Holes is Louis Sachar's fifth novel, and probably his most loved. The novel took Sachar a year and a half to write, and was published in 1998. Holes combined huge popular appeal with critical success, as Holes won or was nominated for almost...

Ta-Nehisi Coates is an American author born on September 30, 1975 in Baltimore, Maryland. After graduating from Woodlawn High School, he attended Howard University, but dropped out in order to pursue a career in journalism. Coates worked at...

Hadji Murat is a relatively short novel written by Leo Tolstoy. This novel was published in 1912, after his death; Tolstoy's narrative falls under the category of historical fiction.

The novel pivots around a war in which a brave chieftain, Hadji...

There Was a Country was written by Chinua Achebe, one of Nigeria’s most famous authors. It was published in 2012, after Achebe had remained in silence on the events of the Nigerian Civil War for over forty years. There Was a Country is an account...

Adeline Yen Mah had a traumatic upbringing. As a child, she was raised by her cruel stepmother, abused and neglected. Later, when her father died, this same stepmother kept Adeline from reading his will until two years after his death, at which...

Along the River is a novel that was written by a famous Chinese American writer called Adeline Yen Mah. It was published in early 2009 by Penguin Publishing in hardcover format, and on April 10, 2012, in paperback. The book is part of her Chinese...

The book "Cured" by Bethany Wiggins is the sequel to the original book "Stung". The series revolves around the mass biohazard pandemic happening in the world because of the extinction of the bee population. "Cure", published in March 2014, is a...

Stung is a novel published recently in 2013 and written by Bethany Wiggins. Wiggins is the author of Stung, Shifting, and Cured. This particular novel is exciting and adventurous, telling a fictional, post-apocalyptic story of a girl named Fiona.

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Connie Willis is an American author born on December 31, 1945 in Denver, Colorado. After graduating high school, she attended Colorado State College to study English and elementary education. Her first foray into the literary world began with her...

Although quite prolific as a writer of poetry, drama, essays and novels, the work for which Edgar Lee Masters has always been known and likely will always be known is his 1915 collection of more 200 poems titled Spoon River Anthology. Based...

Dear Mr Henshaw is a children's book by best selling author Beverly Cleary. It follows the story of a young boy called Leigh Botts who does not like his name because people think he is a girl. The book ingeniously tells Leigh's story through his...

Frindle is a highly-acclaimed, bestselling children's book that tells the story of Nicholas Allen, a go-getting, action-oriented fifth grader who is full of ideas and energy. Whilst in Mrs Granger's Language Arts class, Nick decides to invent a...

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s 1992 Newberry Medal Winner, Shiloh, is one of those rare books with an origin that can be traced back to a specific moment in time. That specific moment in time took place on a country road in West Virginia. While there...

Ella Enchanted is a fantasy story written by Gail Carson Levine and published in 1997. This fantasy novel is a twisted retelling of the classic story Cinderella, intertwined with mythical creatures such as fairies, elves, ogres, gnomes, and...

The Whipping Boy is the first novel by comedian and educator Sid Fleischman, and it is considered to be a modern classic of children's literature. Written in 1986, it tells the story of a plucky young boy named Jemmy who is forced to be the...