When I shut it, I pray that I haven’t woken my parents. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She turned and scurried from the library to tell her parents about this latest disappointment. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, Redemption,” she said, whispering so her parents wouldn’t step out and overhear. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The family prayer binds him to his parents, but what if a person no longer believes in prayer? Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It looks like kids who usually take the bus seem to be getting rides from their parents today. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

And I tell you that at that time you need a parent or a friend. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“If you arrest us, you need to contact our parents or guardian.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He said, “I’m not going to the abbey. I’ve got to find my parents. They’re probably worried to death about me.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about?” both his parents asked. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Even though it was a struggle to send three children to a private school, my parents were both willing to sacrifice for their children’s spiritual education. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Anytime we had money trouble, my parents would say we were rich in love. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I’m like Dana’s parents, or Dr. P—I want to ask her why. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She thought he was so handsome but knew her parents would not approve of him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Gran had assured her Beefy would be safe, but if the cuco was tracking her...and she was home...then that meant not just Beefy but her parents too would be in harm’s way. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The belief in parental power is manifest in the first official act a parent commits: giving the baby a name. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He’d lived with the Dursleys almost ten years, ten miserable years, as long as he could remember, ever since he’d been a baby and his parents had died in that car crash. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Among the marchers were students and older folks, parents and children, carrying backpacks, bedrolls and lunch bags. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After nine months, the woman gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. Now the parents’ joy turned to grief, for the law said that twins were evil and must be killed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But your parents do not seem very fond of you, am I correct?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She made her entrance the day after my parents’ car crashed through a guard rail on the skinny road that climbed the ravine over Quake Lake. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I flipped on my laptop and started doing searches on Ashley’s “parents,” but that got me very little. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m—my family is kind of religious. Actually, really religious. And my parents. Well, they wouldn’t be super happy if they knew where I was. And who we were with.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Everybody, please take your seats,” Dr. Zinchenko said to the parents gathered in a conference room at the Parker House Hotel. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

According to the consultant, Mrs. Grace V. Mirman, the challenge for the parents of someone "highly gifted" was to find ways to keep the child engaged and stimulated. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

My parents don’t know I left school early. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Surely, her parents would give Layla a room by herself or Layla would nobly volunteer to share a room with the twins and do the midnight feedings. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’ll have to wait until they remove him or I find my parents. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And maybe worse—the shots of the parents, the siblings. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

There were Lexie and Trip and Moody, perched on the hood of Lexie’s car across the street, watching their parents, awaiting instruction. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how I hadn't put together what was really happening in the week before we left, when I accidentally overheard my parents talking. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

From the day my parents were reunited in America after the Iranian Revolution, they never spent much time apart from each other. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She had no family, no parents or siblings, only people to fight beside. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

That and our shared experience of having parents who don't let us invite friends over. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When Rosa’s parents joined them, the family had even more mouths to feed. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

At night before we went in for bed, the parents would sit on the stoop and we children would either play or lie on our backs and watch the Milky Way. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Their parents made them put most of it away for college and “the future,” whatever that meant. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“My gut tells me that those adults are the parents,” Axel says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Now you two listen carefully to me. Its clear to everybody that your parents are absolutely wonderful people who love you very much and think about you all the time.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I swear on the grave of my parents; may my mother’s soul forever sizzle in torment if I am lying.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You know who our parents are. You know who our friends are. Susan’s dad, you think he’s corrupt?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

If we hear anyone at all—our friends, neighbors, cousins, even our own parents—speak things against the Angkar, we must report them to the Met Bongs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stand in front of our exhibits while parents we don’t know come up and tell us how brilliant we are. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Afterward, we sit with her parents around the fire and I pretend I’m part of the family. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The child’s parents read to him nearly every day. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Sometime before that Mr. Rice had persuaded my parents that Caroline should have voice lessons. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can it be explained by the usual petering out of parents’ enthusiasm for documenting their children on film? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My parents were quiet the whole way back to the house. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Back when his parents were alive, Klaus used to take a flashlight to bed with him and hide under the covers, reading until he couldn’t keep his eyes open. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She was probably too young to understand grown-up politics, even though she might have heard her parents talking about the terrible war news. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“My own laptop! And stupid Conner said he was fine with sharing the desktop. Like he cared about saving them money or something. So of course my parents sided with him. No laptop for me.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s gone off his rocker!” shouted one of the fathers, aghast, and the other parents joined in the chorus of frightened shouting. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Erin’s parents are older than my father and a little strange too. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you really think we will see our parents again?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Callis Brown first heard of the lunch-counter protest that evening while watching the nightly news at his parents’ home in Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Teenagers always hide a few things from their parents, isn’t that so? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When her parents separated, her mom stopped attending, though Candice still went with her father sometimes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“When I was going through my bitter phase, my counselor told me we’re all products of our parents, genes, or environment in one way or another.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I felt I had to protect my parents, no matter what. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her parents’ faces flashed on the screen. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And he liked that he could be honest with his parents. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two parents, contemporary pop and contemporary classical, gave birth to a child that was a perfect mix of them both. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And when a parent looks like this, it means only one thing: you’re about to die. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I’d never heard my parents shout like that—at least, not my mother. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But this time my parents made me go. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I felt better seeing everybody else’s eggs, and when Charlaine and the other judges started setting up, Twig, Dari, and I abandoned our parents and walked around the room to get a closer look. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I could have gone to kindergarten, but when I went for one week, I cried and screamed so much that my parents thought maybe I shouldn’t start school until first grade. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

After the screaming and spanking subsided, Joseph’s parents forced him to say he was sorry, especially about the expensive Persian rug he’d destroyed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

That would make it a little harder for my parents to find me. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Your parents will never see me, never know about me. I promise.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The lights in my parents’ bedroom are off, so we sit on the sofa. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I just shouted for his parents and they came down, and I went upstairs while they cleaned him up. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“My friend Melissa’s parents are divorced. She’s in California for the summer with her dad.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be one thing if his parents were to call him Nikhil, too. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Where most children are proof of their parents’ love, I was the proof of their criminality. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

White board members were speaking to convince the parents of our community not to send their children to white schools. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And so as the boys grew up, it was as though they had two sets of parents, especially two fathers. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Just curious. Do you think our parents will remain friends, even after you leave tomorrow?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He went into his parents' bedroom and hid it under the rug. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

At graduation you got to collect your teacher’s pens and your parents’ pens and you got your own pen. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I do know she’s a senior, her parents are attorneys, and she works at a bookstore. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Our parents...they were killed. We live at the train station...some days.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

This person’s parents will have done meaningful work in the garment business, passing on to their children autonomy and complexity and the connection between effort and reward. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A month later, after the first big waves of deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a five-step list of symptoms to help parents identify whether their kid was at risk for IAAN. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. My parents are a whole other matter. You’re lucky you get along with yours so well.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Both her parents worked as performers at Disney World, which sounds like more fun than it was. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her parents looked at each other, but it was the maid who answered the doctor's question. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I quickly get dressed for school and find both of my parents in the kitchen. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When his parents tell him, one evening after dinner, Gogol thinks they’re joking. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Slate-colored clouds veil the sky, and children shout in the shallow end, and parents talk or read magazines or doze in their chairs, and everything is normal. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I think it is very tasteless of Professor Walton to criticize my parents. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t even sure my parents filed taxes, but if they did, I knew Dad wouldn’t give them to me if he knew why I wanted them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In many ways my parents seem so different from each other, but they possess this intimate mode of communication—a gesture, a look, a tone—that I envy. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Pancha left the main house and returned to her parents’ hut, where no one asked her any questions. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents hung back; they knew he wanted a moment alone with Mac. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

His father said, “I thought you wanted parents who didn’t fight.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There is no evidence that the scientists who did research on patients at Crownsville got consent from either the patients or their parents. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I’d kept up in my classes well enough to get B-minuses and not worry my parents, but I didn’t really care much anymore. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

We moved the crib into my parents’ room. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was my parents’ suffocating world, after all. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

She never ratted me out to my parents, but obviously she’d remembered the trick. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Throughout most of the hearing he had sat pleasantly, but when some of his former foster parents had come into the court, I could see him become upset. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"But,” said Baugi, "it was blood compensation for our parents' deaths. Don’t I deserve the smallest measure of it, to show Bolverkr here that I am an honorable giant?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

This was unlikely to be one of those times when our parents issued a punishment and then forgot to follow through on it. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She was never permitted to leave the convent walls except on the occasion of her parents’ death. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The principal says they are going to have a parents’ meeting Friday night with updates from the police,” she says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You told me about your friend in high school, who wanted to grow his hair long, but couldn’t because of his parents.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The other six, two brothers and four sisters, lived with their parents in a spacious house at 426 Twenty-Ninth Street, in Oakland. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What about you? Do your parents care who you date?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I am overwhelmed with the need to be somewhere else, so I turn and leave my parents and Nita and the city where I once lived behind me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

How she panicked that morning, how she started to tell her parents, but then stopped. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to tell them how sorry she was, mother to mother, parent to parent. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My parents and I have just arrived at his house, for his birthday party. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the void left by the death of her parents, my grandmother grew up to be an ambitious young woman. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Her parents are “amicably separated,” but he sends these huge checks once a month, and Twig’s mom makes a lot of money, too, designing apps that tell pretty people what clothes they should wear. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t only me that needed my parents’ support. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Because Abu’s parents separated when he was five, my father was attracted to Islam’s emphasis on the family and the important role of the father in the family hierarchy. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They gave the medicine to sick children and parents and took it themselves when fevers and coughs grew worse. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But what if you had parents and they weren't wonderful at all? The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The features that we take from our parents are the things that make us different. A big nose, thin lips, high forehead—all the things that the operation takes away.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She took trips all over the world with her parents. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“You don’t remember what your parents called you?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A number of them had parents who were lawyers or doctors and seemed to know one another through an African American social club called Jack and Jill. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

All I know is, I’m more grown than my parents and teachers think I am. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

When Celia’s parents divorced, they dispersed their children among relatives throughout the island. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whoever she is, she must have been important to your parents.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He, along with Noor and his parents, sat around their tiny television, glued to the screen. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Mount Carmel, with its strong Catholic-league basketball team and rigorous curriculum, had seemed the best solution—worth the thousands of dollars it was costing my parents. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I thought you weren’t allowed to go to anyone’s house where they didn’t know the parents.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The family’s quiet was partly due to the fact that, as we children learned more and more English, we shared fewer and fewer words with our parents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has gone from being the obedient firstborn son to being scared of his own parents. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I doubt my parents will let me. Not after all...all this.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Harry, this piece of vermin is the reason you have no parents,” Black snarled. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Get them back to their parents as soon as you can?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“My parents are fighting again. My dad went and spent the night on Uncle Jared’s couch. He’s back. But I don’t know. This feels like it might be it.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“So you’re going to stand there and act like this has all been in my head? All these first dates and meeting your parents and your friends and...everything.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But as a child, he did not question his parents’ values; he loved Ma and Pa, unconditionally, wholly, separately and together. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think much of how my moving into a world of books was also moving me away from my parents. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

We could hear his parents talking in the kitchen because the window was open. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I know he’s sneaking up on the fire, on my parents, who are flickering, shadowy, their faces indistinct. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw it in his eyes every time we talked about his parents, who were dead when he was not. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The expectation from my parents and my teachers alike was that college would be a given for me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

How did I not know that your parents, my other grandparents, had died? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It’s not clear what Cheryl’s parents do, but clearly something much lower down the socioeconomic scale. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And by the time you counted the bus ride to school every day, the bus ride home, and anywhere they went with their parents, Alex felt like he never went anywhere without Nunu. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

My parents met at an art and design college in San Francisco. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

In addition to the American packages, presents were being delivered to my parents from Chinese friends. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell that my parents were proud of me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Theo does consider marriage and weighs when to break the news to his parents. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Poor parent, I thought, and wondered about her dad. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

This whole thing was dramatic enough without my involving my parents and their inevitable hyperventilations. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mop is there to hang while his parents get everything ready for the drive north. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He tells Alex in a low voice how his parents met—Princess Catherine, dead set on being the first princess with a doctorate, mid-twenties and wading through Shakespeare. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’s going to help me study and then we’re having dinner with my parents and Dylan. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

And I’d comment on Dr. Chin’s parenting, but my mom would’ve done the same thing, so who am I to judge? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He wishes he could simply borrow his parents’ car and drive up to Maine to see Ruth after Christmas, or that she could visit him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That was why I didn’t own up to my parents in front of Professor Fuchs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do I miss my parents? Well, I never met my mother. My father died a few years ago, and, yes, I do miss him. Sometimes a lot.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“If it’s just about your parents,” he says softly, “tell me and I’ll believe you.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was so busy thinking and plotting that she barely noticed her parents nodding sadly at each other when they saw the empty fishbowl. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

So Aru had thought it was just one of those generic warnings parents gave to kids, like Don’t go outside without sunscreen or you’ll burn! Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lying to my parents about sending letters was one thing, but what we were doing now was way too stressful. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“My foundation is basically crumbling right now. My mom’s going to rehab, my parents are getting a divorce. Just because you don’t have some perfect TV family doesn’t mean you’re not a good person, Joaquin.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Brian was saying that even his parents don’t agree about it.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m American. I was born here. So were my parents,” I said. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mother is always cold and my parents’ house feels like I’m soaking in a vat of hot butter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Seventeen-year-old Zvonko Springer could not believe it when the government requisitioned the bicycle that his parents had given him as a birthday present. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Luna knows neither of his parents are holding a grudge. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, be careful,” whispered Salmakia, but Lyra’s mind was already racing ahead through the story she’d told the night before, shaping and cutting and improving and adding: parents dead; family treasure; shipwreck; escape... The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I realize I haven’t told her the real reason why my parents moved me to Poplar Springs. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Instead, I sort of staggered downstairs and started tearing through my parents’ liquor cabinet, searching for an escape route. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

My parents and I celebrated that night by having pizza delivered from Italian Fiesta. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her parents were already gone for the day, at some gardening show. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“My parents are weird,” was all he said by way of explanation. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

After lunch her other parents did the washing up, and Coraline went down the hall to her other bedroom. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Tiny Cooper lives in a mansion with the world's richest parents. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

They say, “We thought you should know. He does have parents.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Kaprice had a toy basketball hoop on her door to give her students’ younger siblings something to do when their parents came in for meetings. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

You never think about teachers having parents, but they must. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

One night, he had gone to dinner at her parents’ house. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We’re almost home when I see Candy, Pigeon, and their parents walking from the other direction. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My parents were honest, hardworking people who never expected anything they did not earn. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Westley,” she said, “I must never disappoint you,” and she hurried downstairs to where her parents were squabbling. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Doris kept steering our conversation toward my parents, and I kept steering it away, so we talked a whole lot about nothing. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At times they spoke to us harshly, as if they were our parents. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He knows that this sort of life, one which is such a proud accomplishment for his own parents, is of no relevance, no interest, to her, that she loves him in spite of it. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When dinner was over and bedtime crawled in, Jam lay in her sheets waiting for her parents to fall asleep, properly asleep, before she could risk going back into the studio without waking them up. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Your parents do not know the true nature of this place,” Grandma said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I leave my parents to their hopes and prayers. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

And then, a few nights before they were to leave for Tanaburi, Nok had overheard her parents talking as she lay in bed. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The slicing of society’s pie is more unequal than it used to be, but most Americans have a bigger piece than they or their parents once did. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Apparently it had been a huge deal, had taken ages for Stan’s parents to even agree she could come over. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But the next morning there was no trace of the argument in her parents’ faces. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many times had Dolores’s parents had this same conversation with her when she was Marigold’s age? A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Outside, I say, “Why did you do that? Lie to my parents?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My father has stayed in my parents’ bedroom for most of the morning, but as I’m hitting send on my message to Rhiannon, he emerges. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The murder of a child by a parent is horrific and is usually complicated by serious mental illness, as in the Yates and Smith cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Richardson’s parents had died, five years ago and within months of each other, she had inherited the Winslow house. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“As I said, my parents were ready for this, ever since they founded the Smoke. They made preparations.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I think my parents had known about his many relationships, but I also think they were happy to pretend they didn’t. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

His parents grew angry when he missed questions—which he began to do more and more, as he tended to get mixed up when nervous—and scolded him for not caring about them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

