Shannon Hale

Shannon Hale is a compelling feminist writer who inspires young women, creates twisting plots, and uses incredible language. I read two books by Hale: Dangerous and The Goose Girl. Dangerous is a sci-fi futuristic fiction, hopping all over the U.S and a island off the coast of Ecuador. The Goose Girl is a fascinating retelling of a Grimm's fairy tale. Both have a incredibly strong willed female, main characters who, at the beginning of the book have insecurities but grow out out of them. They both

I am currently reading the book Pinned by Sharon G. Flake. I started reading this because I’ve read one of Sharon’s books before. She takes the epitomes of realistic fiction and writes a recreated version. One fantastic thing she’s done in this book is create an arsenal of three dimensional characters. One of the main characters is Autumn. She is described as a tenacious girl who battles dyslexia. She also is the best wrestler in her class. Immediately on the first page, the author begins with,

When I first began reading this book, I assumed that it would be like the 2 previous books in the series: fast-paced with good action and good characters, but more a fun read than anything else. It was going to be enjoyable in an Ocean's Eleven or Casino Royale way like its predecessors. And so going into this, my initial reaction was surprise. In the first chapter I was already delving into the past of Kat and Hale's powerful bond and the history of their relationship, something I thought would

anything and did what they were told kind of like slaves. Trifles shows Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Wright as something much more than that. Right in the beginning (1860) it shows that Mrs. Wright might have committed murder.Trifles shows that this woman could have possess the power to kill a man. That was unheard of in the 1900’s because women did not speak out or defend themselves against a man. Mrs. Hale shows just a snippet of her power when The County Attorney on page (1861) says “ Dirty

judged by her peers, and by their knowledge of her prior life, her current circumstances, and forced destitution, she is found innocent. In the story, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters accompany their husbands to the Wright home in a quest to find evidence implicating Minnie Wright in the murder of her husband. From the moment they enter the home, Mrs. Hale is sympathetic to Minnie Wright. When the county attorney looks over Minnie Wrights kitchen and states, “Not much of a housekeeper, would you say ladies

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The story starts with the Narrator, an engineer, who is temporarily staying at the Hale house in Starkfield, Massachusetts due to a project in a nearby town. Dealing with a delay in his work, the Narrator decides to observe the citizens of Starkfield. He notices Ethan Frome at the post office and wonders why a man with immense strength seems so physically and mentally crippled. He decides to investigate and finds out that Ethan was a victim of a “smash-up”. The Narrator had been using Denis Eady

limits by performing mischievous actions. The child is coloring on the walls of their bedroom, playing baseball in the house, climbing on the furniture, bringing in dirt from outside, etc. How would you react? With this in mind, No, David! by David Shannon uses the relationship between pictures and words to demonstrate predictable negative comments in words from an adult figure in association to relatable child-like behaviors in pictures. Initially, the cover and title page of the book both play a

The purpose of our experiment was to test the intermediate disturbance hypothesis by observing plant diversity patterns along a trail. According to the theory, we should observe minimal plant diversity right next to the trail and not much far from the trail. However, there should be a greater amount of diversity some intermediate distance from the trail. We went to the James K. McPherson preserve to observe the types of plants and number of them along the trail. Our sampling method was to observe

The Cow Taught Me How “Life is dangerous, that’s what makes it interesting.” - John Twelve Hawks The best thing I ever did for myself was throw a stick at a cow. Not an overly extravagant accomplishment, but I certainly learned a lot from it. Just a little over six years into the world, on a day so hot I could practically taste burnt air, my father took my two sisters and me down to the barn. It wasn’t the most attractive place in the world, but to my eyes it was an adventure waiting to happen