What was the first book in the Pretty Little Liars series?
Pretty Little Liars (novel)
Pretty Little Liars is the first book in the "Pretty Little Liars" series by Sara Shepard. It tells the story of four girls - Hanna, Aria, Emily and Spencer - after the disappearance of their clique leader, Alison. The book was written for the book packaging company Alloy Entertainment, the idea originally developed as a TV series.
Little House on the Prairie
The television series "Little House on the Prairie" aired on the NBC network from 1974 to 1983. The show was a loose adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie semi-autobiographical novel series, although the namesake book was represented in the premiere only; the ensuing television episodes primarily followed characters and locations from the follow-up book, "On the Banks of Plum Creek" (1937), although the continuity of the television series greatly departed from this book as well. Some storylines were borrowed from Wilder's later books but were portrayed as having taken place in the "Plum Creek" setting. Michael Landon starred as Charles Ingalls, Karen Grassle played Caroline Ingalls, Melissa Gilbert played Laura Ingalls, Melissa Sue Anderson played Mary Ingalls, and the twins Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush (credited as Lindsay Sidney Greenbush) played Carrie Ingalls. Victor French portrayed long-time friend Mr. Edwards. Dean Butler portrayed Laura's husband, Almanzo Wilder. Some characters were added in the show, such as Albert, played by Matthew Laborteaux, an orphan whom the family adopted.
The Littles
The Littles is a series of children's novels by American author John Peterson, the first of which was published in 1967. Sixteen years later, Peterson's books were adapted into "The Littles", an animated series by DIC Entertainment. The television show ran on ABC Saturday mornings from September 10, 1983 to November 2, 1985 for three seasons and 29 episodes. In 1985, DiC released an animated feature film spun off the series titled "Here Come the Littles".
Loriann Oberlin
Her first book "Writing For Money" was published by Writer's Digest Books (F&W Media) in 1995, followed by "Working At Home While The Kids Are There, Too" (Career Press) in 1997. She was an initial contributor to the "Insider's Guide to Pittsburgh" (2000, first edition) the same year that "Surviving Separation and Divorce: A Woman's Guide to Making It Through the First Year" was published. During her writing career, she also contributed to the Everything series published by Adams Media and later revised the second edition of the "Compass American Guide to Pennsylvania."[3]
Pretty Little Liars (novel)
The story introduces an exclusive group of friends: Alison DiLaurentis, the perfect yet manipulative queen bee, Aria Montgomery, an independent girl who is considered to be the weirdo in Rosewood, Emily Fields, a swimmer who holds secret feelings for Alison, Hanna Marin, the overweight girl who strives to be thin and popular like Alison, and Spencer Hastings, an ambitious girl who is brave enough to stand up against Alison's manipulative ways. Alison mysteriously disappears during a sleepover with the girls at the end of their seventh grade school year after a fight with Spencer.
The First Secret
"The First Secret" is the thirteenth episode of the second season of the American mystery drama series "Pretty Little Liars" and the 35th episode of the series overall.
Dumb Bunnies
The Dumb Bunnies first appeared in the book "The Dumb Bunnies". In the book the Dumb Bunnies are having porridge when they decide to go for a walk. They go to Kentucky Fried Carrots (parody of Kentucky Fried Chicken) and have a picnic in the car wash. Meanwhile, Little Red Goldilocks enters their home. When the Dumb Bunnies return, they are thrilled to see her. But Poppa Bunny is embarrassed because he thought someone slept on his porridge. Momma Bunny is angry because she thought someone ate her bed. Baby Bunny cries because he thinks someone used his pimple cream. Then Papa Bunny dances, Mama Bunny sings a song, and Baby Bunny flushes her down the toilet. At the end of the book, a picture on the back cover shows her coming out of a sewer pipe and landing in a lake. Note: The cover originally had the word "spam" on the bowl of porridge, which Dav claims was meant to be a joke, until the Hormel Foods Corporation threatened legal action, causing either a recall of the book or placing a golden sticker on it until a reprint was made without the word. The Spam covers have now become extremely hard to find.
Hanna Marin
Hanna is one of four primary protagonists in all sixteen of the "Pretty Little Liars" novels, starting with "Pretty Little Liars".
Lucy Fitch Perkins
In 1906, Perkins published her first work, "The Goose Girl", a collection of children's rhymes. A year later, she followed with "A Book of Joys: A Story of a New England Summer", but both works had limited popular appeal. In 1911, she published "The Dutch Twins", her first major work. The book was inspired by friend Edwin Osgood Grover, who saw a picture Perkins drew of a pair of Dutch children. Grover suggested to Perkins that she design a series centered around the twins. Perkins took the advice, and the "Twins" series were a popular success. She published 26 books in the "Twins" series for the Houghton Mifflin Company. For each book, Perkins would try to interview an individual who grew up in the given country to gain an understanding of the particular customs. Later books in the series, such as "The American Twins of the Revolution", supplanted history for geography as the basis of the twins' backgrounds.
Pretty Little Liars (season 1)
The show premiered to 2.47 million viewers and retained a regular audience of 2.5 million viewers during its summer run. The summer finale scored 3.07 million viewers, achieving a series high. The show went on hiatus and returned with its winter premiere on January 3, 2011, with 4.20 million viewers, becoming one of ABC Family's top telecasts to date.
