He discusses the nature and function of Young Adult Fiction. He gives an account of his publications that demonstrates the variety of creative work that has allowed him to have a prolonged career, including YA novels for 'reluctant' readers and his first published 'adult' novel. He briefly ...
The Lovely Bones is a heartbreaking and thrilling novel about a girl's spirit who watches her family and friends come to terms with her rape and murder. It was written by Alice Sebold and published in 2002.Answer and Explanation: Although The Lovely Bones was never officially banned, some ...
On the Bright Side is Anna Sortino’s brilliant 2024 young-adult, dual-narrative novel that opens with Elle’s junior year ending as her fully immersive Deaf boarding school closes due to budget cuts. Her self-absorbed boyfriend Cody, also Deaf, thinks it’s a good time to break up with...
This is somewhat understandable, but it also does a huge disservice to young film fans who, for example, might fall so hard for Mike Flannagan's "The Haunting of Hill House" that they desperately need to see Robert Wise's much-lauded 1963 take on Shirley Jackson's horror novel. See ...
As the story progresses, the diction grows more 'adult' as the main character, Stephen Dedalus, grows from childhood to adulthood, too. This is a very unusual and very stylized use of diction to emphasize character development, or growing up. Yet it shows howdiction can inflect the narration...
The interactions between teens and parents around sleep and digital technology can be challenging. In terms of sleep, there is a concern that teens are not getting enough of it, which can negatively affect the behaviour, feelings, and social relationships of teens, as well as their academic per...
A. focus on the profits B. benefit from the job C. protect themselves well D. control their feelings well D 推理判断题。根据第三段1,2行And the best way to strengthen willpower is to make it into a habit. “Sometimes it looks like people with great self-control aren’t working hard—...
Substantial progress has been made in the understanding of anorexia nervosa (AN) and eating disorder (ED) genetics through the efforts of large-scale collaborative consortia, yielding the first genome-wide significant loci, AN-associated genes, and insig
“My plan is to make it simple/stupid,” said Updyke He displayed a two-page adult coloring book. “If you make more than $12 million a year, have your accountant scribble these pages with a crayon, any color but red, and receive a $2 million refund. For those between $250,000 and...
Is Rejection in Control? Like the characters in our books, our wounds can be our best friends or our greatest enemies. When I wrote my “first novel,” I kid you not, it was 187,000 words long. I just kept on writing then finally thought, “Seems long enough. The end!” ...