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Genre. Humor, children's literature. My Weird School is a series of humorous chapter books written by Dan Gutman and illustrated by Jim Paillot, first published in July 2004. [1] Further series include My Weird School Daze (2008-2011), My Weirder School (2011-2014), My Weirdest School (2015-2018), My Weirder-est School (2019-2022), and My Weird ...
Funny Boy is a coming-of-age novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian author Shyam Selvadurai. First published by McClelland and Stewart in September 1994, the novel won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction and the Books in Canada First Novel Award .
35318437. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments is a 1997 collection of nonfiction writing by David Foster Wallace . In the title essay, originally published in Harper's as "Shipping Out", Wallace describes the excesses of his one-week trip in the Caribbean aboard the cruise ship MV Zenith, which he rechristens the Nadir.
Her 167-page book is full of funny essays on a wide variety of topics — you don't have to be a Yooper to appreciate them. Divided into 18 sub-sections, Besonen's collection covers fishing in ...
Holes is a 1998 young adult novel written by Louis Sachar and first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book centers on Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a correctional boot camp in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft. The plot explores the history of the area and how the actions of several characters ...
Parents. Joseph Wortis. Helen Wortis. Relatives. Alan Arkin (cousin) Website. www .avi-writer .com. Edward Irving Wortis (born December 23, 1937), better known by the pen name Avi, [1] [2] is an American author of young adult and children's literature. He is a winner of the Newbery Medal and twice one of the runners-up ( Newbery Honor ).
Maya Angelou ( / ˈændʒəloʊ / ⓘ AN-jə-loh; [1] [2] born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over ...
Smile is an autobiographical graphic novel written by Raina Telgemeier. [1] It was published in February 2010 by Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. [2] The novel provides an account of the author's life, characterized by dental procedures and struggles with fitting in, from sixth grade to high school. The book originated as a webcomic ...
Reception Danielle Van Gorder, writing for Mania Entertainment about the first volume, was concerned that the book might feature incest due to the back cover description and was relieved that there was none. Van Gorder found Kiss All the Boys to be "genuinely funny", and praised the "well-realized characters" and complex relationships. Johanna Draper Carlson enjoyed that the first volume's ...
Jan was inducted into Radnor High School's Hall of Fame on October 20, 2006. Personal lives. The Berenstains were married for 59 years until Stan's death from cancer in his home on November 26, 2005. They had two sons, Leo (born 1948) and Mike (born 1951). Mike Berenstain is a writer/illustrator who has been a published author since 1976.