Mary Claire Helldorfer
"Dark Secrets" 1 (August 4, 2009): the first book in the "Dark Secrets" series. The book includes two stories, Legacy of Lies and Don't Tell. In" Legacy of Lies", Megan has to stay with the uptight grandmother she wants nothing to do with. She's determined to get through the visit without any drama, but when she falls into a twisted love triangle with potentially fatal consequences, Megan may be caught up in her family's legacy in more ways than she realizes. In "Don't Tell", Lauren knows that by returning to the town where her mother drowned seven years ago, she'll be reliving one of her most haunting memories. When she arrives, she is propelled into a series of mysterious events that mimic the days leading up to her mother's death. Maybe her mother's drowning wasn't an accident after all...and maybe Lauren is next.
Till Death Do Us Part (Pretty Little Liars)
"Till Death Do Us Part" is the series finale of "Pretty Little Liars", which premiered on the Freeform network in the United States on June 27, 2017. The twentieth episode of the seventh season and the 160th overall, it was directed by showrunner I. Marlene King, who also co-wrote the episode alongside Kyle Bown and Maya Goldsmith. Shortly after the two-hour final episode, a special titled "A-List Wrap Party" was aired, in which the main cast and King talked about the show's end and behind-the-scenes exclusives.
Young Pioneers (novel)
Let the Hurricane Roar, reissued as Young Pioneers starting from 1976, is a short novel by Rose Wilder Lane that incorporates elements of the childhood of her mother Laura Ingalls Wilder. It was published in "The Saturday Evening Post" as a serial in 1932 and by Longmans as a book early in 1933, not long after "Little House in the Big Woods" (1932), the first volume of her mother's Little House series.
A Little Pretty Pocket-Book
A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, intended for the Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Polly with Two Letters from Jack the Giant Killer is the title of a 1744 children's book by British publisher John Newbery. 
It is generally considered the first children's book, and consists of simple rhymes for each of the letters of the alphabet. To market the book to the children of the day, the book came with either a ball for a boy, or a pincushion for a girl. The book was very popular in England, and earned Newbery much fame; eventually the Newbery Medal was named after him. The book was re-published in Colonial America in 1762. Dr A S W Rosenbach called this book, "One of the most influential and important books in the history of juvenile literature."
The book includes a woodcut of stool-ball among other period games, and includes a rhyme entitled "Base-Ball." This is the first known reference to "base-ball" or "baseball" in print, though it actually meant the game rounders, an ancestor of modern baseball. Of baseball's English origin: "The game of Rounders has been played in England since Tudor Times, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in "A Little Pretty Pocketbook" where it is called baseball." "It is a striking and fielding team game, which involves hitting a small hard leather cased ball with a round wooden or metal bat and then running around 4 bases in order to score."
Laura Leighton
On April 5, 2009, "The Hollywood Reporter" announced that Leighton would appear in the 2009 series "Melrose Place", reprising her role as the presumed-dead Sydney, who will serve as landlord at Melrose Place. The remake only lasted a single season on the CW before being cancelled. On December 7, 2009, ABC Family announced that Leighton had been cast in a lead role in the TV series "Pretty Little Liars", a TV adaptation of a book of the same name by Sara Shepard as Ashley Marin, the mother of Hanna Marin played by Ashley Benson, one of the four main characters on the show. Leighton stayed with "Pretty Little Liars" for all seven seasons until the show's end in June 2017.
Little House on the Prairie
"Little House on the Prairie", published in 1935, is the third book in the Little House series but only the second that features the Ingalls family; it continues directly the story of the inaugural novel, "Little House in the Big Woods".
Aeriél Miranda
Aeriél Christine Gabrielle "ARI" Miranda (born April 3, 1992) is an American actress. She is best known for her recurring role as Shana Fring on the ABC Family series, "Pretty Little Liars" (2013–2015). She was first introduced as Shana on the web series, "Pretty Dirty Secrets" (2012), prior to appearing on "Pretty Little Liars". 
Miranda also recurred as Lana on "The Nine Lives of Chloe King" and The CW series "The Tomorrow People". Other roles include Universal Pictures' "Straight Outta Compton" (2015) and the Oprah Winfrey Network comedy "For Better or Worse" (2016).
Patrick Dennis
Working with longtime friend, actor and photographer Cris Alexander, Dennis created two parody memoirs, complete with elaborate photographs. The first, "Little Me", recounts the escapades through life and love of glamour girl Belle Poitrine "as told to Patrick Dennis". His wife, Louise, appeared as "Pixie Portnoy" in the book's photographic illustrations, which included their children and an employee as well. The second "bio", "First Lady" (1964), is the life story of Martha Dinwiddie Butterfield, oblivious wife of a robber baron who "stole" the US presidency for thirty days at the turn of the century.
Lauren Child
Two picture books both written and illustrated by Child were published in 1999, and also issued in the U.S. within the year: "I Want a Pet!" and "Clarice Bean, That's Me". The latter, published by Orchard Books, inaugurated the Clarice Bean series, was a highly commended runner-up for the Greenaway Medal, and made the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize shortlist. Next year she won the Greenaway Medal for the first Charlie and Lola book, "I Will Not Ever, NEVER Eat a Tomato". Her timing was good, for a bequest by Colin Mears had provided a £5,000 cash prize to supplement the medal beginning that year.
