Quotes from Lauren Tarshis

He loved when Nate sang shanties — the songs sailors crooned as they did their work.

America was under attack! Hundreds of bomber planes were swarming over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

open prairie. For hours, Oscar had been

He's asked me to marry him,

Miss Ruell was still covered with snow. She was untying a rope that was knotted around her waist. John realized she must have tied the other end to something in the schoolhouse.

On and on they went.

It turned out that not all of those poems were so boring.

But Jess had outgrown that. And anyway, the twins weren't so exactly alike. Eddie was quiet and serious. Sam never shut up and he had a fearless streak that sometimes got all three of them into big trouble.

The Children's Blizzard. Because at least one hundred of the people who died were schoolchildren

And they were heading right for it.

More scared, even, than the time the black panther chased him through the woods back home in Millerstown, New York.

Eleven-year-old Danny Crane had moved to Hawaii just weeks before. Ma had brought Danny to Hawaii to get him out of trouble, away from the crime and the rats and the dirty, dangerous streets of New York City.

she wanted him checked out before he was cleared to play. "I'm fine," Lucas

Strange," Phoebe said, looking at the lifeboats that hung just off the deck. "There are only sixteen boats. That's not nearly enough for everyone.

There would be more storms ahead, John knew. But somehow they'd all made it through the blizzard. Whatever was coming, they would face it. Maybe that's what it meant to be a pioneer.

Vendors cursed as their baskets of fruit and vegetables toppled. A bamboo birdcage fell and burst open, scattering a flock of tiny white birds into the dusty air. Barrels rolled wildly through the streets, gushing wine as red as blood.

But in America's small towns, life hadn't changed much in a hundred years. There were few roads. Most people were farmers. Kids worked alongside their parents, and went to one-room schools. Toilets were outside, pits dug in the ground.

quiet streets of his neighborhood, his dog, Zeke, trotting right beside him. He was studying an arrow-

streets of his neighborhood, his dog, Zeke, trotting right beside him. He was studying an arrow-shaped cloud in the bright blue sky when squealing shouts echoed from just ahead. "Dexter! Dexter! Buy some lemonade!" Two identical blond heads bounced up over a rosebush. It was the little Tucker twins, Stephanie and Bobbie.

And they never let him go.

buildings in the world. There are hundreds of firefighters on the scene. We have reports

Some of the world's richest and most famous people flew on the Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg,

The grizzlies have to pass right through here on their way up to that dump,

ever wanted. He loved the wild. He wanted to protect grizzlies. He would have understood that the grizzly was protecting her cubs. There were tracks everywhere. We should have known to stay away. My dad shouldn't have died that day. And those bears shouldn't have died, either.