Too bad for him I’ve got plans to check the free exchange spot at the dump this weekend. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Pa thinks it’s something left over from—well, from some other plan for the way the world should be,” said Jesse. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t just drop my plans to be a doctor, could I? Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He handed out copies of the plans for the new design to all the school board members, keeping his back to my father and me the whole time. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone is so excited about Nathan’s announcement that the family check-in stops, and all Mrs. Winters can do is make plans for the baby shower. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This has gone on longer than I planned, so I’m going to repeat the Morgenstern paragraph I interrupted; it’ll read better. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Indeed. How the Sender’s messages accomplish such profound effects, what the particulars of his plan are—anything you uncover may help us find a way to defeat him.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Neither Mendelssohn nor Schumann planned to take over the world with his art, though both suffered for it nonetheless. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Our rent money had been in that roll, as well as the money we had planned to use for renting a wagon and a team of horses. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was a year or so older than his brother Oscar, but they were exceptionally close, and soon after they left school, they went for a long walk together to plan their future. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s an awful lot to take in, this elaborate plan in which I was a piece, just as I was meant to be a piece in the Hunger Games. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It said Mithridates foiled the plans of his killers.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Burkhart said that he went along with Hale’s plan, as he always did. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I have a plan. That's all that any of you need to know.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

For their wanderings, Amanda and Roamer are planning to focus on the James Whitcomb Riley Museum and our local farm and history museum, which is right here in Bartlett and features an actual Egyptian mummy. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She tells us, in fits and starts, about the council’s plan to reset the experiments. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Make it look like you were planning to cross the street all along. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the flagpole could be a plan B when there isn’t the threat of storms, because avoiding tall metal poles is actually a good rule of thumb when lightning may be in the picture.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He would cut him in on the profits, but Tom was a dreamer and could not be trusted with a good sound plan. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could tell myself that I had planned it this way. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

On Monday, civil rights attorneys asked federal judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. to issue an injunction, forbidding the state of Alabama to interfere with Tuesday’s planned march. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not think; I did not plan; I did not plot. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone is going to think you’re planning a drone strike,” she whispered, her voice sharp as vinegar. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We planned to leave first thing the next morning. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Or planned to work on it as soon as the season calmed down. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He’s laughing loudly now and rubbing his palms together, like a villain detailing his plans for world domination. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She could never have made it like a real one—and after all those weeks of planning the very thought of it made her sick. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was like they were planning a space mission or something. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He later conceded that he knew all along Denman’s plans were foolhardy, but Tenzing, too, was powerless to resist the pull of Everest: Nothing made sense about it. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Evidently, since it could not think of any better plan for itself, it was ready to try a rabbit hole to save its life. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say, “I don’t know. Why? You planning a long walk?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“The Creators want the best of us for whatever it is they have planned. But we have to earn it.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She bought a second bakery and plans to sell tricolor cupcakes and Uncle Sam marzipan. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It meant delaying her plans to join her brother Hans at the University of Munich for a whole year. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The second,” he says, clearing his throat, “is to make sure you hold on, because we have, a plan.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“This is our medieval battlefield. I plan on dying with a rake or hoe in my grip.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was told to reconsider my plans, since I was unqualified to do crystallographic work. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I could just go to the main entrance and wait for her, because that was our plan. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But Mexico. We could slip in, no papers. Lay low. I’ve got a plan to get there, too. I’ll sign on as a porter. And I’m learning Spanish.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was planning to move to the Upper Peninsula with some friends and, as he put it, live off the land. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Everything seemed to be going exactly as planned. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Us boogeyfolk know what you magicians are planning, and we don’t want any part in it. Please don’t force us, I’m begging you.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I oohed and aahed at wedding dresses and helped plan the bachelorette activities. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At the same time, I believed that I could no longer remain under the regent’s guidance if I rejected his plan for me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I plan to be around for a while, so get used to this.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I can't confirm it, but I think he's planning something else. Something big. Something that doesn't involve Darin. But how can we save Darin and take on another mission? We don't have enough men.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I said probably not, because I wanted to be a cheetah or manatee or dog scientist, but I would keep bats in mind as a backup plan. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We didn't make plans to sneak out and meet. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“The question, Professor, is what exactly you plan to do about it?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

‘So we take off with no plan,’ Calypso said. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we hear what the plan is first?” said the Old-Green-Grasshopper. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Barry had planned to stay up with Dad, to help him keep an eye out for leaks, to watch over Cleo and Mom. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he’d been elected president, he could put his plan into action. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

For a time, she sat by the window and thought out the plan she had gone to sleep considering. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a plan! Can you slow down the monster?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It is as good a plan as any, and the crowd might not be as thick on the far side. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If I stick to the original plan of building my house, I think I can still convince her not to take that job. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

And then she considered his plans for the water in the spring, and Tuck’s voice saying, “They’d all come running like pigs to slops.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My blood ... friend’s blood .. “I don’t plan on doing much bleeding,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The day after my father died, we drove to a South Side funeral parlor—me, my mother, and Craig—to pick out a casket and plan a service. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“But it is important that you understand that the chances are not in your favor, and you have to have some backup plans.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The forest was full of deer, and I already had drawn plans on a piece of birch bark for deadfalls, pit traps, and snares. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, it was completely my idea, and I planned on telling her so. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He had made me feel dumb in my uniform, like a bozo carrying out someone else’s ill-conceived plan. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

David Herold, Lewis Powell, and George Atzerodt lounge on the chairs and perch on the edge of the bed as Booth talks them through the plan. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He planned it all on the fly, made it up as we went along. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We saw no pigs that morning, and around noon, we met back at the cars as planned. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

On the day of the election everything went according to plan, in perfect order. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re finally going to tell us the attack plan,” says Uriah, looking eager. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And now, if she plans to stay a while, May. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“First, we need to come up with an actual plan and then make sure we follow it,” says Elsie. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was a sensible plan and made me feel better. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And that was why I came up with our new plan, how me and Rondell were gonna get money and replace what we took from the petty cash, send it back to the Lighthouse. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He told her he was planning to write a book that would prove how the Soviet players cheated in chess, and the tapes contained his thoughts on the matter. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And here we were now opening the lid of a sealed jar, and all the anticipation of a tomorrow planned a thousand yesterdays ago came skittering to our feet like slick-shelled beetles. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Unless you’re planning a trip to London, forget you ever saw them. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be honest, it did not sound like much of a plan to me. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plan was that Samuel would go first and establish himself as a Broadway actor. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now he would soon be free with the revised plans of the attack upon Redwall Abbey. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I have an ache to be making a plan and hammering on boards again. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Each family's escape plan from Iran would have amounted to disastrous consequences if it didn't go as planned. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She heard Howe’s top officers discussing what sounded like a plan for a surprise attack on Washington’s army. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The unidentified perpetrators planned to injure him, drug him, or hold him hostage on the day of the race, preventing him from riding and leaving Howard and Smith little time to find a qualified jockey. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Charlotte, vaguely, “I don’t really know. But I’m working on a plan.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I plan to tell her over and over, until one day, at a weak moment, she will say yes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was a man who studied crime and planned his career. His brain might have given science valuable aid.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He went back to his room and desperately tried to devise a plan. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“You can get the advance battle plans. I was afraid we were just going to have to pick you up Thursday night and fill you in then.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

She told me, rather officiously, that the two of them had plans and would not be in until late. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Galileo’s discovery of the moons of Jupiter was not like checkmate, or winning a race: he did not plan for it or see it coming. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So I went to my Class Dean with a clever plan. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

H ere the work of the coming week was planned out and resolutions were put forward and debated. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

This was part of his and Wood’s game plan. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The summer I graduated from high school, my sister Princesse planned to marry. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Abdulrahman and Ahmad often ran up the smooth stone stairs of the lookout tower by their home, pretending they were spotting invaders, sounding bells of warning, planning their defenses. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“So I hear that you plan to stop the students from using their new word. How goes the battle?” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am? The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unknown to all these men who risked their lives to fight great battles—men who deserved to enjoy the peace—plans will soon be hatched to seek revenge for the Union victory. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Zoey already knows The Sandlot show didn’t go as planned because I texted her last night, but I didn’t go into details. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Big enough to plan for the day when I would no longer live here. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pushes on her glasses, considers a new plan. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But slowly, our paths wind closer and closer until Saturday morning when she says, “I’ve got an all-day pageant planning meeting today. We’re gearing up for open registration. There’s tuna salad in the fridge.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The King of the Dead knew that it was he who had planned to carry off Persephone, and he held him fast. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abraham Lincoln ate breakfast with his family and planned his day. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he probably wondered whether other guests in the box were the type who would pose a threat to his plans. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a pity that we had not some better organised plan of attack, for even at the moment I wondered what we were to do. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

My first chance for escape came eight days after Polly died, as Mother and Grandfather discussed their plans for the day. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all their planning and caution with the Ocarrion raid, it had still blown up in their faces. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I told you. Athena always, always has a plan.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They planned to spend the night in the bed Garrett had offered Booth the night before. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped writing his observation notes in Italian and started writing them in Latin—he was planning to publish. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"If my father makes plans for war, I must know of them. I am not ‘any man,’ I am heir to Pyke and the Iron Islands." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She has big plans for the younger ones: graduations, proms, college, professions. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

That is what we have planned for him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In November 1777 Howe began planning a battle that would defeat Washington so thoroughly that he would be forced to surrender, and the Revolutionary War would end in a major British victory. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What I want to know is whether or not you have any specific plans for protecting our children.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bernard told me later that he thought he might never see us again—he thought we were crazy, that the plan to study the chimps was highly dangerous. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He knew there was no one because he had planned. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I plan to wear purple to your college graduation!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“It was the plan all along, ever since you were little.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Our major plan, which we didn’t even have to discuss, was to get back together with Edmond and Isaac and Osbert by hook or by crook. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I know. You can’t plan for feelings. Like with Percy, and your future - you can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I’ll bet Count Olaf has cooked up some plan to get our money, but I don’t know what it could be.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

That would give me one more panel than I'd even planned for. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Union leaders were not to be completely shut down, but the union was forced to scale back its plans, with separate parades for blacks and whites. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The business plan for a community development nonprofit is nestled in my carry-on briefcase, alongside a photo of that sneaker and its jumble of shoelace. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he got up he looked in the mirror and inspected the expression he planned to wear. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I like to see things coming. I like to plan ahead.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was already planning to build a new threading frame. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shrugged, not ready to let her in on the plan yet. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The plan was based on the belief that Admiral François de Grasse’s powerful French fleet, with 3,000 troops, was heading from France to New York to aid in the attack. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were asked to stop the planned March. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Considering the human beings she was surrounded by, believing in a squirrel seemed like an increasingly reasonable plan of action. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I need to come up with a plan. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I know at some point we’ll be forced to reenter its depths, either to hunt or be hunted, but for right now I’m planning to stick to our little beach. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I would sit there forever—that was my plan. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I still don’t understand why Peeta and I weren’t let in on the plan,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the fuselage—the cockpit where he and Toby had spent countless afternoons, pretending to fly and then, when they got too old for make-believe, planning to leave—was curled in on itself. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Now we were supposed to get enthusiastic about long-range marriage plans, while lying here in bed watching our shoes mildew. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You plan on providing him an olive for his martini next?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson’s plan to have the boys row themselves quickly into fighting form ran into trouble starting the day after his fiery speech. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Louis had earlier organized a plan to capture leopards who made trouble around people’s homes and release them in one of the national parks. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the following weeks William planned and sketched and eventually settled on his final design. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you want to see the new plans for the house?” he asks. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The day she clips her way out of her cocoon, the only sound she plans to hear is a deafening cheer. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it marvelous? It’s perfect for our plans.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He’d wanted me to stop Zero so that I could trigger his plans. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“He wants me to give up the organizers and tell him if anything else is being planned. Apparently, he thinks some adults are using us to forward their radical freedom agenda.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Together they devise a plan to persuade Goupil’s to champion their favorite artists not only in Paris but also in The Hague and in London. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, I could see no reason why they should not permit me to change my plans after the renewal was granted. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“Change of plan,” growled Mad-Eye, who was holding two enormous, bulging sacks, and whose magical eye was spinning from darkening sky to house to garden with dizzying rapidity. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s only the middle of October. He wasn’t planning on the game officially starting for another three weeks. Maybe there aren’t others out there yet.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“This is summer vacation. I must admit I had not planned to eat crayfish on my vacation, but I am rather getting to like it. “ My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man told a New York City operator that people were planning to kill their children before the Martians could get them. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She even convinced Grandma Post, who had been planning tuna salad on toast, had already mixed a dessert for the two of us—pistachio pudding. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her plan is to jog casually until she’s out of sight and then flee. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He conquered Egypt in 331 BCE and mapped out the plan for a new capital city that would bear his name. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

In retrospect, using my fingers to spread the resin wasn't the best plan. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I planned that we would spend our nearly last Saturday in California traveling across the bay to San Francisco to ride a cable car and see Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf, and the Golden Gate Bridge. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her mind, she planned them out, sewn from scraps of moosehide that were left over from the summer. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“This is a new, challenging lesson plan. One step at a time.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Now we must make our plans about the other things.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way that Raymie imagined her plan unfolding was that her father would be sitting in some restaurant, in whatever town he had run away to. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

From that moment in the meadow Kit ceased to plan at all. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Watching from across the street, a nervous David Herold knew this was not part of the plan. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If the plan works, we will have,” Harry continued calmly. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I already felt bad about my plan to sneak around behind their backs. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

This plan was not thought entirely without merit by our number, and we spake of how best to effect it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It had not been in my plan to listen to him, but my curiosity was piqued and I straightened up to give him my attention. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too bad Team Apptitude wasn’t there to help me come up with a plan. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I start to get up and then realize they plan to roll my hospital bed directly there. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the books in the world. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is showing us that the crowning ceremony angered him, and that his power is not diminished by it. We will see what else he plans to do.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The rest of Nichols’ weekend was a fog of anger and sadness: what right did Dr. King have to upend her career plans? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The boys finally had a plan to win the challenge. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he described it, it had been two parts frustration to one part reward: He’d spend weeks planning a community meeting, only to have a dozen people show up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My plan suddenly didn’t feel so brilliant anymore. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Hell,” he said, “I came over here planning to ask you, for the hundredth time, to marry me.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely in Hartford, or perhaps even here in Wethersfield, she would find willing buyers, even though she had not yet worked out a plan for approaching them. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

But his commitment to a new order was demonstrated only after his inauguration when a march was planned in Cape Town to protest police brutality. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I plan to stay in the infirmary for as long as I can. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nay, I will not. I do not mean to argue. I mean to—to tell you of a plan I have. One that will please you,” Ranofer added quickly. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

This is his theory: the owl we held as a temporary captive memorized our floor plan so it could find its way back through a window and consume her soul. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran plan after plan around in my mind. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thoughtful planning, a belief in equality and diversity. Truly seeing everyone as an equal. They passed that on to my mother, and she passed it on to me.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure he’ll come,” the Count said; he was privy to all the Prince’s plans, and Buttercup was well aware of this. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They looked at toys for a quarter, shoes for two dollars, rifles for forty-seven dollars, and even plans for a whole house for one thousand, eight hundred and seventy-four dollars. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mutations in genes that specified the basic elements of the body plan were more difficult to identify, since the mutations sharply decreased the survival of organisms. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I wondered if he would approve of my plan to ride to Seattle with Edward Cullen. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure,” I said, since I had no plan. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Was this part of the plan? And Butler almost getting killed—all part of the plan?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

As always, Grant’s battle plan is simple: Get in front of Lee. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

We probably would have gone on making plans forever if I hadn’t met William Black that night, and learned what I’d learned. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know they were planning on going down for the birth, but I guess it makes sense. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Well away from the flight plan the pilot had filed. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was litter about it, an unkemptness, a rundowness, a lack of plan; no flowers, and bits of paper and scraps of wood scattered about on the ground. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every part of the concert was carefully planned and scripted, but Kaira had never said that before. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was his plan that got Sticky into this mess—twice. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

That had been the plan, but now, it seemed dumb. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Stump grinders are generally not part of the plan. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Now she was planning to take advantage of the rare day off and do some errands. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Both Vonetta and Fern gave out three pages sooner than I had planned. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can you plan where to go, and if you do know of a place you think will welcome you, where is the money to arrive? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had picked it up mainly because it was a story about runners, and I was planning on going out for track. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“And what have you planned if it does not work?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

