Synopsis: This is a fiction book about Lily Bloom. She is twenty-three years old and moves to Boston to start her own floral shop. Lily grew up in a household with a father who was physically abusive towards her mother and was resentful towards her father and towards her mother for staying with him. Atlas …
The Flame and the Flower by Kathleen Woodiwiss Synopsis: This is a romance novel set in the 1800s. It is one of the first modern romance novels. It is about Heather Simmons, a seventeen-year-old orphan living with her Aunt Fanny and Uncle John in an English cottage in the countryside. She is treated by a …
Synopsis: This is a fiction book that takes place in England in the 1800s. It follows Oliver, an orphan who is raised in a workhouse and escapes to London and meets a gang of young pickpockets led by Fagin. He is first an apprentice to an undertaker and then escapes to London and meets Jack …
Synopsis: This is a children’s fiction novel about a five-year girl named Heidi who goes to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. She is eight at the end of the book. Heidi is very lively and free-spirited, is orphaned as a toddler, and grows to love her grandfather and the mountains and the …
Synopsis: This is a children’s fiction book about Anne Shirley, an eleven-year-old orphan girl adopted by siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. She was mistakenly sent to them; they had intended on adopting a boy to help them on their farm in Avonlea in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Anne is very talkative and has a huge …
Synopsis: This is a children’s fiction book about a young boy named Charlie Bucket who lives in poverty with his parents and grandparents. His town is home to Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Willy Wonka announces that he has hidden five Golden Tickets in his Wonka bars and that the five children who find the tickets will …
Synopsis: This is a children’s fiction book about Matilda Wormwood, a very bright and precocious girl, born to Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood. Her parents are abusive and neglectful of her. She learns to speak at the age of one and to read at three and a half. Matilda loves books and literature and is a …
Synopsis: This is a fiction book about a ten-year-old girl named Winnie Foster. She is from a wealthy family and lives in the small town of Treegap in the late 1800s. Her family is overbearing, and Winnie things about running away. One night while Winnie is outside catching fireflies, she sees a man in a …
Synopsis: This is a play by Tennessee Williams that takes place in New Orleans. It is about Blanche Du Bois, a former southern belle. After losing her job as a high school English teacher, and her luxurious plantation home, Belle Reve, Blanche moves in a seedy apartment in New Orleans with her younger sister, Stella, …
Synopsis: This is a play by Tennessee Williams. It is a memory play based on Tom’s recollection of his mother Amanda and sister Laura that takes place in the 1930s in St. Louis. Tom works at a shoe warehouse to support his family, but wishes to become a poet and escapes from reality by going …