Matilda Wormwood

The book starts with Louise and Thomas a couple who has one child, a son, Bruce. When Bruce is three, he gets German measles or rubella. After finding this out, Louise discovers that, she is pregnant with their second child. When Louise took Bruce to the doctor to get all of the information on the measles, the doctor was worried about Louise’s pregnancy, even thought she was not very far along. The doctor said that being around someone with these measles could possibly cause congenital defects for the baby. Of course, upon hearing this, Thomas and Louise went through a very worrisome and anxious nine months until the baby was born.

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The book grasps all parts of growing up in a unstable environment, with the parents getting divorces, moving away from friends to go to a new school, the meeting of new friends the getting falsely accused of things you say you did not do but still get in trouble for, feeling like nobody likes you, feeling like running away and the lazy never wanting to get up out of bed mornings. The author, Bridget Lowry, Is trying to portray the problems of growing up and I think she succeeds in this novel. This novel is very exciting and adventurous I do recommend other students read this book

Family friendly, heart tugging, hilarious, energy filled, Matilda the Musical does it all in this unbelievable performance and is a must see for everyone. The humor is perfect for all ages and will have everyone laughing, but at the same time still has little remarks that go over the kid's head. Matilda the Musical is currently playing in the beautiful Cambridge Theatre in London’s West End and the set and special of effects of the Matilda are a little unnecessary at times, but still impressive nonetheless. This show will have you laughing and talking about the performance for days to come!

The overt neglect of her prodigal intellect experienced by Matilda leaves her feeling misunderstood and an outsider in her family which differs from the perceived neglect which leaves Coraline struggling with her sense of self. Born to parents described as “gormless” (Dahl 4), Matilda is both blessed and cursed with a prodigal intellect. Causing Matilda to crave knowledge, it is her intellect that leads her at the age of “four years and three months” (9), to defy her parents and everyday walk to the library. Matilda admits to this neglect to Mrs. Phelps, the librarian, when she tells her of her mother, “She doesn’t encourage reading books. Nor does my father” (10). With this statement Matilda shows how her parents have neglected to foster her intellect. Matilda’s eagerness to digest information, and the fact that the only book in the Wormwood home is her mother’s cookbook, elaborates how she differs from her parents.

The story takes place during World War II. The two main characters are two little girls Penny and Primrose. They are sent with a large number of other children to evacuate and to be sent away by train from their homes in the city. Due to the bombings by the German warplanes on the british cities. So these young children were forced to evacuate a world of war to more secure and safer locations in the countryside. All of the detail and information given in the story leads up to some really big symbolic imagery.

-This novel takes place in France during World War II. It is about a blind girl and a German boy who meet and they both try to survive the war that was going on.

What would your life be like if you were alone as a child? In the book Everyone Leaves as Nieve grows up, she watches everything she loves leave her. Even though Nieve gets left behind she learns how to make it on her own.

The story begins with the death of Emily Graiser- the main character- and the action is presented backwards and gradually her life and

The author lets us experience the conflict and choose the sides of the family that best describe our own sense of belonging. We become accommodated with the protagonist early on, it is the one dreaming for a better life...fortunately, dreaming about success is the motivation that keeps this family sleeping at night and working during the day. Its a story of a dysfunctional family that works together for a common cause, and

The story is based on a child named Emily that has a physical disability. Emily lived in a family of five children. "She always had a reason why we should stay home" (Olsen 601). Emily is lonely. When she was a toddler, she was left in a day care so Emily's mom could bring income to the house. Emily is a child that, as many others, grew up mostly on day care. Emily was

This story relates to my father, who has five brothers and or sisters and had a single mother who struggled to keep food on the table and had to work 24/7, just like the book that I have read ‘By the River’ Harry and Keith’s father who is a single parent who is struggling with the challenges that life is throwing at him, just like my father's mother had to do as well. The similarities between this book ‘By the River’ and my life is that we go to school for education and have the same sort of classes like music this is said in the book that ‘Harry likes the music teacher’. We also live in the same country in Australia which makes it easy for me to understand their background, for example, I would understand that it floods really bad in Australia and the slang language would make it harder for a person in America to understand what a stinkweed is because those weeds are only in Australia. This book is different to me by having only one parent in this book, I have a mother and a father. This book was a Different book to anything that I have ever watched or read.

In a small Buckinghamshire village, Matilda Wormwood is a six-year-old girl of unusual precocity, but she is often ill-treated or neglected by her parents. In retaliation, she resorts to pranks such as glueing her father's hat to his head, hiding a friend's parrot in the chimney to simulate a burglar or ghost, and secretly bleaching her father's hair. At first, Matilda was naughty and used her powers to revenge herself. Matilda has read a variety of books by different authors, especially at the age of four, when she read many in six months including The Secret Garden, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, Oliver Twist, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Gone to Earth, Kim, The Invisible Man, The Old Man and the Sea,

simply, it is the story of a woman who began her life with nothing but

This charming story reverses the typical roles within a children’s book. With underlying issues of stereotypes, independence and empowerment, it fills children with imagination and teaches them the importance of being strong, smart, and the realization that beauty comes from within.