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The weight of the waitlist
What Can North Penn Do For You; Business

What Can North Penn Do For You; Business

March 21, 2024

Who’s cooking in the kitchen?

Who’s cooking in the kitchen?

March 19, 2024

Disney food review: Senior class trip eating frenzy

Disney food review: Senior class trip eating frenzy

March 18, 2024

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For Saachi Sainath NYU is in view
Running the course to the Armed Forces

Running the course to the Armed Forces

February 14, 2024

Willa Magland back on home soil

Willa Magland back on home soil

November 16, 2023

Ava Warner: Running through life, even when the course isn’t easy

Ava Warner: Running through life, even when the course isn’t easy

October 13, 2023

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Before You Go to the Movies – Read This!

Before You Go to the Movies – Read This!

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Born a free man in the North, Solomon Northup was captured in his 30s and sold as a slave in the South. His biography, originally published in 1853, gives a detailed first person account of slavery in the 19th century, complete with the wide range of thoughts and emotions experienced by Northup. After enduring 12 years of enslavement, Northup regains his freedom. Now in theatres.

 

 

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Ender Wiggins does not fit in. At home he is tortured by his older brother for being a “Third” in a futuristic world where families can only have two children. At school he is bullied for being a genius. But the very qualities that ostracize Ender are the traits which make him the perfect candidate for military training at the Battle School in space. As the war with the Buggers rages on, the Earth needs a new military commander and it looks to the Battle School to provide their next general. Will Ender be tough enough to survive military training and be considered as a general? Or, will the Buggers destroy the Earth before he even gets the chance? This two-time award-winning novel is now in theatres.

 

 

 

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

Told through the eyes of Death, the story of Liesel Meminger is revealed. Living with a foster family outside of Molching, Germany in 1939, Liesel takes comfort in stolen books. After her foster father teaches her to read, she begins to share her stolen books with others. She reads to her neighbors as they hide during bomb raids; she reads to the Jewish fugitive hiding in her basement. See where Death meets Liesel in this mesmerizing tale depicting the struggles of Germans and Jews during the Nazi regime. This award-winning novel will hit the big screen November 15.

 

 

 

It’s not too late! Read This!

If you haven’t yet started the Hunger Games series, now’s the time! Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, the second book in the trilogy, will be in theatres November 22.

If you’re a Lord of the Rings fan, the second of three movies based on The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien will be in theatres December 13.

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