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Children's literature portal. Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School is a children's novel by Louis Sachar in the Wayside School series. The book contains mathematical and logic puzzles for the reader to solve, presented as what The New Yorker called "absurdist math problems." [1] The problems are interspersed with characteristically quirky ...
January 1, 1978 – March 3, 2020. Wayside School is a series of short story cycle children's books written by Louis Sachar. Titles in the series include Sideways Stories from Wayside School (1978), Wayside School Is Falling Down (1989), Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger (1995), and Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom (2020). [ 1]
Other books written by her as a teenager are: The Lampo Circus (2008), Von Gobstopper's Arcade (2009), Halo (2010) and Hades (2011). Margery Allingham (1904–1966) had her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick, about smugglers in 17th century Essex, published in 1923, when she was 19. Jorge Amado (1912–2001) had his debut novel, The Country of ...
Her class works on a three-strike system: first, the student's name is written on the board, then a checkmark is written next to it. Upon receiving a third strike, the name is circled, and the student is sent home early on the kindergarten bus. While working on his workbook, Todd is harassed by Joy, but gets punished for speaking out.
Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story, 2016 novel by American author Nora Raleigh Baskin. Saturday, 2005 "post 9/11" novel by English writer Ian McEwan. The Submission, 2011 novel by Amy Waldman. Sunrise Over Fallujah, 2008 novel by American author Walter Dean Myers. Towers Falling, 2016 novel by American author Jewell Parker Rhodes.
An at-risk student is a term used in the United States to describe a student who requires temporary or ongoing intervention in order to succeed academically. [1] At risk students, sometimes referred to as at-risk youth or at-promise youth, [2] are also adolescents who are less likely to transition successfully into adulthood and achieve economic self-sufficiency. [3]
Young adult literature. Young adult literature ( YA) is typically written for readers aged 12 to 18 [ 1][ 2] and includes most of the themes found in adult fiction, such as friendship, substance abuse, alcoholism, and sexuality. [ 3] Stories that focus on the challenges of youth may be further categorized as social or coming-of-age novels .
A longtime Wilmington writer has landed on a prestigious list of the best books written this century. John Jeremiah Sullivan, who has lived in Wilmington since the mid-2000s, comes in at No. 81 ...