The book is divided into two parts: Part One provides an in-depth exploration of the nature and variety of the pleasure avid adolescent readers experience through their out-of-school reading. Part Two identifies and explains the genres teen readers most enjoy--romance, vampires, dystopian fiction, and science fiction/fantasy. The authors explore what we can learn from teens' pleasure reading an…
Berisi kajian mendalam mengenai salah satu milisi rakyat, Lasykar Rakyat Jakarta Raya, yang bergabung dalam perjuangan kemerdekaan Indonesia pada 1945. Ditunjang dengan catatan-catatan arsip, suratkabar saat itu, dan wawancara-wawancara dengan pelaku yang masih hidup. Digambarkan pula betapa gerombolan bandit Jakarta menjadi pemeran utama dalam pemberontakan antikolonial …
from the back cover: 'Suddenly, there was a high voice screaming in the darkness: "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" It was Long John Silver's parrot, Captain Flint! I turned to run ...' But young Jim Hawkins does not escape from the pirates this time. Will he and his friends find the treasure before the pirates do? Will they escape from the island, and sail back to England …