She won a second Smarties Prize in 2002 for "That Pesky Rat", which was commended for the Greenaway too. In the same year she wrote her first children's novel, "Utterly Me, Clarice Bean", one of 39 books nominated by the librarians for the Carnegie Medal. Her second novel in this series, "Clarice Bean Spells Trouble" was shortlisted for the 2005 British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year. The third novel, "Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now" was published in 2007.
The Darkest Knight (Pretty Little Liars)
"The Darkest Knight" is tenth episode of the seventh season of the American mystery–thriller television series "Pretty Little Liars". The installment was directed by Arlene Sanford and written by showrunner I. Marlene King and executive producer Maya Goldsmith. It premiered on August 30, 2016, on the cable network Freeform.
Lily Halpern
After proving herself as a teen pop entertainer, Halpern took a hiatus from music and attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and enrolled in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. At college, she reinvented herself with a new more mature retro-inspired sound. When Halpern released her next EP in 2014, she did so under her new moniker, "Lily Lane".
Lane’s first independent EP "Nothin’ But Trouble", released in 2014 was music featured numerous times in the most popular teen television show in the country, ABC family’s "Pretty Little Liars".Singles
Mona Vanderwaal
Mona Vanderwaal was introduced in the first four "Pretty Little Liars" novels. A teenage resident of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, she has white-blonde hair, light blue eyes, and a few freckles. She is a formerly unpopular girl who was teased by Alison DiLaurentis and her friends, longing to be in their group. After Alison went missing, Mona befriended Alison's friend Hanna Marin, and they reinvented themselves as the 'it' girls of Rosewood Day.
Lucy Hale
In August 2008, Hale made her big screen debut in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" portraying Effie Kaligaris, the younger sister of Lena Kaligaris (played by Alexis Bledel). One month later, Hale starred in The CW series "Privileged" as Rose Baker, with co-stars JoAnna Garcia and Ashley Newbrough. The series is based on the book "How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls" by Zoey Dean and was cancelled by the network due to low ratings. Hale had auditioned for the two characters in the first two "The Twilight Saga" films, both were lost to Ashley Greene as Alice Cullen in "Twilight" and Dakota Fanning as Jane Volturi in "". In 2009, Hale appeared in two films, the comedy-drama "Sorority Wars" and the mystery-thriller "Fear Island". In October 2009, Hale was cast as Aria Montgomery in "Pretty Little Liars", based on the book series of the same name by Sara Shepard. The television series lasted seven seasons from 2010 to 2017, with Hale's performance was being praised by critics. She also received a number of awards and nominations.
Big Little Lies (novel)
Big Little Lies is a 2014 novel written by Liane Moriarty. It was published in July 2014 by Penguin Publishing. The novel made the "New York Times" Best Seller list.
Pretty Little Things
Hoffman wrote the book based on her own professional experience; before her career as a writer, she worked in the Florida Department of Law Enforcement consulting with special agents.
The Book of Lies (Moloney novel)
The Book of Lies, is the first fantasy novel by Australian novelist James Moloney, who has written more than thirty books, most of them realistic fiction for children. Published in 2004, the fantasy novel is set in a land known as Elster and tells of the story of the main character, Marcel, after he wakes up in a foundling home with no memory of who he is. His struggle to reclaim his identity, along with close allies Nicola, Bea and Fergus, centres on uncovering the truth from amid a sea of lies, where few people are what they claim to be.
Liz Tigelaar
Tigelaar released her first novel as a solo writer in 2007 titled, "PrettyTOUGH", a novel about two very different sisters, Krista and Charlie Brown, who have to face their differences and learn to work together when they are recruited for their high school soccer team. Tigelaar released a follow-up to the first novel titled, "Playing with the Boys: A PrettyTOUGH Novel" in 2008.
Pretty Dirty Secrets
The web series was written by Kyle Bown & Kim Turrisi and directed by Arthur Anderson. Kyle Bown, the assistant to "Pretty Little Liars" showrunner I. Marlene King, and Kim Turrisi, who is not part of the writing staff, were hired to write the web series by ABC Family, however the crew behind "Pretty Little Liars" was also used with the web series. The web series introduced Aeriél Miranda as Shana in the television series. None of the series regulars from "Pretty Little Liars" appears in the web series.
Pretty Little Liars
"Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists" is an upcoming teen drama mystery series, based on the novel "The Perfectionists" by Sara Shepard. Set in another fictional town of Beacon Heights, Washington, where everything seems perfect, from their top-tier college to their overachieving residents and the stress of needing to be perfect leads to the town’s first murder. Sasha Pieterse and Janel Parrish will return to their roles as Allison DeLaurentis and Mona Vanderwaal.  The series will also star Sofia Carson, Sydney Park, Eli Brown, Kelly Rutherford and Hayley Erin.
Melissa Hastings
Melissa Hastings is a fictional character in the "Pretty Little Liars" franchise. Created in 2006 by Sara Shepard for the book series, the character was later reworked by I. Marlene King, the developer of the television series, in which she is portrayed by Torrey DeVitto. An antiheroine, Melissa is sister to protagonist Spencer Hastings, and the daughter of Peter and Veronica Hastings. She is a fierce woman who does everything to succeed in her life goals. In print, she is a guest character, while on screen Melissa has a much bigger presence in the story.
