He trapped coyotes and sold their pelts in South Texas long before he became a teenager.
Kelly Caleb hadn't been exaggerating about the snow. The white stuff went up past my knees in some spots, but the plows had been out, and the snow on the streets had been packed down enough so you could walk on it, if you were careful.
This collection radically rewrites and contemporizes many of the myths central to Ovid’s epic, The Metamorphoses, Rekdal’s characters changed not by divine intervention but by both ordinary and extraordinary human events.
If that wasn't enough, its powerful portrayal of gender roles and feminism makes it all too timely and important.” —Courtney Summers, author of Sadie and This Is Not a Test
Muldoon here refers to the Japanese cosmetic product Uguisu No Fun, which translates as 'nightingale faeces'. The excrement is produced not by the nightingale but by the Japanese bush warbler, known as the Japanese nightingale due to ...
After twelve-year-old Lark, determined to escape her squalid life, steals a magical sword from the Royal Museum, she reluctantly becomes the next Nightingale, destined to vanquish an ancient evil.
... Jim turned to focus on where he thought he was hearing it come from and fixed his gaze on the crumbling steeple of the Methodist church on the horizon. The fleeting echo of that whispering voice, furtive in its pleading, seemed to be ...