"Like this is the place where you learn and you ask and you understand things most quickly.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

Just simple things so that way they get to understand what it means to be an American student."

VOA: special.2010.05.27

We will try to get to the heart of the matter to better understand the most important things about words and their stories.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

Mama always hada wayof explaining things so I could understand them.

VOA: standard.other

"We don't want to be rebels and betray our families, but we do want to leave home and do interesting and challenging things that maybe our families don't understand because they are still stuck in the old world a little bit.'" In the novel,Gabi faces another dilemma.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

"It was like a giant jigsaw puzzle and the more we started to unearth and peel back the onion of who this guy was and what happened to him in the past and trying to truly understand the reason why he would be so obsessed with a specific case once we start to uncover these things about him we realized that once we explain one set of circumstances we needed to go even further with another set of circumstances."

VOA: standard.2010.02.27