One Saturday my mom was planning for a big family celebration and she made a huge bowl of custard and jelly and put it in the fridge. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, a small group of friends and associates, people of power and influence who believed in equal rights, was planning a campaign to marshal public opinion. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Baba was filling Thaya Jaan in on plans for the carnival and how he was inviting local churches, synagogues, temples, and interfaith organizations to attend. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even tell what Frankie was planning, and that unsettled me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

No one disturbed her, and she used to lie there on Beth’s little red pillow, planning stories, dreaming dreams, or thinking tender thoughts of the sister who never seemed far away. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could tell from Ron’s and Hermione’s faces that they were scared; he was not particularly confident himself, and yet he was sure the time had come to put their plan into operation. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“That may not be God’s plan for you.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t plan to lie, but that’s what I do anyway. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s the first gift I’ve gotten from someone who is not my mom or my dad, and I plan on keeping it preserved on my nightstand, pretty paper untouched. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her anxiety is a quiet hum and not the heavy-metal band you’d expect, given her current plan, and given the future that awaits her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Barb decides to plan a second wedding ceremony for she and her husband on Mommies tonight at 8:30 on Channels 7 and 10. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Talking to them, laying down the plans, I had deliberately sat on a bed away from them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We just have to change our plan a bit. Everyone, stay at the perimeter of the festival. No one actually goes inside,” Vanessa said. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mary Miller was an angel and God did have a plan for me, like Mrs. Merritt had said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He started walking again, nattering on and on about plots and conspiracies and battle plans and secrets, but truth be told, my mind drifted. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, however, he arrived unexpectedly to examine the plans. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I sleep as soon as my head touches the pillow, but wake earlier than I planned. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

One of their first tasks, Doss told me, was to draw up an "earthquake and volcano hazards plan"– a plan of action in the event of a crisis. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the fall, she applied to the school, with Fisk as her backup plan. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Beetee’s glad we find the plan hard to follow, because then our enemies will, too. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

That was where I planned to go the next day to look for chimpanzees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mayor Nagin, who had planned to reopen the city, now canceled those plans. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

George toyed with telling Mom about the plan, but she remembered Mom’s words: one step at a time. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

We even built a little bench to sit on inside the fort, and we had a plan to paint animal spots on the walls. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I explained to Mr. Loomis why I had not planned to grow wheat—that is, that I had no way to mill it for flour. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I had no choice but to continue with my plan and face its unknown perils. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Of all the places to choose! I didn’t plan it like this. Aren't you going to invite me home with you?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

As time goes on, the boys feel new confidence at how easily their plan is working. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Unfortunately it’s also the best plan we have,” she points out. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I am playing a game opposite Madoc, and while I can spin out plans and schemes, if I can’t accurately guess his, I am sunk. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The architects did plan to come to Chicago for the January meeting, he told her, “but reluctantly; their hearts were not in it.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She imagined them nursing quiet plans for her wedding; her mother would think of a caterer and colors, and her father would think of a distinguished friend he could ask to be the sponsor. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Let’s make plans over Thanksgiving break,” she says. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

And because they—or their customers—have made all the important decisions in advance, they have to worry only about the means, rather than the ends, while carrying out this plan. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, he came up with the plan, but it isn’t about that. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

His plan wasn’t fully fleshed out on what he’d do when he got to London, but he was sure he’d find a flight going to Peshawar from there. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

A few months later, a reporter from Collier’s magazine by the name of Bill Davidson contacted Gey—he was planning to write a story identical to the one Berg had proposed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It didn’t work out quite the way I planned it, though. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She had gone to Master’s room herself, after all, and she must have known about Mama’s plan. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But she had not understood being excluded from the family’s plans to travel to Calcutta that summer to see their relatives and scatter Ashoke’s ashes in the Ganges. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Faced with the obvious folly of his original ambition, to walk five hundred miles to tidewater, he reconsidered his plans. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before a regatta, the cox receives a race plan from the coach, and he or she is responsible for carrying it out faithfully. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

To come up with a good plan, I need a place to think. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

"So," she said, "what are your plans for the holidays?" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her second surgery didn’t go as well as planned, and a third had to be pushed back to the spring. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Once I was sure all three of them had received my message, I initiated the next phase of my plan. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Instead of throwing away the fragments of the mirror as she had planned, she folded them into an old rag and put the rag into the empty trunk. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a brief moment I thought I had a plan. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“My plan is to make sure everything is just perfect for your wedding,” says Haymitch. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My father has always stressed the importance of diversification, and I like to think that I’ve acquired a diversified portfolio from my hydration business—a portfolio I plan to turn for a profit on eBay. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“He must have been planning this festival all along. It isn’t easy to get paperwork approved to do something in the neighborhood,” my uncle Carlos complained. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The plan for the ride home was to drop Stephanie off at her house first; Sean would sleep over at my place. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Jo Ann Robinson, E. D. Nixon, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and others continued to meet with city and bus officials, consistently pressing for black drivers, courteous treatment, and a revised seating plan. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He planned to get another one set up once he rebuilt the chicken coop. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Our second plan required help from one of the babies. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t so good at devising plans on the fly. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And into my mind, once I let myself hear it, a plan came. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Still, after the parole board set me off, my mind wandered toward escape plans. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Back before Frank had plans for a cottage. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The plan before Max left was made by Dr. Schillinger and involves paying off the mailman, a man Dr. Schillinger knew before the war. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He’d been dreading it, but Thomas knew it was time to tell them the last part of his plan. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She had plans to apply to Berkeley next year, but they weren’t talking about going up for a campus tour anymore. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Louis Lippo said, “Mr. Trask is from New England. He plans to settle here. He’s been west before though—in the army, fighting Indians.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

With a little care and planning it’ll be the Ormaie Gestapo HQ that goes up like Vesuvius, and not this barn. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“So it’s you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mom’s birthday was September 22, so my dad finally gave in and made plans for us to go to Panamá. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He planned to write at least two more. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom says the idea just popped into her head out of nowhere, but the more she considered it, the more it began to sound like a good plan. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The next evening, while they prepared supper, he told the blind man he was planning to go. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

A letter was dispatched telling the Fellowship Office in Washington that he enthusiastically endorsed my change in plans. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I would have to put all of my plans on hold. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

This was, she told herself, the broad strokes of what she had planned out all those years ago. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had never planned to think any such thought. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calling feels too risky, but I’ve texted David and plan to meet him again. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Fred had ruined the moment, but as the three of them headed back to the hotel, Armpit had had it all planned out. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I planned to ask her about it one day. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The trip was a blur, and tougher than they had expected; the truck’s cab was smaller than they’d planned, so it was harder to rest. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, what are your plans?” she asked Bridget and Fiona. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was planned now and he would have to go through with it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now the planned flight would have to cross parts of Siberia where it might already be snowing. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The clock read 2:40.I needed a solid plan, but I didn’t have the luxury of sitting down to think one up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she saw how the separate news items might connect, and understood what everyone else must know and what the hospital administration was planning for. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We planned to quietly visit the camp and talk with people about their lives. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Do you have a plan, Beatrice?” my father says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It had been a wonderful plan when the sun was high. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So the Death Eaters were able to pass from Borgin and Burkes into the school to help you.... A clever plan, a very clever plan...and, as you say, right under my nose.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

If Cade didn’t get drafted into the big leagues in his senior year, we had plans on going to college together, and Dunston was the place. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He’s going to make me pay for what I was planning to do. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was a time when she looked on his plans and prophecies as the crazy shoutings of a child. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Phelps told the mayor that he had it on good authority that if Grabarek wanted to speak at a rally planned for that evening at St. Joseph’s Church, he was welcome to come. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Such grandiose declarations were commonplace during Ceaujescu’s reign, for his master plan—to create a nation worthy of the New Socialist Man—was an exercise in grandiosity. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The night they got him, he told me he had been planning to get that for you, that particular brand. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Having a game night in a secret location means a lot more planning and strategy than meeting up in someone’s basement. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I’m guessing that my father is working on one of the booby traps we planned out a couple of Saturdays back—which I’m sure will turn out awesome. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Garfield stood on his porch and spoke about his views and plans for governing. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It is a solitary, somewhat premature version of the future she and her husband had planned when he was alive. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

However, she did not return to his side without plans of her own. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Now that he knew she was alive, what did he plan to do about it? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Leo had trouble getting his bearings, but he guessed that was part of Hazel’s plan. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He had ideas for writing a book about race in America and planned, he said, to find work that aligned with his values, which most likely meant he wouldn’t end up in corporate law. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Coach reads to us from The Art of War: A winning strategy is not about planning, he says. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“Though Lord willing, I plan to hang around for a lot longer.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

His original plan for the volume was to include only fifty-two games, but as he continued to make corrections and also to play in more events, he eventually added eight more games. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At breakfast, Raesa and Tulan announced that they were going hunting, for they planned a celebration that night and hoped to bring back a deer. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kyle saw Haley Daley dash down another set of steps into the basement, to what the floor plan called the Stacks. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

When he heard about Klan plans for a union-busting rally, he fed the information to a union friend. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But before he had even started to plan a possible counterattack on a boggart-Voldemort, a horrible image came floating to the surface of his mind... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Okay! Here’s the plan: We’ll drop behind this hill to be out of sight of the gym, then circle around those smaller hills and sneak up from the back.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were plans for a swinging, louvered door at the front that the men hadn’t yet installed. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Using word of mouth, brokers in Seoul offered “planned escapes.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But what really gets me is that in order for Mr. Daniels to come up with this plan, he must have thought of me outside of school—when he didn’t have to think of me. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, he planned an insurrection, in which he and his followers were to kill all the white people in Charleston, South Carolina, and free the slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s the thing: every time I bring Sacred food in the woods, I plan to return the bowl, wash it, and put it back in the cabinet. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Savannah and I will set up quarterly tax payments and establish a trust to protect your savings and start your college account. And, of course, a retirement plan.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Protocols, published in 1903, purported to be a record of a secret meeting of powerful Jews planning world domination. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Further, there will be evidence that prior to the robbery there was a plan, or conspiracy, to rob the store. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, as usual, just as soon as that plan was made, problems began to develop. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first the plan was to tell each other ghost stories ’cause it was so dark and eerie walking the long stretches of abandoned beach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Gather all the senior officers. I want a meeting as soon as Reyna has left on her fool’s quest. There will be a few changes in the legion’s plans.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

For the bombing plan to work, we needed an emergency landing field closer to Japan on their way back. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beetee calls us over, and it turns out that during all those hours of fiddling with wire, he has indeed come up with a plan. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I understood the monstrousness of his plan, but nothing could lessen my joy at the prospect of obeying. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, same game plan,” Coach says once more as I sit down on the other end of the bench and the rest of the team takes the court. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever the soldier—even after all these years—the man had a plan, and he needed help. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m planning on sending for them soon as I can,” he says. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Seems me and Daddy were never a part of Mama’s plan, though those weren’t the exact words that came out of her mouth. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Last time I told her I planned to skip lunch to finish Uniforms of the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs: A Guide, she picked me up and carried me here. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The truth has a way of changing a person’s plans. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

We gave every indication that I was going to testify so that they would spend their time planning their cross-examination. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow, when you are better, we will come up with a plan.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I planned to stay on the Weylin plantation long enough to see Alice leave, to find out whether she would be able to keep her freedom this time. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He thought himself too dull to read God’s plan, thought he was not meant to know God’s plan, a servant only. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father says it’s never too early to plan for the future.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

For a split second, Frank doubted his plan. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He made plans to keep himself sane, built castles of hope in the dark. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Six full days exactly, if everything goes as planned. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Their plan was to hold us off at their defense lines, to be the rock that would break the sword of our attack. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things were infinitely worse because of Denmark and all his plots and plans for freedom. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She refused to be one of those girls who gave up on everything they’d been planning simply because a boy entered the picture. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The two young people exchange grins, as if they share an understanding about Ranee's plans. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After all, she'd had these plans for Lily since she was born. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And it was at that moment that I began to plan my trip to Penikese, with him or without. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She also helped him very much behind the scenes with plans for the church and the community. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She swung her backpack onto her bed, planning to do homework and to try to get her mind off losing what felt like everything important in the span of a few days. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Park planned to choose a poem that rhymed, so it would be easier to memorize. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

What he was planning to do was only one kind. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“The captain has special plans for you,” the navigator tells me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I don’t think the lesson went the way Sister Mukumbu had planned. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just in case they didn’t volunteer the information she was curious about, she had a plan. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She planned to have a boiled egg for breakfast. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fleming once more elicited an account of how Hickock had fully informed Wells of his violent plans for the Clutter family. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chalmers has been a steady donor to Christian causes, and he bought a plot of land in Oregon, where he plans to build a retreat center. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A plan began to unfurl in his mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Like when I let him plan my birthday and he took me to a concert of his favorite band. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

They were breathing and eating and talking and singing and not at all making plans to die. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I cracked the door to let some of the shower steam out so the mirror would clear up, as I planned to examine every bump and hair on my face. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Dari cleared his throat and looked uncomfortable, but we decided to go with the Saturday plan, just in case. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I turn back, planning to look again, to start tearing at the ivy if I have to, but Boomer doesn’t budge. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her tight tank top tells me she has no plans to hide them either. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

My mother asked me one morning what I planned to do now that I had completed school. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me that he didn’t have a plan for his life so much as he had a pattern. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Not defend myself? But—” Kira had planned to bow again, but forgot in her urgency. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next few days bring a flurry of activity as the event is planned. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The trip to Stockholm was planned for January. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This morning, according to Rob’s grand plan, we would climb from Camp Two to Camp Three and spend a night at 24,000 feet. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She cleaned the flat and looked over the food in the house and planned their supper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at ’em and said, “These ain’t no good for what you planning on doing. You need traveling shackles. I got some you can buy cheap.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

And that’s when I realize I actually did have a plan. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

His reaction delighted Mrs. Ashida, for she knew he would not approve her plan unless he meant it; he was a gentleman. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You know, Thief Lord," he snarled in Scipio's direction, "you can't possibly hatch any brilliant plans, because you're nothing more than a clone of your father." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Starrett recalled being moved by Burnham’s frequent admonition: “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When Peaches heard about Big Joe’s plans she was madder than a junkyard dog with fleas. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then, you should have this letter and can hopefully make plans to be at your grandma’s house. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I maybe already did wreck things. Besides, she’s leaving. She wouldn’t want to. I’d be too much of a complication for her plans.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She does the smile with her mouth and I think maybe she likes this plan. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I have plenty of time to think of everything that could go wrong with my plan. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard and I have our own secret plan for the money, if Mom wins it. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

This new surge underscored for Burnham the urgency of completing his plan to pipe Waukesha spring water to the fair by Opening Day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And for the second time in twenty-four hours Fadi explained his half-baked plan. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“A few bites? So you’re planning on eating that mountain of cake by yourself?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

After that, she started talking about her plans for college, which I had heard before, so I put down the phone, went to the bathroom, and when I came back, she was still talking. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And how you plan on getting rich, Mr. Trump? You think you could catch that many fish?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, well! I must say, I am surprised to hear they are progressing so rapidly. This news changes my plans topsy-turvy.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He planned each detail of the little excursion in advance. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately for Napoleon, his plan to exclude English products failed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

For a moment he felt as if he, too, had betrayed her by having his own plan: to get a postgraduate degree in America, to work in America, to live in America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We came down to the breakfast table armed with our plan. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But I always managed to forget my guilty feelings every time we sat down to plan our next month’s adventure. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“We knew when it was planned for, and we knew that the Oakland Police Department was going to use their full riot gear in order to stop it.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

By not telling Father Olufemi about his plans, Kamau was helping him, but also giving up the one thing he had fought so hard to hold on to—his younger brother. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He believed what he was doing was the musical embodiment of God's master plan for humankind, a recognition of the intricate mathematical beauty of the natural order as ordained by the Almighty. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

While they were home discussing this, I was planning to go to Central High. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Claimed he needed a place to hold all his master plans. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

"We ought to plan something," yawned Miss Baker, sitting down at the table as if she were getting into bed. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The plan amounted to a bureaucratic end run around Brown. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We’re canceling our plans to run around the city so Arthur can be a Super Tourist, and he’s just going to help me study instead. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

