yourself at home!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

So I might go looking for a shop with another lamp like that in its window—not to buy, but just to compare with my ones at home. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the same form appeared in Moore’s mailbox at home with a sticker that said “Circle I do.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I had missed the morning Bulletin on my set at home, and half-listened now, my mind elsewhere, until the repetition of the name several times caught my ear at last and stopped my pacing. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine him sitting at home watching the History channel or reading a massive biography in front of a crackling fireplace. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

But the special feeling of closeness at home was diminished by then. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The image of Pita looking so innocent and young made me think of the dead man’s children, sitting at home, wondering what happened to their papá. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He taped another set into his daybooks, so they’d always be with him, in case something happened at home. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Enrolled in college again, she lived at home to save money for the years of medical school ahead. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, make yourself at home. You hear now?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

So he was not at home in early March and did not know that Frodo had been ill. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And when you can imagine we’re at home, then take the road into the city, asking directions to the palace of Alldnoos. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was at home in Aunty Ifeoma’s house; he knew which chair had a protruding nail and could pull a thread off your clothes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry—Mom’s here, and not happy about me talking to you about this. Where are you? Are you at home? Can I call you back?” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“It looks just like the flowers at home,” she marveled. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, thousands of people—at home over the breakfast table and on buses and trains coming into New York—read about Chester. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess that’s the problem right there, at home I never would have thought about how to walk into a stupid room. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa said he sure did wish Mr. Blakeslee had a telephone at home. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As Aunt Marge started to make herself at home, Harry caught himself thinking almost longingly of life at number four without her. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

If anything, the teachers here are always encouraging me to be free, to feel at home. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I forgot it at home,” I say to my desk. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Because the mothers were not at home, a family rarely ate together, all at the same time. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s this when it’s at home, then?” asked the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

We were meant to be visiting her and Henry and the baby at home. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed perfectly at home among these women and treated me coolly, with a slight sneer, like a dim and inferior acquaintance. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was a do-it-yourself contraption that you could assemble at home. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

After we opened our presents at home, we visited Adele’s relatives and played with her three grandchildren, who were close to my age. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The Rusties didn’t put their factories underground, and they all worked together like bees in a hive instead of at home. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In a strange way I feel comforted, at home. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe because we still have Easter decorations up at home. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

This way, at least, Bri would have food, and what little remained at home would last that much longer. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I recognized the value of every minute and hour put in at home, especially with Barack’s schedule being so irregular. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Welcome. There’s pizza in the kitchen. Grab a plate and make yourself at home. Matt, we could use a few more chairs. Would you get the ones off the back porch?” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hardly look at my own body in the mirror, even at home, in private. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Wallace,” he would say to me, “never couch at home watching TV when you could be doing something fruitful. Get out, boy. Jog. Go to the gym! Lift a barbell!” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The general public could grow HeLa at home using instructions from a Scientific American do-it- yourself article, and both Russian and American scientists had managed to grow HeLa in space. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Back at home my mother wept again and talked complain- ingly about the unfairness of the judge who had accepted my father’s word. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, at home, when Mother asked Mama Tataba to go put the soup on the stove, Mama Tataba turned and walked smack dab out the front door in between the words “soup” and “stove.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Living at home, whenever I want to leave Longleaf, I have to ask Mother if I can borrow her car. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I like to write. Every once in a while, I bring a notebook out here and write about animals and stuff. Anything to get my mind off things going on at home.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Because on a counter by the bed, she has set up a miniature version of what must sit on her mantle at home, wherever that is. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Boyles called Gaines at home to say he was still with him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He works every Thursday and Friday night now, so usually it’s only me at home. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Jorge emigrated to Australia where he tended sheep, same as at home. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel himself paused in the mouth of the hole, as he always had behind the bramble curtain at home, and looked out across the valley. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also hated the way her mother constantly corrected her both at home and at school. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

So, after we finished filming the first scene and Sahil dropped me off at home, I had a surprise waiting—an e-mail from N! From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Practice is almost over. Might as well stay, and then I'll drop you off at home. I'll talk to her then. Cool?" Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They co-ran their luggage business, which meant they spent their days at work together and then spent their evenings at home commiserating over dissatisfied customers or certain suitcases that were damaged beyond repair. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But what would I be getting at home? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I only knew that when I showed up at home, there’d be food in the fridge, not just for me, but for my friends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I’d make him ride in that car like a civilised man or stay at home. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are nothing like the dirt streets at home. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The newspapers reported Seward’s carriage accident and described the serious injuries he had suffered, noting that he was recovering at home, bedridden. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cicadas hummed their one-note song, just as they had at home in Florida. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t iron sheets at home. Not even Pa’s shirts.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“She’s missed 4 homework assignments. I have a feeling that she completes the assignments but perhaps forgets them at home or on the bus.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was dinnertime, so we had dinner at a J. E Barnigan’s Family Extravaganza, which was pretty good, and just like the one at home. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Tab, who had always spoken French at home but almost never raised her hand at school, became kind of a know-it- all. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Pa spent more time with Miss Marva Hendrix than he spent at home. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Take these and read them at home,” instructed Ms. Bethune. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Her months abroad had little effect on her career at home. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Think I'm going to leave the hat here at home. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Chris seemed to be thinking about them, too, for he said, “The Virginia creepers seem to like the whole family at home at once, like us. Little ones and big ones, all together.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I sink down in the new mattress, wishing for an indentation like the one left behind by Maman in our bed at home, and drift into disappointed dreams. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It’s not so bad being stuck at home tonight. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Ms. Fender had also handed out some new music—“Pirate Medley”—which we were supposed to start practicing at home. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I felt that I was at home, that I was where I had been meant to be for a long time. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The people of Orléans would most likely gasp if they knew we called her "Du Barry" at home. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When people asked, he always said his finger was “something” that had happened at home. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the garden was covered with snow, and Julian, apparently, was not at home; at least he didn’t answer the door. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“In his dresser at home he has all the drawings I made him when I was litde.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Mami stroked my head, which lay relaxed and at home on her lap. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“They looked rather at home in those tales, in fact. But if the children did not care for the actors’ tableaux,” she added slyly, “perhaps they will show us one of their own.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Under J. T.’s protection he watched the gang members up close, at work and at home. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I think there might be some lighter fluid in the garage back at home—I can try to sneak some here so Sandy won’t have to be sitting in the dark every night. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The one assigned to Borman and Stafford and me was coming along nicely, and I was finally getting to feel at home in it and learn what all the switches did. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lied to him again, saying it was at home, or in the wrong folder, or whatever I told him today. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