If your aged parents have grown tiresome or incontinent, you put them away where others will deal with their dirty diapers and dementia. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t charge them more than ten bucks, or parents will start to wonder. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

As she flew over the woods, she saw the young goshawks with their parents. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I picture myself eating my noodles in silence as my parents talk to Thaya Jaan in Urdu about the proper ways to raise children or about Pakistani politics. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Joseph looked quickly at the headmaster, who said, “We’ve already discussed it with your parents.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In the last letter Ralph was ever to receive from his parents, his father had written, Your mother asks that you please listen this one time. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to the letter Martin sent me, he enclosed another one addressed to my parents: Caitlin please, please give this to your parents, he wrote. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My parents don’t blink an eye when I ask to hang out at Nora’s apartment. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But such a trip would require telling his parents about Ruth, something he has no desire to do. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Dying. Losing my parents. Staying here for the rest of my life. Never figuring out what I’m supposed to do. Being ordinary. Losing everyone I love.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’m sure she carries her parents’ credit card—her parents, who are married and forty-five and not dating random dudes with plural names. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Many a time I had wished that my parents were workers in a textile mill and that we were poor. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here we were—my adopted parents, my birth mother, my half sister, and a stranger my mother needed for support—courteously sitting across from one another. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I walk over to their table, and I smile while Jason’s parents tell, me I got tall. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She wished that Odinchezo and Ekene would shout at her too, and question her for being alive, instead of dead like their sister and parents and brother-in-law. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I paused a second, trying to figure out if my response should be calibrated to please Augustus or his parents. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

When her parents had built the house on the hill, Nin had helped them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I’m bringing this boy home to meet my parents. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Our parents are dead, and he’s the son and heir,” Betsy said as though that explained everything. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

This meant parents who were not members of the Nazi Party or who had friends who were Jews or practiced the Jehovah’s Witness faith. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing gave me more joy than walking with him to his parents' house, with his friends greeting him along the way. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

You don’t object to an aged parent, I hope?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The judge is saying that what Mr. Gui has captured in his fabulous sculpture is the love between a parent and a parent’s spawn, something no one understands better than the vuvv. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I want to thank the parents for organizing this meeting and for encouraging me to say a few words about the school mascot. My friend Stephanie Bergner couldn’t make it tonight.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Are there any parents who can make their children completely happy? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mary Elizabeth is a vegetarian, and she hates her parents. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My parents would want me to save him, though.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But there was something else, another circumstance, that made it even more terrifying and threatening to the parents of the neighborhood. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents had never made a secret of it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And a few nights ago, when they thought I was in bed, I heard my parents talking about him getting “out of control like those American boys.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Doctors warn that young people are gaining too much weight from eating sugary snacks; parents learn that kids who drink too many sweet sodas can cycle between manic sugar“highs” and grinding sugar “crashes.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I had a shabby, tight-fitting khaki safari suit my parents had bought me two Christmases ago. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The parents, instead of applauding her, called her a noisy chatterbox and told her sharply that small girls should be seen and not heard. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

How different they are from his own parents’ parties, cheerfully unruly evenings to which there were never fewer than thirty people invited, small children in tow. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents came by about an hour later. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She was still a teenager who'd never lived apart from her parents. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The authorities seemed to be as wary of the parents association as of the young rebels. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I now have one mission in life: avoid my parents. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“But my parents must have had parents! I never thought about it before. Who are my parents-of-the-parents? Where are they?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

My parents are dead too, he said when I saw him last. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A big group of witches filtered into the crowd, led by Thorn’s and Seven’s parents. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Whether I die now or ten years from now, my parents will be crushed. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Or that a boat with a bunch of parents was going to magically arrive from out of the mist? Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I saw my parents calling to me from the far shoreline. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I am lucky—that at the age of nine I was given the ghosts of my parents’ best selves, and at twenty-three the ghost of my true love’s best self. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mealtimes were gathering moments, and my parents never allowed us to break this tradition, no matter how badly we wanted to watch something on TV or had somewhere else we wanted to be. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was even secretly proud of my adoptive parents, who were far superior to her in education and status. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Behind them, Aru’s mom was making hot cocoa and talking on the phone to Mini’s parents. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Kyle and his parents were in the crowded ballroom of the Parker House Hotel for the Lemoncello Library’s Gala Grand Opening Reception. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

His parents had been proud, his coven—Frog House—had risen in fame, and now, by just about every estimation, he was probably dead. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Oliver, Elena, and Miles came, along with a couple of their parents. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He and other parents left with their children. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The empty words could not disguise the fact that his parents’ moldering remains lay beneath snow and stone, indifferent, unknowing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Nancy from algebra went out with a white guy from Oak Park once, and she said that his parents let her sleep over. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There, we all crammed into a tiny rental apartment—my parents, Heritage, Princesse, Alex, and me—with just a bedroom and a half. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When I recovered my senses, the teacher handed me a white, sealed envelope, and told me not to open it, but to give it to my parents. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grinned, genuinely happy, even though we had “Twinkle and Dadi nights” all the time because my parents are workaholics. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Unnerved by the sensation of utter powerlessness, he only summoned his reserves of sunny optimism to field phone calls from his parents. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I gathered through overhearing my parents that Brother Fowles had entered into unconventional alliances with the local people, and too he was a Yankee. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reminded me of my parents, before the stillborn baby, before the operation. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Today was different because I didn’t sleep, and I didn’t get to see Sam or Patrick last night because they were having a special dinner out with their parents. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Every word my parents spoke to me or about me I absorbed and kept and remembered. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Yet it was not an unhappy existence, especially for a little boy proud of his parents, admiring of their showmanship and courage—a happier life, certainly, than what replaced it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to see everybody, to see how desperately Redemption’s parents held on to Moss, fluttering and fussing over him, none of them looking as if they’d slept in days, which they probably hadn’t. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

So as I sat in the living room that night, I took on the full responsibility of finding my parents’ killer—even if it turned out that the killer shared my DNA. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Not only did I cause my parents pain, but I also threw away my own pride and good judgment trying to be someone I’m not. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Mom found out, she made the administration call the other parents in and apologize. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

"I don't think it's strange for parents to dream about their kids." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Dadi does. My parents don’t exactly support it, but they don’t not support it either, if that makes sense.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Come help me with the coffee. And if you don’t tell your parents, I’ll let you have some.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Though it may have been tempting to commit a felony and covertly check the box that read "American citizen" on the application, my parents knew those financial aid peeps meant serious business. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

This place is already a prison, but when my parents learn what I’ve done, they won’t let me leave the claustrophobic confines of this trailer. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Nathaniel had parents, and two sisters; their house was noisy with bickering and laughter. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She pictures the black iron bars in the windows of her parents’ flat, and Gogol, in his American baby clothes and diapers, playing beneath the ceiling fan, on her parents’ four-poster bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course you haven’t. That was a silly question. Your parents were probably as young as you then.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Incidentally, my dad did have a serious talk with the boy’s parents. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hadn’t my parents wanted to get rid of me, too? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We aren’t supposed to speak at the dinner table unless our parents ask us a direct question, and they usually don’t. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

In January she moved with her parents into one of the houses I shade, a tiny blue house with a sagging porch and a tidy garden. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I loved to listen to my parents’ voices at night. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How did you talk your parents into letting you come here?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I remember men in ski masks taking me in the middle of the night, my parents screaming, and the sound of my father being beaten. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We kissed. Like, she kissed me. About ten minutes ago. On Radar’s parents’ bed.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Problem is it would’ve taken Black Jesus to convince my parents to let me come. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Whereas Vic’s parents couldn’t help seeing who he used to be, and so many friends and strangers couldn’t help seeing who he didn’t want to be anymore, Dawn only saw him. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Some studies relied on children’s fuzzy recollections of their parents’ income. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And he has his parents living with him! Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My brother picked her up at her friend’s house, where she told her parents she was spending the night. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The newspaper ran a letter from Mrs. Gates to the parents of all seventh and eighth graders. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that my parents had encouraged me to learn English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other parents lingered for a short time at the door, thanking Mom. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents donated it without even looking inside when they moved to New Mexico. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When my parents and I got home, Dad pulled his rain jacket hood onto his head and rushed inside with the box of leftover cupcakes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“But now I know they split up because my mom cheated. And you knew, because your parents moved to get away from her and try to mend their family. Your family.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They showed them off to their parents, their friends. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His parents gave him money each day to spend. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

After my father left for Kraków, my mother increasingly relied on her parents for help. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

All of these rebels, many of whom fought alongside my parents, suddenly know whose child I am. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

These figures “startled” Rideout, but she said they also helped explain why parents weren’t worried about their children, given that the parents were setting a tone and the children were following. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Eagle called Lara’s parents to make sure that they knew she was spending a weekend off campus, and they didn’t mind. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he goes to the house and tells Redemption’s parents, Pet countered. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

One thing he remembered was the day his parents and his math teacher told him he’d be going to the resource room every Thursday because of his multiplication tables. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I was sold to a great house so that my parents could return to their home.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"But your parents are going to flip out, Max. You don't have to do this." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

So our parents said yes, and Mom and Dad and Via drove home. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

When Ophie pushed open the door to her parents’ bedroom she was startled to find her mother awake. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Margo’s parents suffer a severe narcissistic injury whenever she acts out,” Dad said to me. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Studies on mobility over generations are notoriously difficult, because they require researchers to match the earnings records of parents with those of their children. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

So that was how his parents had died . . . exactly like that spider. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, part of the reason I woke up to my friends instead of my parents in my hospital room is because Uncle Jack was in the process of being discharged. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Neither of my parents had finished high school; my mother did wear pants suits, which she purchased at a factory outlet. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When the weather's nice, my parents go out quite frequently and stick a bunch of flowers on old Allie's grave. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The parents sat at a table with three—no, six—children. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents burst from the kitchen, racing down the hallway toward them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

After Kayode came back from a trip to Switzerland with his parents, Emenike had bent down to caress Kayode s shoes, saying “I want to touch them because they have touched snow.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

One evening in early May, I finished my homework and came into the kitchen to find my parents sitting at the table with a man I didn’t recognize. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our house, one of my parents would take the trash outside. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The heaviness hanging over our family was enormous, and my parents were stuck at the event horizon. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The chair legs scrape as I drop into my seat at the table, and my parents soon follow. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents had started going to a different Mass, so I didn’t even see her at church anymore. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Watching the four parents in my life sharing the same crowded space is always a trip. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Nothing is said of the silence that comes to separate the boy from his parents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone caught with my parents was killed—everyone who would know anything about the betrayal. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Noah sat up front with his parents, who seemed oblivious to what a monster of a kid they had produced. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Everything about her tells me she's running away from something more than overbearing parents. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

From the corner of my eye I saw Roberto Vega join his parents and hug them. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He asks if her parents will mind his coming over, if perhaps they should meet at a restaurant instead. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Ohhhh. I was under the assumption that your parents were divorced,” Mrs. Stanford said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My parents took more than they ever gave. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

By the time Mrs. Richardson had found Mia’s parents, the case of little May Ling/Mirabelle was still in the news—if anything, even more so. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You’ve had your parents and me hovering over you for so long. At a certain point it becomes counterproductive.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It was also the first time I had rebelled against my parents. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“My dear boy, how good to see you! Delighted! Charmed! Overjoyed to have you with us! And these are your parents? How nice! Come in! Come in! That’s right! Step through the gates!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There are no doctors anywhere. Go away! Aren’t your parents looking for you?” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just when you think your parents couldn't be more clueless, right? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

But, hell, he couldn’t even tell his parents about it. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents were dancing a clumsy, barefoot salsa on the grass. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

If my parents want to know how school went, I flash my eyebrows upward and shrug my shoulders. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had told his parents he’d be spending the night on the boat in the marina, then sailing out the next day to leave Owen’s ashes in the sea. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent a lot of time with your parents. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Isabella’s parents first got divorced, they both bought her a lot of stuff as if they were competing to see which one she’d pick to love best. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

When I was twelve, my parents had two talks with me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Carlos: Yeah, but my parents probably read their electric bill. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

With everything going so well for the family, her parents should have been happy. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“I am so sorry, Starr. You don’t have to—you can call your parents, you know?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I overhear my parents talk about things like “Can we do without an air conditioner one more year?” or “Maybe I can work two jobs this summer.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Of those matters too jaggedly personal to reveal to intimates, my parents will never speak. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My parents are taking a big piece of fence out of the rodeo arena so the food trucks can get through. I’ve been working on that stupid report for language arts.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Also, like all small children, I thought my parents would always keep us safe. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the third time, Mrs. Stroud said she was going to speak with the best foster parents she knew. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

There were a few families shopping around, the kids excited and noisy, asking their parents to buy stuff. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My aunt must have lived in the same house as my parents and eaten at an outcast table. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually my parents won’t let me give out my e-mail address, but I don’t think they would mind this time. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

My parents were about to exchange their brief Christmas kiss, the only time they bussed in front of us, when Mother remembered the presence of the minister and ducked her head in embarrassment. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We had bacon and eggs with their parents, and everyone made small talk. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

My parents drop me off at Grandma’s, and I leave my bag in the guest room she’s made up for me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

My parents smell like a mixture of gardenias and embalming fluid, even in the evenings after their showers. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next few days were spent with my parents filling me in on what had happened in the sixteen days between the shooting and our reunion. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I had a soccer tournament in New York, but my parents said I can’t go. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Luke had been thirteen, old enough to realize that his parents weren’t in love the way people seemed to be in movies and on television shows. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

All I could think was that my parents were right. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s a child’s job to adapt to a parent. You have a strict father and you have to adapt quickly.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should be good and tell my parents if I felt anything weird, understand? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Outside we climbed the cottonwood next to the garage and then swung over to its roof, something my parents had told me again and again not to do. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“We have to talk to Carlos first. He’s the one with the key. If he says it’s okay to be down there, that would help us convince our parents that it’s okay, too.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The students and parents have rushed onto the floor and my teammates are celebrating like we’ve already won the state championship. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read his parents easily: Justin doesn’t talk to them much in the morning, so I don’t have to talk to them. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Stanley's parents asked if they could have some time to find out more about Camp Green Lake, but the judge advised them to make a quick decision. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Our parents used to send us every summer, but it’s been years since we’ve been there. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“See?” he said, looking around to our parents. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At first I thought my parents would put up a fight when one Sunday morning I just didn’t come back from the crab house in time for church. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her only consolation was that at least her parents looked as ill at ease as she felt. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Like most events in his life, it is another excuse for his parents to throw a party for their Bengali friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What would happen if you told your parents?” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one is more susceptible to an expert’s fearmongering than a parent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“You once told me that your parents failed you. Do you remember?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Afterward he told my parents my brain seemed okay and I should have a normal life span. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Cinder, his voice like a chill wind: “Is this your parent’s fire?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Starry and I stick to English with our parents, each other, and everybody else. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His parents were the children of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Here’s the math on that one: Sixty kids in the grade equals sixty sets of parents—and doesn’t even include grandparents. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

At dinner I told her and my parents all about what had happened. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents dine here religiously on Friday nights, and she informs me that our dinner must be put on their tab. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Our parents are sleeping in, so it’s just my sisters and me, and were wedged against the wall waiting for a table. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Since when do you want to hang out with your parents?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

And since most parents would agree that education lies at the core of a child’s formation, it would make sense to begin by examining a telling set of school data. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

What angered Cole most after this latest arrest were his parents. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The three little kids are yelling and squirming all over the seats, and their sad, sloppy parents just ignore them. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I wanted what all parents expect for their children: for them to become happy, healthy, educated, productive citizens who contribute to American life in a positive, successful way. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My mom guides Kareem’s parents into the living room, her voice brighter and more singsong than usual. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Some of them don’t have a way to get to the Islamic Center if their parents don’t drive or have cars.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

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

“I can get the shelter to put it on hold for you while you talk to your parents.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The last thing I want is to say anything about this to our parents. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I want to ask him what happened with his mom and who his favorite teacher was and if he took the bus or if his parents gave him rides every morning. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I doze off for a little longer after my parents leave, sleeping off the last bit of the fogginess, and when I wake up an hour later, I’m fully out of the anesthesia haze. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“And that you would have gotten expelled, but his parents begged the school not to expel you . . “What?!” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Like that Kool-Aid pitcher, we were shattered, and my parents couldn’t fix whatever was wrong. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

