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The book was published in 2019 by Putnam and received the Lambda Literary Award in the following year. The book tells the story of two sisters from El Salvador , Marisol and Gabi, who flee from an immigrant detention center on the American border, with the older sister, Marisol, being forced to participate in an experimental procedure or risk ...
In the 1950s Alexandra "Alex" Green, the only child of an absentee father and a stern housewife mother, grows up under the influence of her beloved aunt Marla. In 1955 Marla leaves Alex her texts and love letters between her and several women before disappearing during the mass dragoning event of 1955 in which women morphed into dragons.
Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of short stories by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery, related to the Anne of Green Gables series. It features an abundance of stories relating to the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea, and was first published in 1912.
Scout's Aunt Alexandra attributes Maycomb's inhabitants' faults and advantages to genealogy (families that have gambling streaks and drinking streaks), [58] and the narrator sets the action and characters amid a finely detailed background of the Finch family history and the history of Maycomb. This regionalist theme is further reflected in ...
It is 1915 and World War I has just begun. Seventeen-year-old Alexandra "Sasha" Fox is the privileged daughter of a respected doctor living in the wealthy seaside town of Brighton, England. She longs to be a nurse, but struggles with the societal expectation that women of her class do not do that type of work.
Because the book was too long for the St. Nicholas serial, Alcott offered to remove two chapters that could later be included when the story was published in book form. [6] The book edition, published by the Roberts Brothers , was available in the latter part of 1875 with illustrations from various artists. [ 7 ]
Booklist wrote that the idea of a young girl traveling alone on an undefined journey "stretches plausibility", but that the book also had "sensitive, authentically portrayed experiences". [3] Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews both positively reviewed the book, with Kirkus calling Johnson's writing "sophisticated and humorous". [4] [5]
The book sold over 50,000 copies in a single week after its release, and has been met with high marks from reviewers. [6] In October 2014, four weeks after its publication, Awful Auntie had become the top-selling children's book of the year. [7] In January 2015, the book was confirmed as 2014's best-selling children's book. [8]