So the main thing I want people to take away from this book — the main thing that I took away working on the project — is a sense of Harriet Tubman as a real, live woman. A real, live Black woman. She was mul
Ollie is so absorbed in the video game Smash Tower that he doesn’t notice that his sister and an ogre named Tim have emptied his room and constructed an obstacle course that mirrors the levels of the game in the yard. But a tell-tale red string leads him to the challenges. This comic...
Excerpt Read an Excerpt And I could only have seen her there on the stone bridge, a dancer wreathed in ghostly blue, because that was the way they would have taken her back when I was young, back when the Virginia earth was still red as brick and red with life, and though there wer...
Author Kate Messner shares a read-aloud excerpt from TRACKING PYTHONS: THE QUEST TO CATCH AN INVASIVE PREDATOR AND SAVE AN ECOSYSTEM. After the read-aloud, you can learn more about invasive species fromNational Geographicand theNational Wildlife Foundation. Also check outthis art...
Book Review & Excerpt: American Specter, by Rasheedah Prioleau Posted on February 3, 2014 This book is one of a kind! Rasheedah Prioleau really breathed life into the paranormal romance genre. Not that it is strictly a paranormal romance, because there are so many layers to this story. It...
At the heart of Batalion’s narrative is Renia Kukiełka, a Polish teenager who acted as an underground courier, moving “grenades, false passports and cash strapped to her body and hidden in her undergarments and shoes,” as the author writesin an adapted excerpt. Wh...
The main character, Holden Caulfield, tells the story from a psychiatric hospital. 主要人物 Holden Caulfield 讲述了一个从精神病院听说的故事。 One of the themes is how your family can save you from the difficulties of daily life. 其中一个主题是你的家庭如何能够帮你度过日常生活的难关。
One last excerpt, with a nod to my Mancunian readers, who will no doubt find much of interest in this novel for its many depictions of their city of almost a century ago: The trams that hammer their way out of Albert Square run level if they are going south or east or west. But ...
Here’s an excerpt of Children of Earth & Sky to give you a feel of Kay’s writing: https://www.tor.com/2016/03/10/excerpts-children-of-earth-and-sky-guy-gavriel-kay/ Suzanne says: February 18, 2020 at 10:17 am Although I know a little French, I couldn’t begin to think of...
EXCERPT: "Then I would say, "How theGiantsgoing to make out Sunday, Leo?" Having known the question would come, Leo would smile. The nightmare of the week was over. Why did football bring me so to life? I can't say precisely. Part of it was my feeling that football was an island...