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[6] [7] [8] Quizlet's blog, written mostly by Andrew in the earlier days of the company, claims it had reached 50,000 registered users in 252 days online. [9] In the following two years, Quizlet reached its 1,000,000th registered user. [10] Until 2011, Quizlet shared staff and financial resources with the Collectors Weekly website. [11]
Thimble Summer is a novel by Elizabeth Enright that won the 1939 Newbery Medal. [1] It is set in Depression-era rural Wisconsin.. The very evening that nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble in a dried-up riverbed near the farm where she lives, the drought that has threatened her family's financial future is broken with a rainstorm.
The story is centered around a young teenage boy giving instructions about readiness for a date. Starting off with removing obvious signs of Dominican “ghetto” culture such as the "government cheese", [ 1 ] then to approaching the female depending on whether or not she is an “insider” or “outsider”.
The book was a commercial success. It was the best-selling work of fiction in America for the year 1921, according to Publishers Weekly. [2]Some of Lewis's contemporaries said the novel was too bleak, even humorless, in its portrayal of ignorant small-town life and people. [3]
The book appeared on a 1964 list of "The Year's Best Juveniles" in The New York Times Book Review. [7] One 1965 reviewer called the book "a brilliantly written, unsparing realistic story, a superb portrait of an extraordinary child". [8]
Little House on the Prairie is an autobiographical children's novel by Laura Ingalls Wilder, published in 1935. [4] It was the third novel published in the Little House series, continuing the story of the first, Little House in the Big Woods (1932), but not related to the second.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 January 2025. 1889 novel by Jerome K. Jerome For other uses, see Three Men in a Boat (disambiguation). Three Men in a Boat 1889 edition cover Author Jerome Klapka Jerome Language English Genre Comedy novel Publisher J. W. Arrowsmith Publication date 1889 Publication place United Kingdom ISBN 0-7653 ...
The Fiery Cross is the fifth book in the Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Centered on time-travelling 20th-century doctor Claire Randall and her 18th-century Scottish Highlander warrior husband Jamie Fraser , the books contain elements of historical fiction , romance , adventure and fantasy .