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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 .
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 .
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 ]
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.