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The Governess, or The Little Female Academy is a book about a boarding school run by Mrs Teachum. [3] The story takes place over ten days, not including some initial background information and an epilogue. On each day except for the first, all or part of a text is read aloud to students by Miss Jenny Peace.
The mother bird will let Stellaluna be part of the family only if she eats bugs and worms, does not hang by her feet and sleeps at night. When the birds grow, they learn to fly. When Stellaluna and the birds are out playing, it gets dark and the birds go home without her because they will not be able to see in the dark.
A White Heron and Other Stories, 1886 "A White Heron" is a short story by Sarah Orne Jewett.First published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company in 1886, it was soon collected as the title story in Jewett's anthology A White Heron and Other Stories.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 December 2024. American writer, poet, traveler, and editor Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson Born (1830-12-19) December 19, 1830 Old Deerfield, Massachusetts, US Died May 12, 1913 (1913-05-12) (aged 82) Amherst, Massachusetts, US Occupation Writer poet editor Spouse Austin Dickinson (m. 1856 ; died ...
Thumbelina (/ ˌ θ ʌ m b ə ˈ l iː n ə /; Danish: Tommelise) is a literary fairy tale written by the famous Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen.It was first published by C. A. Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen, Denmark, with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Travelling Companion" in the second installment of Fairy Tales Told for Children.
"The Go-Away Bird" - Daphne du Toit was orphaned when she was six and grew up in her Uncle's farm in Southern Africa, where she often heard the call of the go-away bird. In the second part of the story Daphne travels to London 1946 after the war to stay with her mother's family, where she falls in love with an artist Ralph, but she finds her ...
A Cooper's Hawk perches on a utility line. This is one of the many birds that will receive a new name. The American Ornithological Society announced it is renaming all birds named after people ...
He leases a house for 999 years and marries a 17-year old geisha, Cho-Cho-San. Pinkerton bans her family from visiting, and they disown her. Nevertheless, she feels she is "the mos' bes' happy female woman in Japan—mebby in that whole worl'". Pinkerton's duties take him away from Nagasaki, but he promises to return "when the robins nest again".