How books affect children
by Sammy Stein
As an adult you will be made up, emotionally, from your experiences to date. You will be the kid who failed to remember their lines in the school play, you will be the person who won the 100 metre race, you will be the guy who fell and broke his arm when he was 5 years old. You will be the kid who fell in love at the tender age of 7 with the girl two years older who broke his heart. All these things
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More than a decade ago, when I was fourteen years old, I put a book on hold from the library because
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by Megan Smith
As our society degenerates, it becomes increasingly imperative for the following generations to be protected.
by John Gray
"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness" John Keats from Endymion.
by Daniel Cloud
Books, from the classic novels of Mark Twain to the modern day horror musings of Stephen King, are works of art. Fiction books are
The world of Catch-22 which initially starts out as a bureaucratic absurdity, ends as a metaphysical representation of the human condition.
Works of the ancient poets have a unique ability to give us a glimpse into their culture. "He's More Than a Hero" by the Greek poet
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