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I couldn't say that I enjoyed any of the characters. Once in India, there's Neha, her husband Sharat, and a boy that Sonya and Stel meet Keshav. There were plenty of characters in this book, including Sonya and her best friend Estella, her kind of boyfriend that she's known forever, Tim, and her adoptive parents. The only real problem I had with this is that I never knew who I was reading from when starting a chapter until I read a little bit to find out who's voice I was supposed to be reading through. I can't really pin down the narration, it's like it's supposed to be third person but bounces in between different characters' perspectives. The story was about a girl, Sonya, who lives in England with her adoptive parents and decides to take a trip to India to meet her birth mother, Neha, in order to find out why she had given her up 17 years ago. It's no surprise to me that I didn't really enjoy it based on the summary and the title I just didn't think this would be my cup of tea (haha English reference). This month's Adult Fiction book from BooklyBox was A Scandalous Secret b Jaishree Misra. John, founder of the FUBU fashion line and a Shark Tank venture capitalist, offers a self-referential blueprint for financial success. How to raise money for a coveted poster: put your friends to work! Short chapters, ample white space, and smart, interesting dialogue all combine to make this an easy choice for those newly transitioned to chapter books. Ivy and Bean present white, and their classmates are diverse. Blackall’s numerous amusing black-and-white illustrations on nearly every page match perfectly with the spare, winsome text to make for an inviting presentation with plenty of good-humored action. When a cellphone charger they plug into the doll’s mouth doesn’t succeed in galvanizing her (but hilariously mimics the Frankenstein story), they try dancing and calling to the gods in the park-also not quite a success but surely a spectacle. Instead, she and ever ebullient Bean decide to try to bring to life a baby doll after Ivy’s mom pointedly refuses to provide a needed sister. Extreme generosity-trying to give away lots of her clothes-backfires. Ivy, the (slightly) quieter of the pair, decides that because she’s an only child, she’s in great danger of becoming spoiled. The girls take up where they left off years ago, still participating in the type of childhood adventures that are both realistic and yet so whimsical that storytellers often overlook them. Irresistible 7-year-old protagonists Ivy and Bean are back for their 11th outing after a long break. Caroline lives in Westbrook, Connecticut and when she's not writing she volunteers at a hospital, plays piano for the school musicals and daydreams!Ĭoming from someone who has basic knowledge of Shakespeare's Macbeth, Cooney did a great job building her own story on the play while keeping in line with the general plot. She often organizes what she calls a "plotting game," in which students work together to create plots for stories. To keep her stories realistic, Caroline visits many schools outside of her area, learning more about teenagers all the time. "In a suspense novel, you can count on action." Suspense novels are her favorites to read and write. She began to sell stories to Seventeen magazine and soon after began writing books. When her children were young, Caroline started writing books for young people - with remarkable results. I started writing then and never stopped!" "He used to rip off covers from The New Yorker and pass them around and make us write a short story on whichever cover we got. Caroline Cooney knew in sixth grade that she wanted to be a writer when "the best teacher I ever had in my life" made writing her main focus. Queen Elizabeth herself founded The Barbary Company, formally institutionalizing this trade in addition, she received a delegation of Moroccan diplomats in 1600. The English slave trade also brought blacks to Europe, from mid-sixteenth century onward. In fact, England maintained independent trade relationships with "Moorish" Northern Africa, despite Spanish and Portuguese protest. In England during Shakespeare's time, views regarding "Moors" were slightly more complex because of strong anti-Catholic sentiment in England and English fears of invasion by the Spanish. Philip III of Spain expelled 300,000 "Moriscos" from the Iberian (Spanish) peninsula not long after Shakespeare finished Othello, in 1609. The struggle inspired intense prejudice and suspicion that lasted well after the Moors were overthrown. From the eleventh to the fifteenth century, Catholics battled to re-conquer Spain from the Islamic Arabs and Berbers, or Moors, who had successfully occupied it since the 900s. |