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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.
Summer Of My German Soldier is a novel for young adults written by Newberry Honor author Bette Greene. First published in 1973, it evokes a strong emotional response from the reader and was awarded the Outstanding New Book of the Year in 1973 as...
Caroline B. Cooney wrote Both Sides of Time, which was first published during 1995, and later published during 2001 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This fictional novel tells the story of Annie Lockwood, a fifteen-year-old girl who is a...
Sirena is a book written by Donna Jo Napoli that was published in 1998. Sirena is one of the Sirens, the mermaid beings in Greek mythology that sing songs that are impossible for mortals to ignore. When they sing to the Greeks that are sailing to...
Go Ask Alice is a popular young adult novel written by Beatrice Sparks (January 15, 1917- May 25, 2012), an American therapist and Mormon youth counselor. Sparks' modus operandi was writing "real diaries" from the accounts of "troubled teens." The...
Nervous Conditions is a partially autobiographical novel by Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga that takes place in Rhodesia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It focuses on the themes of race, class, and gender through the eyes of Tambu, the...
Mario Puzo's The Godfather was published in 1969. Robert Evans, the head of production at Paramount Pictures, had expressed interest in optioning the book before Puzo had even finished writing it (although Peter Bart, then Evans' vice president in...
First published in 1992, Daniel Quinn's Ishmael has remained in print since its publication and has been translated into over 25 languages. Mostly a Socratic dialogue exploring the the world's impending disaster and the human responsibility...
Blade Runner is the 1981 film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's science fiction novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, directed by Ridley Scott and produced by Michael Deeley. Hampton Fancher and David Peoples wrote the screenplay. The film stars...
Tell Me a Riddle is a collection of four short stories written by Tillie Olsen, and first published in 1961. The four short stories, "I Stand Here Ironing," "Hey Sailor, What Ship?," "O Yes," and "Tell Me a Riddle," touch on issues of...
Chinua Achebe's college work sharpened his interest in indigenous Nigerian cultures. He had grown up in Ogidi, a large village in Nigeria. His father taught at the missionary school, and Achebe witnessed firsthand the complex mix of benefit and...
The novel Lost Horizon was written in 1933. It was the first book published in “pocket-book” forma and was regarded to be one of the most popular books of the early 20th century. Even the American president F. D. Roosevelt named the Presidential...
Walden Two is a book written by the American writer Burrhus Frederic Skinner. Walden Two was his second published book and it was first published in 1948. A few years later, in 1976, the book was revised and republished, this time with an...
Spellbound is a romance novel that was published recently in 2005. Nora Roberts, the author of this work, is a number one New York Times bestselling author. This novel tells a love story that weaves in and out of reality and fantasy.
Calin Farrell...
The Stud was the second novel written by English author Jackie Collins. It was first published in 1969, just one year after the publication of her first novelquickly became a bestseller.
Collins received a large amount of criticism for The Stud....
Jostein Gaarder is well-known for writing from the perspective of children and the majority of his books are aimed at a young audience. Sophie's World is somewhat of an exception to this as its intention is to bridge the gap between children's and...
The Virgin Suicides is American Writer Jeffrey Eugenides's debut novel in 1993. Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan and attended Brown University in his undergrad education and then obtained an M.A. in Creative Writing from Stanford.
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The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child was written by Francisco Jimenez, an award-winning author who emigrated from Mexico to the United States. This heartfelt novel engrosses readers in a world of hard manual labor, grueling...
Published in 2008, Cockroach is the second novel by Lebanese-Canadian author Rawi Hage. The novel is a dark comedy which draws on Hage's own background as a Lebanese immigrant living in Montreal.
Hage was born in Beirut and grew up there during...
Jodi Picoult is an American novelist born on May 19, 1966 in Long Island, New York. She grew up surrounded by art and literature considering both her mother and grandmother were English teachers. They were a heavy influence on her as a child,...
White Oleander is a novel which was written by American author Janet Fitch in 1999. It is Bildungsroman novel, which is based on the psychological, moral and social formation of the personality of the protagonist. Little, Brown and Company...
Such A Pretty Girl is a novel for young adults written by Laura Wiess. It deals with the difficult and controversial topic of child sex abuse and the failure of the legal system to fully protect victims from their abuser.
Meredith Shale is a...
Mississippi Trial, 1955 is a novel written by Chris Crowe, an American teacher and author, published in 2002. It was the recipient of the 2003 International Reading Association Award for Young Adult Novel.
Crowe's book centers around a young...
Sigmund Freud’s New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis were first published in 1933, and intended as a supplement to his Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, delivered between 1915 and 1917 at the Vienna Psychiatric Clinic. In 1932, the...
True West premiered on December 23, 1980 at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in New York. But, it came to prominence when it was revived by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago who would later bring it back to the New York before performing a...