The Pine Barrens John Mcphee's "The Pine Barrens" is a unique descriptive novel, the novel deals with nature and all it's beauty. ... The novel was intriguing because it was so relatable to Philadelphia, the fact that the actually Pine Barrens are only about fifty miles away meant that whatever Mcphee experienced throughout the book was not far fetched form what I"d experience. ... The novel is filled with hundreds of different facts that are all interesting to know. ...

• Word Count: 191
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• Grade Level: High School

STAR-TREK, The Next Generation: The Dominion War Task number: 22; Write a book review for the newspaper Perhaps the most important quality of a good novel based on the Star Trek TV series, or for that matter on any TV show or movie, is the correspondence between the plot of the book and that of the source. ... Perhaps the author simply does not have what it takes to write a good Star Trek novel. ... The lesson I learned from my experience reading this novel is this: If Mr. Vornholt is the author of upcoming Star Trek novels, don't waste your time reading them. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The novel ends with both the monster and Victor dying alone, out on the cold arctic tundra. ... Gothic horror and ironic situations go hand in hand in this novel. Romantisism and Gothic horror also connect a lot in the novel. ...

• Word Count: 242
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• Grade Level: High School

This controversial novel was initially written to question slavery and to convince people of its wrongness. ... Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel first published in 1851-2 was considered outspoken and controversial for it's time. ...

• Word Count: 161
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• Grade Level: High School

Summary: This novel mainly takes place at the end of the 20th century, but there are also flashbacks to the late 19th century mainly at Green Lake, in Texas. Some of the main characters in this novel are Stanley Yelnats, Zero, X-Ray, Squid, Warden, Kate Barlow, Sam, Elya Yelnats, and Madame Zeroni. ...

• Word Count: 249
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• Grade Level: High School

Violence and sadness is prevalent throughout Juan Rulfo's novel Pedro Paramo. ... Right away, Rulfo sets up his novel with violence, showing that his main character will be going through very rough times. ...

• Word Count: 250
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The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan The novel, The Kitchen God's Wife is a true-life story told in flashbacks, by a mother (Winnie) to her daughter (Pearl). She relates the incidents that had occurred in her life when she was in China. The story begins with the memories of a six-year...

• Word Count: 136
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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel, good and evil are constituted by the nature and actions of the characters. Dracula who is representative of the evil, demonstrates all seven of the deadly sins. His pride, greed, lust, and wrath lead Dracula to commit immoral and evil acts. For example one of Dracula's evil p...

• Word Count: 126
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This extraordinary novel tells about a Japanese family that struggles to remain a family while living in an internment camp. The only thing that gave them the endurance and heart to go on was their national anthem. "May thy peaceful reign last long. May it last for thousands of years, Until this ti...

• Word Count: 201
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Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451, a science fiction novel, in 1953. The title F451 refers to the temperature at which books will begin to burn. This is a book that takes place in futuristic America during the 21st century. No particular year is given, however, 2 atomic wars have already been fou...

• Word Count: 210
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School