So in the end we settled on a plan to put her theory to the test the next time Madame came to Hailsham. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want her to plant it back where she found it. ’Tis best they believe their plan is still secret. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In early 2004, Governor Rod Blagojevich announced a plan to mail one book a month to every child in Illinois from the time they were born until they entered kindergarten. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He would have mentioned it, if he did—he might even have stopped his plans. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t planned for children, and the men from San Juan convinced a few older girls to watch the little ones outside so that the meeting could proceed with the least amount of disruption. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

At that moment a plan flashed into her mind, perfect, down to the last detail. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I arrived home at four, just as I had planned, opened the door, and called out, “I’m home!” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

US space officials dismissed the Soviet's plans to put a woman in space as more about besting the United States than any scientific interest in women in space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

When everything was ready, the plan included forty different surgical procedures. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Her mother was in town visiting, and the two of them had planned numerous shopping excursions for Saturday and Sunday. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of his three plans had reached fruition a lot earlier than he had expected. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“He was nervous about it. He wanted to plan what he would say.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

What it is is decisive, and if you pay attention to the street plans, all laid out, the City can’t hurt you. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gyptians had planned to stop and rest their dogs, repair a couple of sledges, and get all their weapons into shape for the assault on Bolvangar. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“What does this friend of yours plan to do about it?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He unrolls the plan from its tube and spreads it out on the dining table, securing the corners with paperback books he grabs off the bookcase. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Casing the joint” means observing a particular location in order to formulate a plan. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

His plans were to have a “delightful holiday.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Father’s plan was different; he wanted Harry to be a businessman and one day take over the cotton gin and the pecan orchards and join the Freemasons, as he had. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Kyril Montana was also a person who usually traveled with a plan. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That wasn’t part of our plan, and neither were replacement batteries, even though they obviously should have been. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had an entire speech planned out in my head. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I planned and changed outfits at least a dozen times. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Moreover, my planning for the event was complicated by the uncertainty as to the numbers involved. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

They had even planned to bring their library with them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

That was all he needed to see to start devising plans. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

From neighborhood to neighborhood and from school to school, black children and youth whispered the plans to one another, made their poster board signs, and waited with excited anticipation. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“That was, all I could do. I tried to give him nutrition, and I tried to lower his fevers when they were high. I was basically taking care of somebody without a ^ game plan,”. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you still planning to visit in December?” he asks. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I plan to decline her coffee offer, but she's laid out two cups and her good china, blue and white, the famous style from the city of Delft. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe my dad even figured out what I’ve been doing, that I’ve been planning on taking his boat, and they want me to give up on looking for my mother. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then my parents told me they had a plan that might just help change everything. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

A few more tankards, and perhaps Abel’s plan might not seem quite so mad. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Trampita came up with a plan one day to catch fish and sell them for a nickel apiece to kids in our neighborhood. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They’d been vacations for her, breaks from intense work on plans for the rally. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to get up, walk out, and pick up Susie at her house; continue with the plans he’d been excited about for weeks. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She wondered what he would do if he knew that she was planning to run away next spring. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She was forty-three years old and hadn't planned on having another child. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If I could use Luke’s anger, get him to talk so everybody could hear how crazy his plans were ... The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once camp has ended, hopefully my brain will be supercharged enough to come up with a plan to raise more than enough money for Fig. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He was determined to have a hand in moving the country’s technical establishment into the forefront of wartime planning. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Why couldn’t I have been around while you were still deciding? You think it’s easy for me to throw away all my plans just like that?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Kids I was trying to protect. And I didn’t think her plan would work, to come back here. I didn’t know what to do.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She and Loretta have planned a shorter run today, twelve miles. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They would inevitably surface within a rectangle of barbed wire, would find themselves greeted listlessly by dying Russians who spoke no English, who had no food or useful information or escape plans of their own. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new plan stuck close to that basic strategy, but with a twist. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The jail you plan for me is the one in which you will rot, Isay. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They complemented one another: Stanton, the thinker, was burdened with family responsibilities; Anthony, the organizer, was a master at the logistics of executing petition campaigns and planning events. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“So, I’ve got my mom’s car, and I was wondering if maybe we could do WaHo after school? Then we can hammer out the plans, and I can drive you home afterward.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

On this particular day, two days after my trip to the morgue, I decided to call Lucas and see what he had planned. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“And killing people? That’s a nice little part of their plan?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Her plan was to make it an outlet for some of the native handicrafts from areas where we had worked. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was originally planned to stand in Boston Harbor but for some reason ended up here. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t easy, knowing Gaea had special revenge planned for her. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The plan takes easy steps toward the front door, that is, until Byrd goes running, knocking into him. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The evacuation had been so hurriedly planned, the camps so hastily thrown together, nothing was completed when we got there, and almost nothing worked. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, of course, Howard, studying his fort plans like he was building a castle, then heading out to the edge of the yard with that up-down walk of his. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They would think him inconsiderate and they would plan to chastise him, later. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

My parents stand in their backyard, hands on their hips, looking out over the expanse of raw mud, planning their garden. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I was planning on discussing it with our subjects here,” Matthew says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I remember planning how I would plead with the Inspector when the next examination came. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he could get the money together, he planned to build a pipeline to bring water down from the mountain, and after that he’d install solar panels all over the farm. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The plan was to introduce Harry as “Cousin Barny” and trust to the great number of Weasley relatives to camouflage him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They’d planned the same stunt, signed on for a square meal and a month’s pay. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But holding onto the cities was never sustainable. There are too many factors we cannot account for, and soon even the Survivalist leaders—the mayors, the congressmen—realized that it wasn’t a long-term plan.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Their plan became this: he would come to America the minute he graduated. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

"But was it opened, sir? Someone might have gone into my things . . ." "Oh, no, nothing like that. Please forget the question . . . And tell me, please, what are your plans after graduation?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Safer’s plan is that I will watch the lobbycam in my apartment while he breaks into Mr. X’s apartment right above me. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Or plan to smoke a cigarette behind the coal house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

So I discovered the next plan to get rid of us: marry us off here without waiting until China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the most schemes and plans, and no one would give him any money. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had thought, though, that he might laugh at the impossibility of her plan. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“The crazy thing is, I had all of these plans,” he whispered. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe their plan is to keep the pressure on until the guilty party breaks down and confesses. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Mong seemed to have our whole night planned, probably figuring it was our last one in America. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“May I tell you my plan? May I illustrate for you how we can make your dream of becoming a princess a reality? “ The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Nothing good could be planned by these people so deep in the woods. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I know what Ampai was planning,” he said, too quiet to be heard. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But he’s determined to continue with his plan, so he sets off for the Borinage without a job. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Nobody ever planned it ahead, at least, not very far. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eagerly, Omakayas began to plan out her triumphant walk back to the house. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

While the world awaited Whitney, an event at Tanforan introduced a new wrinkle in the match plans. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her about praying for the two pups, about the magazine and the plans I had made. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were making all these plans without even asking if it was okay with me. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I was glad she had rung up and suggested the plan of going over to see the grandmother. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

This was his last moment in the library, and perhaps his last opportunity to foil Count Olaf’s plan. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Seen all the sights we planned when we were little? The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Beyond such vague ideas as these, there was no plan in his head, and he saw no one course that he must follow. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad, Sookie, and me,” I said, feeling guilty that I hadn’t invited Mr. Patterson, even though the plans for the road trip had only started to solidify twenty seconds earlier. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Actually, Katniss isn’t complaining because she has no intention of staying with the “Star Squad,” but she recognizes the necessity of getting to the Capitol before carrying out any plan. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter what I’m thinking about doing today though—my parents have their own plans for me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I bade Horatio memorize every detail of my plan, silencing his doubts and urging his faith instead. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, until I make a plan, I hope he’s so exhausted he’ll just go to bed and sleep all evening until the next day. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We weren’t even on the expressway before Momma started reading out of her notebook telling us everything that was planned for the next three days. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They began to plan people’s lives and libraries; they began to instruct and push about the very people who had come to Mars to get away from being instructed and ruled and pushed about. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a piece of misdirection, all meant to keep Dain’s spies busy chasing our tails while Balekin and Madoc planned to strike in the one place no one looked—right out in the open. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The plan was to wait for the convoy and shoot out the tires. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Just the way Grandpa planned it, all the stores closed that day, and folks white and colored lined North Main and South Main, waving their Confederate flags. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Our plan is pretty brilliant, if I do say so. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know it’s you! I saw you two planning it in the cafeteria!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I was planning to just forget the whole thing and go home. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pauline challenged her to be intentional, to plan her work, to make a statement in each photograph, no matter how straightforward the photo might seem. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

While she was gone, I devised another plan. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My friends and I had many activities planned, and I could not wait for Josh and Blake to come home for the holidays. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t plan to be poor ever again!” he decided, dreaming of the seam of gold. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, the floor plan is a circle: a sunny living room on the right leads into the kitchen in the back, which connects to a dining room and back to the foyer. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was planning on assessing the acidity of the soil in my garden for the rest of the week. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Of course, it is the planned escape route from the bomb that hasn’t been dropped. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt stared at Maria.“This is your plan to rescue me?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is expecting me to have a plan? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I thought the plan was to follow the river.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henceforth, all of my actions and plans on behalf of the ANC and the liberation struggle would become secret and illegal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I abandoned plans to cook with or serve my own salt, and counted myself lucky to have survived. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She always overreacted to every loud cough or gasp of breath, keeping me out of school or forcing me to cancel plans to go to doctor’s appointments or to the hospital for no reason. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Leo’s conversations with Nike had helped him fine-tune the plan, but he still wanted a second opinion from another god. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Klauson smiled at our plan, everything so easy, as always. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m planning on calling her after you and I are done here,” he says. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I planned to walk in slow and courageous like a real hero. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Knowing him as I do, I am sure he planned this coup. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the hours not devoted to cooking, cleaning, love-making, rope skipping and trying to get into the baseball game with the boys, Sissy made plans for the coming baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want me to tell you if anything else is being planned?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“I planned to tell you when you were older. When you were ready. Or more like when I was ready.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The boys and a handful of reporters were waiting for Al Ulbrickson to lay out his plan for the upcoming racing season. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh, are you here to clean another toilet? Or do you plan on going dumpster diving again? I saw you with your head buried in the trash barrel. I totally Instagrammed your butt.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Whether or not their plan worked depended on him and his words—and Meggie’s reading. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The generals and their aides had finished eating, and were drinking rum and water, and talking over plans. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever Emmett heard that locals were planning to throw a “necktie party,” he would rush out to try to stop it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Since Dad was who he was, she could always be counted on to know the latest on what the company was planning and which foreman was up and which was down. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But George had other plans for my thumb; he sunk his teeth into it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was planning to stop by her room and say good-bye, but I got distracted on the way out. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, I can say I am in agreement with those who say that the ability to draw up a good staff plan is the cornerstone of any decent butler's skills. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You are not the first usurpers, nor the second. I am sorry, little ones, but you will need a new plan.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was for a new product that Paradise Pickles & Preserves planned to launch in the spring. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He plans a line of defense along Pipe Creek, far from Gettysburg, in the unreal hope that Lee will attack him on ground of his own choosing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly a year later, Washington and Count Jean B. de Rochambeau, the general commanding the French troops, began planning a real attack on New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I plan to follow Erin wherever she ends up playing basketball. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor hurried over to Luxa, hoping to figure out some kind of game plan, but one look at her told him he was on his own. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the clothing Celaena planned to buy when she was free to venture into Rifthold and do some shopping for herself, once she had her outrageous salary as King’s Champion. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Instead, as planned, I would speak first to the people of Cape Town at the Grand Parade in Cape Town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, as Booth rises to his feet and wanders back into the theater to plan the attack, it never crosses anyone’s mind to ask what he’s doing. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The two men would never visit each other’s offices, she adds, but often met in secret to coordinate plans. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was decided the open floor plan should be less professional, and bright, like a day care, so the heralds wouldn’t drive themselves crazy as they delivered End Day alerts in cramped cubicles. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“An installment plan,” I said, ignoring the parrot, “you know, where I promise to give you my allowance every week and you give me the leash and the collar now.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then a feeling rather than a thought threw out the plan. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We need a plan, and quick. Does anybody have any ideas? I’m fresh out.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The thing has somehow got to be found and destroyed without delay. Gwydion will plan a new search from Caer Cadarn. It would seem our work has just begun.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was not sure Aunty Ifeoma had planned to have us climb up the hill; it sounded like something she had said on impulse. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And there had been the effusion of the post-game ritual, screams and catcalls followed by eager plans for the glorious remainder of Friday night. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children’s plan was bold, ill-formed, and likely to fail, and all of them knew it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was going to ask Mom and Dad about your Christmas plans the other night, but when I knocked on their door, I heard Mom crying. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When Prendergast explained that Mayor Harrison planned to make him the city’s new corporation counsel, the clerk laughed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At last, however, he made a better plan. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought she would continue trying to trip me up, but instead she talked about her own holiday plans. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Kinda surprised myself to be saying that for I didn’t know what my plans were. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Initially her mood was bright, for the parcel contained an early Christmas present she planned to give to her friends the Lawrences, but as she neared the corner of Sixty-third and Wallace, her spirits dimmed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Dieter, in fact, was already planning for it: he announced that he had set his big alarm clock, which had bells on top, for 5 A.M. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not speak again until nine years later, when she opened her mouth to announce that she was planning to be married. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And when do you plan to free Jaime? He's worth a hundred of you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“No! That was the plan. No purse, no nothing for me or Aileen. That was the point. I left mine at home after I called for the car.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The laundry plan isn’t even finished and Piper’s already hatching another? Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have thought of a plan to help both you and me,” she said. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe this had been the plan all along. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Katherine and I can use the time to lay our plans for the sheriff. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When word passed through the camp that Schindler planned to add thirty Jews to his workforce, I didn't think anything about it. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Luma planned to put the Under Thirteens through three days of intense drills on crosses, corners, and free kicks, followed by a scrimmage on Thursday with the Fifteens. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Lynn planned to become either a rocket scientist or a famous writer. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Reginald, the one who had always looked up to me, had gotten big enough to fake his age, and he was planning soon to enter the merchant marine. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll go and see what kind of store he has. Maybe it will give us clues about what he plans to do with the lot if he wins.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I need this day to think and plan. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“One thing you can be sure of,” the bard said under his breath, “Gwydion isn’t planning a harvest festival. Do you see who’s here?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

No plan to take down the Oakland Police Department would absolve his heart. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Do you have any plans for, uh, solving your financial...situation other than getting your own television show?” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to make the ship’s food stores last as long as possible, Shackleton was determined to feed the crew on seal meat, but not everyone approved of the plan. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Earth to B and Thompson! You plan on paying attention, or you just going to make eyes at each other all night?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I was planning to read a smaller book for my report. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

His mind fell away from thought and clung for safety to little plans, designs, machines. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But in my plan I had the fifty bucks for the shuttle ride. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got a good eye for a crowd, boy. This one’s ripe for a sad song. Still planning on doing ‘Savien’?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He is planning something, and whatever it is ain't going to be good. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth explains her plan to get our mothers together as we roll out spice-infused dough for this week’s recipe: samosas. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“And how do you plan to do that?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“So what if your maternity leave went on for thirteen years longer than planned?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I listened to Dad’s plans and tried to encourage him, hoping that what he was saying was true but also pretty certain it wasn’t. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But before she could actually say no and ruin Shirley’s plan, Shirley spoke up, twisting and turning, marking the steps as if showing off a fancy dance. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Don’t go in a store, a coffee shop, or anything unless you plan on buying something. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We planned a sleepover there—it would be the first time you slept away from your own home. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

His fists were out front, waiting for information and battle plan. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today at lunch, we planned our time off. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She tears through her life like she plans on living out the whole thing before she hits twenty. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if the very worst happened, we at least had a plan. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“One of his tricks did not go entirely as planned.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“What are your plans for today?” she calls out to me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

There are plans about their house, and telling Axel the truth about staying away so long. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Not because he was so brilliant, but the government had just announced plans to send a satellite spinning around the earth, and most of his department seemed to be planning on being launched with it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembers that when he and Moushumi were first dating they’d spent an entire afternoon, in a bar, drawing a plan of the ideal house. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve told them my plan a hundred times: Move back to New York City and be an editor. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

And now their plan was well and truly cooked. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Drugging the entire population is the best solution to our problem. Great plan.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She planned the whole thing in the elevator on the way up. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

