Young, black 16-year-old Steve Harmon, an amateur filmmaker, is on trial for the murder of a Harlem drugstore owner and could face the death penalty. Steve copes by writing a movie script based on his trial. But despite his efforts, reality is blurred until he can no longer tell who ...
However, these books can be read to (and loved by) children of all ages! Classic Books for Ages 2-5 We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Buy Here This is a thirty-year-old tale of a father and his four young children as they cross a field of tall grass, wade through a cold river, ...
In the classic comedy-drama Big, Josh Baskin (Tom Hanks) is an everyday 12-year-old boy who yearns for adulthood. After making a wish on a mystical arcade machine, he wakes up in the body of a 30-year-old man. Now navigating the adult world with a child's heart, Josh...
Written for all ages, it has been considered a children's novel since the mid-twentieth century. It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a ...
Classic books never go out of fashion.The Outsider first came out in 1967.But even though the book is old,it is still worth reading.The book is written by US writer S.E.Hinton. The book tells the story of a 14-year-old boy called Ponyboy Curtis.He struggles with(挣扎于) right and...
Recently adapted into a hit drama by the BBC, A Suitable Boy is one of the newer books on our list but has already landed classic status. At nearly 1,500 pages long, the story of 19-year-old Lata's attempts to resist her family's efforts to marry her off to "a suitable boy" is...
The (2) (众所周知的)American writer died in February 2016 at the age of 89.We can remember Lee,who has affected people's (3) (日常的)life greatly,through her writing,especially in To Kill a Mockingbird. She wrote about many important things like how to think about race(种族)problems ...
The book tells the story of a 14-year-old boy called Ponyboy Curtis. He struggles with difficult issues of right and wrong in a society where he is an outsider. The story took place in Oklahoma, US, in 1965. In the book, the children are divided into two groups. One includes Curtis...
Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organi- zations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and ...
This story’s opening line (abridged) is “Gaius Titus Menenius sat in his apartment on Park Avenue” which is an excellent example of cognitive estrangement (or very mean parents) and it turns out to be the former, as he’s a two-thousand-year-old Roman who ages very, very slowly. ...