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On a farm in the country in medieval times, a girl named Celestia was adopted. The couple who adopted her was named Jack and Ann, they had a son named Nick who is seventeen and very kind and loving to Celestia. Celestia’s dream was to become a Dragon Rider but she never told anyone because girls couldn’t be a Dragon Riders. She gets to have her own room and she gets to explore some part of the eighty acres that the couple owns. Nick takes her to a meadow that is called Future Meadow that has a small clearing in the middle and only one person is allowed into one at a time. While she is there she finds an injured baby dragon. It is white and blue with amber eyes that are hypnotical to look at. Celestia goes to pick the dragon up and receives
Three years after their arrival in the country the families receive notice that one of the lost boats has returned to port. The father leaves to the city to see if anything could be rescued and before leaving asks his daughters if there was anything they wished from the city for him to bring back. The older daughters make silly request but Beauty asks for rose seeds to plant a rose garden around the house. Upon returning home, the father is caught in a blizzard and stumbles upon a welcoming enchanted castle.
A breathtaking saga of a young girl’s tragic memories of her childhood. As with Ellen, Gibbons’ parents both died before she was twelve-years-old, forming the family. basis of the plot and themes of this novel. The fond memories she possessed of her mother and the harsh ones of her father are reflected in the thoughts and actions of Ellen. The simplistic and humble attitude that both Gibbons and Ellen epitomizes in the novel is portrayed through diction and dialogue.
This story speaks of a married woman who fell in love with a man who was not her husband. She bore this man a child and realized that she could not live without him. In the event, she decides to leave her husband to be with the child’s father. However, there is only one problem and that is that she has two other children by her husband. She has a daughter who is 9 years old and is very mature for her age, and a darling son who is 5 years old. As she leaves to restart her life again with this other man, the 5 year old son is left behind to stay with his dad, and the little girl is tragically killed by a pack of wolves. The little boy is devastated by his mom’s decision to leave him behind. He is constantly haunted by dreams and images that come to his mind surrounding his mother’s...
After a few long years both civilizations had grown larger and stronger so it was no surprise to Asus when the humans or “The Lamarians” as they called themselves, didn’t give their twenty-percent. Asus, knowing that if he were to fly to their village he would most likely be attacked, decided against confronting the humans. The humans had gotten much stronger because while dragons could lay eggs only once in their lifetime, humans could have almost as many babies as they like which caused a huge population change. As well as the population threat, the humans had developed new kinds of weapons that could harm the dragons such as bows and ballistas. The dragons did not take this news lightly and many of them were ready to attack. Though Asus
It begins with a happy 9-year-old girl named Ling who lives in a hospital complex with her father, a very successful surgeon, and her mother, a well-known doctor. Her mother, known as Mrs. Chang, is very strict, always nagging Ling to act like a woman and to be perfect in almost every way. Ling believes it is because her mother never wanted to have a daughter. Father, on the other hand, Mr. Chang, spent much time with Ling, and got very close to her, teaching her reading and English lessons. He would
This story was set during the middle ages, in a small village and a forest.
The setting for Dragonsbane was in about the 1400's in a place called Wyr. Jenny John and Gareth are the main characters. Jenny is a wizard women who is always trying to advance her skills but still isn't very good. John is Jenny's husband and is also a dragon's bane, which means that he has slayed a dragon. Gareth is a prince who's hero is John. And final Zyerne, she is also a wizard women whom is the most powerful in the land.