If you’d had a head start at home, you were rewarded for it at school, deemed “bright” or “gifted,” which in turn only compounded your confidence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The move, he explained, would give him political cover at home, where public sentiment against the bomb was steeply on the rise. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Now, at home with the family where he was accustomed to have Mother at his side, he felt frustrated, and seized every opportunity to go down to the hospital and visit. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tribe migrated for several reasons, including civil war and discrimination at home, as well as the fact that the mountains held an abundance of grasslands—a paradise for grazing cows. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Feeling antsy both at home and at work, we’d booked a modest hotel room near Waikiki Beach and started counting down the days. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The poles were all even—unlike Anya’s crooked and twisting poles at home—and lashed at the corners with more colorful ribbon. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Do you not see enough of him and his heavy hand at home? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

When he gave up God, did he also give up the strict morality he learned at home? Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Most people in other areas, including the Deep South, understood, though the situation remained uncomfortable at home. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had an old Singer at home and I could sew well enough with it to take care of my needs and Kevin’s. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He looked so at home in that citified bar in his ranch outfit I thought he might well be somebody famous. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Bridge had to wonder if it was a look she practiced at home. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Whenever we have dinner together at home, Charlie always pretends he’s too tired to help clean. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I thought it was strange, because at home we were taught that it was disrespectful to argue with our parents, especially our father. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Most people were receiving more post than usual; anxious parents were keen to hear from their children and to reassure them, in turn, that all was well at home. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Among wealthy countries, South Korea ranks first in per capita spending on private education, which includes home tutors, cram sessions, and English-language courses at home and abroad. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

"Hanneke, stop playing dumb. I'm not the one whose mother is waiting for her at home, worried about curfew. I can have this conversation until dawn or we’re arrested. Whichever you prefer." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Katz was instantly transformed—so much so that he felt perhaps a trifle too much at home. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“She just walked in last week and made herself at home.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time we went, we were greeted warmly, and we felt right at home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And there was another picture of her waiting at home for her mom. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He felt at home in the water, especially in the dark when everything was still and silent. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sees Zach as “fawned over” at school and at home. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She doesn't have to say it, but I know she hates being at home as much as I do. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mother had her first half-dozen babies at home, instead of in hospitals, because she liked to run the house and help Dad with his work, even during the confinements. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He needed a PR win—not at home, where the reoccupation of the Rhineland had been immensely popular—but in London and Paris and New York. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In order to feel safe, I always wanted to stay at home with my mother, Lois; my grandma, India; my papa, Will; and my baby brother, Conrad. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Madame Ratignolle looked more beautiful than ever there at home, in a negligé which left her arms almost wholly bare and exposed the rich, melting curves of her white throat. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, after Mama died, Luis couldn’t go anywhere. He had to stay at home with Theresa and me.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, I thought, “That sucks!” but it didn’t affect me because I was at home. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t need em looking in on me at home. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He hoped that when he awakened his father would be safe at home. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was hard for him to leave the house because he worried so much that the stove and oven were on at home. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He can’t work anymore, and he’s just sitting at home, surrounded by his eight children, brooding about his approaching death. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It could still be hanging on the back of the closet door at home. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There was no way for him to know whether she was at home or not. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the time I heard someone speaking at home and didn’t distinguish his sounds from the words people uttered in public. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malik’s the on-deck batter, and he’s waiting for me at home plate, dancing with his mouthguard dangling out of his mouth. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I still had to help my parents translate the bills and other documents at home, which got on my nerves. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And even more important, he would stay at home, where he belonged. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Inside, the saloon feels like one of our old dollhouses in the playroom at home. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Now it seemed like I should have just stayed at home. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This being so, my trip demanded that I leave my name and my identity at home. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing here in the quiet, she believes she has never felt at home in the States, never. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She's always strict with me at choir rehearsal, without a trace of the affection she and I share at home. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

These he covered with plywood flooring, making a large, rectangular platform, roughly the size of his room at home. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“I talked to social services today and told them I didn’t think your situation at home has improved, after all. I told them I thought maybe they’d made a mistake.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Shusgis,” I said with emotion, “I feel perfectly at home.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Dorus did have a temper—which he lost sometimes at home with his children, and even with his parishioners. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Violet said she still had a cane at home. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was, of course, absolutely perfect at being himself, and he was very much at home in the role. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they get back we’ll be at home; you the hostess, and I your guest. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I were beaten at home, there was absolutely nothing that I could do about it; but if I were beaten in the streets, I had a chance to fight and defend myself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would not even consent that my wife should stay at home to rock the baby when she ought to be addressing a meeting or organizing a society.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

To my surprise Old Granny made no comment, beyond smiling reassuringly when I muttered guiltily that our needs at home were growing. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And there is a certain bombast in the way we speak that I had also forgotten. I started feeling truly at home again when I started being bombastic!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hell, I’d probably still be at home playing video games or trying to talk myself into getting out of the apartment. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Hypothesis: If I raised enough money to pay for his treatment, then Fig could stay at home, where he belonged. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Jo keeps him at home, determined to take care of him herself. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She let me pull her down and lay next to me, burying her face into my side the way she does when we’re at home. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Some of us worked full-time, some part-time, some stayed at home with their kids. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I believe that. But you won’t be with me at home. Just my parents and my sisters. They all think medicine should be magic, and they become mad at me when it’s not.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I have a lot of them at home now, lined up like soldiers across the front of my dresser. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It felt like he was watching out for me, and he paid more attention to me than he usually does at home. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

‘So there are Oliphaunts, and I have seen one. What a life! But no one at home will ever believe me. Well, if that’s over, I’ll have a bit of sleep.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There was no question of where to find him; “I am at Christmas location” meant that he was at home. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She needed a purpose to start feeling at home. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A big, L-shaped couch takes up most of the living room, along with a big TV, but smaller than the one we have at home. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His eyes are a cedar brown, the color of the trees that grow out of the Rose Bayou waters at home. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Early in the morning, his telephone rang at home. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a strange world, though no doubt some feel at home there.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have a two-story home, and I love working here, especially in the winter when the snow is swirling and I am up here in the office at home.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Of course Sam could claim it was a hardship case—the father gone and only the younger brother left at home. But the feet that Mr. Meeker is considered a Tory won’t help.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But some days he wished he were still back at home herding cattle. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I say, I wish I’d got a bride of three months waiting for me at home! I’m a poor lonesome bachelor.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ramu has picked up English faster than I have because his parents know English and force him to speak it at home. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

