We all had weeks in middle school or high school when we primarily relied on Cliff’s Notes to prep us for our reading quizzes, but every once in a while you would actually have time to read the assigned books and maybe you found yourself completely engrossed. For instance, yo...
Over 3K readers have voted on the 70+ books on Required Reading That You Actually Ended Up Loving. Current Top 3: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Outsiders, The ...
The Danvers High School Girls Field Hockey team’s losing streak turns around after they make a dark pledge of amateur witchcraft. Using the pronoun “we,” Barry tells this story from the perspective of all of the girls, making the reader feel like one of the team. Set in the 1980s, ...
The incomparable‘mother’ of multicultural children’s literature, Rudine Sims Bishop, created the metaphor of books as windows, mirrors, and sliding-glass doors: Through stories, we may see into the experiences of others, see our own reflected back to us, or step through a threshold into ent...
She has all the usual complaints about middle school: weird teachers, mean girls, bad cafeteria food. In addition, she feels left out of her circle of friends because she doesn’t have “a Thing.” When it comes to choosing an elective, she doesn’t really have a passion like science ...
This series, being a set at a summer resort, inverts that, as the seasons take place during the summer holidays...then breaks when the characters go off to school. TV series (which kicked off as a TV movie in 2005) is an attempt by Canadians to emulate the Hollywood formula of ...
fluenceoverthe wilderness and its“uncivilized”inhabitants.German adventurestories for girls do not exist in thisvein, although by the turn of the century,thesettingsofmanygirls’books do shift from home and school to the wider world oftravel (to England and Asia, for example), study, and ...
52 Kitchen and dining room are not so well suited forregular study. since books and pens get in the way of the day-to-day uses ofthose areas. Set up a place where a child can settle in and leave papers andpens at band without having to clear everything away each night. For a chil...
There was agreatbig pile of books on the table. 桌上有很大一摞书。 牛津词典 He cut himself agreatthick slice of cake. 他给自己切了厚厚的一大片蛋糕。 牛津词典 People were arriving ingreatnumbers. 人们大批到来。 牛津词典 Agreatcrowd had gathered. ...
Now she's really enjoying life. She said she would go on __25__ children's books. 16.A.good B.better C.best D.the best 17.A.listen B.speak C.listening D.speaking 18.A.in B.at C.for D.to 19.A.write B.wrote C.to write D.written 20.A.writers B.drivers C.singers D....