The tramped grass was bathed in blood, as were the pen’s weathered posts and the stiff white bodies of the sheep themselves, flung about in attitudes of sheepish agony. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Reggie went missing, apparently having wormed his bulky body through a tiny rent in the corner of the pen. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

His hand shot out of his pocket, grasped the pen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nurse pulled out a clipboard and slapped a pen on it. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She grabbed Park's pen and started scribbling it out. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Three turtles each the size of a footstool came in a wooden pen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom stepped out of the pony pen and looked up into the air. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

That same day, back in the States, a New Yorker named Richard Wingate sat down and penned what would turn out to be a prophetic letter to the sports editor of the New York Times. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He took out a pad of paper and pen to write me a note so I could show up late to next period. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Their correspondence had consisted of terse notes, hers likely penned by one of the other sisters and signed by Sister Ignatia. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Us laughing about the pen stain on Ms. Pasquale’s cheek that she doesn’t notice for two hours. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She places her pen next to the Post-it. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“When I woke up. They had a pen and notepad next to the bed. In the commotion I wrote it down.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t keep your Batman key chain because I thought you’d make a good pen pal.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Those that had pen and paper wrote their last letters to their families and pressed them on me and begged me, if I survived, to see them delivered. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She hands me a pen and paper from her desk. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Henry took out a pen and began to fill out Julian’s evaluation. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I ask, reaching down and picking up a broken pen. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Many of his sketches were done in pen and ink, a medium that captured his most intimate thoughts with admirable directness. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sometimes. A child takes us out and puts us in a pen on the grass.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge pointed at the two perfectly squared stacks of paper and the black-and-gold pen that lay between them. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

But as I came out from my holding pen it was possible that no generation other than my brother’s was as well disposed to accept me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I got my notebook and a pen and ventured down to the Black Revolutionary Party headquarters to see if I could interview any of the leaders. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He checked the map for the spot he was to meet Fuchs and marked it with a pen. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same thing happened to her with the string to the pen and even with her own arm, which after a short time of writing could not reach the inkwell. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The working people were dressed muchly as we did out in the country, but there were a few gentry who stuck out of the crowd like peacocks wandering in the chicken pen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Officer Sandoval produced a reporter’s notepad and pen from her pocket and turned the full weight of her somber gaze upon me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It means effectively not only that you must walk a prescribed distance each day but then spend the night penned up with strangers. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“A frindle,” and this time Nick pointed at the ballpoint pens behind her on the shelf. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ammu had drawn a wavy line down the length of the page with a red pen and written Margin?And joint handwriting in future, please! The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sang in a low voice at first, but Master tapped his pen on the table and said “Louder!” so he raised his voice, and Master kept saying “Louder!” until he was screaming. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then one evening at the pig pen he said without warning, “I saw Mother Dear.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s my hired hands,” she said with a chuckle, and as we had done before, we held the pen between my hand and hers and managed to scrawl out a signature. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Everything in Dr. Barney’s office was branded—the Post-it notes said Paxil on them; his pens were all for Prozac; the desk calendar had Zoloft on each page. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He wondered if he would have better luck sleeping in the emu pen. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bottles of ink I remember particularly, because I was very charmed by them, and by the long black straight pens, which looked incredibly archaic and troublesome. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Eleanor tried to get everything into a neat stack, all the report cards and school pictures and letters from pen pals. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I grab a pen out of my back pocket and start writing down all the names I can think of on a napkin. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to his other neighbor, who didn't have a pen either. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted to show you what my pen pal sent me,” I said. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He went in, sat down at his Father’s desk, and with his Father’s pen began to scribble on the blotter. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He hoped the pups would be pure, but their mother had a tendency to escape from her pen. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She went to the table and took my pen and began to write on the back of the photo. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

We hope this book will inspire you to be the fourth leg of the race by encouraging you to pick up a pen and be a catalyst for change. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I remember the scratch of my pen moving across the page, recounting in detail, for a full eight pages, precisely what my sister had said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I pressed my pen to my bottom lip and mulled it over. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the blood in one of the pens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Miles slapped his pen on his lab notebook. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I carefully put the pen back in its place, pretended to wipe away all my prints, and followed Spoon out. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Everyone grabbed branches from the fire and ran off to protect the animal pens. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took all my willpower, but I got my pen out of my pocket and uncapped it. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

When I was twelve, I started at the Jewish Lyceum and my fountain pen was given a new case in honor of the occasion. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Then she hands me a plastic daisy pen. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I fold it up and shove it into the back of my closet, tossing the pen in after it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the central chamber was a pen containing many cattle and a few goats. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teddy abruptly took out a small, bullet-shaped, ballpoint pen from the side pocket of his shorts, uncapped it, and began to write. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Lee Lee puts her pen down and then says, “Sam, what are you good at? What do you like to do?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Just buying the pens took most of another afternoon because it took so long to get waited on at Schmitt’s Variety Store. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the cheap ballpoint pen and traded it for a roll of Scotch tape. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

At that very moment, my papa’s pen fell from under my dress and landed at the director’s feet. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The one with the pen, you little fool." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She saw she wasn’t the only one—some of the other women screamed and tried to grab handfuls of sand as they were forced out of the holding pen. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could refill the ink and replace the nibs, and they came with a blender pen. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I remember back in our freshman year, people still didn’t understand the importance of a pen instead of a gun. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She gropes in her purse for a pen and scribbles a few things down on the back of a receipt. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Now tykes were penned there, enclosed by thorn bushes. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her pen clicked away against the clipboard as I recited the list of symptoms Fig had shown over the last week. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She covered her ears when the little creatures streamed out of their smelly pens, but she was charmed by the confident way they nibbled lucerne from her hands. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother said to my aunts, Hand me that pen, wrote Jacqueline where it asked for a name. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He had climbed the walls of his pen, of course, but he’d never been higher than its six feet. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

On my lap was a journal Jasmine got me for my birthday, which had a Z made of flowers on the cover, and a purple pen. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Wes had spent much of his adolescence incarcerated, and he knew that occasional bids in the pen were part of the game. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Dad pointed to the closed half-high door on the other side of the garage which years ago led to an outside pen for goats and sheep. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I told her about my pen pal assignment. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

All the vases and baskets were stuffed with broken pens, dried-up gumdrops, sprung paper clips and smudgy erasers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Celia just sits, looking out at that tree, fiddling with a pen in her hand. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Joel had explained that the pens were arranged very carefully. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I looked at the space they’d left for my signature and took his pen. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes, and a pen would be a good idea, too. A black one if possible.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The tattooing pen burned her flesh, leaving a trail of blue numbers in her arm above the wrist. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took away his pen and poured him several bumpers of usquebaugh, not forgetting to take a nip or two themselves. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still had his pen in his hand, as if he couldn’t decide if he should talk to me or continue writing. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Chancellor held up a hand and Jamison lifted his pen from the paper. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As Taran approached the hole, already sizable, Hen Wen hurried to the opposite side of the pen and started a new excavation. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The old clerks came scurrying in, their pens in their hands. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, watching the rabbits in their pens, I’d think, I’m no different from you, poor things. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom wrote We Belong Together in blue pen across the top. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

"They got the guy who was driving in a holding pen back there. Broke his parole. So did your brother." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He opened the ink bottle, dipped his pen, and scratched something across a blank page. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fitzgerald puts his pen down and leans back in his chair. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Seventy-two, your Majesty,” he said, bowing low and taking care not to trip over his quill pen, which was a very large one. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“This is against the rules,” the missionary said, finding a pen in his cart. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Lord, what he wouldn’t give for a new pad of real art paper and a set of those marking pens—color pouring out onto the page as fast as you could think it. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He smiled and put his folder on the roof of his car, pulled a little notebook and pen from his shirt pocket. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I stood in front of Mrs. B, now propped on the edge of the sofa, my pen hovering over my notebook. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She penned them in a sty and gave them acorns to eat. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes, of course, you need a pen.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Words were engraved along the pen’s shiny barrel, and Mrs. Granger had to slide down to the end of the couch and turn on her reading lamp. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carl sticks pencils and rulers into the snowman’s torso and pens into its head. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Still, when she tried to hand me the pen, I just smiled and walked away. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Clipped to his shirt pocket was a row of fountain pens. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I reach for a pen and write it on the backs of my hands. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m just messin’ with you,” I say, handing her the notebook and pen. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

To get rid of it I ran to the pens we kept by the molino to feed the animals. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quill pen in hand, she had paused to look up. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He’s also making sketches in pencil, and drawings in pen and ink. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After a moment Chronicler complied, wiping the nib of the pen on a clean cloth before setting it down. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At first I suggested filling the coffin with things from Dad’s life, like his red pens or his jeweler’s magnifying glass, which is called a loupe, or even his tuxedo. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Nor can I,” she said, handing me the pen. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I just wasn’t watching.... Here ...” Nick stooped over and picked up the pen and held it out to her. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evan capped the pen with a loud snap! and stuck it in his pocket. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

"The thing you do with a pen or the one that means the opposite of wrong?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“When I escaped, I flew right over the pen. Croy must have seen it was me. He knew I didn’t have shoes. We joked about it.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He later recounted: “I felt bad when the pen was handed to me, because it looked like the ones that I was always buying for a quarter or a half dollar.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai examined its wings and saw that the leading pen feathers had grown back. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a pen tied to the table, and when I punch the name in and hit return, all the titles of Graham Greene come up on-screen. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It’s filled with different-colored inks, reds and blues and blacks, and a couple of sparkly fluorescent colors from a gel pen kit I got back in sixth grade. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I held the pen poised above the paper for a moment, then put it down. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feed for the animals was grown in fields surrounding the livestock pens. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Percy’s hand went to his pocket, where his pen always stayed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A bottle of black, black ink, a pen and a pad of paper marked with double and single lines, and a paperback book. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Chiron had thrown me a pen that turned into a sword. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment, Kvothe took the pen and completed the list himself, asking the dumbfounded Chronicler to correct him if he made a mistake. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As the boar rushed me, I uncapped my pen and sidestepped. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

My fine pen and nibs shimmer along the bottom. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He calmly folded his newspaper and took a pen from his pocket. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Each letter was formed with a wobbly hand, as though the writer didn’t know how to hold a pen. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I know she’s your pen pal or whatever, but it sounds like she’s kind of strange. You shouldn’t go by yourself.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Chronicler nodded and quickly shuffled the paper, pens, and ink into his flat leather satchel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

McCandless’s signature had been penned at the bottom of the SOS note, and the photos, when developed, included many self- portraits. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I can sing and I can read a little to while away the time for your lordship,” he offered, “and I can pen letters for you.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Charlie listens to my confession, then sets down his pen and folds his hands. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was armed with a spiral notebook and a ballpoint pen. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh no. It’s not real. Mom would kill me. It’s just pen.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Lorren brought out a pen and drew a series of hashes through my single line of writing in the ledger book. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now he caught it and put it in a pen made of logs, to fatten. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the Stingers did the shooting, or us, someone would be halfway to the state pen by now. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On top of his papers and framed photographs is Eduardo’s goldtone ballpoint pen, obviously a family gift, maybe from high school graduation, and here’s the little boy taking it, writing slowly in the air. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it's tricky when you don't have a pen. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know he’s found the pen, and I walk over. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Poppy laid down her pen and softly said, “Find fun and friends.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I took out my pen and uncapped it The bronze blade of Riptide elongated in my hand. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

My pen scribbled across the page: $5 an hour, for three hours, three days a week. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Those gates looked so close ... and if the talk in the slave pens could be believed, Meereen remained a free city for the nonce. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Was there a red pen in his pocket? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I almost forgot. I need you to sign something," he said, fishing around in his pants pocket for a pen. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I picked up a piece of mail and rummaged in my purse for a pen. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some creep had written do i make you wet on her geography book, so she spent a really long time covering it up with a black ink pen. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Placing the box on the counter, he handed the man a ball-point pen, Snuffy made a shaky X, and Nick wrote in his name. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is it?” he asked, putting down his pen. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He dipped his pen in the inkwell and wrote out a few more lines. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He also feeds them a mixture of corn, toasted soybeans, and kelp, which we scooped into long troughs in their pens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Andrea handed me her clipboard, paper, and pen, and I wrote People with arms are lame. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A massive desk—covered with documents, an inkpot and pen neatly placed in one corner—takes up most of the room. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

For the next two weeks, Connor kept most of the children imprisoned in the jails and in hog pens. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His books were his books, you understand: his words, penned in his own hand and bound with his own neat stitches. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I dip my fountain pen into a pot of ink, and a Wessex helicopter crashes into a glacier on South Georgia. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He dipped the quill pen carefully in the ink and handed it to the child. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she swallowed the giant balloon in her throat and picked up her indigo-blue brush pen. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I lead him around the long way, away from Shiloh’s pen, and he doesn’t even notice because he’s unwrapping his kite, made of silk or something, which one of his relatives brought him. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was ten, I was allowed to take the pen to school, and to my surprise, the teacher even let me write with it. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He smelled better than you’d probably expect, as ranging pigs keep themselves cleaner than those kept penned. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sudden screams pierced the quiet and startled me so that I dropped my pen, blotting my words with smeared ink. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Go ahead, Brady,” Mr. Anderson told me, offering me his pen. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was a barf bag in the seat pocket in front of me, so I poked holes in it with a pen, put my fingers through them, and turned the bag into a puppet. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was on his way back into town after a fruitless search that he caught sight of the cow munching on a bale of mildewed government hay in the pen behind Forest Service headquarters. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a moment of panic, I wondered what happened to Riptide, but I felt my pocket and there was my pen, right where it always reappeared. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She looked up, pen in hand, and stared at my face for a few seconds. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The rosebushes were scratching intently at the windows, but I directed his focus to the sheet of paper waiting there for him, and compelled him to pick up the pen. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She starts cutting it with these fancy scissors and arranges her pens next to her. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Rising and going into the bedroom, Pris reappeared carrying a pen and scrap of paper; she reseated herself, scratched out a hasty message. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He took a pen from his shirt pocket but there was nothing to write on. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

How odd it felt to hold a pen! Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She never failed to remind Turner that he was to listen for her last words, and that the paper and pen were atop the organ. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Perhaps tomorrow I would actually put pen to paper. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The page was blank and on it, with a fountain pen whose cap he ceremoniously unscrewed, he wrote his name and address. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The people with the pen between their teeth found the cartoons much funnier. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In his badly penned sigmas and deltas she spied the shaking hand of her son’s growing anxiety. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Kyle grabbed a pen and scribbled it down on his palm. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“DESTINATION?” shouted the Senses Taker, sitting up again, putting on his eyeshade, taking the pen from behind his ear, and opening his book. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced at Jenna, as this would be the perfect time for her to say something about Elliot, but she was busy taking out her ten billion pens. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The earliest recorded contest took place at Chalds in around 700 bc, the poet Hesiod proudly penning a few lines in celebration of his winning a solo singing class there. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She pressed her pen to the page and continued to write, remembering the anger she’d felt when the ship’s lieutenant had told her the Assassin was missing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Hugo almost took the pen out of its hand because he was so upset. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She pulled a pen out of her book bag and began to write her number down. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He sat up long enough to procure a pen from thin air and jot something down in his notebook. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The mechanical man dipped the pen into the ink and began to write. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Jackie,” she ordered, “get that pen and hold it in my hand.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She waved my pen around in the air. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then she cut herself off from us, tapped her fountain pen, and repeated, “Black folks, in black clothes, rapping revolution.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking the pen, Kvothe made a few marks of his own on the page. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes. We had pigs a-plenty, but someone left the pen open.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

And as she saw her mother punching away at her keyboard one night, four different pens stuck in her hair, Candice thought, If the news won’t tell the right stories, I will. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Noticing that we were idle, a couple of Siriono kids tried to persuade Newell and me to look at a young jaguar in a pen, and to give them money for this thrill. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He sat back in his chair and put his pen on his desk. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember when you used to say how ugly they were. You used to say you’d never write with a thing in your life but a straight pen. Right?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Maddy handed her a pen and a small, precious piece of paper. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I held the stolen pen above the paper. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I took the ballpoint pen out of my pocket and uncapped it. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She must have seen something of that in his face because she put down her pen and stood up to put a hand on his shoulder. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Vajra, who had decided to become a glowing pen instead of a lightning bolt for that day, burned brighter at her question. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were people in the village walking around, some were building a pen of some kind. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laying Hamlet down again, I pick up her writing box, set it on her lap, and hand her the pen. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I grip my pen as though it were the hilt of a blade and forget to take notes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He takes out a sketchbook and pen and starts doodling. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When she played the tragic Jocasta, she had gone through three fountain pens. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Every so often we’d see a pen full of red cows or even stranger animals. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She could imagine herself hurrying down now to her bedroom, to a clean block of lined paper and her marbled, Bakelite fountain pen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Regarding her own speech, Stanton told Anthony, “Anything from my pen is necessarily radical.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

