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Peter does badly at school and offends his teacher Mrs. Wilson by telling an inappropriate story about her (forgetting that Mrs. Wilson was also Peter's teacher when he was a third grader), and makes fun of top student Omar. Mrs. Wilson allows Peter to attend the spelling bee after spelling out "buttlickers" which even Omar can't spell; she ...
Fiction writing specifically has modes such as action, exposition, description, dialogue, summary, and transition. [3] Author Peter Selgin refers to methods, including action, dialogue, thoughts, summary, scenes, and description. [4] Description is the mode for transmitting a mental image of the particulars of a story.
Zooming is a writing skill, as outlined in secondary education, [1] that gives the reader the feeling of moving through space towards or away from a character or object, especially used in descriptive writing. It can be divided into two types: zooming in and zooming out.
I Funny: A Middle School Story, also known as I Funny, is a realistic fiction novel by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein. [1] It was published by Little, Brown and Company in 2012. It was followed by I Even Funnier (2013), I Totally Funniest (2015), I Funny TV (2016), I Funny: School of Laughs (2017) and The Nerdiest, Wimpiest, Dorkiest I ...
While summering with family in Perthshire in 1893, 27-year-old Beatrix Potter sent a story and picture letter about a disobedient young rabbit to the son of her former governess Annie Carter Moore, and continued to send similar letters to the boy and his siblings over the following years. Moore recognized the literary value of the letters and ...
The title of the book refers to the role of the protagonist, 11-year-old Parvana, who is forced by circumstances to be the breadwinner for her family during the Third Afghan Civil War. For her research, the author spent several months interviewing women and girls in refugee camps in Pakistan, and used these interviews as the basis of her ...
"The Landlady" won "Best Short Story Mystery" at the 1960 Edgar Awards. This was the second time Dahl was honoured, the first having been for his collection of short stories, Someone Like You (Best Short Story, 1954). [3]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 December 2024. 1998 novel by Louis Sachar Holes Author Louis Sachar Language English Genre Adventure, mystery, fantasy Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US) Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Ediciones SM (Spain) Publication date August 20, 1998 ISBN 978-0-786-22186-8 Dewey Decimal [Fic] 21 LC Class PZ7 ...