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Books mentioned in the June 2014 issue of Notes from the Horn Book
Liftoff: A Photobiography of John Glenn by Don Mitchell, National Geographic, 9–12 years.
Driven: A Photobiography of Henry Fordby Don Mitchell,National Geographic, 9–12 years.
Freedom Summer Murders by Don Mitchell, Scholastic, 14–17 years.
Freedom Summer and Black History
Freedom Summerwritten by Deborah Wiles, illus. by Jerome Lagarrigue, Atheneum, 5–8 years.
Countdownby Deborah Wiles, Scholastic, 10–14 years.
Revolutionby Deborah Wiles, Scholastic, 10–14 years.
Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippiby Susan Goldman Rubin, Holiday, 11–15 years.
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin, Roaring Brook, 11–15 years.
A Volcano Beneath the Snow: John Brown’s War Against Slaveryby Albert Marrin, Knopf, 11–15 years.
Boundaries: How the Mason-Dixon Line Settled a Family Feud& Divided a Nation by Sally Walker, Candlewick, 11–15 years.
To sleep, perchance to dream
The Big Book of Slumberwritten by Giovanna Zoboli, illus. by Simona Mulazzani, Eerdmans, 2–5 years.
The Midnight Libraryby Kazuno Kohara, Roaring Brook, 2–5 years.
Hannah’s Nightby Komako Sakai, Gecko, 2–5 years.
Thank You, Octopusby Darren Farrell, Dial, 3–6 years.
To infinity and beyond!
Space Taxi: Archie Takes Flightwritten by Wendy Mass and Michael Brawer, illus. by Elise Gravel, Little, Brown, 6–10 years.
Little Green Men at the Mercury Innwritten by Greg Leitich Smith, illus. by Andrew Arnold, Roaring Brook, 6–10 years.
Tesla’s Attic[Accelerati Trilogy] by Neal Shusterman and Eric Elfman, Disney-Hyperion, 8–11 years.
The Summer Experimentby Cathie Pelletier, Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 8–11 years.
Graphic novelsfor middle schoolers
Gaijin: American Prisoner of Warby Matt Faulkner, Disney Hyperion, 11–14 years.
This One Summerwritten by Mariko Tamaki, illus. b
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Great Family
Sometimes a Great Notion
- By: Ken Kesey
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 30 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A literary icon sometimes seen as a bridge between the Beat Generation and the hippies, Ken Kesey scored an unexpected hit with his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. His successful follow-up, Sometimes a Great Notion, was also transformed into a major motion picture, directed by and starring Paul Newman. Here, Oregon’s Stamper family does what it can to survive a bitter strike dividing their tiny logging community. And as tensions rise, delicate family bonds begin to fray and unravel.
- 5 out of 5 stars
Sometimes a Great Novel Pops up out of Nowhere
- By Mr. Eyuz on 06-07-19
Henry James
American and British writer (1843–1916)
For other people named Henry James, see Henry James (disambiguation).
Henry JamesOM ((1843-04-15)15 April 1843 – (1916-02-28)28 February 1916) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologistWilliam James and diaristAlice James.
He is best known for his novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between émigré Americans, the English, and continental Europeans, such as The Portrait of a Lady. His later works, such as The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl were increasingly experimental. In describing the internal states of mind and social dynamics of his characters, James often wrote in a style in which ambiguous or contradictory motives and impressions were overlaid or juxtaposed in the discussion of a character's psyche. For their unique ambiguity, as well as for other aspects of their composition, his late works have been compared to Impressionist painting.
His novella The Turn of the Screw has garnered a reputation as the most analysed and ambiguous ghost story in the English language and remains his most widely adapted work in other media. He wrote other highly regarded ghost stories, such as "The Jolly Corner".
James published articles and books of criticism, travel, biography, autobiography, and plays. Born in the United States, James largely relocated to Europe as a young man, and eventually settled in England, becoming a British citizen in 1915, a year before his death. James was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912, and 1916.Jorge Luis Borges said "I have visited some literatures of East and West; I have compiled an encyclopedic compendium of fantastic literature;