https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078 First chapters Childhood & growing up en-us 2017-03-19 08:18:36 UTC 2023-02-13 21:35:43 UTC hello@padlet.com lallshanti https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/164152965 A great teenage classic since its first publication in 1951. Holden Caulfield is the ultimate outsider; he is expelled from school, falls out with his friends and finally suffers a nervous breakdown. The book is a scathing attack on American society in the 1950’s seen through the eyes of one the most fascinating central characters ever created. ]]> 2017-04-02 10:28:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/164152965 lallshanti https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/164153059 Set in the deep American south between the wars, this is the story of Celie, a poor black girl. Raped repeatedly by her father, she loses two children and then is married off to a man who treats her as a slave. She dreams of becoming like the glamorous black singer Shug Avery, who has taken charge of her own destiny. ]]> 2017-04-02 10:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/164153059 lallshanti https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/164153303 Purple Hibiscus is the story of a fifteen-year-old Nigerian girl, Kambili, and describes her life under the constraints of her father's strict regime. When life in the city becomes dangerous during a military coup, she is sent away to stay with her aunt where she eventually finds love and happiness.]]> 2017-04-02 10:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/164153303 lallshanti https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/164153352 The narrator is Susie, who tells her story from heaven after a brutal rape. Susie watches her family and friends grieve, and even watches her killer and the sad detective working on her case. ]]> 2017-04-02 10:38:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/164153352 lallshanti https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/164154735 Winter 1975 in Afghanistan. In Kabul, twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the annual kite-fighting tournament to prove to his father that he has the makings of a man. Amir’s friend Hassan is a low-caste Muslim but the two boys are close friends. However, during the tournament, Amir commits a terrible act of betrayal which is to shatter their lives and define their future.]]> 2017-04-02 11:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/164154735 lallshanti https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/164156494 This is the story of Jeanette, brought up by her religious mother as one of God's elect. She seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls in love with a young woman she has converted to religion. ]]> 2017-04-02 11:52:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/164156494 lallshanti https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/164160322 A black man is charged with the rape of a white woman. The story, narrated by the nine-year-old daughter of the lawyer who defends him, shows attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of 1930s America. ]]> 2017-04-02 13:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/164160322 lallshanti https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/229807741 2018-02-08 20:19:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/229807741 lallshanti https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/229812158 2018-02-08 20:29:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/229812158 lallshanti https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/234959780 2018-02-24 08:55:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/234959780 lallshanti https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/360550551 2019-05-15 20:52:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/360550551 lallshanti https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/360553423 2019-05-15 21:05:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/360553423 lallshanti https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/2477816997 2023-02-12 13:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lallshanti/facbbdowj078/wish/2477816997