... make sure. I insisted that I had protected sex all the time with my fiancé and that I was on the pill. He said he still wanted to run some tests. I finally agreed to more tests, only because I wanted to know what was wrong with me. The doctor took a urine test and then, what seemed like a half hour later, came in to give me ... ...

• Word Count: 2517
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... Ondaatje was born in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) on Sept. 12, 1943. He immigrated to Canada via England in 1962, Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course ... ...

• Word Count: 3985
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School