Martha Finley

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

9 Obscure Literary Terms

Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

Periods of American Literature

The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. Salinger. Hardcover Book first sold: July 16, 1951. Current cover design dated 1991? Previous solid maroon book cover with gold font designed by J.D. Salinger in response to racey pulp paper back book cover. bad books

5 Good Books That Inspired Bad Deeds

9 American Countercultural Books

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Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.

What is Holy Week?

illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum

Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs

Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Two chicks near an egg with a white background (poultry, chick, chickens, birds).

What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

Fish. Lionfish. Lion-fish. Turkey fish. Fire-fish. Red lionfish. Pterois volitans. Venomous fin spines. Coral reefs. Underwater. Ocean. Red lionfish swims by seaweed.

10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish

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Born	April 26, 1828 • Chillicothe • Ohio • (Birthday in 6 days)
Died	January 29, 1909 (aged 80) • Elkton • Maryland
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Elizabeth Enright

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Norton Juster

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Rachel Field

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Esther Forbes

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Joseph Krumgold

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Will James

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Ruth Sawyer

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Laura E. Richards

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Ludwig Bemelmans

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Meindert De Jong

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Elizabeth Coatsworth

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Marchette Chute

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Susan Bogert Warner

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Harold Keith

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Hendrik Willem Van Loon

American historian and illustrator

Quentin Reynolds

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Frances Lockridge

American mystery writer

Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson

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Lynd Ward

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Carol Ryrie Brink

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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) portrait by Carl Van Vecht April 3, 1938. Writer, folklorist and anthropologist celebrated African American culture of the rural South.

American Writers Quiz

Book Jacket of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by American children's author illustrator Eric Carle (born 1929)

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