They could all hear voices and doors as people came downstairs, and Jam felt the familiar vibrations of her parents’ footsteps, even through the rubber of the training room floor. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“You remember what Mrs. Dimblewit said in your parents’ bookshop the other day?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

You need to convince your parents to stay in Cuba or none of you will ever be allowed to return. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

My parents thought this was the best opportunity for me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Sunday night, as I tromped down the back hallway—I’d just finished putting up all my pictures again—to the living room, I heard my parents’ voices floating out of the kitchen. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

When I was little, I thought my parents were calling our poster the “Sir Ott,” which is how you pronounce Seurat, the name of the artist horn France who painted the picture. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Joseph’s parents didn’t really know anything about him. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

What happens if the baby grows up and wants to find the birth parents? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“But why? I’ve done a good job here. There have never been any complaints from parents or from this administration.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents had had a terrible fight the week before, she reported, and hadn’t spoken for days. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I distributed the furniture among the various tenants, except the dining-room table, which was still intact despite the worms that had got into everything, and the wrought-iron bed that had belonged to my parents. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After years of paperwork, lawyers' fees, and an unwanted divorce, my parents were finally falling to pieces. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And then his parents moved away and I never saw him again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I had cousins in California and Oregon whose parents were basically a subspecies of helicopter, they hovered so much. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was indifferent to the outside world, to his parents, and to the history of his family. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

My parents get so few details about my private life that whenever they do stumble upon some morsel, they cling to it for eons. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

She felt that she never wanted to leave her parents and grandparents, and she felt that she did not want to be a tenant farmer her whole life. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He ended up behind on all his schoolwork, and his parents levied all forms of punishment—which they promptly forgot to enforce—one of the perks of being the lettuce. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Didn’t her parents give her work to do? he insisted. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Drum, who had now seen both parents eat this new food, dragged what was left under the overhang. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Experts agree children need to be close to their grandparents. It makes them feel secure, and when they grow up feeling loved they make better parents themselves.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The sound in my parents’ bedroom was my mother weeping. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My parents didn’t have any work scheduled that day, so we headed to the public library to kill time and wash up. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She heard about the family dogs they missed, parents who were ill, fiancées they figured would no longer want them. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

One Saturday morning after cartoons and Corn Flakes my parents sat me down at our kitchen table and told me about a new operation the doctors had planned. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, were pretty much good when it came to money. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I thought about how my parents would have wanted us to behave in this situation. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

But I don’t have a clue whether most people’s parents are divorced, or what their parents do for a living. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She had a grip on that cane in one hand and the picture of her parents in the other. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

His parents like me and don’t mind having me around. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Why do you think Gram didn’t tell me about her vitiligo? Is it because she was ashamed, like her parents were?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Also, just so we're clear—my parents didn't travel around town on a camel. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My mother did not have much to do with either parent for many years, but when Jenny was about to die in Florida, my mother went to see her for the last time. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“We told her parents that the accident could have happened anywhere but they were very concerned for Maria.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could it be that the more I saw of my parents, the less I knew them? Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He told me that his parents fight constantly, about politics and cigarettes and all kinds of things. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I speed back to the cottage, resolving to face my parents. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“The procedure to contact your parents is also in here,” she said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Brad’s parents sent him to rehabilitation because Brad’s father didn’t want him to miss his chance at a football scholarship. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

My family’s a little bit poor as long as both my parents work. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“You should speak directly with your parents about these concerns,” he said, “and in the meantime, don’t jump to conclusions. . ..” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

These perks act as multipliers, a doubling or tripling down on an already overflowing basket of advantages: the parents’ good genes, the family’s wealth and status, the leafy neighborhood within the excellent school district. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

My brother Allie and I, if we were with our parents and all, we used to move our seats and go way down so we could watch him. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been your best friend for years. Of course I know where your parents hide the spare key.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mom is determined to call the parents of each and every football player, get them together, and have them refuse to send their sons to any more afternoon practices. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stirred slowly one morning, hearing the braying of nearby animals, my eyes blinking open to see my parents staring down at me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Labor Day approached, the day of truth when millions of kids would be back in school and tens of millions of parents would be off the highways. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I no longer had my own bedroom, nor did my parents. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She thinks her parents don't care much about her, but I can't imagine that to be true. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He did feel a twinge of guilt when he pictured his parents’ disappointment. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He sounds genuine, but it’s hard to tell with parents. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help what my parents heard, but I didn’t want Caroline to hear. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When were halfway there, I say good-bye to my parents, telling them I want to go back and get my book so I can read in the Hub library. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She could hide it from just her mom’s eyes, or just his parents’ eyes, or the police. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They both stayed in Soweto, were both raised and cared for by their parents. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Our parents had drilled into us the importance of using proper diction, of saying “going” instead of “goin’” and “isn’t” instead of “ain’t.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Wait. How do you know about me and my parents?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The students ask her questions about her mileage per day, and if she’s gotten any injuries, and if she misses her parents and friends, being gone that long. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At the house, I figured my parents were fighting because the move was stressing them out. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I also wrote about getting in trouble with my parents, and how Mom admitted she’d thrown away his past letters. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

His parents were the sort of parents who really, really enjoyed reading. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

An only child, Denise was doted on by her parents and grandparents. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

From this parent branch, if the Lord blessed, other branches might grow and a mighty work be begun throughout the city and throughout the land. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

My parents kept saying it was only a small thing, but as the big day got closer and closer I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Many parents liked what they saw in their children: the discipline, physical fitness, diligence, pursuit of excellence, pride in national heritage, and a sense of purpose. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this your parents’ fire?” he asked with a terrible delight in his voice. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even her parents hadn’t believed that, and they knew about monsters, they had grown up with monsters. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“You might get a phone call from Dimple Shahs parents soon. I just met her.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: Do you feel any animosity toward the parents of the young men for allowing them to do such a thing? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before they could join the other students, their parents had wanted to make sure they had mastered the basics and caught up. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We lived in a hotel in Manhattan for five months while my parents waited for the revolution to fail or for the Americans to intervene in Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

By seven o’clock, Melita and her parents stood on the crowded Wilhelmstrasse, the wide street that led past the President’s Palace and the Chancellery, the building that housed important government offices. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The place was a medley of shouting kids, beaming parents and rushed waiters. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d catch the flicker of television light coming from my parents' room and hear them murmuring quietly, laughing to themselves. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t have been born these perfect angel parents with halos hovering over their heads and church outfits on. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was everything our parents had ever taught us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I’ve already heard that some of the parents are okay with it because they heard you were a drug dealer. They want Long and Tate back.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He was with his parents and Mom totally ignored them. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Isn’t that why parents agonize over the right neighborhood, the right school, the right circle of friends? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Which was how he justified not mentioning the hog hunt to his parents during their nightly phone conversation. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Cole stood but refused to hold his parents’ hands. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She was in the crowd that was witnessing the sad spectacle of the man who had been turned into a snake for having disobeyed his parents. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Jam watched as he walked down toward his parents’ room and knocked at the door. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

They saved their money in canning jars, then wrote home to their parents in Japan requesting wives be sent. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

No updates on Little Fetus, but suffice it to say that I'm more than a little nauseated now that I've had the pleasure of reading the word "sexcapades" in reference to my parents. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

What matters is that I have the chance to tell Nora what happened, before she hears it from Carlos or her parents. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her parents now lived on the other side of the world, but she had never been very close to them, anyway. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I still hadn’t seen either of my parents. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I told my parents I was unhappy with my life and was forging ahead. We never talked about it much after that.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw my parents, arms around each other, swaying to the music. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Seeing his parents, I realize he was a very handsome young man. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following evening my parents and I crowded around the laptop at the dining room table. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When she first saw her parents, her father called her “Ola m,” my gold, and she wished he wouldn’t because she felt tarnished. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s my parents calling for the millionth time. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her free-time activities were sightseeing with her parents, reading, puzzles, and Book Scavenger. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I guess your parents don’t allow you to eat sweets,” she said. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

A woman was often referred to by her husband's name—as Jacob's wife, for example—while children were sometimes known according to who their parents or grandparents were. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

My parents ran through them one by one. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

A bunch of his parents’ friends had decided the family needed to get away on the anniversary, if you could call it that. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t an idiot, he wasn’t dangerous, his parents, or parent, would not pay for his keep in an institution. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had given birth to three children by the time she was eighteen, before her parents arranged for a hysterectomy. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Park was going to take her keys, then sneak back out the kitchen door, the door farthest from his parents' room. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Dad got on my nerves when he started asking questions about Diana and Georgie’s parents. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She’d ask Day and her parents’ cousins, “What in the world happened to my sister? And who was my mother? What happened to her?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“After the fifteenth of January, no girl, whether big or little, shall go to school. Otherwise, you know what we can do. And the parents and the school principal will be responsible.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I survived, and unlike Juliet’s parents, my parents didn’t welcome me with tears falling down from their faces. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

On one hand, I hated my parents for being who they were. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Chup, who had gotten thin doing the job of two parents, began to put on weight. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Worried, he went down to the kitchen to tell his parents the news. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I spend all of Sunday in my room switching between the Smiths and Kid Cudi at top volume, and I don’t even care if that’s too random for my parents. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He scheduled an appointment with my parents for the following Monday. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When one nun told my parents that their youngest daughter had a ‘mind of her own,’ she meant the remark to be a negative criticism. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya looked at her but spoke to her parents. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to leave Marcus’s letter in the mailbox at our house and risk my parents seeing it. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

If, like Riccio, you didn't have parents, it was easy to imagine how wonderful they might have been. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He feels unmoored from himself, from home—and from his parents’ values. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was sent to the parents and staff at Sequoia Elementary School, where he taught kindergarten. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We all wore our dressiest clothes and were on our best behavior because sponsors and outsiders—who might be prospective parents—visited. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

All semester, you work on building it, and then your parents come to see. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I listened for hours when her parents yelled and tried to stuff her into a mannequin shell that didn’t fit. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Emily and her parents clutched their ears, but Matthew didn’t seem as fazed. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was one of the few boys on the island whose parents paid Teacher for extra tutoring after school. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

She evidently preferred to take the longish walk down the hall to her parents’ bedroom, where the more popular phone in the apartment was located. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Those Sundays after church, instead of sitting on the couch with our parents, Maribel and I started hanging out in the kitchen by ourselves. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Just a trip to the district justice with your parents. Go give them a call.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Maybe your family should trade apartments with mine. My parents would probably pay a lot of money for that light.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I started taking lessons in the fall, but my parents said I have to stop them for now. They don’t have the money anymore.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I hope that’s where they both are in a few hours when I decide which of my parents to reset. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

My parents, Garrett, and I gravitate outside as well, all of us standing, strangely, looking to one another for some kind of guidance, or at least validation that this is actually happening. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The truest truth is that I don’t know any other children whose parents are different religions. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The children, on the other hand, were systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There was, for a time, a citywide integration movement to bus kids to new schools, but Bryn Mawr parents had successfully fought it off, arguing that the money was better spent improving the school itself. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I don't think her parents would want her to change either. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He did so the day after my parents agreed to allow me to join the Marines. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is she also being nice to me so that I won’t take this opportunity to run back to my parents? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Get back to soil and there would be people and he could tie her up to a dock in a marina and call his parents and they would come to him and bring him food. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my parents claimed I was old enough, I could enlist. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was convinced that she had chosen the wrong parents for Peach, that Daniel and Catalina wouldn’t stay together and that they would divorce, just like Maya’s parents had. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“My parents only believe in three things: family, education, and hard work. By ‘family’ I mean one man, one woman, two children, and a dog. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents said they flew a long way to take her home with them because they loved her so much they would travel the galaxy to get her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

When one of my parents or the emigrant villagers said, “ ‘Feeding girls is feeding cowbirds,’ ” I would thrash on the floor and scream so hard I couldn’t talk. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all the thinking I do, I never for a minute think it’s crazy, but I’m afraid my parents will. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I said I don’t know much about Diana’s parents, except that they’re very strict. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

No, her parents would never take her there. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Trevor took another shot before asking, “But how are we going to convince our parents to let us go there without telling them why?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

If I was lucky, I could guilt-trip some scholarships out of a school or two, the way my parents had done with Hillpark. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Ollie asks me about my job, and I ask him about his studies, and he says he's moved out of his parents' home to live with a roommate closer to the university. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The parrot-in-the-chimney affair quite definitely cooled both parents down a lot and for over a week they were comparatively civil to their small daughter. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

"For the security of my parents, I am willing to do that." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

At West Virginia University, students cried in each other’s arms, phoned their parents to say good-bye forever, and hid in the dormitory basement. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have a mysterious admirer; it appeared they both had a mysterious matchmaker, which set Citra working on another mental list—at the top of which were her own parents. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As a favor to my parents, a party of young men, including his sons, had gone in search of the body, or what might be left of it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want my parents organizing their world around me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

When they arrived, Benji and his parents were escorted to a room with a large wooden table surrounded by leather chairs. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lina missed her parents with an ache that was as strong as what she felt for Poppy, only it was a hollow feeling instead of a full one. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if Papa finds out and her parents find out, they will see that we’re just two lonely girls who want to be friends. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Still, I am able to be momentarily placated, knowing that this is something my parents might have understood, if they were here right now. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I’d sometimes hear her chewing out her students for not having practiced enough or chewing out their parents for delivering them late to lessons. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“That’s why I’m asking you. Look, it can be anybody. He can even live with his parents — ” “Oh, please, let’s go to sleep.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Did your parents find out you skipped out of math last week? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

From my parents, I got a dress of the finest white lace-trimmed lawn and a new pair of winter slippers made of rabbit fur to replace the ones I’d outgrown. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I told my parents I don’t have time for a job with school and basketball. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

One theory is that they owed their rank to their parents. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And her parents always tried to make it fun. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Someone willing to be right here with me and feel the horror of the night my parents died. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

His letters didn't have a return address because he was living with his parents—and he hadn't yet told them he had a wife. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“To be honest, I don't know. They can't give him to parents if he doesn't sleep. It would interrupt their work habits to be kept awake at night. But we can't keep him here indefinitely.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t really understand war, because my parents did such a good job protecting me from it. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I was about to begin the investigation of my parents’ murders. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

His parents were both at work, and his little sister, Lily, was at the Childcare Center where she spent her after-school hours. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

My parents didn't want to be absent, but they weren't left with much choice. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

We picked fruit off a peach tree nearby and listened to our parents talk about business. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

My parents met for the first time on the day of their wedding—an arranged marriage. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Come on, Eonni! We have to go faster if we are to meet our parents!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He learns to love the food she and her parents eat, the polenta and risotto, the bouillabaisse and osso buco, the meat baked in parchment paper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had nearly set when my parents' bedroom door finally opened. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Her parents, too, seemed to think that she might not be able to “cope” with Nigeria. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But most of the kids, or their parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents, had started out life in the South. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Our parents had planned to go before my father’s death, so Caroline and Call begged her to return with them and stay on through the opening. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of parents make you feel very awkward when you meet them. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, my parents took me out to lunch. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The child’s parents read to him nearly every day. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Maddy’s parents are even coming to the International Festival. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

One weekend I was visiting my parents in Morristown, New Jersey, and had taken a new book to show them. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was called Bruno Jenkins and he was staying in the hotel with his parents. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

So my parents do not truly speak on my pages. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people who turned out for our home games—parents, little brothers and sisters, and other locals—had turned out for this game, too. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grew up learning to be afraid of la migra and listened to my parents and family members go on and on about papeles. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“My siblings will tell you that I haven’t set foot in this place, or even seen my parents, for months,” Matthew was saying to Detective Hayes. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then my parents would talk about what could be inside his boxes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a surprisingly minimal amount of coaxing by me, he shocked us all by not only signing off on the idea but also encouraging my parents to let me go. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He may not have been on the best terms with our parents, but I wouldn’t be able to entirely focus until he had been informed of their deaths. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then, the summer her parents had gotten divorced. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I barely hear the doctor give my parents my at-home care instructions—a sling, a prescription, and physical therapy starting next week. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen my parents go into this little closet on our floor and push our garbage bags through a hole in the wall. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I never expressed it to my parents, but I dreaded the calls to Iran. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The parents have not supplied a note from a doctor. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So what does all this have to say about the importance of parents in general? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was terrible to be alone without my parents, not knowing where Tsalig and Hershel were, or even if they were still alive. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

