President Cleveland, Where Are You?
President Cleveland, Where Are You? is a story by Robert Cormier. It tells the tale of a young boy (Jerry) who collects cowboy cards along with his friends. Suddenly the company making the cards stops carrying cowboy cards and switches to cards containing pictures of US Presidents. Jerry becomes obsessed with finding the elusive President Cleveland card. He believes that if he finds this card, it will make his life perfect. During the course of the story, he learns some life lessons and makes decisions that show that he is growing up and caring more about his family.
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Raymond's Run
The Courage That My Mother Had, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The courage that my mother had Went with her, and is with her still: Rock from New England quarried; Now granite in a granite hill. The golden brooch my mother wore She left behind for me to wear; I have no thing I treasure more: Yet, it is something I could spare. Oh, if instead she'd left to me The thing she took into the grave!- That courage like a rock, which she Has no more need of, and I have. "The courage that my mother had" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Collected Poems. © Harper Collins, 1981. |
The White Umbrella by Gish Jen
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Gish Jen, born Lillian Jen in 1955, is a contemporary American writer.
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