![]() ![]() The story focused on two main plot lines namely the science fair that's at their school soon and the kids work on their science fair projects and besides that there is the mystery concerning the cafeteria food. ![]() The pace is very steady, with not a dull or rushed moment. The book is very story focused with the focus being on the events and what they would do next. It all felt very natural and realistically written, ofcourse the part with how the kids solve everything is a bit unbelievable, but I thought it was handled well and made believable for the most part. ![]() Kids who read this book will probably learn some new things, but it's smoothly incorporated into the story and everything that happens has a role in the story. There is some focus on science due to science fair projects they worked on and a lesson they get in class where food comes from. I had a lot of fun reading this book and I hope the author decides to make it a series or write more books like this. A strong storyline, great characters and I really enjoyed the mystery part too. I am really glad I picked it up as this is exactly the type of MG books that I enjoy. I saw this book in an e-mail with discounted books and something about the cover grabbed my attention and for only 0.99$ I decided to give this book a try. ![]()
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Noticing that curiosity, Doudna’s father left James Watson’s book The Double Helix on her bed one day. ![]() “What causes the leaves to close when you touch them?” a young Jennifer Doudna wondered growing up in Hawaii. With the slightest touch, the fernlike vine known as sleeping grass folds over on itself, like a Venus flytrap closing its flaps. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() patriarchy) in protecting children and maintaining family stability. As a saga of tormented innocence, Clarissa raises questions about the efficacy of social and political systems (e.g. It is presented as a religious novel that rejects poetic justice in favour of a more realistic account of terrestrial suffering and heavenly reward. The novel’s chief theme is that of the indispensable duty that children owe to their parents. The story depicts the title character’s victimization at the hands of the rake Robert Lovelace who attempts to seduce Clarissa Harlowe, at first by instigating an intrafamilial conflict regarding her marriage, and later by absconding with her and, ultimately, raping her. Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa (1747-1748) is a novel in letters that remains one of the longest novels in the English language and among the most influential works of fiction in the development of the English novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They did this by basing their books on phonics instead of rote memorization. So he, Phyllis Cerf, and his first wife, Helen Palmer Geisel, founded Beginner Books to combat the boredom (source) with a more playful take on beginners' books. Seuss found Dick and Jane books and their mode of teaching insanely boring on account of the fact that they are insanely boring. 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