Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Mama's Boy is a 2007 American comedy-drama film starring Diane Keaton and Jon Heder, and features music by Mark Mothersbaugh. The film was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures for a limited release to certain regions of the United States.
Gertrude "Mama" Nesbitt - Albert's 67-year-old mother who encourages him to become a scientist despite his comic book addiction. Whenever he became a villain, she went with the idea, and tried to help him by nearly killing Duncan when she rammed her car into him. She fell from a rocket at the end of the second book and was presumably killed.
House Rules (2010) is the eighteenth novel by the American author Jodi Picoult.The novel focuses on a young adult male, Jacob Hunt, with Asperger's syndrome living in Townshend, Vermont, [1] who is accused of murder.
The day of graduation arrives and Kelly reluctantly gives a speech to his classmates that is uplifting and empowering. He suddenly faints as he goes into labor and his friends and family rush the stage to help him. Kelly awakens in the hospital with Lisa watching over him. Kelly learns that he has given birth to twins, a boy and a girl.
The book was a Newbery Honor book in 2008. [1] Robin Smith, of Book Page, said that the book filled him with "joy and hope." [ 3 ] Norah Piehl, of Kids Reads, reviewed the book saying, "Set against the music, politics and conflicts of the early 1970s, Jacqueline Woodson's exceptional new novel grounds universal ideas in a particular time and ...
Plot summary [ edit ] After writing a letter in a promotional contest for a cat food company, Alex goes on to describe key points in his young life, mainly having to do with little league baseball, occasionally going off on tangents or telling other stories from his life that, while not important to the story, are points of humor and show Alex ...
The book deals with 12-year-old Cory Mackenson, who grows up in the town of Zephyr, Alabama.The story begins as Cory's father, Tom, takes Cory on his daily milk route one morning, and while driving by Saxon's Lake (an old quarry filled with water) he watches a car drive straight into the lake and sink to the bottom with a dead man inside, beaten viciously, and his only identification is a ...
The book was published on 5 September 2023 as the first part of a three-book deal with HarperCollins Children's Books in the UK [1] [5] and Knopf in the US. [6] Mama's Sleeping Scarf was published in hardcover and eBook formats and as audio-book by Penguin Random House. [4] The Spanish edition, El pañuelo de mamá, was published in February ...