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The Lottery deals with themes of friendship, romance, disability, high school, bullying in school and peer pressure. [1] [2] Comparisons have been made between the themes and story lines in Shirley Jackson's The Lottery as well as to Brutus's involvement in the murder of Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's play. [3] [4]
High school senior Bridger and his mother Helen Jenkins flee an abusive step-father and husband in Missouri with $197 to their names, and flee towards the West Coast, hoping to see the ocean. Unfortunately, they end up in the small town of Greenville, Utah when their truck breaks down.
Each teen novel dealt with common high school drama and romance themes, including first dates, first love, and conflicts. It was through these books that the major teen book series Sweet Valley High was launched. Cover designs used photographs of models similar to each novel's heroine's description. The cover of The Last Word featured Courteney ...
In true school spirit, Jessica Wakefield is ready to do anything to make sure SVH's team is victorious...until things start to get out of control. Jessica is suddenly haunted by images of Christian Gorman, the love she lost forever in a tragic inter-school confrontation.
Katherine Danziger Protagonist of the book. Katherine turns 18 and is a high school senior who is getting ready for college. When she meets Michael, she falls in love with him, and starts a relationship with him. One of the novel's central plotlines is her decision to lose her virginity to him, as well as the sexual relationship they share ...
The book is a retelling of Stephen King's 1974 horror novel Carrie, that elaborates on its themes in a 21st–century context. [1] Its narrative follows the epistolary style of Carrie, while also adding sections of third-person omniscient action sequences in between transcripts of news articles and podcasts about the events of the novel from ...
Stargirl is a young adult novel written by American author Jerry Spinelli and first published in 2000.The novel was well received by critics, who praised Stargirl's character and the novel's overall message of nonconformity.
In the fourth book in the series, All But Alice, Alice, Lester, and her father converse about a song called "My Necrophiliac Lover"; school libraries in a Minnesota district banned the book. [1] In Webb City, Missouri, multiple Alice books were removed from the shelves of school libraries in 2002 due to the use of homosexuality in the narrative.