![]() ![]() The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe by C.S. It’s probably more aptly classified as Middle Grade but what the heck, I love it so much I had to include it.ĥ. Roald Dahl can do no wrong, can he? This is a super funny and entertaining quick read about a seven-year-old boy who has a run-in with some real-life witches. I mean, what do I really have to say here? Most of you have read these and if haven’t yet, you should. Maybe not the best of his books (Remember Me, The Last Vampire, Whisper of Death, See You Later, Fall Into Darkness, are probably his finest) but a pretty decent witch novel. When she sees a vision of her best friend’s boyfriend, Jim, shot and bleeding to death, she does her best to keep him out of danger. Julia is a witch gifted with a healing touch and the power to glimpse the future. ![]() This series, about a newcomer misfit who learns of her witchy super powers after she moves to New England, is one of my favorite series of all time. You’ve probably heard of the CW’s hit show The Vampire Diaries, but LJ Smith has a whole slew of other books. ![]() Hope you enjoy and please make sure to comment if I missed any of your favorites! From HARRY POTTER to LJ Smith’s SECRET CIRCLE, here are my favorite witch books to date in Young Adult literature. Who doesn’t love a good witch book? One of my absolute favorite genres to read is Young Adult fantasy and especially where Witches are involved. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Of all the films she wrote or directed, Heartburn is the most overtly personal. ![]() ![]() Bernstein famously cheated on Ephron while she was pregnant with their second child both the book and the film center on Rachel Samstat, a pregnant food writer who, like Ephron, discovers that her political journalist husband Mark is having an affair.Įphron died in 2012. The movie is based on Ephron’s deliciously acerbic roman a clef of the same name-a book that turns 40 this month-written in the aftermath of her divorce from her second husband, Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein. Heartburn, the darkly complex 1986 comedy about the implosion of a marriage, written by Ephron and directed by Mike Nichols, could reasonably be called the black sheep of the Ephron canon. ![]() ![]() ![]() And then, when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern just so much that a single thin ray of light fell upon the vulture eye.Īnd this I did for seven long nights - but I found the eye always closed and so it was impossible to do the work for it was not the old man who was a problem for me, but his Evil Eye. ![]() I moved it slowly, very slowly, so that I might not interfere with the old man's sleep. ![]() And every night, late at night, I turned the lock of his door and opened it – oh, so gently! And then, when I had made an opening big enough for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed that no light shone out, and then I stuck in my head. ![]() I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. You should have seen how wisely and carefully I went to work! Whenever it fell on me, my blood ran cold and so - very slowly - I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and free myself of the eye forever. I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! He had the eye of a bird, a vulture - a pale blue eye, with a film over it. It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain. How, then, am I mad? Observe how healthily - how calmly I can tell you the whole story. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. True! Nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am! But why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses - not destroyed them.Ībove all was the sense of hearing. Today we present the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The book is narrated by Juliette, a 17-year-old girl with a lethal touch and is unusual in that it contains passages and lines that have been crossed out like a diary entry. ![]() Shatter Me Series is a young adult dystopian thriller written by Tahereh Mafi, published on November 15, 2011. Set of Shatter me series (Imagine me, Believe me, Unravel me, Defy me, Restore me, Reveal me, Shadow me, Destroy me, Ignite me, Fracture me) by Tahereh Mafi Books, Shatter me series in Pakistan, Shatter me price in Pakistan Rs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Book became bestseller through controversy ![]() Immediately after publication, the book was banned on the recommendation of public commissioners in Concord, Massachusetts, who described it as racist, coarse, trashy, inelegant, irreligious, obsolete, inaccurate, and mindless. Some Americans did not view Huck as a positive role model for young readers. Huck Finn, a rebellious teenager, fakes his own death to escape an alcoholic father and throughout the book challenges the mores of his society. This novel, written by Samuel Clemens (1835–1910) under the pen name Mark Twain, chronicles the adventures of two young white boys and an escaped black slave who sail the Mississippi River on a raft. Huckleberry Finn banned immediately after publication (AP Photo/David Duprey, used with permission from The Associated Press)Ī 1907 article in the Library Journal reported that Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) had been banned somewhere every year since its publication. ![]() Immediately after the book was published, it was banned in Concord, Massachusetts, and has been banned several times since then from libraries because of what some viewed as inappropriate content. 23, 2010, Mark Woodhouse, Mark Twain archivist, holds a first edition "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" book by Mark Twain at the Mark Twain Archive at Elmira College in Elmira, N.Y. ![]() |