| 单词 | shack |
| 例句 | Eventually, the hot open slum gave way to cooler tree- covered lanes and large houses, with shacks around their edges and people going in and out. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z She has been trapped in that shack ever since, held captive by the knots in the rope you saw. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z When we returned to the ticket shack, the light was off and Dusty had gone. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z It is a country of far-flung, lonely farms and a few widely scattered small towns and villages, of lonely trappers’ shacks and logging camps. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull drove through the dark streets of Paradise past the peeling warped shacks and dog-ruled groceries with their glowing Coca-Cola signs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I picked up the gun, ducked through the door of the shack just pushing the blanket away with my head. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They’ll live in shacks wearing Italian leather shoes that cost thousands. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Fulton Street has all the shops, from wig joints to rib shacks. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z We greeted each other kindly and made our way back to our shacks. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The river god was talking about something that had happened thousands of years ago, when this area was nothing but marshes and maybe some shacks. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I staggered back to our shack, trying to see which way Andrius went. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Soon the rumor mill was spinning out gossip that the Smith girl’s father was a drunk and the family lived in a squalid shack. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z It was time to leave this shack and take charge, with a wand that would now do his full bidding. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t have ratted on them, but anyone who shacks up with a Jaguar-driving Weekday Warrior like Paul deserves what she gets.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I got my ration and ran through the snow to the bald man’s shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She kicked up slush as she walked, and her jeans were wet and spattered by the time she arrived at the field where the shrieking shack was. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The shack I live in is pretty close to town, and since I’m not allowed to take the cab home, it’s good walking distance to work. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z There was one night when Khalid spent a long time telling me a story about a shack that belongs to Old Man Martin, down by the river in the swampland. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z He was living in a shack in the woods like this. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The sun came up, gradually, and I marvelled at how, as it emerged mysteriously from behind the distant shacks and veld, everything suddenly sparkled and filled with warmth and sprang to life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought about the young woman in the shack, how she’d treated me so nice, and then I imagined what it must have been like for Dad to go into a burning house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The other kids spread rumors about her—the witch’s child who lived in the old shack by the docks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The trails to the shack were not difficult to remember. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Nailer cursed that he hadn’t just gone straight to the safety of Pima’s shack. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “My boys are opening up the armory next to the generator shack for everyone to equip themselves. Even the colored folks,” he says, giving me a pointed look. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z A truck, a government truck, stops near the tall office building, beside the hawkers’ shacks, and men spill out, men hitting and destroying and leveling and trampling. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Discouraged and depressed, he took refuge in a little shack on the island of Pharos. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I knew they wouldn’t have a telephone in a sharecropper’s shack, so trying to call him wouldn’t have done any good. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Rimas is with us. Bring your mother to the bald man’s shack.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z We hadn't found another place to live and had to regress back to our old fobby selves and shack up with relatives. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z They were not using the rickety old shack on the Highland side of the river this year. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z On the way back, we saw Miss Grybas in back of her shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I recognized the bald man’s shack with its brown door and was able to direct Mother toward ours. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I lived then in a shack in the southern desert mountains of New Mexico, and the drive between the boat and the shack took almost exactly thirteen hours on Interstate 10. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Instead, George followed Kelly into the main room of the apartment and over to the fridge, where Kelly poured juice into two plastic cups that had come from a local barbecue shack. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z “Or to go because you wanted to be somewhere better than a shack on a rock in the middle of nowhere.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z They were usually nothing but a tiny cluster of sad, sunken shacks, a gas station, a dry-goods store, and a bar or two. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The gate was outdoors, but there was a little shack next to it where I sat with Martinez. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of their passes and strikes came close to Corky, so we retired him to New Mexico, where I have a shack in the mountains. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Misdirection,” she explained, and we turned and committed ourselves to the shack’s concealing gloom. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z That shack was the beginning of Lacks Town, a single road about a mile long and lined with dozens of houses —some painted bright yellows or greens, others unpainted, half caved-in or nearly burnt- down. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The township was desperately overcrowded; every square foot was occupied either by a ramshackle house or a tin-roofed shack. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood up and walked past Chuck toward the old building; shack was a better word for the place. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The inside of the shack looks like its own little house. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Something about the way she exhales sounds like she’s happy she’s in this tiny shack in this ancient neighborhood with a bunch of my dad’s relatives. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Nailer could tell she wasn’t impressed, but even he was glad they had Tool with them, someone to protect them as they threaded between tightly packed shacks. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The shack—oh, it was a shack, no poetry of home and hearth allowed—was a flimsy cage, keeping me in and very little else out. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z In one hour, Helena stands at the gate to the ghetto, playing with her ball, the note in her pocket, and I am at my post beside the old ice cream shack. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z A strong wind could whisk the shack up into the sky, scattering it in a burst of pieces. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They visited two-room shacks that housed as many as twelve or fourteen persons. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Without income we could no longer afford the rent for our dingy shack. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I followed it until I came to a small building—more like a shack. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Strangest of all was a small wooden shack built up against the big brick chimney. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Finally, she succeeded in going over the high fence, and disappeared behind a cluster of shacks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z His second home was the wooden shack where he and his father lived with his father’s mother, until his father found a new wife and left. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They heard strange music as they drew near the shack, like somebody playing a rubber band while clacking castanets. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Near the Northern Canal, sprouting up like toadstools, rose the squat shacks of rough boards and turf with only a tiny window and a few holes to let in light. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The sun was just a few hours from setting when they arrived at the base of the hill below the outlying shacks and huts. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It was dark in Boxton, and Mr. Trepid was in his hideaway shack in the alley. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z When Mr. Trepid was sure that Z was gone, he closed the door of the shack and paced inside, back and forth across its tiny interior. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z On the top of the wooden platform was a metal shack with three walls, open on the fourth side. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Cebolleta people salvaged lumber and tin from the shack, but they had no use for the barbed wire any more; the last bony cattle wandering the dry canyons had died in choking summer duststorms. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Forks so small that they disappeared in Nailer’s hand, spoons so big and deep they could have been used as ladles at Chen’s grub shack where he served a hundred head at a time. