Alternating Narratives In Fiction For Young Readers

Author : Perry Nodelman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319508172
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Alternating Narratives in Fiction for Young Readers written by Perry Nodelman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the implications of novels for young readers that tell their stories by alternating between different narrative lines focused on different characters. It asks: if you make sense of fiction by identifying with one main character, how do you handle two or more of them? Do novels with alternating narratives diverge from longstanding conventions and represent a significant change in literature for young readers? If not, how do these novels manage to operate within the parameters of those conventions? This book considers answers to these questions by means of a series of close readings that explore the structural, educational and ideological implications of a variety of American, British, Canadian and Australian novels for children and for young adults.

Author : John Smelcer
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466872160
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Trap written by John Smelcer and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping wilderness adventure and survival story It was getting colder. Johnny pulled the fur-lined hood of his parka over his head and walked towards his own cabin with the sound of snow crunching beneath his boots. "He should be back tomorrow," he thought, as a star raced across the sky just below the North Star. "He should be back tomorrow for sure." Seventeen-year-old Johnny Least-Weasel knows that his grandfather Albert is a stubborn old man and won't stop checking his own traplines even though other men his age stopped doing so years ago. But Albert Least-Weasel has been running traplines in the Alaskan wilderness alone for the past sixty years. Nothing has ever gone wrong on the trail he knows so well. When Albert doesn't come back from checking his traps, with the temperature steadily plummeting, Johnny must decide quickly whether to trust his grandfather or his own instincts. Written in alternating chapters that relate the parallel stories of Johnny and his grandfather, John Smelcer's The Trap poignantly addresses the hardships of life in the far north, suggesting that the most dangerous traps need not be made of steel.

Author : Joanne Harris
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061839914
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Gentlemen and Players written by Joanne Harris and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author takes a riveting new direction with this richly textured, multi-layered novel of friendship, murder, revenge, and class conflict set in an upper-crust English school—as enthralling and haunting as Ian McKewan’s Atonement and Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley Audere, agere, auferre. To dare, to strive, to conquer. For generations, elite young men have attended St. Oswald’s School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric classics teacher who has been a revered fixture for more than 30 years. But this year, things are different. Suits, paperwork, and Information Technology rule the world, and Straitley is reluctantly contemplating retirement. He is joined in this, his 99th, term by five new faculty members, including one who—unknown to Straitley and everyone else—holds intimate and dangerous knowledge of St. Ozzie’s ways and secrets, it’s comforts and conceits. Harboring dark ties to the school’s past, this young teacher has arrived with one terrible goal: Destroy St. Oswald’s. As the new term gets underway, a number of incidents befall students and faculty alike. Beginning as small annoyances—a lost pen, a misplaced coffee mug—they soon escalate to the life threatening. With the school unraveling, only Straitley stands in the way of St. Ozzie’s ruin. But the old man faces a formidable opponent—a master player with a strategy that has been meticulously planned to the final move. A harrowing tale of cat and mouse told in alternating voices, this riveting, hypnotically atmospheric novel showcases Joanne Harris’s astonishing storytelling talent as never before.

Author : Janette Sebring Lowrey
Publisher : Golden Books
ISBN 13 : 0375861297
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Poky Little Puppy written by Janette Sebring Lowrey and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night a puppy,who is always late coming home finds there is no dessert for him. On board pages.

Author : Patrick Ness
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763652172
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Ask and the Answer written by Patrick Ness and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part two of the literary sci-fi thriller follows a boy and a girl who are caught in a warring town where thoughts can be heard – and secrets are never safe. Reaching the end of their flight in The Knife of Never Letting Go, Todd and Viola did not find healing and hope in Haven. They found instead their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss, waiting to welcome them to New Prentisstown. There they are forced into separate lives: Todd to prison, and Viola to a house of healing where her wounds are treated. Soon Viola is swept into the ruthless activities of the Answer, while Todd faces impossible choices when forced to join the mayor’s oppressive new regime. In alternating narratives the two struggle to reconcile their own dubious actions with their deepest beliefs. Torn by confusion and compromise, suspicion and betrayal, can their trust in each other possibly survive?

Author : Mrs. C. T. Perry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Effie Gray and other stories for little children ... With illustrations by A. C. Warren written by Mrs. C. T. Perry and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicolò Crisafi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192672150
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Dante's Masterplot and Alternative Narratives in the Commedia written by Nicolò Crisafi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante's Masterplot and Alternative Narratives in the 'Commedia' questions the familiar narrative arc at play in the writings of Dante Alighieri and opens his masterpiece to three alternative models that resist it. Dante's masterplot is the teleological trajectory by which the poet subordinates the past to the authority of a new experience. The book analyses the masterplot's workings in Dante's text and its role in the interpretation of the poem, and it documents its overwhelming success in influencing readings of the Commedia over the centuries. The volume then explores three competing narrative models that resist and counter its monopoly which are enacted by paradoxes, alternative endings and parallel lives, and the future. By focusing on these non-linear modes of storytelling and testing the limits of linear narration, the book questions critical paradigms in the scholarship of the Commedia that favour a single normative master truth, exposes their problematic authoritarian implications, and highlights the manifold poetic, theological, and ethical tensions that are often neglected due to the masterplot's influence. The new picture of a vulnerable author and open-ended text that emerges from this study thus doubles as a metacritical reflection on the state of the field. The book's impassioned argument is that, alongside established notions of his trademark plurality of linguistic registers and styles, Dante's narrative pluralism can, and should, come to play a key role in contemporary and future readings of the Commedia.

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345449517
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century written by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2002-01-22 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore fascinating, often chilling “what if” accounts of the world that could have existed—and still might yet . . . Science fiction’s most illustrious and visionary authors hold forth the ultimate alternate history collection. Here you’ll experience mind-bending tales that challenge your views of the past, present, and future, including: • “The Lucky Strike”: When the Lucky Strike is chosen over the Enola Gay to drop the first atomic bomb, fate takes an unexpected turn in Kim Stanley Robinson’s gripping tale. • “Bring the Jubilee”: Ward Moore’s novella masterpiece offers a rebel victory at Gettysburg which changes the course of the Civil War . . . and all of American history. • “Through Road No Wither”: After Hitler’s victory in World War II, two Nazi officers confront their destiny in Greg Bear’s apocalyptic vision of the future. • “All the Myriad Ways”: Murder or suicide, Ambrose Harmon’s death leads the police down an infinite number of pathways in Larry Niven’s brilliant and defining tale of alternatives and consequences. • “Mozart in Mirrorshades”: Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner explore a terrifying era as the future crashes into the past—with disastrous results. . . . as well as “The Winterberry” by Nicholas A. DiChario • “Islands in the Sea” by Harry Turtledove • “Suppose They Gave a Peace” by Susan Shwartz • “Manassas, Again” by Gregory Benford • “Dance Band on the Titanic” by Jack L. Chalker • “Eutopia” by Poul Anderson • “The Undiscovered” by William Sanders • “The Death of Captain Future” by Allen Steele • and “Moon of Ice” by Brad Linaweaver The definitive collection: fourteen seminal alternate history tales drawing readers into a universe of dramatic possibility and endless wonder.

Author : Peoria Public Library (Peoria, Ill.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Peoria Public Library List of English Fiction, French Fiction, and Juveniles written by Peoria Public Library (Peoria, Ill.) and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalog of juvenile and fiction books held by the Peoria Public Library, in one alphabetical listing.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: