... themselves. That is what is so crucial. What happens if people are in a situation where they need to think quickly on their feet and can't? Imagine surgeons having to Google a quick fix to repair a heart. Picture writers searching online for a plot line for their new novels. Envision teachers instructing students based off of pre-planned curriculum they found online. That doesn ... 's shaping how people's minds actually work. Knowledge has been brainwashed by the Internet. Search engines have replaced brains. Studying has changed to Googling. Reading books shifted to finding broken down ...

• Word Count: 1182
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... left her. She eventually can't take the pressure raising four kids on her own and abandons them. * There are many other characters as the book goes along. These are brief summaries of the minor characters. * Aunt Cilla - lives in Bridgeport, CT, where the family was going to visit with t heir mother. Edie & Louis - runaway couple the children met in a park. They ... had stolen their money and food and vanished by morning. Yet the Tillerman children pressed on to the Connecticut River but by then they where out of money. For some quick cash Dicey started washing windows and having the ot...

• Word Count: 980
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School