Melissa has had recurring appearances in most of the "Pretty Little Liars" novels, starting with the 2006 homonymous book. She also appeared in the 2012 companion novel "Pretty Little Secrets". She is the daughter of Peter and Veronica Hastings, sister of Spencer Hastings, and half-sister to the twins Alison and Courtney DiLaurentis, which are the result of an affair her father Peter had with the twins' mother Jessica. Melissa attended high school at Rosewood Day School and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. According to Spencer's description of Melissa, she closely looks to Mrs. Hastings in the psychical appearance, with her chin-length ash blonde hair and blue eyes; Spencer sarcastically described her sister as "a perfect little clone." Melissa has an uptight, simpering personality to match her lack of style.Melissa is inserted into the story as the protagonists begin to receive the messages from "A". She and Spencer are rivals sisters who compete for their parents' recognition and Melissa appears to be the favored child who can do no wrong. She always seems to one-up Spencer in everything from academic achievements to extracurricular actives. As she is about five-six years older than Spencer, she's essentially accomplished everything Spencer has done in high school. Problems occur when she begins to feel attracted to Melissa's new boyfriend, Wren Kim, when he is introduced to the family. "A" eventually reveals to Melissa that Spencer is dating. Wren dumps Spencer while he is back hooking up with Melissa, and Melissa eventually dumps him, removing him for her and her sister's life for good. Ian returns from California and starts working as a field hockey coach, in Spencer's team, which allows Melissa to pursue him again. "A" reveals to Melissa that Spencer stole her essay for the Golden Orchid competition, but the family keeps quiet to protect their reputation. Melissa and Spencer grow closer, and Spencer confesses that she kissed Ian, and that he and Alison were secretly dating. Spencer and Melissa's feud continues anyway after Melissa confronts Spencer about seeing Ian behind her back, which Spencer denies. Spencer and Mona eventually start suspecting that Melissa may have killed Alison. Spencer and Mona discover a note from "A" and suspect that Melissa killed Alison because she was jealous of her relationship with Ian. Mona, Spencer and their friends decide to turn Melissa in, but eventually Mona is revealed to be "A" and the girls stop suspecting Melissa.
Escape from New York (Pretty Little Liars)
"Escape from New York" is the first episode and the premiere of the fifth season of the American mystery drama television series "Pretty Little Liars" and the 96th episode of the series overall. The episode was written by showrunner I. Marlene King and directed by Norman Buckley, it aired on June 10, 2014 on ABC Family and was watched by 2.72 viewers.
Pretty Little Liars (season 1)
The first season of Pretty Little Liars, based on the books of the same name by Sara Shepard, premiered on June 8, 2010 and concluded on March 21, 2011 on ABC Family.
Hold Your Piece
"Hold Your Piece" is the 13th episode of the seventh season of "Pretty Little Liars", an American mystery drama television series based on the novel series written by Sara Shepard, and is the 153rd episode of the series. The episode, directed by Marta Cunningham and written by Bryan M. Holdman, originally aired on May 2, 2017 on the cable network Freeform. The episode yielded 0.86 million viewers, a decrease from the previous episode, and garnered a 0.4 rating in the 18-49 demographic.
The Lying Game (book series)
The Lying Game is a series of books by Sara Shepard published by HarperTeen. The first book in the series, "The Lying Game", was released in hardcover on December 7, 2010.
While the book and the television series based on the books share most of the same characters, there are differences in regards to the characters between the two (with the biggest difference being that Sutton is deceased in the books, but alive in the television series):
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Enid Blyton
Blyton's first full-length adventure novel, "The Secret Island", was published in 1938, featuring the characters of Jack, Mike, Peggy and Nora. Described by "The Glasgow Herald" as a "Robinson Crusoe-style adventure on an island in an English lake", "The Secret Island" was a lifelong favourite of Gillian's and spawned the Secret series. The following year Blyton released her first book in the Circus series and her initial book in the Amelia Jane series, "Naughty Amelia Jane!" According to Gillian the main character was based on a large handmade doll given to her by her mother on her third birthday.
Pretty Little Liars
On March 26, 2013, a spin-off series was announced, titled "Ravenswood", but was canceled after one season. On June 10, 2014, "Pretty Little Liars" was renewed for its sixth and seventh seasons. On August 29, 2016, Freeform confirmed that the series would be ending after its seventh season in 2017. Filming of the series officially wrapped on October 26, 2016. The series finale was viewed by an estimated 1.41 million viewers. It had the second-highest rating of any cable TV series that aired that night. The episode was followed by "A-List Wrap Party", a live special featuring the cast and executive producer King discussing the series ending.
Little House on the Prairie
The first book of the "Little House" series, "Little House in the Big Woods", was published in 1932. This first book did well when it was first published. The "Little House" books were reissued by Ursula Nordstrom to be illustrated by Garth Williams.
Beautiful Lies (novel)
Beautiful Lies is a novel by bestselling author Lisa Unger. It is the first book featuring Ridley Jones. Crown Publishing Group published the novel in June 2006 and it became an instant "New York Times" Best Seller the week it was released.
Pretty Little Liars
On June 28, 2010, ABC Family ordered 12 more episodes of the show, bringing its total first-season order to 22. On January 10, 2011, ABC Family picked the show up for a second season that premiered on June 14, 2011. During the summer of 2011, "Pretty Little Liars" was basic cable's top scripted series in women aged 18–34 and viewers 12–34. The second half of season 2 aired on Mondays at 8/7c, beginning on January 2, 2012.
