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| 6091225 | Oh, Eben!" breathed Mercy, thrilled and astonished. "Guess what?" The glare off the ice was bothering him, and as the temperature rose, the snow on the frozen river was turning to slush. His moccasins were soaked and his feet were so cold he could hardly bear the pressure of each step. "What?" "I can figure out Mohawk words, Eben!" she said excitedly. " was one of the first words Tannhahorens taught us. And we learned to count, so I know t.. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 9a6560a | Everybody was outdoors. This was the walkingest place Brian had ever seen. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 8554373 | Stephen was shaped like a tire iron, all his bones a little too long: | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 947a176 | It's such a good meal tonight. Lemon chicken, carrot-raisin salad, orzo, broccoli, a nice dinner roll, and chocolate pudding. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| ea8362f | Rents were high, according to the ads in real estate agents' windows, but not killer high. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 8d8dc4b | When you were steadily dating a boy, as she was Reeve, and this was known to everybody, it freed you up to be friends with boys. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 2e05f4a | They reached a river where the water was open, seething and churning over rocks. We're going to cross that? thought Mercy. It's too wide and deep. We'll drown. Tannhahorens took off his tobacco necklace. He loved to smoke, as did all the warriors. Since they smoked only when they had time and felt safe, the prisoners also loved it when the men smoked; it meant everybody had time and was safe. Tannhahorens poured tobacco into his palm. He li.. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 92a73e6 | It was worth going into the water just to get away from Ruth's nagging. Mercy waded in, appalled by how cold it was. Snow Walker towed her around for a minute and then let go. At first Mercy couldn't take two strokes without having to stand up and reassure herself that there was a bottom, but soon she could swim ten, and then twenty, strokes. Joseph, who had been swimming with the boys, paddled over to admire her new skill. Snow Walker coax.. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 7573848 | The Indian next to Mr. Williams interrupted him roughly. "We kill. You tell." Mr. Williams ceased to pray. "Joe Alexander escaped last night," he said. "If anyone else tries to escape, they will burn the rest of us alive." Burn alive? Burn innocent women and children because one young man flew from their grasp? Her Indian stood some distance away amid the other warriors. He was now wearing a vivid blue cloth coat of European design. In one .. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 646b6b1 | Eben realized that he need not worry about being burned or tortured. He was going to starve to death. Eben had thought that up here, where nobody lived or ever had, the deer would be standing in rows in the woods awaiting a bullet. He had expected rabbits and grouse, moose and beaver. But there was no game. They built shelters from woven branches, piling spruce and hemlock on top to keep out the snow. Each day some of the Indians left to hu.. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| d375b7f | Pretty dresses, desperate hearts. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 1952ca8 | And Charlotte!" said Mrs. Shields in tones of disgust. "Who even knew there was a town called Charlotte?" | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| a781604 | Stephen was holding his glass of tea so tightly it squeezed out the bottom of his grip like toothpaste and landed on the table. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 68e2063 | He pressed the icy glass against his cheek, literally trying to chill out. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 7194778 | She could eat a salad without worrying about diarrhea. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 86f1492 | Did he think Brendan planned to snatch the laptop and throw it down a crevasse in a glacier? | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 5b8cb4d | By noon the next day, she had pulled off three more ATM events. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 5955b65 | The only good thing about this rough land was firewood. No human had ever gathered a fallen branch here. So they could stay warm, but they had nothing to cook over the flames. It seemed to Eben the Indians ought to worry more about this than they did. They spent every daylight hour looking for game, found nothing and did not mention it. Instead, they sat by the fire, smoked and told war stories. It was the captives who discussed food, desc.. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| e0c23e5 | A bag lady of indeterminate race pushed her belongings in a cart, on top of which she had balanced a broken-legged plastic chair and a bag full of returnable bottles she was plucking out of garbage cans. At one garbage can, she reached right between the legs of a black man who had draped himself like a corpse over the wire mesh. His snores blended into the throbbing from dozens of radios passing by on people's shoulders. A tall, dramatic wo.. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| c4a9af0 | Mercy herself was so hungry, she was faint. Tannhahorens would despise her for it. She tried to keep her feet from weaving and her tears from falling, but she could not. Tannhahorens took her hands and cupped them. Then he removed a small deerskin pouch from his belt and into her cupped hands poured dust. He licked his empty palm and lifted his chin at her to indicate that she was to do the same. Hesitantly, Mercy licked the dust. It was pa.. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| c77df16 | It's an old picture," said Stephen. "She's in her thirties now. I don't think she's pretty anymore." | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| ae26cca | Fall in love with me, Gary! She thought. Please. Please sit here holding me and think there's nowhere on earth I'd rather be than here, and no girl I'd rather have in my lap than Beth Rose Chapman! | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 540b969 | They marched until the captives could not take another step. Eben dragged Eliza half the way and Sarah dragged her the rest. Mercy and Joseph took turns hauling Ruth. That night they slept like rocks, and in the morning Mercy understood why bears spent the whole winter sleeping. It sounded good to Mercy. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 22970c8 | Every time he calls, I nag him to study." "I hear that boys don't like to be nagged." "Me too, but it's irresistible. You always want to take the boy and mold him into something better." | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 4cc3ef4 | They marched until the captives could not take another step. Eben dragged Eliza half the way and Sarah dragged her the rest. Mercy and Joseph took turns hauling Ruth. That night they slept like rocks, and in the morning Mercy understood why bears spent the whole winter sleeping. It sounded good to Mercy. Perhaps it sounded good to the Indians too, because they did not leave camp. Instead, they built two fires, gathering an enormous woodpile.. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| fdd61a1 | The only good things about his eighteenth year were the things he hadn't done: He hadn't murdered anybody or sold drugs. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 6e91037 | The best thing about college was that you could wear anything anywhere. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 6077db0 | Let's go get ice cream!" cried Janie." | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| c457d5e | In childhood, she had had milk allergies, or so they'd thought. But either she'd never had them or had outgrown them or ice cream transcended all problems. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 14c556d | Brian was only thirteen. He was asleep by one A.M. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| f611c12 | Sometimes Reeve couldn't stand women. They were so practical. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 4709fbc | Janie and Jodie looked at him as if he were an out-of-date computer chip. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| b263179 | You had to assume that his body would grow to match, in which case Stephen would become a man of splendid proportions. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| f564e5c | We don't know what to do about Eve. She hasn't called and isn't here." Janie could not worry about Eve, who would do the best she could." | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| ec5c73b | Brendan wanted to chain the guy to the bumper of a truck and drive down the thruway for a hundred miles. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 4acc0eb | At the church, Brian took charge of Frank, handling him as well as any medic, keeping the extra parents of the bride happy. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 99f7751 | She and Reeve texted all the time, and she followed his Facebook page. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 4b2cc8b | You mean I can't chain him to the bumper of my truck and drag him through the city? | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| dda8763 | She had read a million times that you could not make your boyfriend into something else, so fine--Kathleen would make herself into something else. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 4665db8 | Michael was using a laptop computer in desktop fashion. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 5c19f3d | Crush. It's a word for something temporary. Something that weights you down and makes it hard to breathe. I don't have a crush on you now, I thought. I just plain love you. Good old reliable love. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| d196ac5 | And it isn't creepy. It's romantic. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 3a54e67 | father knocked on her door. "Kitten? May I come" | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 1f64c2f | I never heard of the person on this return address. Calvin Vinesett. What a name. He's probably selling something, like all our other mail is. The expensive envelope is a sales trick. | Caroline B. Cooney |