Saving Grace (7 page)
“I don't like to think of it in those terms,” he said.
When Ian and his classmates watch a documentary about the health concerns of eating fast food, Ian decides to start a boycott against a multinational food chain. Can Ian stand up for what he believes in? Can he take on a corporate behemoth and win?
by Patricia Murdoch
I was happier than I had been for a long time. Everything was crashing down around Dana. Finally I was getting some justice. But I wanted a bigger helping. This wasn't enough. I had to do something.
I went into the washroom and dug a marker out of my pencil case. I drew a box and a couple of circles, with lines for a flash going off, on the outer wall of the first cubicle. No one would be able to miss it. It didn't look exactly like a camera, but it would do. And for the finishing touch I wrote SMILE DANA, with a happy face right beside it.
by Laura Langston
“I'm not dead. I'm still me. I still have a body and everything.”
“You are still you, but you don't have a body. What you're seeing is a thought form.” He points to a tall gold urn up by the minister. “Your body is in there. You were cremated.”
Thunk thunk, thunk thunk. My heart pounds in my chest. Dread mushrooms in my stomach. Sweat beads on my forehead.“But everybody knows death is the end. That there's nothing left but matter.”
“Death is only the beginning, Logan. Hannah knows that. Lots of people do.”
Logan always takes the easy way out. After a night of drinking and driving, he wakes up to find he has been involved in a car accident and is dead. With the help of his guide, Wade, and the spirit of his grandmother, he realizes he has taken the wrong exit. He wasn't meant to die. His life had a purposeâto save his sister!