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Conduct books or conduct literature is a genre of books that attempt to educate the reader on social norms and ideals. As a genre, they began in either the High Middle Ages or the Late Middle Ages , although antecedents such as The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE) are among the earliest surviving works.
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Most of the rules have been traced to a French etiquette manual written by Jesuits in 1595 entitled "Bienséance de la conversation entre les hommes". As a handwriting exercise in around 1744, Washington merely copied word-for-word Francis Hawkins' translation which was published in England in about 1640. [2] The list of rules opens with the ...
Rules is the debut novel by author Cynthia Lord. Released by Scholastic, Inc. in 2006, it was a Newbery Honor book in 2007. [1] It is a Sunshine State Young Readers book for 2008–2009 and won A 2007 Schneider Family Book Award. [2] In 2009 it also won the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award. [3]
Fire and Ice (Hunter novel) Firebird (Copeland novel) Firestar's Quest; Flush! The Food Group; Food Rules! The Fools of Chelm and Their History; For Boys Only; Forest of Secrets; The Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song; Franny K. Stein; Freckle Juice; Friends from the Other Side / Amigos del Otro Lado; The Frog Prince, Continued
Dec. 2—Proposed rules pushed by Gov. Kay Ivey that would place various restrictions on "inappropriate" books for children, including where public libraries shelve them, amount to censorship ...
Courtesy books formed part of the didactic literature of the Middle Ages, covering topics from religion and ethics to social awareness and social conduct. [2] While firmly normative in their bent, they also showed an awareness of the human realities that did not fit neatly under the rubric of their precepts. [3]
Rules of Attraction received mostly positive reviews. A critic from the Multicultural Review wrote, “The dialogue is witty and realistic, the characters authentic, and the setting of Boulder, Colorado, is described in much detail” [8] Likewise, the School Library Journal noted the novel's appeal to teens, stating that Elkeles “delivers a steamy page-turner bound to make teen swoon” [9 ...