We were throwing the ball in our backyard when my dad asked, “Have you heard from your pen pal?” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Suddenly his elbow, knocking against the inkpot, upset it, and the chair and the desk and the quill pen and his own best clothes were covered with great spreading stains of blue ink. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The only sound in the room was the occasional scratch of a pen on paper, or the faint, bird-wing sound of a page turning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“If I had but the pen of a Balzac! I would depict this scene.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wigner got out a pen and a piece of paper. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents give him an Instamatic camera, a new sketchbook, colored pencils and the mechanical pen he’d asked for, and twenty dollars to spend as he wishes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

On foot and swiftly he went up toward the stockade where swine were penned in hundreds, and at night the guardian of the swine, the forester, slept under arms on duty for his masters. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She played with a pen on her desk. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I was at ... eejit pens,” Matt said, and paused to let the pain in his throat subside. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced over my shoulder and didn’t see Mom as I parked the tractor over by the pony pen. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I’d brought a packet of three pens this time, but I only took one back down with me—in case he still took as much pleasure as he had last trip in wasting ink. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I chewed on my pen and thought about my grandparents. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She would come around the corner, chewing on a Flair pen and shuffling, as if wearing slippers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I touched the pen cap to the sword tip and instandy Riptide shrank to a ballpoint pen again. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it would be a good cliff-hanger, but maybe my pen pal doesn’t agree. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

As for Percy, he held his magic ballpoint pen like he was trying to decide whether to bust out some sword moves or autograph Nike’s chariot. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Another pen held sheep, and there were chicken coops and turkey cages as well. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I have put my pen to the blank page before me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He takes a pen out of his pocket and starts drawing—it’s a glow-in-the-dark pen. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

We’d been classmates in fourth grade, and one time he’d given me a fountain pen, the kind you had to load with a cartridge. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had peered up my nose with a telescopic flashlight which looked like a thin pen that clipped into the top pocket of his white lab jacket. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Usually his father stopped to scratch the goats’ heads and check their pen for water. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were used and had yellow pen marks all over them. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It glowed with all of its special objects—ballpoint pens, cheese-filled crackers, candy bars, rain bonnets—each one of them giving off its own special light. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then tall woodcutters entered to split up logs for the hearth fire, the water carriers returned; and on their heels arrived the swineherd, driving three fat pigs, chosen among his pens. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I write the chorus from memory in purple pen, and then cut the paper in a square around the words. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His father quietly tapped his pen through the reading. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I wanted him to get mad—to argue, to insist I was wrong—but instead he sat poker faced, drumming the arm of his chair with his pen. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

At last, my pen pal has a name. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“The lady with the feather pen, the lady at the desk!” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

To write diary with a pen is irksome to me; but Van Helsing says I must. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She grabs the pen out from behind her ear, and I glimpse a curly tattoo above her elbow—I’ll never grow into someone unafraid of needles. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Cecile let her hair grow and grow in thick, natural braids, and she stuck pencils and pens in it. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Cracking the pen furiously on the edge of his desk, Ignatius picked up one of the Venus Medalist pencils lying on the floor. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used beautiful, much too expensive Milanese notebooks and wrote with a fountain pen filled with emerald ink. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And rather than picking up a pen and finding a solution, they turned to guns and bombs instead. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The ballpoint pens with London’s streets in them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finds a pen in a drawer and writes his own name across the page as he has been instructed. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He leaned against his book bag and poked his pen into the hair of the girl sitting in front of him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mechanical man dipped the pen into the ink and began to write. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I threw fresh alfalfa into the rabbits pen and changed their water. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her father put the receiver down, Mary Anne, whispering a tuneless half-remembered melody, thumbed through the telephone directory, and with her pen, marked the number of the Ravenel Air Station’s Officers’ Club. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A laptop on my desk, a few pens. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that. .. I’m bleeding ... between my legs . . . and—and ... I don’t understand why it’s happening and I don’t want it to hap- pen.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sure enough, finally, one night she slams down her pen and says, “Stop bothering me! Ask Carlos to teach you if you want to read so badly. I don’t have time for this.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isidore, nervously, took the pen from her and wrote: AND SAY WHAT? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I will enroll you in the staff primary school,” Master said, still tapping on the piece of paper with his pen. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Putting his book down, Henry reached in his breast pocket and pulled out the pen and put it on the table. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Victoria leaned back in my squeaky chair and picked up one of my pens. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She would brush back her wispy bangs and hand the other sister the pen, and she would write: Come get us. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lawson’s left hand guides the chalk rapidly across the board, but Gogol’s pen begins to lag. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Me, Anne Frank, the proud owner of a fountain pen. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He drew pictures for her as they waited for a strike, showed her how to draw an elephant in one stroke without ever lifting the pen off the paper. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

My hand is still shaking so much I can hardly hold my pen. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

From her pocket she drew three precious objects that had required some ingenuity to gather, a partly used copybook from her trunk, a small bottle of ink, and a quill pen. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Then he cleaned all his pen’s nibs and set them out to dry. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Use a pen to write the instructions on the card. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I fished around in my backpack until I found a piece of paper and a pen. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

After the words so broken, Annabelle sets her pen in the little notebook to keep its place. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He released a low hiss and swiped at my pen. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was a ballpoint pen in my hand. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I pressed my pen hard into the paper, and I signed it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“R.B. + A.E.” is written in red pen on the inside of her forearm. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She points to the pens still stuck in her bun. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a stone raccoon inside the chicken pen with a messy chicken leg in its paws. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She knew it was silly to worry about her pens right now, but she couldn’t help it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had learned mathematics largely without paper or pen and thus acquired the ability to visualize problems in his mind’s eye before writing equations on paper. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He pushed her hair out of her eyes with his pen. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Ruth and me were housed below the packet-boat’s deck with six sheep, a pen of hogs, three families from Scotland, and fifty casks of dried cod. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a pig in the next pen and he’s enormous. I’m afraid he’s much bigger than you are.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the gift shop, Gogol buys a postcard of the house and a ballpoint pen disguised as a quill. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His handwriting was messy, slanting across the page, the size of the letters varying, the color of the pen changing. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then he hands me a pen and a pad of Post-its. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He put down his pen and knit his fingers together. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then she’d show me a pebble, a starfish, and an ink pen. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

In a few years, I was not only penning columns, I was writing sports books, doing radio shows, and appearing regularly on TV, spouting my opinions on rich football players and hypocritical college sports programs. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaira showed him her empty hands, but he gave her a pen. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

There was a candle in his room; there was some ink and an old pen that Bill had sometimes used. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

A book about rockets and space travel written in 1948, a retractable fountain pen, a bottle of dark red ink that looked like blood, and a star chart. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Antique-looking dark wood dresser with a big mirror against the wall directly opposite the bed, and a small desk with a lamp and a cup of pens. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

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

The clerk put a piece of paper before him and inked a pen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s holding a pen and scrap of paper and shaking it under my nose. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Carefully, so I don't wake her, I reach for my satchel and pull out my diary and pen. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Only their scratching pens, kids' stomachs, flies entombed in the strip lights, and distant cries of free kids ruckled the silence. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Still, wouldn’t you like to be Big Al’s pen pal? This could be the start.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the Fair Folk halted at one of the cottages, and from a neatly carpentered pen Taran heard a loud “Hwoinch!” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The family hung the prizes in their luak, a round Dinka cattle pen with a thatched roof. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to learn about somewhere radically different, and having a pen pal in Africa seemed like a great way to do that. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Amari gave me back the recorder and started putting his drawing pad and pens back into his knapsack. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was filled with men and boys milling around like nervous cattle herded into a goat pen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached into the muddle of papers on her desk and found a scrap on which someone had written with a green pen. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the pen and scrawled something over it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“If this is what it’s like to be free,” he thought, “I believe I’d rather be penned up in my own yard.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Ladybird Hope broke the pen in her hand into two pieces. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

So Grandpa drove us to an art supply store where she bought me a calligraphy pen and a bottle of ink. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the outlines of garden beds not yet planted for the spring, a goat or two in a pen, one sodden dog tied to a post, hunched defeated in the muck. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I told her my mom was sleeping in the motel across the street, and she pulled a pen out of her hair and asked me what I wanted to eat. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He sets down his pen, waiting for my reply. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The smell that came out of it made you think of hog pens and maggots and kitchen scraps from back when Nixon was president. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the grenade morphed into a ballpoint pen, and Mars began to write. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

At one comer of the pen, just outside the fence, clusters of little shapes lay on the ground. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Can I borrow a pen and a sheet of paper?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He whipped out a ballpoint pen, scribbled rapidly on the back of the contract. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He sits at his father’s desk, scrawling away importantly on the office stationery with a fat black fountain pen. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe someone needed a particular kind of lamp or pen or typewriter. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“My pen pal sent them,” I explained every time. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I dashed down the steps and had just cleared the pen when suddenly a small deer crashed out of the underbrush and into our backyard. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He took up his pen again and wrote: I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Madame Crommelynck turned to her desk and picked up her pen. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The other is in the bottom drawer of our nightstand where the pages in a notebook wait for my pen. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a white man in a business suit and tie playing with some little device in his hands, one of those PalmPilot things, tapping the screen with a skinny pen. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

A few times he revisited the buffalo pen, where he covered himself with a second blanket of straw. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a clipboard on his lap, a ballpoint pen in one hand. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I made the mistake of handing over the pen to let them sign their own names. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I hand over all my tickets for a pink notebook and pen set. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I was standing in front of the car, penning her in. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I paused and listened to the sound of a half hundred pens scratching down my words. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She reaches right past me and takes a pen topped with a Merryweather Purple ball of fluff off the coffee table. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I reached down and laid my palm over his, just for a moment, before picking up the pen and dipping it in ink. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They tried the sentence again, reading together out loud: “‘For the most wild yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.’” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And, after circling the chicken wire pen once, it took two dainty steps backward and, with an effortless leap, sailed over the four-foot-high barrier. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Got a kitchen, orchard, cherries, apples, peaches, ‘cots, nuts, got a few berries. They’s a place for alfalfa and plenty water to flood it. They’s a pig pen—” “An’ rabbits, George.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stuffed another pencil, pen, and scratch pad into the bag. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He searches the audience for someone he knows, but it isn’t his crowd—lots of lit majors with leather satchels and gold- rimmed glasses and fountain pens, lots of people Ruth would have waved to. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Crofts pushed a pen and a pad of paper in front of me. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He licked a finger and flipped to a blank page, uncapped his pen. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the corral the penned animals milled nervously. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I take the cap off my pen and start writing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Outside the overcrowded rabbit pen, the new arrivals were being organized into groups. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I took up the narrow, slender pen, with the bright pointed nib. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The reporters already had their pens in hand. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Horrified parents gathered at the pens and tossed food to their hungry children. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They put everyone in the rabbit pen, separating us into groups. Croy said they’re going to take us all back to our cities.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In order not to appear fumbling, people said, “Yes, baas,” “Yes, madam” to everything the white clerks said; thus, with the stroke of a pen, a man’s future was determined, his destiny altered. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote it slowly into the book, the pen scratching with excruciating deliberation. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t use a special pen or make any kind of statements or declarations. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And she went over to the pony pen to check on War Chief’s hay and water. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They were penned in by dense trees, and the ground was rocky, but it was the best place they could find to set up camp. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’d bring the first calf back to the pen, open the gate, and let the next one out. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reaching across Inspector Garland’s desk, he plucked a pad of paper toward him; with a ballpoint pen he drew a sketch. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

When Luna looks up and sees Alex in his doorway, he drops his pen on a haphazard pile of papers and leans back in his chair. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Stanton reached for pen and paper and wrote a single sentence. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was annoyed because I’d wanted to stop at the art store for some pens for the field guide with the money my dad had given me—a ten-minute mission. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

To make these guns, we removed the core from the mpoloni’s stem, much like disassembling a ballpoint pen, and used it as both a ramrod and trigger. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

After lifting the top off the pen, Daniel used a big plywood paddle to crowd the birds into one corner. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And in fourth grade, he actually stuck his pen into the electrical socket while sitting on the carpet, got zapped, and was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The pen offered no shelter from the intense heat of the day. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if possible use a bright red pen. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

I smiled and, with a little laugh, handed the pen back to Bloom. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ship could always use dishwashers or laundresses, she had heard, and so she would work her way to San Francisco where Amy, her pen pal, lived. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chronicler lay his pen down and massaged his hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He told her about the eejit pens and meeting the Farm Patrol and how he had to go to the hospital. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m glad you’re being honest with me; I’ll be honest with you; no more charades between us,” the Count said, putting down a number of notebooks and quill pens and ink bottles. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you bring another of those pens with the ink inside?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He hands me our official wandering notebook and a pen. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I decide to leave out the fact that I have a mysterious pen pal who is helping me write it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

Too late to pretend it didn’t exist He uncapped the pen. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But Nye, in pursuit of the narrative, raced his pen, and Church, lazily slamming a shut hand against an open palm, said nothing—until suddenly he said. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He searched for a pen, banging drawers open and shut, found one in his own pocket, and wrote. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

But that evening, when my fountain pen still hadn’t turned up, we all assumed it had been burned, especially because celluloid is highly inflammable. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Herd animals do well when penned in crowded conditions, because they are accustomed to living in densely packed groups in the wild. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He grabs a pen and small notepad from his pocket and scribbles something, then rips out the page and hands it to me. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The pen grew in my hands until I held a bronze Greek sword about three feet long with a leather-bound grip. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Natural philosophy was no longer an enterprise to be conducted simply with pen and paper. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A pen fell out and landed on my foot as I dug through the box. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t keep back my tears when I saw her struggling with the pen and then ruining her signature by running the ink with her tears. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d all been stripped of their labels and the contents written on the metal in black marker pen in Spanish. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin had marked the route with a red pen and added comments using his own creative spelling, such as Ratlesnakes heer and Saw bare under tree. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Say this,” Robin began, then went on to dictate the words as the monk penned them. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

It was littered with papers and pens and pencils; but Bilbo was sitting in a chair before a small bright fire. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She held her pen, poised to take notes. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

On January 4, 1993, this writer received an unusual letter, penned in a shaky, anachronistic script that suggested an elderly author. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In neat handwriting, a black pen, small words say The Pixies. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The man tapped his pen against the legal pad, waiting. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was Mrs. Granger’s favorite pen, her old maroon fountain pen with the blue cap. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers moved awkwardly as the pen touched the paper, but she carefully wrote her name, then the alphabet, three times. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

One man mailed an eagle feather, suggesting that Garfield make a pen from it to sign his first official document after he recovered. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Eventually she pressed her foot to the brake pedal, manipulated the automatic gear shift as if it were an enormous, leaky pen, and backed inch by inch out of the parking space. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I signed it as he observed and handed the pen to him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among the whistles on colorful coiled plastic key chains, small blue rubber footballs, Frisbees, yo-yos, bubbles, and glow jewelry, I saw green and red and blue glitter pens. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I removed the stopwatch, notebook, pen, and iPod with the recreated playlist. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Evan pulled the red pen out of his pocket and started to write on the palm of his hand. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Then when I’m about a block away, throwing all dignity to the wind, I start checking the pockets of the jacket, finding nothing but a film canister, candy wrappers, a pen. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He returned to Seabiscuit’s barn at Aqueduct Racecourse that night and penned a letter to Charles Howard. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letter was written with a purple pen on hotel stationery in remarkably neat handwriting. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Plastic toys, colored little balls, and fountain pens charged with explosives.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I could sleep in a pen with a hog and have a good night’s sleep,” Allen said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I took the writing tablet, the case of pens and pencils and the bundle of rubles off my desk and placed them amongst the heap of items we had thrown into my case. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And as his eyes focused on all the gentle gray shapes slowly hopping around in that compartmentalized wire pen, his heart did another flip-flop. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bratton retrofitted a city bus and turned it into a rolling station house, with its own fax machines, phones, holding pen, and fingerprinting facilities. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman puts away her pad and pen. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she approached, Briony put away her pen and covered her sentence with the corner of a book. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The only noise in the kitchen is her pen on the page crossing out and adding in, writing and rewriting stanzas, mixed with the slicing of scissors, the tearing of paper. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I would draw out my pen and one of my black-and-white composition books. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He picked up his pen and, revolving it in his fingers, looked out the window at the falling snow, which seemed to be slowing finally. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A sheaf of foolscap from her father’s office was before her, the desk light threw down its comforting yellow patch, the fountain pen was in her hand. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I had no idea where he was planning to take me, but I knew that I would want my writing notebook and pen wherever I was going. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the same smell Matt had met in the wastelands near the eejit pens, only here it was sharper and more alarming. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the pen of Jefferson etched the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence across the pages of history, we were here. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He put up his hand to silence her, and handed the woman a pen and piece of paper. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Adam nibbled and munched on the pen and his mouth made strained grimaces. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In his office he constantly altered the position of his coffee mug, his stapler, a jar of pens, he shuffled papers into neater piles. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shows her the things he’s bought, a tie for his father-in-law, soaps for their mothers, a shirt for Samrat, a silk scarf for Sonia, sketchbooks for himself, bottles of ink, a pen. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I held my fountain pen in my left hand, the nib sunken into the tender flesh of my right forearm. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

On the other side his father chewed a wooden pen and dipped it in an open ink bottle and made entries in his black record book. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His third sentence is missing a period, which she now carefully inserts with her finest-nibbed fountain pen. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her uncle burst into the room, emphatically waving a pen. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

By the time I reach the pen, Dad’s caught up with me, and he’s got the flashlight turned toward the noise. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas followed, wrinkling his nose up at the sudden smell of dirt and manure coming from the animal pens. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She dug out a granola bar wrapper and a pen from underneath the seat, but no notebook. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was one thing for Gogol to be the name penned in calligraphy on his high school diploma, and printed below his picture in the yearbook, he’d begun. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was not permitted to use pen and ink in bed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My father used to surprise us with small gifts, perhaps a piece of paper from the factory, or a pen, or a coin for each of us to spend on a pack of peanuts. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I looked down at the drawing I had done on the back of my hand with a pen. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Matt could hardly remember those terrible days three years before, when he was kept in a pen with roaches for friends and old chicken bones for toys. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to his room and brought back a squat bottle of ink and a stub pen and a pad of paper and an envelope and laid them on the table. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The newly polished wooden hand was now poised above the desk as it once was, waiting for Hugo to make it a new pen. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He bites down on a red pen and carries the bag out of the room; I hear the books inside it smacking against his leg as he walks down the hallway. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The letters were printed in thick, black felt pen, and underlined again and again. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

So at dismissal I opened my locker fast, grabbed my trumpet, my math textbook, and my best black pen, and stuffed my jacket into my backpack—all in one motion, no stopping. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I reach for my gel pens in a basket on the window ledge and spread them out. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I had my legs crossed and a pad and pen on my lap. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Be firm, Herbert,” I would retort, plying my own pen with great assiduity. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’d go to my room, get out my pen and paper, sit at my little desk, and go after her arguments one by one. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Matt suddenly realized what Tam Lin meant by dumping him next to the eejit pens. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a great shout from the crowd, and putting my head through between the boards I saw the bulls just coming out of the street into the long running pen. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have to build a bigger pen. Then we can give this one to the bull.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

A pewter tankard with its handle missing held all the pencils and pens. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She found an old milking stool that had been discarded, and she placed the stool in the sheepfold next to Wilbur’s pen. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

She walked to one of the tellers and removed her checkbook and picked up a pen. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

As Jackal had said, it was not a big hole, but they both just managed to get through and found themselves standing in the animal pen. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Seven took out a small notebook and pen from her black cape, prepared to jot down the information like any good reporter would. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I put five dollars in, Ritchie had no money, Audrey handed over a few dollars, and Marv went through his pockets and put in a twenty- cent coin and a pen lid. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

So he gave her a pen instead—it’s called an Eterpen, a truly wonderful thing, no messy ink to refill and it dries instantly. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The news of the wonderful pig spread clear up into the hills, and farmers came rattling down in buggies and buckboards, to stand hour after hour at Wilbur’s pen admiring the miraculous animal. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

She stared at her notes for a few moments, brought the pen to the board, made a mark, then got flustered and made some notations in the white space beyond the graph, and tried again. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Wart took the pen and tried to do as he was bid. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

M. Minkoff Later, his puckered pink skin wrapped in the old flannel robe that a safety pin held around his hips, Ignatius sat at the desk in his room filling his fountain pen. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask Mami for a pen and paper and I write a letter back to Ramu, even though it takes a long time. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Starts to pen a message in red ink into the margins by her picture. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He wrote out a new ticket for me in red pen. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the pen and wrote, How could that have happened? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Shiloh, up in the pen, don’t make a sound. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he touched the cap to the point of the sword, it would turn back into a ballpoint pen. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Dad in the state pen,’” Lydia said in a tough-guy voice. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

At a hitch near one of the pens, a Cossack performer tended to his horse. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Automatically Rick searched for his pen; he held the goat-payment contract on his knee and prepared to write. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

But Frank did not have to sit in the morning-room as I did, every day, and touch the pen she had held between her fingers. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll help ...” Reeling a little, bumping into each other, they went out to the goat pen. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t read it, but it was a thrill just to know that Mr. Darwin had written it with his own pen in his own hand. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But in what pen did a given rabbit belong? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drew closer to look at the letters formed by her pen. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee watches as Grant writes out his terms in pen. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He rolled his eyes and got a pen out of his backpack, then reached over and took one of her books. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He slumped down into the pen, and the puppies immediately leapt on him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She had been tapping her pen end against her cheek and stopped. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be in the trough at the eejit pens, floating in yellow sludge. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had borrowed a pen from my teacher, although I was certain I had returned it. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Jamison’s pen scratched across a piece of paper, occasionally dipping back into the inkwell at the top of the desk. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Whenever Josiah cut a cow away from the rest of the herd, Tayo swung the gate open wide and stepped back to let it run into the holding pen. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was still shaking when I picked up the pen to write you. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then she crawled along a beam till she was directly over the next pen. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Once she’d finished, she sat down with a pen and a piece of paper. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I run my fingers over the tiny valleys made by the pen that pressed against these pages so long ago, and I remember the only thing Gram ever told me about her childhood. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Most are suspicious that Irene will pocket loose change or a pen or keys or whatever. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her arms flailed wildly, but somehow Tally kept her footing, shooting across the compound and over the rabbit pen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I’ll have to find a lot of paper and many pens. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He seized the pen and wrote below his signature, “P.S. Charles, I never hated you no matter what. I always loved you because you were my brother.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Clutter straightened, reached again for his pen. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

After watching me for a while with her pen poised, Simone lowers her clipboard. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A pile of journals on the desk, the topmost splotched with ink from a pen exploding in his bag on a plane. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“She arrested on Monday, in the pen on Tuesday. They say the whole trial took fifteen minutes.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He hands me the notebook and a pen, and when I say, “That’s okay,” he tells me his handwriting is like chicken scratch and it’s up to me to keep the notes. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He cursed and pulled his pen from his pocket. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Number twenty-three,” he says, before descending a small set of stairs near the proscenium and hovering by the edge of the front row, pen poised over his open notebook. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I grab a pen from Old Man Lee’s countertop and start writing the directions down like mad. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Headmaster got frustrated and crumpled up Neel’s papers, and his red pen flew like a carving knife as he made endless corrections. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

At TRIGON's request, while he was still in Colombia, the CIA had assembled a second pen, containing a breakable vial of cyanide poison. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“All mine. Killed right in their pen. Poor they’d believe me anyway—so instead I took a calculated risk. devils never even had a chance to run.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Some had pen and paper with hardbacks to write on. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock, Mr. Arable’s truck rolled into the Fair Grounds and came to a stop at Wilbur’s pen. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her mother hands me a pen from her purse, and I write on the scrap of paper as legibly as I can. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

When I said that, she took off her glasses and put down her pen, all calm, and started tapping her fingernail on the thick folder in front of her. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He threaded the pen back through her fingers, gently. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hamlet took up his pen again and wrote a letter hailing me as the beautified Ophelia. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Get the notepad from the top drawer of the nightstand. And the pen. You write what I say, exactly what I say.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I had invented a quill pen out of a peacock feather, but stopped writing with it when I saw that it waved like a one-eyed slough plant. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pig slop,” she said as she emptied the pie dishes into the trough inside the first pen. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I tucked it in my pocket, a little nervous, because I was famous for losing pens at school. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

"Filling the pen is not what you do before you begin. It is the beginning," he said. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up a pen and cross out that last point. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two huge pigs are asleep in their pen, and two sheep are rooting around in the weeds by the tree where they’re tied. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was delayed while he went to look for pens. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is mute in the brasseries where they eat their lunches, mute in the shops where he gazes at beautiful belts, ties, paper, pens; mute on the rainy afternoon they spend together at the d’Orsay. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gripping my pen with sweaty fingers, I attempted writing a few words, just to make sure I didn’t forget anything. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I want the cheese crackers and the peanut-butter crackers and an Oh Henry! bar. And also a pen. To write with.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Someone had took a pen or something and had writ on all five of them, but it was writ in a code so I couldn’t understand what they meant. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s what the pig in the pen says when his brother gets knifed for dinner.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He sharpened a quill with his small pen knife to scribe these things in sloe or lampblack? The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He holds the pen on the point of the city. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The object looked like a silver pen, clipped to her pocket cuff. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

There was a dearth of pens that day in class. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Under a pen name, but yes. I even got an opinion piece published in the Freiheit last September.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I began thinking about the subject while chewing the tip of my fountain pen. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

On the memo, a wall-tower officer had penned in a telling editorial change in one sentence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miles bit the end of his pen like he wished he hadn’t said it. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But I don’t know what happened to my sparkly pens. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Every day, Ivy wrote Keeper back, and it felt almost like having a pen pal. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They were incapable of love—“others have no more value to them than a car or a pen.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always wrote direct quotes from Arletta in pen in my neatest cursive. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She pulled out a pen and her notepad. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He got a felt-tip pen, went to his mirror, and put a dot in the middle of his right earlobe. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take out a page of notebook paper and a pen and doodle a tree, my second-grade version. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I slip into the same chair where I sat for Ace Period and produce my notebook and pen like all the other kids around me. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I took out a pen and notebook and dropped them onto my desk. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She used the long, skinny part of a pen cap to scrape grime from under her nails. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He reached for a pen in a cup on his desk; amazingly, it was full of Montblanc fountain pens, Meisterstücks, at least a dozen of them. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Emily’s pen was poised over her open binder, ready to take notes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We don’t dare use Fina’s flashlight or even our phones, because if my pen pal does come, they’d be able to spot the light from a mile off. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He taps his pen on the desk thoughtfully for a moment. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“You can start by telling me your name,” the officer said, tapping his fountain pen against the desk. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was scratching rapidly at the second page, his fingers blue with ink, while Henry proofread the first one, dashing in subscripts and aspirants with his fountain pen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I only had Brit lit with Jules and Aileen, but I did what she did: I put a tampon next to my pen and highlighter in every class. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I trimmed the pen, then found I didn’t know how to begin. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It made her think about that year of rehab after the accident: “Pick up the pen. Put it down. Walk to the door. Now come back.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He chews the top of his pen, thinks, writes, and then chews some more. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

We rush down the hill toward the glade and the sycamore hollow to see if my pen pal has written the next chapter of our story. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He touched the sword tip, and Riptide shrank back into a pen. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They tried the sentence again, reading together out loud: “‘For the most wild yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.’” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

What felt like the comforting bars of his pen gave way in brittle snaps. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Like it? She got spitting mad. She can get mad sometimes. She took Aron’s fountain pen and threw it on the sidewalk and tramped on it. She said she’d wasted half her life on Aron.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before he made contact with the Russian, however, Saxe had to learn how to handle something much more delicate: the T-50 subminiature camera, a tiny device fitted inside a brand-name pen. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Golden bracelets flew and jars of jam and tiny painted animals and fountain pens. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He looked down at his feet and saw that there were some fish in his fish pen looking for the tiny bits of bait still left from before the wind came. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa takes out a pen and writes his building number on my hand: B4, Hannover. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I got up, went to Kevin’s office and took a small scratch pad and a new pen from his desk and the large atlas from his bookcase. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Frustrated, he turned his attention to the pens in the Blood House area. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He thanked them politely, took off his eyeshade, put the pen behind his ear, closed the book, arid went back to sleep. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

A wet ink pen and a bottle of ink had been given to me, but the ones I took out of my desk drawer were ones I had bought myself. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I grab my notebook and a pen and head down the road. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that’s what my pen pal was trying to tell me in the last chapter of our story. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Marco, pen in hand once more, returns to his list of questions. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Things are spilling everywhere, and he retrieves keys and pens and cigarettes before giving Mr. Black a little salute. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I copy a few of them down, using a different color pen for each. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Because having my mysterious pen pal felt like having a little bit of Gram back. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

We soon graduated to pieces of paper that were rolled up and chewed until they were sticky with spit, then shot out of a pen like cannonballs. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And oh yes, we will be getting “little presents” now and then— ballpoint pens, coffee mugs, T-shirts promoting seasonal items. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In pencil it said, “Later. Well, right there the pen give out. One of the points broke off. I’ll have to buy another penpoint in the village—rusted right through.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Hazel Grace,” he said, “do you have a pen and a piece of paper?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

After all, 534 and his pen mates were bred for their meat, not for their memories. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to bother dipping the quill and steel pen on his desk into ink. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyebrows rise when I don’t leave, watching as I retreat to a corner to fill them out, chewing on the end of the pen. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They could hear sheep blatting in their pens. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Anthony wrote on one copy, “To Elizabeth Cady Stanton—This is pronounced the strongest and most unanswerable argument and appeal ever made by mortal pen or tongue for the full freedom and franchise of women.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“You said they put prisoners in the rabbit pen? Where’d the rabbits go?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Theresa began to write him one, but he waved his hand at her to stop; and when she didn’t see him, he impulsively picked her pen out of her hand. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was thirteen, the fountain pen went with me to the Annex, and together we’ve raced through countless diaries and compositions. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She seized a quill pen and printed two lines on a scrap of the curly birch bark which the children collected to use in place of costly paper. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Scowling, I threw my pen in her direction. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He’d tested out markers and oil sticks and colored pencils and chalk and pens and pastels and watercolors. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In a drugstore she buys a Timex watch for her father-in-law, Bic pens for her cousins, embroidery thread and thimbles for her mother and her aunts. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the time I hung out and read my comic books, or watched TV, or went out back to the pen, where I threw the ball for Jake, their bomb dog. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Two more pens were stuck in her hair. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right below the whale’s tail were some words penned in June’s neat handwriting. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Wednesday had drawn all over the maps in bright marking pens, fluorescent greens and painful pinks and vivid oranges. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He soon returned with pen, inkpot, and parchment, and arranged them on the desk near Robin. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I open my notebook, uncap my pen, rest my chin in my hand, and stare at a spot on the whiteboard just a bit to the side of Ms. Rochambeau’s head. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Exactly,” she said, holding out a pen to me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

But the audience of doctors has assembled behind the one-way glass, clipboards ready, pens poised. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was never too long before I lowered my pen and set down my journal. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Leo took out a pen and autographed the arm of one of the nymphs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He takes a spiral notebook from his back pocket, flips it open, and pulls a pen from behind his ear. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I was not happy to see the word pen pushed aside as if it did not matter. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pressed the pen between my hand and Miss Volker’s twisted palm and together we managed to slowly scrawl her name, letter by letter, as if we were receiving it from a Ouija board. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It kept dipping the pen into the ink and making more scratches on the paper. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She unzipped it and dropped The Gold-Bug inside so her hand was free to dig for a pen. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I also felt guilty about the three pens I’d stolen, but only for a second. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I went back to bed and stuffed the pen, the map, and the scratch pad into my canvas bag. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Paul said, placing his pen back in his shirt pocket. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Leibowitz goes down the hall to borrow her husband’s fountain pen, paper and an envelope. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Farmers developed techniques such as locking animals inside pens and cages, bridling them in harnesses and leashes, training them with whips and cattle prods, and mutilating them. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered what my pen pal saw on her or his way to school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He points to a couple items on the menu and Rae tells us she’ll return shortly, then rushes away so quickly she leaves behind her pen and notepad. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He pointed at something with the end of his pen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Two of them pen us in the corner of the kitchen. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The last time I had stood watching a herd of cattle eat their supper I was standing up to my ankles in cow manure in Poky Feeders pen number 43. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He loved to shape words with a pen on paper and he formed the letters with as much care as if the paper had been a plate of silver. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A prison guard brings Helmuth paper, a fountain pen, blue ink. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