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z A few nights later, we’re all on the porch of the shack, playing cards. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z We shivered in our shacks, warmed only by the promise of an eventual envelope carrying news from home. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It used to always be so simple, it was just the two of them and they could make shacks into palaces. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z On the right, more soldiers sat under a shack covered with tarp. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He waves his hands all around at the shack. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Nothing familiar, not a traffic clog of yellow rusted buses or a water-logged slum of zinc shacks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Listen to what happened today,” Guy said as, he barged through the rattling door of his tiny shack. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Andrius came to our shack late that night and spoke to Mother outside. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They walked and walked, and still the streets and shacks and scrap bunkers went on. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Up ahead, Pier 54 stretched out from a series of warehouses and dilapidated shacks over the Hudson River. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Each evening I would go to his shack to borrow the two papers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Those old shacks are empty and not a thing left in them.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z It was once a cook shack, where his grandmother prepared food on an open fire. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I didn’t even want to think how much more miserable her life might become in that shack down along the Yazoo. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z It’s a half-hour walk to a hut made of mud and sticks, a cook shack with a fireplace, and a field of millet. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He lived in a shack on the riverbank that had once belonged to his grandfather long time dead. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z If these fossils really thought he was going to live in that shack for a whole year, they were nuts. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Kendra saw the leafy shack in the distance, off the path through the trees. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Phineas patted me on the shoulder, consolingly, as we both sat on a makeshift bench of milk crates in his tiny shack. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Brigid stepped aside and let her into the tiny shack. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z A maelstrom of sand and copper screws and plastic shards swirled around him, the debris of the ship-breaking business ripping at his skin as he ran barefoot down the beach to Pima’s shack. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z More alcohol than food, of course, and by the time everyone shows up for Christmas Eve, my shack smells like turkey, coleslaw, and, of course, the Doorman. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Down a lonely dirt road deep in the woods, we ate venison in a falling-down country shack belonging to some more distant cousins. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z After about fifty yards, we come to a small wooden house—a shack, really—unpainted, with a sagging front porch piled with junk. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z East Bank was where the government had gone in, cleared out the squatters and their shacks, and started to build actual homes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z After several minutes, Trina finally stopped in front of a small shack that had been boarded up with three wooden slats nailed across the door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z After that, we children began squatting in the narrow, dark alleyways separating the shacks to relieve ourselves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z On almost every corner there were shebeens, illegal saloons that were shacks where home-brewed beer was served. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Five hours later, we’re eating seafood at a little shack on a North Carolina beach, looking out to sea, licking tartar sauce from our fingers. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Our shack—like most shacks throughout Alexandra—had no heat, electricity or plumbing, and we had no stove, so my mother had to keep the brazier indoors, as she had done all previous winters. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked around at the docks and the dozing men and the water and the shacks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z One night in the middle of winter a fierce storm came along and shook the shack as if it were made of matchsticks, and shrieked at the ceiling like a poltergeist. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I grew up in a country settlement where some people lived in tiny shacks; families without indoor plumbing had to use outhouses. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z King Hill, as the neighborhood was called, consisted of three unpaved streets lined with red shotgun shacks and frame houses like the Colvins’. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Trina jumped back a couple of steps when she reached the boarded- up shack, then turned to face Mark and Alec. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “Let’s go to the shrieking shack,” he said. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z That night, the four walls of that shack squeezed so snug that I did my reading on the front steps. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Tick- tock stole it. Crazy licebiter just walked out of Chen’s noodle shack with it. He’s got no sense, but he’s got fast hands.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I saw more black policemen leading black men and women out of shacks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Immediately following marriage they rented a shack in one of the squalid yards of the ghetto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And then my own pencil moving late into the evening: In big fine houses lived the whites in little old shacks lived the blacks but the blacks were smart in fear they took no part. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z He stopped at the shack to buy a big clay bowl of sweets. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z They destroy the shacks, reduce them to flat pieces of wood. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When I crossed the highway at the edge of town, the pavement turned to gravel, and I crunched along about a mile past the cotton gin until I came to the Rydells’ beat-up shack. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z She and I could live most pleasantly in some moldy shack in the slums in a state of ambitionless peace, realizing contentedly that we were unwanted, that striving was meaningless. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy carried the hot can of coffee up to the old man’s shack and sat by him until he woke. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Hushpuppy had a knack for finding huge overturned logs or shallow caves or even abandoned shacks for them each day. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He sometimes fell asleep before he got drunk; sometimes spent whole days looking at the river and the sky; and more and more he relinquished the military habits of cleanliness in his shack. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Their eyes flew over the broken birdbath, the Crumbling statue of Diana the Huntress, and the stack of fancy wooden porch pillars, and came to rest on something in the lean-to shack. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The friendly man untied the rope from the least sorry of the rowboats, put the rope in Johnny’s hand, wished him luck and went back to his shack. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When I reached home I found my mother pacing mechanically about the shack, murmuring helplessly, desperately, uncontrollably, clasping and unclasping her hands. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I gave a detailed statement of my parents assets: we owned no land, no car, nor our shack. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She could just make out the row of unimpressive shacks and the flash of raw new lumber. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I bought an old Ford truck with a dog box on it, found a shack in the woods in northern Minnesota, and tried training there. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z We followed the blond guard between battered shacks until we reached a log building in much better condition than the others. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They passed farmhouses, barns and an occasional weathered gray shack raised off the ground on piles of bricks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked, looking about the crowded but neat shack. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Got a little win’mill. Got a little shack on it, an’ a chicken run. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z They are little roadside shacks that serve snacks and refreshing drinks. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Despite Camp had grown up in a tenant shack, she thought he knew what was meant by coming up in the world. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Z was in his usual place leaning against the door as Mr. Trepid paced around the shack, anxious to hear about Z’s progress. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The shack seemed to be waiting for them. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Just looking back at the ivy-covered shack made him shiver. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I wrote to Winnie in Brandfort that I hoped the voting might have for a moment turned her humble shack into a castle, making its tiny rooms as grand as the ballroom at Windsor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their parents crawled out of tin-and-tar-paper shacks and into the stench of sewage and rotting seaweed from the mudflats to the west. