11/22/63. 11/22/63 Formats: Hardcover First Edition Release Date: November, 2011 Synopsis: Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk. Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. Notes: 11/22/63 by Stephen King: Chunky Book Club Discussion. Welcome to the Chunky Book Club! Today marks the first day of our discussion of Stephen King's latest chunkster: 11/22/63.
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Questions for Discussion Please tell us your general impressions of the novel - did you enjoy it? 11/22/63 by Stephen King - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists. Literature Study Guides (T-V) A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith. One of my favorite books of all time, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", by Betty Smith is a classic. The story of Francie Nolan, a poor girl of Irish descent growing up in Brooklyn in the earlier part of the century, is full of heartaches and triumphs.
I've found myself reading this book many times since I first picked it up in the sixth grade. The characters jump off the page and into your heart. Ms. Smith has a way of making you identify with each person, but with Francie most of all. The way she handles her father being a drunk and yet still giving him all of her love and attention, how she deals with growing up poor and having to fight for everything she gets is a true inspiration.
Reviewed by on January 23, 2011 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Publication Date: January 18, 2005 Genres: Young Adult 12+ Paperback: 528 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics ISBN-10: 0060736267 ISBN-13: 9780060736262.