And she kept my sister at home because she needed help with dinner. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of leaving one’s family at home and driving an hour to work at a factory to get paid by the hour struck Generose as a weird quirk of American society. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed wrong, like those football players who finally retire and have to face that first Sunday at home, watching on TV, thinking, I could still do that. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helmuth wishes his other brother were at home, too, to say what he thinks. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Gitano seemed to be more at home in the evening. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It means, that’s how she is at home. Everything has to be perfect.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Emma played the piano, Frank the bassoon, and Elizabeth, who was unmarried and also lived at home, shouted. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Father was not at home, I had company enough, for the rains here were lively, friendly things. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gully prescribed a regime for Annie at home, with plans that she would come to Malvern in the spring if she hadn’t gotten better. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we arrived at home, the coachman handed me out, remounted, and flicked his whip. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I consulted the book both at home in my room and at the daily learning academy other people called our school. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was not the kind of best that counted either at school or at home, but it was a genuine kind of best. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

To survive in this steep, narrow hodgepodge of ecosystems, Andean communities usually sent out representatives and colonies to live up- or downslope in places with resources unavailable at home. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“He's probably at home. I don't think he's very popular with your friends right now.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But why sacrifice yourself just so others can get fat at home? All they ever understand is that they need more money.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

After two weeks of being stuck at home, we’d begged our parents to let us take the bus. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I also realized that I could run into Mr. Becker in town at any time, so I decided that until school started, I’d put the watch on only at home. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If they're not at home, you can bet on a stack of pancakes that they are within yoo-hooing distance of somebody who knows them. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I recount such incidents only because they suggest the fierce power Spanish had for many people I met at home; the way Spanish was associated with closeness. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Congolese kids at school were calling me Rwandan all the time, dubbing me a foreigner, repeating what they had heard at home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I liked being out here better than being at home. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have someone who stayed at home all the time to make sure we were safe when Mama was at work anymore. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Specifically, nothing was to be published that was “calculated to weaken the power of the Reich at home or abroad, the community will of the German people, its military spirit, or its culture and economy.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For this reason, most of her work was at home, plucking chickens or doing other things which required little strength. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He cries so hard over the dog Mam lets us all stay at home from school. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And in any case, as she well knew, an American concert singer who did not study and perform successfully abroad couldn’t hope to have a distinguished career at home. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

But that Saturday morning at home, as he laid out his tools and the pieces of an antique clock that needed fixing, he could not stop thinking about the monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw, without bothering to notice, statues at home and at school of the Virgin and of Christ. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I could see this boy at home doing his homework and thinking about my sister naked. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I continued to train at the foundation in Manhattan and lived at home with my parents in New Jersey, but I would compete representing the United States as a member of the national team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And the obscene caller that phoned us at home when the adults were at the laundry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mam whispers,The coast is clear, go back to sleep.Ye can stay at home today. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

If I had to have a last meal on my final night at home, I wanted it to be DaVinci’s with Dad. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

That Holmes lived in Englewood, not the heart of Chicago, was at first a disappointment, but here too there was a vibrancy far beyond what she had experienced at home. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He had plenty for himself at home, and didn’t want any more weighing him down. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

You could see that she was happy that Ice was having the party at home. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Enrique knows children as young as six or seven whose single mothers have stayed at home and who have had to root through the waste in order to eat. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Instead, she spent the next year at home, playing piano for church socials. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And you could never be sure, for at home an old man employed as a janitor at the Water Works was the only one who knew the location of all of the water mains. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t as hard to take at the laundry as at home, though. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carol says uncertainly that she has them at home. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soft leather not unlike my ones at home. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After a while, I grew more calm at home. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were talking one afternoon at school and I asked, “Can I get your phone number? Maybe I can call you and we can talk at home sometime.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He enjoyed some of the philosophies of Buddhism and Christianity, and he still felt at home, culturally, in Judaism. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And afterward, at home, your father and I had a huge argumant. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

You work on her at home and I’ll make a novena once a month.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to be at home somewhere, and I want to run away,” Immie went on. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He sat there, the TV muted in the background, and he felt at home again, a strange sensation after such an intense day. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I do not understand why I have to speak Korean at home so I will not forget where I come from. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I miss the old days. When everyone was little and we all stayed at home together.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was in Iowa, but I had the distinct feeling of being at home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When he didn’t even come by for his whiskey, I and Papa and Mama must of each thought Miss Love didn’t object to a man’s having a little toddy at home. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Another thing I decided was that I would be as secretive about my mission as I could at home, and as honest about it as I could outside home, because that’s what was necessary. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she went on to tell me that she had come from a rough background herself and knew what it was like to struggle without support at home. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But all night, at home, I’m not thinking about the play. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She was sure, because she hadn’t told Mama about the custom, knowing there was no money at home for such things. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But Bigger, you said that if you were where people did not hate you and you did not hate them, you could be happy. Nobody hated you in church. Couldn’t you feel at home there?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Black Americans knew, and they answered as they had each time their country called: for democracy abroad and at home. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There was no way I could be crying into a tub of ice cream at home. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather be anywhere than at home, putting curry in plastic boxes for customers. Mama is cooking up a literal storm this week, much of it Thanksgiving-related.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He seemed quite at home, and Jasper certainly recognized him, but these two facts did not fit in with Maxim’s words to Mrs. Danvers. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Needless to say, I didn’t enjoy spending time at home. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He’s definitely glad he’s not at home in James Robert Lamar Jr.’s personal version of house arrest. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I was weary of being hungry all the time, weary of being beaten all the time: at school, at home and in the streets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It said, Unknown: Do objects and people repeat because V. pointed at home? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was at home with the silence of the desert, and he was content just to look at the trees. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I will eat at home. Do you want me to make the fire?” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both Dad and Mother tried to impress us that it was our responsibility to make guests feel at home. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I learned from my year at the British Museum and from my summer at home, other academics have learned; others have known the impossibility of going home, going back. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And what would that be when it was at home?” asked Mrs. Owens, eyeing the yellow and brown object suspiciously. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Please don’t tell them at home about my dress tonight. They won’t understand the joke, and it will worry Mother.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would have been at home, and he with them. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

