CliffsNotes On Sparks' A Walk to Remember


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Get the most from Nicholas Sparks' A Walk to Remember with CliffsNotes—the original study guides Whether you've read the novel countless times or are a newcomer to Nicholas Sparks' work, this book is the perfect study guide companion to A Walk to Remember. You'll fall in love with the story of Landon and Jamie in a new way through the valuable insight and trusted guidance of CliffsNotes. Inside, you'll get: An author interview and comments throughout by Nicholas Sparks Author background Introduction to the novel List of characters Summaries and commentaries Character analyses Insight on underlying themes and Sparks' style and language Critical essays




CliffsNotes On Nicholas Sparks' A Walk to Remember, Teacher's Guide


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Help your students get the most from Nicholas Sparks' A Walk to Remember with CliffsNotes—the original study guides. Whether you've taught the novel countless times or are a newcomer to Sparks' work, this guide is the perfect companion to teaching the wildly popular A Walk to Remember. Your students will fall in love with the story of Jamie and Landon in a new way with the valuable insight and trusted guidance of CliffsNotes. Plus, the activities are designed to be flexible to suit your individual classroom needs and personal teaching style. Inside, you'll get: An interview with Nicholas Sparks Author background How to use this book List of characters Strategies for teaching Sparks' A Walk to Remember Classroom reading activities Vocabulary words Post-reading activities and assignments Assigning and evaluating a thesis And much more Discover other modern-day treasures and classic literature you can introduce in your classroom by visiting CliffsNotes.com.




A Walk To Remember


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Can you resist the depths of the human heart? It is 1958 and seventeen-year-old Landon is revelling in his youth: dating girls and even claiming to have been in love. He is a world apart from shy, reclusive Jamie Sullivan, a Baptist's daughter who carries a bible with her school books, cares for her widowed father and volunteers at the orphanage. But fate will intervene. Forced to partner up at the school dance, Landon and Jamie embark on a journey of earth-shattering love and agonising loss far beyond their years. In the months that follow, Landon discovers the true depths of the human heart, and takes a decision that is so stunning it will lead him irrevocably down the road to manhood . . .




A Long Walk to Water


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The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours' walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya's in an astonishing and moving way.




CliffsNotes The Notebook Teacher's Guide


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A teacher's guide but with a flair! The teacher's guide includes background information on the novel, strategies for teaching the novel, and literary analysis of the novel, including voice, imagery, symbolism, and setting. Also includes a printed interview with Sparks.




Safe Haven


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In a small North Carolina town, a mysterious and beautiful woman running from her past slowly falls for a kind-hearted store owner . . . until dark secrets begin to threaten her new life. When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family. But even as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts and terrifies her . . . a past that set her on a fearful, shattering journey across the country, to the sheltered oasis of Southport. With Jo's empathetic and stubborn support, Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards . . . and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven.




The Longest Ride


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From the dark days of WWII to present-day North Carolina, this New York Times bestseller shares the lives of two couples overcoming destructive secrets -- and finding joy together. Ira Levinson is in trouble. Ninety-one years old and stranded and injured after a car crash, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. Urging him to hang on, she forces him to remain alert by recounting the stories of their lifetime together - how they met, the precious paintings they collected together, the dark days of WWII and its effect on them and their families. Ira knows that Ruth can't possibly be in the car with him, but he clings to her words and his memories, reliving the sorrows and everyday joys that defined their marriage. A few miles away, at a local bull-riding event, a Wake Forest College senior's life is about to change. Recovering from a recent break-up, Sophia Danko meets a young cowboy named Luke, who bears little resemblance to the privileged frat boys she has encountered at school. Through Luke, Sophia is introduced to a world in which the stakes of survival and success, ruin and reward -- even life and death - loom large in everyday life. As she and Luke fall in love, Sophia finds herself imagining a future far removed from her plans -- a future that Luke has the power to rewrite . . . if the secret he's keeping doesn't destroy it first. Ira and Ruth. Sophia and Luke. Two couples who have little in common, and who are separated by years and experience. Yet their lives will converge with unexpected poignancy, reminding us all that even the most difficult decisions can yield extraordinary journeys: beyond despair, beyond death, to the farthest reaches of the human heart.




All the Light We Cannot See


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*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).




CliffsNotes On Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparts' Three Weeks with My Brother Teacher's Guide


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Help your students get the most from Nicholas Sparks & Micah Sparks' Three Weeks with My Brother with CliffsNotes—the original study guides. Just as compelling as Sparks' bestselling novels, Three Weeks with My Brother is a nonfiction account by two brothers, who travel to some of the world's most mysterious and inspiring destinations and ultimately learn valuable lessons about loss, love, and hope. Watch your students fall in love with this touching memoir with the help of the valuable insight and trusted guidance of CliffsNotes. Plus, the classroom activities are designed to be flexible to suit your individual classroom needs and personal teaching style. Inside, you'll get: Introduction to Nicholas Sparks Author background How to use this book List of characters Pre-reading activities Strategies for teaching Sparks' Three Weeks with My Brother Classroom reading activities Vocabulary words Post-reading activities and assignments Assigning and evaluating a thesis And much more Discover other modern-day treasures and classic literature you can introduce in your classroom by visiting CliffsNotes.com.




A Court of Wings and Ruin


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Sarah J. Maas hit the New York Times SERIES list at #1 with A Court of Wings and Ruin!