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21149467. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is a historical novel by the American author Avi published in 1990. The book is marketed towards children at a reading level of grades 5–8. [2] The book chronicles the evolution of the title character as she is pushed outside her naive existence and learns about life aboard a ship crossing ...
Telephone directory. A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a ...
Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 46 presidencies. The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [ 4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the ...
SparkNotes. SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy. Later on, SparkNotes expanded to provide study guides for a number of other ...
Following the election of Joe Biden as U.S. president in the 2020 election, Harris assumed office as vice president of the United States on January 20, 2021. [220] She is the United States' first female vice president, the highest-ranking female elected official in U.S. history, and the first African-American and first Asian-American vice ...
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a "metafictional" [1] novel by Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid, published in 2007.. The novel uses the technique of a frame story, which takes place during the course of a single evening in an outdoor Lahore cafe, where a bearded Pakistani man called Changez tells a nervous American stranger about his love affair with an American woman, and his eventual ...
Girl, Missing is an 2006 English-language young adult thriller novel by Sophie McKenzie . It won the 2007 Bolton Children's Book Award, the 2008 Manchester Book Award and the 2007 Red House Children's Book Award for Older Readers, [1] [2] [3] as well as being longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. [4] It was also one of the books picked for the ...
Names for her characters often come from the San Antonio phone book; "she leafs through the listings for a last name, then repeats the process, for a first name." [ 21 ] By mixing and matching, she is assured that she is not appropriating anyone's real name or real story, but at the same time, her versions of characters and stories are believable.