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In the very first chapter of the book Cinder, our main character Linh Cinder meets Prince Kai for the first time when he brings an android in need of repair to her mechanic booth. Their encounter...

In Jeanne DuPrau's sci-fi novel The City of Ember, twelve-year-old characters Lina and Doon are citizens of a post-apocalyptic society, living in an underground city called Ember. Together, the two...

"Of Cannibals" is just one of more than 100 essays in Michel de Montaigne's collection titled Essays, originally published in the year 1580. In this particular piece, the author praises the culture...

Obasan is a novel by Joy Kogawa that takes an intensely personal look at the lives of Japanese immigrants during and after the period of time when they were forcibly kept in internment camps in...

Angry, delinquent teen Cole Matthews is the main character in Ben Mikaelsen's novel Touching Spirit Bear. When Cole first arrives at the island he is supposed to spend a year on as a part of his...