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The book follows Adaś Niezgódka (Adam Contrary), an unhappy, bullied 12-year-old boy who is guided to the academy by a raven blackbird. [2] Adaś, along with 23 other boys attending the school—all of whose names begin with the letter "A"—are taught magical subjects by Kleks, including "kleksografia" ("inkblotography"), weaving of the ...
[4] The central point of the book is that a person's life is determined by agreements they have made with themselves, with others, with God, and with society as a whole. Through these agreements, one determines how they see themselves, what is possible for them, how they should behave, and their worth as a person. [3] [better source needed]
Lanark, subtitled A Life in Four Books, is the first novel of Scottish writer Alasdair Gray.Written over a period of almost thirty years, it combines realist and dystopian surrealist depictions of his home city of Glasgow.
The Radchaai language has only one gendered pronoun (she/her), but the novel explores how language can be adapted for new purposes. Non-Radchaai characters speaking the Radchaai language often add new pronouns such as he/him, sie/hir, and e/em to their speech. [ 5 ]
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Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters is a fantasy novel written by Shannon Hale and published by Bloomsbury USA in 2015. It is the third and final installment of the Princess Academy series, preceded by Princess Academy: Palace of Stone. It follows the story of Miri Larendaughter, who becomes a tutor to three royal cousins in a new princess ...
The Sounds of the World's Languages, sometimes abbreviated SOWL, [1] is a 1996 book by Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson which documents a global survey of the sound patterns of natural languages. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Drawing from the authors' own fieldwork and experiments as well as existing literature, it provides an articulatory and acoustic ...
It tells the story of fourteen-year-old Miri who attends a princess academy that will determine who wins the hand of the prince. The book was named a 2006 Newbery Honor winner [1] as well as a New York Times Bestseller. It is the first in the Princess Academy series, followed by Princess Academy: Palace of Stone and Princess Academy: The ...