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Each study guide includes essays, an in-depth chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quiz. Study guides are available in PDF format.
Each study guide includes essays, an in-depth chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quiz. Study guides are available in PDF format.
Aldo Leopold was an American author, ecologist, scientist and philosopher - areas of expertise that at first glance seem oppositional, to say the least. His main passion was environmentalism; A Sand County Almanac is his best-known work and has...
Turtles All the Way Down is entrepreneur and author John Green's 2017 follow-up to his 2012 smash-hit The Fault in Our Stars. In the book, we follow a high school student named Aza Holmes. She is wicked smart but struggles with mental health—...
Zoe Wicomb, an author with both South African and Scottish ancestry, lives and works in Scotland, something that she shares with the protagonist of this novel, Marcia Murray. Murray is a professor in Glasgow who returns to her homeland of South...
Thérèse Desqueyroux is a novel written by the famous French author François Mauriac. The book was first published in 1927, and later became included in the Grand Prix of the best novels of the half-century in 1950. Mauriac died at the age of 84 in...
Alex Kotlowitz's biography, There Are No Children Here, was the recipient of The Christopher Award, and the Helen Bernstein Award, and tells the story of a childhood spent in a housing project in Chicago, at the Henry Horner Homes. Like many kids...
Thank you for Arguing is Jay Heinrichs' 2017 book covering how to be persuasive in argument, writing, and in every day life. In the book, he uses examples ranging from people like Bart Simpson and former British prime minister Winston Churchill....
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion is a memoir and biography written by Gregory Boyle. The book was published in 2010 and received many positive reviews. He is a Catholic priest and he writes about events that happened during...
The Winslow Boy is a play by Terence Rattigan that is based on the real-life infamous incident involving George Archer-Shee in the early part of the Twentieth century. Archer-Shee was a young Royal Naval cadet who was accused of stealing a five...
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is English author Jeanette Winterson's 2012 memoir covering her life, particularly her strange and interesting childhood. The book is filled with stories of her life, stories about Jeanette being locked out...
Claude Steele was born and raised in Chicago. His mother, a social worker, and his father, a truck driver, raised him to value hard work, and education. As he grew older, his interest was piqued by the fledgling civil rights movement. He became an...
Jaki Green's poetry often deals with youth and new things, and how they affect the people and things around them. One of her most well know poems, "Who Will Be the Messenger of This Land", asks the reader that very question - in this newly found...
Omkara is a 2006 Indian crime drama directed by Vishal Bhardwaj based on William Shakespeare's Othello. The screenplay was written by Abhishek Chaubey, Robin Bhatt, and Bhardwaj and was produced by Kumar Mangat Pathak. The film made an estimated...
Sharon Creech is an acclaimed children's author who always seems to know how to express what is going on in the heart of a teenage girl. In The Wanderer, a Newberry Honor Book, she allows her thirteen year old protagonist, Sophie, to narrate....
Zero Hour is Ray Bradbury's 1947 - included in Bradbury's collection of short stories entitled The Illustrated Man, released in 1951 - short story following Mrs. Morris and her daughter, Mink. Mrs. Morris is incredibly amused by how excited Mink...
It is said that an awful number of people purchased Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance thinking that it would be a philosophical homage to their love of the American classic Harley-Davidson, or at the very least a deep and meaningful...
The Prince and the Pauper is a book written by American classic writer Mark Twain published in 1881. First published in Canada, it is the first historical fiction book written by Mark Twain. The book is set in the early 1500s, where readers follow...
Although infinitely more famous and well-known for his stories about upper crust twit Bertie Wooster and his ever-efficient and loyal butler Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse was no one-trick-pony. During his lifetime, stories featuring the forgetful Lord...
Jamaican novelist Marlon James' novel A Brief History of Seven Killings is a sprawling novel covering the attempted assassination of famed musician Bob Marley in Jamaica in 1976 and the aftermath of said attempt. It goes through the crack wars in...
Breaking Night is Liz Murray's 2010 memoir that chronicles her homelessness. After being born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx, New York, Liz struggled fitting in at school. She got made fun of for her dirty clothes and...
Cristina Henriquez's 2014 novel The Book of Unknown Americans tells the love story of two teenagers: a Mexican girl and Panamanian boy - Mayor and Maribel. Maribel and her family emigrated to America from Mexico in order to send her to a special...
Tipi Hedren's pistachio green suit made The Birds such an iconic movie that it comes as an enormous surprise to movie goers that the story was in fact created by English writer Daphne du Maurier, and not by the undisputed king of horror, Alfred...
"The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" was written in England, although its author, Stephen Crane, and its protagonist, Jack Potter, are American. The story tells of Potter's return to the town of Yellow Sky with his bride, who comes from the east. He...
“The Blue Hotel” is either a very long short story or a fairly short novella. Either way, it was roundly met with universal rejection by every periodical to which it was initially submitted by Stephen Crane. Popular publishers of the time from...
Published in 1986 as an autobiography by South African author Mark Mathabane, Kaffir Boy explores the problems of the apartheid system in South Africa at the time. The system is basically institutionalized segregation - that is, the government...