Book of Ages by Jill Lepore6/12/2023 Making use of an amazing cache of little-studied material, including documents, objects, and portraits only just discovered, Jill Lepore brings Jane Franklin to life in a way that illuminates not only this one woman but an entire world-a world usually lost to history. Unlike him, she was a mother of twelve.īenjamin Franklin, who wrote more letters to his sister than he wrote to anyone else, was the original American self-made man his sister spent her life caring for her children. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister and a history of history itself.
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When he was about eleven, Equiano was kidnapped and sold to slave traders headed to the West Indies. Olaudah Equiano was born in 1745 in Eboe, in what is now Nigeria. Sisterhood of the traveling pants 3 book6/10/2023 How could her father have better handled this news? Would it have made a difference to Carmen?Ħ. Carmen's discovery of a new blond stepfamily comes as quite a shock. Epigraphs (short quotations) from a variety of sources-song lyrics,remarks by real-life personalities, fictitious sayings by the novel's characters-are used to separate sections of the book. Of the four girls, whom are you the most like? The most different from?Ĥ. What is the significance of the Sisterhood's first summer apart? Why is it so important that the four friends have individual adventures? Do you think they would have remained close if the Pants had not been a part of their lives?ģ. Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened" (p. "For some reason our lives were marked by summers. Why do you think the author selected this character to frame the story? If you could change it, would you select another character, and if so, what would he or she say? Or do you think Carmen's is the best viewpoint to begin and end the novel?Ģ. The novel opens and closes with a first-person narrative by Carmen. Instead of playing it safe, Wavy has to learn to fight for Kellen, for her brother, and for herself"-Īccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 06:10:46 Autocrop_version 0.0.12_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40498219 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Kellen may not be innocent, but he is the fixed point in Wavy and Donal's chaotic universe. 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In addition to writing, Lockhart visits schools in the New York City area and further afield. For readers age 6-10, Jenkins writes the popular Toys series, including Toys Go Out, Toy Dance Party, and Toys Come Home, all with illustrations by Paul O. Her picture books include Lemonade in Winter, Toys Meet Snow, The Fun Book of Scary Stuff ,and Skunkdog. Lockhart writes books for children using her birth name, Emily Jenkins. Together, Lockhart and her father wrote a novel for children called The Secret Life of Billie’s Uncle Myron (1996). He also made up stories for Lockhart and recounted the plots of Shakespeare plays. Her mother read picture books to her her father read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Huckleberry Finn, and Sherlock Holmes. Lockhart studied English at Vassar, and then came to New York City to get her doctorate in 19th-century English literature at Columbia. Lockhart remembers visiting her mother’s classroom and reading to the children there even more vividly, she remembers sitting in the back row of the theater, watching rehearsals – and seeing stories come to life. Her mother was a pre-school teacher and her father a playwright. Lockhart was born in New York City, and grew up in the Boston area in the 1970s. Lockhart wrote the New York Times bestseller We Were Liars and the upcoming Genuine Fraud, a psychological thriller. In 2009 the Italian translation of The Running Man was a finalist for the "Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cento" Prize. In 2008 the German translation of The Running Man was short-listed for the German Youth Literature Prize and subsequently won the German Catholic Children's and Young People's Book Prize. It subsequently won the 2005 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year for Older Readers and was short-listed for the NSW, Victoria and South Australian State Premiers' Literary awards. In 2004 his first YA novel THE RUNNING MAN was published to great acclaim. In 2000 he resigned from his full-time position as an English/Economics teacher to pursue his dream of becoming a writer. Michael Gerard Bauer was born and lives in Brisbane Australia. |