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![]() And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together-lay everything on the table, make it all right. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. ![]() For most of the year they live far apart-she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown-but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. ![]() She has insatiable wanderlust he prefers to stay home with a book. ![]() 312) AboutĬlick to read other books Other Books By Emily Henry “So I just keep holding on to him and tell myself that, for now, I should enjoy the moment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They can’t stand to break their friends’ hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. Which is how they find themselves sharing the largest bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. And still haven’t told their best friends. Except, now-for reasons they’re still not discussing-they don’t. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Blurb : A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This massive hardcover tome, over 1000 pages, collects the first 37 issues of Neil Gaiman's groundbreaking series! Read more But he'll learn his greatest lessons at the hands of his own family, the Endless, who-like him-are walking embodiments of the most influential aspects of existence. His journey to find his place in a world that's drastically changed takes him through mythical worlds to retrieve his old heirlooms, the back roads of America for a twisted reunion, and even Hell itself-to receive the dubious honor of picking the next Devil. Upon his escape from an embarrassing captivity at the hands of a mere mortal, Morpheus finds himself at a crossroads, forced to deal with the enormous changes within both himself and his realm. Regardless of cultures or historical eras, all dreamers visit Morpheus' realm-be they gods, demons, muses, mythical creatures, or simply humans who teach Morpheus some surprising lessons. The Sandman is the universally lauded masterwork following Morpheus, Lord of the Dreaming-a vast hallucinatory landscape housing all the dreams of any and everyone who's ever existed. ![]() ![]() Kwan is outwardly annoying, naïve, and eccentric. ![]() Olivia and Kwan have a difficult and complicated relationship. Kwan Li, her half-sister, is the product of their father’s first marriage and is twelve years older than Olivia. Born to an American mother and a Chinese father, Olivia’s father died when she was four years old. Olivia (Laguni) Bishop, a travel photographer, is the story’s primary protagonist and narrator. In The Hundred Secret Senses, Tan’s attention shifts to explore the relationship between sisters. Another of Tan’s contrasting themes is these women’s frustration with their American-born daughters. ![]() The well-known author of two widely successful novels: The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God’s Wife, her previous books focused on the tortured lives of older generation women whose journey brought them from China to America. ![]() Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses (1996) focuses on the relationship between Olivia and her half-sister, Kwan. ![]() ![]() Luke soon met Kalisha, a captive girl who gave him what information she had about the Institute and its purpose. He woke the next morning in a room that looked similar to his but did not have a window. Luke, who was looking forward to starting college at both MIT and Emerson, was kidnapped and his parents killed by an extraction team from the Institute. He had still not come to a decision when his path crossed with Luke’s. After handling an armed robbery and serious injury professionally, Tim was offered a job with the local sheriff’s department. He wound up in the tiny town of DuPray where he got a job as a night knocker. Tim Jamieson, a police officer forced to resign after a freak accident injured a civilian, decided to give up his seat on a plane bound for New York to a federal agent and hitchhike instead. ![]() ![]() When Luke Ellis, a twelve-year-old genius, was brought to the Institute, he started a movement not only to escape the Institute but also to close it down. Although these children had been kidnapped for their telekinetic and telepathic abilities, the adults in charge of the Institute underestimated these abilities. In The Institute by Stephen King, a group of children kidnapped and used as conscripts in an illegal mind war use their unique abilities to free themselves and bring down the Institute. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: King, Stephen. ![]() ![]() ![]() Three brothers conjure a bridge to make an impossible crossing at twilight. This is the origin story of the Deathly Hallows. To children who grew up in wizarding families, ‘the Hopping Pot and the Fountain of Fair Fortune are as familiar’ to them ‘as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty are to Muggle (non-magical) children’. For centuries, the fables have been the staple of wizarding childhoods, the sound of bedtime stories. This just about sums up why the tales are so special. ‘You’ve never heard of The Tales of Beedle the Bard?’ Ron asked Hermione incredulously in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. A wizard who was sympathetic to Muggles, ‘mistrusted Dark Magic’ and believed that ‘kindness, common sense and ingenuity’ were more admirable than even the most powerful magic. Aside from his facial hair, it’s impossible to truly know Beedle, but perhaps we can catch a glimpse of him in his stories. There is also one surviving woodcut that depicts him with ‘an exceptionally luxuriant beard’. Although much of his life remains a mystery, we do know he was born in Yorkshire and that he was a wizard. ![]() Beedle the Bard was a storyteller who wove his tales in the 15th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.įor information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003. LippincottĪfterword copyright © 2002 by Bruce CovilleĪll rights reserved. Illustrations copyright © 1991 by Gary A. This book is also very well written, which made it a pleasure to read aloud.I'm not good at judging the appropriate age range, but I think that this book would be good for almost all elementary school kids. It was the depth of this relationship that made the book's ending so poignant. But the best part of this book was watching the relationship develop between Jeremy and his dragon. ![]() The plot of this book had enough depth to it to hold everyone's interest (including mine). But when he wonders into a magic shop one day after school, he's faced with a task that is anything but typical, hatching and raising a dragon. ![]() His art teacher gives him a hard time, even though art is his best subject. Jeremy Thatcher is a sixth grader, and his struggles are typical for his age. The series also includes Jennifer Murdley's Toad, which both of my boys heard at school. I loved this book, and so did both my first-grader and my fourth-grader! This is one of Bruce Coville's Magic Shop Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() They will develop an appreciation for the wisdom of the hero’s mentor and the importance of the “elixir” that helps the hero succeed. The students will be familiar with the ideas of “redemption” and “atonement” as the hero travels on the journey from the comfort of the known world to the trials of the unknown world. They will recognize the “challenges” for the hero as being a repeated pattern, especially when the hero is confronted with “temptations”. For example, in each story they read, they will be able to identify the “call to action” and the moment the protagonist or hero “crosses the threshold”. Our 9th grade curriculum centers on the idea that stories make us human, so our freshmen will spend the year studying the elements of stories and archetypes. Wiesner’s picture book is ideal to start the 9th grade mythology unit which leads up to students reading Homer’s Odyssey (Fitzgerald translation). ![]() ![]() I have a well-worn hardcover of my own that I do not want to lose this paperback will be perfect to share in class. I was so happy when I found a copy for $.25 at the New Milford Public Library book sale this summer. The few words in this picture book are only for context when an invasion of frogs floating on lily pads invade a small town on a Tuesday night. David Weisner’s Tuesday is one of the funniest picture books ever. ![]() ![]() The Good Girl is the book that made me fall back in love with reading. The dude wasn’t a reader, and I had given that part of my life up for a while. I read this book for the first time soon after a breakup. Books with Irresistible Plot Twists AKA My Favorite WTF Just Happened Books The Good Girl by Mary Kubica Reels can be so limiting, and I have so many more favorites, so we’re here. ![]() I affectionately called it “My Favorite WTF Just Happened Books”. I posted a reel on my Instagram, sharing my favorite thrillers. ![]() I just always find myself gravitating back to those book with irresistible plot twists. It does make those stories a little less enjoyable, but only because I’m trying to create something that’s not meant to be there. When I read a book that my mom would classify as “just a nice story,” I find that I’ll still try and solve a mystery or create conflict out of thin air. ![]() |