John Green to tackle mental illness in October novel

Six years after his huge hit The Fault in Our Stars, author John Green will bring out a new novel, Turtles All the Way Down, in October. Penguin Random House Children’s UK and PRH imprint Dutton Books in the US will publish the book simultaneously on October 10th, in a global English language publication. Green has said that the novel is his "first attempt to write directly about the kind of mental illness that has affected my life since childhood". Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Decades after its first publication, Margaret Wise Brown’s classic children’s book “Goodnight Moon” still brings families together. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

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A Summary and Analysis of John Steinbeck’s ‘The Snake’

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