It was into this world that Ma and Pa sent their two oldest children from eight thirty to four o’clock, with a two-hour break at home for lunch. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Boo watched her go, shouting, “Don’t forget to hydrate at home! Pandavas are always hydrated!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I made new friends at school and at home. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Ma gets work to do here at home anytime she can. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to remember how I would have walked into a new class at home. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving him at home one afternoon, she taped his cardiologist’s business card to the couch where he was sitting. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was suffering from a bad case of the flu and my doctors ordered me to remain at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to sit down with her notebook and pens and draw every T-shirt folded in her drawer at home. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I texted him to let him know I would meet him at home. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But I keep thinking about Natalie at home in Santa Monica—living her life in the back room of our house and on the steps of Gram’s. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they’ll play hopscotch, transferring upstate from one “jump jail” to the next, until they can finally live at home again. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was anxious that he might miss her visit, as though his dreams were a door she might even now be knocking on, and finding no one at home. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“A pass...that was just written permission for a slave to be somewhere other than at home at a certain time.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Fern hugged Miss Patty Cake but refrained from putting a piece of toast to her doll’s lips like she would have done at home. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When people heard my name, they thought, Don’t try this at home! not gifted. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“You want me to drop you boys off at home?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at home the golden bird was gone from the mantel. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Tell them to go away,” said Lancelot “Say I am not at home.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet it needs to be emphasized: I was an extremely happy child at home. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But over time my eyes and ears adjusted, so that I began to feel at home with those fragments of my people’s history: stories of pioneers, my ancestors, striking out across the American wilderness. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Looking at the sky, it’s like I’m lying on the grass at home, in Lithuania.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Winter vacation had started, and we children all stayed at home. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What”—Dad did a fake laugh—“is a 'water feature' when it's at home?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It's as cold as a November night at home. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Would it get enough light in her bedroom at home? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father, in his classes and when he studied with me at home, always used the latter method. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Just at that very same moment, Europeans—at home and across the Atlantic—decided that they could no longer stand being objects themselves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He tells her he left his wallet at home, so she goes and buys him food. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Lock your doors...Hide your valuables...He even left Manny’s watch at home. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The servants left at home to attend to him were kept busy satisfying his enormous appetite and, still more, refilling his wine-jug. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was going to the late show by myself and had left Kermit at home. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What? Me? You are! ‘My physicians at home.’ A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Are you alone at home? Where is your master?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The irony was, now that delusions and paranoia were starting to get the best of him, it was true—he wasn’t safe at home, not with all those guns around. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Ian Smith’s white government was bolstered by the South African Defense Force, and the ANC regarded the battle in Zimbabwe as an extension of our struggle at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's wearing a tight T-shirt underneath a peacoat, which she presently takes off, and she looks awfully good, good enough that I wonder aloud if we can't talk at home. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Once when his class had visited the fire department, his picture had been in the paper at home. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s do this. Three laps today. Three laps and then we meet at home plate. Let’s go.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The flowers were like new acquaintances; she approached them in a familiar spirit and made herself at home among them. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I must have left it. at home, Miss Harbottle,” I said. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Because Tyler was the third son, he barely remembered school and was happy to study at home. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He withstood it all, with his friends out in the world fighting for him and with Emma by his side at home, as she had been since they made their leap. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We having trouble with salary as it is. Chariddy begin at home.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later he went to Europe, hoping to earn the success that was denied him at home. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

"Because I was needed at home to do the work." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

And I was glad to be living at home again. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ridgeway said it made him feel at home, the blacksmith’s son. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Those of us who were Jewish spoke Yiddish at home, Polish in public, and Hebrew in religious school or at the synagogue. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I curse myself for leaving that note, I’ve obviously got him into trouble at home. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Bengali the word for pet name is daknam, meaning, literally, the name by which one is called, by friends, family, and other intimates, at home and in other private, unguarded moments. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt right at home when he spoke Spanish. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“My dad says they evacuated all the buildings at Fermi. There’s police at all the entrances, and apparently there is going to be the Army or the National Guard, too. He’s at home already.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He actually did start taking baths and leaving his horrible hat at home, praise the Lord. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I know why you work at home,” she said. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

In the garden at home on summer evenings, he had listened many times to the sound of grasshoppers chirping in the grass, and he had always liked the noise that they made. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Although the boy is taught in English at school, he rarely uses anything but Spanish at home. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I feel at home in a Hindu temple. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s disgusting. I don’t know what to do, Dr. Guarino. Even at home he forgets—and sometimes when we have people in the house. I’m so ashamed when he does that.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Matching the silence I started hearing in public was a new quiet at home. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even if things are horrendous at home, you give the customer your best.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He works at home doing tech stuff when he wants. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Make yourselves at home. Don’t be shy. There are drinks in the dining room.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Here, I copied down a bunch of the ridiculous talking points from the NRA website last night at home. You can copy them into your notebook unless you already have them memorized.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

What then shall I do at home with my father? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was at home in the redbrick house that my family recently moved into. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I hope you haven’t made a big deal about this at home,” I tell them, “like balloons and ‘welcome home’ banners and stuff.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Since my father wasn’t making me feel wanted at home, I really needed to feel accepted by my peers at school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I'll probably work extra hours at the bookstore once school is over. Trust me, I'm not going to be sitting at home with my mom feeling sorry for myself,” I say. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I looked—tried to look; the yard was crowded with students—at home plate and imagined Danny standing there, grinning at me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She drew strength from the older man’s steadfast support and intellectual nourishment from his commanding intelligence, which grappled with a wide range of issues, from anticolonial movements in Africa to presidential politics here at home. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He proudly displayed his new diploma at home, excitedly mounting it one weekend in a frame he’d bought the week he received his test scores. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The more food they had at home, the better. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I thought about him at home playing video games all night by himself, ticcing badly. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Your father is thinking maybe we should reconsider...and have you stay at home.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She’s the kind of person who will make everyone feel at home even if she has a problem with you, sort of like she was with Hudson. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

In fact, being out here all by himself reminded him of the nights at home when he sneaked out into the woods while Papa and Phoebe were asleep. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

All of the boys said she sat on her wall at home after school and showed her panties to those that wanted to see. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we were free and at home in Rhode Island and these were our sheets and our laundry lines and our snow, she’d dance like an angel. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A much more dangerous hobby in France than at home. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

