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Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a short biography of nineteenth-century England author, Helen Beatrix Potter, and describes her lonely childhood, love of drawing, and how she came about to write her famous story of Peter Rabbit.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The inspiring story of the girl behind one of the greatest novels -- and monsters -- ever, perfectly timed for the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein. For fans for picture book biographies such as I Dissent or She Persisted. How does a story begin? Sometimes it begins with a dream, and a dreamer. Mary is one such dreamer, a little girl who learns to read by tracing the letters on the tombstone of her famous feminist mother, Mary...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Born in England in 1882, Alan Alexander Milne grew up with a love for exploring the woods with his brother and writing poems about their adventures. Alan carried that love into his adult life by exploring the woods with his son, Christopher Robin. Well known for his articles, plays, and novels, Alan considered himself a "serious" author. But one story about a stuffed bear changed his image forever. Inspired by his son and their time playing in the...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis--known as Jack--she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn't holding together her crumbling marriage. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an Oxford don and the beloved writer of Narnia, yet their minds bonded over their letters. Embarking on the adventure of her life, Joy traveled from America to England and back again, facing heartbreak...
7) Tolkien
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The early life of orphaned author and professor J.R.R. Tolkien as he finds companionship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at his school.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In 1905, Virginia and Vanessa Stephens and their brothers Thoby and Adrian moved to unfashionable, bohemian Bloomsbury. All in their twenties, orphaned and unmarried, they began holding Thursday night gatherings in their unchaperoned, unconventional drawing room. Most of the young guests in that room would become famous, breaking the old rules and blazing their own new paths. It is from Vanessa's point of view at the center of this eccentric, charmed...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte face a bleak future, with their father half-blind, and troubled brother Branwell in decline. As their situation worsens, Charlotte sees that writing could offer a way out. This is the story of the sisters' great novels and their extraordinary battle for recognition.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker Prize win was an historic and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being the first Black woman and first Black British person ever to win the prize in its fifty-year history. Girl, Woman, Other was named a favorite book of the year by President Obama and Roxane Gay, was translated into thirty-five languages, and has now reached more than a million readers. Evaristo's astonishing nonfiction debut, Manifesto, is a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Readers will learn about the life and works of J.K. Rowling. The authors life leading up to her success as the best-selling author of the Harry Potter series is discussed. Readers will also learn about the authors writing process and what inspires her. Whats next for this author and other interesting details are also included.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and accomplishments of the author best known for his "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
Best known for his epic Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien was born in British-occupied South Africa. His early life was full of action and adventure. Tolkien spent his childhood roaming the British countryside with his family and could read and write by age four. He was naturally gifted with languages and used this skill as a...
15) Orwell's roses
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A fresh take on George Orwell as a far more nature-loving figure than is often portrayed, and a dazzlingly rich meditation on roses, gardens, and the value and use of beauty and pleasure in the face of brutality and horror. "In the spring of 1936 a man planted roses." That man was George Orwell, shortly before he went off to fight against fascism in Spain. Today, those rosebushes are still thriving. This is the starting point for Rebecca Solnit's...
Author
Series
Doubleday anchor books volume A123
Publisher
Doubleday Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1957.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that occurred as a result of the First World War. Written after the war and as he was leaving his birthplace, he thought, forever, Good-Bye to All That bids farewell not only to England and his English family and friends, but also to a way of life. Tracing his upbringing from his solidly middle-class Victorian childhood through his entry into the war at age twenty-one as a patriotic...
18) Cider with Rosie
Author
Publisher
David R. Godine, Publisher
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire. They were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah. Born into country-house privilege...
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