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Young-adult books? Or kids’ books?
What Are Your Favorite Young Adult Novels? asks NPR in its summer books poll. Votes are coming in from adults as well as teens, reports Atlantic Wire. Readers can choose 10 books from a list that...
View ArticleNovelists: ‘Symbol-hunting is absurd’
My daughter didn’t much like Lord of the Flies when she read it for English class, but it had one redeeming feature: It was easy to spot the symbolism. In 1963, 16-year-old Bruce McAllister was sick of...
View ArticleComing to theaters: Lady of the Flies
Lord of the Flies, beloved of high school English teachers and nobody else, was turned into not-very-good movies in 1963 and again in 1990. You remember the plot: A group of boys are stranded on an...
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