With practice, Saxe realized that he could cradle the pen gently in his hands while leaning on his elbows, snapping perfect images. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not like they were just given the paper and pens. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There’s a notebook and a purple pen on the table where the Kleenex usually is. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But one man trying to sponge Seabiscuit would have about as much chance as a kindergarten kid trying to jimmy his way into the United States mint with a fountain pen.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many doctors took up the pen in order to write about their experiences during the plague, as well as to argue in support of whichever treatment they favored. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In one upper pocket of his jacket was arrayed a variety of pens and pencils; in the other nestled a lily-white handkerchief whose presence was more decorative than utilitarian. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the mistral kicks up again, he moves inside, drawing with pen and ink and working with watercolor. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Ma Charles said, “My Henry and I had pigs. A pen full. Remember, son?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Our hands turn pages of books, press fingertips to keyboard buttons, hold pencils and pens. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

So, tonight, I picked up my pen and, sure enough, I’ve been writing my heart out even if my hand is shaking. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He scratched and pluttered away, and laboriously bit the end of his pen, and the castle room darkened about him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat back down and fiddled with his pen. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Afi was thrown into the holding pen soon after that, and they hugged each other gently, avoiding the fiery sores on their shoulders. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph’s keen ears heard the scratch of a pen and the rattle of a key. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the first time I looked into those eyes, as a freezing six-year-old getting pummeled in the culling pen. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She bent down and picked up a gold ballpoint pen, the fancy kind. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad paused over his paperwork, tapping the table with his pen. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“A good idea. We must be honest in our observations. Take up the pen and kindly do the honors, my girl.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I sat still, my pen resting in my hand, my notebook open, my face flushed and my jaw jutting out into an underbite, an old trick I had to keep from looking sad or scared. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Wylan reached into the satchel at his feet and pulled out a slender roll of butcher’s paper followed by a metal case that held an expensive-looking pen and ink set. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Cigarette smoldering in the crystal ashtray, pen in hand, staring blankly off. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Anna hit the back of her hand lightly against the railing for emphasis and demonstrated with her cigarette, holding it as though it were a pen. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Whenever he was anxious, Pax dug at the floor of his pen. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

To learn early American history, for example, students dressed in costumes of the era and were taught how to spin yarn, hook rugs, and use quill pens. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The desk top is of blond wood; it slants down, and there is an armrest on the right side, to lean on when you were writing, on paper, with a pen. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to send it to all of my faraway pen pals. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

An endless series of cattle pens stretched to the horizon, each one home to a hundred or so animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Michael and I put our notepads and pens on one of the tables and then paced around the room, waiting for Myers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Hay rustled as a rabbit leaped restlessly about in its pen. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At some point, my pen just stopped moving, and I found my field of vision shrinking and shrinking, and then I was trying to remember if tunnel vision was a symptom of fatigue. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The man had used it on him often at the door of the humans’ house, at the door of his pen: Go through, it meant. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

No film hidden among his pens and pencils. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I find myself doodling and beating on the notebook with my pen. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t speak, but I brought out Riptide and put the pen in her hand. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She appeared to be grading papers, but her pen hadn’t moved since I’d walked into class. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

One of them, however, much younger than the others, wearing gray flannels and a blue tie, had left his pen lying in front of him and was looking at me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I took my denim bag from where I had hidden it under his bed, and sat down at his desk to write the letter, using one of his large sheets of paper with my pen. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Crofts reached over, picked up my arm, put it on the desk, and pushed a pen in my hand. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dipped the pen in the blood-red liquid and made a slow, careful notation. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It isn’t really necessary, because the pen is between the cover and page one. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Brunner, who’d been out in front of the museum a minute before, wheeled his chair into the doorway of the gallery, holding a pen in his hand. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You might want to know that that bottle one of your men took is wood alcohol I use for cleaning my pens. It’ll go badly if he drinks it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When Chandresh reaches the end of the document, she hands him the pen. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She toyed with a pen on his desk. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see her though her voice was coming from behind the pony pen. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They were sure, because where you were supposed to write “I am writing this punishment with a pen,” everyone was writing the word frindle every fourth or fifth sentence. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking quickly, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a quill pen. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Jessie set aside the octane gumdrop molecule she had started on and grabbed a piece of paper and a pen. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

That I had been lonely on the farm, surrounded by brothers and sisters with lives of their own, a mother with too many cares, and a pen full of chickens. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Staying in the vicinity so we don't get separated, he gives me space and time to scribble the words that are starting to flow again from my pen. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe the honesty as it traveled down my arm and came out my pen, “I paid for it.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Coraline considered this carefully, then she took the paper and pen and went off to explore the inside of the flat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I have spent a vexing half hour scrapping with Fräulein Engel over the pen nib, which I swear I did not bend on purpose the first time. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He sat up quickly, pulled the book out from under him, put on a green eyeshade, and waited with his pen poised in the air. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

His pen then moved a few inches over on the picture. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When the lawyer realized what was happening he grabbed an ax, lunged outside bellowing dementedly, trapped one attacking dog inside the chicken pen, and literally hacked the squealing mongrel to pieces. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this point in their talk the swine had come up to the clearing, and the drovers followed to pen them for the night—the porkers squealing to high heaven, milling around the yard. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Askar had all the latest village gossip, and helped Baba Haji pen the goats and carry the pomegranate bushels. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She snapped the cap off a pen and started writing, hunched over the paper. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I grab a pen from my dresser and jot down a note on my forearm to call Alejandro and tell him I won’t be in for the next couple days. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was postmarked New York and was written hastily, in the red pen he used for correcting our Greek. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s as if my pen weighs a thousand tons. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He slid the book across the desk toward me with one hand as he picked up his pen with the other. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So, with the sweep of a pen, my mother lost her name and became a Dragon instead of a Tiger. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She asked each student in my seventh-grade English class to pick one place for a pen pal program our school was starting that year. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

His words spark a fresh shock of jealousy that courses through my veins like I had stuck my pen into an electrical socket. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I found it trembling in a corner of its pen, the color of purple grapes, with sad little eyes that cast around for its mother. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s the pen,” I said casually, and I waited to grab the book the moment he put it down. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

There, standing off to the side with a notebook in her hand and a pen in the other, was Mini. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“A school doesn’t run like a corporation. Things don’t happen at the snap of a finger or the drop of a pen. Change takes time.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I find a piece of paper and a pen. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I thought she might change her mind, but suddenly she scribbled something and threw the pen down, committing herself and her little girls to twenty-five years. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The sound of simmering and the scratch of Mom’s pen and the light scrape of book pages turning took over. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

With its high brick walls and the barbed-wire livestock pens surrounding it, it seemed as impenetrable as any fortress. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At that moment Dad scooted outside the pony pen and grabbed something out of sight, and when he returned he handed me a new round-nosed shovel with a nice blue bow tied around the handle. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, Matthias picked up the pen and ink Wylan had laid out and began to scratch in the names of the buildings and surrounding roads. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Percy slipped his hand into his pocket and grabbed his pen. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The mechanical man was finally holding a brand-new handmade pen with a specially cut metal nib. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The innkeeper laid down three pens, a jar of ink, and my receipt from the bookstore. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I pulled my notebook and pen out of my backpack. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“All the pictures are hand-drawn in this one with pen and ink,” he added proudly, eyeing a book neither he nor his son could read. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were being trapped like animals in a pen, ready for the slaughter. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The boy leaned against a lavatory and began drawing on the back of his hands with a ballpoint pen. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterwards he went for a walk along the beach, admiring the gulls who flew above him like white quill pens whose heads had been neatly dipped in ink. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We staked the oxen out in a bit of grazing common near the pens and went into the tavern for some supper. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Grace found her pen, her cheeks were bright red. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The two Specials with the eye-reader had reached the resistors’ comer of the pen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The guest room I occupied was supplied with writing paper, ink, and a pen. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

An enormous timber lay near the pens, as long and as thick as the mast of a twenty-oared ship. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We almost never took our hogs to the pens to work them any more. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took from his pockets the cards he carried about with him, his watch, and his fountain pen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dear Charles, She held the pen so tight her fingers cramped. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He clicks the pen several times as he focuses on my chart. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He and poor old Edgar Derby were pushing an empty two-wheeled cart down a dirt lane between empty pens for animals. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia sits with a notebook and pen, attempting to decipher the system the book is written in. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The calligraphy pen made me remember about the Post-it notes I had bought to correct the problem that had developed with the ink. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

None of them notice that his hands are shaking, or that he is clutching the pen in his hand so tightly that his knuckles are white. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She tossed my pen back on my desk and hopped up. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Milkman took out his wallet and pulled from it his airplane ticket stub, but he had no pencil to write with, and his pen was in his suit. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly Templeton dragged himself across the pen and threw himself down in a corner. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I had noticed that while Malcolm X was talking, he often simultaneously scribbled with his red-ink ball-point pen on any handy paper. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

While in prison, Robert Chambliss penned a handwritten letter on Kilby Correctional Facility’s inmate stationery to the pastor of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then he rose and went to a tiny night table with a drawer, from which he took paper and a fountain pen. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Servals sometimes raided chicken pens, but generally they avoided people. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also took three bunches of sticky notes, my whole bundle of sharpened pencils, a few pens, and ran back to the living room. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I hear Shiloh making a noise up on the far hill in his pen. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had gone from twig-and-dirt writing to a blue fountain pen on lily wallpaper. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see,” the animal salesman said, groping for a pen and pad of paper. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Petty Officer Powell kept an immaculate desk—a calendar blotter, twin upright pen stands, a nearly full ashtray, a telephone. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Now, what kind of pens do we all use here?” he said conversationally. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Emery snorts and scratches her pen hurriedly against the inside cover. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

To take a clear photograph, an agent had to hold the pen exactly eleven inches above a document, using his forearms as a kind of tripod. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The pens skewered his eyeballs so deep that only an inch was left sticking out of his drippy sockets. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I pull a shopping cart from the pen. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But at other times, she would gyrate and make grunting sounds and spasmodically sweep her books and pens to the floor. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Each match was actually a pen that wrote with invisible ink. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The Western Market was a great square of beaten earth surrounded by warrens of mud-baked brick, animal pens, whitewashed drinking halls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah. I wonder if he’d sign my imaginary autograph book with his imaginary pen from his office where he writes articles about imaginary birds,” I joked. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I went out to the pen and gazed over the sea of ninety black Angus cattle. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Benny knew,” Isa said, avoiding Mrs. Castleman’s eyes as she twisted the pen around the string that attached it to the clipboard. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She dipped a pen in ink and carried it and the Bible to her father. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

This splendid fountain pen came in a red leather case, and I showed it to my girlfriends the first chance I got. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Bob sticks his hand into his Sharpie bag and flicks through the pens until he finds the one he wants. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Bernabe carried the ash drawer from his kitchen stove out to the chicken pen and dumped the ashes over the fence so the chickens could fluff it into their feathers and kill mites. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pax had never been alone outside before, except in his pen. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I had never written to anyone before and I wasn’t the one holding the pen now, but Miss Maggie told me that this was my letter to compose. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Leader laid his pen aside and leaned back in his chair. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

On her desk sat a stack of books, a journal and pen, and a picture of her dad flying his Sopwith Camel biplane, grinning and giving the thumbs-up. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But now he says, “All right,” and thrusts his roller-tip pen across the desk at me almost defiantly, as if taking a dare. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cardboard sign is propped up by his feet, with the words “Anything helps, God bless” penned in blue ink. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He tapped some more with his pen, as loudly as the ticking of the grandfather clock, and finally gathered all four together, arranged them neatly, and handed them back to Turner. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He took his pen from his shirt pocket and the top napkin from the stack on the table. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Caldwell throws her pen in the air, her mouth all twisted up at me like I’m wasting her time. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The girl sat at her dressing table, a much-handled clothbound score open on her knees, marking here and there with a ballpoint pen. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It almost looks like a really fancy pen. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

From under her pillow — a wadded-up evening dress — she brought out her pen and notepad and began to draw. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“He’s from Louisiana. I loved the accent. And I dropped my pen, just to see what he would do, and he picked it up right away.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Tyrion Lannister could smell the salt in the air, mingled with the stink from the latrine ditches behind the slave pens. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Gey asked Mary to pick up a pen from the table and write a few sentences. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sometime in the eighties they invented pig balls, for pigs who were being fattened in pens. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cows in their pens lay burbling blood through their nostrils, with javelin holes in their necks. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pulled out my pen and paper and started writing this letter—trying to tune them out. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The fountain pen remained unused on the table, while its owner, sighing, was forced to make do with a very tiny corner of the table, where she began rubbing beans. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

There are still pens on some of the desks, and they all feature oversize paper calendars lying flat against the desks. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I picked up a pen from the counter and scribbled on the little pink square. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Be that as it may, red-eyed and dully cringing in his doorway, Herbie could only stare helplessly at the sexual holocaust taking place in his neighbors’ pen. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And through many ups and downs and storms, for the past seven years, Theo has been giving Vincent money for paint, pencils and pens, ink, canvases, paper, clothing, food, and, until he moved in, rent. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When he shifted to dip his pen in the inkwell, the sunlight caught the gold buttons on his uniform jacket and made them glint like blades. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Nana pulls out an old receipt from her purse and helps herself to a pen from the principal’s desk. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Men and women stood talking in the light of the meadhall door and on the narrow streets below; on the lower hillside boys and girls played near the sheep pens, shyly holding hands. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opens it and takes out a pen and a yellow legal pad. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the social worker clicked his pen and looked up. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We passed the turtle kraals, the pens at the dock where they kept giant sea turtles like a herd of cows. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house it penned was old and brown with a porch that gave it a sort of potbelly. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Seated at opposite ends of their counsels’ table, Hickock worked with a pen and Smith with a pencil. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has his arms folded across his chest and a pen tucked above his ear. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Anyone got a pen? The legionnaires stared at him. Mars sighed. “Two hundred Romans, and no one's got a pen? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She digs through her purse for a minute before coming up with a pen. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As he leaned forward onto the sticky countertop he took a pen from his pocket and slid the thin cocktail napkin closer. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Books are allowed, but no sharp pencils or ballpoint pens either. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson tapped her pen against her desktop. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"That you wouldn't have to explain to your mom . . . Like, I was going to buy you a really nice pen, but then . . ." He was watching her open it, which made her nervous. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I put my purple pen back inside the plastic case. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She had not been allowed to tend it properly penned up in this cell, but even unwashed and tangled it shone where the sun touched it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the pen, maybe thirty others sleep on straw laid atop frozen mud. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At the end of fifty-six days the pens would have covered every square foot of the meadow. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A few weeks ago I started writing a story, something I made up from beginning to end, and I’ve enjoyed it so much that the products of my pen are piling up. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tobin taps his pen on his desk, gives me a funny look. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Tats, disappear; Eisen is on her way,” I say, moving my pen across the chart in a series of squiggles. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, maybe you are—stealing logs, pens, and files.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

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 got a small notepad and pen from our junk drawer. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

To the far left are a large barn and a grass pen. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Chronicler’s pen danced and scratched down the page as Kvothe watched it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I pay the bill, overtip, gather up my packages, an Italian scarf for each of my daughters, a fountain pen for Ben. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Emily picks up a pen and clicks the top on and off. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

So the game was suspended for a couple of afternoons while money was raised to buy the pens. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a storage room with stacks of long sheets of paper with numbers on the margins and boxes of pens, pencils, staples, and paper clips. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I borrowed some paper and a pen from him so I could make notes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled out a scrap of paper and a pen and scribbled some numbers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Someone had closed it, penned up all the ages of history between two gold clasps. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And by that I mean that I liked his face and I was glad he existed—even if he couldn’t get me the crackers and the pen and the candy bar. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I meet my sisters in front of Madoc’s stables, where silver-shod faerie horses are penned up beside enormous toads ready to be saddled and bridled and reindeer with broad antlers hung with bells. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After Ugwu left the room, she picked up a pen and signed the letter and then checked through the text for any errors. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She lifted the tortoise from its pen and let it lumber across the animal house for exercise. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days after his arrest, he is driven to a holding pen a few miles outside Strasbourg. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Or is it a machine or special pen that helps you? I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Why had he bought each of them a crystal pen and taken them to the zoo in Cincinnati and made sure they received lemon pie and ice cream? The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Burton whipped out a pen and signed the papers with a smirk. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The day after the fight, Bobby penned a letter to the Tournament Committee, asking them to expel Benko. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Pinkie leaned against the juniper logs of the sheep pen. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Back on the ground, we stroll along the quays bordering the Seine, where so many writers walked for centuries before penning their masterpieces. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But before Bast could draw another breath, Kvothe straightened in his chair and made a motion for Chronicler to lay down his pen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His own pockets were empty except for his pen/sword, Riptide. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Gary pulled a gold fountain pen from his jacket pocket and signed the frontispiece with a flourish. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It had a bunch of pen and pencil marks scratched on it, keeping track of how fast the children in the house were growing. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Then from a drawer in his night table he took out a sheet of paper, a yellow envelope, a small red pen box, and a square bottle with purple ink in it. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She came inside to eat, but most of her time was spent outside in the pen, slumped in the A-frame doghouse our father had designed and crafted from scrap pieces of redwood. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

