Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia retold: Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke build an imagined kingdom and face sudden loss.
2,673-word summary · 12 min read
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice follows the White Rabbit, grows and shrinks through tea, croquet and trial.
2,055-word summary · 9 min read
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Four lovers flee to a forest where fairies mix them up, while workmen rehearse a play for a duke's wedding.
2,597-word summary · 12 min read
'Salem's Lot
A writer returns to Jerusalem's Lot as an old house fills with vampires.
2,046-word summary · 9 min read
Winnie-the-Pooh
Edward Bear comes downstairs bump-bump-bump and into the Hundred Acre Wood for honey, hunneys, and heffalumps.
2,068-word summary · 9 min read
The Secret History
A California outsider joins six classics students whose Greek rite ends in murder.
2,735-word summary · 12 min read
The Red Tent
Dinah retells Genesis from the women's tent, loving Jacob's wives and surviving Shechem and Egypt.
2,014-word summary · 9 min read
The Joy Luck Club
Four Chinese mothers and four American daughters trade sixteen stories across the mahjong table.
1,941-word summary · 9 min read
The House at Pooh Corner
Tigger bounces into the Hundred Acre Wood while Pooh builds Eeyore a house and Piglet does a grand thing.
2,022-word summary · 9 min read
The Gunslinger
Roland chases the man in black across desert to the tower, losing Jake and learning ka is a wheel.
2,071-word summary · 9 min read
The Color Purple
Celie writes letters to God and to her sister, surviving abuse in the rural South to find her own voice.
2,053-word summary · 9 min read
Siddhartha
A Brahmin son leaves home to find peace beyond teachers and rules.
1,933-word summary · 9 min read