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LaRose is set in North Dakota on an Ojibwe reservation in the "era of George W. Bush and 9/11." [3] The novel's protagonist is LaRose Iron, a young Native American boy. [3]His father, Landreaux Iron, accidentally shoots LaRose's best friend and neighbor, Dusty Ravich, also 5 years old, in a hunting accident, when the buck Landreaux had aimed at suddenly moved from in front of the boy.
LaRose Iron LaRose: A Native American boy and the titular character of the story. [citation needed] Landreaux and Emmaline Iron The parents of LaRose Iron. [citation needed] Dusty Ravich The son of Peter and Nola Ravich and the best friend of LaRose Iron. He was only five years old when he was shot and killed accidentally by Landreaux Iron.
The Archives of Anthropos is a Christian series of six fantasy novels for children written by the British author John White. [1] Written in the tradition of C. S. Lewis ' The Chronicles of Narnia , this series present a fantasy world of kings, sorcerers and goblins in an allegorical fashion.
A national bestseller, that book won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, was included on Newsweek magazine's list of "50 Books For Our Times," and was named Nonfiction Book of the Year by the American Library Association.) Eventually Lewis decided to commit to Aydin's project, on the ...
A native of Chicago, Norris worked as a journalist for some years before finding success as a novelist and playwright. His first book was The Amateur (1916). His other novels include Salt (1919), Brass: A Novel of Marriage (1921), Bread (1923), Pig Iron (1926), Seed: A Novel of Birth Control (1930), Zest (1933), Hands (1935), and Flint (1944).
It is an exegesis of Iron John, a parable belonging to the Grimms' Fairy Tales (1812) by German folklorists Brothers Grimm about a boy maturing into adulthood with help of the wild man. Published in 1990 by Addison-Wesley , the book is Bly's best-known work, [ 1 ] having spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list and went on to ...
John La Rose (27 December 1927 – 28 February 2006) was a political and cultural activist, poet, writer, publisher, founder in 1966 of New Beacon Books, the first specialist Caribbean publishing company in Britain, and subsequently Chairman of the George Padmore Institute.
Lewis later suggested that the experience gave him a new appreciation of children, and in late September [12] he began a children's story on an odd sheet that has survived as part of another manuscript: This book is about four children whose names were Ann, Martin, Rose and Peter. But it is most about Peter, who was the youngest.