![]() ![]() ![]() As a result, a small collective of schools have challenged it, and some schools have blocked the book from distribution in school libraries or inclusion in the curricula. Controversy stems from how the novel describes alcohol, poverty, bullying, violence, sexuality. ![]() Īlthough critically acclaimed, The Absolutely True Diary has also been the subject of controversy and has consistently appeared on the annual list of frequently challenged books since 2008, becoming the most frequently challenged book from 2010 to 2019. The graphic novel includes 65 comic illustrations that help further the plot. The book is about Junior's life on the Spokane Indian Reservation and his decision to go to a nearly all- white public high school away from the reservation. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a first-person narrative novel by Sherman Alexie, from the perspective of a Native American teenager, Arnold Spirit Jr., also known as "Junior," a 14-year-old promising cartoonist. ![]()
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The inheritance cycle eragon5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I vividly remember disliking it at twelve-years-old. The failure lost the studio roughly $150 million dollars at the box office. Even the author has made some less than approving comments about the failed adaptation (another thing in common with Rick Riordan).ĭespite a pretty stellar cast (okay the lead was not great, but Ed Speleers has gotten a lot better since!), the adaptation was hated by critics and readers alike. In the 2000s and early 2010s, as studios scrambled to get their own Harry Potter-like franchise, Fox Studios released the infamously hated Eragon movie, before trying again with the (also panned) Percy Jacksonseries. ![]() On July 25th, Variety broke the news that an Eragon TV series was in development at Disney+ much to the joy of many #SaveEragon fans out there. ![]() Ask Me for Fire by Halli Starling5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Ambrose isn’t sure about letting in someone new, but Barrett hasn’t proven to be anything but a good person. Barrett saves Ambrose’s life, and their bond is cemented. As he slowly warms up to Barrett, fate finds a way to push them together when danger and sabotage strike. ![]() But Barrett, his new neighbor, is kind and generous, and has soft brown eyes he can’t stop thinking about. Which is a pity, because Barrett finds him fascinating and incredibly good looking.Īmbrose didn’t move to the outskirts of nowhere to make a friend. When the new neighbor, Ambrose, arrives, Barrett realizes that the man is a loner, like himself, and clearly not looking for a friend. But even home has been a surprise of late, as his next door neighbor and good friend has suddenly passed away, and the house has been sold to someone new. His days as a forest ranger are filled with unpredictable adventure, so home is the one place he knows he can count on. ![]() Overview: Can two grouchy loners living in the wilderness find friendship and love?īarrett loves everything about living outside the remote mountain town of Lake Honor, but especially the peace and quiet. ![]() A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() "This story began-or was caused by-four children who had been left in the station wagon while the driver/adult-a parent? A babysitter-grandmother-aunt-neighbor?-went into the supermarket to shop. ![]() That was when I remembered the Kingdom, with its peasants and nobles, hunters and innkeepers, injustices, laws, superstitions-a whole complicated world, and I remembered Gwyn, too. I wondered about the condittorei, the mercenary soldiers who followed their bold captains, some of whom eventually became great nobles, ruling over wide landscapes, and ruling well, too, some of them.Įspecially I wondered about girls, what their lives were like, and especially what the life of a girl who didn't always go along quietly might be like. I wondered about the science of Alchemy, which was almost chemistry but also tried to work with magic, and about those wise women who cured people with herbal remedies. ![]() The wheel turns and our life goes on and in whatever chance says is the proper time, we drop off, disappear. I wondered about the wheel of fortune, the idea that there is a wheel on which each of us is fixed, at birth, by chance for all of our one life. For some reason, I kept thinking about that time, that city. (previously published as On Furtune's Wheel)Īfter telling Gwyn's story, I thought I was finished with the Kingdom, but some time later, I read a book about life in a city during the Renaissance era. ![]() |