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The Chocolate Touch is a children's book by Patrick Skene Catling, first published in the US in 1957. John Midas is delighted when, through a magical gift, everything his lips touch turns into chocolate. The story is patterned after the myth of King Midas, whose magic turned everything he touched into
When author David Shannon was five years old, he wrote a story about a little six-year-old boy (named David). In the author's note (shown before the first page), it reads, "A few years ago, my mother sent me a book. I made it when I was a little boy. It was called No David. And it was a book with drawings of David doing all sorts of things he ...
David, who barely understands death, is raised in an environment that has prevented him from learning sin or evil, in what critics have called a "glad book." [ 6 ] The overall optimism of the book was noted in the 1917 American Library Annual , which applied to it the generic term of "the pleasant story."
The 65th book by Naylor, it is the first in a quartet about a young boy and the title character, an abused dog. Naylor decided to write Shiloh after an emotionally taxing experience in West Virginia where she encountered an abused dog. Narrator and protagonist Marty Preston lives in the hills of Friendly, West Virginia.
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The fourth short story in Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids by Jamie Rix is named "The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping", which is about five children in 1952 on a picnic in Kent during the summer holidays. After their nap, the youngest wants an apple to eat so the children decide to steal from a nearby orchard, but they are caught by the owner, who ...
Will Grayson, Will Grayson is a novel by John Green and David Levithan, published in April 2010 by Dutton Juvenile.The book's narrative is divided evenly between two boys named Will Grayson, one of whom is heterosexual and is referred to in capitalized letters, and the other who is gay and is referred to in lowercase.
The New York Times said the book was a mixture between Stephen King's novel Misery and The Catcher in the Rye ' s main character Holden Caulfield. [1] On the other hand, the Lodi News-Sentinel hoped that abused youth would be persuaded to look for help after reading this book. [2]