List of Little Miss characters
Little Miss Bossy is the 1st book in the "Little Miss" series. Little Miss Bossy is very bossy (hence her name) and she is as rude as Mr. Uppity, so she is given a pair of boots which have a mind of their own; they don't listen to her, because she is too bossy.
Pretty Little Liars (novel)
The story then restarts three years later, where the girls are now separated. Aria returns to Rosewood from a three-year trip to Iceland with her family and comes back much more sophisticated. Her brother Mike, a typical Rosewood popular boy, was happy to be back. She meets and ends up making out with a guy in a local bar who is revealed later to be her English teacher, Ezra Fitz, but her brother tries to set her up with Noel Khan, another popular guy who is also her brother's best friend. Emily befriends the new girl in town, Maya St. Germain, and soon develops romantic feelings for her, and tries to hide these feelings from her family and her boyfriend. Hanna lost the weight and is the new popular girl in town alongside the former nerd, Mona Vanderwaal. She and Mona sometimes shoplift designer clothing, but one night get caught doing it. This is where Hanna gets a text from "A". Hanna battles urges to turn back to bulimia, and struggles to manage the stress of keeping her "Queen Bee" status. Her father left her and she is very depressed. Spencer continues to struggle due to the rivalry with her and Melissa Hastings, her perfect older sister. Problems occur when she extremely starts to feel attracted to Melissa's new boyfriend, Wren Kim, when he is introduced to the family. They are all trying to identify who's "A" (a blackmailer that knows dark secrets only Alison DiLaurentis knew).
Pretty Little Liars
The theme song for "Pretty Little Liars" is "Secret" by The Pierces, which was suggested by one of the show's stars, Ashley Benson. The series featured music from artists such as Sara Bareilles, Rachel Platten, OneRepublic, Jessie J, McFly, Passion Pit, Lady Antebellum and Florence and the Machine. 2AM Club made a guest appearance in the first season episode "There's No Place Like Homecoming", with some of the songs appeared on their album, "What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?" and ZZ Ward performed with two songs "Til the Casket Drops" and "Last Love Song" from her debut album, "Til the Casket Drops" to promote the series' third and fifth seasons. The series' soundtrack was released by WaterTower Music on February 15, 2011.
Pretty Little Liars (season 2)
The second season of Pretty Little Liars, based on the books of the same name by Sara Shepard, premiered on June 14, 2011 and concluded on March 19, 2012 on ABC Family. On January 10, 2011, ABC Family renewed the series for a second season. The season premiere brought in 3.68 million viewers, which was higher than the season 1 premiere. The Halloween special aired on October 19, 2011, drawing 2.5 million total viewers. The second half of season 2 premiered on January 2, 2012.
Pretty Little Liars
On November 29, 2011, ABC Family renewed the show for a third season, which consisted of 24 episodes. On October 4, 2012, ABC Family announced that the show was renewed for a fourth season, again comprising 24 episodes. The second half of the third season began airing on January 8, 2013 and finished March 19, 2013. "Pretty Little Liars" returned for Season 4 on June 11, 2013. On March 25, 2013, it was again announced that "Pretty Little Liars" had been renewed for a fifth season scheduled for a 2014 air date and a new spin off show entitled "Ravenswood" would begin airing after the season four annual Halloween special in October 2013. The second half of season four premiered on January 7, 2014. It was announced on June 10, 2014 that "Pretty Little Liars" was renewed for two seasons, making the show ABC Family's longest running original hit series. On August 29, 2016, I.Marlene King announced that "Pretty Little Liars" would be ending after the seventh season had aired. The second half of the seventh season will begin airing later than previous season, in April instead of January.
Stephan Pastis
Pastis's first treasury, "Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic", was published in 2004. In addition to the content of the previous books, "BLTs Taste So Darn Good" and "This Little Piggy Stayed Home", and Sunday strips in full color, Pastis included responses from readers and a section in which he explained why certain strips were not successful, and how he would have corrected the content. He continues to release the treasuries at the rate of about one every two years, with his ninth one, "Pearls Hogs the Road", released in 2017. Each book in the series is subtitled "A "Pearls Before Swine" Treasury".On February 25, 2013, Stephan Pastis released his first book aimed at younger readers, "Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made", from Candlewick Press. Modeled after the popular "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series, "Timmy Failure" follows the exploits of a young soon to be detective and his polar bear friend, Total, as they solve crimes in their local neighbourhood. A sequel titled "Timmy Failure: Now Look What You've Done" was released on February 25, 2014. A third book, "Timmy Failure: We Meet Again", was released on October 28, 2014. The fourth book, "Timmy Failure: Sanitized for Your Protection" was released on October 6, 2015. The fifth book, "Timmy Failure: The Book You're Not Supposed To Have", was released on September 27, 2016. The sixth book, "Timmy Failure: The Cat Stole My Pants" was released on April 25, 2017 and the seventh book, "Timmy Failure: It's The End When I Say It's The End" was release in Semptember 2018 which was said to be the "end" of Timmy Failure.