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They walked up the road together to the old man’s shack and went in through its open door. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so weird for him to tell me about this little shack that I asked about it the next day, just to see if it was real. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z The entire school was there, including those who took classes in the tin shacks by the river. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither one of us spoke until we passed the bald man’s shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z After doing this three times the smells of the shack and Hooverville were gone and only the smell of the blanket was in my nose. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Behind it, and behind the enormous wall, they had huddled at night in wooden shacks, together wife their domestic animals. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He talked about how they lived in shacks, but had those big, shining cars out front. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they went into the shack, and Turner helped Reverend Griffin sit up in the bed, and Lizzie brought over a bowl of the clam chowder and fed him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z At the party, at the corrugated tin shack of Maria Isabel’s cousin, Jasmin eats chicken, tries to blow up a red balloon, and borrows a pink bike with training wheels. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He and Louise hammered up a one-room shack with no running water, an outhouse behind, and a roof that leaked so badly that they had to keep buckets on the beds. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He lives with his mother, a tamale maker, in a tiny wooden shack. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z All around, low to the ground, the shacks and shanties of La Saline. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Hassan went to his shack to get ready and I ran upstairs to grab a book. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “I built this shack with my own hands,” he told Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the alley shack, Z leaned against the door. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z It was dim in the shack with the door closed and a gas mask on. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyhow, first thing I do is fish the rope out of the bait shack. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The house was little more than a shack, but Pong stared at it in wonder. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z It meant respite; we could look for another shack in parts of Alexandra that had been spared. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There used to be a winch in the trap shack, and that’s where I’m heading when Tyler Croft comes by on his thousand-dollar mountain bike and thinks he sees me cryin’, which he don’t. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z If she ever gets down or depressed, I can make out the figure of her shadow through the front window of the shack. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “And times move on, folks have to move on with them. You’ll find some other place to squat. Lord knows it won’t take long to build another shack like this one.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z With heavy feet, I walk uphill to my family’s shack. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He had built a tin-roofed room at the back of his property, no more than a shack, with a dirt floor, no heat, no electricity, no running water. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hurry! Meet me at the bald man’s shack.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Unsure of what to do but knowing if I stayed there debating my options, the mother cat might well come and blind me, I left the coal shack and lingered about the yard. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “King, where is this shack supposed to be?” he says. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z “What took you so long?” he asked, waving to the front door of the shack. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z His father was a Dominican migrant worker who met his mother picking blueberries in Cherryfield, got her pregnant, moved back to the D.R. to shack up with a local girl, and never looked back. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z We were passing a collection of shacks and log cabins now, bleached white and warped by the weather. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They left behind only the barbed-wire fences, the watchman’s shack, and the hole in the earth. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z In the distance, my parents’ shack perches on a small hill, looking a little lopsided. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good luck. Your daddy’s done planned out your whole life. You cain’t go off to no shack in the woods; you’re going to the Tuskegee Institute to get learned.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Nothing but our night in the shack with Rex and Jerome. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Magdalys scanned the dimly lit shacks on the far side of the street. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The two-room shacks, each one like the other, were rotten and unpainted. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He lived in the dingy shacks of the white landlords and refused to pay rent. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The boy was sitting in front of the shack on an old plastic bucket turned upside down, straining his eyes to find the words on the page. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z See the batey, the dirt road leading through, the shacks made of cornstalks roofed with banana leaves. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The waste mart man lumbered out of his shack and took in the scene. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Piles of oyster shells made small pointed hills beside the shacks and behind them and in front of them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas had almost reached the front door of the shack and the small group of boys congregating there when he was hit by a sudden and surprise rush of anger. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z While they were sitting in the castle on Wednesday, it began suddenly to rain so hard that water came through the top of the shack in icy streams. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z In fact, I think that’s why no one but my card-playing friends ever enters the shack. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I’m eating ravioli in the kitchen that same night when a van pulls up in front of the shack. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The shack had one window, but when they turned off the light and stretched out on the cots, you could barely see its outline, the night was so dark. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He had rented them a shack, and had just left the hostel to live with them under the same roof, when the summons came. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing in the shack had changed, but somehow the shadows seemed pushed to the corners. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Mark punched the rough wood of the shack, bloodying his knuckles. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Finally one landed with a thud on the mid-section of one of the lean dogs and sent it auw-auwmg behind the shacks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents devoted all their energies to working around the clock to find another shack. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a well to one side and a long stinking shack that can only be toilets to the other. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Come in, come in,” the officer said, pulling open the shack’s door. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I stare flintily at the guard shack, willing a boat to appear. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Children’s screams issued from some of the shacks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The shack looks even worse in the sunlight, like it’s just seconds from toppling right over. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z The shack was modest and tiny, a far cry from Miss Peregrine’s queenly setup. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Z leaned against the shack and gazed out into the dark night. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “I heard about it on a radio play once, at Chen’s noodle shack. You get bounty for helping someone out.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I moved toward him, but he sprang into the air, hissed, and flew under the shack. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “She came to me and asked if she could build a shack on my property. She promised to keep to herself. I saw no harm in it. You shouldn’t go bothering her.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Made him feel like a little kid, stupid and obvious, the way the urchins looked when they were hanging out behind Chen’s grub shack, hoping he’d toss out bones for them to pick over. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The only places I’d seen within a stone’s throw from Shady’s place were the cemetery and that broken-down shack of a house with perdition written on the gate. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z One naughty night, Dedd left Jaimito sleeping heavily after sex and stole out to the far end of the garden to the little shack where she kept the garden tools. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked down the road to the old man’s shack and all along the road, in the dark, barefoot men were moving, carrying the masts of their boats. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z One early morning, with Nailer and Nita both elbow deep in blood as they gutted black eels for a grub shack, he admitted what he’d been thinking. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z After a while, a thatch-roofed shack came into sight at the edge of the fields. