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One Indian Girl is a 2016 novel by Indian author Chetan Bhagat. [ citation needed ] The story follows Radhika Mehta, a senior employee in the distressed debt group at Goldman Sachs . The novel explores the personal and professional challenges she faces within the financial sector.
The Hundred Dresses was a 1945 Newbery Honor book. [5] A 2004 study found that it was a common read-aloud book for third-graders in schools in San Diego County, California. [6] Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children." [7]
Whitney Joiner of Salon.com wrote, "The Diary of a Teenage Girl is one of the most brutally honest, shocking, tender and beautiful portrayals of growing up in America.” [3] Michael Martin of nerve.com described the book as “the most honest depiction of sexuality in a long, long time; as a meditation on adolescence, it picks up a literary ball that’s been only fitfully carried after ...
Hollis Woods - Young foster girl.. The Regans - Old man, Izzy, and Steven. They want Hollis to be a part of her family even though she pushes them away. Josie - An elderly retired art teacher who adores Hollis, but is forgetful, so Hollis is afraid that the agency will find out and make her go to a different foster home, so she takes her to the Reagans summer cabin/house.
[37] [38] In summary, The English Roses topped the book lists in Brazil, France, Slovenia and Taiwan. [39] In its first-month, the book reached the half-million mark sold worldwide, [30] [40] and went on to sell a million copies by April 2005. [1] [41] It became the fastest-selling picture book by a debutant children's author. [42]
The book is written in the form of a diary kept by Clotee, a young slave girl on a Virginia plantation in 1859. Clotee secretly teaches herself to read and write while fanning William, her owner's young son, during his lessons with his mother Miz Lilly.
Tom Toro is one of those artists whose work feels like a breath of fresh air. Best known for his sharp, single-panel cartoons in The New Yorker and the heartfelt charm of his comic strip Home Free ...
The Face on the Milk Carton is a young adult mystery novel written by author Caroline B. Cooney that was first published in 1990. [1] The first in the five-book Janie Johnson series, it was later adapted into a film for television. [2]