This would become one of my early, unwitting lessons about life in politics: Schedules and plans never seemed to stick. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Penelope knew this, but in her defense it should be noted that she had not planned to eavesdrop in the first place. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He followed through with his plans to have us flaunt the law and play on whites- only tennis courts in the city. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He already planned to give her his jacket if she were chilly. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Every morning before he left for work, he would say jokingly, “So what are we doing today in planning to go to America?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to talk to me today? Or were you planning on just grabbing your bike and leaving without a word?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s all good, ’cause this afternoon I came up with a new and improved plan. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Obviously, the best approach to landing Tina as my girlfriend would be to study the way generals plan military maneuvers. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, it was he who had advocated it in the beginning, and the plan which Snowball had drawn on the floor of the incubator shed had actually been stolen from among Napoleon’s papers. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I offered to fetch Lady Seymour, but in truth, I planned to run the news of Lockton’s escape to the rebels as fast as I could. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But as soon as we come up with a plan for rescue, we can tell Hermes. There needs to be some hope, or there's no point in telling them." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would take a bit of time but it was a sound, workable plan. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And it occurred to me then that you would not escape, that there were awful men who’d laid plans for you, and I could not stop them. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But my head told me that it was the right of every man to plan his own future as he pleased and choose his role in life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t planned it, and he certainly hadn’t prepared for it, but his lips found hers, and she didn’t pull away. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Because I’m still too sad to plan—or even go to—a huge party. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

So, lacking any better plan, I set the sun on my left shoulder and tried to cover as much distance as I could. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I told Granny that I planned to make some money by selling papers and she agreed, thinking that at last I was becoming a serious, right-thinking boy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing much happened in court, other than Du Bois announcing his plans to file a motion contesting the decision to try Richard as an adult. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and one of the things Abuela would have wanted was for you and me to cook a wonderful meal together for the entire community. So, we need to plan.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Pollard greeted her with a beautiful wedding, undoubtedly financed and planned by Marcela. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You guys planning a rescue for your Elder?” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

If luck was on his side, there was just enough time to carry out his plan. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His deception plan led to victory in the Revolution, a war of shooting—and spying. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She vowed to herself to get through the night and think of a new plan the next day. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Didn’t people plan for years to take a big trip like that? Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Invigorated by their plan, the Baudelaire orphans swung their axes at an amazing speed, and soon enough they were done chopping firewood and ready to go to the bank. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He willed Professor Pierce to go on vacation, and he started making plans. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had planned for us to kill time playing in the park until Cecile would let us in the house, but playing in the park meant playing together. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Advancement, however, would require a different plan of attack. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Tell me,” I asked Nemur, “I just got a look at your incinerator for disposing of experimental animals. What plans have been made for me?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Re: telling Philip, sounds like a great plan. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His entire plan depended on the fairies making their next move before daylight. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I wrote, I have a plan, but we have to figure out who it was. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The homeless whose ranks he had joined had other plans. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When Salvador made no reply, the heavyset Mexican chuckled and told his companion, “Of course, they plan to do that!” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

After hearing the news and rushing back to Fairfax, lawmen set up floodlights at the front and rear exits of the hospital, in case the killers planned to finish off Bill there. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Each day, though, their plans seemed to grow more elaborate. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The plan was that Auntie Buzz would go green by not having a car and we would save the Earth by carpooling. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roli was absolutely no help in figuring out a plan, either. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fabian’s plan is not what I had hoped. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The plan for the uranium bomb was to fire one lump of uranium at another inside a gun barrel. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Us three haves our own plan and each one of us does our parts.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It occurred to him that perhaps he might start his venture from the other end—by persuading some of the does to join him and working out a plan afterward, perhaps with their help. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wash spent the day pulling off his plan to buy the train tickets in Tyler. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I do not know how you lay out orderly plans for this kind of activity, but I suppose you could find out by looking through the disorderly records of the past hundred years. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the other conversations in the room didn't die down, he cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted, “I know what Ampai was planning!” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I had a plan B. Win back respect and trust. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, how about you? What are you planning to do?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We planned an assembly where we would make our speeches; we called it a peace rally, but it was just going to be a handful of us upper-school girls. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My plan, insofar as I had one, was to go to university to be a computer programmer, but we couldn’t afford the tuition. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I was not really planning to. But I suppose we will have to go now, I will find out the next apparition date.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And it looks to me like Kalinda doesn’t have any patience to help me find a plan, either. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He hated making a decision, starting on a plan, and then not finishing. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

We could have the bread for breakfast and lunch if we planned it right. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president has ambitious plans for his second term in office. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

And he didn’t tell me what he planned to do about the Aktion. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

By the time Nathan figured out what she was planning to do, Nali had already parked the car in front of the pawnshop. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Man, we got a lot of planning to do.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on our way we met some prisoners who whispered to us: “Go back to your block. The Germans plan to shoot you. Go back and don’t move.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, Kappe hinted that something was soon going to happen that would expedite a plan he and his office had been working on for some time. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“So when do you plan to leave?” she asked. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

None of us had an opportunity to say a real good-bye or make plans to meet. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted to be sure I understood the plan.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And if that much money was involved, he certainly would have planned more thoroughly and known when the laboratory’s next shipment of plague medicine would arrive. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When I tell her that Safer plans to teach me the secret of truly excellent scrambled eggs, she says they sound like really smart bohemians. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I planned to trail off quietly, by cutting back my obsessive practices, not giving recitals. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an impossibly complex and gruesome plan, likely beyond the powers of anyone to execute, but his description is noteworthy for what it revealed, without his intention, about his astigmatic soul. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Part of being the “most perfectly planned community in America,” an essential part, was for Levittown to be whites only. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She longed to graduate and join her older brother, Hans, whom she adored, at the University of Munich, where she planned to study biology and philosophy. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hans does push-ups by the hundreds; he plans to attend a rally in Essen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Seven was supposed to be with Poppy; that’s how they’d always planned it: Best friends were supposed to be placed together. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

A Plan for Healing is a stupid plan because Josh cannot be a very nice boy. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As I’m sure you’re all aware,” Emma said, “this is by most standards a very poor plan with little hope of success.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weston looked surprized, and said, “I did not know that he ever had any such plan.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” said Roy, but already he was thinking about a plan. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The elevator began to move, Tally’s ears complaining at the swift ascent “What’s our escape plan?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Stanton and Mott had not forgotten their plans to hold a women’s rights convention. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And so, at once excited, and anxious, and confused, and certain, the two scholars planned out the images Spurge would send back to the Order of the Clean Hand. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The idea to dress as Cap hadn’t been part of Zach’s original plan. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Covering the school with our handiwork takes planning, since we don’t want anybody catching us at it. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, Kainene, it wasn’t something I planned. I am so sorry. It was unforgivable.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Rabi was worried about the Russian explosion, too, and liked our plans,” he wrote later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Her classmates had plans, plans that included their clansmen, not her. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The plan was to melt down all the lead into bullets. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no daring helicopter rescues, no tunnels, no ingenious plans to dress up as a guard and stroll out through the front door. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I told her of the caresses I’d saved for her, the presents with which I’d planned to surprise her, the ways I would have loved her and made her happy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to come up with a plan in case he finds you!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Yasmeen Smith-Snyder was running around the circular room with her floor plan in front of her face, like someone frantically checking their text messages while racing down a crowded sidewalk. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

"That sounds like a pretty good plan," she said. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t some sort of plan, is it?” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Just because she didn’t plan on having me didn’t mean she hadn’t loved me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no one planned to go into the ocean above their ankles anyway, so it was okay. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The “boot money ’ was my way of planning for the days ahead. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As you can see, this plan provides many opportunities for me to die in a fiery explosion. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a plan—or as much of a plan as he could have for what he was going to try to do. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

In either case, the plan was so brazen, so sinister, that it was hard to fathom. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

On their walk to school, they rehashed the plan for Operation Royal Fungus. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The payoff to the gun seller—usually $50 or $100, but in one California buyback, three free hours of psychotherapy—isn’t an adequate incentive for anyone who actually plans to use his gun. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

When we finally started to talk about making a trip to visit the ruins of the camp, something would inevitably get in the way of our plans. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom and Zooey are planning a whole Thanksgiving meal, and either one would castrate me if I tried to bail.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Jim Johnson had planned to attend Hampton Institute but was drafted right after graduating from high school. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t give a hoot what the plan is!” cried the Earthworm. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

His career and, in fact, his life, have followed no grand plan. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But without our regular catch-up, I worried she might have forgotten our plan. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“He cut and ran when I was little. Having a sick kid wasn't in his plan.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Nailer kept his voice steady, trying to pretend he didn’t know his father was planning on beating the hell out of him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

"But he was planning a breakout, wasn't he?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The words she had made up that afternoon were not something she had planned. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

As if the blight was our fault and we wanted the crops to rot in the fields and had planned all along not to pay the rent to the lord of our cottage. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know about that, but I do plan to eat a lot of lasagna.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

While he held back on telling the members of his Klavern about his plan to go public, C.P. did convince several other men to join him in regularly harassing black protesters. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He learns that she is in Silliman, that she is planning to be an English major. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Initially Root planned to employ a technique that Chicago architects had used since 1873 to support buildings of ordinary stature. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“No, but we figured if you were here early, we could work in your classroom and plan some things for our club. Is that okay?” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Eventually we wandered away from my house, no plan, just the two of us meandering through shady neighborhoods. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, Everybody was talking about Proposition 187 and the planned walkout in school today. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They have spent years and years making this plan. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There is only one way his plan will work. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Tucker and I think we can figure out what McCoy’s master plan is, but we need your help.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. He might have other plans,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My conversation with Gale was an obvious setback, but I’m still determined to carry on with my plan to escape District 12. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I plan on using the pressure in the fire extinguisher to propel us from the school like a jetpack. How about you test it first?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We planned to shake Speaker Day up a bit. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Granny was planning her birthday luncheon in the city. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But she herself, Ino, determined to bring about the little boy’s death, and she made an elaborate plan how this was to be done. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were issues to manage at the fledgling Livermore lab, thermonuclear tests to attend in the Nevada desert and plans to be made for new tests at Eniwetok. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I feel the plan moving inside me like thaw-time waters rising between cliffs. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe your mom wanted to be sure we all felt good about the plan,” Ms. Dale says, and then adds, “Is that right, Ms. Rastusak?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I don’t say that I have no plans to actually use them. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Already, the phone calls from my mother are filled with plans for coming home. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I thought up ours when I was a senior at East Shoal. Of course, not many people followed through with the entire plan—we only got to the first part of it.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They say they plan to stay only long enough to make some money and then go back home. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Now again plans were urgently afoot to fix me up, to improve my voice. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One of us here was privy to the rebel plans, worked with one of the bosses there. Tell us, Curzon boy, what do you think of the rebel lies?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still had some hope that he might turn around on this and even help us, but we definitely couldn't plan on that. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A night full of departures and secret plans. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I told him about the mittens and my plan for Maxie, careful not to say too much about what had happened. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Fencing had gotten me all the way to an elite university, just like I had planned. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They had not made any definite plans, but had vaguely thought of going down to Crickhollow together first, and resting there a bit. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He lay awake all Thursday night, but when he got out of bed Friday morning he had a plan. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I'm not tired of him. I’m just going in a different direction than the one he planned for me. Just for now. It's just for now.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The African American woman in question was Ida Wells-Barnett, who planned to come from Chicago to Washington, DC, to march side by side with her suffrage sisters from Illinois. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Seaborg joined with Joseph Kennedy, a newly appointed chemistry instructor with the gangly physique of a scarecrow and a gentle drawl that proclaimed his North Texas origins, and brought the plan to Ernest. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We would admit that we had made contingency plans to undertake guerrilla warfare in the event sabotage failed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rallies were being planned, strategies mapped, volunteers mustered. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Pole Star surged forward, seemingly planning to simply crush them under its weight. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I explained our plan to ask the sky god to repair the Story Box. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Shackleton shared his last two cigarettes with Wild as they discussed backup plans. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Get to her before she does whatever it is she’s planning. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe just a place to get out of the heat for a few minutes, find a sandwich and a glass of lemonade, make a new plan for getting west. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You do not think my spying plan of any value, then?” he demanded. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Our new plan was for me to have the baby in Birmingham and finish school there. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

For years I’d planned my first day at school in America. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally had planned to take the note literally and wait on the hilltop, but at the sight of her friend, she grabbed her board and dashed down to meet them. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I went on to insist that the agents revise their protocols so that in the future Malia and Sasha could leave the White House safely and without some massive advance planning effort. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"This march that I'm planning isn't just to prove to the Governor that he can't dismiss us any longer. It's to prove it to ourselves. Don't you see that?" A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

So he would have to leave Blackavar: no realistic plan could include him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plan had been a good one, but the storm and the frightening efficiency of the Efrafans had nearly defeated it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s told Pedrito about our plan and he’s already found a spot among his cacao where he’s going to dig a hole for us to bury our box. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"George is planning to leave New York City for a couple of days in order to make some important contacts," Burger said. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I listened to the plan in its entirety and did not communicate to him how far-fetched and unreliable it sounded. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knits, talks on the phone with Aunt Louise about their London trip—which they’re still secretly planning—and reads her citizenship booklet. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“The plan right now is to discharge you Thursday, Craig, and I’ll be here to talk to you on Wednesday, all right?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I had reviewed the floor plan of the actual buildings, memorized everything from the ceiling heights to emergency exits to electrical outlet locations. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

When I told them about my plan, Dad stubbed out his cigarette, stood up, and climbed out the back window without saying a word. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She and Brandon had decided earlier on a plan to approach his grandfather without revealing anything about the letter. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Our house seemed like such chaos compared to Omi’s, like we went from day to day, meal to meal, with barely any plans at all. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I planned to meet more people and have slumber parties when I started going to high school in another year. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But Hilly’s bathroom initiative is in the open center section with the paper where I wrote Jim Crow or Hilly’s bathroom plan—what’s the difference? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“While your plan is sound, the path you choose is not suitable for quick retreat should Arawn pursue you.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been betrayed. Voldemort knew that you were being moved tonight and the only people who could have told him were directly involved in the plan. You might have been an impostor.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe that lady had been watching too much TV, and only thought she had a good plan. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

When night began to fall, the Howards put their plan into action. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The body plans of vertebrates depend on this property: if hemoglobin’s capacity to deliver oxygen to distant sites was disrupted, our bodies would be forced to be small and cold. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But most days after working with Sam, now that college was in sight, I found myself planning my escape. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Possessing great courage and high goals, he could not have conducted himself in any other manner, and his plans were frustrated solely by the brevity of Alexander’s life and by his own illness. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had been deeply involved in the planning of the Congress of the People and was destined for the highest levels of leadership in the organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plan was that he would eventually bring as many members of his extended family as possible to the United States. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He curled the hedge apple behind him and let it fly a little harder than planned, knocking the smaller jack out of the circle. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Though in her heart she did not want to attend, in spite of everything, she was planning to act like this was a real wedding. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

So far it had just been a plan, an intellectual exercise by El Genius, but there was a big difference between the planning and the doing. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“There’s a mass and then a big party. Everyone gets dressed up and dances a lot. It’s supposed to mark the transition to womanhood. My grandmother has been planning mine since I was, like, two.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Did he follow your advice, at least? Did he keep his plans a secret?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

After Poland fell in 1939, Nazi leaders planned their next military campaign over the winter. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now that I know what it costs her emotionally to go along with my ruse I’m even more anxious to put our plan into action. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“It's an insidious plan, if I do say so myself.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What kind of plan? I’m not sure I’m going to like it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He told me he’d heard talk that “they” were planning to come and castrate me, that the date had been set. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, though, I must tell you that the movie is off, so if you were planning to play the landlord, forget it. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I have it all planned out: I’d make the head out of papier-mache, and paint the horn gold and make the mane gold, too. ... It would be so awesome.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She had planned to go over in the morning and check the rental house on Winslow Road, even though she already knew that they would be gone. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it’s out of your control.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you should trust in that Lord of yours. I suspect He’s got a grand plan for someone like you.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The block party is something we've been putting together for the last couple of years, ever since Mama became the one-woman planning committee of the block association. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

To my intense vexation, he had even bought a TV Guide, to plan his viewing more effectively over the coming days. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I loved that her lesson plans were the same ones used for ninth grade in the public high school I would have attended. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Nobody gets exactly what they planned, expected, intended. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The planned suborbital flights presented a controlled set of challenges. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Dell finally graduated, on the six-and-a-half-year plan, with a degree in psychology. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

During the strike I sometimes went with him from mine to mine, talking to workers and planning strategy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He quit his job at Allen’s Market and dropped his plans for finishing high school and went to Santa Fe with them. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naturally, his lordship was greatly distressed and immediately made plans to dispatch funds and commiserations to Frau Bremann. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Assumption was not a plot to destroy the political integrity of the states; it was a plan to consolidate their debts and nationalize the economy for the benefit of all. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

So I need almost four times my current plan's production to survive. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plan was for Mom to ease the truck forward, pulling the piano into the house while Dad and we kids guided it up a ramp of planks and through the front door. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Three days prior to the most significant date of his life, Glenn went through a final simulation, carrying out a full checkout of his flight plan. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The new plan was audacious, maybe even mad. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I switched the TV off and found myself watching my mother as she sat at the kitchen table, looking over some of her old lesson plans. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I turn left and right and left again without a plan. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

On Friday, March 5, two days before the planned march from Selma to Montgomery, King met with President Johnson at the White House. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alec wanted the cover in case the people they were planning to confront sent canvassers out at night. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They found the Trojan leaders holding a council, and they put their plan before them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what they have planned, but I’m no coward, so I go right down that aisle out the back door and into the hot courtyard. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He planned also to coat the beach with fallen oak and maple leaves to signify the fact that Columbus landed in autumn, even though live palms and dead deciduous leaves were not precisely compatible. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When he found their floating shop in Coal Harbour, he told the Pococks that he planned to establish a veritable rowing navy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

According to Wylan’s plans, the stables were adjacent to the gatehouse courtyard, so they would have to backtrack through the holding area. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I would appreciate it if you contact me first before you and Jade make plans. Jade is not grown. Believe it or not, she does have a mother. That’s me.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"I have made my plans. It is time you heard them." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He planned and waited until one time that admiring person exposed himself, and then something happened and the victim never knew how or why. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Asked about the pistol permit that Malcolm X had said publicly he planned to request, Commissioner Arm said that as far as he knew, Malcolm X had never actually filed a request. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are these part of the plan? Maybe you should take them off.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, in the subsistence economy of hunting and gathering, there was an obvious limit to such long-term planning. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were planning to volunteer at the local office, they said, and they’d try persuading a spouse or neighbor to come along, too. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Good idea! How did you plan going about it?” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And his grand plan from the night before? Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we made up the perfect country Minerva keeps planning, I would fit in perfectly. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He missed Pippin, and felt that he was only a burden, while everybody was making plans for speed in a business that he did not fully understand. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I requested the approval of my plans to transfer to Cambridge so that I might work at Perutz’ lab and learn how to do crystallographic research. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He seemed so determined to get to Candor headquarters that I wonder if he’s planning something without me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her nerves were under continual irritation and suffering; and by the ten days’ end, her nephew’s letter to Randalls communicated a change of plan. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

He kept telling himself that their plan was good, that Griphook knew what they were facing, that they were well-prepared for all the difficulties they were likely to encounter, yet still he felt uneasy. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Howe’s intelligence officers firmly believed that someone had passed the British plan to Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

All right, let’s go over the game plan. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote that since his mother had not told him about the escape plan, Shin “was startled to hear of it.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Shorty has all these goals and plans, and it starts to seem that those things are bogging him down. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What does he have in case I have something planned with Aaron Fischman in the near future?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Whether or not she had it planned at the time, Mary Jackson was on her way to becoming a Langley lifer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She’d been planning to work in her flower beds, the way she usually did to pass time between orphans, but she was currently facing a conundrum. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

What were their plans for the next few days? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Matt thought it was hard to promise something like that— nobody planned to forget—but he nodded. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would drink his coffee, go through lesson plans, or sometimes just read a book. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Watchers on the cliff began to look for the red sails and a meeting was held to plan what to do if the Aleuts came. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever the truth was, Seven had a plan to find out. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I suffered the shock of knowledge that this plan was lodged within me and I was indeed going to carry it out. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I’m standing behind Coach as he goes over the game plan—how to beat Brixton, tonight’s opponent—but I’m not really listening at all. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They drank tea and smoked and talked in loud bantering voices about the Mujahideen’s plan. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He’d planned to leave but the rain was justification enough to stay. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Guess you forgot we had plans to go roller skating. My mom was going to take us as an early birthday present for you, remember?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Of course, we all pray that won’t happen. The Zamborskas were pleasant enough, and I enjoyed being here, but this whole assignment has certainly mucked up my plans.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everywhere I have found indications that people are planning to go to it.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“When you get older, you’ll understand that everything is much more complicated than you ever imagined. You plan your whole life, and nothing works out the way you expect.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She thought: It’s a good plan and a brave one. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a good time for me to be making plans.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Shin refused to make a life plan, and Song said she and others at LiNK allowed him to get away with it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“There’s never a bad time for making plans. Unless you don’t want to.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In his natural haunts a sailor has no face and certainly no plans beyond getting drunk and maybe in jail for fighting. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Canopiotes presented him a large bribe instead, he delayed his plan for a while, then decided their “gift” was but a down payment on another. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the giantess seemed to anticipate her plan. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He detected a few changes in the floor plan since his last visit. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I asked, thinking back to the time when he and Alaska had left me out of prank planning for Barn Night. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

A plan to slip away and see my sister buzzes through me, alongside my ever-present fear and panic. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I had taken my school books with me, because we planned to go straight from Dr. Snydman’s office to the school. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I begin to plan words in my mind. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The plan was to shoot west until they hit a string of islands a trapper had shown him, and then bow northeast until the swamp dried up. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Well... they develop it. They plan communities with nice houses, and schools, and industrial parks. They create jobs— construction jobs, teaching jobs, civil engineering jobs—like your father’s.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once outside, Violet realized her plan was even more difficult than she had thought. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

To try to throw them off my plan, I told them that, yes, maybe I would be willing to marry this man the next year. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her miserable days in the mansion were spent planning how to make an earring out of the box which would house her name. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s hire that lawyer and let’s apply pressure. But let’s not say anything negative about the team’s plan to raise money. They’re just trying to help.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, first of all, we have to get more people to agree to whatever plan y’all come up with,” Esperanza said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Courters bustled about with legal preparations and plans for three adoption parties. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And for the first time, I have a plan. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And Toby would nod, biting his lip because he was going against the plan. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It had been the first date of her life, strategically planned on an evening her parents were at a party. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Or not,” I mutter, since she’s always pretty much rabid, but I don’t stop him, because I’d be angry myself if I was excluded from a plan at this point. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

This isn’t to say that I didn't think and plan and plot. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

With a stab she thought of her deal with Baaz, the impheations of what this change in plans would mean for her bargain with him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her sister Mary worked in the Big House, and she planned to tell Mary that she was going to run away, so someone would know. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good. Now...what do you know of Gum Baby’s plan?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I consider wandering over to the basketball courts, but that would be a bad plan. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

They walked back to the rocket, clicked the mechanisms of their rifles, put thick grenade packets on their backs, and checked the free plan of pistols in their holsters. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are coming up with an alternative plan, if Your Majesty will give us just a short time to do so. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how long he plans on keeping you here. He’s forbidden any visitors.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

My mind was spinning quickly along a new plan now. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this was the first step in the undoing of her plans, but she was already walking back, retracing her steps, in the direction of Clapham High Street. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He folded his arms and told Rondell to get away from the nectarines unless he planned on buying every single one his grubby hands touched. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

All those plans I had—photography courses and cookery classes—when it comes down to it, they feel a hit pointless, as if I’m playing at real life instead of actually living it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to talk to Coach in private, but he was writing in his playbook, probably making last-minute changes to our game plan while he ate his eggs. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Then, I could take a few seconds during that plan to scrape resin over the airlock fracture. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Powell, fiercely loyal to Booth, ignored the risk and agreed to proceed with the plan. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about a plan to get you not turned into a picnic table?” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t planned on leaving the others—I was just too busy being observant, taking in the situation around me, and when the line diverged, I went the other way. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t look like someone who’s planning to cart me off to the hospital; she doesn’t look like she’s hatched a plan. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Or what about the ice moat?” he said, tapping the plan of the Ice Court. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Thinking about it, talking about it, planning for it had taken us up like an Arkansas tornado that pounded and pounded us in the wind. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you plan to do today?” he asks. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“See, this is why no one lets you make the plans,” he said. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are you two working so hard?” asked Sally when she heard about our plans. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had a water slide and lily pads in a kids’ pool, but I didn’t go there, because it was out of sight of where my dad was sitting and I had a plan. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She had started to explain Hera’s plan for bringing the camps together to battle Gaea and the giants, but the goddess stamped her walking stick against the marble floor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He outlined a plan under which selected volunteers from all groups would deliberately invite imprisonment by defying certain laws. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We do know that Brunelleschi, in his search for new architectural forms, had made a study of the surviving classical buildings in ancient Rome, a study which involved taking measurements and drawing plans and elevations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Oh, don’t be. I’ll have loads to do. There’s a prank to plan. But I was thinking you should stay here, too. In fact, I have composed a list.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Or what if someone took him and isn’t planning to bring him back? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The same thing happened with the Broadway dance show and every group performance being planned. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were no plans for the next leg of Cora’s journey, no word from associates. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, what were you planning to do, child, go door to door in Virginia?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He settled in as if he planned to stay forever. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A part of her mind had been wondering the same thing ever since she came up with the plan. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What makes you think I have a plan?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Remember we always planned to attend one of the conventions but we never did. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She bought TV Guide every week and read it from cover to cover, planning her nights around her favorite shows. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All four of them were clutching seating plans, so that they could help show people to the right seats. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think he plans on doing anything like that this time.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“But you’d been planning it. The stuff you already had in the canoe.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem like she was too excited about this plan. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the start I would have no truck with this plan. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If his plan was to distract me from being the talk of the school, he succeeded. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Assuring her that he had come up with a plan from which only great profit would result, Holmes persuaded her to transfer the deed to her Fort Worth land to a man named Alexander Bond. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Part of the plan was to give the bag to the sailors, so they could take it back on board the U-boat. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The landing capsule was still in the planning stages, but there was a lot of backdrop to be painted: midnight blue with silver stars and Earth glowing in the distance. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

And somehow, in four steps he conjures “special plans” to “swollen glands,” and begins to feel his throat in a troubled way. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She had a plan, but she had been waiting until it became possible. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smith had initially planned on running him Christmas Day, but the trainer thought the horse seemed slighdy weary and decided to back off for a while. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She switched to her husband’s health insurance plan. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone we knew was planning on going to his funeral, which was being held in the town where he grew up, in the mountains a couple of hours’ drive away. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sounds great, Roz, but I’m afraid there’s one problem with your plan.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

As the congress drew to a close, I attended a caucus to plan the future of the clubs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew any plan, any power, I’d believed I had, had been given over to God, gravity and the boy on the wall. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It takes an immaculate plan, and then you execute it brilliantly, and then—nothing. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

From a scramble of contenders I got one of the jugs, elbowed off a counterattack, opened it, sampled it, choked, and then went through with my original plan by stopping Brinker’s mouth with it. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

People just wanted a time of merriment, laughter, dressing up, eating—and overeating—and so a feast was planned. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

No doubt, listening to the sisters plan to eat us, the men had been shaking in their blankets. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe they’d want to torture him for secrets or something—after all, he lived with one of the Rebel leaders and might know what their plans were or whether they had ammunition stored someplace. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers huddled with the fugitives and hatched a plan. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can’t have a plan because we don’t know where Mom is being held or how many guards are around her. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Nero raised his head, blinked at me, and then cuddled closer to Georgie as if he, too, disapproved of my plans. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

We thought you knew what you were doing....We thought Dumbledore had told you what to do....We thought you had a real plan! Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They seemed to think it was a failure of planning. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ivy thought they planned on getting Layla a car eventually, but eventually got swallowed up really fast by other stuff. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“And what are your plans now, my friends?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“And for your information, I don’t exactly have a plan.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m ready,” Lark says, then promptly climbs into the back seat of her truck, not waiting for any other plans or explanations. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Often students believe that writing a lesson plan is only used in a classroom setting. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I need a plan, but I don’t know where to start. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"Our game plan is this, Mr. McSouthers. We give no answer. No answer at all. Our duty is to protect Westing's ex-wife." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat on a marble bench near the front door and told the group to start the tour without them; they planned to catch up in a few minutes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Lily chattered about her plans for volunteer work; she would begin, she said, at the Nurturing Center, since she was already an expert at feeding Gabriel. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had planned it all perfectly, for his wife was asleep and would never know that he had lied to her as she lay on her sickbed in the poor ward of the county hospital. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When he thought that the river was navigable, José Arcadio Segundo gave his brother a detailed account of his plans and the latter gave him the money he needed for the enterprise. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure you don’t mind . . . you weren’t planning to ask him?” she persisted when I told her I didn’t mind in the least. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She planned on borrowing the book Mrs. Chiltington had requested the very next day. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Had Henry intended to make me the patsy if his plan had fallen through? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Downstairs the knot of impatience would be tightening in the kitchen, while the minutes she was planning to spend alone with her brother were running out. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I made sure our paths crossed as little as possible, planned my day that way. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Of course there had been no time for plans like that. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I had to tell him of Claudius’s doubt and warn him of their plan. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m not sure. But according to Pluto, she plans to ‘rebuild her domain.’ The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Dante kept telling the story about the man on the bus and the aliens in Roswell and how some had escaped to El Paso and were planning on taking over the transportation system. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

What, he wondered, did she plan to do with him? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

From nine to eleven he planned to dig a hole, or trench, and possibly find something good to eat buried in the dirt. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

His plan of action, regardless of the stages of his life, his agenda, and his perspective were always poignantly clear. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was as yet no general crisis for the two-spheres theory: the geographers summoned by Ferdinand and Isabella to advise on Columbus’s plans had no hesitation in dismissing them out of hand. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I finished it in the afternoon, and planned to harrow it in the morning, and then seed it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She would have to plan, then, and what he had revealed to her would be part of her planning. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The only crimp in my plan was that I seemed to have no talent whatsoever. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t wait to see what Ariana had planned for me to do. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I have a plan, but I need you to trust me.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It would have been a good plan if it had not been for Venus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn on her computer and everything I need to know is there in her history—the sites where these plans come from, where this information can be gleaned. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Yeah, I guess it was fate, because when I opened the pamphlet and saw the picture of the jagged, towering rock sitting alone in the middle of my glacier-flattened state, the plan was revealed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Later in the summer, the entire family planned to reunite for several weeks at the Mentor farm. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“What are you planning to do to that poor man?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They had not fought, their love was as sparkling as always, their plan intact, and suddenly there was silence from her, a silence so brutal and complete. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We had far more and better singers among us than they had, and we huddled together and planned our response. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I brought them to him after dinner, and then began planning my birthday cake. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

This was the part of his plan he was least confident in, and also the part he knew Koffi would like least. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Garfield had intended Secretary of State Blaine to deal with any other pressing government problems that summer during his planned presidential vacation. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“First things first. Day’s brother John. I plan to help him escape tomorrow night. No earlier than eleven P.M., no later than eleven thirty.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Adam drove exuberantly from farm to farm, picked up dirt and crumbled it in his fingers, talked and planned and dreamed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“First the marketing,” I said smiling, for who would not at such optimism, “then the plans.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi couldn’t imagine what solution Henry planned to offer. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He knew Eb was not really planning to leave— Eb was a lost and frightened boy, and there was nowhere else to go. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was planning to sign up for Greek again, as it was the only language at which I was at all proficient. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The seas, as it turned out, contrary to all plans, were running high and choppy. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I do not plan to leave you stranded in the Dead Land,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom, who supported Lori’s New York plans and kept saying she wished she were going to the big city herself, suggested that Lori apply to the Cooper Union art school. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Moss’s mother was right about this plan. I think this would be a lot more shocking if they didn’t know what we were planning.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I could tell he was figuring out how to build the generator, and maybe making other plans as well. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was planning to give him the drawing for his birthday, but after seeing those brochures, he looked like he needed a transfusion, so why wait? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flung my legs back and came down from the handstand fast enough for it to look like it had all been planned that way. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I didn’t plan on there being a next time. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Each one of them wanted to know where he had been and why he had not let them know about his plans. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She plans to bob up again after the many don’ts to do what she wants. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“It was your plan from the start,” Bigger said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

All is going as planned, and I sort of forget about Boy21’s ability to take away my starting position. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When do you plan on leaving?” was his only reply. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In only eleven days, the giants planned to awaken Gaia. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

