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Margaret Finnegan

Autor de We Could Be Heroes

5 Obras 81 Miembros 4 Reseñas

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Incluye el nombre: Margaret Mary Finnegan

Obras de Margaret Finnegan

We Could Be Heroes (2020) 35 copias
Selling Suffrage (1999) 14 copias
Susie B. Won't Back Down (2021) 14 copias
New Kids and Underdogs (2022) 10 copias
The Goddess Lounge (2012) 8 copias

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Otros nombres
Finnegan, Margaret Mary
Fecha de nacimiento
1965
Género
female
Nacionalidad
USA
Educación
University of California, Los Angeles (PhD)
Fullerton College
Ocupaciones
historian
professor
Organizaciones
California State University, Los Angeles
Biografía breve
Margaret Finnegan's work has been published in the American Quarterly, FamilyFun, Los Angeles Times, Salon and other publications. She's the author of the acclaimed book Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women (1999). She is also a featured commentator on the DVD collection Treasures lll: Social Issues in American Film, which was chosen as one of TIME magazine's top ten DVD picks of 2007. She currently teaches composition at California State University in Los Angeles.

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*I got this book for review from the publisher*

I thought this was a cute contempory themed middle grade novel. I like how this book had a unique premise but also tackled not common characters seen in books in both Hank and Maisie. I really liked how their friendship also developed throughout the book. I really also liked the mini adventure elements in this novel. I enjoyed how this book also focused on a relationship between children and dogs. I really enjoyed this read and would def read more by this author in the future.
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lmauro123 | otra reseña | Dec 28, 2023 |
Hank, who is autistic, gets in trouble at school for trying to set his teacher's book on fire because it makes him so sad when she reads it aloud. This gets the attention of new classmate Maisie, who ropes Hank into a scheme to steal/adopt her elderly neighbor Frank's dog Booler, who is always tied to a tree in his yard. When Frank's daughter shows up and begins talking about a move to assisted living in Minnesota, Maisie convinces Hank that they need to take Booler and run away until the daughter is gone.

See also: Just Harriet by Elana K. Arnold, Looking for True by Tricia Springstubb, A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold

Quotes

"Stories teach us empathy, to understand and care about how other people feel." (Mom, 10)

It was like he and Booler were watercolors. The dog's loneliness became Hank's loneliness. The dog's fear became Hank's fear. (20)

"Nothing is wrong with me. Different is not less." (Hank to Maisie, 33)

...real friends don't make you change for them, real friends accept you for who you are... (78)

Hank loved listening to Frank's stories. They were like excavations - not for precious metals or jewels, but for the past. (128)
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JennyArch | otra reseña | Aug 7, 2023 |
Perpetual new kid Robyn makes a list of rules for herself to aid her latest transition to a new school, but the rules take over. Doing "ability training" with her disabled dogs, Sundae and Fudge, helps her see who her true friends are.
 
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JennyArch | Jul 10, 2022 |
I laughed out loud several times while reading Margaret Finnegan's "The Goddess Lounge." This is her take on "The Odyssey," which I haven't read. But you don't have to know Homer's work to enjoy this book. Finnegan's writing is profane, outrageous and divine.

Petrea Burchard
Camelot & Vine

Read my full-length review on Hometown Pasadena at:
http://hometown-pasadena.com/books/what-were-reading/the-goddess-lounge-2/51147.
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PetreaBurchard | Feb 9, 2014 |

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Estadísticas

Obras
5
Miembros
81
Popularidad
#222,754
Valoración
3.2
Reseñas
4
ISBNs
13

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