Matilda by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator)

Matilda by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator)Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five and a half she's knocking off double digit multiplication problems and blitz reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world. For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self centered parents who ever lived. Then there's the large, busty nightmare of a school

warning them of the destruction of an African country and of a people – the Bambuti – she has come to love as her own

In the slums of eighteenth-century France

What’s the formula for a happy life

Sophie seeks to mould Evil in her own image as Dean

The Lying Life of Adults

and words of encouragement that will inspire readers to achieve

or why so many people around the world have turned to aefundamentalismAE

adventure and revenge

Now Filmed as 1947

sustain loving relationships

The I Ching (Book of Change) is considered the oldest of the Chinese classics and has

and trouble