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Little House on the Prairie
The story of the first book in the series, "Little House in the Big Woods", revolves around the life of the Ingalls family in their small home near Pepin, Wisconsin. The family includes mother Caroline Ingalls, father Charles Ingalls, elder daughter Mary Amelia Ingalls, and younger daughter (and protagonist), Laura Ingalls Wilder. Also in the story, though not yet born historically, is Laura's baby sister Carrie. In the book, Laura herself turns five years old, when the real-life author had only been three during the events of the book. According to a letter from her daughter, Rose, to biographer William Anderson, the publisher had Laura change her age in the book because it seemed unrealistic for a three-year-old to have specific memories such as she wrote about.
Pretty Little Liars
A tie-in edition featuring the Season 1 poster and logo of the 2006 first novel in the "Pretty Little Liars" series was released on the date of the show's premiere, as was the final book of the original book series, "Wanted". "Wanted" later decidedly became the eighth book of the series, as Shepard later confirmed she would extend the series. A TV tie-in of the second book "Flawless" featuring an altered Season 3 poster was released on December 28, 2012.
List of Pretty Little Liars episodes
After an initial order of 10 episodes, ABC Family ordered an additional 12 episodes for season one on June 28, 2010. The first season's "summer finale" aired on August 10, 2010, with the remaining 12 episodes began airing on January 3, 2011. On January 11, 2011, ABC Family picked up "Pretty Little Liars" for a second season of 24 episodes. It began airing on Tuesday, June 14, 2011. It was announced in June that a special Halloween-themed episode would air as part of ABC Family's "13 Nights of Halloween" line-up. This increased the episode count from 24 to 25. On November 29, 2011, ABC Family renewed the series for a third season, consisting of 24 episodes. On October 4, 2012, ABC Family renewed the series for a fourth season, consisting of 24 episodes. On March 26, 2013, ABC Family renewed the series for a fifth season. On January 7, 2014, showrunner I. Marlene King wrote on Twitter that season 5 will have 25 episodes, including a holiday-themed episode. On June 10, 2014, it was announced that the show was renewed for an additional 2 seasons. Season 6 will air in mid-2015, and season 7 will air in mid-2016. It was announced by I. Marlene King that the sixth and the seventh season will consist of 20 episodes each. It was announced on August 29, 2016, that the show would be ending after the seventh season, and that the second half of the season would begin airing April 18, 2017.
The Sin Eater's Daughter
The Sin Eater's Daughter is a young adult fantasy series written by Melinda Salisbury and published by Scholastic Press. The first book in the series, "The Sin Eater’s Daughter", was published on 24 February 2015 and marked Salisbury's first book in print. The second book in the series, "The Sleeping Prince", was published the following year along with a short story prequel, "The King of Rats". The third book in the series, "The Scarecrow Queen", was released in 2017. A fourth book, "The Heart Collector", was also published in 2017, it is a collection of 3 short stories from the same fictional universe, including the previously released "The King of Rats", as well as 2 new stories, "The Heart Collector" and "Mully No-Hands".
List of Little House on the Prairie books
The original Little House books were a series of eight autobiographical children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by Harper & Brothers from 1932 to 1943. The eighth book, "These Happy Golden Years", featured Laura Ingalls at ages 15 to 18 and was originally published with one page at the end containing the note, "The end of the Little House books." The ninth and last novel written by Wilder, "The First Four Years" was published posthumously and unfinished in 1971. Although her intentions are unknown, it is commonly considered part of the Little House series and is included in the 9-volume paperback box set "Little House, Big Adventure" (Harper Trophy, May 1994).
Little Lit
The series began publication in 2000 with a 64-page hardcover book, "Little Lit: Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies". This was followed by two subsequent volumes, "Strange Stories for Strange Kids", and "It Was a Dark and Silly Night..." The third volume deviated slightly from previous versions, reducing the page count to 48 pages.
Lillian Hoban
In a departure from the themes of childhood she so often explored during her career, Hoban captured the endearing charm of an elderly woman who cannot seem to remember anything in the Silly Tilly books. One of the early drafts of the first book, "Silly Tilly and the Easter Bunny" (1987), was titled, "Lizzie Mole". Later drafts show Grandma Mole lined out and replaced with Tillie Mole. The epithet Silly was added at some point before the final publication of the book. All three of the Silly Tilly books are set around the celebration of holidays, a fascination of Hoban's for much of her career that found their way into dozens of her books. In 1965 Hoban was commissioned, along with Robert Krauss and Anita Lobel, to create oversized posters for the various holidays to display in school libraries and classrooms. Hoban's posters included the following holidays: Halloween, Valentines, Christmas, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln (Robert Krauss illustrated the Easter poster and Anita Lobel, Thanksgiving). Holidays served as the basis of some of her very best work including her last Silly Tilly book, "Silly Tilly's Valentine", that was published posthumously in December 1998, five months after her death.
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Her identical twin sister Courtney DiLaurentis is not crazy but she debuted in"Wanted" after the TV show began in 2010. In the prequel, Courtney-as-Ali started disappearing in the last chapter and getting almost killed numerous times, until the end of the series ("Vicious") when Ali-as-Courtney came out and started becoming friends with her twin "Ali" again after rehab with Iris and Tabitha, two lookalikes of Ali, all in the penultimate chapter.
Guilty Pleasures (novel)
Guilty Pleasures is a 1993 horror and mystery novel by Laurell K. Hamilton. It is the first book in the New York Times bestselling series. "Guilty Pleasures" introduces the character of Anita Blake, a vampire hunter and necromancer, who works in an alternate universe where magic, vampires, werewolves and other supernatural elements exist. The novel blends elements of supernatural and hardboiled detective fiction.
