![]() ![]() In addition to being a Newbery Medal winner, Bridge to Terabithia was also named an ALA Notable Children’s Book and has become a touchstone of children’s literature, as have many of Katherine Paterson’s other novels, including The Great Gilly Hopkins and Jacob Have I Loved. It will take the love of his family and the strength that Leslie has given him for Jess to be able to deal with his grief. One morning, Leslie goes to Terabithia without Jess and a tragedy occurs. ![]() The two become fast friends and spend most days in the woods behind Leslie’s house, where they invent an enchanted land called Terabithia. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. ![]() This Newbery Medal-winning novel by bestselling author Katherine Paterson is a modern classic of friendship and loss. An excellent novel for middle graders to explore contemporary stories that speak to the world around us and the joy and lessons of growing up.” – Seira Wilson, Amazon Editor “An enduring classic that continues to be loved by new generations of readers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Animated Adaptation: There is a 1984 Soviet animated adaptation directed by Nazim Tulyakhodzayev that can be found here.After the End: The nuclear holocaust has already happened, but the family's smart house is still active and running as if its inhabitants were still alive.Absurdly Dedicated Worker: The entire plot of the piece is that a fully-automated house keeps performing its duties of cleaning the house, preparing meals, singing lullabies for the kids etc., even though the home has been empty for a long time and the family and everyone else has perished in a nuclear war. ![]() In particular, the poem was chosen to exemplify the fact that life (and in this case, some technology) goes on, even if humans were to suddenly vanish. The name comes from the 1920 Sara Teasdale poem about nature reclaiming the former battlefields of Europe in the years following World War I (but also about how little nature would notice if humans suddenly disappeared) a poem which is recited by the house itself midway through the story. The house runs continuously until it succumbs to decay no one will ever live in it again. As the story goes on it becomes clear that a nuclear war destroyed all of the humans. The house goes about its programmed tasks, such as making breakfast and cleaning, sustaining its own processes for days at a time. It tells about the continued goings-on of an automated house. ![]() "There Will Come Soft Rains" is a post apocalyptic Science Fiction short story written in 1950 by Ray Bradbury. ![]() ![]() ![]() Serpell’s novel is more than a (pseudo-)fictional postcolonial epic of Zambian history. ![]() But I also don’t think they mean or say much about the novel as a cultural object, as a thing from which we can learn. Indeed, reviews of The Old Drift are replete with adjectives like epic, masterpiece, grand, astounding, powerful, and more-and I don’t dispute these, insofar as they point to one kind of aesthetic, affective, or artistic experience of the novel. ![]() It is, as more than one critic put it and as Serpell herself has joked, an attempt to write the Great Zambian Novel and its size (at more than five hundred pages), allusions to the Western (and non-Western) literary tradition, endless play with language, incorporation of historical and contemporary texts, commentary on changing national-political landscapes, blending of real and fictional histories and biographies, attention to sexual and racial politics, and critiques of capitalism and colonialism attest to its likely achievement of this status. Namwali Serpell’s 2019 novel The Old Drift is the sweeping, multigenerational saga of three families whose personal histories converge over the course of more than a century on the shores of the Zambezi river, and in the eventual shadow of the Kariba Dam, from the dawn of the twentieth century to 2024. ![]() ![]() Don't miss City of Ghosts (Book 1) and Tunnel of Bones (Book 2) by Victoria Schwab. Is Cass up to the challenge - and what will she have to lose to win?Ī spooky, page-turning story combining ghostly hauntings, friendship and history Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Laini Taylor. And the biggest surprise? An enemy she never expected to face: a messenger of Death itself. But nothing can prepare Cass for New Orleans, a city bursting with old magic, secret societies, and scary seances. ![]() After all, she and her ghost best friend Jacob have survived two haunted cities while travelling for her parents' TV show. If youve written a review for a romance that you think might interest the community or youd like to rant and/or squee about a book. We also may use affiliate links in our posts, as well. ![]() unless it's the other way around? Cass might have this ghost hunting thing down. Bridge of Souls by Victoria Schwab is available from: As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Where there are ghosts, Cassidy Blake follows. ![]() #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Schwab invites readers to New Orleans in this instalment of her thrillingly spooky City of Ghosts series! ![]() ![]() ![]() On my way out, I noticed the Tenth Anniversary book sitting on an impulse rack. I browsed for about ten minutes before sighing and resigning myself to going home empty-handed. The spot for it was empty, so here I was with ten dollars to spend and no book to spend it on. I was at my local bookstore, hoping to acquire a copy of Empire Magazine. ![]() I guess my real love of this comic didn't become apparent to me until earlier today. I won't say that I was forever changed, but I'm pretty sure I went outside and started acting like a dinosaur right after. First I skipped ahead to every colored "sunday comic." After exhausting the supply, I went back and read it cover to cover. It sat neatly on my bookshelf for a couple months, then on a summer day when I was too lazy to go pretend I was a knight (or a robot, or a jedi) I sat in my little nook in the house and started to read it. Noting a chance for something in common (I was a socially awkward kid) I begged my parents for it, saying that "I always wanted this book!" ![]() When I looked at the inside cover, I saw that the previous owner's name was the same as a friend of mine. Show More thereabouts, and I really just picked it up because I was a bored little kid waiting for his parents. ![]() |