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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Mark Haddon
Making the reading experience fun! When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes...
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A Study Guide for Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Newsmakers for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Newsmakers for Students for all of your research needs.
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, which follows 15-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone as he investigates the murder of his neighbour's poodle Wellington, who has been gruesomely killed with a pitchfork. Christopher is a...
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Mark Haddon's novel, the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, presents Christopher Boone, a young man with "special needs." Christopher suffers from Asperger's Syndrome, a condition associated with autism. Mark Haddon takes you into the mind of this remarkable young man and the Bookclub-in-a-Box discussion guide takes you into the novel. Among the many topics about which Bookclub-in-a-Box encourages discussion are Asperger's Syndrome, its...
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Bookclub-in-a-Box
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2011
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English
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Mark Haddon's novel, the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, presents Christopher Boone, a young man with "special needs." Christopher suffers from Asperger's Syndrome, a condition associated with autism. Mark Haddon takes you into the mind of this remarkable young man and the Bookclub-in-a-Box discussion guide takes you into the novel. Among the many topics about which Bookclub-in-a-Box encourages discussion are Asperger's Syndrome,
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Christopher, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight, and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington.
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Spark Publishing
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2014.
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Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, each title in the 'Sparknotes' series contains complete plot summary and analysis, key facts about the work, an analysis of the major characters, suggested essay topics, themes, motifs, and symbols, and an explanation of important quotations.
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2024.
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Ben's really great at failing at things-his job, taking the garbage out, and being a husband. But when he discovers a battered robot named Tang in his garden, he decides to get out of his couch-ridden comfort zone. Without a crucial bit of machinery, Tang will stop working, and Ben can't let that happen, especially since he's already alienated everyone else he cares about. Determined to achieve something for once in his life, Ben sets out to fix his...
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Chronicle Books
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2005
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English
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