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Published in 2010, more than twenty years after the series originated with The Eye of the World, Towers of Midnight is the thirteenth and next-to-last entry in The Wheel of Time cycle of fantasy novels. One of the problems with planning such a...

The Gathering Storm is the book twelve in Robert Jordan’s fantasy fiction series collective known as the Wheel of Time. At the time of Jordan’s death on September 16, 2007, the book was not yet completed. Jordan’s editor, Tom Doherty and his widow...

Knife of Dreams is an epic fantasy novel by American author James Oliver Rigney, famously known as Robert Jordan. It is the eleventh novel in the popular Wheel of Time series, which consists of 14 titles. Published by Tor Fantasy and Orbit books...

Crossroads of Twilight is the tenth book in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Published in January 2003, it was preceded by Winter’s Heart and followed by Knife of Dreams. Despite being published afterward, the chronological timelines of...

Winter's Heart is an epic fantasy novel by American author James Oliver Rigney, famously known as Robert Jordan. It is the ninth novel in the popular Wheel of Time series, which consists of 14 titles. Published by Tor Fantasy and Orbit books in...

Belly Up is a middle-grade novel written by the American author Stuart Gibbs and was published in 2010. The novel is the first book from the FunJungle series involving an exotic animal zoo and a 12-year-old protagonist named Theodore (Teddy)...

"Tonight I Can Write (The Saddest Lines)" is a 1924 poem by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, in which a distraught speaker describes his feelings after the end of a relationship and attempts to express those feelings on the page. Through the...

W. Somerset Maugham's "Salvatore" is a short story about an Italian fisherman who conducts himself with kindness and humility despite dealing with economic hardship, heartbreak, and rheumatoid arthritis. Although Maugham begins and ends the story...

“The Unteachables” is a middle grade novel set in a school, following a class of students that are deemed unteachable delinquents and slow in learning. The author of the book started writing very young, and his books are mostly dedicated to young...

Dreamland Burning is a historical fictional novel written by author Jennifer Latham and was first published by Little, Brown Young Readers US on 23 February 2017. Latham is the author of Scarlett Undercover and resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma, an area...

The Princess Diaries is a fictional young adult novel written by American author Meg Cabot and was first published by HarperTrophy in 2000. The book is the first in its series, and was followed by The Princess Diaries, Volume II: Princess in the...

“A Step From Heaven” is a novel told from a perspective of a young Korean girl who learns that her family will move to a place called Mi Gook, which she believes to be heaven. Mi Gook is a literal romanization of the Korean word for America, which...

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging is the origin point for the series of novels collectively known as the Confessions of Georgia Nicholson. While the series may not be as well-known to American readers as something alongside the Captain...

If You Come Softly is a young-adult novel by American author Jacqueline Woodson. It was initially published in 1998 and later in 2006 by Speak Publishers. Set in New York, Elisha and Jeremiah are both students attending Percy Academy. The school...

Weetzie Bat is a teenage novel written by American author Francesca Lia Block and was first published by HarperCollins in 1989. The book is the first in her Dangerous Angels series, and was followed by Witch Baby in 1991.

The book follows the...

Homecoming is a YA novel published by Cynthia Voigt in 1981. It is the work which introduced the family at the heart of what would come to be known collectively as the Tillerman Cycle. This a series of seven books Voigt published between 1981 and...

First published in 1978, A Swiftly Tilting Planet is the third book in the science fiction Time Quintet by Madeleine L'Engle. The first book in the series is A Wrinkle in Time. A Swiftly Tilting Planet begins ten years after the last events in A...

Forever is a teen novel written by American author Judy Blume and was first published by Bradbury Press in 1975. The book has been received controversially since its publication, and has appeared on the American Library Association list of the 100...

Alice Childress' A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich was published in 1973. Set in the ghettos of Harlem, New York, the novel was written for young adults. It follows a thirteen-year-old teenage boy named Benjie who struggles with things no...

Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando stands as one of those works of literature that could not be fully appreciated in its time because it appears to have been written specifically for a future zeitgeist. Issues explored in the novel on the subject of...

"When I Die I Want Your Hands On My Eyes" is a poem by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. It is technically titled ‘‘Sonnet LXXXIX’’ and originally appeared in the poet's 1959 collection, One Hundred Love Sonnets. As the title of that collection suggests,...

"Lessons of the War I: Naming of Parts" is a poem by British journalist, translator, and poet Henry Reed, written during Reed's experience training as a military translator in Japan during World War II. It was published in the New Statesman and...

Seedfolks is a children’s novella written by Paul Fleischman and illustrated by Judy Peterson. The novella was published in 1997. In the novella, a culturally diverse group of residents in the Gibb Street area of Cleveland, Ohio, come together to...