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Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
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. At the end of the film, Coraline reaches out to help Wybie tell his grandmother what is behind the little door. The sister of Wybie's grandmother was one of the ghost children lost to the Beldam.
The book starts with her and her friends hanging out on her 11th birthday when Milada receives a telescope. The next days, Nazis break into their home. She doesn't understand at first when Nazi soldiers come to her house, ordering them to pack belongings for three days and leave the house.
[8] On Bookmarks Magazine Nov/Dec 2018 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (3.5 out of 5) based on critic reviews with a critical summary saying, "The Silence of the Girls joins the ranks of recent novels that give voice to women during the classical era, including Mary Beard's SPQR (2015) and Madeline ...
Shanghai Girls is a 2009 novel by Lisa See.It centers on the complex relationship between two sisters, Pearl and May, as they go through great pain and suffering in leaving war-torn Shanghai, and try to adjust to the difficult roles of wives in arranged marriages and of Chinese immigrants to the U.S.
In Books in the Media, the book received 4.19 out of 5 stars, based on fifteen critic reviews. [7] In the January/February 2020 issue of Bookmarks, the book received three and a half out of five stars. The magazine's critical summary reads: "Girl, Woman, Other is "a sprawling book, but too intimate to be considered an epic" (New Republic)". [8 ...
Wilder Girls is a New York Times best seller. [1] The book received starred reviews from Shelf Awareness , [ 2 ] Publishers Weekly , [ 3 ] Booklist , [ 4 ] and Kirkus Reviews , [ 1 ] as well as positive reviews from NPR [ 5 ] and School Library Journal .
The character of Miss Jean Brodie was based in part on Christina Kay, a teacher of Spark's for two years at James Gillespie's School for Girls. Spark later wrote of her: "What filled our minds with wonder and made Christina Kay so memorable was the personal drama and poetry within which everything in her classroom happened."