When my desire for long pants became known at home, yet another storm shook the house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is how I handle it at home, but always before a shower, so a bunch of soap and shampoo will go after it and keep everything clean. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He barely spoke all night at home, and at about 10 p.m., two hours after his bedtime, I walked by his bedroom and heard him sobbing in his bed. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we were at home with Pa and Big Ma, we would have been bathed and in bed an hour and five minutes ago. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robots and might as well have spent them at home with the Encyclopedia Tellurica. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

And we were all aware that the forces that held back our bodies back at home were not unrelated to those that had given France its wealth. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

If you did this without breaking the stem in half, you’d have meat for dinner waiting for you at home. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I shuffled through a stack of his CDs, some from Gran’s garage and a few I’d snuck from his collection at home. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Mommy also taught summer school for the extra money, so she couldn’t just leave five kids at home alone all day. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I’m grateful—to have her, Thaya Jaan, my family, and friends in my life, both in Pakistan and here at home. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

One week from today I’ll knock on this door and I want to find nobody at home, everybody out never to return. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

As Roy rode away on his bike, he pondered the possibility that Mullet Fingers was better off roaming the woods than living at home with a witch for a mother. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have always been pretty serious about hitting the old practice pad at home, but now that I was living in the Conversation-Free TV-Dinner Zombie Zone, I basically had nothing else to do. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Candice had dressed up a little, though not as fancy as she would have back at home. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I arranged the kebabs on a platter and sprinkled them with chopped cilantro like I did at home. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Her jacket is in the car; her regular running clothes and shoes are back at home. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

From the moment he stepped into the shell that afternoon, he felt at home. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Stay at home? And go where? To community college?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Doctor Tate be here real soon. They calling him up at home.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Which left, still living at home, the boy, Kenyon, who at fifteen was taller than Mr. Clutter, and one sister, a year older—the town darling, Nancy. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I felt Puerto Rican out in the world the way I do at home. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Yet how could she stay at home when the ten rats, including Justin and Brutus, were waiting bravely underground? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

His mother worked at what was called piecework—doing applique at home. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A box of tissues is conveniently placed next to the plush couch where Ms. Finn instructs me to “sit, relax, make yourself at home.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It is important to keep in mind that a rich musical environment at home and at school will greatly benefit a child’s musical and cognitive abilities at any age. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, I left my armor and warhorse at home,” she said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m perfectly happy sleeping at home in my own bed with my own family.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Punishment would be prompt both at school and at home. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah! Yes, Mom. But the test could be to see if we’re willing to accept what has happened and stay at home and praise Jesus for his wisdom.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Many computers and other female employees at the laboratory exchanged the daily routine of office life for a full-time position at home. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

One month, no more, I stayed at home in joy with children, wife, and treasure. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of leaving it at home so that I would not make the mistake of forgetting to take it off in class, but I decided to wear it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t even have soap in the bathroom at home.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She had no frame of reference for my life, so we talked about hers—how the public school system was corrupt so she was teaching her children herself, at home. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He took an interest in our lives and would give time off if a woman was wanted at home for a child or a husband’s sickness. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she’s got a sick mother at home like Miss Stewart, the typing teacher. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Coin indulgently hits the replay button, and this time, since I know what will happen, I try to pretend that I’m watching this on my television at home in the Seam. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They knew that the public at home had doubts about the rightness of the war, and he wanted to reassure them and tell them why they were there. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The next day, the nuns were busy and Mr. Taphouse was at home, so Malcolm had no excuse to go to the priory. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

One shopper abandoned a cart, mumbling about a wallet he must have left at home, despite an obvious bulge in his back pocket. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Whenever she slept at home, she’d have it: her dad taking Mitchell, threatening that Terryl would never see the boy again. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Nay, I mean at home, where your parents live.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Nobody knows why you go to a picnic to be uncomfortable when it is so easy and pleasant to eat at home. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The old boat made them feel right at home,” Ulbrickson noted in his logbook. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The sun was getting low by the time Joe Pepitone had smacked them out, and Mrs. Baker stood at home plate, surveying the place like she was considering buying it. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Some of them were just like the peasants at home or those I saw coming through France and Germany, with short jackets and round hats and home-made trousers; but others were very picturesque. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Get what you like, and don’t disturb me. I’m going out to dinner and can’t worry about things at home,” said Mrs. March, when Jo spoke to her. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Walton drops me at home, everybody is gawking at her ride. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

At his desk at home, he stacked the thousands of letters he’d received since his arrest. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He also did piecework at home, earning a little money or food for each item he produced. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But at home, she watches me at mealtimes like a hawk, mumbling, “Longa estupida, how could you think you could stop eating?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next, he pulled out the things of hers that he’d kept hidden in his bottom drawer at home. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Since January he’d been working at home, trying to complete the final chapters of his dissertation on agrarian revolts in India. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Smiling, carefully holding his coffee cup and saucer, Father Mike asked,“So, Tessie, how are things at home?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But after that morning, my parents decided to leave us at home when they went to do the wash. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Once we’d been in each room and established we were alone, I felt as safe as I did at home. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They remind me of the burners on our gas stove at home. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The heat at home was set to a normal sixty-seven degrees and there were no inflatable flamingos on the porch. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They would have preferred that I live at home and commute to school, but I wanted to live on campus. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The Al Ulbrickson she knew never made proclamations like that, seldom said anything even remotely suggesting what his hopes and dreams were, even at home, let alone in the newspapers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid if I left it at home, my mom would throw it in the trash,” she says. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The overdramatic music that accompanies the show sounds like the mind-numbing background tracks of the Urdu dramas that my parents watch at home, so I’m glad to leave. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Annemarie said when I called her at home that night to see if she was okay. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I never looked at the painting when Papa was at home. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t do you any good at home, unfortunately.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Why I never went to school in Würzburg but was tutored at home. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s possible that I don’t notice them at home because of all the other stuff. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Who of the old would stay at home? Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

For nearly two weeks the family stayed at home, polluted by death, greeting the occasional visitor who came to pay respects. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I can’t. My mom needs me to wait at home for the maintenance guy. For some reason our hot water won’t work.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Except for the taste of salt in the water, they felt right at home. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Of course. You’re still in recovery, and we must be extra careful and attentive. I highly recommend you continue to do your exercises with the resistance band at home, just as you have been.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Lee Arthur was the only boy who ran around with the gang but lived at home with his mother. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shanti heads back to Harlem for weekends and holidays, but with both of her parents working at home, she likes studying and sleeping here better. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We had a new babysitter helping out at home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I dropped him off at home on my way to work at the gas company. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She also taught me words for all the music I heard at home. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Most of my life is dreadful anticipation, a waiting for the other shoe to drop—at home, in classes, with the Court. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He said that since I was the oldest living at home, I had to watch out for Mommy and my little brothers and sisters because “y’all are special,” he said. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kanue was at home by himself, bored, and upset about the demise of his team. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But a sense of strangeness will not leave me, I cannot feel at home amongst these things. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We don't have a typewriter at home, and I have to work after school. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She was more at home with magic than religion. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Break it and I'll give you some butter since you gon' eat it right here. Lots of folks takes 'em home. They got their own butter at home." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only someone who had known me at school or at home would come along and see me now. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at home, Charles and Emma thought about consulting Dr. Gully, Charles’s water cure doctor. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see what they have here. Hmm, how would you girls like to pick a movie to watch at home?” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow is melting from the lawns; mud reappears on the floors, at school, in the kitchen at home. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Beat you? Girl, ain’t nobody getting abused at home for getting abused at school.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely not. I need more time at home to recover,” I add, trying to lay the guilt on thick. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"The game probably ran a little late. Make yourselves at home, please. My house, your house," she says, reciting the traditional Dominican welcome. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Like, on my calendar at home, I would mark this as being one of the most horrific days of my life. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She was either at home or in her yarn shop. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the cattle car, and, now, the last night in Buna. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t live at home with her parents, but in a bachelorette apartment in one of the new high-rise buildings on Avenue Road, north of St. Clair. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a pony at home, and ride nearly every day in the park with Fred and Kate. It’s very nice, for my friends go too, and the Row is full of ladies and gentlemen.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Starting that following Monday, Roberto and I spent more time at school and work than at home. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Was she still at home, or had she driven to the airport already? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The theater for Volpe was where he felt alive and engaged and at home long before he had any idea why. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The actor feels perfectly at home at Pumphrey’s, for the owner is known to be a Confederate sympathizer. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were vines and creepers where at home would be honeysuckle. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

For more than a year I had waited at home, bored and depressed by all the news of fighting, and by the struggles at Mom’s and Dad’s work units. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to my humble castle! Make yourself at home.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

All he wanted was to live at home, fish, build, carve, and hunt honey, like his father. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Mom, you don’t have to do that! You can sleep at home — I’ll never notice.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Laney put Paganini in his carrier, detained only briefly by Mama, who unsuccessfully tried to make a case that Paganini would be more comfortable at home. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They turn the mangle room, where wet clothes are wrung out to dry, into a studio so he can paint and draw at home. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Alternately bored and frightened at home, the playground was his joy. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have this. We have more at home.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The more I think about it, an embargo sounds an awful lot like the punishment chair at home whenever we misbehave. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He saw she was distraught, and suddenly understood something of what she had been going through while he sat at home with his little portion of shame. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Funny thing. Seem to have left my wallet at home.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The facts: Fig was still at home, where he belonged; insulin could help him get better; treatment cost more than my allowance. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When we were in New York, we found that our favorite restaurant had a soup-starter base that would replicate its famous soup at home. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Park makes them at home with pieces of their famous bulgogi inside, and last time I was over, we convinced him to add it to the menu. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

"Where does The Grand High Witch live when she's at home?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

There were always books at home where I could look up the names of the different insects or birds we found. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was illegal in wartime Britain for private citizens to use radio transmit- ters, so Werner smuggled in transmitter parts by hiding them in her children’s stuffed animals and assembled the machine at home. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

So people made their own beer at home. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There were little ones at home, I gather.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Religion at home was a religion of bedtime. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He judged it to be about the same rate as the faucet in his kitchen sink at home and that made him think of his mother. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Like if someone is using research to show that schools should get rid of homework, you could point out that they probably did that research at home and that they’ve proven your point for you.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“You leave us at home most of the time, Mom. You come home late; you never have money.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The first time I visited Bien and Alex at home, I was invited to sit down on a tattered sofa in the living room. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I’m not allowed to watch TV at home, and I’m not allowed to watch TV in limousines either, but it was still neat that there was a TV there. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I say to her, “You miss me being at home with the bedpan? Wasn’t that so much fun?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“You know I never shall be, so that’s always. Not that I have any occasion to tell you anything, for you know everything I know,—as I told you at home the other night.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

True, I had manners, manners that had been drilled into me at home, at school, manners that had been kicked into me on jobs; but anybody could have manners. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls were even younger than Desdemona, still living at home with their parents. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Amy said, “Everyone seemed waiting for something, and couldn’t settle down, which was queer, since Father was safe at home,” and Beth innocently wondered why their neighbors didn’t run over as usual. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mum had to go back to England after four months to manage things at home, the Africans wanted, in turn, to help me. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun designed an addition that will give all the children their own rooms, and will allow Kathy to work at home. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I wanted her to tell me that there were people who needed me here, at home, more than anyone else needed me to do this thing. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Not only did we stop eating at home, there was no longer a home to eat in. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t get it at home. I remember in third grade, coming home with straight A’s on my report card, and my parents, being fundamentalist Christians, said, ‘Be careful. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

That Monday morning, part of Clayton felt blue and wanted to stay at home, under his blanket. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The church library sparked a love in me for reading at home, too. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And Mustafa—are you okay? Is everything all right at home? Is there anything you want to tell me?” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Welcome, welcome, make yourself at home, browse at your leisure. We’re not a library, but feel free to pull up a chair and read as if we are.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t spent a birthday at home since he’d turned fourteen. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She had just come from a house in which men sat in a lit kitchen talking in loud excited voices, only to meet an identical scene at home. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

JetBlue now has four hundred reservation agents, like Dolly, working at home in the Salt Lake City area, taking reservations —in between babysitting, exercising, writing novels, and cooking dinner. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

When we were safely inside at home, she made a business of latching the screen door. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But you are welcome to all I’ve heard since then at home; I have no reason to keep it from you. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The couch in the living room was off-limits and only for Mr. and Mrs. Lassiter’s rare client meetings at home, and the couch in the den was way uncomfortable. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I notice you carry yours around. I leave mine at home.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He won’t be able to find a certain clue that might be obvious to the audience at home and he’ll look beseechingly at the camera. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was much earlier than her bedtime at home, but still Claudia felt tired. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It being market morning at a neighbouring town some ten miles off, Mr. Pumblechook was not at home. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Too dressy to have its first outing at home. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They wolfed down their food in the cafeteria at lunch, as if they were starving, and I realized they probably had little food at home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The smart of her hand and the ache of her heart were forgotten in the sting of the thought, “I shall have to tell at home, and they will be so disappointed in me!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had two pieces of that set at home. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Back at home, I had learned that the hard way. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They welcomed me and made me feel right at home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I’m dreading being stuck at home, where Mom’s sadness hangs over everything like the smell of burnt toast. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

At 5:34 Dad explains to the officer that his license is in his wallet, which is in his jacket at home. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Nothing was said—not at home and not at school. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to sit at home all day and talk to a million cousins. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Is Beth the rosy one, who stays at home good deal and sometimes goes out with a little basket?” asked Laurie with interest. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had been back at home, inside one of my parents’ cars, I would have followed the drops’ swerving routes across the cold glass with my fingertips. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“And we don’t have a thing to eat at home.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The usual night-life crowd, who worked on regular jobs all day, were at home eating their dinners. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay at home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“If I saw the bird, I wouldn’t tell anyone,” he said to me one afternoon at home. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

They drooped a bit now, as I hadn't washed them in my three weeks at home. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“He knew himself, very well. We’d threatened half a dozen times to leave him at home if he didn’t behave.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Gregor had no intention of opening the door, but congratulated himself on his precaution, acquired from traveling, of locking all doors during the night, even at home. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid I’d never feel at home, that I’d always find myself flinching away from train whistles or the metallic uproar of streetcars. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I gritted my teeth as the daily value of pork chops was tabulated, longing to be at home with my writing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know she wants to drop me off at home, just so she can call Justin and apologize, and make everything right with him again. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Daniel was two grades above me and a real computer geek; he even had a CD writer at home, back when nobody had CD writers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Conveyed through those sounds was the pleasing, soothing, consoling reminder of being at home. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a smell like pickles from a bottle and a smell like parsley on the table at home. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you work so very hard, Jeremie? Do you strip palm at home?” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

What’s so odd is that even with Frida and the toxoplasmosis and this man who should terrify me for so many reasons, I feel more at home than I have anywhere for so long. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Ever since the third grade, when her father made her quit school and help at home, Nguyen had been taking care of her siblings. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You see? That pace would never be possible in the public school. You can only do that at home, where you can sit down and really focus, with no distractions.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, what do you want her to do, Eleanor? Leave them at home?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He belonged at home—home, where his mother always let him have the first piece of apple pie because he was there and the other boys were away. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about different possibilities a lot in his head, but they rarely mentioned his dad at home. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"The maid said she was not at home," the short one with a broad face says in a testy voice. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Only I think he was not happy at home. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not that I think your father is dreary;” Mrs. Hurd said quickly: “It’s just that I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping the Sabbath here at home.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

On evenings when she and William stayed at home, the apartment pianos came in handy. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As we entered Montclair, he drove through the worst section of town, and finally pulled up at an abandoned structure that even Dracula wouldn’t have felt at home in. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if I wasn’t calling from thirty feet away, but calling her at home. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you are at home,” he says, a growl in his voice that makes him seem menacing no matter how benign the words he speaks. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They had walked the sixteen miles and were in the dark alley at home. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We want you to feel at home at Levy Pants.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was wrong about something happening at home,” you tell her, “but this time I’m right. I know. I just know.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It isn’t easy for her to study at home; her baby sister, a spoiled little two-year-old, plays in her room all day. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He was at home having dinner with his wife and two kids, who seemed to be around Citra’s age. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Nancy stayed at home until after the children had woken up, and she fixed them some cereal. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I told people at home that I was traveling to Egypt in the spring of 2007, a few were intrigued, but most were concerned. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Usually my auntie cuts my hair at home. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He remembered that he had slept for the afternoon, glad that the blind man had not been at home to ask why. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

All of us black people who lived in the neighborhood hated Jews, not because they exploited us, but because we had been taught at home and in Sunday school that Jews were “Christ killers.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he didn’t, she wouldn’t get fed, and now there were no bags of food to fantasize about and only their limited supplies at home. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Afterward Fiona drops me at home, and to my surprise, the Channel 7 news van is parked at the curb. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Please tell me you have something other than fruit or nonfat yogurt. That’s all we have at home.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

If I'd felt like sharing my bed with trillions of dead skin cells, I would have stayed at home or spent the night with friends. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Despite what was happening at home, he insisted that all was well at the filtration plant. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The family went out of their way to make me feel welcomed, at home. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"It was designed to give the FBI phone-tap operators reassurance that I was still at home and keep them off my trail." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Refusing to enter Walter Reed again, he remained at home, where she tried to help him as best she could. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the old days, the dead were kept at home. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She felt that Joan was being intellectually stimulated at home, but that the creative ferment she always attempted to foster was having little effect on Bobby. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“No one is going anywhere. We’re going to stay at home and go to work, and Maya will go to school like everything is normal.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

His mother couldn’t handle teaching the kids at home and running the farm, too, so she sent them off on the bus to school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“That we tour London’s loops and hope to find someone still at home? And what would you say the odds are that the corrupted, who are looking for us, would leave all those loops unguarded?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Barack and the girls and I were back in Chicago, at home on Greenwood Avenue, caught in the purgatory of waiting for an entire nation to accept or reject us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It's possible that some of the rooms were occupied by regular people, down on their luck, but my wing was full of the broken, and I was at home among them. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But no, she done plopped herself down like she got ever right to barge in on me at home. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She left a note in Trip’s locker; she told Moody that she’d promised to help her mother at home all afternoon. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Obviously, my father was at home because he was selling our few possessions to pay for all this. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t really want to say yes, but I’m hungry and I know there aren’t many options for dinner at home. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home—Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I have a huge movie collection at home.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Poe was scarcely at home, because he was very busy attending to the Baudelaire affairs, and when he was home he was often coughing so much he could barely have a conversation. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She was used, at home, to people first asking “Do you have money?” before they made such plans. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ms. Treadwell asked him if he was getting enough sleep at home, to which he answered yes. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

From that point on all their stories were to be written at home on the subject of their choice. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Daddy and David were going, and I tagged along with them, leaving Mother at home to cook the turkey. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