This was part of a plan to defeat the Long Knives stationed in Fort Kearny on Buffalo Creek. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He would have formed a plan...a military strategy. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There’s an inherent flaw in the plan that both Gale and I were too blind to see. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wiser now, Ben had told his mother that he would disappear for the day if she did not devise a plan to keep the colonel out of the maelstrom of this ill-omened day. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things come to them without their effort or planning. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But that was before I told you what the League was planning for you,” he said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Ben started outlining plans for finding a date, but I was only half listening, because through the thickening mass of humanity crowding the hallway, I could see Margo Roth Spiegelman. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She planned to plant a clump of ceanothus along the approach to the swimming pool. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I planned to go no closer than that. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t really planning to switch it off—he’d heard too many lectures from Mom about not messing with her work. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

If our uncle plans to ignore us unless we speak to him in Urdu, there’s going to be a whole lot of silence around here. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

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

“It’s not like we have a plan,” Toby said, reaching for his shirt. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The sun spins mindlessly overhead, the shadows lengthen and shorten as if by plan. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several weeks later, they had settled on an escape plan. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Father was planning his usual trip to Verplancks Point, and this year for the first time I was going with him. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or at least know that I had to come up with a new plan. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It had never been planned; it had grown piecemeal, with past and present overlapping at every spot, and the final effect was one of jumbled and squalid grandeur. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them might not be on the same page right now, but he didn’t want Tad to get caught in what Frankie had planned. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was one thing, Brian knew, to have a plan, to want to do things. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He began planning out loud all the projects the three of us could complete by the time school opened. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to firm up the details of his plan to go down the well-traveled Paraguay River and the Tapajós River all the way to where it met the Amazon River. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know yet. We’ll have to plan it out very carefully, but I promise you, May Belle, we’ll get her.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

As far as Percy could see, none of the giants’ spectacular plans for destruction had come off successfully. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The plan had called for all four of them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We were planning on catching the salvage train to the Orleans. She says she’s got crew there who would protect her.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sailors continued to speak of evacuation plans. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They did the one planned encore, and that was it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

And this year she had a grand plan. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I was going to say hyperfocused. I get so intent on orchestrating my plans and keeping them a secret that I suppose I have a tendency to stop observing what’s really going on around me.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Not that the West Computers were hatching plans to invade a neighboring table; they just wanted dominion over their table in the back corner. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Matt could plan his move carefully, perhaps even take Maria with him.The sick fears of the previous night had vanished, and he felt like a king: Matt the Conqueror. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, as Roz raced through the sky, she began computing a plan. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I was planning to leave them to you when you became Pater of Gens Veturia. But they’ll serve you better now.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I knew she planned to drive around a bit first. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The next few weeks we stay busy planning Mrs. Peck’s appreciation service. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

With no clear plan, they ran for the docks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“We re not planning anything that she can inform them about. And we certainly wouldn't include her if we were.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the midst of all this preparation Kit silently made her own plans. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I debate going back to bed, or trying something different once I’ve been able to make a proper plan. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“A year you plan. You think I’m not going to pull it off?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also ... the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Now, I had planned on going by myself end didn’t know if his coming was such a good idea. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rebuilt the chicken coops and stables and began to plan an irrigation system so the crops wouldn’t have to depend on the weather. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

You just need a good plan, a destination, money to get you there, and enough deep breaths that you don’t lose your nerve. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Adrenaline makes my whole body sing with the desire to move, but although what I have feels like a plan, it’s not one yet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The plan became for Barack to make his announcement from the steps of the Old State Capitol, a historic landmark that would of course be more visually appealing than any convention center or arena. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And after school, especially on a Friday, everybody popped in to make sure plans hadn’t been made without them knowing. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He didn’t plan on eating any shrubs or berries. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The writer said she deeply regretted any inconvenience or confusion this change of plans might cause the school. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“The rink is operational year-round anyway, just have to adjust a few things here and there to keep other parts of the building open. So here’s the plan.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’d planned on taking Petey back to his house to meet Calamity’s kittens, but he couldn’t imagine saying that out loud. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I was just filling everyone in on dinner plans for prom. We have a six o’clock reservation at the American Grill Bistro at North Point Mall. It’s about twenty minutes from the nature center.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

As they waited throughout the afternoon, the living room filled with smoke and the murmurs of plans. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made fourteen dollars each week in my part-time job and planned accordingly. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was clear he was planning to see me tomorrow, if nothing else. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Bessie mopped up the fat with a crust of bread as she listened to the talk of evening plans. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She mumbled her good-bye and hopped out onto the sidewalk before her mom could cancel any more of her pretend plans. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Beginning in 1864, Booth, the young stage star, had pledged his cash, his celebrity, and his connections in hatching a bold plan. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gross features of the fair envisioned in the plan concealed a billion smaller obstacles that the public and most of the exposition’s own directors had no idea existed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The Abbot slapped a paw down on the plans. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I planned the little doghouse, and where to put it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, obstacles that would normally lead a person to change their plans, like a car breaking down, only made her more determined to forge ahead. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We make plans but we do research; it would sound odd to say that we do plans or make research. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

When we took this decision, and subsequently formulated our plans, the ANC heritage of nonviolence and racial harmony was very much with us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hadn’t I been planning to go there one of these days? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours pass, and lunch comes and goes, as they try to come up with a realistic plan for taking the Nut. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I made tea cookies this morning. You see, I had planned to invite you for cookies and lemonade so we could have this little chat. The lemonade is in the icebox.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the water turned off, my plan for Sunday was to work on my paper on Lord of the Flies. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the second Communist five-year plan, our parents bought a car. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each night, as I laid my head on the pillow, bomb shelters were my topic for thoughts, nightmares, dreams, and planning. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But she hatches another plan to make me a more useful servant. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It appeared that Colby had planned to meet with the women’s groups separately. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He knew there was enough food for a week or more, but now the situation would present a greater strain than he had planned. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Cook kept us up preparing for the storm until past midnight last night, and I’d been planning to look for a secret entrance today. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I have plans with a friend from my old school.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She was awake, and she was planning something. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He glanced around the fields, desperately trying to formulate a plan. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I used to look at it from my dad’s little blue boat, same one I plan on stealing to find my mother. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m planning on heading back to the classroom for more scintillating lessons from the history teacher. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about those things you didn’t plan—things you couldn’t plan. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

"I can't believe this. You dirty little rats. But I like the fact that y'all are ganging up on me. That means my plan is working." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

"I'm sure these people are planning some scheme that would bring you harm," she said, leaning forward in her seat. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When word came that the Americans were going to put their first woman into space, the Soviets dropped plans for an all-female crew and instead focused their energies on launching a second woman into space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

So Leiner finally revealed that her husband was back in town and planned on being there. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In fact, I'm sure this is Cato's plan because while he's stopped laughing, his lips are set in a triumphant smile. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then they stayed up for another hour, making plans late into the night while the radiators puffed warmth around them. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My entire plan now was to be one of the chosen. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My plan is to stand in front of the class for the five minutes I was given for my presentation. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever his plans, I knew he didn’t stand a chance against my family. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He said he planned to pull some of the advisors out of Vietnam by the end of the year. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

For the moment, I decide to just hold on to the paper while I think of a plan, and let its kindness ooze into me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Regiomontanus, it is true, planned to publish him, but, where other texts Regiomontanus had planned to publish appeared in print in due course, Theodoric’s little treatise did not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Would this plan get back to the other teachers at some point? Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We also argued that the planning of violence was necessary to prove high treason, and the prosecution needed to provide examples of its claim that we intended to act violendy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I don’t care what Nita’s plan is, as long as it means striking the Bureau as hard as we can. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard enough for the moment. Let’s skip ahead to this plan of yours,” he says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

This visit isn’t planned, but I know exactly why I’m here. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In a last-ditch effort, they hatched a plan to appeal directly to Penkovsky's bosses in the GRU—their sworn enemies—to plead for his life. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, maybe we can talk them into changing their plans.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew she was serious—that in the future he’d be consulted on vacation plans, but that trips to Florida or beyond could and would happen with or without him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have to consult each other or come up with an elaborate plan. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She wanted to think for a long time about two or three certain people, to sing to herself, and to make plans. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The only thing that she did not keep in mind in her fearsome plan was that in spite of her pleas to God she might die before Rebeca. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

What did become clear was that, given the Carter grading plan, it was possible to give Gary Edwards just about any grade. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without having any sure plans for the future, he decided to attend A&T University in Greensboro. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Urgent Zionist meetings had been called to plan for the coming United Nations session that was to discuss the Palestine problem. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Johnson is good with tools from her years of overseeing set design, and plans how to drape the curtains and pavilions that we're sewing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even the Royal Greenwich Observatory, the official keeper of the world’s time and arbiter of all things chronological, planned to be swamped by the revelers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Justice Douglas tells of attending a meeting of federal field men who were discussing protests by citizens against plans for the spraying of sagebrush that I mentioned earlier in this chapter. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I can hardly wait for the day when these plans will be realized.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Fantastic plan inside, made me think of some of those pictures of fancy lofts in New York,” Nigel said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Liyana said, “Estate Sale sounds disgraceful to me, as if we’re planning to display stained baby clothes and sticky ketchup bottles! I hate it!” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Smitherman snarled, “Don’t plan for any pay for the rest of the week, boy! You don’t choose your hours—I do!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“She didn’t know what she was doing. None of us could follow Beetee’s plan. You can see her trying to figure out what to do with that wire,” Peeta snaps back. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Roger is waiting for me by my locker as planned, looking uncomfortable. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile on the Row the planning reached a crescendo. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scrambled back over the rails and jumped to the spot where Hen Wen was about to emerge, planning to seize her and hang on until Dallben and Coll arrived. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I was already farther from the enclosure exit than I’d ever planned to be, and one of the soldiers could wander by any minute. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t planning on saying good-bye like this,” she tells me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tagoe plans on throwing these jeans out when he gets home. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Captain Smith nods, and I wonder if he really does plan to be polite to the exalted gentlemen from here on in. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She drifted off to sleep thinking that tomorrow, she would call Adelaide and make plans to go over there. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

One of the medics realized what he was planning. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Black-on-black crime” is jargon, violence to language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who built the streets and sold red ink by the barrel. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But then I heard the Colonel’s voice, distinct and very annoyed, saying, “Because it narrows the list of possible suspects by twenty- three! Why couldn’t you just follow the plan? Christ, where is everybody?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

When it’s a criminal case, the plan contains measurable benchmarks. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Another night. I’m planning a special excursion for you tomorrow. In the afternoon I need to visit the granary, and I mean to take you with me, let you see more of the property.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Since we were caught by surprise, we didn't have a plan. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“You have been wondering, I am sure, what I have planned for you during these — for want of a better word — lessons?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“So Friday? Do you have plans for Friday?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She and William spent their evenings in happy planning, and their contentment was good to see. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

As planned, Caesar constructed an annex to the public square known as the Forum. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

I’ve been planning this for a while, and I’m ready to do something about it. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She was planning to bring them over one at a time. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to warn my family about the war the Erudite are planning, but I don’t know how. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And for years I had planned my entrance. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a plan: when she got out of nursing school, she’d move to San Francisco and get a job in a hospital. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them were the darkened streets, where Count Olaf had escaped to plan more treachery. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

After the usual brief spell of darkness and near suffocation, Harry found himself in the tiny alleyway where the first phase of their plan was scheduled to take place. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. So, like, a lot slower than planned. But.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I would prefer to have it in the Rose Garden as we planned,” Tricia told her father. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The plan succeeded, and Garfield won his first political office. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Therefore, what must be planned for, in the laboratories engaged in the work, is the totally unforeseeable. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I heard. The Senate plans to elect you Pontifex Maximus' Jason shrugged. ‘I don’t care about the title so much. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Even when Zach told him that he was expected to plan the entire Halloween dance, he was mellow about it. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

But the bottom line was that we were far from poor and our future was promising, maybe even more promising for the fact that it couldn’t easily be planned. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“And secondly, what if you go down there and someone shoots you, and then what? I go down and get shot too? Bad plan.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

That’s what he said to Kitty, but to everybody else he was planning his whole life. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They planned to drive from their home in Georgia across five southern states and straight into Mexico. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Lassie was in England at last, safe for a while with a kindly old man and woman who planned to keep her forever. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The speeches fired up the Klansmen, but as a secret society standing outside of the mainstream, with no well-thought-out plan of action, the Klan had little influence in Durham’s affairs. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how much of his plan was thought out. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The plan was for my father to go first. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“How have you seen God’s plan for me?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

As much as I wanna ask you to work this case out a certain way, I know you already got a plan. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I planned to take Fay, but she said she had a date and she’d rather go dancing. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Probably he was already thinking what a good story this would make when he wrote home, but I planned to write first. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father had told her that on the night of the explosion, he and his sister and Mollie had been planning to spend the night at the Smiths’ house. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Soon enough, my sisters’ wedding plans turned to arguing over how to throw rose petals. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I come into the living room and explain my plan, which is for us to drive around town and take small cuttings from interesting plants. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Over the years many aspects of his Chicago plan were adopted, among them the creation of the city’s lovely ribbon of lakefront parks and Michigan Avenue’s “Magnificent Mile.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She switched to another station, where they were issuing a warning that anyone who planned to ride out the storm in New Orleans should be prepared for a flood. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Assuming Leo lived long enough, assuming his crazy secret plan worked, his destiny was with somebody else, on an island that no man ever found twice. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I couldn't tell if she was worried, or if she was just wondering why my father had plopped down on the sofa like he was planning to stay awhile. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Mark Antony sent his plan for governing the east to Rome, hoping that the senate would give its approval. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Of course I am. So what’s your plan? You’ll stay and help us fight, obviously, but where will you sleep? Not with me, my room’s a single. Exceptions rarely made.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Aside from a formal plea to the jury, which would not take place until the morrow, the psychiatrist’s testimony terminated Hickock’s planned defense. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had a low frustration level; they didn’t plan, and when they broke the law, they got caught. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The entire plan had been dreamed up by BOSS, even the rumors that reached me about the ANC’s planning an escape. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned about the middle game and why tactics between two adversaries are like clashing ideas; the one who plays better has the clearest plans for both attacking and getting out of traps. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she says this, I feel like that’s a much better plan than just leaving. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I was beginning to lose my faith, but your words last Sunday and the charity of this magnificent town have restored my belief that the Lord has a plan for me, and it is majestic.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The whole plan was to limit oxygen and keep an explosion from happening. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just like that, the plan I’ve been struggling to come up with for weeks explodes in my brain like a stick of dynamite with a too-short fuse. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He planned forays to public gardens and parks and the grounds of the old Paris exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe the sabotage'd been planned in advance, or maybe it just happened. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

We had strategically planned our flyer distribution to not only avoid teachers and staff, but also to avoid Selena. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“The egg drop! I remember that! Of course we can pick these things up. What’s your plan?” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The Romans responded by burning her ships just as quickly as she could move them, forcing her to change her plans. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“You know that when you take food from the garden, there’s a chance that it could throw off the meals we have planned for everyone.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After Hang Wood, he had not wanted to come in here, it had reminded him of his own failure, his ultimate loss of control over things, after all the careful planning. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She could not allow Elowen to take over her mind, and she began to formulate a plan to prevent it from happening. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have plans, but the dismal state of my social life was none of her business. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They planned events featuring Henrietta Lacks look-alikes —a few Turner Station women who’d style their hair like Henrietta’s and wear suits identical to the one she wore in her iconic photo. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t have any plans of still being in Manifest come September. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And they would talk of their plans, their own great deeds and explorations. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I also plan to give extra credit for those of you who dress as the gods and goddesses we’ve been studying,” she tells us. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I have hoped and prayed for someone to come, someone to talk to, to work with and plan for the future of the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I devise myself a peso plan, for the trip in general—food and stuff—but especially for my feet. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He jumped right in with questions about what plans I made or tools I had, then said, “How about we survey things together, if your mom's okay with that?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

But it had done the opposite, because not one person could think of anything that had indicated Diana was planning something like this. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He understood Juno’s plan: Unite the Roman and Greek demigods to create an elite team of heroes, then somehow convince the gods to fight alongside them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