When Grandpa was alive he had a list of like fifty pen pals he met on-line and e-mailed regularly. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He gently laid the pen down within her reach, then called Mandela back in to witness her signature. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Can I see your notebook and a pen?” he asked. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She drew elephants for Aziza the way Jalil had shown her, in one stroke, without ever lifting the tip of the pen. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

In my mind, they were seated next to each other at a table, taking turns with the fountain pen. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Riptide shrank back into a ballpoint pen, but now the writing point was exposed. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Janet took her pen and looked at him like he was nuts. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After some time Singer sat up and reached for his pen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I pulled out the long Japanese sword, and when I scrambled back around the corner of the pen nothing had changed except I was even more afraid. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her pen whizzed across the grid as she filled in answers. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Chronicler dipped his pen and Kvothe looked down at his folded hands for as long as it takes to draw three deep breaths. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But he also knew that he was seeing something instinctual and primal taking hold of his penned dogs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't have an extra pen," I whispered, complete sentences for whispers, that's what tells you I was still a greenhorn in this culture. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Before I can ask about these ideas, her head is bent over the notebook again, and the pen is scratching across the page. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It looks like he sketched them out in pencil and is filling them in with black pen. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The papers and a pen were there on the desk next to Tom. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

James dropped his pen on the cipher work and tipped his chair back. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She ran ahead of him to the goat pen and shoved her head under his left arm when he knelt down to milk the black goat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was staring at Flatnose with an expression of disgust that suggested he couldn’t believe such a creature had slipped from his pen. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He came with a bag but did not open it, and he sat across from Obinze, holding nothing, no file, no paper, no pen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He picked up his pen and turned back to whatever he was writing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The parrot hops down to the desk, kicks around some of the mess, and when he finds no pen, he gnaws off a blue-green feather from his back. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

And to my pen pal, Hirohito, but I kept that to myself. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

These are the first words I ever penned as a married lady. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I was eleven, however, my treasure had to be tucked away again, because my sixth-grade teacher allowed us to use only school pens and inkpots. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe it only returned when it was in pen form I didn’t know, and I wasn’t going to live long enough to figure it out. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

For this piece, Vincent uses watercolor, pencil, and pen and ink on paper. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I think of the note I found, of the press of his nibbed pen hard enough to send flecks of ink spattering as he wrote my name. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For a time they both sat listening to the small sounds in the house, the scratching of the pen, the rustling and snapping of the fire, and the slow purr of the yellow cat. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Kvothe nodded to himself and pressed the pen back into Chronicler’s hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I capped my sword, stuck the ballpoint pen in my pocket. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“How dare you? You’re not in a fit state to come here, if you can’t come here without spluttering like a bad pen. What do you mean by it?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

And since she still can’t grip a pen because of the stitches in her hand, I’m really working. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

A fat silver pen rested on the page she'd stopped writing. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“The sextet of Robert Frobisher. He was an amanuensis for my father, when my father was too old, too blind, too weak to hold a pen.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Kvothe let out his breath self-consciously and motioned Chronicler to set down his pen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She writes a new time in pen and initials it. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

That night, I sat on the rug in my room with my pencils and new black pens scattered on the floor. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

As fast as I can move the pen, I can fill them in. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Basta brought the pen and a whole stack of white typing paper. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She wanted to call out his name, run to him, and hug him, but she found she could say nothing as he was taken to the far corner of the holding pen and chained there. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I returned to our shack and hid the pen and drawing in my suitcase. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Freddie tapped the lockers with the metal pen clip he had used to etch the graffiti. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Percy touched the point of his sword, and Riptide shrank back into a pen. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“How about the zoo, huh? Don’t you want to know what I was doing at the zoo? At the buffalo pen?” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had stood hungry in the pen all night and now it was nearly crazy for a bait of milk. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The first item was a series of dots done with a blue pen,” she remembered. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mom sat still, pen poised in hand, eyes fixed on her papers. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We herded the cattle into pens, and untied the poor hogs and turned them loose in the hog pens, too. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Omar breathed in, tapped his chin with the pen, let his breath out. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They passed out flyers, pamphlets—A Message from City Councilman John Kwang—buttons, ballpoint pens, keychains, lapel pins, every last piece of it stamped with his perfectly angled script, simply signed, John. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked why that was interesting, because I just thought it was one of the red pens Dad used when he read the New York Times. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Here was a person for whom the word pen had two syllables. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She tied the pen and the blotter to the leg of the table, and she glued the inkwell to the top of it to the right of the place where she normally wrote. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They removed insects from the tomatoes, mealies, squash and pumpkins and fed them to bantam chickens penned at the mouths of the tunnels. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

At a gesture from Kvothe, Chronicler wiped off the nib of his pen and shook out his hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

With a sigh, I click my pen and start taking notes. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

When one has such a dream and the predicted event hap pens, it’s hard not to believe in precognition. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re sitting among piles of T-shirts and markers and fabric pens, knowing other bands are already putting the final touches on their outfits. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

So as Mrs. Turton reviewed that night’s homework, I opened my notebook and picked up my pen. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There were vegetable gardens, cattle and goat pens, and fields of lucerne for the animals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember you used the fancy calligraphy pen Grandma gave you for that one. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She had a thick pen in one hand and a bag of almonds in the other. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She did earn several that year, and began to feel herself a power in the house, for by the magic of a pen, her ‘rubbish’ turned into comforts for them all. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I’m done speaking, he removes a roll of vellum and a nibbed pen from one of the cabinets and notes down who ought to be where at what point for the plan to work. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She looks at a chart briefly, runs down a list with the tip of her pen, and says, “Erin Quinn’s not seeing visitors today.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we were finished, she wrote my address in the front cover of her journal in sparkly purple pen. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

My hand was cramping badly, and my fountain pen kept swerving off course. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

My true journal is written with no pen or paper, but in my mind, with an invisible hand in the air. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the southeast corner, at the animal pens and barn. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He made another motion to Jamison, who set his pen back to the paper. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bunny nodded at the cup of sleek black pens that sat on Julian’s desk. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The name written on it was penned in bold black ink. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Alberto was assigned to reinforce the pen, which was then personally inspected by Father, followed by yet another talk with Travis behind closed doors. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Baby Kochamma picked up her maroon diary, which came with its own pen. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took his pen and wrote on the next and last page, No children. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He and she always had lunch by the livestock pens. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It kept dipping the pen into the ink and making more scratches on the paper. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

But the pens were worth the effort, and during the next few days Egypt was full of scribes practicing the ancient art of hieroglyphic writing. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulls her notebook out of her backpack and fishes around for her pen. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A dozen men with boar spears came trotting out onto the sand to drive the boar away from the corpse and back to his pen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a pen from Mr. Betz’s holder and found a scrap of paper. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He rattled the pen in the ink bottle and looked blindly at his record book. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

White explained that they had talked to a man named Burt Lawson in the pen, who said differently—said that Burkhart knew a good deal about the murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She waved her arms, scaring the chickens in their wooden pens at her feet. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kvothe gestured for Chronicler to set down his pen and stretched, lacing his fingers together above his head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He tapped his pen for another few moments before laying it down with a vastly irritated sigh. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Georges Melies was sitting at a desk that he had dragged to the center of the room, a pen poised in his hand as though he were a giant version of the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Not soy-based, like the dehydrated meat in her SpagBol, but real animals from the overcrowded pen on the edge of the Smoke. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She looked—and immediately started scrubbing the bad writing out with her pen. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I could be around, could help in the pens, but we could never be close again. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He finishes penning a small detail on Wolverine’s leg muscle and finally looks up. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Little Jimmy smiled and put his pen down. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She worked with a pad and pen so she could record every step as she took it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I place the pen in his hand, but he immediately drops it. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I pulled out my journal and pen and started writing about everything I was thinking. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The sheriff produced one from the opposite shirt pocket; the judge unfolded it beneath his desk lamp and picked up his fountain pen. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’s movement to his right: Zahra is there too, pulling a stack of papers toward her and starting in with a red pen. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Me and Jay watch her rooting for Kelvin as Blaze trots around the pen. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

French composers of the melodramatic grand opera school -Jules Massenet and Charles Gounod, for example - were just as much a target for his often facetious pen. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Snapshots of Mr. Hale sitting on the corner of his desk, someone bending in her chair to dig out another pen from her book bag on the floor. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Several centuries of great writers—Milton, Shakespeare, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Austen, Thurber, Faulkner, Baldwin—have voted with their pens, and the answer is yes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

With a stroke of the pen the military changed world history, erasing every incident, ideology, and historical figure of which the regime disapproved. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unzipped my backpack and removed a stopwatch, a notebook, a pen, and my iPod. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It took two days of hard scrubbing before the pen marks were gone. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to sit down with her notebook and pens and draw every T-shirt folded in her drawer at home. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I put the jackal mask and toga on Ms. Tannenbaum’s desk and search for paper and pen, but I don’t see any. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Chronicler smiled again and wiped his pen on a piece of cloth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I took out a ballpoint pen and started pressing it against a piece of scrap paper, making dents in the paper but not making a mark. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The man nodded, scribbled one final note, then he closed the file and put down the ballpoint pen. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The trailers might have cameras in them, but outside, in the open, it feels much more like we’re animals in a pen, waiting to be slaughtered. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

You can’t sit in a desk chair and tap your pen against the table in that tap tap tappity tap rhythm you used to do that I hated. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Celia suggests to the boy that he put down his pen for six months and work as an apprentice with the Escambray Theater, which educates peasants in the countryside. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three of the invaders were carrying a struggling figure, bound hand and foot, through the pen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I dipped the pen and carefully wrote the letters “D D” as if they were initials. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I didn't think my pen pal would dress like that, but I had no idea what kids in Africa wore. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He carried three fountain pens in his breast pocket, and his inner pocket bulged with papers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I have a pen and paper she says the number. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he brought pen and ink and paper from his quarters, and once again she said the words, those she could recall. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went through them like pen through wet paper. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I pick up the pen he gave me and find a blank page. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And why had he chosen to sign it with that pen? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

After waiting all afternoon at the Foley Square courthouse holding pen, we were handcuffed together and lined up in the hallway. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I find a pen and write down all my memories of summer fifteen. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“If Doc Murphy don’t tell Judd about Shiloh, can we bring him back here and keep him? I could build him a better pen. Make the fence high enough so the shepherd can’t get in.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Farrow pulled a scrap of paper and a pen from his pocket and looked sternly at JP. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She falls back in the seat and takes out a pen. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled a pen from his coat pocket and handed it to me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

My parents knew I had a pen pal in Zimbabwe, but they did not know how close we had become. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I took the book and a supply of bail-point pens back in February. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I put the pen down and clicked, again, to that video of him getting stung by the Irukandji. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I uncapped Riptide, and Annabeth pulled her knife; but before my sword was even out of pen form, Kelli pounced on Rachel. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He’s made a kind of cave for himself, complete with guitar and computer and notebooks of staff paper, along with pens and stacks of Post-its. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He described the eejit pens and the opium fields that surrounded them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the scratch of the observers’ pens on their notepads; I give them a sideways glance. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Directly behind each pen was a rectangular patch of closely cropped grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Chronicler penned them down numbly, reciting the sounds as he wrote. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As much as I’d talked, I found it hard to imagine myself actually picking up a pen to write such a letter. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran out the kitchen door, past the animal pens, towards Jasón’s house. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within three days after we started, I could drive Spot into the pen, go right up and milk her, and all she’d do was stand there and stare at Old Yeller. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pen had reappeared as it always did. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I was right, and in a moment I heard the slow scrawling of the pen on the death certificate. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In it are two pens, a toothbrush, and a pair of glasses. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’d turned fourteen and my fountain pen was enjoying the last year of its life with me when... The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As we proceed to the Hub, I start to understand the extent of the camp and how the razor-wired, sky-high security fence pens us in for miles, cameras trained on us. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Think of backgrounding as a training school for feedlot life: The animals are, for the first time in their lives, confined to a pen. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

One officer got angry when recruits started asking him for pens—few people had brought them, because we hadn’t been told to. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she fiddles with the iPod dock, I fiddle with the pen. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

We stacked four of them in front of the pens and then he and I got to work catching chickens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He stood for a minute looking down at Jethro and then went to sit at the table beside the fire, busying himself with pen and paper. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could get everything from fence posts to lambing pens to refrigerators dirt cheap. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He recognized the guard and, possibly as a prank, held a ballpoint pen to his neck. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mob of laborers then chased the black worker through some sheep pens, beating him with shovels and brooms until he keeled over dead. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It might be a good idea,” Kira replied, “if you want to pen your little ones. But not on this piece of ground. You can build a pen somewhere else.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell your pa that he must keep his pig in the pen,” he called to one child. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a pad out of his rear pants pocket and prepared to write with a ball-point pen. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should have known the moment I had scratched those letters into my arm with the pen nib. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Was I really about to become pen pals with a murderer? From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon, Boomer and I run down to the meadows and slip into the Spinney to find that my pen pal has written again. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The pen’s held in one; the paper’s anchored with the other. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She opened the case and inside was a beautiful gold fountain pen. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” the casting woman says, laughing, handing me a clipboard and a pen. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Liz pulled a pen out of her coat pocket and began to write on the front leaf of the book. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jogged to my backpack by the door and came back with a pen and a notebook and wrote down the names of all the advertised subdivisions. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

That he, or anyone at that late date, could have named me and set me running with one and the same stroke of the pen was too much. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She plopped back into her chair, with a calculator, pen, and paper laid out in front of her. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He tried making little pen marks here and there on things he gave her, as tracers, but then couldn’t bring himself to check for them in the stores. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his mother asks if he has a pen to take down the number he lies, telling her yes, not listening as she recites it to him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

While I was recovering from the fire, Mae and Birdie gave me a notebook, along with a sharp quill pen, a bottle of mirpetal ink, and several pencils. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

They ate steak and eggs, fried potatoes and coffee, and then Testa- verde put down his mess tray and took a pad of paper and a pen from his pocket. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He trades in fountain pens for ballpoints, Wilkinson blades and his boar- bristled shaving brush for Bic razors bought six to a pack. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes in farmyards when the cows return well fed from pasture to the barn, one sees the pens give way before the calves in tumult, breaking through to cluster about their mothers, bumping together, bawling. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lift my pen from its inkpot, but my hands feel too light to hold anything. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

That was where the pen had been the day before. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Thomas noticed people in the Blood House pens glancing around, apparently just as confused. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A dusty gloom hung over the chicken pen where the five remaining roosters uneasily preened their gorgeous feathers as they waited for the Angel of Death to chop, pluck, and disembowel their youthful, awakening bodies. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she found the pen Juan had used to scribble the words of the song. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“It contains a few facts I’m concerned about,” said Nels, pulling a pen from his coat pocket. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The person who wore this had lain in the fields on still nights, when the air near the eejit pens had gone bad. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

David stares at me, then at the blood in the pen, then back at me again. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My job was soon relegated to working in the pens, moving the sheep from one to the next to let them learn to recognize their lambs before it got more crowded. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She gives a slight nod and scribbles with the pen he offers to her. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A slim ballpoint pen lay in his palm. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Emily’s pen was poised over her open binder, ready to take notes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They curse you each time you force them around the contours of a pen. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the year before there had been some sort of stationery arms race among the kids, with each trying to have the most unique pens and paper. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The woman has taken out a little pad and is making invisible zeroes trying to get her reluctant pen to write. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squeeze his hand around the pen and help him write his signature. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Our aunt and our great-grandma should be rocking on this porch together. Not sending poison pen letters back and forth through you.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The volunteer police reported that escaped turkeys had attacked a passing Amish buggy and driver, so we all needed to keep an eye on our turkey pens. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They do not so much as look at us as we spread our blanket and set out our notebooks and pens and pots of ink. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“You hold your fingers and wrist stiff. All the movement comes from your arm. You begin by rotating the flesh on your arm so that your pen will form slanting circles.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t answer, just pulled his pen from behind his ear and flipped open his notebook. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Even though I’m only in elementary school, I can barely scrape together money to pay for notebooks and pens and pencils. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, running vertically down the side of her palm, was her phone number written in neat block letters in dark blue pen. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He dipped his pen, paused and stared into space, dipped his pen again, and then wrote in his old-fashioned hand, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It’s crowded with ten members of his recovery team armed with pens and clipboards. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my pen and wrote it on a napkin and shoved it in my pocket. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Come here,” she said, and she led me to a display of ten pens. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I got a pen pal today,” I said. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I wrote until the pen cracked and ink dripped everywhere and made a mess of my words on the page. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

