Refugee
Refugee

Author: Alan Gratz

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2017-07-25

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0545880874

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The award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Alan Gratz tells the timely--and timeless--story of three different kids seeking refuge. A New York Times bestseller! JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world... ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America... MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe... All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers -- from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end. As powerful and poignant as it is action-packed and page-turning, this highly acclaimed novel has been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than four years and continues to change readers' lives with its meaningful takes on survival, courage, and the quest for home.

Why I Write
Why I Write

Author: George Orwell

Publisher: Renard Press Ltd

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 15

ISBN-13: 1913724263

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George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

School Essays And Letters
School Essays And Letters

Author: Arihant Experts

Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited

Published: 2018-04-20

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9351769925

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Essay Writing and Letter Writing has always been a part of English curriculum in almost every school for all students studying English irrespective of the fact whether they are studying in Class 3 or Class 10. The Descriptive English section covers essay and letter writing to evaluate the effective writing skills of the students. The present book contains ample number of school essays and letters (formal & informal). The present book on School Essays & Letters has been divided into eight sections covering the wide range of essays namely Current Affairs, Society & Social Issues, Economy & Infrastructure, Science & Technology, Environment & Ecology, Great Personalities, Proverbs & Sayings and Miscellaneous. The Current Affairs section covers Asian Games 2014, Kailash Satyarthi, 2014 FIFA World Cup, India’s Odyssey to Mars, The Dread of Ebola, Telangana: Emergence of a New State, etc whereas the Society & Social Issues section covers Brain Drain, Nuclear Family vs Joint Family, Gender Discrimination, Has Politics in India Lost its Way?, etc. The Economy & Infrastructure has been divided into Mineral Wealth in India, Indian Economy, Urbanisation, Green Revolution, etc whereas the Science & Technology section covers Social Networking: Pros & Cons, Charms & Challenges of Cyber World, Robotics: The Future is Here, Super Computers, etc. The Environment and Ecology section has been divided into Ozone Layer Depletion, Disaster Management, Non-Conventional Sources of Energy, River Linking Projects, Poaching in India, Earthquakes, etc whereas the following section covers Great Personalities like Satyendra Nath Bose, Bhagat Singh, Nelson Mandela, Mary Kom, Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Mother Teresa, etc. The Proverbs & Sayings covers Health is Wealth, When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Gets Going, Look Before You Leap, etc whereas the Miscellaneous section covers My Dream School, Our Metro, A House on Fire, Career Selection, Vocational Education, Importance of Moral Values, Our Universe, etc. After the collection of essays, a number of sample letters are also covered in the book. Also quotes for General Use and Increased Word Power through Phrases and Proverbs have been covered at the end. As the book contains ample number of sample essays and letters of varied types, it for sure will prove to be an inspiring and useful book for all school students.