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    not pleased with the banning of very popular books they loved as a children. These people do not agree with book banning because in their times, when they were children, they were allowed to read whatever appealed to them. Amongst these now banned books are; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Black Beauty, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, The Catcher in the Rye, as well as many other classic books. But this book banning is not something fairly new. Book banning started in the early 1990s where by

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    Book Essay The book Scorched is a si-fi fantasy book that has the last dragon named Emmy bond with a girl named Trinity and she is trying to prevent the Scorch,while trying to protect each other from certain people who want Emmy and Trinity.The author Mari Mancusi always wanted a dragon as a pet but her house was to small and a dragon would be too big,so she decided to write about one,so that's how the Scorched series was made. Scorched should be preserved because it has friendship with a girl who

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    Disliking Books: A Summary The essay “Disliking Books” by Gerald Graff gives reason to why so many kids and young adults dislike reading. Graff mentions things from his childhood, and things from his time as a college student to explain his reasoning. Being a part of a middle class family, Graff explains the stigma surrounding studying and enjoying books in his childhood. Graff then shows us his experience that changed his mind. Graff uses details from his life to give meaning to his ideas. In Graff’s

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    Firestarter Book Summary

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    I recommend the book Firestarter because the book has so much excitement. The book also has a lot of mystery. you don’t know what will happen next and you don’t know what happened back in the past. The characters always talk about their past and it explain only a little bit about it. There is so much thrill in the book there is some crazy stuff that happens in the book like how the FBI and CIA follow the dad and daughter. The books excitement is when Andy, the dad, and Charlie, the daughter, were

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    The book, The Outsiders, is a fantastic book that you should definitely re-read. If you had read the book before then you would know that the book is about a 14-year old boy named Ponyboy Curtis with his two brothers Sodapop, a sixteen year old, and Darrel, a twenty year old who have recently lost their parents. Now he has to deal with his idea of being separated from society. Common Sense Media book gave the book a ⅘ starts and stated, “Hinton wrote this at age 16, so the plot has some too-easy

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    1 In the book The book thief it consists of only 5 main characters. The characters are Liesel meminger, Hans hubermann, Rosa hubermann, Max, and Rudy. This book takes place in 1939-1943 in Molching, Germany during world war ll. The big plot of this book/conflict is that. The young girl Liesel and her little brother Werner are on a train going to there new foster parents for a unknown reason at the time. But during this train ride her brother Werner dies. At his funeral she picks up a book called The

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    Summary: The Book Thief is narrated by Death. It’s a story of Liesel Meminger. She’s a nine-year-old German who was given up by her mother and forced to live with foster parents, Hans and Rosa Munermann, in the small town of Molching in 1939. Liesel’s younger brother dies from unknown causes while on their way to the town. She begins to have nightmares about him because of it. Hans helps her through this difficult and traumatic experience. Hans teaches Liesel to read starting with a book she took

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    The Book Thief Summary

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    The Book Thief starts off right before the Holocaust, with Liesel on a train with her mother and younger brother. They are going to meet their new foster parents in Germany. When all of the Werner her little brother starts coughing, and then leans over and dies! So the train stops and they get off and buried him and the gravedigger drops his book and Liesel picks it up and takes it with her, but she cannot even read. When they finally get to the foster parents house she doesn’t want to go in, but

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    Chase Jones Theology P.6 December 1, 2016 The Book of Daniel (Summary) Chapters 1-2, 4-6 1 In the third year of the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. God let King Jehoiakim of Judah fall into his power. Then the king commanded his palace master Ashpenaz to bring in some Israelites of the royal family and of nobility, young men without physical defect and handsome, versed in every branch of wisdom, endowed with knowledge and insight

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    The book that I read was the Chemy called Al book. The book was most about a young adventures girl that had an adventure in a place, she was trapped in a place where she learns about elements and how they help her get out. It talked about what the elements in the periodic table do and what they are use and some examples of the stuff made for it. The book is telling us about the states of matter and how they are use and what they use for with the ways people interact with them. 1 Julie

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