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I am reviewing (and comparing) Coraline the book to Coraline the movie. The book was written by Neil Gaiman, who also wrote the Newberry Award book The Graveyard Book. (If you read the Times, you will know about my teacher, Monica Edinger’s review on it.)
Here are some of the differences; in the book Coraline’s family [...]

This is a post about my Amistad poem. The Amistad was a ship that took Sarah Margru Kinson (use link for more info) and Joseph Cinque from Cuba to another place in Cuba. I didn’t exactly remember that when I wrote my poem so I have to use poetic license. Poetic license is a right [...]

The book The King of Mulberry Street, by Donna Jo Napoli is a great historical fiction book, based on the life of her maternal grandfather. He came from Napoli on a cargo ship. His mother payed for his passage because she wanted him to have a better life in America. Also, Donna Jo Napoli’s grandfather [...]

Elizabeth Alexander read and spoke about her poems with the Dalton School’s fourth grade, on Friday, Feburary 6th, 2009 in the morning. You might know her poetry books, and here are two of them; American Sublime (starring the Amistad epic and Sarah Margru Kinson) and Miss Crandall’s School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of [...]

I read a long post about Sarah Margru Kinson, who was sold into slavery, and then returned back to Africa, which was posted by Monica Edinger. Some people who know the story think it is a Cinderella story and I think it is too, since her story kind of follows a Cinderella plot. A few [...]