Essays exploring the universal themes in the greatest young adult series ever, from a literary scholar and devoted fan. The books will always be a part of you. Now, revisit old Hogwarts haunts. Reconnect with favorite characters. And learn far more than the correct pronunciation of “Wingardium Leviosa.” With Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me, you’ll discover how the universal themes and lessons of the series apply to your Muggle life, including: • Drawing strength from friends • Learning from mentors and heroes • Challenging conventional ideas • Overcoming obstacles and setbacks • Trusting yourself when others don’t Using a combination of literary criticism and personal essays, this book explore issues that everyone faces—from courage and fear to the importance of girl power and the complexity of relationships.
Tiny Disasters is a collection of narrative nonfiction, starting with the tiny disasters of childhood, moving on to those of a teenager, then to those of a young adult. "Tiny Disasters" is meant to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek--compared to most tragedies, mine are relatively minor--though of course they loom large to me. The disasters in this collection range from small to large (from my tendency to kill plants to a lump in the breast) and from interior to exterior (from nearly breaking up a relationship to a little cousin with cystic fibrosis to the Boston Marathon bombing and September 11). But beyond a sort of rolodex of times things have gone badly or felt wrong, my aim is for readers to see narrators struggling with fear of all sorts. I hope to portray some of the human (by which I mean the not-always-heroic, the unsavory, the unsure) responses to fear and change. Sometimes the responses are brave; sometimes they are cowardly; sometimes they are just wrong or just right, but we don't know why. How do we act when there is no right way to act?"--Abstract, p. 1.
Essays exploring the universal themes in the greatest young adult series ever, from a literary scholar and devoted fan. The books will always be a part of you. Now, revisit old Hogwarts haunts. Reconnect with favorite characters. And learn far more than the correct pronunciation of “Wingardium Leviosa.” With Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me, you’ll discover how the universal themes and lessons of the series apply to your Muggle life, including: • Drawing strength from friends • Learning from mentors and heroes • Challenging conventional ideas • Overcoming obstacles and setbacks • Trusting yourself when others don’t Using a combination of literary criticism and personal essays, this book explore issues that everyone faces—from courage and fear to the importance of girl power and the complexity of relationships.
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