Estimated Reading Time
SWAG FEATURING THE VIBRANT LIFE LOGO
410
SWAG
454
Estimated Reading Time
Hello Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
331
Sometimes life calls on you even when you don’t raise your hand.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
7417
There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
Banner In The Sky By James Ramsey Ullman
291
It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
288
Friendship and courage between a young white boy and an elderly black man remind us that friendship is not only available to us if we are open to it, but that we need each other to survive.
Little Britches by Ralph Moody
634
A man’s character is like his house. If he tears boards off his house and burns them to keep himself warm and comfortable, his house soon becomes a ruin. If he tells lies to be able to do the things he shouldn’t do but wants to, his character will soon become a ruin. A man with a ruined character is a shame on the face of the earth.
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
428
Stories wanted to be read, David’s mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
389
But then a better thought occurred, and this was the one I carried away with me that day: If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could?
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
385
How many feelings can one heart hold?… Infinite, Luna thought. The way the universe is infinite. It is light and dark and endless motion; it is space and time, and space within space, and time within time. And she knew: there is no limit to what the heart can carry.