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z We listened for frogs, but they had shacked up for the winter. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He waved back at his own shack, a shadow still miraculously upright. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He had to sit down five times before he reached his shack. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They themselves eat in shacks like these, and if all the shacks like these disappeared in Lagos, they will go lunchless, unable to afford anything else. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Alone now, he and his father’s elderly mother share a shack thirty feet square. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Yolanda gives the tree line beyond the old woman's shack a glance. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z On the outskirts of the town, lamps glowed in the farmhouses and shacks, the families settling in for the evening. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I near wiped it from my memory altogether, because I didn’t want to risk someone finding out I knew about Old Man Martin’s shack. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Riding trains, autos, or buggies, moving from morning till night, we went from shack to shack, plantation to plantation. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A few of them surreptitiously moved up past Snakeroot and built shacks along the fringe of the woods, hoping someday to be rehired. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It shunted onto a new series of tracks, dipping down to a barren zone of rail yards and slum shacks, before shunting again. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z In fact, all the people in the crowded little shack—all except the baby, who was asleep—were at a loss for words. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Mother said she aimed to set up a plank shack by the road and sell bouquets for three-fifty apiece. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I follow Sandy back into the shack and look away when he grabs a cleaver from the kitchen and chops that fish’s head clean off. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z A curious mixture: the white-columned houses high on the green hills, the shacks down in the dark valleys. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A midwife named Fannie delivered her into a small shack on a dead-end road overlooking a train depot, where hundreds of freight cars came and went each day. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z As we got closer, a door opened and a soldier stepped out of the shack. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Don’t you think he would want to know a witch built a shack on his property?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Suddenly, the shack doesn’t feel like the place I’ve escaped with Sandy for a whole week. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z The last thing you’d call the mansion with its gardens and fountains was a shack. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought they were happy to see me, but when I opened the door to our shack, I saw that everything we owned was neatly packed in cardboard boxes. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Our little house used to be a shack, until my mom married my dad and made him fix it up. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I lived in the mine, in a wooden shack with a zinc roof that I built myself with the help of a few peons. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Calling upon the Fruit of Islam, as the military wing of the Nation was known, she stood by while the young men pulled out the wooden commode from the rickety shack. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Through the opening I saw policemen, with flashlights and what looked like raised cavemen’s clubs, move searchingly about several shacks across the street. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wait. Sit down,” I said, motioning to a log in front of a shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Guy stayed outside in front of the shack as Lili undressed for bed. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Would it be bad manners to ask Perilee if she lived in such a shack? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He lives way on down by the airplane field in a shack by himself whenever he comes over here, and Mama says that’s close enough quarters for him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The ceiling of our shack began to crumble, and the door and wooden window frames began to rot, and in the winter icy winds would whip through. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She walked up to the shack and rapped on the door and didn’t wait for it to be opened—she just barged in. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z By the time I returned to our shack, Mother was already there. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The grouchy woman walked out of her shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “I don’t know how the shacks withstand it,” said Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z One night, I left the bald man’s shack to get a log for the stove. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Inside the shack was the fully assembled bomb, a huge gray globe held together by bolts, with wires snaking in and out all over its surface. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z More squatters came and more squatters came, putting up makeshift shacks and shanties. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Not homes, exactly—more like small shacks, such as those a couple of goats might be sheltered in. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Over the years he had always returned to his shack, alone and dis-appointed. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Axelroot still lives down at his shack and when he comes up here he looks at me to see if I told. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A month later, by some miracle, we were still in our shack. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After the meal, I snuck out to the forbidden part of the property where the servants' families lived in their little shanty shacks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Here, a black man pocketed Ann Atwater's money for that pitiful shack—and threatened to toss her family into the street because she had trouble making the rent. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Many black children had to walk miles each day to get to a one-room shack supplied with just a few used books. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He found a scattering of parched little houses, trailers setding into the sand, and shacks with rusty tin roofs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly the small window of the shack lit up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Or almost abandoned, because a pair of monks lived there in a tar paper shack, tending a small garden and some broken shrines. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I run down to Windemere and write everything I remembered—the clam shack, the pinwheel, Mirren’s dirty feet on the wooden steps, the book Gat gave me—on the graph paper above my bed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z We arrived in town midaftemoon and stopped in front of this little shack. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At twilight, once the sun had slid behind the Palen Mountains, the bats came out and swirled through the sky above the shacks of Midland. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “My husband has a whole squadron full of aviation cadets who would be only too happy to shack up with their commanding officer’s wife just for the added fillip it would give them.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Seth moved around the shack, not taking his eyes from the ragged woman in the doorway. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Peeking around a comer of the shack, I saw that the parking area was filling up with cars. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z But as the cold crept deeper into our shacks, it began to chill generosity. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Next morning at breakfast we heard a big whomp, boom from the tenant shack. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She carried her basin of cracked pottery back into the fish shack, and came back a minute later. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z A single 60-watt bulb hung from the roof of the open metal shack. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t have to shack up with you, you know,” she told him with cold dignity. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The man, already a foot or so inside the shack, cleared his throat while the woman stood silently by the doorway, and said, “Can we sit down?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, alone in the shack, Mr. Trepid studied the map. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z On Estha’s side of the road was a tea shack that sold tea and stale glucose biscuits in dim glass cases with flies. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was hiding down by the bayou, in Old Man Martin’s crawfishing shack, and Martin got a nasty surprise one early afternoon when he found that Sanders boy sleeping in his cot. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z I spoke to parents and ANC members and told them that every home, every shack, every community structure, must become a center of learning for our children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Headmaster stopped at a small shack that sold homemade goodies, this time to guzzle the juice of a coconut. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z It was sometime after the bicycle, or when she was moving into her shack in the backyard. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z When I opened the front door to the shack, I stopped. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z There was a little shack at the edge where you could put in your order. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z And nestled there, right on the edge of the woods, is the shack Khalid told me all about. