Maya Angelou is an author who is as popularly received as she is critically praised. Her memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings announced the arrival of a distinctive new voice in American letters, noteworthy for its meditation on identity and how notions of race, ethnicity, and gender contribute to and complicate journeys of self-actualization and self-discovery. How to Write about Maya Angelou encourages students to sharpen their critical-thinking skills when writing essays about this venerable author. Bibliographies, an index, and an introduction from esteemed scholar Harold Bloom round out this title.
The Norm Chronicles: Stories and Numbers About Danger
This is a far from average book: the real story behind the statistics on risk, chance and choice. Meet Norm. He's 31, 5'9", just over 13 stone, and works a 39 hour week. He likes a drink, doesn't do enough exercise and occasionally treats himself to a bar of chocolate (milk). He's a pretty average kind of guy. In fact, he is the average guy in this clever and unusual take on statistical risk, chance, and how these two factors affect our everyday choices.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a novel she composed at the age of 19, is a widely read and studied work to this day, noted for the deft way its young author combined Romantic sensibility with a meditation on the ethical considerations to which advancements in science and technology give rise. Bloom's How to Write about Mary Shelley includes guidance on ways students can write effective essays about this noted author. An introduction from noted scholar Harold Bloom, bibliographies, and an index are also featured.
The Darling Buds of May - Penguin Readers - Level 3
Meet the Larkin family. They enjoy a wonderful country life, never worrying about money, work or the law. But then one day, a man arrives from the tax office
The second in Philippa Gregory’s four-book series delves further into a forbidden romance and an epic quest. And the tension builds as secrets about The Order of Darkness are finally revealed...
