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  2. Lauren Tarshis - Wikipedia

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    The books, fast-paced historical fiction for kids in grades 3–5, focus on historical disasters from the perspective of a boy or girl who lived to tell the tale. She is also the author of Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree , a Golden Kite honor book for fiction and Oprah's Book Club pick, and the sequel Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell in Love .

  3. Denise Vega - Wikipedia

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    Denise Vega is an author of young-adult novels and of children's picture books [1] and a faculty member at Regis University. [2] Her debut novel , Click Here : (To Find Out How I Survived Seventh Grade) , was released in December 2007 by Little, Brown .

  4. Stellaluna - Wikipedia

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    It was a New York Times bestseller [15] and appeared on the Parents magazine list of top 50 children's books, [16] as well as in the New York Times ' s "50 Years of Children's Books" review. [ 17 ] Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". [ 18 ]

  5. Whatcom County woman who survived 2004 Indian Ocean ... - AOL

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    Monica Connelly survived the Indian Ocean Tsunami at age 13 in 2004. 19 years later, in 2023, she published a memoir about her experience. She managed to reach the surface but passed out from ...

  6. Historical fiction - Wikipedia

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    Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to other types of narrative, including theatre, opera, cinema, and television, as well as video games and graphic novels.

  7. Running Out of Time (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Simon & Schuster, who published Running Out of Time, noted that the film The Village (2004) had a number of similarities to the book. [3] The film's plot also features a village whose inhabitants choose to live in a manner reminiscent of the 1800s, when the year is 2004 and a young female protagonist escapes to acquire medical supplies.

  8. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  9. Burned Alive - Wikipedia

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    Burned Alive: A Victim of the Law of Men is a best-selling book, ostensibly a first-person account of an attempted honor killing.The author, Souad, is described as a Palestinian woman now living in Europe who survived an attempted murder by her brother-in-law, who doused her with gasoline and set her on fire, at the urging of her family.