You see it in the papers, parents doing horrible physical harm to their kids out of jealousy or spite or for attention— any number of reasons. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad waited in line with their card for their designated food supply, and it was disheartening to see my parents so powerless. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Where do you live then, if not in the Apprentices’ Quarters or with your parents?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Mop’s parents eventually pick him up, and they drive off to Withlacoochee River Wildlife Exploration Summer Camp, somewhere in central Florida. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Both her parents jerked back in surprise, then looked at each other again. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Everybody was congratulating me and congratulating my parents for having such a “good,” “smart,” and “fascinating” son. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

At home in Chicago, Hadiya lived with her parents and her little brother, about two miles from our house on Greenwood Avenue. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her parents knew very little about her mother. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Valley might hate me for it, but I told my parents about her dad. He’s done awful things to her in secret, and Valley shouldn’t have to go through that alone.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Laila saw three drops of blood on the rug, her blood, and pictured her parents sitting on this couch later, oblivious to the sin that she had committed. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When it came to war, my parents could shelter us from only so much. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Since my parents went to college, it was expected of me that I would go too. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, both sets of parents were pleased with their children's mutual attraction. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

"I keep it hidden back here," she says, unzipping a flap in the wallet, "because if I, like, die or something, I don't want the hospital trying to call Zora Thurston Moore's parents." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Harris argued, albeit gently, that parents are wrong to think they contribute so mightily to their child’s personality. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Violet, Klaus, and Sunny pictured their loving parents, and wished more than ever that the fire had not occurred. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

When Helene finally arrives at Grandfather's house, parents and sisters in tow, I forget to greet her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

My brother got in big trouble, and my sister was given a “serious talk” by my parents about bad influences. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Garcia was a student, a fifth grader. Her mother, all the parents came to pick up their kids.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

My brother, sisters and I, unable to fully understand why our parents had to constantly be on the run, would always ask our mother to explain. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your parents were told what time to pick you up, but if anyone has a problem with a ride, let me know. I won’t leave the building until everyone has safely left school grounds.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Our parents didn’t like what television did to a boy’s mind. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Just for an instant, I worried about how Thelma’s parents would get through the huge crowd outside to pick her up if she were really ill. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please let me know when you hear from your parents.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was the only reason my parents had agreed to the additional testing at the vet yesterday to find out why Fig was still sick. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Calder listened to his parents read parts of the article aloud. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Carl ended up staying until my parents came back with the pizza, but then he left. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Uncle Dill, Uncle Thyme, Uncle Chive, and during a period our parents wish we would forget, Uncle Cannabis. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t really Pet she was afraid of but the job that lay ahead of them, the responsibility, the way she would have to hide it from her parents. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Keep an eye on her,” she said to the baby’s parents. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

From around the tiny shop full of imported Indian clothing, parents gave Mamma approving looks. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My parents are too afraid now of making mistakes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She had not told her parents she was applying to art school until the acceptance letter had arrived. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And when did we, in the past? Did my parents have sleds when they were young? Did you?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The staff told prospective parents something about a child, then permitted them to observe her or him during meals, campus events, sports, or talent shows. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Two nights later, Nathan lay on his stiff mattress, not wanting to miss his parents as much as he did. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He had even forced my parents to eliminate me from Cuba. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Why was it normal for my father, like all the parents I knew, to reach for his belt? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Paddler flopped into the water, where his parents suddenly appeared. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her parents had been in an assisted-living home for some time by then, and the house she had grown up in had already been sold. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And like any parent with a child, Uncle was hurt and angry when Windrider did not behave as Uncle wanted. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later the attorneys decided that anyone who had been adopted or had returned to their biological parents should be excluded from the class. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The cliff and the river spoke to her of her first home and her parents. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Someplace parents like mine will renew their vows and think life can always feel this refreshed, from this anniversary night forward. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I suppose they don’t tell you about this when you find out you’re going to be a parent,” she said, and then chuckled. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Once Ralph could imagine his parents watching, breathless, amazed, but now ... Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She mentions a break-in at her parents’ once when she was by herself. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents had been collecting DVDs for decades. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She’d secretly had extra keys made for our parents’ cars ages ago. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“My parents only want us to date Korean girls.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t really know how to reach his parents,” I admit. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

When I closed my eyes I saw my parents. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that if she did not make her peace with her parents before one of them died, her remorse would be endless. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But still his parents tried to see him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I ignore mine, ’cause I still have no idea what I’m going to tell my parents about not being on the bus by now. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Stepping in quickly to nip the embarrassment, Carrie’s foster parents brought her before the same municipal judge that had sent her mother, Emma, to Lynchburg. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When he was thirteen, his parents had paid to send him to a Catholic convent so he could enter the priesthood. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

That in turn reminded him of the boy’s parents. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

That evening, before his parents and Lily arrived at the dwelling, he had held it in his hands and looked at it carefully. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It’s, uh. Don’t tell my parents. It’s under the sink behind the toilet bowl cleaner. It’s the one in the vodka bottle. Don’t drink the toilet bowl cleaner.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Every night, she sends a small thank-you to Melissa for choosing these two people to be her parents. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

On the home front, my parents and I weren’t exactly hitting it off either. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“That your parents shouldn’t have given you a stripper name?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It explained why her parents had brought her to New York, so that the doctors could work in secret. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, my parents didn't take issue with our relationship even though Slash was the furthest thing from all the nice, respectable Persian men in our family. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the two weeks following my brother’s vanishing off the face of the Earth, my parents seemed to be closer than ever. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He stood watch at the door until my parents arrived. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Lately he’s been lazy, addressing his parents in English though they continue to speak to him in Bengali. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I sit in the back seat of the car that smells of gasoline and cheese, waiting for my parents, who are buying groceries. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My parents and I don’t say a word. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

But how much can those eager parents actually accomplish for their children’s sake? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Three. All right. First: she is your sister, and your parents have died. They left her to you to look after.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Only one parent showed up for the first afternoon session. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’d wondered about her birth parents and if they ever wished for her, if they knew what had happened to her, if they knew she was half a world away. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“One shall perish by a parent’s hand. Yeah.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I was really nervous about talking with the parents,” he said. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I want is to be the normal girl, with parents who let her date and a house that smells of seasonally appropriate candles and not fried onions. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Then he took some of the iron staples and hammered them so’s Syl’s parents couldn’t slip out. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

But most of us are, like Molly’s parents, terrible risk assessors. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere, the students have tangible advantages—better theaters, bigger stages, parents who buy them private voice lessons and put them in expensive theater camps. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Haupt lived with his parents, so he handed his paycheck over to his father. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Of course, it couldn’t have happened without her parents. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The doctors told my parents I’d never walk on my squished left leg normally. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Then he’d slowly start sinking into the ground, still with that smile on his face, as my parents appeared behind him. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four weeks since Alex had last heard from his parents and one day short of that since he’d last spoken to his brother. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I quietly prayed that my teacher would overlook the fact my parents had not paid the fees. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Most people around here frowned upon girls riding bicycles, and Hafsa’s parents had let her know they were one of them. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Embarrassed by the fuss, Louie asked his parents not to watch him race. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Hari’s parents were ashamed to admit before this dignified man that they had married so young and so sick a son to get money. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Still, there was a lot of chaos as the parents of the flayers rushed to their sons on the floor in an effort to protect them from whatever this onslaught was. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Just like everything else about the Thunderhead, its parenting skills were indisputable. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She had one foot in her parents’ home, and from there it was not far at all to the Japan they had left behind years before. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I thought about my parents, who argued more often than any other Abnegation parents I knew, who nonetheless went through each day together until they died. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I went into the kitchen and called my parents at the party and told them Lynn was sleeping peacefully. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I learned that the case had been closed and no one had been charged for the deaths of my four friends, I immediately thought about their parents. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“As you can see, I was a disappointment to my parents. They expected...more from me.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“We have to go to my parents’ house.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And our foster parents, Miss Doris and Mr. Leo, were nice to us. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I’d watch my foster parents’ biological children, who were older than us, flipping and somersaulting and having so much fun on that trampoline, and I wanted so badly to join them. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If only his parents would stop acting so strangely. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

TaShon keeps so quiet, and I think his parents forget he’s there. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Other times, the soldiers come back with the girl and tell her parents they have married. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was not even my parents’ son in 1928 but a devilishly smooth impostor, awaiting their slightest blunder as an excuse to move in—preferably without violence, but not necessarily—to assert my true identity. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

How can I ever give this to my parents, something else to love, something dead? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“They were both adopted, you know? Their parents paid a lot of money to get them.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There are lots of other kids in my grade who go to our church, but no one else’s parents make them go to church on a school morning. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As for parents comparing their kids’ report cards? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

An old framed photo on my mother’s bureau pops into my mind: My parents standing on a tour boat against white rails, close but not touching. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Although it was not as big as their parents’ library, it was as cozy, and the Baudelaire children were thrilled. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Once again drawing from the pool of most common names among white children, here are the top picks of highly educated parents versus those with the least education. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

There was one Canadian member of my clique, who always blathered on and on about how her parents had taken the appropriate legal channels to move to the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Realizing their work wouldn’t be tying them to one spot, her parents decided to make their fantasy of living once in every state a reality. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The babies don’t think about the parents, and no jellyfish ever longs for another. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe Maggie’s parents had won the lottery and I didn’t know because we hadn’t been talking much. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They marry within a year, at a DoubleTree hotel in New Jersey, close to the suburb where her parents live. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw Mark’s parents on the news. The missing kid’s, I mean.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Friends are appalled at the way he speaks to his only remaining parent. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“You have to think of who your character is, who her friends are, if she has a good relationship with her parents or not, what motivates her,” she says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t think it’s like that in my family. My parents don’t treat us any differently.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was free of restraint, free of the fear of consequences; it did not take the familiar shape of a relationship with a parent. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When she tells them that she lives with her parents, Ashima says, “Really? I thought no one did that in America.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I can't drop you off and then drive to my parents' house without knowing why," I say. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Obviously, a variety of motives are at work when parents consider a name for their child. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She gave notice that same day, and a week later she was gone—to Chicago, said her parents, to find a better job and to have a better life. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Young man,” he said, “wherever are your parents?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Pong and Somkit had been hiding in Mark's sister's apartment, squeezed in with her parents and four children. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She told her parents what had happened when they got home that evening. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock the whole school had to go to their desks and spend one hour writing a letter home to their parents. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents and the policeman talked for a while. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At least it’s almost all unpacked, since it’s where my parents spent most of their time today. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I am not her parent. My own children are not spotted, like her,” Uncle Abdullah retorted. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, my parents let me go to her house to help out. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I looked across the table directly into the shining eyes of my parents. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

That night at home Melanie brought up the subject of playing outdoors and got her parents started on an argument about it. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t been this bad even when I was on the move with my parents and brother. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Later on, after the guests had left, I said good night to my parents and got ready to go to bed myself. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Former high school athlete and runaway parent, now Father Anthony, a priest at Saint Therese’s near Boston. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

His parents told me he was still sleeping downstairs, so I knocked loudly on the basement door before entering, then asked, “Gus?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, my parents had raised me to be polite even when I secretly had an attitude, so even though I wasn’t enjoying the drills, I didn’t dare let anyone else see that. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His parents came to New York first, and after they made enough money, they brought Ramu and his little brother, Avik, here. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Nixon wrote personal letters to the parents of the four dead protestors. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

There’s a picture of him standing with his parents where he appears to be around my age. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

My mother’s parenting capabilities consisted of “I’ll give you twenty bucks and the keys to my car if you leave me alone this weekend.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m the one who got drunk and paraded it in front of my parents.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“My parents are totally cool with me going home early. I’ll just finish out the day and tell Max I have a family emergency or something.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It’s kind of funny how parents actually end up forming the same little groups their kids form. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“If that breaks, my parents will make me pay for it. They’re big on personal responsibility.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But in 2011, the group liberalized its policy, urging parents to limit and monitor toddler screen time but not calling for such a rigid ban. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

One very real possibility is that these are the educational consequences of the differences in parenting styles that we talked about in the Chris Langan chapter. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing here? I thought your parents didn’t trust doctors. Are you sick?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was his first lie to his parents. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The older she got, the more human her parents seemed, and that was one of the scariest things in the world. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I talked to my parents and things are good now, but that day really messed up my way of thinking about things. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He had nursed my parents, and knew I was alone. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Shortly after the sounds of furniture being moved had ceased, the bar of light showing under the door had also gone out And, of course, our parents were gone. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Too obvious. I'm a Spaniard. A refugee. My parents were murdered by Basque separatists.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Aurelia had all the intelligence that her clever parents could bequeath her. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I like the way it feels on the way down. Besides, I gotta remind my parents that the lettuce is there.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My parents are glued to the media unit, watching the latest announcement. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I’m a little hung up on Blue’s parents being religious. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Any parent of a child born on a major holiday knows that there’s already a certain line to be walked between an individual celebration and more universal festivities. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It can be a little complicated with divorced parents. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

My parents’ house looks sad and abandoned and swallowed by the mist. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why call while both her parents were out? The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The third of five children, she was born to a mother who was a cook and to a laborer father whom, though the parents had married, she didn’t meet until she was ten. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

From the time I was six, I stayed with her on Saturday nights while my parents went out, and together we prepped for Sunday family dinner. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I’d moved beyond a childhood relationship with Allah, and my faith no longer required my parents’ supervision or interpretation. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Though he knew his own parents locked up at night—when they didn't forget—the doors at his house had always been open for him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Together with my parents, I walk down the Midway. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The boy’s parents didn’t believe their son would commit suicide; they didn’t believe the story the police had told them. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

All the while, I could hear the trickle of conversation going on between the adults in the kitchen nearby, my parents' laughter ringing easy and loud over the yard. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And then he told of his parents disappearing and finding the butcher lying beneath the wall and of healing his head with yarrow. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

When her parents headed upstairs to bed, she asked if she could stay up to watch TV. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel how cautious we are with each other, now that we’re discovering a different way to relate in light of our new factions and our parents’ deaths. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Many parents seem to believe that a child cannot prosper unless it is hitched to the right name; names are seen to carry great aesthetic or even predictive powers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

My parents start talking to each other in Urdu, the primary and personal language they share. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder now what my parents’ silence contains. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they finally put together enough money, my parents moved us to Swanlake Village. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My parents put their bags on the luggage rack, and mine fits under the seat in front of me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There was no reason why Liam couldn’t think that his friend had made it home to his parents; no reason he needed another distraction from getting home himself. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

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

Part of me thinks it would be a good idea to destroy it, but I know it contains the only record of my parents’ deaths, so I’ll settle for keeping it hidden. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Eleanor's parents were still together, there were always people around. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Dahlia is right about how most Pakistani people, including my parents, pronounce Arabic differently. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

They know that our parents are sipping chai with plates of tea biscuits upstairs and that they aren’t the slightest bit interested in our bickering. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Do you think there’s a point where we made a choice—parent of the year or Ministry official of the year? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Sickly, feeling abandoned by his parents, quarrelsome, unsociable, a virgin to the day he died, Isaac Newton was perhaps the greatest scientific genius who ever lived. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My options were shifting: My best hope now was to stay put behind the electrified fence and wait for my parents to come through and rescue me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Then come to my house tonight. My parents are attending a fund raiser and won’t be home until late.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I managed to hide the tattoo from my parents when I saw them on the weekends—until one Sunday at church. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This was one of the few things that could unite my parents, the thread that mended them: their conviction that no one else here understood Panamá the way they did. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

That was the year Em’s parents got divorced. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Such heaviness of spirit as there was, pressed not on her but on us, her parents, and of us Nathan was the most burdened. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just talking about those jerks,” I say, not giving her the satisfaction of being shocked by what she said about our parents. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“My parents told me to go to West Side Junior High, so I went. Do you ever talk back to your parents?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It will kill my parents if I die too.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

What bothered me most was that Barack exemplified everything parents on the South Side often said they wanted for their kids. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They tell us our parents have been contacted. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

There were things that had belonged to Lina’s parents, her grandparents, and even their grandparents—old, broken, cracked, threadbare things that had been patched and repaired dozens or hundreds of times. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My parents have never believed in grounding us or taking away our phones or computers, all the things Amanda’s parents do to her when she gets caught breaking the rules. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But since my parents are trying to save money, Dad cooks instead. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I tapped her on the shoulder and told her that my parents were out of town. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

