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The protagonist of the book is Steven Alper, a 13-year-old boy living in New Jersey.The Alper family consists of Dad, an accountant; Mom, an English teacher; Steven, an enthusiastic and talented drummer who is also a self-described "skinny geek;" and Jeffrey, eight years younger, whom Steven describes as cute, adoring of his big brother, and apt to blurt out really embarrassing remarks about ...
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.
Four Past Midnight is a collection of novellas written by Stephen King in 1988 and 1989 and published in August 1990. [1] It is his second book of this type, the first one being Different Seasons.
The superintendent, Mr. Dubon (Mr Goodman), is known as "le Bouillon" ("Old Spuds"). Mr Billings (Mr Blédurt) is their next door neighbour, and likes annoying Nicholas' father. The two main characters of another comic series by Goscinny, Iznogoud , begin to take shape in the episode when Nicolas is in summer camp.
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is an anarchist spy fiction novel by Polish-British author Joseph Conrad, first published on 12 September 1907. [1] The story is set in Soho, London in 1886 and deals with Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country (presumably Russia).
Jeff meets Lindsey at the beginning of the book, and Jeffrey falls head over heels for her, and she displays interest in him as well. Thaddeus Ibsen : Known as Tad, he is Jeffrey's best friend who also had cancer, towards the end of the novel, it returns and he dies.
Warning: This post contains spoilers for all eight episodes of Prime Video’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith. It’s nice to see so many familiar faces in Amazon’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith… even if we don’t get ...
In the summer of 1970 Goodman "was a college dropout, lacking purpose and direction" according to his 1985 autobiography. [1] At a local book store, Goodman found the 1937 book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, [3] as well as other books and tapes by motivational speakers such as Zig Ziglar. Following this, Goodman sought a sales career in ...