The fairy tale begins with a miller betrothing his daughter to the first suitable man who comes along. The man choosen happens to live deep in the forest, and fills the daughter with dread everytime that she sees him. One day, the suitor demands that his bride come visit him at home. When she tells him she does not know the way, he says he with spread the path to his house with ashes. Nodoubt this fictional element is meant to invoke sadistic images of Nazi Germany and the use of ashes of cremated concentration camp inmates for road construction. The daughter does follow the path with great unease, however, as she follows the path she marks it with peas. She finally comes to the house, and is promptly warned by a bird that she is entering a house of murderers. The girl enters and house and finds it almost entirerly deserted. However, in the basement she finds an old women who repeats the bird’s warning. The crone then prphesizes that the girl will marry death and her bridegroom only seeks to kill her, cut her pieces up, and eat her. As the two prepare to escape, the bridegroom and his band of theives return with maiden [virgin]. The old woman hides the girl behind a large barrel. From her hiding place, she whitnesses the thieves give the maiden three glasses of wine to stop her heart. They then rip her clothes off, and hack the body into pieces with axes. On of the murders notices the girl wears a gold band, but cannot pull it off her finger. He cuts off thefinger which flies from the table and lands in the girls lap. Before the thieve can look for it, the crone offers them some wine, which she has laced with a sleeping potion. The thieves fall prey to the potion and sleep deeply. The g...
Castle of the Sun - A daughter to a peasant woman was doing her chores and came along a handsome and rich man and it was love at first sight. He begged for her hand in marriage. They met up the next day and got married. The family never heard from their daughter after she left with the one she married, so they went a search for her. They came across an old lady and a giant that was her son which told them the way to the girl.
Coraline looked for a pen and a paper and started looking. She found her neighbor Mr. B which was trying to do a circus with rats. She found a small door behind their house´s wall locked up. She called her mother for her to open it. Suddenly, when she opened it there was a wall. The door remained open during the night. Coraline already had gone to sleep; she heard the squeak of a mouse around her bedroom door. It was kind of like a kangaroo mouse. It drives her to the small door which was like kind of a tunnel to another world dimension where her parents actually had time for her and worked in other things liked making her life pleasant. After she ate a delicious dinner she went to bed and by the time she waked up she was already at her original home.
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It tells the story of Princess Aurora, King Florestan's daughter. The fairies have been invited to Aurora's christening, and each one in turn dances and gives a magic present. However, the wicked fairy, Carabosse, interrupts the ceremony and is furious that she wasn't invited. She announces that one day Aurora will prick her finger on a spindle and die. Everyone is horrified, but the Lilac fairy still has her present to give. She modifies the spell so Aurora will not die, but will fall asleep and be woken only by a prince's kiss. At her 16th birthday party, princess Aurora pricks her finger on a spindle brought by Carabosse in disguise and, with the whole court, falls asleep for 100 years. Prince Florimund, with the help of the Lilac fairy. Makes his way through the enchanted forest to awaken Aurora with a kiss. At Princess Aurora and Prince Florimund's wedding, the fairies dance and celebrate with Puss in Boots and Red Riding Hood.
The movie Ghost Rider didn't get any high rating, and people didn't really enjoy it (moviereview/ghostrider.com), well a new rider named Goat Rider appeared in town. He as a superhero (not an evil demon spirit) uses his magical powers to save people from danger. He has yet to lose a battle and/or leave someone to their death. People know him all around the world by his strange outfit and his uniqueness, and always helps right on time.
This is a story about a girl growing up in the world learning how to make it on her own. She is going to get into things she thought she would never get into, meet the people she thought she would never meet, learning the things she would’ve never thought to learn, and getting caught up the way she thought she would never get caught up. This right here is Disaya’s past; you have to know where it all started to know where it’s all going to end. Disaya was a very beautiful little six year old girl; she had curly untamed hair and gorgeous green eyes. Dynasty was Disaya’s mother, Dynasty didn’t know where her daughter go those green eyes from, she always suspected that Yaya was really the illegitimate child from one of her clients, yes that’s right I said it clients.
This movie is about a bright little girl by the name of Matilda. She was born into a very unusual family that didn't care about her. Her family included her father, mother and brother, the Wormwoods. Matilda was forced to stay home till the age of 6, while she was home she learns to do many things on her own, by the age of four she had read all