This was the meritocracy John Casteen described when he greeted the parents of freshmen in a University of Virginia lecture hall in the late summer of 2004. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I rose and packed my things as quietly as possible so as not to awaken my parents. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The docile, obedient student came home a shrill and precocious son who insisted on correcting and teaching his parents with the remark: ‘My teacher told us....’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the list of things that they said they wanted: To be good parents. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Inside the Monk Building, conspicuously posted signs led them down a series of corridors, past a room where a handful of parents waited anxiously, and at last into a room crowded with children in desks. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Failed with a bright-purple capital F. The note from my teacher is burning a hole in my back pocket, and I know I should give it to my parents. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

My parents said they wanted me to be happy. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Now Em belonged to the school’s Banana Splits Book Club, for kids whose parents had split up. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He had a cat, a beaver, a possum, a snapping turtle, and a pig that he got after my parents had a pig roast in our backyard. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

While I was already dubious about many of the foster parents and caseworkers, I do not remember being angry or resenting my mother. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"My parents keep me away from crowds and noise. They treat me like a delicate little flower, which I'm most definitely not." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I want to explain to my father that it would be completely embarrassing to be the only kid tagging along with her parents at back-to-school night. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

As my parents waited on the other side of the door, we sat wordless, week after week. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Both my parents have tried to describe something of what it was like for them to have grown up Catholic in small Mexican towns. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bring up my parents’ failed assault on the Great Books for a reason. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“His parents sent him to college, paid for the whole thing, tuition, room, and board.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the biological world, genes generally travel vertically—i.e., from parents to children, or from parent cells to daughter cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You have to promise not to tell any grown-ups. Not your parents. Not my dad. Not Carlos the super. Nobody.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He created a “memory chalet”—using as his background the layout of the chalet in Switzerland where he stayed on skiing holidays with his parents as a child. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Richard was resentful, still holding out hope that his parents would get back together. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Black man and the cosmos! That’s where my parents are now.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wow, so between Ms. Every Time Including Oral and Mr. Let's Read About Freaking Casanova, your parents are seriously invested in your sex life. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Watching us look. And watching her parents not look.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The chance to confess—or lie— before a camera and before peers instead of parents. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It was clear that her parents were scared of Pet in a way that was different from hers. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

While this was indeed a glorious moment, it does not cancel the pain of the loss of both our parents, or even kiss away the ache of their absence. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents arrived as the leaves began to turn, when campus was at its most beautiful, the reds and yellows of autumn mingling with the burgundy of colonial brick. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Drawing from the entire California database, here are the names that signify the most poorly educated white parents. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

My parents went up for the ceremony in the Juilliard chapel, which, I gathered, was stark in word and dress, but rich in Bach and Mozart, thanks to Caroline’s school friends. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My parents, well, I don’t even know if they have my birth certificate because they don’t really read—” “Neither do my parents!” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept looking around to make sure that the other parents couldn’t hear us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what about the emptiness felt by Cynthia’s parents? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Things hadn’t been right between us since his parents got divorced, but I was patient with him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

My parents are always introducing me to strangers and telling me we’re related. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My adoptive parents gave me better circumstances than he had, at least to my way of thinking. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She was desperate to be an engaged parent, 180 degrees of difference from how she felt her parents treated her. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Will you please help our little disappointment carry her things? Her brothers have gotten themselves ill and her parents are dead. I would like all evidence of this fiasco removed as quickly as possible.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The space in front of Cassie’s parents waits for me. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He arrives in Nuenen, at his parents’ house, again filthy, exhausted, a wreck. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Her parents are super conservative. My dad says they’re scared about the way society is changing. Maddy is with them all the time. She doesn’t know any better.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Worse—she even had a couple of bad grades in that notebook that she’d hidden from her parents, which she knew was dumb. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Kayla would be tossing pretzels at me while I tried to catch them in my mouth, and Emily would be complaining that her parents still wouldn’t let her wear makeup. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

That night I went home and over dinner told my parents about the coach’s plans for me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

During the election, with paranoia and Islamophobia and isolationism as the prevailing themes, my parents held on to this hope. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He had been trained by guards and teachers to believe that every time he was beaten, he deserved it—because of the treasonous blood he had inherited from his parents. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Okay! We have to get our parents’ permission first,” I say. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Because income inequality is greater here, there is a wider disparity between what rich and poor parents can invest in their children. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He tells his parents in a letter that Theo is very sad about his father’s death but is still very good company. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

For a single, illusory moment of bliss, I’m there in that kitchen, my kitchen, in my home, with my parents. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Your parents told me you were leaving school because of some bullies, no? You got punched in the face? No?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She nods at me, and I hold up our list so our parents can see it. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

My parents made a striking pair of newlyweds, both tall and good-looking, my mom with a stately, confident air, and my dad, soft-spoken, gentle, and sincere, with an easy smile and a long, straight nose. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Instead of sitting me in the special little chair my parents had bought for me, she plopped me on my back in the middle of the floor on a large, soft quilt. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

That same year, students in Shin’s class at primary school were required to volunteer to help their parents at work. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

My parents knew the dating pool was already small enough and that the only way we'd connect with an Iranian guy was if he'd been raised in America like us. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Obviously, I was not the only child born to black and white parents during apartheid. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the year, a parent had come in to meet with her and had brought along a younger sibling. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My parents tried yet again to put a positive spin on this new turn of events. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

My parents shuffle me into the backseat of the chief of police’s car and shut the door. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The Pottses had been foster parents for many years and had received a license for two children. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I lingered on in my office at my parents’ Mansfield, Texas, farm. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents were sad, but they saw that I was determined. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always pick the ones my parents don’t use so they won’t notice, but lately Mom’s been going through the cabinets and I think she suspects something. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Anyway I don’t want to leave my parents. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, very soon, we talk to your parents and get them involved.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

I saw parents announce to their bawling children that they were divorcing. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Zion’s parents would have had a way better comeback. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My parents didn’t, though; they eventually got so used to it happening that they started getting to my bed and grabbing me before I even woke myself up. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you sit out the year, save money, and start next year. It can be done, and done independently of your parents.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The other parents regarded me sympathetically and asked me my address, but I was afraid to tell them. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m pretty sure you got on my shoulders,” I said, remembering her parents’ house in Madrid that same summer we’d gone to the beach. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They talked about her parents and a few other people. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Her parents were dancing a clumsy, barefoot salsa on the grass. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

By the time I had visited and then watched a serial and a double feature and then been retrieved by my parents to walk around Welch to finish up Mom’s shopping, I was exhausted. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor reassured her that he himself was a refugee and understood the plight of parents during war. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ida's story sounded so true that, for a moment, Hornet herself almost believed in these quarreling parents. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered what Grandma would say to me, what my parents would say when they got home. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Mark had been playing the “Population Police” joke for years, always out of their parents' earshot. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

My heart radiates badoom, so I stand and shuffle into the living room and pick a book off my parents’ shelf. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Humans have forty-six such chromosomes in total—twenty-three from one parent and twenty-three from another. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

"I'm sure that would thrill your parents, you liking a girl from the Seam," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Your parents are in Mr. Tate’s office,” he said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

And apparently the Arizona kids’ dad was still alive, since she’d seen the word “parents” at the bottom of the computer screen. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Maya came but ended up asking her parents to come get her that night. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

After he returned from Camp Green Lake, his parents bought a home drug-testing kit. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Despite all these worries, William did his best to make his parents proud. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The girl’s parents said there was no need to drive across town just for that. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I did not see Augustus or anyone other than my parents. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

In the squares of this net my parents have hung their Christmas cards. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But most parents, one suspects, think that whatever disadvantage a younger child faces in kindergarten eventually goes away. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In the months after the Times story about the Fugees, Luma was frequently approached by teachers, parents, coaches, and volunteers who wanted her advice on how to handle various situations involving difficult children. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He was born on November 19, 1831, in his parents’ log house in northeastern Ohio. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the woman paused for breath, he quickly interrupted with: “Have you called our parents?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to have moved beyond his need to assert so adamantly his autonomy, his need to separate himself from his parents. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of my friends' parents drank themselves stupid or yelled too much or had stopped loving each other a long time ago, and that was just the way of things, no big deal. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I could feel Ma and his parents and Auntie Harm waiting for good news as he held both of my hands. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jupiter stared at my parents—her parents too, now. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

A normal indenture was seven years, but she had to pay off the debts of her parents, and the only way she was allowed to do that was to sign up for a double indenture. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because normal parents would be freaked out if their kids started to, like, throw fire?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“What if we ask our parents to go to the movie theater in Davis,” I said. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Within seconds their parents burst into the cramped orange tiled room. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Benji couldn’t imagine telling his parents that he hadn’t gotten a spot. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Worried that I’d ruined things between us, I turned and ran to my parents’ wagon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I hate that our parents make us feel this way. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“What if it’s one of your parents?” she said. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

After his appointment, Moore went to his parents’ house nearby. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But like a parent, she knew not to make a scene. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He was constantly getting sick, so his nervous parents tried to protect him by keeping him inside. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t tell his parents about the drawing class, something they would consider frivolous at this stage of his life, in spite of the fact that his own grandfather was an artist. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a stripped-down quality to her life, a kindling starkness, without parents and friends and home, the familiar landmarks that made her who she was. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He said he would call both my parents to let them know I was okay and that I was headed home. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She asks a million questions about my friends’ parents—what part of Mexico they’re from, what church they go to, where they work—but today, nothing. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She nodded to Citra’s parents, winked at Ben, then turned to leave. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

In my experience, the schools never called my parents to discuss me, probably because of the language barrier. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

My parents tried to seem excited as we left the hotel, pointing out sights from the taxi window. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He’d waited in the lobby for thirty minutes, trying to see past the streaming lines of freshmen and their parents, looking for her wild hair, her petite body. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Letters arrive from her parents, from her husband’s parents, from aunts and uncles and cousins and friends, from everyone, it seems, but Ashima’s grandmother. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was always touchy about the fact that Harry, who had inherited a small fortune from his parents, had much more money than he did. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

That night Esteban Trueba lay down in the iron bed that had belonged to his parents, in the old main house where he had not slept in years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about that story about his parents—how he invited them to the wedding but they refused to come because they were so angry with him for leaving Rachel. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After my sister's procedure, my parents continued to insist that I didn't need a nose job. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Whereas Uncle Jos could seem stern, he was a much more accepting person than Charles’s father, and a more relaxed parent. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He entertains her in the back seat of the car when they drive on the highway on Saturday evenings, on the way to dinner parties thrown by their parents’ friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

While there, he asked me if I wanted to go to Rochester to see my parents. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Most of the time, they don’t know where to contact the parents. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry about your mom, Percy. But that’s not what I mean. I’m talking about your other parent. Your dad.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Lots of kids landed so hard, their parents carried them away in tears. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When Cretheus died the twins were told by their foster-mother who their real parents were. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What was wrong with the name your parents gave you?” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

While during the day Gregor, out of consideration for his parents, did not want to show himself by the window, he couldn't crawl around very much on the few square metres of the floor. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents had a pleasant enough catch-up with Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, and I followed Pamela around, gaping at her hair, her fair skin and teenager jewelry. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When my parents get on my last nerve, or school gets to be too much, or I get really depressed, I can call her and she’ll cheer me up. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How she’d be the only sad parent in a sea of smiling ones. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

My parents were consistent with their message of no parties. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Whatever children inherit from their parents—habits, skills, genes, contacts, money—seems to matter more today. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I once asked Mrs. Brown why nobody ran against him, and she hesitated and said that perhaps it would be better if I asked my parents that question. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I just walked straight to the far wall of the room, to my parents’ bookshelf. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She waved gaily, from the midst of students and a few parents, then quickly waddled over to us. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I know I mess up sometimes, I know I can be a sarcastic jerk, I know I’m not the daughter my parents wanted, but Amá treats me like I’m a degenerate. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My parents sit across from me, their brows creased and unhappy. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

According to Mr. Ingman, I have to emphasize the fact that my parents are still undocumented. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

This time Mrs. Jongwe was joined by her husband and his parents. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I don’t dare tell them with my parents in the room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Personally, I thought my parents were either going to kiss the ground or wring my neck, and I had no idea which. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat thinking of the dread possibility of having to leave all this, of being expelled; imagining the return home and the rebukes of my parents. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His round white head was so friendly and kind, I cried like a baby because I wanted him for a father instead of my own parents. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first question comes from a parent—how did something like this happen? On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She had a terrifying vision of Cathair drenched in ash-gray rain, covering the red roofs of her parents’ home in a choking sludge. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Now, you just stop stupid talk like that! My whole world would fall apart if something happened to you. Your parents’ as well.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

So I dutifully told Gregory my parents had agreed, and he hung up so he could call and let the people who’d found the chicken know I’d be coming for her. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He had been a regular guest in her parents’ home when she was a child, for he was close in age to her brothers Taeko and Tanis. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“And at home your parents are trying to be supportive and say, ‘Well, if you’re not happy, if it’s not right for you, come back home. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Besides, it’s not like my parents weren’t going to find out eventually. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

I doubt my parents would be too happy if I flooded the place. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The fog on the inside of the mirror faded, and so did her parents, and now the mirror reflected only the corridor, and Coraline, and the cat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“But, you . . . the dragon sputtered, “your fortune, your parents . Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, my parents celebrated my arrival with joy. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, what about your parents? Is that why you moved here? Isn’t it so cool?” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

As he helped his mother clear the table, long after Njemile and her parents left, he pulled his phone out again, the unread text still on his lock screen. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The police were gone, except for the oversized and overweight patrolman putting great stress on an antique armchair outside our parents’ room. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

An innocent teenager in the middle of God’s green hell with no telephone, and not on speaking terms with her parents? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles had made amends, somewhat, with the Horner girls and their parents, but it would be too awkward to run into them all the time on the block where they lived. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about a girl whose parents were getting divorced. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the prayer was finished, Cole’s parents and their lawyer immediately began putting on their coats to leave. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I would have killed a dozen horses if it would have helped me get more information about the Chandrian and why they had killed my parents. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I would resist it much more than my parents did, but deep within me something had been prepared for that. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents want to read one of my journals so bad. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Their parents were in charge, and they understood how things worked. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

If I had known that this would basically be the last time I’d have both parents paying attention to me at once, I probably would have taken the hug. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The goddess took her in when Florence's parents were killed. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

My parents look at each other, and Baba lets out a little sigh. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He'd been born there, and though my parents had immigrated to the US when he was little, Iraq had always remained home for him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I walked down the long hallway leading to my parents’ suite, intending to pass through their bedroom doorway as I’d done so many times before. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The oil paintings my parents made on their first date because Pa wanted to wow Ma with an experience more memorable than just dinner. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Every parent wanted her for a daughter, every teacher for a student. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

His parents had redecorated it as well, though not as radically. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

His parents helped fund a set of one thousand glasses for him, and he started shipping them to people. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The dazzle of this fictive childhood—full of swimming pools and orange groves and dissolute, charming show-biz parents—has all but eclipsed the drab original. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And even the two Maxes’ parents hang out together. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

One time my parents took me to this place called Crystal Caverns where you went underground and couldn’t even see your hand in front of your face. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Ah well, Hare’s the family name, don't y’know. My parents named me Basil, though the old mater wanted me to be called Columbine Agnes. Always longed for a young lass, she did.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

If it hadn’t been for Voldemort, Harry would still have had parents. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Except Twinkle’s parents, apparently,” he said, carrying a glass carafe of orange juice over to the table. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As we drive, Rose chatters with my parents and Mrs. V like she’s known them all her life. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The old primordial gods like Gaea and Tartarus...How could you leave home and ever be independent of your parents, when they literally encompassed the entire world? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Let’s see what our parents have to say about Zane’s new hobby, she thought. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

My three friends’ parents were able to bail them out, but other children stayed in the hog pens two weeks or more. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“If this small part of my journey is to give everyone else a chance, then that is what will make our parents and ancestors proud.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was not like my parents fell in love—in Zimbabwe, if a woman becomes pregnant, our Shona tradition requires that she get married or else she brings shame on both families. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He cried a little but he knew he would be all right because, ever since the split-up of his parents when he was five, he had pretty much raised himself. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if it’s because I’m going to meet his dad, or because of the politics of his parents’ owning this store. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He took the money my parents had saved for my education, and because we had no money left, Mama and I could not escape. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my parents return to the pew, they sit on either side of me, comforting me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

