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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids: For Kids ― A Fun Literature Guide to Symbols and Metaphors for Children (Ages 8-12) - Softcover

Foster, Thomas C.

 
9780062200853: How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids: For Kids ― A Fun Literature Guide to Symbols and Metaphors for Children (Ages 8-12)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0062200852 ISBN 13: 9780062200853
Verlag: HarperCollins, 2013

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The go-to bestselling guide to help young people navigate from a middle school book report to English Comp 101

In How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids, New York Times bestselling author and professor Thomas C. Foster gives tweens the tools they need to become thoughtful readers.

With funny insights and a conversational style, he explains the way writers use symbol, metaphor, characterization, setting, plot, and other key techniques to make a story come to life.

From that very first middle school book report to that first college course, kids need to be able to understand the layers of meaning in literature. Foster makes learning this important skill fun and exciting by using examples from How the Grinch Stole Christmas to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from short stories and poems to movie scripts.

This go-to guide unlocks all the hidden secrets to reading, making it entertaining and satisfying.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Thomas C. Foster is the author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, How to Write Like a Writer, How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor, and other works. He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Michigan, Flint, where he taught classes in contemporary fiction, drama, and poetry as well as creative writing and freelance writing. He is also the author of several books on twentieth-century British and Irish literature and poetry.

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Now there's a young readers' edition of the hit New York Times bestselling adult book that's sold more than 750,000 copies!

Did you know the Grinch was on a quest? What does it mean when a hero takes a journey? Or eats green eggs and ham? And what are vampires really about? There's always more to a story than you think!

This is the funny and accessible go-to guide that unlocks the secrets of reading!

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Verlag
HarperCollins
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0062200852
ISBN 13 
9780062200853
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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