Never Met a Stranger

Lu won’t go with just anyone! Lu is waiting to be picked up after school. She stands on the sidewalk, all alone, and it starts to rain. Ms. Smith walks by, and offers to take her home. Ms. Smith lives in Lu’s neighborhood—but does Lu really know her? Lu asks

It's at the end of school, Lu was waiting to be picked up, and most of her friends have been picked up... Several people offer to take her home, but she refused. Her parents had told her to go with only the people whose names are in the list her

There are different types of strangers. A young girl explains in her own words, describing scenarios, stating the reasoning behind her decision of not talking to them.

This novel of murder and its aftermath in a small Vermont town in the 1950s is “reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird . . . Absorbing” (The New York Times). In Kingdom County, Vermont, the town’s new Presbyterian minister is a black man, an unsettling fact for some of the

There are different types of strangers. A young girl describes in her own words, using scenarios the reasoning behind her decision of not going with them, no matter how familiar she is with them.