His parents did, and Lily did, and so did all of his group members and friends. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Violet had burned the toast, and their parents, smelling smoke, had run downstairs to see what the matter was. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Next to my parents, Mrs. Baxter was the smartest person I knew. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She’d be scared of the dark forest and afraid she’d get in trouble if she didn’t hear her parents when they called. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We stared at our unopened Christmas gifts, wondering if we should selfishly tear through the wrapping paper or wait for my parents to come home so we could open our presents together. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I need to go,” I say again, “but only for a minute. I need to check on my parents, but I’ll be right back.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

My life as a human was a glamorous one, although my parents, traditional sorts, would not have approved. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She had known all along her parents would not approve; all this time they had indulged her hobby but now that she was eighteen, she knew, things would be different. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In India, she thinks to herself, women go home to their parents to give birth, away from husbands and in-laws and household cares, retreating briefly to childhood when the baby arrives. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

State Department showed up at our house and told my parents that Grandpa Bobby was dead and buried near some little village in Colombia. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then Mini kissed her stiff parents, hugged her immobile brother, and went outside, prepared to face down whatever evil she was destined to defeat. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My parents’ SUV was parked in the grass just a few feet outside my dorm room, Room 43. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Him too. And I don’t know. Maybe my parents getting divorced?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Daddy used to have a hard time working steady, so that meant that my parents’ cash was never steady. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t remember being in the car when his parents had died. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I grinned sheepishly and thought about our first visit to the vet and the huge bill he’d paid with the credit card, even though my parents didn’t have the money. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I suppose not. After all, you still need to find your parents, don’t you?” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I think losing a parent robs confidence from a kid. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Don’t want us to go back in the attic while my parents are around. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

My parents grew up in these towering mountains, the Hauts Plateaux, in a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo called South Kivu. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I must pay my own plus what was left of my parents’ indentures. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents had warned me they were going to bring her, in spite of their reservations. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Growing up in a working-class community and with a disabled parent, I’d learned that planning and vigilance mattered a lot. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her parents said they were going to wait until she was old enough to understand and make her own decision about it, like Catholic confirmation. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was subjected to hours of interrogation without his parents or an attorney present. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My parents had differing theories about how much parenting I required. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She loved him and despite her parents’ objections, she ran away and they eloped. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed downstairs with my parents for far longer than I normally would. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dad has always been our more sensitive parent. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Predictably, the judge—a friend of Carrie’s foster parents—confirmed the diagnosis of “feeblemindedness”: like mother, like daughter. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

That’s essentially what the doctors at the Mater hospital told my parents when they discussed the operation they were planning. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I got a sick feeling in my stomach, like when your parents are about to tell you they’re splitting up, but you know it before they even open their mouths. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My parents went to Ohio to see a very distant cousin get buried or married. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He drew the same charts for me as he had for my parents. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I hope your parents found a good lawyer. The situation’s ridiculous.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Then Fern and her parents came to Sunday afternoon tea at our house. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She didn’t even tell our parents or grandmother or me before she left. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I linger outside on my doorstep as my parents head to the Hub a little early for their work assignments. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“As we watched the rest of the show, I remember wondering how many other things I didn’t know about my parents. You only get to know so much.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reynie thanked him gratefully, noticing as he did so that a number of parents were casting grumpy looks at the man, apparently disliking the notion of being friendly to competitors. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She would have asked me about my parents, about camp. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

So I told him about Joey following me home and how difficult it became to talk to my parents about all the money things. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure how long I stood there, but later I scribbled out a short note to my parents. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the standards of their parents and grandparents, and compared to many of their contemporaries, they had reached the mountaintop. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Grace could see Maya’s pale face, her eyes blown wide open from shock, the way she had clung to Lauren’s arm even after Grace and her parents had arrived. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I mean, wasn’t that why you talked to me that first day? That’s why you decided to come, right? Because you thought I knew about this whole thing our parents had arranged.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Because my parents were so high up in the government, my brothers attended one of the best private schools, and my younger brother and I had our own baby-sitters. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Shannon had offered to let me stay with her, but I knew my parents would find me there. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I wrote, I love you always and I call my “parents ” by their first names. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

After his parents, two of his brothers, and probably his sister, too? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I don't know their names, but they grew next to my parents’ house. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“They could kill your parents,” she said to him knowledgeably. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

On the surface, he was the embodiment of every parent’s dream, a strong, tall, well-dressed and well- mannered boy with talent and striking looks, not to mention the wit to joke with an adult. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The child’s parents regularly take him to museums. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It makes me feel as if I need to convince parents that they’ve got to take some time with their children. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s talk about what happened to our parents. I really think it might help. I talk to my therapist all the time. You should probably be talking to a therapist too.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children tattled on their parents, taught by schoolmistresses the hallmarks of sedition. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“So the divisions,” he asked, “the cohorts, whatever— you’re divided according to who your godly parent is?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He is aware that his parents, and their friends, and the children of their friends, and all his own friends from high school, will never call him anything but Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever Secret Santas are or are not, I sincerely hope that my parents aren’t among the complainers. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure they’d like to know where you are. So would your parents. I’m sure they’d love to know where Pearl is, too.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Watched how they were more than my parents. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Instead of just asking your parents about her.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But how will we get to Harvard without your parents finding out what we’re going there for? Maybe you should try emailing her first.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Your parents are in the cafeteria,” a woman says and then points me in the right direction. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want both her parents and her to crumble, not at the same time. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My parents were in the throes of a nervous breakdown, and I had driven them to the edge of insanity. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Gradually, he learned the details of my condition, reacting to them in a milder way than my parents had, which allowed them, or at least Tessie, to begin to accept the new reality. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I felt as if there were some type of war between my parents and the drugs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

By accessing, I learn that George has never been in a classroom besides this one, because of a fight his parents had with his older brother’s kindergarten teacher about her methods. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I had to interrupt their dancing to ask, “Auntie, was that my parents?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I never saw Greta or my parents or my brothers and sisters again. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Like most immigrant parents, my mom and dad made it abundantly clear they had high expectations of their offspring. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Why would I borrow my parents’ car to have a seizure? Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Had she been caught, or had she confessed, her punishment would have been a short suspension from school, at most, plus a fine for her parents, and a stern reprimand. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It would be the name his parents picked out for him, he assured them, the good name they’d chosen for him when he was five. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Almost any other parents would have been proud of Harry. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

My stomach twists even tighter at the thought of having to explain all this to my parents. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Running away seemed like an easy way for us to rebel against my parents’ disapproval of my boyfriend. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Did his parents get any nicer? Did he grow his hair out as an adult?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

On the way home from the ice cream place, Jamie, with his chocolate-peanut butter twist, and Bridge, with her banana caramel, walked a few steps behind their parents. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

My parents were upstairs going in mal, which they wouldn’t want me to know, but which I could tell, because they chose a really flashy, expensive malfunction site that was easy to trace. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents looked at each other in consternation. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had managed to survive on their own without their parents, but now we were all caught in limbo. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bridges told Dad that he was getting complaints from parents about the afternoon football practices. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zoe had known all along that the Oracle’s prophecy was about her: she would die by a parent’s hand. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

We’d made it all the way out to Harvard Square without our parents, and we still may not have found the person we were looking for. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Their parents and some of the older Clarkston refugees who’d come out for their evening exercise turned toward the field as well, or sat down on the cross ties parallel to the track to watch. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He was the stereotypical green-eyed pretty boy with parents who spoiled him, so he had fly clothes and tattoos. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But I didn't share this with my parents—I knew they wouldn't let me go, or even understand why I would want to. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I kiss my parents on the cheeks and join my friends. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Sacerdote found that parents who adopt children are typically smarter, better educated, and more highly paid than the baby’s biological parents. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I was too focused and too busy, I’d told my parents plenty of times, to make room for any man. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Henry’s beaming like a proud parent, like Samson is his, and Alex is hit with a wave of pride in kind. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He had no pressing reasons to stay in touch with his parents. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And maybe Jenny’s parents, because someone fixed her bumper real fast. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

My uncle used to say being a parent meant long nights and short years. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why, but I just needed to confess that fact to my parents. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I gawped at him, thinking, Tell my parents? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Gus is really cool and often waits a few minutes as parents hustle to get their children out of their houses. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

A hybrid is a plant or animal whose parents have different traits. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Back home in Congo, my parents understood everything, and they taught me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Inside, a cold, mushy card from my parents and a couple White Stripes tickets. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Dad and Dari’s parents came up to us, and Dad put a hand on my shoulder. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Even now, this peace between us comes from not talking about things—about Will, or my parents, or me almost shooting him in the head, or Marcus. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

What the four of them never talked about was how all the surgeries and treatments were what knocked everything in their lives and their parents' lives off track financially. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Self-possessed, the way children of a blind parent tend to be. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Near him stood his friend Ramon, with his parents and younger sister. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Would he realize right away that I was no longer hidden in his parents’ closet, using his queen of hearts to mark my place in The Swiss Family Robinson? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s a new trick I’m working up. All about levitation. My parents bought me a chair suspension kit. You want to come see it?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

So during the summer before her senior year of high school, my parents sent my sister off to Los Angeles—otherwise known as the plastic surgery mecca of the world. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Anyone who tries even casually to follow their advice may be stymied, for the conventional wisdom on parenting seems to shift by the hour. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

His parents are seated at either end of the table, and his aunt and uncle are right next to his mom on the left side. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He started with the drawers of his parents’ bureau, in case there was an envelope with money under their clothes. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“So you don’t miss your parents?” she asks delicately. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They probably still loathe school, but when they go home, their computers are passports to a vast, complex, and communicative world, one still largely invisible to many parents, educators, and other adults. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To her parents the camera was less impressive. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I feel sorry for Boy21 because his parents were murdered and he thinks he’s from outer space, but, then, his knowing so much about constellations is pretty interesting. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I should mention that my mom heard that Michael’s parents are divorced now. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was raised by the man who murdered my parents, reared in a land of monsters. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think that’s a good idea. My parents are there and I have too much to do. You’ll just get in the way.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“And I assume you know about the threatening letters your parents received at their work assignments.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The camps stripped away our fathers’ dignity, and our once loving parents were suddenly in a rage over the littlest things. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Where Axel, just for a moment, wonders, Where are those parents? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Lost children filled every chair at the headquarters of the Columbian Guard; nineteen spent the night and were claimed by their parents the next day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

On her twenty-first birthday in May, Sophie said goodbye to her parents and boarded a train for Munich, where she would finally join Hans at the university. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I helped my parents carry their tools, and they walked ahead so straight, each carrying a basket or a hoe not to overburden me, their tears falling privately. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The week before, Maya had spotted her standing in their parents’ closet, sniffing one of their mom’s blouses. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She subscribed wholeheartedly to the commonly held view that a married daughter had no position in her parents’ home. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laila had lain on the bed, groaning into the pillow, missing her parents suddenly and with an overpowering intensity she hadn’t felt since those terrible days just after the attack. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

After years of clandestine relationships, it felt refreshing to court in a fishbowl, to have the support of her parents from the very start, the inevitability of an unquestioned future, of marriage, drawing them along. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is proof that my own parents might hold the answers. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Since I thought I was so in love and would do anything to be with my boyfriend without sneaking behind my parents’ back, we both agreed to wait. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

For the moment, I decided to use the skills my parents had driven into all of us, and to refuse to react the way Caputo wanted me to. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Her parents were asleep; her mother had been taking sleeping pills at night to calm her nerves, and the crack beneath their bedroom door was dark. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My parents had some idea about Sam’s odd behavior, but I didn’t tell them everything because I didn’t want to give them any reason to stop sending me to the foundation. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Tally looked from David to his parents, quietly amazed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Even though I shouldn’t, part of me blames my parents. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He turns to my parents and siblings and me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just because your parents didn’t want you, it doesn’t mean that the rest of ours don’t. Maybe you’re not in a hurry to get back, but I am!” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Every time I turned my e-mail program on, I faced hundreds of messages from kids, students, former students, parents, and teachers stacked in vast queues; it took hours just to download the mail. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sure hoped my parents weren’t spending a whole lot of money for these sessions. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Discrimination was the force that concentrated them in Newtown, that enrolled them in the Winchester school, that sent Christines parents to be educated at Knoxville College rather than the University of Tennessee. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She kicked off her sheets and headed to the bathroom, but the murmur of her parents’ voices pulled her down the hallway toward the kitchen. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Of course. I had my first sip with my parents.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“When are my parents coming back from their trip?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes my parents make me slightly crazed, but the thought of losing either one of them is so unreal that I can’t imagine it. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The children and their parents were too flabbergasted to speak. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The problem is that someone would have to locate all those children; next, someone would have to act on their behalf since they don’t have parents.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She used to make her parents rewind it over and over again, laughing herself sick at the idea that a roof could go and resettle itself. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A couple were possibly worth playing, but the only people I had ever played for were my parents. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“And we need new names. My parents know I have a friend named Marlee at West Side.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each year my parents would go across town to Household Finance and borrow money for Christmas. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

That month we could not send money to our parents. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

My two sisters shared one bedroom, while I alternated between sharing a room with my two older brothers and sleeping in a single bed in my parents’ room. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

There were two kinds of Puerto Ricans in school: the newly arrived, like myself, and the ones born in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican parents. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her hand on his face wiping away the sadness at his parents’ absence. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The journalist interviewed my parents and came to watch me practice in New York at the foundation. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There weren’t retired breakdancers just lying around, waiting for my parents to pay them in Persian food to teach me to perfect a flare. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Each parent had to protect their brood alone and provide something for the future. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

No sounds except people chewing, and forks tapping against plastic plates, and parents shushing their babies, who didn’t know any better. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They hung up, and it crossed Reggie’s mind that while his parents would be at the airport, he might not be. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Little Jeanne had been working with her parents in the fields when word spread that the giant was come. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Sir, we throw ourselves at your mercy! Our house was hit by a bomb, you see, and our parents are dead, and we’re terribly lost...” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Children ran home to look for parents who were wandering the streets in search of them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Here’s what I was thinking: It was a perfect time to search the house—especially my parents’ room. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Slowly he steps behind my parents, gesturing the security detail with guns aside. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Some one started to ask me questions but I broke away and going upstairs looked hastily through the unlocked parts of his desk--he'd never told me definitely that his parents were dead. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Calling them unfit parents, the Nazis threatened to take away their children. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A loving family should matter more than the color of the parents. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My parents never preached hatred to us children. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Call, I knew, usually went to see him on Sunday afternoons, but my parents liked me to stay closer by on Sundays. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the one thing about her parents’ lives she truly admires—their ability, for better or for worse, to turn their back on their homes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Having trouble with parents was something she understood. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Well, that’s a hard thing to ask—see a little girl perform a miracle and not tell her parents or no one about it. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The part I liked best was when the parents took the children around to their friends. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pattie's not trying to be a foster parent, but still, they have requirements, even for the temporary custody people. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The principal would call his parents— anything could happen. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re like me and Zion. Sharing genes from the same parents. It’s science. DNA. Zion and me were born right after one another. Twins. Me first,” she brags. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

One could theorize forever about what makes the perfect parent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Popular items were the boxes on the floor filled with Spanish LPs from past decades, old mambo and salsa records, plena, bomba, Latin hits our parents would dance to. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I guess I relate to them. You know, with all the stuff going on with my parents.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The days of the week did not match up, but she could still count down to when her parents would return. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Sitting near the landline with my parents as they learned what had happened. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He believed in giving his children and grandchildren names that meant something, like parents did in biblical times. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, Moose, you want to help your sister and that’s admirable. But I can’t help you with this. Your parents will work something out. Now, run along.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up a few remembrances: a photo of my parents on their wedding day, a blue hair ribbon for Prim, the family book of medicinal and edible plants. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Malcolm learned that lesson after firefighters put out the flames that burned his house, parents, and favorite things. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I thought it odd that my parents couldn’t understand how Granddaddy could have turned his back on his old life. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A younger Dr. Atchley, an only child, with working parents, had to entertain himself. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was in his parents' sitting room, and we were listening to the family's new radio while I quizzed him for a geometry exam neither of us thought was important. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean to! My parents told me that my dad is moving out.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Craig was over for a visit, sitting on the front porch with my parents. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mama Boanda’s ancient parents looked just alike, both of them tiny, bald, and perfectly toothless. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the parents are afraid of their children. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She paused, thinking of their lonely house on top of the hill, her basement bedroom, her parents’ insular lives. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I still have to dish to them about what just happened with my parents, but they’re getting on a boat and I have somewhere I need to be too. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

