Inside the Pages and Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inside the Pages and Other Stories write by Van Lawrence Umerez. This book was released on 2022-08-19. Inside the Pages and Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a collection of five short stories that feature different horrors and nightmares. Read to see the dark and disturbing answers to many 'what ifs'; read to see how easily sanity could die painfully; read to see the hopelessness that always hides in the dark. Discover what it’s like to be a few feet under the ground in ‘Enclosed.’ Find out how an author faces the monster he created in ‘Inside the Pages,’ or why another author created a novel out of a journal that contains horrific real-life experiences in ‘Diary.’ See what a thrift store item can do to a man's mind in ‘Freebie,’ and what a tragedy can do to a man of faith in ‘Confession.’
Blank Pages
Blank Pages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blank Pages write by Bernard MacLaverty. This book was released on 2024-04-16. Blank Pages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Library Journal Best Book of 2022 in Short Stories A collection of twelve powerful and moving new stories from one of Ireland's most celebrated writers.
Sunny Days Inside
Sunny Days Inside - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sunny Days Inside write by Caroline Adderson. This book was released on 2021-08-01. Sunny Days Inside available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the “grownup virus” hits, kids who live in the same apartment building must cope with strange new rules and extended time at home with parents and siblings. And they survive brilliantly, each in their own way. Twin boys throw themselves into an independent research assignment on prehistoric people and embrace their own devolution. A budding track star is encouraged to run laps on his balcony by a neighbor who has a secret crush on him. A classroom troublemaker reaches out to a teacher when his own father begins to exhibit signs of mental illness. A young entrepreneur saves himself and his hairdresser mother from financial collapse by renting out the family dog. And a girl finds a way to communicate with her hearing-impaired neighbor so that they can spy on the rest of the building. The stories follow the course of the pandemic, from the early measures through lockdown, as the kids in the building observe the stresses on the adults around them and use their own quirky kid ingenuity to come up with ways to make their lives better. Funny, poignant and wise, this book will long outlive even the pandemic. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.6 Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3 Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.5 Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6 Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.5 Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
Thank You, Mr. Nixon
Thank You, Mr. Nixon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thank You, Mr. Nixon write by Gish Jen. This book was released on 2022-02-01. Thank You, Mr. Nixon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Resisters takes measure of the fifty years since the opening of China and its unexpected effects on the lives of ordinary people. It is a unique book that only Jen could write—a story collection accruing the power of a novel as it proceeds—a work that Cynthia Ozick has called “an art beyond art. It is life itself.” Beginning with a cheery letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to “poor Mr. Nixon” in hell, Gish Jen embarks on a fictional journey through U.S.-China relations, capturing the excitement of a world on the brink of tectonic change. Opal Chen reunites with her Chinese sisters after forty years; newly cosmopolitan Lulu Koo wonders why Americans “like to walk around in the woods with the mosquitoes”; Hong Kong parents go to extreme lengths to reestablish contact with their “number-one daughter” in New York; and Betty Koo, brought up on “no politics, just make money,” finds she must reassess her mother’s philosophy. With their profound compassion and equally profound humor, these eleven linked stories trace the intimate ways in which humans make and are made by history, capturing an extraordinary era in an extraordinary way. Delightful, provocative, and powerful, Thank You, Mr. Nixon furnishes yet more proof of Gish Jen’s eminent place among American storytellers.
How They Met and Other Stories
How They Met and Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How They Met and Other Stories write by David Levithan. This book was released on 2008-01-08. How They Met and Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to have fans of Boy Meets Boy eager to devour it. Here are 18 stories, all about love, all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection, David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.
