The novel Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is about a man named Charlie Gordon with an extremely low IQ. Scientists have discovered how to make a mouse named Algernon intelligent with experimental surgery. Charlie Gordon was the first human to undergo the experimental surgery. The procedure appears to be a success as Charlie’s intelligence […]

Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, is a survival story about Louis “Louie” Zamperini. Louie was an Olympic runner and an aviator in World War II. Louie survived being lost at sea to face brutal abuse as a prisoner of war in Japan. Mutsuhiro “The Bird” Watanabe was a corporal of discipline at Louie’s POW camp, especially

The Help is a novel about black maids working in white homes in Jackson, Mississippi, in the early 1960s. The stories of the maids wouldn’t be told if it wasn’t for Miss Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan. Skeeter is a 22-year-old college graduate who returns to her family’s cotton plantation and finds that her maid and nanny,

Scout Finch (Jean Louise) narrates To Kill A Mockingbird. Her narration starts as that of a young girl’s curiosity and ends the novel as that of an adult. Each Scout Finch quote is labeled either a narrator or a character. 90 To Kill A Mockingbird Quotes With Page Numbers Scout Finch Quotes With Page Numbers

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Huckleberry Finn was a poor boy until he and Tom Sawyer found a stash of gold. Huckleberry Finn gets adopted by the Widow Douglas. He has difficulty with her attempts to refine him, but Tom Sawyer encourages him

Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is about firemen starting fires. Books are forbidden in this dystopian world. Firemen will burn your books and send you to prison if people discover your books. Because no one can learn from books, they trust the media. They only care about entertainment. They are unaware of the dangers of