I am no longer young Wednesday, November 23, 1864 Sometimes I try to remember what our lives used to be like, but it has been so long I have difficulty conjuring up the images. I can, at times, picture the house when it was alive and full of activi...
Friday, July, 9,1847 Lowell Mrs. Abbott's house is so near the mills we were able to walk there.... I never dreamed earthly hands could make anything that big. It looked to me like all the people in Ireland could fit inside. 'Twas like a fortress. T...
My Conversation with Mr. Wilson Mr. Wilson said that it was most important not to tell anyone about our talk or anything that has to do with the activities of the Committee. . . . He said that he has observed me carefully since I came to work at th...
Tuesday, April 21, 1942 I never thought I looked different from the other kids. Never once, even though most of them are Caucasian, except for Billy Smith, who's a Negro, and Charles Hamada, who's part Japanese, part jerk. But now I realized my fa...
Sunday, December 7, 1941 At first I thought I was still dreaming. I heard an incessant droning, like the sound the China Clipper's propellers made, only much louder, more high-pitched. . . . There were hundreds of planes in the sky. . . . They we...
Blinded after a terrible accident, Bess must learn to overcome her disability with the help of new friends and skills at the Perkins School for the Blind, in the wake of America's Great Depression.
After Bess Brennan is blinded in a sledding a...
Saturday. September 24, 1853 Finding myself the most important person in the whole household and the constant center of attention is most unnerving and disturbing. I wish it were not so, but there doesn't seem to be anything I can do to stop it. I ...
THE LIFE AND TIMES Atticus is a young boy who has been torn from his family and home and sold into slavery to a Roman aristocrat. As a spy for Lucius Opimius, he quickly learns that not all is as it seems in the republic of Rome. Politicians and gree...
Pandora is trapped in the restrictive roles laid out for Greek girls, and, to her despair, her father has negotiated her engagement to a man more than twice her age. Now Pandora waits with dread for her fourteenth birthday, when she will be old enoug...