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To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most widely read novels in American literature. It's also a perennial favorite in highschool English classrooms across the nation. Yet onetime author Harper Lee is a mysterious figure who leads a very private life in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, refusing to give interviews or talk about the novel that made her a household name. Lee's life is as rich as her fiction, from her girlhood as a rebellious tomboy...
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When the author's Little Women was published in 1868, it was an instant success. She drew on her experiences in writing the novel, but there's a lot more to her rags-to-riches story. She came from a family that was poor but free-thinking, and started teaching when she was only seventeen years old. But writing was her passion.
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26 Fairmount Avenue book volume 8
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From gas rationing to air-raid drills, as long as the war lasts, life is going to be different for Tomie. And sometimes different is hard. Fortunately, Tomie still has school, his family, and the things he's good at to carry him through.
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This graphic novel, narrated in Thoreau's own words, weaves together elements from "Walden, " "Civil disobedience, " "Walking, " and Thoreau's journals to tell the story of his two years in the woods and of the night he spent in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax.