Literarische Biographien für junge Erwachsene

John Milton (Bloom's Biocritiques)

Herausgeber: Harold Bloom

More About Boy: Roald Dahl's Tales from Childhood

Autor: Roald Dahl

Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory: The Complete Story of Willy Wonka, the Golden Ticket, and Roald Dahl's Most Famous Creation

Autor: Lucy Mangan
Künstler: Sophie Dahl

Boy: Tales of Childhood

Autor: Roald Dahl

My Name Is Jason. Mine Too.: Our Story. Our Way.

Autoren: Jason Reynolds, Jason Griffin
Illustrator: Jason Griffin

Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats

Gary Paulsen

Another such wave could easily be the end of us. I had to do something, fix something, save the boat, save myself.

But what?

Gary Paulsen takes listeners along on his maiden voyage, proving that ignorance can be bliss. Also really stupid and incredibly dangerous. He tells of boats that owned him, good, bad, and beloved, and how they got him through terrifying storms that he survived by sheer luck. His spare prose conjures up shark surprises and killer waves as well as moonlight on the sea, and makes listeners feel what it's like to sail under the stars or to lie at anchor in a tropical lagoon where dolphins leap, bathed in silver. Falling in love with the ocean set Gary Paulsen on a lifelong learning curve, and listeners will understand why his passion has lasted to this day.

A Summer Life

Gary Soto

Gary Soto writes that when he was five "what I knew best was at ground level. " In this lively collection of short essays, Soto takes his listener to a ground-level perspective, recreating in vivid detail the sights, sounds, smells, and textures he knew growing up in his Fresno, California, neighborhood. The "things" of his boyhood tie it all together: his Buddha "splotched with gold", the taps of his shoes, and the "engines of sparks that lived beneath my soles", his worn tennies smelling of "summer grass, asphalt, the moist sock breathing the defeat of baseball". The child's world is made up of small things - small, very important things.

A respected poet and an innovator of the short essay form, Soto offers nearly snapshot-like glances of moments unique in form yet universal in content. Growing up Chicano and male, Soto gives us a rag-tag race through his neighborhood, speaking equally as well to the childhood experiences of us all.

Anyone who remembers the '50s or who knows anything about growing up in the '50s, will relish Soto's rich poetic descriptions. Teachers and students of writing will relish Soto's rich poetic descriptions. Teachers and students of writing will also find inspiration in these tightly knit and highly imaginative stories. Soto offers much more than humorous and poignant recollections; he wraps each memory in a poetry that lingers pleasantly in the reader's mind.

Isabel Allende

Tim McNeese

Isabel Allende is an informative introduction to the distinguished author. Isabel Allende, one of the world's most widely read Latin American writers, is a Chilean novelest who, like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was strongly influenced by her grandparents. Her vivid fiction, such as The House of the Spirits, blends realism with magical elements and spotlights political and often feminist concerns.

Here is a wonderful introduction to Isabel Allende that will help students understand how her family and upbringing set the stage for her life's work and success. The book is published by Chelsea House Publishers, a leading publisher of educational material.

Bad Boy

Walter Dean Myers

Virginia Woolf: een schrijversleven

Alexandra Harris

El fenómeno Crepúsculo

Nicola Bardola

44 escritores de la literatura universal (Las Tres Edades, Band 199)

Jesús Marchamalo

Miguel de Cervantes : creador de Don Quijote (Hombres Famosos/Famous Men)

E. Sotillos

Una idea genial (Héroes Modernos, Band 25)

Inés Acevedo

Dickens : el observador solitario (Biografías)

Peter Ackroyd

Apple: (Skin to the Core) (English Edition)

Autor: Eric Gansworth

The Beautiful Struggle (English Edition)

Autor: Ta-Nehisi Coates

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