An extended stay at home to care for them simply wasn’t an option. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“You know what, Robert?” my brother Michael said when we were talking about it at home one day. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Once or twice she took a quiet dinner there alone, having instructed Ce- lestine beforehand to prepare no dinner at home. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He talked to the teacher for a while one afternoon; that night he gave Jethro permission to remain at home. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nods, at home with uncertainty, and says, “Don’t put me in your Garden of Earthly Delights, and I won’t write death-symbols on your forehead.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Besides, we had no reading material at home and we didn’t get the newspaper. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She was now, on being settled at home, at leisure to observe the real state of her sister’s spirits. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The clock had always been my enemy at home—stealing my sleep in the morning when all I wanted to do was hide under the blanket. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

After a few months at home, he went to live with a friend of the family in Burundi. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Her complexion is as smooth and delicate as a piece of the fine porcelain from the formal dining salon at home. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I can’t go to dinner with you tomorrow, but I won’t eat much at home, so you can tell Lee to save a plate for me.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones—the ones at home." Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

All summer I have spent every free evening at home, holed up in my room with my laptop and my summer reading looming on my shelves. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

If I’d gone to Muskoka I wouldn’t be living at home this summer either, but not living at home in the same city is different. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only victory of the day is that somehow the power has come back on at home. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

But with each day that passed and the more questions that were asked and comments made, he realized how different he was from everyone at home. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I was thinking how lucky Miss Love and Grandpa were, going to church at home. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

If only it were like at home where I knew someone in all the houses, knew them by sight and by name, by blood and by background, by shame and pride, and by religion. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each and every fan, those who have willingly traveled the 530 miles, those listening at home over the radio, can feeVit in his soul. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Briony heard Betty say that Danny was at home all evening with his father who was able to vouch for him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I am beginning to feel at home here. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And yet I wished he were back at home. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when Amil slept too long in the mornings at home, I used to poke his cheek so I could watch his puffy eyes open for the first time that day. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If the people weren’t at home, we’d use a passkey on a common door lock. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For nearly thirty years Shorry had felt at home in this funky local bar, but tonight he was almost like an intruder. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not wanted to let her see him do that; he did that only at home. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

That night, I’m blaring TV on the Radio at home. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It had always been so simple at home. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a dozen people who could talk about the fish fry and insist that Walter was at home when Ronda Morrison was killed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ash opened her mouth to do so, but then remembered that her stepmother would be at home. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to tell her that he didn’t sleep at home, and make her worry. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He talked about his life at home, the black market and how he felt like a worthless bum. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Russians at home grew angry and unhappy, resentful of having to pour their lives and resources into this war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Germans stationed in France fill their duffels with items rationed or no longer available at home due to wartime restrictions. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was sick of his life at home. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I always take longer than I need to, for the sound of the broom is a comfort, whispering whispering like Abue’s broom at home. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

We said it to each other at home, one chanting, one listening. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also admired Matilda who had sworn her to secrecy about the parrot job she had brought off at home, and also the great hair-oil switch which had bleached her father's hair. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe when Dad’s at home, he’s not buying groceries just for him,” Candice said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her wish—well, it’s private, but it involves peace and love for everyone in those graduation seats at home, and for everyone not in those seats. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Nothing as he was growing up at home, nothing at Devon, nothing even about the war had broken his harmonious and natural unity. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They never spent long enough in any place for Shadow to make friends, to feel at home, to relax. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Mom had a copy of that photo framed in our living room at home, on the wall closest to the kitchen and the Turbolift Door. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mamma was constantly on a mission to make Seema feel at home. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s time for all of us to be safe at home,” said Eliza. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent most of my time at home watching SpongeBob reruns and playing Knights of the Old Republic. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

My bike is back at home in my hallway. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He happened to be an unusually bright child and his mother had worked hard with him at home on spelling and reading. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I usually have a little party at home, but this year I asked Mom if I could have a big bowling party. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Washington spent the day at home in a small, stuffy office seeing visitors, writing letters, and worrying. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

My grandmother and I even said our prayers at home. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Things will not be as easy for you at home as here,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it is not as good as the fancy rice she eats at home,” Amaka said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. You know, the ones that snap in when you push a button. Charles and I used to fight over it all the time. It’s still at home somewhere.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I nodded, knowing that at home I was safe. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t gone out of my way. But she probably suspects something given that it’s a Saturday and I’m not at home with her and Sonia.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She told him that she wanted to stay at home. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was no one at home to explain the fearsome racket, but she satisfied herself that the iron cook stove had not blown up, and returned to her sweltering bedroom to continue reading and copying. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Whose answer counts if there are two or more adults at home? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

While she waited, to be sure no one was at home, she studied the brown paint on the door. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not right to be so fearful. Even the smallest of the children feel at home with the creatures.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You get more heat from this sun than from them old radiators at home.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I went to the same school you're going to now. But I lived at home." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You should have left the kids at home,” he adds quietly to Mama. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

We just fought all the time—each other at home, and then at school we would team up and fight white kids. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was always somebody at home, with six people in the five-room apartment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Yes, to go with me to Moor House. Diana and Mary will be at home in a week, and I want to have everything in order against their arrival.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She had left her gloves at home and hadn’t yet had a chance to go shopping, so she pulled on my gloves. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

And it meant she would be left at home to take care of their aging father and ill mother. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The counselor said that he suspected that Michael had “problems at home” and didn’t feel like he had anyone to talk to. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

My mother wears expensive high heels all day while she works, even though she works at home. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“So if the infection gets into your blood, you’ll wish you were just dying of thirst…But I have antibiotics at home. Take us there, and you can have all you need.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The entanglement of the Cold War and the black struggle for rights here at home was already well understood in 1952, when the U.S. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I emptied the contents of my backpack onto my bed at home, making plenty of space in the bag for my guaranteed earnings. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then I’d hole up at home and wait for the frost. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was trying so hard to navigate my conflicting worlds at school and at home, I left it buried in the back of my mind. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I understand Farsi but don’t really speak it, even at home. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Many of us left our children at home, I wasn’t the only one,” she argued. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

More than a dozen of our Louisiana clients who were sentenced as juveniles to die in prison are now at home. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Sure not cotton,” he muttered, but the towel was soft and absorbed water much better than the thin, worn ones they used at home. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grandfather would recuperate at home with Mother, and I could care for them both. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They look relaxed and at home, girls and boys dancing side by side, singing along with the music. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

To wit: a little boy named Isaiah has a lot of books at home; Isaiah does beautifully on his reading test at school; this must be because his mother or father regularly reads to him. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

There were plenty of annoying people at home. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z