After choosing a nib Tillie said, "I hope in the future, Noah, that you will use a ballpoint pen only when you have to press hard to make multiple carbons." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of Specials moved through the pen, flashing a reader into the bound Smokies’ eyes, taking them outside one by one. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I should have felt quite astray doing the work if I had to write with a pen.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

After making this last entry, Teddy continued to keep his attention on the page and his bail-point pen poised, as though there were more to come. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A little blob of ink marred the white page opposite, as though the writer, in impatience, had shaken her pen to make the ink flow freely. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Or that pen you could have sworn you put into the pocket of your backpack but wasn’t there when you went to look for it. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She put the pen back into the pen-loop and shut the diary. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With just a few scratches of her pen, our deli would be saved. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He grabs a pen tied to a string and hands it to Darius. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The last song he’d sent was “Water Runs Dry,” by Boyz II Men, so I played it on my phone and picked up my pen again. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Nearly every line he penned was an invitation to slumber. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Genie set his pen down and snaked the spiraled wire out of the first few holes in his notebook, holding it up to his mouth trying to imagine what it felt like to be Ernie. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Carefully, he scraped the pen up and down in between the door frame and the door. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

We had taken them out before coming to see Bloom, since none of the other sessions carried pens in their breast pockets. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will sleep in alleys and stables, wash dishes for kitchen scraps, beg pennies to buy pens. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Inside the box was a stack of letters neatly tied together with string, a few pens, a watch that didn’t work, and a folded envelope. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

While one writes something on small brown pads of paper with his black pen, the other points at our heads and counts as we climb onto the truck. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Mel told me that in some pens the figure runs as high as 70 percent. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He can have another name given to him when he comes of age, a nickname from his friends, and if he is a poet, he can have a pen name. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man shut the dogs away in a goat pen. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Understanding this rebellious nature, I encouraged the Freedom Writers to use a pen as a means of revolution. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her daughter, a girl with straight black hair and dark eyes, tucks a pen behind her ear and takes the bag from her mother. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I wished I had a napkin or something to jot down what I was going to say, but there weren’t any nearby, and I didn’t have a pen anyway. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every animal stirred and lifted its head and became excited to know that one of his friends had got free and was no longer penned up or tied fast. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Breathless, she dips her pen in ink and begins to write rapidly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We put our pens and pencils down but only Fern ran to the window. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Slowly at first, some limping or leaning on their fellows, the captives began to emerge from their rough-hewn pen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The cat listened carefully, although sometimes he lost patience with the tutoring and began to bite at the tantalizingly moving pen. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took out my ballpoint pen, but Annabeth locked eyes with me—a silent warning. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

In thin black pen, the song title “Walt Whitman’s Niece” had been circled. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then she bends down to put her pad and pen back into the briefcase. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The end of the pen was badly chewed. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Along the sides of the cave were many crowded pens of lambs and kids. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He concentrates on strong lines without shading, using a combination of pencil, pen, brown and black ink, and a reed pen that he made himself. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I have a homework desk with a gooseneck lamp; a collection of cute, pastel-colored pens from Japan; and a tiny potted cactus. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

One of the most important morning chores was feeding and watering the chickens and moving their pens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I've never held a pen or a pencil, in this room, not even to add up the scores. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a strict policy on no one leaving until everyone is done, so we have to wait until the clock strikes eleven and Soon-Lee puts her pen down. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Part of her wanted to close her notebook and cap her pen and thank her for her time. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Before she had a chance to absorb it all, a man dragged her to what looked like a goat pen. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheep and swine huddled in their pens while the castle dogs ran free. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Wednesday chuckled, and began to pore over his maps, unfolding and refolding them, making occasional notes on a yellow legal pad with a large silver ballpoint pen. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” said Ron, sweeping the jumble of scrawled notes off the table, dipping his pen into some ink, and starting to write. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I pulled a little notebook and pen from the outside pouch of my backpack. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Besides, it didn't really look like the top of a pen. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

And then Abby nudges me again later to pick up a pen she dropped, and it’s pinballs all over again. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

And then there’s the date she’s supposed to show up, scrawled in blue pen on a line at the bottom of the card: April 27,1979. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The cheerleaders have obtained some sort of special exemption to roam the hall in a pack with pens in hand to seek out autographs of staff and students. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She has reading glasses and pens and clipboards in almost every room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pen didn’t look like much, just a regular cheap ballpoint, but when Percy uncapped it, it grew into a glowing bronze sword. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Leader tapped the tip of his pen on the desk as he thought. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I am eager to answer all my pen pals’ questions about language. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Busy struggling to raise Hen Wen to her feet, Taran did not notice the horseman until he had reined up at the pen. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately for my brother and Reggie both, the bird showed up at first light the following morning and waited outside the pen for his breakfast and morning grooming from his best friend. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He brought the box to the kitchen table, sat with pen and paper, all those stupid prep books. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He jiggles his marker in his fingers and mumbles words that rhyme with “middle,” and somehow that leads him to bring his pen down on Vienna. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He dipped the pen into the ink and then faltered for just a second. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As they got drunker and drunker, some lay limp on the floor and others took felt-tipped pens and began to write on the exposed skin of the fallen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Brother Mance would pace the floor, extolling my abilities with pen and paper. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father had a bottle of wine, an ink block and pens, and knives of various sizes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Garden City representative of New York Life Insurance smiled as he watched Mr. Clutter uncap a Parker pen and open a checkbook. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be nothing penning them in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I gather up my schoolbooks, my pencils, my purple pen, and carry them to Mama Ya-Ya’s bedroom. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He looked at Bud, then reached over, picked up the pen, and signed both copies of the trademark papers and three copies of the contract. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask Ivy to hand over one of her pens. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I lean back into my pillows, take out the purple pen, and write in my math notebook. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

His pen had appeared back in his jeans. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t hurry so much. Slow down and think about what you’re doing with your pen.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Marguerite grips her pen and her eyes meet mine for a moment, revealing anguish, before she looks away. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She dipped the glass pen in a pot of ink and held it over the paper. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She read six books a day and could do two crossword puzzles at once—with a ballpoint pen. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the page with his pen. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they came to the buffalo pen, dawn was showing through the trees. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What ho, Percy!” he shouted, and tossed the pen through the air. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Penelope longed to talk the whole business over with Miss Mortimer; it was too late now to get up and write a letter, but she resolved to set pen to paper as soon as practical. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

But suppose I were to ask you to take a pen and paper and write down in as much detail as you can what your person looks like. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Draw something,” Her mother passed her a sheet of paper and a ballpoint pen. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

In spite of himself, he found a piece of paper and a pen and began making a list. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

They, in turn, seemed attached to him and followed him about within the confines of their pen. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He was tapping his pen in rhythm with the ticking of the clock. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The calves are rounded up and herded into a “backgrounding” pen. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

"No no no no no, you're holding it like a Hollywood Nazi. Relax! Just hold it like it’s a fountain pen. There. Now, let there be light..." Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I walk away, quizzing myself: twenty-eight stools in the room, ten buttons on Mr. Landau’s shirt, four pencils and two pens in the cup on his desk. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was as if my subconscious was speaking to me about everything that I kept penned up inside of me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A goose, which never slept inside, preferring instead to sit under the stars, honked gently as they entered the pen. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fascinating,” he muttered, scraping at some petrified guano with the stubby end of his pen. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

All along the dock, there were vast pens of barrels covered with seaweed and hundreds of bales of cotton waiting for the mills. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see what she was writing, only that her hand and pen were flying across the paper, scribbling as though her life depended on it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The captain pulled out a pad and pen. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they would move on to the next pen where the bigger pig lay. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Every afternoon, I take the two^minute walk down the dusty dirt side street to our cow pen. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m taking your kite back down to the house, David,” I yell when I see him getting near Shiloh’s pen. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull a crumpled piece of paper out of the trash, then ask her parents for a pen, because I know I won’t exactly find one lying around. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He poured milk for her in the lid of an old enamel coffeepot, and then he opened the pen and let them run, greedy for the tender green shoots of tumbleweeds pushing through the sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The pen was grassy, and it was shaded from the sun by a shed roof. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Oh, puke,” Mary Anne whispered in Ben’s ear, abandoning her pen and paper since Ben was adamant about refusing to read what she had written. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother’s phone number, jotted down with a felt-tip pen, blurred into oblivion. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care if he carried you here pig-a-back,” Ambrose said, pointedly redipping his pen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At least my pen pal would be able to understand me. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I opened a new ivory writing tablet and a case of pens and pencils, a gift from my aunt for my fifteenth birthday. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I have no pens, no notebook, no textbook—only my ears and memory. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He dug around at the bottom of his book bag until he finally came up with a pen, and after taking the cap off with his teeth, he began to write. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She reached down into her backpack, rustled for a minute, then pulled out a tampon and placed it next to the pen and highlighter beside her book. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s good to see you here. Do you have a pen and notebook with you?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Mom leaves to get ready for her ten o'clock Introduction to Literature class, and I grab a pen and paper and go to the parlor the minute she's gone. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down at my notebook, got my pen ready to show him this was strictly business, and continued. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But I guess that if the Latin word for feather had been frindilus instead of pinna, then you probably would have invented the word pen instead. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m left with one consolation, small though it may be: my fountain pen was cremated, just as I would like to be someday! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, longtime no see, Nathan,” Aunt Heidi says, clicking one of those free pens people get at banks, click click click. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday it was too hot to hold my fountain pen, which is why I couldn’t write to you. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But I tried again once she handed the pen back to me, and this time the cursive flowed out the way I had been taught. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Case in point: I was looking for a pen when she gave the word this morning. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Thanks Mr. Ray,” I said, tapping the ink pen on the application. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Poppet finds a fountain pen amongst the clutter on the desk and tests it on a scrap of paper to see if it is properly inked. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I took the pen and signed my name on the next available line. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

See if there’s any way I can put some fence wire over the top of the pen to keep out the shepherd. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set down her pen, picked up her teacup, and sipped the hot cinnamon water. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the blue tag on Uncle’s pen. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

A great blob of ink fell from the pen right at her name. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The reporter looked closely and saw that each kid was holding up a pen, and each little mouth was puckered in the same way. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The headmaster, Mr. Scallan, says we are to return on Monday with a composition book, a pencil, and a pen with a good nib on it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He put his pen in his pocket, then took her hand and held it to his chest for a minute. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I brought them to Dad, who was reading the New York Times at the kitchen table, marking the mistakes with his red pen. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

So when we were back at her condo, Tillie taught me how to fill a pen, or, as she said, "How to properly fill a pen." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote them all myself with a thick black pen. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then he went outside, to pens where the animals were kept, and he came back into the wedding feast leading a large, extremely irritated billy goat. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

His fingers are too weak to even grip the pen and write his name. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She took the pen, but instead of signing it she just stood there with her head bent and the pen shaking in her hand. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only thing I can think of is to make him a pen. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put down my pen and sat quietly for a long moment. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She opened it and pulled out something, which was a pen. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clara then slapped a pen down on the counter and glared at me. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He turned to the first blank page and, after reaching up to grab a pen off his desk, drew a picture of a woodpecker eating a hamburger. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Max carried the bellows back to the corner then and got out a pen and paper. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I took the pen out of his hand—he always read with a pen—and wrote Gat on the back of his left, and Cadence on the back of his right. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Then she attacked my paper with her pen. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I picked a pen from her pencil case and twirled it on my thumb and middle finger. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

My hand crept instinctively toward my pocket, where I kept my lethal ballpoint pen, Riptide. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And there are paper stores where you could buy daybooks and pens. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

If W.P.A. workers leaned on their shovels, the writers leaned on their pens. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she filled out the registration blank, her pen hovered over the question of previous education. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear it blatting and racing around in the cow- pen, so starved it could hardly wait. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad said loudly as he came around the corner of the barn and into the pony pen. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I look in the third pen in despair. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

While chomping on an apple, I looked down at the snail and drew a large circle around and around until I made the circuit five times with my pen. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It attracted whatever refuse there was in the office, and whenever pens, eyeglasses, purses, or cigarette lighters were missing they could usually be found somewhere in her desk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Felix took a breath, grabbed a pen, and signed his name. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She taps her pen rapidly on her desk and asks, “Are you familiar with middle child syndrome?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The information lady taps her pen against the counter. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Dad’s weird because he’s afraid we’re going to be cripplingly and emotionally damaged,” Maya replied, her pen between her teeth as she flipped back and forth between her physics textbook and her lab book. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Held out a brand-new journal and pen, which must’ve been hell to get approved, considering they don’t want us to have anything. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Think so,” he says, tapping his pen cap against his teeth. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He opened a huge dusty book and drew it to him and dipped a foul pen into an inkwell filled with what looked like coal dust. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When one of us tried to pick up a pack or a knife, a supply packet, or even a pen, he might set off an explosion. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t identify the purpose of the checkbook on the counter or of the pen in her hand. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The nurse left and came back with a piece of paper and a pen for me, but I couldn’t write properly. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I put my pen top in my mouth, chewed on it for a second, then answered. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

And now, with his bottle and his fountain pen drained, he simply sits, dragging a hand through his hair distractedly, staring across the room at nothing in particular. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I said, my eyes focused on the desk, which was full of things—books, a cracked mirror, felt-tipped pens. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody get me a pen: I’ve even got some ideas for a new autograph. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She shakes her head with enough force to set her neck fat in motion, but she hands me a pen. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fished my pen out of my pocket and stared at it. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I swallowed hard, shoved the pen in my pocket, and hoisted my backpack. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

If he lived closer to the town, he could watch each day, and when they took his father away in the wagons where convicts were penned up in huge wooden crates, he could follow. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reached a pen in the farthest corner of the kennel. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She flew along the river walk, past the small kitchen, and through the pig yard, her hurried footsteps lost beneath the squealing of the hogs in their pens. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the gym, a table was filled with hundreds of multicolored T-shirts, felt pens, ribbons, and sparkles. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

What would my pen pals say if I told them that I am standing at a detention center because I went to open my postbox for their letters? Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, it come up here on its own and I let him stay. I built him a pen and kept him secret and named him Shiloh.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abandoned animal pens, encrusted with months of dust. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It was dark when I got there. I thought it was the deer pen.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He elbows me in the ribs and I almost fall off my stool, knocking his pen on the floor. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Reynie entered to find Mr. Benedict alone in the room, seated on the floor with his back against the desk, surrounded by books, papers, and a variety of colored pens. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted Dad’s whistling, and the scratching sound of his red pen, and the pendulum swinging in his closet, and him tying his shoelaces. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Cross pen- and-pencil sets, records listened to twice and then abandoned, clothes that were too large, too small—that never seemed worth transporting to the increasingly cramped apartments he inhabited over the years. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Green cards and visas instantly invalidated with a stroke of the presidential pen. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Although not reaching the virtuosic literary heights of incarceration essays penned by writers such as Thoreau or Martin Luther King Jr., the document was an oddly compelling account of the execrable details of his experience. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Jack Hodgson had brought along a paraffin tin filled with nitroglycerin; he had created a timing device that used the inside of a ball-point pen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she said, “I don’t know that I’m an expert of anything. But one thing I can say is it’s sort of interesting that the person wrote the word ‘black’ in red pen.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He moves one pen on his small pad, and three others sketch alongside it. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He gestured for Chronicler to pick his pen up again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Only a week before, the waterfront’s elegant open-air cafes had been filled with naval officers and diplomats; now the quay was a holding pen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

With a stub pen she was bringing her books up to date, a fine old double entry ledger. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Art saw the two of them come through the door, he dropped his pen at the edge of his desk blotter and stood and covered his eyes with his hands. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t find any paper, so he wrote his message on the whitewashed wall with a felt-tip pen. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sighing, I mark my place mid-sentence with a semicolon, tuck the pen and notebook under the quilt, and climb back into our bedroom. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She picked up her notebook and her pen and began to write. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I could picture all the red pen marks on my paper, like I was one of her students. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Last month Celia said it got a whole pen of chickens,” Matt said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he died my father had to send an e-mail to all of Grandpa’s pen pals and tell them the news. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Lady Seymour made Madam repeat the entire story, then demanded pen and ink and paper, fighting her way out from the blankets with her good arm. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dear Brother Adam,” the letter said, “I take my pen in hand to hope you are in good health”—he always started this way to ease himself gently into the task of writing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

