![]() The nonstop action and intrigue will hold most readers the suspense is ever present, and the mystery has a good balance of clues and misinformation to keep amateur sleuths turning the pages. ![]() While this novel has an adult as a main character, teens will be able to relate to it because of the supporting cast from the school thug to the genius, and everyone in between, the secondary players are all strong characters. Undeterred, Bonnie remains on the trail and, together with another teacher, is continually updating her theories as two more of her Knowledge Bowl students are found dead. But things start to get out of control when she finds herself the target, and one of her other students is murdered. She does a little investigating and puts forward a number of suggestions to the police officer in charge, an old student of hers. ![]() As advisor and coach for four students involved in the Knowledge Bowl competition, she becomes particularly concerned when one of her competitors goes missing. ![]() Grade 10 Up–Bonnie Pinkwater is a math teacher with a mission. ![]()
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Here is a quick description and cover image of book Pandora’s Star (Commonwealth Universe #1, Commonwealth Saga, #1) written by Peter F. ![]() Brief Summary of Book: Pandora’s Star (Commonwealth Universe #1, Commonwealth Saga, #1) by Peter F. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading it now for the third time, I reflected to my dad that it seemed much more absurd to me. The complexity of the relationships and issues that Irving tackles in his books means that reading them at such different ages naturally leads to very different impressions. I’ve read The World According to Garp twice before, once when I was young and once when I was younger than I am now. And I know it’s my dad’s favourite Irving work. Such books tend to float around the house, surfacing at the oddest moments and in the weirdest places. ![]() It was one of that corpus of books that lives in your parents’ house before you’re even born, precedes you into the world and (with any luck) will survive your passage out of it. A somewhat imposing mass-market paperback of it lives somewhere in my dad’s house. This is the first Irving novel I ever encountered. So I took a look at what the library had to offer for Irving, and I thought this would be a good time to re-re-read The World According to Garp. ![]() I’ve been re-reading War and Peace over this Easter break, but I wanted to take a break between each book within the novel and read something else. I have been meaning to revisit John Irving lately. ![]() ![]() The comic artist is known for writing in a friendly and lovely way about riot girls, drugs, political activism and, in 2012, her battle with bipolar disorder. Unless, that is, you've got a special knack for making poetry look easy - which is to say, unless you're Ellen Forney. ![]() To do them justice, it's hard to be poetic about communicating effectively with medical professionals, taking pills on schedule and getting enough sleep. 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