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In the first episode, she was in senior year in high school, and in the second (two years later), she was already a teacher's assistant in college. [34] In Breakout Kings, Lloyd Lowery (Jimmi Simpson) is a former child prodigy who graduated high school at 12, college at 16, and medical school at 20. He has an IQ of 210.
Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader, from picture books for the very young to young adult fiction. Children's literature can be traced to traditional stories like fairy tales, which have only been identified as children's literature since the eighteenth century, and songs ...
The form is also frequently used for fiction about adult women's lives, [5] some notable examples being Bridget Jones's Diary, The Color Purple, and Pamela. The second category lists fictional works that are not written in diary form, but in which a character keeps a diary, or a diary is otherwise featured as part of the story.
Megan Jo McDonald is an American children's literature author. Her most popular works is the series of books which concern a third grade girl named Judy Moody (written for grades 2–4). McDonald has also written many picture books for younger children and continues to write. Her most recent work was the Julie Albright series of books for ...
Angela Brazil (1868–1947) – The Nicest Girl in the School, For the Sake of the School, The Jolliest Term on Record; Petronella Breinburg (1931–2019) – My Brother Sean, Sally-Ann's Umbrella; Elinor Brent-Dyer (1894–1969) – Chalet School series; Jan Brett (born 1949) – Trouble with Trolls, The Three Snow Bears
Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (novel) Billy Bunter's Banknote; Billy Bunter's Barring-Out; Billy Bunter's Christmas Party; Billy the Kid (novel) The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses; Black Beauty; Black Heart of Jamaica; Black Hearts in Battersea; Black Ships Before Troy; Blart III: The Boy Who Set Sail on a Questionable Quest
St. Winifred's, or, The World of School, Frederic W. Farrar (1862) The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, Charles Kingsley (1863) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (1865) The Young Rajah, William Henry Giles Kingston (1865) The Prince and the Page, Charlotte M. Yonge (1866) Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances, Juliana Horatia ...
The golden age of children's fantasy, in scholars' view, occurred in the mid-20th century when the genre was influenced by J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In the vein of Narnia , the post-war period saw rising stakes and manifestations of evil in the works of Susan Cooper and Alan Garner ...