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Ten Things I Hate About Me is a 2006 young adult novel by Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah. [1] The book was first released in Australia on October 1, 2006, through Pan MacMillan Australia . Ten Things I Hate About Me was awarded the 2008 Kathleen Mitchell Award for Excellence in Young Adult Writing and was shortlisted for the 2008 ...
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
Deaf Like Me is a biographical book about a family who discovers their daughter, Lynn, is deaf, and deals with a language barrier. It was written by Thomas and James Spradley, Lynn's father and uncle, and originally published in 1979. It begins in November 1964, before Lynn was born, and ends in August 1975, when she was ten.
Plot summary [ edit ] Jonathan Safran Foer (the author), a young American Jew, who is vegetarian and an avid collector of his family's heritage, journeys to Ukraine in search of Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather's life during the Nazi liquidation of Trachimbrod , his family shtetl (a small town) in occupied eastern Poland .
Peter van Diest (Latinised as Petrus Diesthemius) was a medieval writer from the Low Countries. The late-15th-century morality play Elckerlijc is attributed to him. Elckerlijc , which was translated into English to become the famous Everyman , has come down to us in manuscripts that fail to mention the play's author.
District 9 had its World Premiere on 23 July 2009 at San Diego Comic-Con. [6] [7] It was released by TriStar Pictures on 14 August 2009, in North America and became a financial success, earning over $210 million at the box office.
As For Me and My House is a novel by Canadian author Sinclair Ross, first published in 1941 by the American company Reynal and Hitchcock, with little fanfare. Its 1957 Canadian re-issue, by McClelland & Stewart , as part of their New Canadian Library line, began its canonization, mostly in university classrooms.
The Driver's Seat is a novella by Muriel Spark.Published in 1970, it was advertised as "a metaphysical shocker". It is in the psychological thriller genre, dealing with themes of alienation, isolation and loss of spiritual values.