The Big Move: A Short Story

In the story ¨ Your Move” by Eve Bunting James is the main character and has a little brother Isaac.James wants to be in the ¨ K-bones club¨, but it’s a risky thing because he is responsible for his six year old brother.His mom is at work and his dad is gone, so he is the only one that can watch Isaac. James starts off trying to be cool with the K-bones, but then starts to understand he did something wrong and is nicer to Isaac, towards the end.

Because of this, she started to miss her friends and teachers at the Moss,’ especially her best friend Mandy, even though she was treated badly. She also started to worry about the new place that she was going because of her past experiences. Being with a better family was so new to her that it was hard to face reality that she actually had people who cared for her. Going

She speaks about the death of her father and how it helped her to finally leave.

“Don’t fuckin’ do this to me Sam,” came his father’s Chicago accent. “You propose to that girl, and we’ve got

“Without their mothers being on the island, they couldn’t be comforted and no one could take away the

“I can’t do it without you there, I have no friends, I haven’t been going to school much. I feel no motivation to go on time, and no reason to stay till the end, I don’t have anyone to sit with at lunch so I normally go home and just don’t go back. You were the only reason I went to school. School scares me Chantel, there’s too many people for me to be there alone. You’re the only person I have to really talk to. Now my dad is working nights and I barely see him or talk to him, and you are going away. I’ll have no one and that’s why I’m dropping out of school and coming with you on your trip.” Keerin said then took a deep breath.

“Mandy, your dad and I have something we need to talk to you about.” Being the bright-eyed eight year old I was, I would have never suspected what was going to escape my mom’s lips next.

“Casey is leaving.” She blankly stated. Now to most people when their sister breaks up with her boyfriend it’s no big deal, but my sister is not most people. Casey was her rock and he helped her when her

The guilt washed over me like a tidal wave obliterating everything in its wake; my mind racing as my 15-year-old brain replayed every interaction looking for the signs that Skylar must have left, the hints she wanted me to catch on to. The more I thought about it the more I felt as if I had let her down. I had kept her secret and in the end in trying to save her I lost her. I felt alone, but this time I couldn’t seek refuge with her, how could she save me when she couldn’t help herself.

It was time to leave. She was ecstatic she had been waiting for so long and today was the day. Today is the day Becky Newman leaves for college. She had decided to stay close to home in Malibu, and chose to attend University of Southern

She moved a lot as a kid. Although she never felt bad about moving, in fifth grade, it was

It’s the day I have to move to the army's campsite. I grab my bag and swing them on my shoulder, it weighs a ton it feels like my shoulder’s gonna break. Sophie was peeking through my room door, as I was about to stand up she ran to the living room curled up into a ball making loud thud and sobbing noises. Outside of the house, I hug my mom as tight as I could, I don’t want to move any single inch of my bone. I want to stay like this forever. I felt a drop of water behind my shoulder and I know that it was her tears. I don’t want to leave them but I have to. It was time to let go but she didn’t want to, I grab her arm and slightly push them back.

Moving across the country is an enormous change to someone’s life. I my personal experience moving across the country is hard. Especially, when you go from the country to the city as I did. I had to go to a new school, get new friends, and here about things that I really didn’t know how to deal with. It was like hitting rock bottom after you just got to the top. This shows how moving to one place can make you feel horrible for no reason what so ever. I had to reinvent myself from country girl to city girl it was exhausting. This proves how hard it was to change because you are so used to being completely different. Moving across the country is a big change and it can be hard.

“Are you really going to make me move away the summer before Sophomore year?” she asked her mother in tears. Lilly had been looking forward to spending summer with her friends, going to the pool and doing gymnastics. She never imagined her parents would be getting a divorce and she would be moving 3 hours away to go live with her mom. Her dad was an alcoholic and had tried to fix the problem many times, finally her mom had enough and signed the divorce papers. She had moved away from her family when she got married, so now was going to go back to where she grew up and live closer to her family. Lilly was a very outgoing girl who loved and was very good at gymnastics. She didn't think she would be able to live without her two best friends

John and his wife made the largest decision of their life when their grandchildren were in middle childhood. They moved to Arizona. His son-in-law’s job was being relocated, so John could not stay behind in New York. He did not want to miss any opportunities to be with his family.