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  2. Magic for Beginners (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    The stories were all previously published in other venues from 2002 to 2005. The book won the 2006 Locus Award for best short story collection. [1] The title story, "Magic for Beginners", won the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novella [2] and 2006 Locus Award for Best Novella, [1] and the 2006 BSFA Award for best short fiction. [3]

  3. Slow Learner - Wikipedia

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    In response to the word "integration" being thrown around, Grover, the boy genius, offers the calculus definition. A week later, Grover learns (and shares) the other meaning for “integration" (which he realizes is the meaning that the parents are using): white and black kids in the same schools.

  4. Minisaga - Wikipedia

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    Minisagas are used in business, as an educational tool, [1] a creative outlet, and a source of entertainment. They are not poems, but rather "bite-sized lessons for life and business". [ 2 ] They are often used to stimulate creativity, stretch one's thinking, determine the essential elements of a story, or enhance discipline in writing.

  5. Three Hours To Change Your Life - images.huffingtonpost.com

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    better chance of giving meaning to our lives and what we do. It brings us to a new level of consciousness and awareness in the way we live and direct our own lives. Many, many people have carried out this exercise on an annual basis for years; it has helped them to create a fundamental shift in their lives and

  6. Creative writing - Wikipedia

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    Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics.

  7. List of coming-of-age stories - Wikipedia

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    Flowers for Algernon, short story and novel by Daniel Keyes (short story 1959, novel 1966) To Kill a Mockingbird, novel by Harper Lee (1960) Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls (1961) A Clockwork Orange, a novel by Anthony Burgess (1962) The Learning Tree, novel by Gordon Parks (1963) The Graduate, novel by Charles Webb (1963)

  8. Storytelling - Wikipedia

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    The meaning within the stories is not always explicit, and children are expected to make their own meaning of the stories. In the Lakota Tribe of North America, for example, young girls are often told the story of the White Buffalo Calf Woman , who is a spiritual figure that protects young girls from the whims of men.

  9. Narrative poetry - Wikipedia

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    An example of this is The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning. In terms of narrative poetry, romance is a narrative poem that tells a story of chivalry. Examples include the Romance of the Rose or Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Although those examples use medieval and Arthurian materials, romances may also tell stories from classical mythology.