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Anthony (Tony) Miglione – Protagonist of the book who is 12 (later 13) years old, the youngest of three boys. Victor (Vic) Miglione – Tony's father, who is a freelance electrician and an inventor whose invention changes their lives. Carmella Miglione – Tony's mother, who eventually goes by the name Carol, much to Tony's dismay. She ...
Places I Never Meant to Be is a collection of short stories written by authors who have been censored or banned in some form in the United States, edited by Judy Blume and first published in 1999. Sales went to benefit the National Coalition Against Censorship .
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens is a 1998 bestselling self-help book written by Sean Covey, [1] the son of Stephen Covey. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The book was published on October 9, 1998 through Touchstone Books and is largely based on The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People . [ 4 ]
The publisher can control the percentage of the book available for preview, with the minimum being 20%. They can also choose to make the book fully viewable, and even allow users to download a PDF copy. Books can also be made available for sale on Google Play. [3]
Once completed, a book created by the Book Creator tool can be uploaded to the independent company PediaPress, where print-on-demand copies can be ordered. Such books may also be retrieved by other independent publishing tools such as MediaWiki2LaTeX. It used to be possible to build an e-book on Wikipedia for immediate download, but this ...
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This is a book targeted towards young adults published in 1994 by Jacqueline Woodson. The story takes place in Chauncey, Ohio , and it focuses on the growing friendship between a black girl native to this town named Marie and a white girl her age by the name of Lena.
How Not to Be Wrong explains the mathematics behind some of simplest day-to-day thinking. [4] It then goes into more complex decisions people make. [5] [6] For example, Ellenberg explains many misconceptions about lotteries and whether or not they can be mathematically beaten.
A self-help book is one that is written with the intention to instruct its readers on solving personal problems. The books take their name from Self-Help, an 1859 best-seller by Samuel Smiles, but are also known and classified under "self-improvement", a term that is a modernized version of self-help.