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A Bird in the House, first published in 1970, is a short story sequence written by Margaret Laurence. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Noted by Laurence to be "semi-autobiographical", [ 3 ] the series chronicles the growing up of a young agnostic writer, Vanessa MacLeod, in the fictional town of Manawaka , Manitoba . [ 4 ]
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.
The House in the Night was well received by critics, including starred reviews from Booklist, [1] Kirkus Reviews, [2] and Publishers Weekly. [3]Kirkus Reviews called the illustrations "breathtaking", noting that they "embody and enhance the text’s message that light and dark, like comfort and mystery, are not mutually exclusive, but integral parts of each other". [2]
A snipe hunt is a type of practical joke or fool's errand, in existence in North America as early as the 1840s, in which an unsuspecting newcomer is duped into trying to catch an elusive, nonexistent animal called a snipe. Although snipe are an actual family of birds, a snipe hunt is a quest for a creature whose description varies.
Then, she tells the three of them about the fox who eats birds and who surely, if they try to go outside early to catch a worm, will catch them. The youngsters prepare again to go to sleep; the book-reader tells the other two that he will get up early in the morning and go catch the worm. At five a.m., he sneaks out and begins sniffing out a worm.
Shore birds are not difficult to handle. After carefully extracting them from the net, small birds can be held around the body, with the fingers at the back of the head. While shore birds are not aggressive, they do have sharp beaks. Some caution should be used in keeping the bird's beak away from the handler's face, as is the case with any bird.
Harris hawks were known to falconers but unusual. For example, the book lists a falconry meet on four days in August 1971 at White Hill and Leafield in Dumfriesshire in Scotland; the hawks flown were 11 goshawks and one Harris hawk. The book felt it necessary to say what a Harris hawk is. The usual species for a beginner was a kestrel.
"The Birds" is a horror story by the British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree. The story is set in du Maurier's home county of Cornwall shortly after the end of the Second World War .