Stine is basically the Stephen King of the grade school set. Since I have a Kindle Unlimited subscription, I thought, "Why not revisit some of these old gems and review them as an adult?" I recently found out that a whole bunch of old YA books from the 80s and 90s are available for free on Kindle Unlimited. Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || Pinterest Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences.
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And some things you really don't want to break through. So powerful, in fact, that they can cause the walls between realities to come crashing down. On Midsummer Night, dreams are especially powerful. And it was more colourful, if you liked the colour of blood.' Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. 'People didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Featuring a new theme tune composed by James Hannigan. BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy (Love Actually Pirates of the Caribbean Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reads the footnotes, and Peter Serafinowicz (Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Shaun of the Dead) stars as the voice of Death. The audiobook of Lords and Ladies is narrated by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones Luther This Way Up). The book is marvellous and everyone should read it. 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Her chosen career has personal roots, through flashback stories we discover why and find out more about what has made gifty the woman she is. Gifty is a neuroscientist, she conducts experiments to see if she can isolate the causes of addiction. Her father has long since gone back to Ghana and is a fleeting part of Gifty’s life. Gifty lives with her mother and older brother, Nana. Like author Yaa Gyasi, Gifty is of Ghanaian descent and grows up in Alabama, USA. Opening sentence: Whenever I think of my mother, I picture a queen-sized bed with her lying in it, a practiced stillness filling the room. Wow – what a read! Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi is one of those amazing books that explores so many ideas within a cohesive, engrossing narrative and manages to perfectly balance it all: working as both a heart-wrenching story and thought-provoking, wonderfully written piece that packs an emotional punch. |