On our flight to Moscow, Farmer told me that the World Bank was planning to make a loan to Russia to help prevent a full-blown TB epidemic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“We need to hatch a plan. We must destroy this boy.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I’m afraid if I call her without a plan, she might try to convince me to go back to our parents’ little shack. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, dinner isn't really about food, it's about planning out our strategies, and Cinna and Portia have already proven how valuable they are. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Opportunities to make plans together became virtually nonexistent, and it was in desperation that Harry, Ron, and Hermione took to volunteering to feed the chickens just to escape the overcrowded house. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He said the passports were foolproof, and we had so little time to plan. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they load up, like this was the plan all along, in Dr. Martin’s truck, which is last in line in the driveway. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Did she plan to meet me at the terrace? The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I thought and thought and thought, and by the time my parents came home that evening, I had a plan. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry, I have no plans to steal your bed. I’m just visiting.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There are people who say I’m a wonderboy—one who got jinxed—or that I knew some secret—which I fumbled—or that I had this big, hairy plan. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shall Bailey and I get cocoa while you get the cinnamon whatnots?” she asks, and Widget nods his approval of this plan. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But now every cell of me was married to Nathan’s plan. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma was upset because all of her notebook planning had been wasted. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each block was built to the same design, just as each of the ten camps, from California to Arkansas, was built to a common master plan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have the money—there weren’t enough cows in Kenya to send me to school in America—so I thought, Well, I’ll just have to change my plans. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, everybody, let’s go over the game plan,” Coach said. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s not like I planned it or anything. I just kinda lost it last night.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He strode along invested with his new dignity, thought and planned out loud, unconscious of her thoughts. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He wrote, “Maybe it’s time to do the thing we’ve been planning.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“First we do the arms deal and you secure The Corporation’s rights in the ROC. Then we’ll plan the wedding. Three days.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

What were they planning that would make them so irresponsible? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Deb and I will not practice together again, but I can’t say that without admitting my plan to quit the flute. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Swaying him was a tall order; a staunch opponent of match races and big purses, he was likely to come out against the plan. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have a plan or a goal, I just wanted to be in a space where I knew what the rules were and where I didn’t have to prove myself. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“How we gonna ’scape?” she asked, still unsure of the doctor’s plan. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For you, that’s early. Next time you plan to impress me give me some warning.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Shadow hadn’t said anything, and hadn’t planned to say anything, but he felt it was required of him, so he said, “Well, weren’t they?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He sensed that Mullet Fingers was planning another illegal visit to the Mother Paula’s site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fencing family at the Westbrook Foundation had their own plans for me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Visitors not only can learn a lot about Tsiolkovsky’s plans for flying into space but can also see how he lived on earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that’s what I thought about as I stood beneath the showerhead: the planning. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They too were planning lives without their father. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We made a plan for the whole afternoon, and her dad was ready, should Nan need anything big. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

But in truth, he was psyching himself up for what he had planned for that evening, convincing himself it was the right thing to do. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“It must have been their plan all along,” he said. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stone and his band of merry New Dealers were planning more improvements. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did Lee plan to let Richmond fall and in its stead to seize Washington—wouldn’t the exchange of capitals be worth his while? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

A still, small voice reminded me to return good for evil, reminded me that my plans for the future do not include fisticuffs or expulsion. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After some practice with this, it will be easy to plan an integrated multicultural lesson using something like kamishibai, or Japanese story cards. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He had planned to lay out his step-by-step strategy for preventing an arms race, backing each step with clearly reasoned arguments. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trouble is, we had planned to descend to a lower level, but that’s out now. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Actually…” Frank tried frantically to come up with a plan. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This is beginning to look like a plan: from maids’ service to something better, with the nursing home tiding me over during the transition. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He returned to logging work while we made plans to file a civil lawsuit against everyone involved in his wrongful prosecution and conviction. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was a plan that would protect all the kids, and it would protect him, and it might even protect Dr. Barnes as well. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want him to catch her at what she was planning to do. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was three kilometers to the corner of LaSalle and Calhoun, where Frankie and I had arranged to meet, and I planned on walking the entire way. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then it'd all be my fault for not sticking to the plan. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Crazy thing is, Diary, you weren't part of the plan. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

But, then again, we had the eggs, and we were here, and nothing was going according to plan. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Nobody’s planning to kill us, so far,” I whispered back. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“What you planning to do with all them videotapes you’re making?” Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I planned the first thing I wanted to say to her, so Mrs. V and I had programmed it in ahead of time. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He became a pioneer in modern urban planning. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Here’s what happened: Mom and Dad were supposed to be at a planning meeting for Vacation Bible School tonight, but it got out early. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She reminds me of myself—wanting to be the best, researching and plotting and planning to make sure I am ahead of everyone. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

You decided to go with him when you heard his crazy-but-not-so-crazy plan. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And anyway, it might not matter what Magdalys had planned at all. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s the planning and excitement of going places or seeing who we’re going to see. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I had planned for us to get to know each other, but obviously that’s not going to happen.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The actual model building would start right after lunch, and more concrete plans must be formulated to make the process efficient. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Reverend Dr. J. H. Barrows read a blessing and benediction and then, at the request of exposition officials, read a speech that Higinbotham had prepared for the originally planned ceremony. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The midwife, needing to replenish her stores of leather flasks, nutmeg, pepper, and the water in which a murderer had washed his hands, made plans to attend the Saint Swithin’s Day Fair at Gobnet-Under-Green. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the same, Haupt's main interest in life was having a good time, which was what he and Wergin planned on doing in Mexico City. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“So. A new plan, then,” said Brave Orchid, looking at her son, who had his forehead on the steering wheel. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our family, while Papa puttered, Mama made her daily rounds to the mess halls, helping young mothers with their feeding, planning diets for the various ailments people suffered from. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe even part of His plan to come to my rescue. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

And then I stumbled across a plan that would work. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Always she was busy with thoughts and plans. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Pretending he hadn’t heard, Fadi avoided the cafeteria, planning to hide out in the library. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Someone can be sent to guard him, to guard all of you—but, as for the rest, I have a plan. Madoc won’t follow.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Apparently he has no arms at all and he plans to defeat Nigeria with his fists.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Most of it is half true, half planned. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

They had come up with the plan to disguise themselves and get the information from the Hall of Elders, and now they were putting that plan in motion. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Only the plan is to run out into the smelly millpond and drown us both. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Each of her three children owns one pair of shoes, purchased on a layaway plan. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She owned herself for a few hours every week was how she looked at it, to tug weeds, pluck caterpillars, thin out the sour greens, and glare at anyone planning incursions on her territory. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The previous Thursday, the first day of spring, had been the Afghan New Year’s Day—the Sawl-e-Nau—and Afghans in the Bay Area had planned celebrations throughout the East Bay and the peninsula. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Did he want to love me openly, or did he plan to use our love to cloak his darker purpose? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My plans for revenge, such as unscrewing the lightbulb, locking the door and hiding his clothes, have unfortunately had to be abandoned in the interests of peace. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He recognized that my life was starting in earnest and would take a different course from the one he had envisaged and planned for. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t planned to say it, it just came out. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He discovered the heating element was gone, mainly because I had taken it to see if my plans for an electrical-ignition system would work. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

This is not the time to be making wild escape plans. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She leaned against the log, planning to get back to her feet, when something made her decide to look underneath it. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I want to know if a plan of mine will work.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Who does she plan to download these Cogs to? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was just explaining Leo’s plan to fix the ship when she heard horse hooves clomping across the deck over their heads. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The fast is planned for tomorrow, the same day as the Red Cross visit, to be most impactful. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They planned to finish it in time to slide downhill Saturday afternoon. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we didn’t shoot. Our plan was to wait until the British were close—close enough to see their eyes. And then we’d all shoot at once.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, and another little change of plan: We’re taking him with us as well.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We change plans, go to plan B, interrupt conversations, go back on promises depending on his moods, his whims, his needs. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Great and small, they all backed the plan and you” Dave Morris wrote Lawrence the next day. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Just wait till I told him what I had planned. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Night again, and I am planning how to tell my story. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fretted about Minnijean as I plunged into my birthday party plans, but the more I tried to console her, the less she listened. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last a plan shaped itself in his mind. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Same plan. You hit them. Hood goes first. You key on his last Brigade. That will be G. T. Anderson.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His rescue had happened just in time for him to save the Princess Pea from the terrible fate that the rat had planned for her. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what we’re going to do,” said Henry, as calmly as if I’d asked him his plans for the afternoon. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was now constant talk of government intentions, plans to meet in council, invitations to smoke the pipe. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The talk was that Lord Tywin planned to restore Harrenhal to glory, and make it his new seat once the war was done. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was planning as he left the bar. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you were not a democracy or a democratizing society, if you continued to hold fast to highly regulated or centrally planned economics, you were seen as being on the wrong side of history. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

His plan was to stay with Kaira’s mother for a couple of years to avoid suspicion, then divorce her and live with Aileen. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I immediately decided to throw out my meticulously planned lessons and make tolerance the core of my curriculum. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe praying would help, but fixing things with Eliza was going to take a little more planning. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Now that Snowball was out of the way, the plan could go forward without his interference.This, said Squealer, was something called tactics. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

‘Sure he do,' Portia said. ‘You see—us haves our own way of living and our own plan. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Washington’s report on the French plans helped convince England to fight France for control of the territory both nations claimed. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day Dell asks me when I plan to go back to middle school. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The truth is, I needed to stall for a while if my plan was going to work tonight. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Are you planning the Quarter Quell Games already?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could finalize a plan we were at the front of the line with our papers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I am almost seventy years old,” said the father, “and haven’t taken a second wife, and don’t plan to now.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That's regrettable," he said, "but there's nothing to be done about it that wouldn't upset the larger plan. It's unfortunate, Brother, but your members will have to be sacrificed." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And besides, with July nearly upon them, the three roommates were malting plans for going home. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

As Booth drifted off to sleep, he did not know whether his master plan had succeeded or failed. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do not let Solovet’s gentle demeanor fool you. In the planning of battles, she is more cunning and wily than a rat.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Viboon was trying to shame him, but he didn't plan to stick around long enough for that. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, what you planning to do?” he asked. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had all these plans about getting in and reprogramming it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it your plan, then, Sonny my boy, to disgrace the entire state of West Virginia with your confounded ignorance?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He concocted a tragically misguided plan: He would construct a small bomb and place it on her front porch. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I picked up my other case files and made updated plans for how to assist each client to maximize the chance of avoiding an execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“How insulting. Doesn’t he think we can plan anything ourselves?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Lee said, “You can begin at any time. But plan it well, plan it well. We stake everything on this.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

While everyone considers the plan, Boggs flips through a stack of blueprints of the Nut and frowns. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We’re going to work on our business plan for the new volunteer club we want to start now that Sunshine Buddies is over. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Once more through the plan: Use the manual valves to equalize the airlock. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one could have seen her place it; they had to have known about the plan in advance. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Kim had looked at me, her mouth agape, like I’d just told her I planned on sauteing up a platter of slugs for dinner. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee continues to plan, still looking for a way to save his army and get to the Carolinas. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even the chronology no longer seemed haphazard but was part of a ruthless plan. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

To my left are the Allegiant, Marcus, and the insurrection plan. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Lana started to plan the ensemble with the globe, the chalk, and the book. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I went where I always go when I don’t know what to do—I headed for the library to organize my thoughts and hammer out a battle plan. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had he told Grindelwald he wanted no more part in his plans? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

By the time I reached my room, I had a plan. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Bono said, “She is a treat in that garden. That’s a very fine place to see her. She fix the borders different this year? She and Mr. Gitney had a plan last summer.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But a few guests could set back the feeding plans for the week if you did not build up what you destroyed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Edith planned to give birth here, with the assistance of a midwife. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Flora Baumbach may have been wrong about the murder, but she was not convinced of Turtle’s plan. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat together in line, waving their hands, planning a strategy. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“My friends, there is something we should think about. I, too, believe in what Ampai was trying to do. But I will remind you of her plan—her entire plan.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I plan by January to have my GED, and then start working at the post office. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I planned to play “Something in the Way” for Kim the following week when she came over for dinner. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the suitors had got under way, planning the death plunge for Telemakhos. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re probably all planning the fun at her house tomorrow night. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I daresay that is his — er — eventual plan,” said Fudge evasively. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Georges Laforgue was disturbed when I told him what I planned to do. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

All of my carefully planned persuasion flew out of my head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At night, when I had planned this virtuous grooming, I was always too busy with something else. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hale said he hoped that Gregg, at least, would go through with the plan. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A plan was forming at the back of my mind, and it was almost too terrible to acknowledge as my own. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Mark Antony and Cleopatra divided their time between discussing military plans and tactics and enjoying the merrymaking in their honor. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The weather threatened to dull the elaborate fireworks display that Frank Millet had planned as a further boost for the exposition’s attendance, which despite steady week-to-week increases still lagged behind expectations. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, I plan on getting some after harvest.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Gladly. I plan to fit myself into the cookhouse if I can. I’m going to tell Sarah you want me to learn how to cook for you.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you have a plan, wise girl?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The pastor asked me to plan a church program based on Psalm 23. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Many people like him plan to return to get their degrees, even if few actually do. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Not everyone knows what their plans are down to the location of their future college at this point in their high school careers. And some people don’t go to college right away.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He called himself Shelley the Playboy, and speaking in code on the radio, he kept us abreast of the plans to march. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Amari knew her mother was right and began to help her make plans for the arrival of the guests. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had I gotten to the top of the hill on time, we would have gone home together like we’d planned. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Next morning, filled with his plan, he had believed it was the fluttering wings of his father’s ba that had half-waked him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Do you have a plan other than holding a fire extinguisher and hoping for the best?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was clear to him that now, finally, the architects understood that Chicago had been serious about its elaborate plans for the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We have tonight and half of tomorrow before the feast, before I must go to Hollow Hall, before my plans either come together or come entirely apart. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She ran down the hall to the front room, planning to do a search for The Maltese Falcon on Book Scavenger, but stopped short when she saw Matthew on the family computer. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We discussed our plans over break, and then I dropped the prom bomb. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Extinction-level events notwithstanding, I think you can plan ahead,” she says. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I had scoffed back then, thinking this was hardly a lesson plan for a university course. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do not harm it, and stick to the plan. Our orders are to take it to Father Olufemi, let him deal with this beast.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I had no plan, no prospects of a plan. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grins, then explains, “Louise is planning a girls’ weekend for us. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Out of their talk of traps came my plan of trap-springing. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the problem was first noticed, the legal counsel had advised that there should be no product recall, but rather, Customer Service should go with a "replace as requested" plan. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Levy wouldn’t really fit into the Levy Shorts plan. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half of our grade will depend on this assignment, but no one seems too eager to make plans. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“We need these plans. And in case you’ve forgotten, one of my flash bombs helped get us out of the Ketterdam harbor.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Neel helped Rupa finish her chores so they had time to sit in the shade of the sundari trees and hatch their next plan. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mark asked about plans for the next day but Alec insisted they weren’t ready yet. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But that gave me time to plan my strategy. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

That didn’t exactly make me feel real excited about whatever her plan was. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I appreciated their business savvy and the way they always looked out for me, but the last thing I wanted to think about on the eve of my nineteenth birthday was financial planning. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Moreover, less than three months after my arrival in Copenhagen I was asked to propose plans for the following year. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

As they continued with their journey home, the uncles planned what they would tell the chief and his people when they returned. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I had all sorts of plans for hoods and jesses, as the straps on a falcon are called, and I soon forgot about the man. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been out of the country and in prison while much of the planning at Rivonia had taken place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At any rate, she is expected. The sister was most annoyed at me because they had planned to go off on their vacation today, although why she should be annoyed at me...” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

This concerned me: why was the plan altered? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still hadn’t formulated a plan for the rest of the day when I walked outside—and into the one person I hadn’t realized I was desperate to see. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Some said Caesar planned to pass a law so that he could have two wives. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

She had planned on killing her husband with Bodega’s gun. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I planned to beg and plead with Uncle Clancey to let me live with them and finish high school in Cincinnati. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if maybe he should’ve kept his mouth shut.Yawning, he got comfortable, planning to process it all, think things through for a while. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

