Eliezer Wiesel a brave man‚ a role model‚ a leader. These traits describe an honorable man‚ and that man is Elie Wiesel. I truly believe he deserves the Medal of Honor for his many milestones and accomplishments‚ and sadly losses‚ and experiences. From trembling in fear for months to being a recipient of a hard earned Nobel Peace Prize. Elie truly conquered life. In May of 1944‚ young Wiesel was deported by Nazis to the Auschwitz camp at just fifteen years old. Elie’s mother and younger sister perish
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both life and humanity‚ or be pressured into doing things he does not want to do. II. Brief Description About The Author Jerry Spinelli is one of the most gifted storytellers in contemporary children’s literature. His books include the Newbery Medal winner Maniac Magee;Loser; Wringer‚ a Newbery Honor Book; Stargirl; and Knots in My Yo-Yo String‚ his autobiography. His novels are recognized for their humor and poignancy‚ and his characters and situations are often drawn from his real-life experience
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“The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ was published in 1993‚ and won a Newberry medal in 1994. The book takes place in a narrative third person‚ using a limited omniscient person. The overall plot is that in a communist community‚ Jonas is a kid like the citizens that do not know what else is out there instead of themselves. Jonas learns memories that bring him to the point where he wants to share the memories of the world. The family units have rules such as dream telling and feeling telling. In chapter one
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Information Pam Muñoz Ryan‚ has written over 25 books for young people including the novel‚ Esperanza Rising‚ winner of the Pura Belpre Medal‚ the Jane Addams Peace Award‚ an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults‚ and the Americas Award Honor Book. Her novel‚Riding Freedom has garnered many awards including the national Willa Cather Award‚ and the California Young Reader Medal. Her picture books for the very young and picture books for older readers‚ include the award-winning Amelia and Eleanor Go for a
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general theme‚ such as‚ number the stars is set in a different culture and era but all her books tell the same story: that of the role that we humans play in the lives of our fellow beings. Lowry has written 20 novels and she has won the Newberry Medal award twice (Lowry‚ Lois Lowry-Bio). She also tackles hard topics such as‚ adoption‚ mental illness‚ cancer‚ Holocaust‚ and futuristic societies. Her website is www.loislowry.com/bio.html. She measures her success as an author by her ability to help
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sport specialization than there are advantages. Do you realize that sports affect us all in one way or another Whether or not you like sports has nothing to do with the whether or not it affects you. It’s one thing for kids to dream of Olympic gold medals or Super Bowl rings and to work toward those goals. But it’s another matter if parents are pushing their kids to do something they don’t want or pressuring them to succeed in a way that’s hurtful. They may have to sacrifice other interests and give
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The Giver "The giver" is a novel which was written in 1993 by Lois Lowry. Lois Lowry has written over 20 books and received two awards‚ one being the Newbery medal for "The giver". The novel was partly inspired by Larry’s relationship with her father who was at the time in a nursing home having lost most of his long-term memory. "The giver" is her attempt to criticize reality by creating an ideal society‚ but we will quickly realize that this idealistic is false. The genre of the giver is science
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work he has done (“Society”). The conception of this society traces back to as early as 1981‚ where a meeting was held in the home of Therman and Lillian O’Daniel. This date is significant as it relates to the date of which Hughes earned the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP‚ 21 years earlier (“History”). Overtime‚ things in the Langston
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“Global competition is about winners and losers” (Korten 1). Everyone wants to be successful‚ and a lot of people will do what it takes to be successful in one aspect or another. In golf‚ success is represented in many ways‚ like winning a trophy or a jacket‚ but most of the time the most important trophies are the same color‚ gold‚ for instance a World Golf Championship‚ or the Fedex Cup. In order to win in golf‚ there must be two things present‚ talent and the right clubs for that talent. Not every
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Park. Linda Sue Park was born in Urbana‚ Illinois on March 25‚ 1960 and was the daughter of Korean immigrants. At four years old she loved to read and write poems and stories. She wrote A Single Shard‚ which was published in 2001 and won the Newberry Medal for excellence in children’s literature in 2002. I chose this book because it seemed interesting and had some adventure. The novel begins with a young boy named Tree-ear‚ whose parents died from a fever‚ leaving him an orphan. He lives under a bridge
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