As Fadi watched her happy reunion back with her parents in Chicago, he wished Mariam were on a plane coming home right then. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Buttercup’s parents did not have exactly what you might call a happy marriage. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I learned most of what I knew about Coalwood history and my parents’ early years at the kitchen table after the supper dishes were cleared. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My parents took my computer away today, because of what they saw on television. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents did not need tea, the man said. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t wanna tell my parents, they’d kill both of us if they even know you showed it to me, you know how they are. Can you come over? Please?” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I tiptoed past Dad’s office and went to my parents’ bedroom door, turning the knob slowly, pushing the door open, careful not to make any noise, barely even breathing. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Issue 2: Why would my parents let me go through with it? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I definitely wasn’t planning on telling my parents the post office story. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Both of her parents snored, but the two noises had always seemed to fit together. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Sarah isn't my girlfriend, by the way. Our parents are still friends, so we hang out whenever we’re in the same place.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“That means his parents are looking for him.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

This boy who likes my sister is always respectful to my parents. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning the rebels broke into the house and found his parents and three sisters. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

No one ever told me, not my parents or my sisters or my teachers, until now, right this minute, in the “Wander Indiana” section of U.S. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She wanted to remember this day: when she left behind the life her parents had built for her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, all the parents, all the kids, all the teachers, everyone. They even sell tickets to the community, like people who are up from the city come, the college kids in town, everyone.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Whenever my parents talked about bombings or death or sex or politics, they routinely, without fail, asked us children to leave the room. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My parents told me that chatter tracking showed too many fringe and conspiracy groups suspecting something was up out here. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The crazy part is my parents are still married. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Leaning out the kitchen window, Shirley and her parents watched the crescent moon drift through the clouds. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

He had to go speak to the board about it, and to some of the parents, to see if it was allowable for an Oriental to represent the high school in such a visible way. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

—My parents are no help—they don’t even know there is a problem, let alone how to solve it. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are always parents willing to come in and share traditions! Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Something from your parents and grandparents,” I said. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Almost without fail they wind up back at her parents’ place. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At every meal, the campers would burn a portion of their food to honor their godly parents. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I held my breath, praying that neither of Jesse’s parents needed clean sheets or towels. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sitcom families—married parents in giant houses, with framed family portraits lining the staircases. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“We boys had the task of convincing our parents not to do business with Jews,” said Albert. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

No kid I knew ever volunteered to go to these classes; parents, of course, did the volunteering for them. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had no idea if Grace or Joaquin would tell their parents or...whatever it was that Mark and Linda were. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But despite my own situation, I do not believe that there is a large enough need for useful information about losing two parents twice. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Your parents came here with you dressed like this?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Though I knew my parents were generally more traditional about sex, I was still surprised by how distraught she seemed during this conversation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She knows the secrets those parents kept from their beloved only daughter. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s from Bangladesh. He has a cleft lip and palate. His parents sent him here to have surgery. He doesn’t speak any English.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“He wasn’t hurt,” Stella says, “although I wouldn’t be surprised if his parents hugged him many times that night, in between their scoldings.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Even though Count Olaf was of course the cause of all this misery, Violet felt as if she had broken her promise to her parents, and vowed to make it right. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

As for my parents, I held them blameless. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But he did not confront his parents with what he knew, then or ever. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Jesse and a few friends started playing computer games in the Middleton High library at lunchtime, nervous parents forced the librarian to make them stop. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s of my parents posing in front of a gossamer curtain of pale ivory. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Both parents watched in silence until Stephen and Samar, walking side by side, disappeared from view. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

After the visit, Joseph had returned with his parents to their home in the deserts of Saudi Arabia, and within a few months, his grandfather died of a heart attack. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

What preoccupies me is immediate: the separation I endure with my parents in loss. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see children and their parents buying tickets, just like the tickets Mack sells. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, my parents found me alive next to my boyfriend. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Out on the porch, I hear the soft calls of our parents. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Upstairs are his parents’ old bedroom and his old bedroom, with a bathroom between them, and that’s it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Becoming a doctor had really been my parents’ dream, not mine, and now I was ready to deep-dive into my own identity politics, from race to religion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

If she went to the United States, would it allow Jasmin to have both her parents at her side more quickly? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As a child, George dug a small coal mine in the hill behind his parents’ house. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The basement is approximately the same size as my parents’ entire house,” Jim Link said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I’ve learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was also fairly certain if she learned about my illegal status, she would enlist her parents to call the proper authorities. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Before our parents can react, I grab my sister's hand and pull her into our bedroom. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I think it’s my fault. Other times, Audrey’s. Or maybe his parents’. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My parents swore and signed my false medical history. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dill and Lydia introduced her parents to Amelia. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

All of us were churchgoing; all our parents demanded good grades in school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Please tell me if it was Great-Uncle Jim’s too, so I can tell my parents it turned up and it’s my responsibility. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The parent will thank her and they pass by me quickly to catch the elevator. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of his friends' parents were still together, and in every case, that seemed like the number one thing that had gone wrong with his friends' lives. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It was the hands-on end of the struggle: placing babies with adoptive parents, finding work for the unemployed and medical help for the uninsured. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents stared up from their silent breakfast at her. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There had been green fields, a lake with a happy, joyful fish, and friends and parents. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I wish you two argued like normal divorced parents,” I mumbled. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The second time was when I was eight and her parents visited. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He didn’t dare to turn and find his parents in the crowd. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

There is no knowing how or why dread comes on a parent. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was too bad my own parents were gone before you came along, but having you made it easier for me to cope with that loss. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I would become the family’s quiet and not-too-bright cousin from Alsace, whose parents have been bombed out and who has come here to be looked after and help with the farm. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In the months that followed, Ash listened a bit anxiously whenever her parents’ conversation began to turn in that direction, but she never heard them bring it up again. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Gaines, who spent almost as much time dealing with parents as he did with the players, had never met her. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie remembered how Ma used to call it God’s night-light when he was little, and for a second he wondered what his parents were doing at that very moment. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The only child of immigrant parents, orphaned at the age of twelve, self-educated, hard-working Samuel Westing saved his laborer's wages and bought a small paper mill. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

One: My parents had died in some unspeakable way. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I want to hug her, but I know I can’t in the presence of her parents. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He hopes his cousins in Vietnam are caring for his parents’ graves. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

His parents watched an old video of Gus with his sisters—they were probably my age and Gus was about five. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She told him how much it meant to her parents that she finish. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Almost all the kids in the neighborhood with working parents had their keys around their necks on either strings or plastic key chains made in Bible school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In a nutshell, both of my parents believed that sports were the best way to keep all of us kids disciplined and continuing to learn outside of the classroom. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“When my parents caught me, I tried to blame you.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He will teach and preach some, but much of his time will be spent running errands, collecting money from the students’ parents. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Though no one made fun of my spots in America, sometimes a child would point at me and ask his parent, “What’s wrong with that little girl?” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

But reflected in the mirror were her parents. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

For his parents, the pain would never end. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Another parent asks about the metal detectors, random pat-downs, and the armed cops. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

My parents aren’t real big on surprises, so this is clearly a big deal. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

But after my parents went to bed, I stayed at the kitchen table. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She was merely furious that her parents, and Jamie’s too, had been so stingy that she had been away from home for less than one whole day and was already worried about survival money. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He likes you, Margaret. He always says that it’s as important for a parent to like his children as it is for him to love them.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, when I came downstairs, my parents’ bedroom door was shut, and Dad was sitting at the kitchen table, by himself. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After all, I figured I'd soon be saying the same thing to my parents. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

On the car ride home, my parents agreed: I would not be going to Amsterdam unless and until there was medical agreement that it would be safe. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Aunt Zo and our cousins came over to give my parents moral support. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The Hideout pops into my head, but my parents won’t let me leave our apartment without telling them where I’m going. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I mean it’s true that my parents are very smart people. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Under this unholy barrage of my parents’ confusion and shame and disappointment, even I almost feel bad for Charlie. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“But you had parents, at one time anyway.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Don’t you want to do what your parents wanted, children?” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

My parents now lived the lives of perpetual fugitives, fleeing by day and fleeing by night, making sure that they were never caught together under the same roof as husband and wife. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the session, Frank and my parents talked. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

On second thought, there is something you’d like to ask your parents. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

My parents are big on faith and we like to say we have a healthy relationship with religion. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

When World War II began, Gold was a twenty-eight-year-old chemist, living with his parents and younger brother in a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home, I was worried that my parents would notice the massive amount of work I was cranking out, wonder about it, comment on it. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They read books about other kids whose parents had split up, and talked about them. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

When their parents finally made their big announcement, it really wasn’t that much of a surprise. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I kept my most valuable ones in a jewelry box my parents gave me for Christmas the previous year. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He avoids them, for they remind him too much of the way his parents choose to live, befriending people not so much because they like them, but because of a past they happen to share. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in his school was a cut below Ferris, as were his parents. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I will tell her parents what kind of girl they have raised. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

There was always that split second — something almost felt rather than seen — when the parents’ faces would register a tiny shock, a palpable discomfort with Nicole’s “otherness.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They walked back down the hill together, watched as the old chapel was locked up once more and the police and Scarlett and her parents went off into the night. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

His parents had been sharecroppers who moved north and became a machinist and a nurse. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Everybody seemed to be waiting for more, so she added, “My parents came to Japan because...they wanted to open a restaurant here like they had in America.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We might therefore assume that parents who spank are unenlightened in other ways. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m just on edge. Our parents went down to the beach and they’re not back yet.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I got my bike from the garage and waved to my parents standing on the front porch as I coasted down the driveway. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was easier than getting a ride from either of my parents. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I sympathize with people who have lost a parent, or both, for that matter. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, some parents feel that there’s enough tension in the air. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

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

My parents claim I was always munching on something from the moment I got off the bottle. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And in my culture, it was highly unusual for parents and children to discuss their feelings, or for anyone to talk about their feelings at all. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I look around the tiny space that I’ve occupied with my parents for what feels like forever. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s also a tremendous privilege, to be a full-time parent. Not all mothers or fathers get the chance to do this.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I thought would happen when we talked to our parents, but I understood instinctively what was at stake. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As we descend, I stare right through her to the opposite side of the ship, where I know my parents are sleeping in their pods. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“She still wants to go out with me, but doesn’t want her parents to know,” he responded. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Grace probably could have done a cartwheel without taking out either one of her parents. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When I got back, my parents were in the den watching television. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Your parents have moved back to London, I assume?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes parents loved their sons so much that they made a romance out of their lives. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

We boarded up the windows of our ground-floor apartment, and I helped my parents tape Xs across the windowpanes to prevent the glass from shattering. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

My own parents, on the other hand, had no idea what we were doing today. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She thought of her small chamber in that great stony Academy, and her parents’ luxurious Cathair home, where she had entire assortments of rooms to herself, but she did not miss them. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ms. Gievers told me that foster parents are not supposed to have more than five children in a home, including birth children. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Eventually, faith faltering, Helen studied harder, walked more, bought new clothes, wrote her parents less. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in the living room and did what teenage boys and girls do when they’re being observed by one of their parents—fidgeted in awkward silence. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The first two nights, I never slept because I kept thinking my parents were going to call. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, we designed it that way. I mean, that’s why my parents wanted a big house. We lived in a small two-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, so...” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Finally, my parents were getting past the interrogation phase, and dealing with the injured child — who, by the way, was still receiving first aid from his heroic, wronged brother. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Might be your parents, the lawyers, the judge, myself, community members, maybe even your classmates at school. Anybody can be a part of the Circle if they want to help find a solution.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But before she could actually go to the Ferry Building, she had to ask her parents for permission. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“How do your parents feel about all of this?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You’ll need a note from your parents before I can sell poison to you,” he said plainly. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We wait while our parents finish their conversations. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

My parents’ voices rumble from the first floor, and I know that they will never trust me again. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I went to the semicircular bay window behind the piano and looked down onto Seventy-second Street to watch the police load up their vans with my parents’ belongings. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Yep. My parents took my phone. I can only use the computer for school.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“But I really don’t understand. Everyone wants to save the peregrines, but no one will do what it takes to save them—from stopping work on a bridge to returning chicks to their parents.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Jenna has been asking me to come over for weeks now, so I put on warm clothes and scribble a Post-it note for my parents. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They had killed my parents for gathering stories about them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My parents always share stories and memories about me as a toddler, a baby, a “bun in the oven.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the Abeona Shelter and the work my parents clearly did for them. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

All parents love their children, he wants to say. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

To Finn, the photo looked like every other photo of every other family: two parents, two little kids, all the people smiling like nothing could ever go wrong. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

You offered tassali, condolences, for the death of a parent, congratulated the birth of children, and shook your head mournfully when the conversation turned to Afghanistan and the Roussis—which it inevitably did. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He so wanted to re-create this moment, to have both his parents in the same space, happy and together. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then she said, “Do you know who his parents were?” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Before her marriage, all Mother’s decisions had been made by her parents. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will choose to listen to their encouragement rather than my parents’ doubt. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My parents are giving Sir Fig Newton up for adoption.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Either way, with either parent gone, lam better off. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I don't think either of his parents have jobs, but they are so disgustingly rich that Tiny Cooper doesn't even live in the mansion; he lives in the mansion's coach house, all by himself. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Whenever a foul ball’s hit toward where the Renegades parents sit, Malik’s mom always shouts, “Incoming,” and each time she does, Malik covers his face. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Some of these boy soldiers were orphans whose parents had been killed by Doe; others were kidnapped from their families by Taylor’s own militias. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Tyler is one of those kids cursed with an acute awareness of his parents’ circumstances and struggles. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mama yelled after them as they ran toward their parents, who were too stunned at the egg in their children’s hair and clothes to notice my mother shaking with laughter. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lives in Atlanta with his wife and two daughters, and my parents moved down there to be closer to them. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Maya’s parents, because they weren’t antiquated dinosaurs, didn’t care that she was gay. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Hazel stood staring at the doorstep where Jack’s parents had been. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He continued: “Then I lost that scholarship—My mother was supposed to fill out a parents’ financial statement for the renewal of that scholarship. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

With Mauve as a mentor right there, and his old boss, Tersteeg, in town, he will be near people who, like Theo, and unlike his parents, understand art. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But what happened next was something her parents had never mentioned, had not warned her about or prepared her for, and it was perhaps the most important thing of all. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

My question floated into my parents’ sudden silence and hung like a bubble in the air. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I am just watching the little fish while I wait for my parents to get back from work.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When her parents came, she allowed herself to be led away. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didn’t, really. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I get the bare bones of this from my parents over the beef stew. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Then their parents would be upset and blame us.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I watched my parents go into the house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most seemed downright silly, though my parents always told me to keep an open mind. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I don't want her to list all the reasons I should go back to San Francisco, back to her parents' house, because I know that they'll all be right. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“He inquired about my bruises. I think he hypothesized that they came from my parents. Then I had to speak to the school psychologist.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

And our parents were there, too—even my father, who, I guess, figured that Mr. Hupfer might someday need an architect, and so he had better show up. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He has no sense of what is being done to him, but there have been other doctors who were not so gentle after his parents left the room. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s what gets me the most. If they’re not going to provide additional psychological support, at least warn the parents ahead of time!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She never finishes her sentence; instead she looks from the parents, to the pack behind her, to George and Emmett’s house, then to the nest. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The idea was the boys’, but the responsibility was their parents’. • some unusual plurals. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are you telling me all this and not your parents?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“I got to meet your parents,” I say. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her parents worked a lot of hours, and Audrey liked having the house to ourselves. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

If he had been an anchor baby, then my parents would have had him a lot sooner. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They were married before I was used to the fact that my parents had actually divorced. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I have two middle names, a compromise between my parents. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They have parents and siblings and people who love them already. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

This year the station was packed, not just with students and newsmen, but also with parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins, next-door neighbors, and utter strangers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Every night, the same prayers: Why couldn't I have been born into a family where my parents loved each other and were happy for their kids? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Cain had touched a nerve in her today—when he had mentioned her parents, she’d lost control entirely. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Starting before she was born, her parents had bounced from state to state because, in their words, “that’s where our paychecks pulled us.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

