Brant Ondricka, J.D.

Penny from Heaven is a novel written by Jennifer L. Holm. The main character of the novel is an eleven-year old girl named Barbara Falucci. However, everyone calls her Penny. Throughout the novel...

In One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are sisters who spend their summer with their estranged mother. Delphine was older when her mother left them with her...

All Creatures Great And Small is a short story by Ruskin Bond. The narrator of the story is a young young boy who lives in his grandfather's home in Northern India. The grandfather loves animals...

Billy Colman is the protagonist in the novel Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. He is an avid hunter who enjoys going through the mountains and countryside hunting raccoon. In chapter 11,...

In act 2, scene 1 of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, Gonzalo says to Alonso: Beseech you, sir, be merry. You have cause, So have we all, of joy, for our escape Is much beyond our loss. Our...

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is a novel in which the narrator is Death (a personification of death). Death portrays himself as an exhausted being who is overworked. He has a hard time...

In the novel Trouble by Gary D. Schmidt, the protagonist, Henry Smith, rescues a black dog and brings the dog home around the time Henry's brother Franklin gets injured in a car accident. The dog,...

In One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia, two main things surprised the three main characters (Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern) about their mother Cecile's house. First, the girls were surprised by...

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States of America. His presidential term, which spanned from 1829-1837, is often known as the “Era of the Common Man” for several reasons....

Major Joseph Makatozi, or Joe Mack, the main character of Last of the Breed, is an American man of Caucasian and Native American ancestry. Throughout the novel, Joe Mack's nationality is mentioned...