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    “DEAF LIKE ME” By: Thomas Spradley & James Spradley My first reaction to this book was not good. I had barely gotten into it and the parents were contemplating aborting this precious little child just because it might turn out to be abnormal. It wasn’t even a sure thing that the child might be different; just a possibility. Still‚ they wanted to abort this tiny life on the mere possibility and would have if the mother had not already been too far along. The fact that they could even consider

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    Book report on Die For Me

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    Book report on Die For Me Kate and her sister‚ Georgia‚ moved to Paris to live with their grandparents after their mother and father died in a car crash. Traumatized‚ she closes herself from her feelings‚ emotion and the world around her. Until one day while she was reading in a café‚ she laid her eyes on mysterious‚ gorgeous Vincent. They meet and hang out. However‚ Vincent is not who he seems; he’s a revenant‚ an undead guardian who helps to save humans from potential danger or death. He

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    Marley and me: life and love with the world’s worst dog is a New York Times best-selling novel written by John Grogan ‚ a journalist and also a non-fiction writer in America. The book ‚ published in 2005 ‚ is more a autobiographical book than a novel because the whole story is based on the author’s personal experience with his beloved dog Marley. So ‚ the author John Grogan and his wife Jenny ‚ are also the leading characters in Marley and me . The book is such a hit that in 2008 a movie was adapted

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    Black Angels Book Report

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    Black Angels Particulars: Black Angels‚ a historical fiction book by Linda Beatrice Brown published in 2009 Main Characters: Luke- An 11-year-old slave who escapes hoping to head north and join the Union Army. Daylily- A 9-year-old slave who is freed by her owner while union troops are destroying the town. She runs into the woods with her grandmother and her friend but both her grandmother and friend die leaving her alone in the woods. Caswell- A white seven-year-old who’s mother goes into labor

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    Peter Wood’s Black Majority is a social history examining the cause and effects‚ both explicit and implicit‚ of the black majority that emerged in colonial South Carolina. His study spans the time period from the settlement of Carolina through the Stono Rebellion‚ which took place in 1739. He also takes into consideration and examines certain events that took place in the years immediately preceding the settlement of 1670‚ as well as those that immediately followed‚ as a direct result of‚ the Stono

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    this novel‚ the author takes us to the African village of his childhood. The Dark Child is an autobiography from the life of Camara Laye’s youth in the village of Kouroussa‚ Guinea. The Dark Child was the author’s first work. The author begins the book with a very special contribute to his mother. He speaks upon his strong relationship his mother and he shared. Laye was raised by his mother so they shared a strong bond. His father on the other hand was a father to the village that Laye grew up in

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    grew up on a reservation in Wellpinit‚ Washington‚ relays the story of how he learned to read and how it changed his life in his article “Superman and Me.” Learning to read at a very young age from a Superman comic‚ Alexie inherited his passion for reading from his father. Books covered every room in his childhood home‚ and while reading these books he came to a breakthrough‚ realizing the purpose of a paragraph (78). Alexie blossomed into a smart‚ young Indian boy‚ pushing through the stereotype

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    marley and me book review

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    SYNOPSIS OF THE BOOK MARLEY AND ME Soon after their wedding‚ John and Jenny Grogan escape the brutal Michigan winters and relocate to a cottage in southern Florida‚ where they are hired as reporters for competing newspapers. At The Palm Beach Post‚ Jenny immediately receives prominent front-page assignments‚ while at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel‚ John finds himself writing obituaries and two-paragraph articles about mundane news like a fire at the local garbage dump. When John senses Jenny

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    The Black House Summary

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    In The Black House‚ as in most Stephen King novels‚ a destructive and malicious force horribly assaults a placid town. Black House’s town is Coulee County‚ Wisconsin‚ and its malicious force is a psychopathic killer who kidnaps‚ kills‚ and eats young children. Jack‚ who as a child traveled to another world and wielded the power of an arcane object called the Talisman‚ has grown to adulthood and retired from the Los Angeles Police Department. Through either destiny or random chance‚ he moves to Coulee

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    The Black Killer Once upon a time there was a town‚ Sertaneum. This town is where everybody walks. And suddenly one night something happened. It changed life for many years. It starts like this. So there were these girls named Emma‚ Macie‚ Tera‚ Masy‚ and Trinity. They were all good friends. Then suddenly one night on August 15‚ 2003 they had a sleepover at Trinity’s house. And over the night everyone gets up and they see that Macie WAS GONE!!!! They were all scared and nervous. Especially because

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