James Frey
His two first books, "A Million Little Pieces" (2003) and "My Friend Leonard" (2005), were best-sellers marketed as memoirs. Large parts of the stories were later found to be exaggerated or fabricated, sparking a media controversy. His 2008 novel "Bright Shiny Morning" was also a bestseller.
Rick Riordan
Riordan's first full-length novel was "Big Red Tequila", which became the first book in the Tres Navarre series. His big breakthrough was "The Lightning Thief" (2005), the first novel in the five-volume Percy Jackson series, which placed a group of adolescents in a Greco-Roman mythological setting. Since then, Riordan has written "The Kane Chronicles" trilogy and "The Heroes of Olympus" series. "The Kane Chronicles" (2010-2012) focused on Egyptian mythology; "The Heroes of Olympus" was the sequel to the Percy Jackson series. Riordan also helped Scholastic Press develop "The 39 Clues" series and its spinoffs, and penned its first book, "The Maze of Bones" (2008). His most recent publications are three books in the "Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard" series, based on Norse mythology. The first book of his "The Trials of Apollo" series based on Greek mythology, "The Hidden Oracle", was released in May 2016.
History of Freeform (TV channel)
2010 saw the debut of its most successful original series, the drama "Pretty Little Liars", which is based on the series of young adult mystery novels by Sara Shepard; the program successfully broke series premiere ratings records for ABC Family, across all major viewing demographics of women and young people, premiering to an audience of 3.1 million viewers on June 8 of that year. The show's success led to the development of two shorter-lived series based on Shepard's young adult novels, "The Lying Game" (which ran from 2011 to 2013) and "Ravenswood" (which aired for one season from 2013 to 2014). That summer also saw the debut of its first comedy hit, "Melissa & Joey" (a domestic sitcom in the vein of "Who's the Boss?" that starred Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence, who previously co-starred in the 2009 ABC Family original movie "Holiday in Handcuffs", as a city councilwoman raising her imprisoned brother's teenage children and the stockbroker she hired to serve as their housekeeper); the series would become the first original sitcom in the network's history to get a third season renewal and ended its run in May 2015 as the first original series in the channel's history to reach 100 episodes.
River Rose and the Magical Lullaby
River Rose and the Magical Lullaby is a children's picture book written by American singer Kelly Clarkson, first published by HarperCollins on October 4, 2016. Illustrated by Laura Hughes, the story centers on a little girl who was too ecstatic to fall asleep on the eve of her first trip to the zoo. The book debuted at number 7 on "The New York Times" Best Sellers List for Children's Picture Books.
These Happy Golden Years
These Happy Golden Years is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1943, the eighth of nine books in her "Little House" series – although it originally ended it. It is based on her later adolescence near De Smet, South Dakota, featuring her short time as a teacher, beginning at age 15, and her courtship with Almanzo Wilder. It spans the time period from 1882 to 1885, when they marry.
Mary Ellen Hopkins
In 1977, Hopkins opened a quilt shop in Santa Monica called Crazy Ladies and Friends. Hopkins' short book, "The Double Wedding Ring Book", was released in 1981 and her first full-length book, "The It's Okay If You Sit on My Quilt Book", in 1982. She founded a company, ME Publishing First Printing, to publish the latter.
Emily Fields
"Pretty Little Liars" is a series of novels which follows the lives of four teenage girls nicknamed the Pretty little Liars or simply the Liars, whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee leader, Alison DiLaurentis. Three years after her disappearance, the girls begin receiving threatening messages from an anonymous character named "A", who threatens to expose their secrets, including long-hidden ones they thought only Alison knew. Shortly after the messages begin, Alison's body is discovered buried in her yard. The books progress with the four girls trying to figure out who "A" is and facing many dangerous obstacles and twists.
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Set in the suburban town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, the series follows the lives of five high school girls: Spencer Hastings, Alison DiLaurentis, Aria Montgomery, Hanna Marin and Emily Fields, whose clique falls apart after the leader of the group, Alison, goes missing. One year later, the remaining estranged friends are reunited as they begin receiving messages from a mysterious villain named "A" and later from "A.D.", who threatens and tortures them for the mistakes they have made before and after Alison's death. At first, they think it is Alison herself, but after her body is found, the girls realize it’s someone else who wants revenge. Originally developed as a television series by book packaging company Alloy Entertainment, the idea was described as ""Desperate Housewives" for teens." Alloy met with author Shepard and gave her the property to develop into a book series. With Alloy and Warner Horizon Television interested in producing "Pretty Little Liars" as a television series for years, it was first planned for The WB in 2005 with a different writer until the network shut down in early 2006 and reestablished as The CW later that year. The first novel was published by HarperTeen in October 2006. In June 2008, Alloy noted that it was developing a "Pretty Little Liars" television pilot for ABC Family, with the novels adapted for television. After the pilot was shot in Vancouver in December 2009, filming for the rest of the series moved to Los Angeles. The series was primarily filmed at the Warner Bros. studio and backlot in the city of Burbank, near Los Angeles. In June 2012, the series was selected by lottery for a California film and TV tax credit.
