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Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge (1998), Jim Schutze Bully (2001) Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas (1995), Nicholas Pileggi: Casino (1995) Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History (2003), George Crile III: Charlie Wilson's War (2007) A Civil Action (1996), Jonathan Harr: A Civil ...
It tells the story of Small's journey from sickly child to cancer patient, to the troubled teen who made a risky decision to run away from home at sixteen — with nothing more than the dream of becoming an artist. Stitches was a #1 New York Times Best Seller, [26] and was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by Publishers Weekly and Amazon.com.
Hilda Conkling (1910–1986) had her poems published in Poems by a Little Girl (1920), Shoes of the Wind (1922) and Silverhorn (1924). Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), Tragicall History of Piramus and Thisbe (1628), Poetical Blossoms (published 1633). Maureen Daly (1921–2006) completed Seventeenth Summer before she was 20. It was published in 1942.
Brown Girl Dreaming is a 2014 adolescent verse memoir written by Jacqueline Woodson. [1] It tells the story of the author’s early childhood life growing up as an African American girl in the 1960s and depicts the events that led her to become a writer.
Jostein Gaarder: Sophie's World, The Orange Girl; Claudia Gabel: In or Out series, Romeo and Juliet and Vampires; Neil Gaiman: Coraline, The Graveyard Book; Eric Gansworth: Apple (Skin to the Core) Jack Gantos: Joey Pigza series, Hole in My Life (autobiography of his youth) Stephanie Garber: Caraval series; Kami Garcia: Beautiful Creatures
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 ...
They follow a trio of teenagers taking a “gap year” at a Norwegian Folk High School in Pasvik, located 300 miles north … ‘Folktales’ Review: Anxious Teens Learn New Skills at an Arctic ...
Despite this opposition, the school board unanimously voted to keep the book both in the school libraries and within the curriculum. The third case occurred in Smithville, Texas, where parents and members of the school community challenged the book being taught in Smithville High School's World Geography Class. They voiced concerns about "the ...