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Escape from Furnace is a series of five novels written by British author Alexander Gordon Smith. [1] The books are written from perspective of the teenage protagonist Alex Sawyer and describe his incarceration in the fictional London prison Furnace Penitentiary.
The book was occasionally read by host Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan) on his children's television show of the same name. [ 3 ] In Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary , the title character starts kindergarten with an inexperienced teacher, Miss Binney, who reads Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel to the class.
As in Adams' debut novel, Watership Down (1972), the animal characters in The Plague Dogs are anthropomorphised. The Plague Dogs features location maps drawn by Alfred Wainwright, a fellwalker and author. The conclusion of the book involves two real-life characters, Adams' long-time friend Ronald Lockley, and the world-famous naturalist Sir ...
A series of low-budget horror films was loosely based on the book. Watchers; Watchers II; Watchers III; Watchers Reborn; In the film adaptation Travis is a sixteen-year-old boy, and Nora is his mother. The Outsider is renamed OXCOM, and Vince Nasco is replaced by NSO agents searching for the monster.
The text of "The Furnace" authored by King comprises the first two paragraphs of a story, with the reader invited to complete the story. King's opening concerns a 10-year-old boy, Tommy, who must retrieve firewood from a cellar while fearing a creature he believes is behind the furnace.
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In “The Flip Side of Fear”, we look at some common phobias, like sharks and flying, but also bats, germs and strangers. We tried to identify the origin of these fears and why they continue to exist when logic tells us they shouldn’t.
This novel also taught readers that pitbulls are definitely not "dangerous" dogs, convinced the readers to stand up to the discriminating BSL (Breed Specific Law) and demand that city governments, especially in Denver, repeal this unfair law.