My stomach was churning, because I was really planning on telling him. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The US. government planned to break up Indian Territory and make it a part of what would be a new state called Oklahoma. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I was planning to fly out that evening, but he invited me to a gathering of some of his artist-and-crafter friends and I decided to stay until the next morning. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reviewed the plan with the rest of the crew—and the backup plan, and the backup plan for the backup plan. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Howard Fuller and other black community leaders had no plans to mount further demonstrations at that point, but Mayor Grabarek changed that. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Anthony had already made plans for the Eleventh National Woman’s Rights Convention, set for May in New York, and she wanted to move forward with the meeting. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But they didn’t need to make plans, for there was a thick layer of snow on the ground and hills to sled down. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Are you planning on staying here all day?” he asks. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The rest of the family nodded at both Aunt Tuti’s statement and Vanessa’s plan. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The original plan was to go to school from eight forty-five to noon, then work at the bank from one to five thirty, as a part of the work-study program. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Famine and floods in the mid-1990s all but destroyed the centrally planned economy. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Even the one plan that was practicable, suicide, they had no intention of carrying out. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I saw it on the floor plan. People can walk up to it on the sidewalk and return their books. I figured it had to lead down here.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

It seems that Kendra thought the move to Godric’s Hollow was the perfect opportunity to hide Ariana once and for all, something she had probably been planning for years. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

"Look, if you want to spend the last hours of your life planning some noble death in the arena, that's your choice. I want to spend mine in District Twelve." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I borrow the Westerlo and Altamont quadrangle maps and we separate, planning to meet at Beaver Corners at dawn if all is well. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am team captain. And I say we’re doing our pageant prep first, according to plan. Priorities.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The event had been planned since before the Olympics, and bringing home a bronze medal only made the event organizers even more excited to celebrate my achievements. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He planned to make forty-nine more, but only the one in his bag existed at that moment. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Pentagon was in the earliest stages of planning for a war game that they were calling Millennium Challenge ’02. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

At its core, he plans a kilometer-long museum: a trove of the greatest achievements in human culture. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The plan had been to go to Holborn Library on Theobalds Road, but I couldn’t face it, so I went to Regent’s Park instead. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad makes me go to those meetings—where they plan what to do to get you’all kicked out of school.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he didn’t, Rashid slid the card back next to the photograph he planned on keeping for himself no matter what happened. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

‘All right. . . this just makes my plan even more important. Once we get this physician’s cure, I’m going to need your help. Both of you.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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

The rest of the family agreed with this plan—except Aunt Tuti, who wanted to take more extreme measures, like hanging cazuelas outside of Wilfrido’s office at all hours of the day. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it might not be too late, even now, to persuade him to agree to a new plan—a plan that would be as good for one warren as the other. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fuller thought it best to let people believe this fiction, but the truth was that he had no master plan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Who everyone in the family was, why Aunt Gloria was visiting and why she planned to move to New York. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It said with the extra resources they planned to increase the rehabilitation side of the program, including more one-on-one therapy sessions and educational and career counseling. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I planned to talk to him about it during the inter-semester break, but my father suffered a second heart attack on the first day of that break. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

"If that’s what you want,” Dad said, "we’ll plan it that way. Excuse me a minute while I make a note of it.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told Hamlet my plan, disguising its motive, for I did not want him to think me . too unkind. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Every time I made a plan to meet up with Chelsea, Nadine, and Isaac, an emergency would happen with Dad or Mom would need me to watch Jason. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s a good thing you have a plan to guide us, huh?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

His day was ending; it was 3:00 P.M., and he planned to pick up a girl from around the way to go to the movies. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Lyra had planned to leave the way she’d come, banking on another few minutes before the Steward’s bell rang. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

On the night the city council was to deliberate Greenberg’s case, Ann Atwater and 100 other Hayti residents met at St. Joseph’s Church to plan strategy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It was supposed to be your son, Simon. When I called, he remembered, but he’d already made other plans. There was no answer at the other numbers.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The three devised what they called a “disassembly strategy”—or, out of earshot of Tom White, “the post-Tom plan.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They instructed me to draw up a plan that would enable the organization to operate from underground. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father increased his pleas that they plan a future with him in California, but they only nodded. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure,” he said, “but don't you think we ought to have something else planned? Just in case the gods don’t get the message.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shall not plan the whole action for you now, but only tell you of both. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Midway through 2009, my small team and I began coordinating with West Wing policy people and meeting with experts inside and outside government to formulate a plan. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I hated to admit it, but her plan had worked. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My plans were to, first of all, stay away from the girl until everything died down," Haupt said. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It was a good plan, the sort of plan you can make when you are thinking with your head and not your dissolved heart. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Not what I asked. Why isn’t it on our plans?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But really what he was planning all along was to let her study for five whole years only to render that degree useless in the end. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He repeated the steps of his plan, his eyes on the window left ajar, as the sheer blue curtains swayed. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

They say no plan survives first contact with implementation. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she had been working in the fields beside him she had been planning all this out! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Now what?” said Aunt Petunia, looking furiously at Harry as though he’d planned this. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It had been a premeditated incident; someone had heard them talk, in class, about their plans to come after me, and tipped off Navid. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Or that Louis V. Gerstner, the former IBM chief executive, hired a Boston litigator to help him push through a plan for a large new house on his $11 million waterfront plot? Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Thomas found Minho and Teresa talking to each other near the left side of the Door, going over the hastily made plans to enter the escape code once they got into the Hole. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They had planned to have a family, but with the continuing demands of Marian’s career, they put that off, too. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“Does that mean Mr. Benedict has a plan now? He thinks he can stop Mr. Curtain?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The plan was never to disrupt Fall Fiesta with our talent show. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Mapper pulled out the floor plans he’d drawn and unrolled them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

As Dad had planned, we all knew the Morse code fairly well within a few weeks. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Johnny didn’t know was that I had a plan. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

‘Unless . . .’ he began, thinking about it for a moment and allowing a plan to hatch in his head. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some of these plans were no more than pipe dreams. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As with humans, the basic plan for the adult body is furled into an embryo. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“She was about to cry out. My plan was ideal as all my plans are ideal. It was the moon’s ill timing that robbed me of perfection.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Our plan to come home early had backfired completely. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Of course, you may,” Miss K told him, thereby destroying Ralph’s plan to practice. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“All strength is born of association,” wrote Beaumont, “and 30 individuals united through perpetual communication, by ideas, by plans in common, by concerted schemes, have more real power than 900 whose isolation makes them weak.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re not churchgoers unless it’s Easter, Juneteenth, or Christmas, and there typically aren’t any weekly plans or activities, so my brother Drake and I sleep until eleven and wake to the smell of bacon. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

My plan was simple and foolhardy: steal a rowboat, cross the river to Jersey, and walk to Charleston. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Zeep Creep and the nurse were obviously annoyed and planned to pin me to the table. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I explain my plan while Bob stands behind me and flips his blue Sharpie. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Early in 1946, David and Pesza devised a plan to go back to Czechoslovakia to see if they could settle there. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

In my parents' case, they dated for a week, then spent the following week planning their wedding. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“We have such a lovely afternoon planned! Off to shop!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Was it even planned, or something that simply erupted out of years of hatred and resentment? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, bleeding skies. It was just a joke. Of course I’ll fight to win. I’m not planning to die, that’s for sure. But what about you? Don’t you want to become Empress?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Glassblowers all the way from Amaya. A furnace built from your own plans. A smokestack that’s the highest point in the entire city. And what have you to show for it all? Notes? Measurements?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Or it didn’t matter most of the time, Matt thought as a delightful plan occurred to him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had no definite plans for our future. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deputies were driving him back to death row and talking about a gun show they were planning to attend. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Over breakfast, Dad and I discussed our plan for the day. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She tried to plan which direction she would run. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Although I still planned on winning first place at the science fair this year, we pinky swore we’d help each other with our individual projects. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

My unspoken plan is that, if I can butter him up enough, maybe he’ll change his mind and fly us out of here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any bacteria planning to rot my taters will die screaming. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The judge can order him released so he can get tested by some shrinks. That’s the new plan.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It had been Robin’s plan to issue orders as his father might have done; to have been lordly and commanding. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“I quite disagree, respectfully, of course. I see many who act on instinct, which I believe is wrong. Through instinct we succumb to weakness and emotion. Careful thought and planning, mental construction, is always best.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They had not planned to have him and, because of that, they had raised him as an afterthought. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But maybe God intended for me to sleep in that morning, needed me to stay home, as He counted on all of the day’s events spreading out just like He’d planned them. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, it’s absolutely brilliant!” cried the Old-Green-Grasshopper when James had explained his plan. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

She planned to read all the books over again when she had finished with the Z’s. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty survivors, all well qualified for our planned endeavor. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

His fallback plan is yet another forced march, this one to the city of Danville, where more than a million rations are supposed to await. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a stupid plan, but I didn’t have any better ideas. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Our American Cousin starts at eight, and his plan will go into action shortly after ten P.M. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Francie planned to pick it up and hand it to the owner saying coolly, “Do you mind? I have to get something out of my desk.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He therefore felt even more sharply than Madison that the fiscal goals of Hamilton’s plan were absolutely essential. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

His house would be the reflection of himself, his family, and the prestige he planned to give the surname that his father had stained. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Apparently the battle plan is clear,” Ignatius said when no questions were forthcoming. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I can even ask her what she plans on doing with those rocks, she’s in the bathroom, filling the bowls with water. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She had to save enough for train fare and a few expenses before she could tell Jamie or make final plans. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Jacob, at last, “if this is the best plan we’ve got, I’m taking more than one book.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I make a plan to carry Moonie home again. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

My plan was to cling close to the skirting of the wall all the way round until I reached the kitchen door. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I realized that whatever Mr. Loomis was planning, at the end of the plan was a picture, and it was of me, too, tied up like Faro in the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the subsidies ended, and North Korea’s centrally planned economy stopped functioning. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In January the government announced its plan to form an all-Nisei combat regiment. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, we met every afternoon and discussed the details, like we were planning a war. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No, Mom, that wasn’t it. I didn’t plan it or anything.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She studied the pegs, planning her next jump. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

My plan is to start them off in small containers and then locate a place later for transplanting. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I’ve told them my new plan: Build the house, then sell the house. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He was afraid she planned to burn her treasury, and he could not let that happen. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs Helena Kingshaw threw herself eagerly into the planning of the Sunday morning cocktail party, to which so many important people were invited. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He tried to forget what he’d just planned to do when he was playing the other side. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I know I could have planned it on my own, or with Mom and Dad, but it didn’t feel the same. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I had some planning to do, but before that, I needed breakfast and a bath. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

What he was planning was beyond belief, a mass murder that would destroy Britain for generations to come. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

All of the pieces are still fitting together, but I sense he has a plan forming. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My dad had traveled to see a football game in Detroit that week, so Mom called him that Saturday and told him about her crazy plan. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Though nobody much liked it, it was Hwin's plan which had to be adopted in the end. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

So I had to use a more primitive plan. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will go north and find Thanatos in the land beyond the gods. You will free him and thwart the plans of the giants. Beware Gaea! Beware her son, the eldest giant!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, I won’t. The whole junior class is planning it. And it’s not like anyone is going to get hurt or anything. Because, well, remember Speaker Day?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She tells me more about Carlos and Griselda's plans, what the due date is, what names she likes. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her original plan, tentative though it was, had been forgotten. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while, he clung to the thought that Hooper might simply not have noticed, might have lost interest in the plans. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

McKissick and student leaders had kept plans for the rally secret, fearing that more conservative blacks would tip off the authorities. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure. You’re the best strategist I know. If you were Kronos planning this war, what would you do next?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He planned to take the long way to the Pipeworks, out at the very edge of the city, to avoid any guards that might still be looking for him. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She planned to follow in her sister’s footsteps. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Do you think that’s true? I think mostly you can plan. Mostly things don’t just come out of nowhere and bowl you over.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t have died, of course, if they had had the boots, as was the original plan. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Coach would usually just talk about a game plan, then we’d play a fun little scrimmage, just so we could get all muddy. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She had to stand by her previous decision and carry out her plan, regardless of the consequences. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But if this was not of sufficient help, then a whole new game plan went into effect, and the command module and the lunar module switched roles. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also thought over my plans to visit Sister Irma, and wondered if it might not be a good idea to pick up my train reservations later that same evening. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He told Deane that he had a plan to set fire to England’s most important dockyard, at Portsmouth, headquarters of the Royal Navy. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the girl who always had a plan, and I attributed most of the successes in my life to staying faithful to those plans. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

My plan was to steal a first-aid kit and treat myself, but the nurse was there. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He would lose himself in thoughts of her, and plan his next letter, refining the phrases, trying to find comedy in the dullness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“What on earth do you plan to do?” the doctor asked. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had a plan and it was a good one. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

So what has Old Charley been doing instead of inspecting new development plans? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose they are not planning another phony interview. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Carefully, afraid to believe in it yet, he examined his plan. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Lady Constance chatted incessantly about all that she planned to buy. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Until we could come up with some brilliant plan to save Thalia’s tree, we figured we might as well go along with the races. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

After a few months Blanca realized that she could not hold him prisoner indefinitely and gave up her plans to reduce his spirit in order to make him her permanent lover. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pressed him, “What about strategy? A plan? Shouldn’t we be mounting an attack now? While it’s dark?” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The new plan had a new name: Operation Citadel. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“What do you plan to do with him?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The plan was still to bury him in the church graveyard near his babies and his brother. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to our cabin, the sheriff said, “OK, Little Charlie, I wants Judge Byrd to go out with me and look at that area. Y’all ain’t planning on going nowhere, are you?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I'm already going to have to die a month sooner than I planned, with the food this week.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So how are the wedding plans going?” she asks as she pops the bag of Twizzlers to share. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The plan of the living quarters was as unimaginative as a first-generation Greek landlord could contrive it to be. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A work of fiction, it purported to be the actual master plan by Jewish leaders to take over the world. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

All the plans for gradual emancipation assumed that slavery was a moral and economic problem that demanded a political solution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They were planning this year’s sugaring, a time everyone looked forward to with joy and excitement, as much as ricing, maybe even more. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Kaede supposed they were already following Con’s plan to draw as little attention to themselves as possible. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The plan to help her make friends was already starting to work. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had a phone, but a plan with unlimited data was too expensive for my family. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She passed along gossip circulating in the streets of Philadelphia about plans to mount pro-French demonstrations, allegedly orchestrated by “the grandest of all grand Villains, that traitor to his country—the infernal Scoundrel Jefferson.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

My roommates turn to each other and begin discussing their plans. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The king has other plans for his prize captive,” he said, with his easy smile. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s not like I wake up every day planning to be a failure. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Before Julia could answer, I said “There’s no rush. I just got the plans approved. We can start next week. Anyway, Annemarie, you were coming to my house today, remember?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“If you thought it would be a plan worth trying, I'd have to take your word it would help.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd planned to urinate and maybe run a little water over my face, but now I had this to deal with. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I even kind of persuaded him to go along with my plan. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They seemed so serious, as if their lives were a really complicated trick that had to be planned and replanned every day. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They were already the two lightest oarsmen in the boat, and he had planned to make sure they put on some weight during the voyage. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Another power player who has decided to use me as a piece in her games, although things never seem to go according to plan. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I’ve been lost in thought, thinking about what these sessions with Kamal are actually supposed to achieve: am I really planning to rifle through his desk drawers if he happens to leave the room? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

These young boys met there to feel their groins, smoke cigarettes, and plan mild outrages. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

His job had to do with planning gardens for cities. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

His plan for surviving in China was as half-baked as his plan had been for escaping North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Papa would have told her that was a good plan. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Tally planned to do most of her traveling at night, letting the hoverboard recharge in sunlight, wasting no time. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They stood for a moment under a lamppost, just long enough to agree on a time to meet the next day and plan their announcement. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was especially active in the weeks before the battles of Concord and Lexington, when he gave General Gage information about the Patriots’ preparations for revolution, including plans to build fortifications on Breed’s Hill. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Confinement centers—“colonies”—for the genetically unfit were already planned. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Seven began to formulate a plan of her own. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tad punched on the door one more time, then started out, wondering what his brother would think about his plan. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The more I participated in class, the more I realized that I was no longer interested in the lesson plan because of the possible reward, but because I genuinely found the lesson captivating. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Whatever the enemy may be planning, American science will be equal to the challenge,” Roosevelt wrote to Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They planned to arrive in time to see Ginger play Annie's Sandy. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

We stroll past another couple of storefronts, then, as if we planned it, turn around together and head back to Prestige. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He let his mind drift, wondering what his father was planning, and why Pima looked so worried, and what was going on behind Lucky Girl’s swank eyes. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lateness is a symptom of poor planning and all that. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

When my alarm goes off in the morning, I awake to find Mango sitting on the window ledge, no doubt planning his next attack. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z