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Center is the author of several books, which she has called "bittersweet comic novels." Her first novel, The Bright Side of Disaster (2006), was optioned by Varsity Pictures, and her sixth, How to Walk Away (2018), [5] was a New York Times bestseller and Book of the Month Club pick for May 2018 and a Target Book Club pick for July 2019.
The Fire, published in 2008, is a novel by American author Katherine Neville.It is an adventure/quest novel which is a sequel to her debut novel The Eight.The main character, Alexandra Solarin (daughter of Catherine Velis), must enter into a cryptic world of danger and conspiracy in order to recover the pieces of the Montglane Service, a legendary chess set once owned by Charlemagne.
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.
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Paterson's book, The Same Stuff as Stars deals with the struggles of a young girl, Angel. Verna Morgan is a single mother who struggles to support her family. Verna's daughter Angel is often left caring for her seven-year-old brother, Bernie.
Novelist Karen Russell described the prose as "pyrotechnic medium so far removed from our workaday speech that it feels unfair and inaccurate to call that fire-language 'English'". [3] The novel was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1989. [1] In 1992, the British band Bang Bang Machine released the single "Geek Love", about the novel.
Beth L. Meister, writing for School Library Journal, compared Icefire to early books in the series, noting that the novel "offers a darker and more mature story" than The Fire Within. Further, Meister found that "Liz's clay dragons develop a greater degree of realism within the story, and their background is further explored".
The book consists of 19 chapters to highlight the number 19. These chapters include Colin's flashbacks, which are "meant to reflect the relationship we have between chronological narrative and emotional narrative." [1] This format is also known as a non-linear narrative.