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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids

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Availability:In StockContributor:Thomas C. FosterAudience:08 - 12Publish date:2013-04-23Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:HarperCollinsISBN-13:9780062200853ISBN-10:62200852UPC:9780062200853Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Language Arts, Books & LibrariesBook Topic:Composition & Creative Writing, Journal WritingSize:7.50 x 5.10 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCD1X21ACD

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:HarperCollinsISBN-13:9780062200853ISBN-10:62200852UPC:9780062200853Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Language Arts, Books & LibrariesBook Topic:Composition & Creative Writing, Journal WritingSize:7.50 x 5.10 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCD1X21ACD
Foster, Thomas C.: -

Thomas C. Foster, author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor and Reading the Silver Screen, 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 20th-century British and Irish literature and poetry.

Publisher: HarperCollins

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