After the door closed, Roy heard his parents talking softly in the hallway. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since I was little, the doctors told my parents that someday I’d need hearing aids. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

And I found myself doing what I have long since banned myself from doing—that is, imagining my parents were coming back, with David and Joseph, and wishing they were. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

"What are we doing?" asked Daoud as we went into my parents' room. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

Huddled with her parents and six younger sisters and brothers, Nguyen peered out the window. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Do you suppose,” I asked, as I poled the skiff, the focus of my romantic musings shifting from my own wedding day to Mr. Rice’s, “do you suppose her parents oppose the marriage?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear our parents coming down the stairs, and suddenly I’m not in the mood for a group meal. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I had to stand next to Miri, who kept bragging about the gold cross necklace her parents had given her that morning. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t want anything to do with her. His parents, they pretty much said no way. He signed away his rights about two seconds after he found out about her.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A pair of economists who heard of this dilemma—it turned out to be a rather common one—offered a solution: fine the tardy parents. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Neither parent apologized for the meagerness of the food. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he had to tell his parents about the challenge without really telling them. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Four years later, Dorothy Vaughan and her twelve fellow teachers were welcoming 301 education-hungry youngsters, urged along by parents who wanted more for their children than a life of work in the tobacco factories. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But it isn’t so much a matter of what you do as a parent; it’s who you are. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

My parents were asleep down in the streets somewhere while a monster army surrounded the building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

On Monday, October 28, Mrs. Huckaby notified us in writing that we were to contact our parents to come to a meeting in School Superintendent Blossom’s office, downtown, at 4:45 P.M. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But my parents are preoccupied and that is why they do not wish anything sneaky to go on.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

"They think the seizures are all bad," Max says, and I'm guessing she's talking about her parents. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The vice principal called my parents to come to the school and pick me up, but no one was home. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Children, now attending the schools that their parents had been so excited about, were learning that many of their white teachers did not think they were capable of being educated. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My parents were lamenting that they hadn’t seen Willow and Henry and the baby in months. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You excited to see your parents?” asked Grandpa. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“My parents are officially in love with you, by the way.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

If my parents had seen Jake come out of my room, it might have induced dual heart attacks. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I thought he probably was going to talk to the boy’s parents. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

After such gatherings, my peers and I—all the children between the ages of six and twelve—would brainstorm several possible answers that would avoid the death of one of our parents. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Noah left his parents and went to the tech booth in the back. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

At his town house, Volpe shows me pictures of his parents. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Our parents stuck somewhere, hidden in stasis for who knows how long? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was finally out of high school, so the “no boys until you graduate” rule from my parents had been lifted. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Thorn’s parents hugged each other as they sobbed. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They didn't have enough money, and Haupt wasn't about to ask his parents to send him some. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She had taken a picture of Melissa from Joaquin’s collection, and when she put it on the table between her and her parents, their anger died away and they looked at the photo, silent. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of the children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parents can’t give. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

To overgeneralize a bit, the first list describes things that parents are', the second list describes things that parents do. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

One day, all of the parents came to school for a meeting. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Although the parents in these families spoke with accents, none of their children did. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’d probably still get into a good college, end up rich like his parents, and have everything he thought he ever wanted. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

This I do not mind because both Addie’s parents are good cooks and they always have interesting things to eat there, even if they are vegetarian. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He took the world more seriously than any other ugly she’d ever met—more seriously, in fact, than middle pretties like her parents. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She told her parents she had no intention of being a chemist and, deaf to their protests, she’d scraped together all the money she had and moved to Paris, with no specific plans. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had gone once with her parents to hear Grace Bumbry sing Aida and had been fascinated with the tragic story of the beautiful princess who had been a captive in ancient Egypt. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will you come forward one at a time, please,” he called out, “and bring your parents. Then show me your Golden Ticket and give me your name. Who’s first?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

She took care of us, so my parents could go out and drink and play board games. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

From my spot on the floor in my parents’ room, I recited a special verse from the Holy Quran, the Ayat al-Kursi. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Shawn’s undergoing this painful and expensive procedure is the reason my parents would take me to an orthodontist to correct the same defect, which was genetic. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Geoff told him it might be best if he didn’t come, and The Taker said it didn’t matter anyway—he was going away for the weekend with his parents. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Besides, when had his parents ever led him astray? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The kinds of things parents tell their children when they’re alone together and other kids tell you if they know you really well. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone but Emily hopped around, orange juice splattering the floor, and chanted with her parents, “We sold a book! We sold a book!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Each would tell their parents that they were over at the other’s house. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I toss it in the kitchen trash because I know neither of my parents will care. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“You already have everything. You have friends and two parents and a house, and in a few weeks, you might be an actual millionaire.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought hard and put on a sad expression, the face people would expect to see on a girl whose parents had been killed just thirty-six hours before. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I packed up my suitcase and explained to my uncle that I felt bad about leaving my parents. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know our parents long enough to miss them in the same way Metias does. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It took the entire drive to calm down about my parents. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

When the police knocked on the door of the green house, Stephen’s parents opened it and answered questions. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At the age of eighteen, propelled by his admiration for the Beat Generation of writers, he moved out of his parents’ house and into the city itself. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Please, God, keep us under your protection. Please let my parents be okay. Please let this work.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

My parents wouldn’t tell me anything, so all Saturday morning I waited for news. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

My parents hadn’t come looking for me—I guess they knew I wouldn’t go far. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m not alone. I have a boyfriend, I have wonderful friends. I inherited this house when our parents died and remodeled it a little. I’m so not alone—please don’t be sad for me.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Her parents had had an arranged marriage, like all other marriages in Korea. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The boys had brought it up to the apartment for me, and I’d shown it to my parents. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I let it go again because celebrating my parents’ marriage after everything with his parents was maybe too much for him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But they were dreams I hesitated to share with my parents. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And yet he didn’t know where he came from, or how he’d gotten inside the dark lift, or who his parents were. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He laughed at every time he had ever been teased, every time he’d been arrested, every time his parents had argued. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Back home in Africa, my parents would have considered themselves conservative. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Brenner told me about your roommate. I heard the police bells last night, but my parents wouldn’t let me leave our flat. What happened? Is he going to be okay?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I notice that Roger and his parents and the dog all have various shades of blond hair. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I fought for the army. The rebels burned my village and killed my parents, and you look like one of them.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But beyond What? and Who? his mind was like a big empty pot, and he didn’t know why he had come to his parents’ graves, or what he wanted to ask them. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I no longer saw my parents or our living room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I put Coalwood and even my parents out of my mind and took in all the sounds and sights and smells of God’s nature everywhere about me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tliere are many parents—myself included—who question the decision to let this child into our school at all. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

My parents lead the way to the booths. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, Roz, do you know what tomorrow is? Tomorrow is Swimming Day! The day when all the parents take their goslings out on the pond for the first time. And you simply must bring Brightbill.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I know his parents make him watch it every Christmas, and he hates it.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

My parents spoke of getting a neighbor to stay with her, and each offered to remain and let me go instead. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The portrait, in the style of Gainsborough, showed an aristocratic family—parents, two teenage girls and an infant, all thin-lipped, and pale as ghouls—posed before a vaguely Tuscan landscape. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

No one speaks about that night and no one ever questioned her about what happened—neither her parents nor the villagers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew how torn up his parents were; she knew how miserable their last twenty-four hours had been. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She’d do what her parents had suggested, send it back, fall back into them to become a three again. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

On the evening of their departure he watches his parents standing in front of framed pictures of his dead grandparents on the walls, heads bowed, weeping like children. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he said I always helped him when his parents were arguing, I was tremendously happy; it was one step toward making me believe in his friendship. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She did not think she would have to “make” her brother do this at all, because he would never stop thinking of their parents even for a minute. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Although my parents knew less about Catholicism than their children did, they had been baptized and went with us when we attended church. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fright- ful’s parents were docile compared to these birds, and they were fierce enough. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were trespassing on private property, so the police came. They called our parents and cut our dance short,” Mrs. Hidalgo said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

And, well, ah, yes, he'd heard—or rather—he knew that there had been an accident involving the parents of one of the children he was helping. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Most of my extended family had already left Rio, but my parents and Adria were still there. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I take no interest in bells or snowmen or for that matter in Santa Claus, in whom I’ve ceased to believe, since Cordelia has told me it’s really just your parents. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There is no trace of his parents’ accent in his speech. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course his new female parent—Claire could not make herself think mother—would have a job in the community as all women did. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Claire sighed in a way that made her sound like a disappointed parent. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

To lift my mood, I did things my parents wouldn’t have let me do, ordering two and sometimes three desserts and never eating salads. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For Thanksgiving weekend my parents needed a break from me and Sammy, and we needed a break from them. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday morning, I told my parents at breakfast that my sister would be at the Port Authority in New York at 10:50 that morning. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

His parents and Coach and everyone else would never learn, because they didn’t want to learn. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The artificiality of her parents’ relationship always seemed harder, more shaming, when she was here in Kano. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

First of all, my parents’ marriage had not been arranged. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am totally not ashamed. I just haven’t told my parents. Because they know anyway.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

But it didn’t change the fact that my parents were giving away Fig. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

My parents made many concessions to allow me to practice. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our parents are engrossed in conversation while the television blares in the background. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Their name was Platt and there were a lot of them—four girls and two boys and the parents and their aunt who lived with them, too. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I wouldn’t actually say anything about it to my parents. They’re not big smokers.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents looked so young and casual—like classmates. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

After dinner, as Neel waited for his sister to wash the plates, they heard their parents arguing inside the hut. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

When they finished their noodles, the young man said his family’s apartment was just around the corner, but that he was embarrassed to greet his parents wearing threadbare clothes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Her parents had promised they could go get ice cream, rent a video, and sleep as late as they wanted the next morning. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day the cousin said she and her son were going to her parents’ house in California, to try to recuperate. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

All the things that parents say to their kids when life deals them lemons. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

So I went to my room down the hall and listened to my parents’ hushed voices. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Stuart waves from the steps and smiles at me so our parents can’t tell that anything has changed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I narrated my college life in exacting detail to both my parents like a homesteader dutifully providing dispatches from the frontier. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Will your parents allow me to interview you directly?” he asked in a mellifluous voice. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I fall asleep on my parents’ bed and when my mother shakes me it’s nearly dark. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I am dimly aware that Zack and Beth are crying and that my parents are whispering. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

My parents’ friends Auntie Su and Uncle Canning picked me up at school one day and took me to the hospital to see my mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya didn’t really remember a time when her parents weren’t fighting. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

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

He’d never gone to college, which gave him the wrong idea about himself, but the only reason he hadn’t was because he’d been forced into getting a job after his parents died. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Three players from the local college recognize Dad and ask him for autographs “for our parents.” The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

It throws me when they’re the parents of Before, because nothing about me is like it used to be. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She was sixty-two years old then and had parented two older daughters while in the White House. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But I’m being reckless, and that’s dangerous for my parents—and for me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It helped me when I was sad about Daisy Mae, or worried about my parents moving to Myrtle Beach, or contemplating my future. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He just wanted to beat a path away from his parents’ past, which was also their present and which was threatening to become his present as well. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that if Tyler confronted my parents—really confronted them—they would force him to choose between me and them, between me and the rest of the family. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Did your parents ground you for the rest of your life?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Thanks to my parents and Mrs. V, that was a little easier. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

And really I don’t have hatred in my heart for the parents either. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My parents had already passed away, so it was just him and me. I didn’t want him to go.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She went home to her parents; he moved into the Duquesne Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His parents had operated the copper shop on Main Street, but Sam chose a different path after they died. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Yet one evening my parents sat me down, looking puzzled. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I stand between my parents, gripping their hands. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Other kids have two parents, and sometimes even three or four. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Many of the girls in Troop 11 were from working-class, even poor, families— children of domestic servants, crab pickers, laborers—whose parents spent most of their waking hours trying to make ends meet. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Often an usher would roughly separate me from my parents and pull me into a line of young children. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not start with "boy's parents and girl's parents think they'd be a good match and then boy marries girl." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My parents were always working, and we were left most of the time with our baby-sitters. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Did your parents report your symptoms to the soldiers?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Every person, just as every corporation, must tend to his or her own economic destiny, just as our parents and grandparents in the mills, shoe shops and factories did. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

They return with worried faces to talk to my parents in hushed whispers. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like marching into my parents’ room and shaking my mom. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no more fifty dollars in brown envelopes to count on, so she took to cleaning rather than fret away the tiny seaman’s pension her parents lived on. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Hell for ancestral fear that put black parents under terror. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I scuffed down the brick path a ways and thought about how some things had changed forever that morning my parents found Amanda in her crib, not breathing. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mainly I did this because I’m too poor for my parents to get me a phone and I didn’t want to stare at them while they did their makeup. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My parents were opposite him, my mother leaning against my father, a blanket draped loosely around them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They both knew the whole thing by heart because when they were little they liked to act out scenes for their parents. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“So you’re really going to erase one of your parents’ memories?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

All I can think about now is my parents, and all of the worst-case scenarios that probably didn’t happen but still haunt me all the same. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And so as the other parents began swimming across the pond, Roz stood safely in the shallows and watched. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His parents and younger brothers are all in El Salvador, and he misses them. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Ivy’s parents said they were going to look at the other art pieces, and Layla met up with Gigi while Ivy hung around her piece. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They say that her parents loved her dearly, that she was the apple of their eye. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m the bad daughter who didn’t deserve a quinceañera, but my parents wanted to throw a party for my dead sister. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His parents were Southern Baptists and religious fundamentalists, unusual at the time in Levittown. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS: The rumor is that my parents couldn’t have children. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Both my parents had a say in the decision, but they swear they were instantly taken with each other. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The boy’s parents and the old man bought him toys, bought him everything—new diapers, new plastic pants—not homemade diapers, not bread bags. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On more than one occasion he has come home from the university to find her morose, in bed, rereading her parents’ letters. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t know yet how your parents were killed.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The child’s parents recently moved into a better neighborhood. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It might not be the most popular parenting style, but they really believed if they trusted our judgment, then we wouldn't have the urge to rebel. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In her mother’s tone, Dedd can already hear the distance that will come between her parents. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You couldn't trust anyone in Kabul any­more—for a fee or under threat, people told on each other, neigh­bor on neighbor, child on parent, brother on brother, servant on master, friend on friend. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My parents and I were leaving in an hour. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

—Have you talked to either of Rob’s parents since that phone call you had from his mother on Christmas Day? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d already warned him not to say anything that might make our parents worry. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

When David showed her the railway cave, and told her his secret about his parents, he had trusted her, even when he shouldn’t have. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Her parents chuckled and patted her on the back. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“We can use this to write down our argument, and then present it to both of our parents. Make it so they can’t say no.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The end occurred mostly in her whispers and his silence—because he couldn't whisper and they didn't want to wake Colin's parents. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want it to go back to normal. I want it to stay busy. You realize if the park closes down, my parents lose their jobs, and we probably have to move again.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“How is it," he wonders aloud as he gazes blankly across Chesapeake Bay, "that a kid with so much compassion could cause his parents so much pain?” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Horrified parents were demanding an explanation, a hearing, a town hall meeting. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I get it! What if we just tell our parents but swear them to secrecy?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

When her parents and Kainene visited, she did not say much; it was Odenigbo who told them what she had seen. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She could not meet the gaze of her parents. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A really awkward phone call home to my parents, a trip to the hospital, seven stitches, and two and a half hours later, I found myself sitting on Alma Ember’s bed. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve questioned everything, which drove both my parents insane. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Brad’s parents did come, and Brad’s father, along with some of the other boys including Patrick, carried Brad to the car. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My parents got divorced last year,” June said. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Her parents are splitting up. They’d been trying to reconcile, but her dad left for good the other day, she’s pretty sure. She wanted some advice.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

"It's not like that between parents and their kids." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

With Dad drinking again, and no money coming in, Mom began to talk about moving east, to West Virginia, where Dad’s parents lived. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a worry that her parents talked about constantly. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Kayode spent every vacation in his parents’ house in England, which looked large and forbidding in the photos Ifemelu had seen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There are things my parents have been keeping from me, things I need to know. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z