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This feminist semiotic study explores the folkloric imaginary of the jinn in the context of children’s and young adults’ Arab Gothic literature. Across the Middle East, the jinn is a common trope in literature, folklore and oral storytelling who, in diegetic terms, can manifest as the Gothic figure of an aging female, deranged older woman or succubus (known as sa’lawwa in Arabic). In this study, a novel feminist semiotic framework is developed to explore the extent to which the Gothic female succubus either haunts or liberates Arab girls’ coming-of-age fictions. This issue is addressed via a feminist semiotic reading of the narratives of Middle Eastern woman author @Ranoy7, exploring the appeal of her scary stories presented on YouTube. Findings reveal tacit fears, ambivalences and tensions embodied within the Arab Gothic sign of the aging female succubus or jinn. Overall, the research develops feminist insights into the semiotic motif of the female jinn and its role in constituting Arab females as misogynistic gendered sign objects in the context of the social media story explored.

Walking on thin ice: on Rainy Lake, in the northern reaches of Minnesota, it's more than a saying. And for Owen Jensen, nineteen and suddenly responsible for keeping his mother and five brothers alive, the ice is thin indeed. Ice-Out returns to the frigid and often brutal Prohibition-era borderland of Mary Casanova's beloved novelFrozen, and to the characters who made it a favorite among readers of all ages. Owen, smitten withFrozen's Sadie Rose, is struggling to make something of himself at a time when no one seems to hold the moral high ground. Bootlegging is rife, corruption is rampant, and lumber barons run roughshod over the people and the land. As hard as things seem when his father dies, stranding his impoverished family, they get considerably tougher-and more complicated-when Owen gets caught up in the suspicious deaths of a sheriff and deputy on the border. Inspired by real events in early 1920s Minnesota, and by Mary Casanova's own family history,Ice-Outis at once a story of young romance against terrible odds and true grit on the border between license and responsibility, rich and poor, and right and wrong in early twentieth-century America.

According to the author's website, Green's work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages, and over twenty-four million copies of his six books are currently in print (\"About\"). Included in these variously educational, charitable, and purely entertaining video projects are the Vlogbrothers YouTube channel – whose videos have accumulated over 800 million views since 2007 – and CrashCourse, an educational channel used by K-12 schools and universities around the globe (\"About\"). [...]one marvels not only at the incredible sales numbers attached to Green’s fiction franchises, but also how the Green brothers have found themselves at the vanguard of so many nascent mediums – YouTube, podcasts, and online learning, to name a few – over the first two decades of the twenty-first century. [...]I will posit Hulu's 2019 adaptation of Looking for Alaska as an attempt to further update this project by casting off the monovocal, adolescent-white-male perspectives of both Catcher and the novel version of Looking in favor of a more diverse, polyvocal point of view. [...]a statement such as \"John Green just gets me,\" belies the more accurate statement, \"John Green's writing makes me feel understood.\"

This isMark Twain's first novel about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and it has become one of the world's best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain's own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. \"Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred, \" he tells us. The Mark Twain Library edition contains the only text since the first edition (1876) to be based directly on the author's manuscript and to include all of the \"200 rattling pictures' Mark Twain commissioned from one of his favorite illustrators, True W. Williams. This landmark anniversary edition contains a selection of original documents by Mark Twain, including several letters in his inimitable voice about writing Tom Sawyer and about its original publication.

When you first realize the unfairness and randomness of death it eats into your thoughts like acid. Never before has Tamar felt so alone. Her older brother is dead, her mom is away and her dad is so wrapped up in restoring their ancient farmhouse he avoids talking about the things that really matter. Even friendly new neighbor Gavin can't get through to her, despite his eager attempts. When Tamar discovers an old handwritten sheet of music and allows herself to play piano again, she meets gifted violinist Nathaniel who may just hold the key to her future. With no one else to turn to, Tamar is unwittingly drawn into a journey through time and music.

In Hal Schrieve's Out of Salem, grieving, gender queer, and now-undead Z may not have technically survived the crash that killed their family, while Aysel has always kept to herself—as an unregistered werewolf she is vulnerable to legal repercussions, and as a gay Turkish American fat girl she's vulnerable to jerks at school. The two find themselves becoming friends, discovering community, and stretching into their identities while the town is experiencing a wave of paranoia and violence against monsters. Sisters Clementine and Aster have grown up in a \"welcome house\" in a mining town, put to work at age 16 as sex slaves.