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The Girls is the 2016 debut novel by American author Emma Cline.It is loosely inspired by the Manson Family and the murder of actress Sharon Tate. [1]The majority of the novel, set in 1969, focuses on 14 year old Evie Boyd, who, feeling isolated and unloved, spends her summer on a ranch with a group of teenage girls devoted to an aspiring musician named Russell Hadrick.
IDG Books purchased CliffsNotes in 1998 for $14.2 million. John Wiley & Sons acquired IDG Books (renamed Hungry Minds) in 2001. In 2011, CliffsNotes announced a joint venture with Mark Burnett, a TV producer, to create a series of 60-second video study guides of literary works. [4] In 2012, CliffsNotes was acquired by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. [1]
In the movie, there was an added new character named Wyborn "Wybie" Lovat, a boy about Coraline's age who frequently annoyed Coraline at first, but over time, they grow on each other. In the Other World, his copy cannot speak but is an ally to Coraline, and gets punished by the Other Mother when he helps Coraline escape the Other World.
TheSpark.com was a literary website launched by four Harvard students on January 7, 1999. Most of TheSpark's users were high school and college students. To increase the site's popularity, the creators published the first six literature study guides (called "SparkNotes") on April 7, 1999.
The Girls was recognized by the American Library Association as a 2007 Best Book for Young Adults. [4] It was included in the 2007 selection of notable fiction books in Reference and User Services Quarterly. [5] It was on the 2007 long list for the Women's Prize for Fiction. [6]
Only the Good Spy Young is a 2010 young adult fiction novel by Ally Carter, and the sequel to Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover. It is the fourth book in the Gallagher Girls series. The book was released on July 29, 2010, but the title had been announced and the cover released on December 25, 2009. [2]
Kody Keplinger (born August 8, 1991, in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American author of young adult and middle grade books. She is best known for her debut novel The DUFF, which she wrote when she was 17 years old. [3] It was later turned into a movie of the same name. [4] In 2021, she wrote a graphic novel for DC antihero Poison Ivy. [3]
Elana Kuczynski Arnold is an American children's and young adult author. Her 2017 novel What Girls Are Made Of was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, [1] [2] and her 2018 novel Damsel was named a Michael L. Printz Award Honor title in 2019.