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[2] Netflix adapted the books into a live-action feature film. It starred Keslee Blalock as Ivy and Madison Skye Validum as Bean. [3] Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jane Lynch, Sasha Pieterse, Nia Vardalos, Jaycie Dotin, Garfield Wilson, and Marci T. House star in the film. [4] It was released on September 2, 2022. [5]
The protagonist of the book is Steven Alper, a 13-year-old boy living in New Jersey.The Alper family consists of Dad, an accountant; Mom, an English teacher; Steven, an enthusiastic and talented drummer who is also a self-described "skinny geek;" and Jeffrey, eight years younger, whom Steven describes as cute, adoring of his big brother, and apt to blurt out really embarrassing remarks about ...
[3] Writing in The Washington Post, Katherine Boyle compared Girls to reality TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians, "without the witty dialogue and Golden Globe nominations". [2] She writes, "The highbrow 'Girls' characters joke about the perils of sexting, just like the Kardashian women do. The girls mock Hannah's tiny breasts – and the ...
Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia is a 2023 autobiographical memoir written by Hadley Freeman, and published by Fourth Estate for HarperCollins. The book explores Freeman's struggles with anorexia nervosa from age 14 to 17, and subsequently with obsessive–compulsive disorder and addiction to cocaine . [ 1 ]
Every Soul a Star is a 2008 novel for children and young adults by Wendy Mass. [1] Taking turns in first person from each of the main character's' point of view, it follows the stories of Jack, a confidence-lacking 14-year-old who is slightly overweight, Ally, a nearly 13-year-old homeschooled girl who wants to be an astronomer, and Bree, a 13-year-old whose life goal is to be on the cover of ...
Due to the book's fame, "Pollyanna" has become a byword for someone who, like the title character, has an unfailingly optimistic outlook; [1] a subconscious bias towards the positive is often described as the Pollyanna principle. Despite the current common use of the term to mean "excessively cheerful", Pollyanna and her father played the glad ...
Grimmtastic Girls is a series of children's books written by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams and published between 2014 and 2016 with Scholastic Inc. The characters are based on those from nursery rhymes and fairy tales , including Grimm's Fairytales .
The strong female character is a stock character, the opposite of the damsel in distress. In the first half of the 20th century, the rise of mainstream feminism and the increased use of the concept in the later 20th century have reduced the concept to a standard item of pop culture fiction.