why I think you should finally pick it up. You were the person who actually got me started with young adult fiction with the Percy Jackson series, so you probably have some idea as to what I like. I enjoy books with a dose of action with detailed and sometimes intense overarching plots. A book really gets good if this is combined with a unique and memorable group of characters with engaging subplots mixed in. One thing that I enjoy in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is the variety in
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A book that I really enjoyed this year was “Lockdown” by Alexander Gordon Smith. It is about a boy who breaks into houses and steals, but one night he gets caught and his world is changed forever. The reason you should read this is because it teaches you a lesson, it will scare you, and it will suck you in wanted to know more. The first reason you should read this is because it teaches you a lesson about stealing. The boy goes out at night and starts to rob a house when all the sudden two huge men
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Please list three books, along with their authors, that have been particularly meaningful to you. For each book, please include a sentence explaining their influence upon you. Please note that your response is not limited to math, science or school-assigned texts. Waiting by Ha Jin reminded me of a theme of life that youth is the time to experiment and that one should not wait for another time for his/her passions to flourish. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho opened my eyes to the treasures within
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In the 10th grade, my English teacher Mrs. Gordon began a new section, having us read The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Before that, we studied classics like Antigone, The Catcher in the Rye, and Hamlet. The Hobbit was something different. We still studied symbolism and figurative language. We still had pop quizzes on comprehension and vocabulary. But this was the action-packed adventure that put sparkles in Mrs. Gordon's eyes. I already liked to read and write. But that day while observing my teacher
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When i stumbled across this book in a local Urban Outfitters, I had no clue what it was even about. I read the clever title “ Just little things” and decided to open it up for a peak. I fell in love with the clever, short phrases that seems to put a smile on my face instantly. I left the store with a new book to add to my collection but this time it was one that I was going to actually read. Reading every one of the post in the blog gives me the urge to smile and realize my life is actually amazing
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known for its’ banned book list, a set of books characterized by parents, teachers, and professors as being anything from, Anne Frank’s The Diary of Anne Frank being “too depressing”, to Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends for “promoting cannibalism”. In 1982, the United States Supreme Court case Board of Education, Island Trees School District v. Pico found that schools cannot remove library material based on their own disagreement, the Supreme Court ruled that unless a book was “pervasively vulgar”
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At the age of five, I became interested in books. I found the pictures intriguing. I felt that the words in a book were for adults, and the pictures were for kids. I was in kindergarten when I realized they weren’t. I remember my teacher Mrs. H, passing out a list of books to read over the summer. I asked my friend “What does she want us to do with this”? My friend faced me and said “Read them”. Other classmates chimed in with titles of their favorite books. I felt embarrassed and dumb. That was the
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remember books I read while growing up because I was a reluctant reader. I remember two books. Cherry Ames Senior Nurse because it was my first oral book report. The Mayor of Casterbridge because I skimmed the pages before class just so I could make a passing grade on the quiz. If you are a parent of a reluctant reader, don’t force them to read. Encourage them and provide quality books so when the urge or necessity to read happens, you are not scratching your head trying to decide which book is best
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year old son come back from school with the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, he had been waiting for it for a week, until somebody finally returned it from the library. So you start reading it with him, you think that the book is fine, until your start seeing racist words, why does your eight year old child have this book in his hands, why is it within his reach? Book banning in schools has recently became a hot topic, some people think that some books should be censored or removed from schools
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The biggest contribution that Johannes Gutenberg has given to history is that he invented the printing press. The printing press is an evolutionary invention that has changed our lives. Without it who knows how we would be copying all of our needed materials. It would take months to accomplish what a printing press or modern day printer could do in a few hours. The printing press really helps us complete tasks that would be very time consuming in a short amount of time. In 1448, Johannes
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