From where he sat, he could see the cattle pens of the father- in-law’s village and he knew that they would soon be there. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I stayed up reading the day-old newspaper Abuelo left behind or traced the flower patterns on paper napkins with a ballpoint pen. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

You can write with this pen at altitude and it does not smudge and the supply of ink lasts for a year. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It makes you seem more like a real pen pal. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Abigail decided to write a letter of consolation, explaining that “reasons of various kinds witheld my pen, until the powerful feelings of my heart, have burst through the restraint.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But it made her smile, to see it, to see how the pen formed the shapes and the shapes told a story of a name. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every week, the first word at the top of Mrs. Granger’s list was pen. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One clean sheet under my wrist and a pen in my fingers, I pour it all out to Philbert instead: the music, the dancing, the snap of my rag. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up from signing and slapped the pen down on the table. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“One reason for my pride is that I was born to a prince of Sweden,” she says, laying down her pen. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They got the name because Indians supposedly kept sea cows penned up there a long time ago. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

But with the end of a pen, she manages to lever off the panels one two three. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I shoved my notebook and pen into my backpack, grabbed Beau’s duffel, and brushed past the waitress toward the door. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

You’ll know Jonathan Swift is the greatest Irish writer that ever lived, no, the greatest man to put pen to parchment. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I finally decide I'm going to just stab him a thousand times with a ballpoint pen. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

But whenever Mr. Jefferies talks about the trip, Russ starts opening his mouth really wide and tapping his pen on his desk, which makes everyone stare at him. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gramps was at his desk, his brass lamp burning, his pen moving furiously across his paper. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“So, are you related to Dr. Seuss or something? No wait, it’s a pen name, right?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He tapped his pen on each in turn, underlining now and again, circling a phrase here and there. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I pushed my handful of soft-lead drawing pencils to one side of my desk, took out my fountain pen, and fell—very nearly heartbroken—to work. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Together they canvassed the sidewalk outside their building on 141st Street, equipped with clipboards and pens. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I sit in a corner with my notebook and my pen. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They were nice pens, artist quality and fancy. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When I walked into that holding pen, I was a smooth-skinned, fresh-faced young man. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Can you get a pen and a piece of paper?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The only thing that worried Annabeth was the flock of sheep huddled in a pen at the back of the hut. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, Percy put his pen on the tray. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I sigh, put down my pen, and let the clamor drive away my thoughts. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When they ushered her inside, he set down his pen and looked at her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The old man was bumping through the zoo in the park pickup when he spotted the body clumped outside the buffalo pen. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were papers neatly arranged and ink bottles, pens, sand for blotting the ink, and a stack of maps. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Edward and the shepherds drove the sheep to their pens across the field, Alyce stretched and wiped her wet hands on her wet skirt. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the exception of a very few pencil notations, the entries in the notebook had apparently all been made with a bail-point pen. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

They went downstairs and stepped outside to find a pen of plump black chickens pecking heartily in straw. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Hey, lady, you have a pen and paper I can borrow?" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

My fountain pen was always one of my most prized possessions; I valued it highly, especially because it had a thick nib, and I can only write neatly with thick nibs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Grace dug her pen out of her bag, willing herself to not even look at Max. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It is nothing like the schooling Gogol’s parents have known, fountain pens and polished black shoes and notebooks and good names and sir or madam at a tender age. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bring a pen or pencil and a notebook. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The barn was divided into twelve smaller pens, each with a thick layer of fresh straw for them to bed in. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A sister named Marguerite, who is as beautiful as the golden-faced flower for which she is named, has brought me pen and ink. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The boy began to pat down his black cargo pants, searching the pockets until he came up with a blue-capped pen. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The Wise Masters had established their slave pens and auction block just south of the Skahazadhan, where the wide brown river flowed into Slaver’s Bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One featured a drawing of a pen and a bottle of ink. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We go around and around, and don’t notice that Spike has dug a pen and a pad out of nowhere and is pointing at it. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The man I’d love would look like the poet in a frontispiece, pale and sad with a pen in his hand. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one occasion she lost her fountain pen. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They wanted a realist, so I suggested George Eliot—no, Eliot was actually Mary Anne Evans under a pen name, not a strong male author. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The man made a check on his list with his pen and then pulled a piece of paper out from under the list on his clipboard. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was waving a flag and I was carrying a pen. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

They wrote things on the walls—tiny secret things in ballpoint pen and sprawling screaming things in spray paint. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her handwriting was small and tight, and she pushed down so hard with the black pen she was using that she made indents on the paper. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She unzipped it and dropped The Gold-Bug inside so her hand was free to dig for a pen. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then he tore a word out of the paper, rolled it up, and started back to Wilbur’s pen. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Now, a ballpoint pen is slightly more valuable than a paper clip, but it’s still not worth very much money in the grand scheme of things. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I found the package of Post-it notes, my calligraphy pen, and bottle of ink and after making sure that the ink was tightly closed, I put those in the wagon, too. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the way, I stop by the dollar store and get myself a gold notebook like Daddy’s and a new pack of pens. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

For years this schizoid beast pranced around the goat pen eagerly mounting any female in sight while at the same time it was being mounted by the billys. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of Marguerite’s pen ceases; she, too, waits. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Percy felt for his pen in his pocket. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing but paper and pens in there,” Chronicler said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I ran back across the yards and sneaked around the pony pen to the back of our garage and opened that half door Dad had showed me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He saw her up overhead in a corner near the back of his pen. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He quietly walked away from the girl, toward the closest pen. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She dug out a granola bar wrapper and a pen from underneath the seat, but no notebook. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

My hand swerved off course, gouging the fountain pen’s nib across the paper. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The cattle pens, filled with animals and their waste, are built around a corn mill. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Leave a note at Aunt March’s. Jo, give me that pen and paper.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of it he drew a line and made a motion with his pen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Most of these are things I don't have, but I can do my best with pens and paper and the printer Hannah and I share. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Slowly, so the gate wouldn’t creak, she opened the goat pen and stroked the mother goat’s back. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

We’re all a little nervous, penned up in the holding area, but it’s a good nervous. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Maniac thought he must have climbed out of that buffalo pen right into Heaven. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he wrote in pen; other times in pencil. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Everyone else was on the ground, handcuffed and under guard, most of them gathered near the rabbit pen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He returned to his tent, put his dirty clothes in his crate, got out his pen and box of stationery, and headed to the rec room. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

You are the best pen pal that I have ever had. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The buildings are flat and ugly, and the pens, crammed with panicked, lowing cattle and filthy, snuffing pigs, butt right up against the tracks. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I paused and pressed the back of the pen against my chin. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“To pen a letter if you desire. And to please our Lord and Mother Ermentrude by recording your daily devotions,” she says, and leaves. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I can hear her pen against the clipboard, checking boxes, scribbling her signature. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now I wished I could pen a letter to my school to be read at opening assembly that would tell them how wrong we’d all been. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

SS officers, pen in hand, recorded the number of men leaving. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not know if these hands will become Malcolm's—raised and fisted or Martin's—open and asking or James's—curled around a pen. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

As soon as she began getting ready to go to bed—she would clean her pen and shut her notebooks—I’d begin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these pictures have signatures on them, and we examine them under the light to see if the pen has dented the paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grace gripped her pen and wondered when Max had become such a weakling, with a spine made out of cotton candy. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

So Pancho locked the goat in the shed next door to the henhouse, which was also surrounded by the chicken pen’s wire fence. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since I could pick up a pen, I’ve wanted to be a famous writer. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mojo and Maja are making it hard for me to write—they climb up on my lap and chew at my pen. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She brought out paper, pen and ink, and a sturdy board for Lyddie to write upon. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

More phone calls eventually followed, however, often in the middle of the night, and they also started a pen pal correspondence. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Our homework assignment that night was to write a letter to our new pen pal. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I used to think of the campus as a haven, but now I saw it as a holding pen where my brother would stay until he turned eighteen or could find another family. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Percy didn’t know how Terminus could tell, but he took out his pen. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The damage is light, mostly confined to the U-boat pens and refineries, but two errant bombs land in St. Pauli, a neighborhood known for its theaters and cafés and concert halls. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

And two ballpoint pens—the top halves filled with water in which a cut-out collage of a London streetscape was suspended. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up my pen and started to write. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He chewed the end of his ballpoint pen, then turned over the sheet of paper. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He had taped the clear tube of a ballpoint pen to the threaded end of the needle, and on top of that he had fixed a tennis ball. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Three times a day a parade of dump trucks fills up with this feed and carries it to the cattle pens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

This mainly consists of scribbling with fountain pens on various scraps of paper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He put his pen away, put the folder on the back seat. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Why did you use a pen name? I mean, Quill is a perfect writer name,” Seven said, still in awe. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s my pen pal,” I said, trying not to make a big deal of it. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The assassin hurried to the pen and looked down over the gate. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Chronicler picked up his pen, and Kvothe began to speak before he had the chance to dip it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I sit down in his pen with him, and he crawls all over me, licking my face. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours upon hours he had watched birds from his pen, quivering at the sight of them slicing the sky as recklessly as the lightning he often saw on summer evenings. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was a place where men lived, and it had a stock pen around which the men had built a high fence. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Frankie turned his attention back to the ledger, but by the way he tapped the fountain pen’s cap against his palm, I could tell he was mulling the situation over. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I wrote calligraphy pen and bottle of ink. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was not a daily writer, or even a weekly writer: I picked up a pen only when I had the time and energy to sort through my jumbled feelings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We came armed with notebooks and pens and were ready to spend the entire day transcribing every match and studying as many fencers as we could. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I heard about the strike,” I said as she capped her fountain pen. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The men were then kicked and yelled at, shackled back together, and marched out of the pen. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a dagger clutched awkwardly in her maimed hands, but her back was to the rock now and they had penned her on three sides. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Here is the final piece of your new self,” said Horatio, producing a set of papers, a pen, and a map. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When we got to this last theory, Kat looked at me over the top of her pen. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father had taken a rabbit from the rabbit pen. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one was a shallow box of pens monogrammed with the same logo we’d seen on the sign outside the building. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He flicked his pen against the desktop, leaving little blue pockmarks in the aluminum. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the back was an entire village, with fine houses and pens of cattle and goats. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A broken pen, snapped in half deliberately—or at least I can’t think of a way it could have happened that’s not deliberate—is lying in the hinge of the ink-stained book. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a pen on the raggedy motel table; I reach for it and turn to a blank page. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Ah, that would be my pen. Please bring your own writing utensil in the future, Mr. Jackson.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She steps out from the bookshelves, a pen still in her hand. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I threw my journal and fountain pen back into my satchel. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I know. Anyway, we’ll serve as the sponsors. It should all hap­pen pretty quickly. He said the visa would be good for a year, plenty of time to apply for an adoption petition.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the rabbit pen, footprints showed where groups of Smokies had been moved in and out through the gates, a whole community turned into cattle. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I chose a pen and began to write. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I put pen and pad, inmate rulebook, and blue union diary in my breast pockets, slide my baton through the ring, lock the padlock, and slam the locker door. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I saw that pen and journal, everything fell apart. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He and Mr. Arable and Lurvy and Avery grabbed the crate and boosted it over the side of the pen and up into the truck. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

When I did at last turn my eyes in Wemmick’s direction, I found that he had unposted his pen, and was intent upon the table before him. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He sat down, carefully polished his spectacles and chose a pen. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s no more possible to pen two such herds together than to pen two males of a solitary species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He poked Train Ear in the chest with his pen. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It was already twice my height, and I shuddered to think of the livestock it would pen. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were also pen trays and little drawers, enough so that the children could each have one or two for their very own. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hesitate but then say, “You wouldn’t happen to have a pen, would you?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pen hovers over the numbers, unsure of where to go. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I got up with the sun, found paper and pen, and wrote a letter to the Diamants. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I put the pen down and reread the words. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Getting ready, I checked every window to see if I could find them, to know if they were starting the pen without me. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She feigned to reach for the pen, but instead swung her bound hands in the other direction, slamming them into Xenocrates’s gut. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The bear was reaching into the pen to grab the pig, and the pig was running and squealing. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill then began to talk about his objection to the pen where the dog lives. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He had committed—would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper—the essential crime that contained all others in itself. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We get to the stables, and I return the toad to her pen. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Set back on the land were pens for cattle, sheep and hogs; and around and about were sheds and houses belonging to the men who worked the docks and shipped the livestock. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She presses the front doors closed, smacking away pairs of hands holding pens and parchment pads marked with the newsie house emblem. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I brought out my father’s notebook and pen, and started to write, knowing that when Uncle Abdullah awoke, I would need to hide them again. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at Old Yeller, standing just outside the pen. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other carts were loaded down with silver plate, weapons and shields, bags of flour, pens of squealing hogs and scrawny dogs and chickens. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Rahel’s new teeth were waiting inside her gums, like words in a pen. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pens we used had detachable nibs and it was necessary to dip your nib into the ink-well every six or seven seconds when you were writing. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The faster her pen raced across the page, the faster my heart raced. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

No. Dried apple, pen and ink, a marble, string, wax ... The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“We’ll see this afternoon,” she said, and she turned back to a pile of essays on her desk, spreading a red plague over them with her pen. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He motioned for Chronicler to pick up his pen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Course not. I don’t want a pen pal. We talk here Or we don’t talk at ail.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Tillie promised calligraphy lessons to the person who took the pen and ink, and Bella promised fabric painting lessons to the person who took the tuxedo T-shirt. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write. Now move, Overlander. Eat, don’t eat, but let’s go,” ordered Ripred. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cows have more meat and, locked up in pens, are easier to catch. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could have kept him in my back yard, but to pen up a dog like that is a sin. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was easier to pick at the scabs on my face than put pen to paper. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Genie quickly patted the space beside him on the seat, searching for his pen. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I skim straight down the paper, seeing these words without really reading them, because the phrase that matters most is penned at the very end. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As I slid into the seat behind her, I saw that she had already arranged her colored pens in a neat row above her notebook. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I wish I had a notebook and a pen, Eleanor thought, just to make him feel at home. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I thank her for the directions and Mr. Lee for the pen. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And swivelling round in his chair, he picked up his pen and began to write. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hit you if you’re late, if you have a leaky nib on your pen, if you laugh, if you talk, and if you don’t know things. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“The thing is,” he said, “the pen returns to my pocket automatically, so even if I give it up—” “Not to worry,” Terminus assured him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Even the same crows perched on the fence near the livestock pens. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put the cap on the pen and twisted it shut. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the idea that there were important sections of the books and other sections that didn't deserve the swipe of the yellow pen made his stomach hurt. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He replaced his pen in his inside jacket pocket, turned to his right and asked, "Epiphany, can you answer?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid we don’t have a cockamamie hog pen. I suppose we could build you one though, if you wanted.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

But all he saw was a straight pencil line of canal going violet through a wide shallow valley penned by low, eroded hills, and on until it fell over the sky’s edge. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie stuck the pen in his mouth like a cigar. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

This being told, he tucked his long shirt up inside his belt and strode into the pens for two young porkers. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door pockets yield only an empty can of Red Bull, a leaky pen, and more gum wrappers. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I fumblingly jabbed the pen back in its hole and scooted out, deep-frying in embarrassment. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

During the next three weeks every man, woman, and child in America heard about this funny new word that kids were using instead of the word pen. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond him Lyra could see the other men around the table, with bags of gold stacked neatly, and papers and pens, and glasses and a crock of jenniver. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty of these pens were spread out across the damp grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His ballpoint pen bore the name of a pharmaceutical company. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The inked word “Paris” is blotched, penned, it appears, in haste. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I look at my pen pal assignment: Lena, who sits in the front row and cracks her knuckles. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I thought of the stolen ink pen, hidden in my suitcase. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She takes a little card and a pen from her purse. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next morning, looking down at the pen, you could see there were three new turkeys. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It made her happy just to be near the pig, and it made Wilbur happy to know that she was sitting there, right outside his pen. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I printed and signed my name and passed the clipboard and pen back to him. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