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z I said the attackers could easily be found because they were now occupying the shacks of the people they had killed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Who knew what they would find in that shack? I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Then he shook his head and looked toward the shack to which Newt had gone. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z We would not wake up from this nightmare to find out it was someone’s real life, and for once that someone wasn’t just a poor unlucky nobody in a shack you could forget about. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Perched on top of the rock was the most miserable little shack you could imagine. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I climbed inside the old shack that enclosed it, just to look down the deep, dark hole. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A short distance to my left I saw a vertigo-inducing sea of shacks, rolling out as far as the eye could see. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z After twenty minutes we found it: a one-room shack made of unpainted boards. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The building itself wasn’t that imposing; it was only called the Tower because it stuck up like a broken finger in a sea of one-story wooden shacks arranged in rings. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It was similar to the dozen or so shacks strewn irregularly, like lumps on a leper, upon the cracked greenless piece of ground named yard number thirty-five. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Granny’s home was a tiny, neat shack, measuring twelve by fifteen feet. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Directly across the street stood a small one-room shack about seven feet wide and twelve feet long; it was made of unpainted wood, with large gaps between the wallboards where vines and weeds grew. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The flickering images were a far cry from Lourdes’s childhood home: a two-room shack made of wooden slats, its flimsy tin roof weighted down with rocks, the only bathroom a clump of bushes outside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Everywhere we saw overlander trucks parked in front of shacks made of planks and metal. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that he had the longest list of people waiting to grab the shack at any price. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Around it on the plateau were scattered a few shacks, and at the far end was a small patch of woods, but we paid no attention—our eyes were on the tower. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z And now Nailer needed to know what—or he’d never escape the shack without a beating. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Now that I was thawed out a bit and the little shack lit up by my trusty kerosene lamp, I could see that every shelf and surface was covered with books, newspapers, and old magazines. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “I found this path in the woods and met this weird old lady who lived in a shack. I think she’s a witch. A real one.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She ran up to the shack and pushed the door open. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z I turned around and looked at our little shack for the last time. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “I wonder who gets put into those shacks,” I said, turning toward Mom. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the last of the log shacks, however, the road rapidly deteriorated. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I did my business quickly and hurried back to the warmth of the shack. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He jerked his head toward the torn image of a clipper ship that Nailer had tacked to the wall of their shack. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Pine Level didn’t have much more than a few shacks for the share-cropper families, a schoolhouse, a church, and a general store, but I was at home in all of it. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The last vestiges of headache still throbbed between her eyes, and the shacks and streets wouldn’t stop swaying, but she struggled to her feet. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z My eye could travel down the planking of any one of them and find at the end a shack erected by a waterman for storage and crab packing. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then don’t mention that shack to me. Not ever again.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z But my mom was stubborn: After she lost her second son, she insisted on moving to Mutare, into the one-room shack that my dad shared with another man. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I danced around the shack, hugged everybody, sent my brother to the store to buy two liters of Coca-Cola and a packet of Tennis biscuits. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I live in a shack that I rent cheaply. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z He had a number of women friends who lived in the town of Eldoret, to the southeast of the mountain, where the people are poor and live in shacks made of boards and metal. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a tub of heavy line in the bait shack that don’t look too bad. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z —Some of us children, due to a chronic shortage of buildings, desks, blackboards and benches, would have to be relocated in shacks down by the river. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The house we lived in was nothing more than a shack, a barracks with single plank walls and rough wooden floors, like the cheapest kind of migrant workers’ housing. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z From inside the shack came a sound like the rushing of a terrible wind. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I returned to our shack and hid the pen and drawing in my suitcase. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Billy’s dad had been cut off in 1957, but had stuck around by claiming an old shack above where the colored people lived in Snakeroot. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Her shack of plastic tarps and old boards and scavenged palms was the safest place he knew. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z And yet their boat was hardly more than a little floating shack with a bright green tin roof. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Pima’s shack was gone, but the shadows of the girl and her mother were still there, fighting the storm, trailing ropes, struggling to hold onto a blurry shadow. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He’d left all of his toys behind in the empty shack—I discovered them the next day, piled in a corner just like the birthday presents in my room. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Now you come home right after you’re done,” Grandma said, pulling up in front of the blocky cement lifeguard shack and changing rooms that everybody called the bathhouse. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z As we approached the marina, I could see that the Coral Queen was dark, though a light shone in the ticket shack at the foot of the dock. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I saw pictures in the paper one time, showing those tenant shacks. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “They want me to work with them,” said Mother once Jonas had returned us to the shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They lived in little shacks, thinking they would be there only a short time. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z We put everything in the bald man’s shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The whole shack shivered and Harry sat bolt upright, staring at the door. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Mr. Whiskers launched himself straight up and ran off under the shack to lick his wounds. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The sun was just rising behind the smoky, distant shacks when we reached her place. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We stood on the street watching the flames devour the shack. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a run-down shack with a tin roof. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z “Mose, you got a porch light on that old shack of yours?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Then they were taken to the old slave barracks—low shacks where several men shared a small space, slept on wooden cots, and coped with bad drainage and damp floors. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The locations were changed but the settings were alike—a strip of wasteland bordered by rows of rotted shacks, and somewhere near a mill, a cotton gin, or a bottling plant. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Here and there a rasping cough of someone with tuberculosis issued from a shack. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Mother’s shack is the mere peak of a roof surrounded by a blaze of pinks, blues, oranges. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I was happy that Mother was able to teach in a covered shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z And when she gained the privacy of her own litde shack she stayed on her knees so long she forgot she was there herself. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z On the far side of the shack, Seth plunged through the tangled undergrowth back to the path, glancing over his shoulder all the way. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z What will happen at my shack, at 26 Shipping Street? I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z It seems that no matter what lengths I go to, I’m always winding up with people like this in my shack or in my cab. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z M’Dear was a quiet woman who lived in a shack near the woods. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a crash behind the shack, followed by laughter. