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"Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his mom again, is set to make his...
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Sixth-grader Maggie is stuck with insufferable Jacob on a class writing project, and when they get into an argument over who really wrote the novel Frankenstein, they suddenly find themselves in Switzerland in 1816 where Lord Byron and Mary and Percy Shelley are planning to write a scary story each--the trouble is Mary has writer's block.
7) Frankenstein
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Examines the character of Frankenstein's Monster, looking at its influence on popular culture.
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"London, 1814: Mary Godwin and her stepsister Jane Clairmont, both sixteen, possess quick minds bolstered by an unconventional upbringing, and have little regard for the rules that other young ladies follow. Mary, whose mother famously advocated for women's rights, rejects the two paths that seem open to her-that of an assistant in her father's bookshop, or an ordinary wife. Though quieter and more reserved than the boisterous Jane, Mary's imagination...