In order to pen their disobedient toddlers and chickens, the women would turn her out of the village to be devoured by the beasts that waited in the woods to forage the Field. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were done, she scored them out with her red pen to make sure that old lines were not recycled for new punishments. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herders roped off alleys to pen their goats, which stared out of the dimness with rectangular pupils. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Different pens, different handwriting, conversations between some writers, arrows to longer paragraphs. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of the first things I did was grab a clean piece of paper and a pen and start a list. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Mo searched his pockets for paper, though all he could find was a shopping receipt and a felt-tip pen. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He gripped the pen so tightly it impressed channels into the tips of his thumb and forefinger. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I showed him Riptide, and explained how it turned from a pen into a sword just by uncapping it. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“The nearby pens are usually okay, but on still nights we make the eejits sleep in the fields.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ink given her was too old/too thick to use and clotted badly in the pen nib. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It is one page, written in Hilly’s fat, curly pen: Hilly Holbrook introduces the Home Help Sanitation Initiative. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Stannis kept her closely penned in rooms above his own, but he did allow her to walk the battlements for exercise. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At one point she must have broken open a pen and spun it around, because if you look closely, you can see small, dried drops of ink all over the walls and ceiling. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Extra clothing, medicine, tooth brush, pens, paper, whatever. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I feel important with a pen in my hand. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt my pen return to my pocket, but Antaeus wouldn’t know about that. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She gave me the Bob Marley cassette and the Walkman, along with a really nice notebook and pen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She appeared surprised by Trevor’s question, but then she reached for a notepad and pen on her desk and handed it to Trevor. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Easy,” I said, thinking of the stolen pen hidden in my suitcase. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The room is full of the sound of scissors slicing and pens gliding across construction paper. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This time when I entered the Archives, there was a young gentleman sitting behind the desk, tapping a pen on a piece of paper that bore the marks of much rewriting and crossing out. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. McGowan ran down his clipboard with his pen, mumbling to himself. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I sat at his desk looking at the clear plastic pen I had loaned him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Used paper she could draw on, empty ink jars, worn-down pen nubs she turned into jewelry. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We get up and walk down the hill to our cars, and when she takes off, I open a notebook and grab a pen from my glove compartment. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Things seemed clear in my head and even when I talked before the crowd, but the words never came out of the pen right. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As Ms. Chenoweth took attendance, he used the cap of a pen to open the envelope carefully. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He would come home, black from the asphalt of the highway, wash himself out by the windmill, then spend the rest of the afternoon doing small, odd jobs around the rabbit pens. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light that came from outside made ordinary objects seem important: a quill pen, a pitcher with milk, an earring, the brass buttons that were part of a straight-backed chair. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The last sound she heard was Fenoglio's pen scribbling over the paper, writing word after word as fast as a weaver's shuttle turning black threads into colorfully patterned cloth.... Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She had but one pen, and this she held in her hand. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So that’s the only reason you drank that awful stuff this morning? So you could steal a teacher’s pen? For money?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But no matter where I looked, my fountain pen was nowhere in sight. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It’s especially cruel to pen up young pigs, for they are very playful and love to run and chase each other. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

During some of the darkest times, when William could barely function, she quietly “took him to work every morning and put his pen in his hand to get him started.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Someone had taken a yellow pen and marked up one of the books. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Frank borrowed a napkin and a pen from a food truck vendor. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She looked at all the colors in her new brush pens, and she could see herself, pink-haired and maybe wearing her favorite green Beatles shirt that Layla had given her but was now lost. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She hands Jamie a pen too, and points to the table. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He slid the clipboard and pen through the space. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“This will be your new pen pal for tonight’s assignment. You’ll have to write this person a note using the writing of ancient Egyptians.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“See,” she said, “most people write the name of the color of the pen they’re writing with.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I doubt whether any hack, under pressure, could pen such atrocious melodrama,” Ignatius observed. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And you, what’s-your-name, Robert? What sort of pens did they teach you to use in California?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was a kind of wild, soaring experience to be able to hold a pen again and look into a book or at a piece of paper with writing on it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He annulled the registrations with a stroke of the pen. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She dragged a ballpoint pen across the tape sealing the Bayside Press box. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Dr. Golan tapped his pen for a moment and then wrote something down. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Mother Ermentrude asks that you mark this receipt for the gold in your purse, which she has put into safekeeping,” she says, holding out a document and a pen. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We waited, and I looked around for a pen so the desk wouldn’t be so scrubbed-clean. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In return, I tell my pen pals about my school, friends, teachers, studies. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Just a minute,” said Francis, laboriously, his words lagging behind the hurried scrawl of his pen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“What’s your name?” he said, placing his shiny shoes across the table and leaning back on the swivel chair, twirling a silver pen. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about it, and I had the revelation that if I was testing out a blue pen, I’d probably write the word “blue.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But he tapped the pen to his lips and replied anyway. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Tillie said, "There are pens that come with ink in a cartridge, Noah, but I will have nothing to do with them." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pens were on chains at the desks. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m...trying”—Sierra scratched furiously at the wooden boardwalk with the ballpoint pen, but only a few broken lines came out—“to make something I can shadowshape with.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There, with the huddled masses, she and her son are herded through cattle pens to be examined by doctors for sickness or disease. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I knew that the pen Ham used would leave permanent marks on leather. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hurried along the tree line, cradling the cigarettes and the pen in my pocket. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Then you think it will go on and on? Nothing will ever hap- pen? “I don’t know. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I made hard-boiled eggs for lunch and drew little faces on them with a black pen. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think it sank in for Travis until early November, when I went out to the pen with Viola so that she could inspect our prospective dinner. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Dimple pulled her hair up into a bun and stuck her pen into it, dropping her gaze. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Also, after we got them penned, there was still the dangerous job of catching the pigs away from the old ones. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was also during this time that we were given school supplies—books, pens, and pencils—and told that we would have classes from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on weekdays. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Very small, on the inside of his left wrist, is my name, Isabella, penned in a really pretty cursive next to a small purple daisy. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Her junk drawer is full of pens, paper clips, scraps of paper, receipts, old notebooks—nothing even remotely interesting. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A holding pen for Fred while he and Jenny Yen negotiated terms for the dog’s ransom. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I find a scented purple pen and start to write about my trip, random thoughts and memories that I can maybe turn into lyrics later. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Her pens rolled onto the carpeted floor, but she didn’t bother picking them up. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The ballpoint pen always appeared back in my pocket no matter where I lost it. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

His hands holding a pen, spitting whatever was coming from his sputtering mind. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“If this is ‘am’ then these must be the ah sounds,” he motioned to the group of characters Chronicler had penned. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I am afraid you do not like your pen. Let me mend it for you. I mend pens remarkably well.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

We trudged over a low rise, through a nearby field, to a little brown shed with a rectangular animal pen beyond it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My cousin TJ comes running into the living room, feather boa in one hand, pen and sketch pad in the other. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Your pen pal, Amy “The theater,” she whispered, “and the Golden Gate Bridge.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Think of what one person can do with pen and paper. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He uncapped his pen and Riptide grew to full length. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

So I take up my pen and write. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There’s a notepad and pen on the table next to the bed, so I scribble a quick message: I was here. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined myself writing longhand, an old-fashioned dip pen stabbing furiously into a bottle of black ink and then scratching with amazing precision across sheets of white paper. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I give Danuta my only pen, so angry that it slaps a little against her palm. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I open up the book the way he asks, and the pages smell like a ballpoint pen. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

She dragged a ballpoint pen across the tape sealing the Bayside Press box. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I use an inky pen to repair some spots on her eyebrows and lashes where the paint has come off, and when we’re done, she looks nearly new. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Six: Wipe the excess ink completely from pen and nib. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother works at Broome Real Estate and Bookmarks. She isn’t home much, but if you have a pen, I’ll give you her number.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On both his hands there were tattoos of daggers drawn with ballpoint pen. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two small pens there, and both of them had big bloody pieces of burlap inside. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She gave him a pad of paper and a pen out of her briefcase in case he wanted to make notes. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

We store the eggs in a musty, falling-down wooden shed next to the cow pen. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

James dropped his pen on the cipher work and tipped his chair back. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I pictured the man as a raging demon, slashing with his pen, consumed with hate, denouncing everything American, extolling everything European or German, laughing at the weaknesses of people, mocking God, authority. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After arranging them carefully, he dipped a pen and looked expectantly at Kvothe. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Across the courtyard from there stood wooden pens holding sheep and pigs and cows. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I put a pen and slip of paper on the counter. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Fountain pens from Paris, chess sets from Iceland, atomic clocks from Austria, jewelry from Yugoslavia, masks from Burma. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Near the temple, which actually was a storefront, were three hog-slaughtering pens. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Brown points at the new notebooks, the neat lineup of pens and pencils, the eraser in the shape of the Dominican Republic. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

This was another small difference between us: Barack could pour his heart out through a pen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Within four days he had set up a small company that was selling cheap plastic ballpoint pens specially imprinted with the word frindle. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last man to be tossed into the pen was Besa. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she put down the spoon, picked up her pen, and wrote: What is love? Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I wondered which tribe my pen pal was from, and what it meant to be from one or the other. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I did have a new pad of Post-it notes and a new calligraphy pen—both of which I had bought with my own money when I got back to Epiphany. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

While I stood in pen 63 a dump truck pulled up alongside the feed bunk and released a golden stream of feed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

On the screen the president signed his name on a piece of paper, using about ten ink pens to get it done. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joon slams the pen down and turns in his seat to fully face me. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Look—here’s a piece of paper and a pen. Count all the doors and windows. List everything blue. Mount an expedition to discover the hot water tank. And leave me alone to work.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t be a pen pal if you didn’t write letters to each other. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Right there,” he said, and handed me a pen from his inside pocket like he had put it there on purpose just so I could sign a program for him. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He stuck the wooden pen in the ink bottle and wiped his fingers on his pants. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt awkward and guilty about avoiding him, as though every sorrow in my universe had spilled out of his pen, and that he was to blame for everything. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They sat across a desk from each other; the man had Shadow’s file open in front of him, and was holding a ballpoint pen. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Armed resistor,” he said to the two cruel pretties who guarded this end of the pen, and shoved her down to the ground among the others. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Ballpoint pens sometimes take a while to get started. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ishtar held the pen poised over the checkbook. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Can I see your notebook and a pen?” he asked. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They marched her to the rabbit pen, where about forty handcuffed Smokies sat inside the wire fence. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Now let’s fly round, and do double duty today, so that we can play tomorrow with free minds,” said Jo, preparing to replace her pen with a broom. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I capped my sword, put the pen back in my pocket. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As I tapped my pen against a notepad, my brain started to babble-storm ideas. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Her red pen gives me an 85, saying I missed three words. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I take out my birthday gift, a package of sparkly pens Mama Ya-Ya has given me. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He pulled out a pen and stretched his arm toward a black-and-white framed picture. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The pen is moving, and the blank page has ink on it for the first time. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Make way, unless you want to spend the night in the pen.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Genie was the kind of kid who kept a small jacked-up notebook and pen in his pocket just so that he could jot down interesting things whenever they came. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I switched the pen to my left hand. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But here, the Governor was going to catch them like dogs and stick them in a pen. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I take the planks up to Shiloh’s pen and make him a lean-to at one end, to protect him from rain. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mechanical man’s movements were so lifelike that its head even turned toward the inkwell as it dipped the pen for more ink. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He carried two shopping bags for Tolkachev, filled with ruble notes, cameras, and special drafting pens and books for Tolkachev's son, an architecture student in Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I shook the pen a few times to get the ink going, and placed a blank page on top of Abuela’s coffee table. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And he took the ball from my hand and held his pen over it. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The Aschheim-Zondek rabbits flopped their ears and tried to hide in the corners of their pens. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I’d drift off into puffy clouds, thinking a boy liked me, let me ride his go-kart, and promised to be my pen pal. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Beneath the drop slot, there are two more stickers—a soccer ball, and a soccer net—along with the word GOAL! in gel pen. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He signs his name with a wobbling flourish, letting the pen drop onto the desk. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The fog wasn’t simply the steamy vapors off the bay caught and penned in by hills, but a soft breath of anonymity that shrouded and cushioned the bashful traveler. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jamison retreated to a smaller table of his own, dipping a pen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Carefully, watching Nehemia laugh as two dogs leapt upon her and buried her beneath tongues and wagging tails, the assassin opened the pen door and slipped inside. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He pulls out a red pen from his backpack. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He finished fifteenth, and was awarded a ballpoint pen, perhaps because he was the youngest player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He groped for a pen and pad of paper; Mr. Sloat handed them to him. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

You can’t hold a pen or a pencil or type on a computer. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The nurse raised her eyes to me as her pen slid through the letters. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“We’ll do the nines then,” I said, rummaging in my purse for a pen. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He showed me many of the cards: “Some people have big dreams, some people have small dreams,” he penned to a girl named Vanessa. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Coloring books and glittery pens and erasers shaped like Noah’s ark. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Mother fiddled with a pen and paper for several minutes, but she wasn’t able to solve any of the first five equations. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ever since she stopped running back and forth between the sisters, delivering their poison pen stories, Vonetta had to work hard for Miss Trotter’s attention. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

On his desk, seven miniature versions of himself ran back and forth carrying pens and stacks of paper. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He gestured for Chronicler to pick up his pen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She stood by the desk and absently replaced the top of her fountain pen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He hops down the stairs three at a time, nearly falling in his rush, scattering his phone and a bunch of pens behind him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When he finally pulled his gaze upward, he seemed almost surprised to find Chronicler sitting across the table, pen poised above his inkwell. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Anyone who is heard using the word frindle instead of the word pen will stay after school and write this sentence one hundred times: I am writing this punishment with a pen. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took it, but my fingers trembled as I lifted the pen. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I pull out the purple ink pen and write: Romeo + Juliet = Me Ten times. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Joon’s hand quivers for a second and the pen veers off the pencil sketch course. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

My hand went to my pocket, where I kept my lethal ballpoint pen, Riptide. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I could sense that the others were secretly laughing at my bumbling efforts, and I longed to throw the stick aside—preferably at them—and show them my skill with a pen. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Opening the gate of the pen, he went inside, “Get along there now,” he said, pushing the woman and her two children out, separating them from the others. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he picked up his pen and wrote a new official entry. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I took out my multicolor pen to write him back. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Weren’t all teachers born behind their desks, fully grown, with a red pen in their hand and ready to grade? The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I pushed myself against the table, trying to conceal the pen in my lap. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a fish from a pile of others heaped in a large wooden pen. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

President Lyndon B. Johnson gives Dr. Martin Luther King one of the pens used to sign the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Police locked the children in open hog pens—girls on one side and boys on the other. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Again, as I get near the pen, I hear soft, happy yips. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was wary, but I threw the pen as far as I could down the hill and watched it disappear in the grass. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The pens are floorless to allow the birds to get at the grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He thought that it might have been the lid to a fancy gold pen. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

But Wilfrid Sheed, an American novelist and essayist, penned a comment just before the match ended that many would later regard as prescient. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Wheezing and whistling, Hen Wen was digging furiously in the soft earth at the far side of the pen, burrowing so rapidly she would soon be out. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

It cannot be accomplished through a landmark court decision, an executive order, or single stroke of the presidential pen. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Retrieving my fountain pen and journal from my satchel, I pretended to take notes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Two ballpoint pens with silent streetscapes and red London buses that floated up and down in them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If there were angels, then bad things wouldn’t hap- pen. “Maybe angels aren’t always meant to stop bad things.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I was putting back some of your pens that I found in my car and I saw them.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the pen that was hanging on a string next to the sign-up sheet and wrote my name on a blank line. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“You said there was a rule about interference,” Celia says, placing down her pen. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I felt my pocket and found my pen waiting. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Hopefully, my mysterious pen pal is still awake. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But instead of putting it down, he ignored the pen and looked up at me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Taking up his Levy Pants ballpoint pen, he began writing on the first sheet of new Blue Horse paper: Dear Reader, Books are immortal sons defying their sires. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There he found an inkwell, a pointer, some pens and pencils, a bottle of ink, some chalk, a bell, two hairpins, and three or four books in a pile. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

This guy with a name like a title leaned over and asked if I could lend him a piece of paper and a pen. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I remembered Chiron saying that Anaklusmos would always return to me, but there was no pen in my pocket. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She was holding an autograph pen and a crumpled poster of Narcissus. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He uses black chalk, pencil, and pen to draw fields and laborers. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He picked up his pen half-heartedly, wondering whether he could find something more to write in the diary. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There was writing paper, ink, pen and pencils. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the silence, I hear the scratching of Marguerite’s pen. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It held a change of clothes, a loaf of trail bread, some jerked meat, a skin of water, needle and thread, flint and steel, pens and ink. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That’s where a group of portable chicken pens sat on the grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Cob swiveled his stool around and peered at where Chronicler sat next to Bast, pen still poised over his paper. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You killed my mother, who had a lion’s heart, and my sister, who laughed like the rain, and my father, who captured truth with a few strokes of a pen. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I tear off a piece of butcher paper, get my pen, and when I’m done writing, I fold the paper twice and walk outside. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then he hands me a red book and a pen. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z