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We stepped out of the cluttered shack into the dazzling sunshine. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Suddenly, one of the men being chased swung into the yard where I was hiding, apparently thinking that he might get help from the inhabitants of several of the shacks in it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Further on in the yard, another white man, also with a gun, was supervising a group of about ten black policemen as they rounded up half-naked black men and women from the shacks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And they had drawn these accolades by cleaning big houses and living in one-room Alabama shacks before moving to the city. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z So her sleep was broken and shallow, on the floor of the shack with all the other sleepers, and her death sat watchfully beside her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The interior of some of the shacks were a mess, as if a tornado had hit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z One girl, Missy Samuels, swore Skeleton Woman lived in a broken-down shack in the woods near Loomis Lake. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Billy Ray’s childhood, then, consisted of sorrowful years in tarpaper shacks, much ill health, and general all-around human disaster. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The great drowned city of New Orleans didn’t come all at once, it came in portions: the sagging backs of shacks ripped open by banyan trees and cypress. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I avoided them by going around the shacks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Earlier this morning, in the pitch black, I bathed and washed my hair in the wooden shack out back, crouching, shivering, wincing beneath buckets of frigid water. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As I got closer, I could see that three old homestead shacks had been fitted together to make the oddest-shaped house I’d ever seen. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z We pull up at a small weatherboard shack, and Marv gets out. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The shacks were made of plastic, tin and cardboard and stood near clumps of blue gum trees, whose branches screamed like ghosts in the icy Cape wind. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the hint of cosmic cruelty that I felt when I saw the curved timbers of a wooden shack that had been warped in the summer sun. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The crudely painted sign on his shack could be seen as a guiding motto for the rest of the fire victims: “All gone but wife, children, and energy.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z For how he'd accepted the fact that he’d grow old in that mud shack in the yard, the way his father had. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Skeleton Woman’s shack,” she said, crossing her arms. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z He also drank a cup of shark liver oil each day from the big drum in the shack where many of the fishermen kept their gear. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of these shacks were guarded by thin dogs, that yapped at the children from the shade under the houses. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Now she entered the shack carrying an empty burlap feed sack. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But then a strange noise filled the shack. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Turning the corner, we found ourselves on an even narrower street, lined with shacks selling food. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Some brought their families with them, and hid them in the shacks in illegal yards; others made their homes in abandoned cars and buildings. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The old bus shack was just a box of black. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I fell against my lard can chair, a frozen, useless lump, while this eight-year-old boy bustled around my shack. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I went past the rosebushes to Baba’s mansion, Hassan to the mud shack where he had been born, where he’d lived his entire life. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I forgave him and pitied him as my eyes looked past him to the unpainted wooden shack. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The shack is like the setting for a horror movie. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z By now there was light enough to see the faces of the men who had gathered together beside the shack. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z He walked from his remote mountain shack with his shoes in a paper sack so as not to wear them out. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I ducked behind the edge of a shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It was barely light outside, but the spring humidity had already seeped into their shack, weighting down their clothes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When Johnny felt that she was comforted, he set her down and went into the shack where he had either an eye opener or a night cap. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In the barn they had found the wheelbarrow, which they determined might be easier than carrying Goldilocks the entire way to the ivy shack. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He opened his eyes and glanced around the shack. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z A cowboy rounded up the cattle in Lalao’s finca, and on her side of the fence, Doña Ana led her cow to the shack behind her house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Their feet sounded as though they were playing a wet wind instrument as they slipped in and out of the puddles between the shacks in the shantytown. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z My head was halfway in and halfway out when my eyes fell upon two tall black policemen emerging from a shack across the street. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The shack’s one room was bare of furniture and crowded with people. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The shack had fallen down, but the grapevine was still doing very well. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Within easy minutes, laughter burst from the shack and the crisis was over, but so was the enjoyment. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I jumped straight up and banged my head on the top of the shack. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Ethylene was escaping from the cedar swamp outside the shack. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Two white men burst into the shack, guns pulled, flashlights startling, searching faces. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z The young man settled in a working-class neighborhood, in a wooden shack that seemed like a palace to him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to hear you talking about that shack again,” he told me. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Hazel chewed on her lip and took a few steps closer to the shack, which was now dark and wet with melting snow. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z It was a bunch of huts and shacks throwed together out of pieces of boxes and wood and cloth. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z She was in no rush to shack up, and only wanted my dad to go through with the marriage if he genuinely thought she was someone he could fall in love with. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Up on Coalwood Mountain. That shack off the road, about a third of the way down. She fixed me French toast. She wanted me to be sure to tell you about it.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Ishtar's abode made the White House look like a tin shack. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z There was a church there and a saloon, and in back of the saloon an added-on frame shack building with a tattered movie screen and a battery-operated small film projector. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z We hang our clothes out between the shacks to be bleached in the sun. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They began directing us to what I thought were our own shacks, but when Miss Grybas and Mrs. Rimas entered one, a woman ran out and began arguing with the guards. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The Alexandra of my childhood and youth was a shantytown of mostly shacks, a few decent houses, lots of gutters and lots of unpaved, potholed streets with numbers from First to Twenty-third. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The dwelling at the bottom of the cerro was an old shack beyond repair. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Her black skin gleamed in the candlelight of her shack. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z They burst into our shack waving rifles, just as they had burst into our home ten months before. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Howard Fuller left Ann’s house shocked that shotgun shacks still existed in American cities in the 1960s. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z This new shack, like the old one, had two rooms and measured something like fifteen by fifteen feet, and overlooked the same unlit, unpaved, potholed street. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Lola loves to tell us her memories of these colorful little stores and shacks in the Philippines where everyone stops for sodas and treats on hot, humid days. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z There were a few compartments of the shack, where the soldiers searched people. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z They continued down a rutted lane, then stopped in front of a small shack made of wood. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just an abandoned hunting shack, like hundreds of others that dotted the forests around here. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z A rat ventured a few steps out of a hole in a corner of the shack. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z In addition to the tiny shacks, substantial wood, brick, and stone structures were begun as well, and an army of workers emerged to do the job. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z He did, grabbed the sandwich, but hesitated, the writhing, monstrous image of what he’d seen in the shack popping back into his mind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z But then the earring’s spell must have broken, because Cecilia, looking as old and wretched as her house, hobbled out of her shack. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The instructors ushered us down to a small shack off to the side of the range, near the woods. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know it don’t look like much. Claim shacks never do. After you get proved up, you can work on a proper house.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Across the shack Rex Reese had the joint in his mouth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Here and there a fire, forgotten in the last rush, lingered and in a sudden access of strength fed upon the dry bones of some littered shack. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought back to the damp and moldy shack she’d shared with her mother while her father was in prison, and the attic room at Jeremy Carton’s place. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The shack was approximately ten feet by twelve feet. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Other than his mother, who sat in her shack with six. younger sons working roots, he had never met an interesting woman in his life. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It was there, in that little shack, that Hassan was born in the winter of 1964, just one year after my mother died giving birth to me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Pima’s mother stared through the blackness and rain toward the shack. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The chief virtue of the old wooden shack, he judged, was that “no one objected if you drove a nail into it anywhere.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “He was sitting smoking in the bus shack, last Angela Bullock heard.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Better yet it brought me in from the rise behind the house where Tom Warrups’ shack was. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the little shack was tolerable; that is to say, as long as I kept moving, my innards would not freeze solid. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Throwing the red scarf of her hair over her shoulder, she ducked through the low threshold into the hunting shack. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Despite the many shacks, a few narrow, dark, rat-infested alleyways still remained. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z First he tore the pages from the book of poems and crumpled each poem into a ball or a paper twist, which he pushed into the sticks of the shack's wall at ground level. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z We got in one of the shacks with some other boys. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z A week later, all the shacks would be rebuilt, and it would be business as usual. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The shacks were built of one thickness of pine planking covered with tarpaper. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z And so, in that Greek letter that looks like a shack with a corrugated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with which scientists try to understand the universe, I found refuge. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “You and Skyla are near old enough to be grandparents, and there you are, shacking up like a couple of teenaged field hands.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Soon I passed the shack, dim outlines of sheep huddled inside against the chill, and then the mist-shrouded bog, silent and ghostly. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Inside the shack he leaned the mast against the wall. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They returned to the doorway of the shack. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Photographs of families and loved ones were plentiful in the bald man’s shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Tired but relieved, we dragged ourselves to our shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The shrieking shack was an old skeleton of a house tucked away in a field near the railroad tracks. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I walked to the top of a small grade next to the shack and watched the Carcachita disappear in the distance in a cloud of dust. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She called Pilate into her shack one day later. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not afraid—it was more frightening in that shack than it is on the road, with moonlight all around. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z In this new shack my brother, George, was weaned. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Chester had already fastened a great metal eye to the front of the shack. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z It was perched unpretentiously on the edge of a donga, one of many similar shacks on Eighth Avenue. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather than head back toward the house, they had continued on the trail beyond the ivy shack, venturing deeper into the forest. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z From behind tufts of grass and the shacks scattered here and there, I could see faces peeking out at us—furry, most of them, and of all different shapes and sizes. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He scrambled away from the shack and got to his feet. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The bald man entered the shack and complained there was no room. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The old woman withdrew into the shack and crouched behind the stump again. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It was decided that Kucios would be held in the bald man’s shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He blinked hard several times, trying to get the image of what he’d just seen in the shack out of his mind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z They passed one beach after another, and the shacks, now locked up, that sold frozen lemonade and quahogs in summer. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He gently steered me behind a nearby shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The mast was nearly as long as the one room of the shack. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I pretended to examine the shack but then turned, expecting to meet his gaze. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z You settled down on the floor of the shack at once and started making a necklace. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z One night our dingy shack, which had been leaning precipitously on the edge of a donga, collapsed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There were twelve of us, all crammed inside the little shack on the roof. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z He wondered what it would be like to live in their shack all the time, and not just when his father was sliding high. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “He may not come,” I said, eager to run back to the shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I passed on my way to the gate shacks whose windows had been shattered, whose doors had been busted. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A tall wooden shack housed the cage elevator, which carried miners one to two hundred feet underground, where they would disperse into various dugouts called rooms, each supported by a single wooden pillar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z No longer able to afford rent for her shack, Granny moved from Fifteenth Avenue to a smaller shack on Eighth Ave- nue. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Amari noticed small shacks off to the right—slave quarters, she knew. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z When I returned to the shack, I could barely walk. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z When we were too tired to walk anymore we got slices of pizza and Cokes at a shack near the strip and sat on benches watching everybody walking around, doing their thing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z He could haunt Montana or shack up in the mountains of Southern California. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Like most of the shacks, Joe’s had no indoor plumbing and his room came with only enough electricity for one lightbulb overhead and a hot plate on a shelf. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z To my other side stood rows of snow-burdened cypress trees peppered among flat-topped clay houses—no more than mud shacks in most cases—separated by narrow alleys. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I get my last bucket of salt herring from the cooler in the shack and put it under the middle seat in the skiff. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The shed was actually a shack constructed around a large tree stump. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “That shack isn’t for you and me,” he said. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z It was blowing so hard that the drifting boats would not be going out and the boy had slept late and then come to the old man’s shack as he had come each morning. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He stands there at the end of the wharf, big as his own bait shack, and watches until I’m out of sight. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z A tangle of old homes and shacks clustered around small stores and buildings that had seen better days. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I don’t leave the shack, and I don’t answer the phone. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z We gathered in each other’s shacks to reminisce about the holidays in Lithuania. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I couldn’t bear the thought of living in that shack, digging holes for months, and trying to avoid the commander. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I'd shout, and start running past women selling tomatoes or mangoes on the side of the road, dipping beneath the clotheslines that crisscrossed between the dozens of identical wooden slab shacks. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Surrounded by a small garden where vegetables were already growing, the dwelling was much larger than the slave shack she had shared with Polly back at Derbyshire Farms. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally they reached a little wooden shack like the one they’d stopped at earlier, where a dim bulb glowed on a bare wire over the door. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then we stopped by a shack where brightly colored sweets were packed tight in glass jars, and you chose your favorite color—green. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Across the flickering shack Jerome and I were left pretending not to notice. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It looked like a wood shack maybe thirty feet away, on the other side of the fence. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Next door was a shack not much better than ours in Macún. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z We passed more buildings — huts and shacks and gray, peeling businesses — all abandoned. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z When she put up the post, written after a visit to Ranyinudo’s office, about the governments demolishing of hawkers’ shacks, an anonymous commenter wrote, This is like poetry. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We say good night to Tío Ermenio and walk up the many flights of stairs to our rooftop shack in the middle of Old San Juan. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z In the distance, beyond the shacks, I saw spruce and pine trees interspersed with farmlands. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Scrap and junk, soot and oily grime and slumped shacks with people watching them, hollow-eyed. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He and another nun, named Sister E. R., drove Sister M. E. in a Land Rover to the town of Bumba, a sprawl of cinder blocks and wooden shacks that huddles beside the Congo River. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed dumbly to a shack that turned out not to be Brigid’s house at all, but the housewife inside knew Brigid and gave Lyddie proper directions. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I left her in a shack behind the house, where the Dominican kept his tools. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The colmado is the only store on this settlement, a litde island of shacks in the middle of an ocean of cane. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But night after night, she kept returning to the shack, and twice she was rewarded with the unfamiliar, blurry voice of someone introduced as Comrade Virgilio. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They drove out there, checked the chlorine shed, toured the perimeter, then trooped into a little shack that had been set up with four cots. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The people in the shack were still staring, but Lyra’s words eased the atmosphere a little, and the woman invited them to sit at the table, drawing out a bench. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Hanako spotted a group of old wooden buildings, a couple of them almost shacks, in the distance, and Papa led them through the weeds toward that. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z While Mom gave my name to the secretary, I looked through a glass door at a field full of small wooden shacks. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Our cabin was one of several farm-worker shacks lined up in a row behind which ran a small creek. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Nearly twenty people pushed inside her shack to hear the news from Lithuania. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “What am I doing out here in a shack taking care of some . . . some . . . savage!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother was talking to Andrius in front of the bald man’s shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He can survive on his own at that shack. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z But then she saw it, up ahead: the shack. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Like always, I walk back to the shack. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Mattie and Chase stopped by after school most days, and Rooster Jim had deepened the path from his shack to mine. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Looks like you’re trolling for more stupid junk to put in your stupid junky shack. Drag long enough you’ll probably find an old toilet seat for your outhouse.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z In an instant I’m out the back door and running to the tiny shack. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z 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 Along with a few other young black men, Jude had gone down to the shack where they were hiring. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z This is the house— no, the run-down shack—of poor people, Indian people. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I say to the guy at the shack. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z A small shack was attached to the side of the building, and a few picnic tables and benches were scattered under the shade of two elm trees. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z One day word came that there was a vacant shack on Thirteenth Avenue, and finally, after months of anxiety, we packed our meager belongings and left for our new home. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Janie fussed around the shack making a home while Tea Cake planted beans. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I just jogged along not thinking about anything very much; and fifteen minutes later I came upon Warrups’ shack. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Small communities of shacks—by comparison the houses in the Seam are upscale—spring up here and there, but they’re all deserted. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I had an idea that this was all part of the boys’ plan, the woods, the shack, the cots, the drugs, the sharing of saliva. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Why are you doing all this?” mumbled the owner of the shack, a grey-haired old man in a threadbare coat, with deformed legs and a bent back. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He led them this morning to a small wooden shack, not much bigger than an outhouse, hidden in a thicket of trees. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “One of the worker’s shacks,” said another, higher voice. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes reminded her of the bad guy Jack had showed her that day in the shrieking shack. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z In frustration, I run out of our cramped, dark shack, down to the pasture, where I flop on my back and stare at the enor- mous blue sky. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The big banana-tree leaves grow right up against the shack’s filthy back window, leaving narrow gaps perfect for spying. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They were hungry and cold and living in an abandoned shack in the woods not far from the pig farm. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z About fifty yards along was a lean-to shack, which he entered. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Just a lot of overgrown fields that used to be farmed and are now crowded with trailers and small shacks. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z There’s half a dozen empty steel drums behind the bait shack, and I roll out the four have the least rust. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Nailer scrambled around the shack, looking for possessions to salvage. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “She wants to give you the impression that she has power to spy on you in your bedroom. Witches prey on fear. Her influence does not extend beyond the walls of this shack.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The man invited him into the shack for an eye opener saying that he himself only used the stuff for a night cap. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The guards yelled and began pushing people out of the shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Khalid was slurping his bowl of Lucky Charms, and when I asked, he frowned at me and wanted to know how I knew about Old Man Martin’s shack. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z They ordered us out of the shack, shouting at us to form a line. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z In its pages you see school kids with armloads of books, wearing cardigan sweaters and walking past rows of tarpapered shacks. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “We could bring food. Or other stuff. Things to make her more comfortable in that shack.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Inkatha members then proceeded to occupy the abandoned shacks and confiscate all the property. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard the bald man yelling in the shack behind us. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I get to the shack and bang open the door, expecting to see Sandy in the kitchen, fixing himself something he caught—but the stove is off, and the pan is empty on the counter. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z A week later we passed the broth shack, and there was a sixty-year-old woman working there, hard as nails, dishing out consommé. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The east side of Epidram was a maze of shacks and narrow alleys cluttered with old lobster cages and lines of damp laundry. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He turned and nosed open the door to the tower’s little shack. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z |
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