Children Books Reviews: Recent Episodes
Arjun Gupta
Brown Girl Dreaming is a poem-style autobiography written by Jacqueline Woodson. Today, I share two poems I wrote based on this book. Hope you enjoy!
Using, A Murder for Her Majesty, by Beth Hilgartner, as support material, I wrote a definition essay for friendship and deceit. Hope you enjoy!
I, Juan De Pareja, written by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino, is a historical fiction based on the life of the great painters Diego Velazquez and Juan de Pareja. Juan de Pareja is a young slave, who is inherited by Don Diego when his mistress dies. Don Diego gives much respect to his slave (which was […]
The Shakespeare Stealer, written by Gary Blackwood, is a fiction about a young boy’s adventures at The Globe (the theater of William Shakespeare). Widge, the main character is a young orphan who is employed by a man who teaches him how to write in coded shorthand. Then, another man, Simon Bass, buys him and tells […]
Leonardo da Vinci, a famous Renaissance artist and scientist, was best known for his painting of the Mona Lisa. The Second Mrs. Gioconda, written by E.L Konigsburg, is a novel that attempts to find an answer to why Leonardo da Vinci painted a photo of a merchant’s second wife when so many rich nobles and […]
Welcome! Today I will be sharing an essay I wrote about the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme of India. I used the book, Wings of Fire, an autobiography of Abdul Kalam in the research for this essay.
Welcome! Today I am sharing the summary and a new scene I wrote for the book, Adam of the Road, by Elizabeth Janet Gray.
Welcome! Today I will be sharing an interview I wrote with one of the characters in The King’s Shadow! I hope you enjoy.
Episode 9 of Season 4. Welcome! Today I will be sharing a persuasive essay to heaven, trying to let Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in. Read A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by e.l. konigsburg to find out more about this woman’s life!
Today I will share a literary analysis I wrote for the novel, Sir Gawain the True, by Gerald Morris.
Today I am analyzing different cause-and-effects in the book, The Ides of April, by Mary Ray.
This time, I decided to write a 4-chapter sequel to the book The Myster of the Roman Ransom by Henry Winterfield.
Episode 4 of Season 4. Welcome! Today I will be reading a compare-contrast essay I wrote about Athens and Sparta, with references from the book: Theras and His Town.