These Boots Were Made for Stalking
The episode's previous title was revealed by showrunner I. Marlene King on July 15, 2016. It references the book "These Boots Are Made For Stalking" by author Lisi Harrison, included in the book series "The Clique", which contains a similar theme of the "Pretty Little Liars" book series. The title could also regard the 1966 song "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" by singer Nancy Sinatra.
It Happened 'That Night'
"It Happened 'That Night'" is the first episode of the third season of "Pretty Little Liars", and the forty-eighth episode overall, which premiered on ABC Family on June 5, 2012. It was directed by Ron Lagomarsino and written by I. Marlene King. The series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria and Emily — whose clique parts after the disappearance of their leader, Alison; later they begin receiving various messages from someone using the name "A" who threatens to expose their secrets — including long-hidden ones they thought only Alison knew. In this episode, set five months after "A" was revealed to be Mona Vanderwaal, the girls struggles with the aftermath of Maya St. Germain's death and an unexpected event throws them back into danger. Meanwhile, a new "A" surfaces.
Ashley Benson
In December 2009, Benson was cast as Hanna Marin in the ABC Family mystery-thriller teen drama series "Pretty Little Liars", based on the novel series by Sara Shepard. Hanna is the "diva" and "It girl" of the group, having taken Alison DiLaurentis' place as the most popular girl at Rosewood High in Alison's absence. The series premiered to 2.47 million viewers with Benson's performance being praised by critics. She also received a number of awards and nominations. Benson reprised the role in the spin-off series "Ravenswood" and made a directorial debut of an upcoming episode in the sequel series "".
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On September 25, 2017, Freeform announced that a second spin-off series, titled "", had been ordered, with Pieterse and Parrish reprising their roles as Alison DiLaurentis and Mona Vanderwaal respectively. On May 14, 2018, Freeform picked up the series for a 10-episode first season, set to air in 2019. In a 2018 panel, Parrish said that some plot points created in "Pretty Little Liars" will be resolved during the spin-off.
Gail Carson Levine
Levine, following the success of her adaptation of the Cinderella story into "Ella Enchanted", continued telling fairy tales with a twist in what would become her "Princess Tales" series. According to Levine, "After "Ella Enchanted" was published, I submitted some of my old, much rejected picture books to my editor. She liked one, which was then called "Talk Is Cheap?" But she thought it should be a short novel, rather than a picture book, and she asked me to do three more. That picture book turned into "The Fairy's Mistake", and that's how the series got started." Her six short stories reinvent traditional fairy tales, looking to fill gaps in logic. As Levine says, "In Sleeping Beauty, the prince falls in love with the princess when he knows only three things about her: she's pretty, she's a princess, and she doesn't snore. In "Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep"... I give the prince a real reason to kiss Sonora even though, after 100 years, she's covered with spider webs!" Keeping with this genre, Levine also wrote a picture book, "Betsy Who Cried Wolf", adapted from Aesop's fable of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". In 2010 she released a second picture book titled "Betsy Red Hoodie", an adaptation of the fable Little Red Riding Hood.
Big Little Book series
The Big Little Books, first published during 1932 by the Whitman Publishing Company of Racine, Wisconsin, were small, compact books designed with a captioned illustration opposite each page of text. Other publishers, notably Saalfield, adopted this format after Whitman achieved success with its early titles, priced initially at 10¢ each (later 15¢).
Pretty Little Liars (season 6)
The sixth season of the American mystery drama television series "Pretty Little Liars", based on the books of the same name by Sara Shepard, was renewed on June 10, 2014 for two additional seasons, making the show ABC Family's longest running original series.
The Pierces
"Secret" also serves as the theme song of the Freeform TV series "Pretty Little Liars", based on the series of books by Sara Shepard. It was suggested by one of the stars of the show, Ashley Benson, after she heard from "Gossip Girl". The song was later re-recorded by Denmark and Winter in the original series' sequel, "". The song's lyrics was used as the title of the book "Two Can Keep a Secret" by Karen McManus.
Picture book
In 1942, Simon & Schuster began publishing the Little Golden Books, a series of inexpensive, well illustrated, high quality children's books. The eighth book in the series, "The Poky Little Puppy", is the top selling children's book of all time. Many of the books were bestsellers, including "The Poky Little Puppy", "Tootle", "Scuffy the Tugboat", "The Little Red Hen". Several of the illustrators for the Little Golden Books later became staples within the picture book industry. Corinne Malvern, Tibor Gergely, Gustaf Tenggren, Feodor Rojankovsky, Richard Scarry, Eloise Wilkin, and Garth Williams. In 1947 "Goodnight Moon" written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd was published. By 1955, such picture book classics as "Make Way for Ducklings", "The Little House", "Curious George", and "Eloise", had all been published. In 1955 the first book was published in the "Miffy" series by Dutch author and illustrator Dick Bruna.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
The collaboration worked both ways: two of Lane's most successful novels, "Let the Hurricane Roar" (1932) and "Free Land" (1938), were written at the same time as the "Little House" series and basically retold Ingalls and Wilder family tales in an adult format.
Pretty Dirty Secrets
Pretty Dirty Secrets is an American mystery web series from the television series "Pretty Little Liars". The web series takes place between the events of the series' third season episodes, "The Lady Killer" and "This Is a Dark Ride". It is set in a Rosewood's costume store as the residents of Rosewood prepared for Halloween.
E. Lockhart
Jenkins writes as E. Lockhart for the young adult market; "Lockhart" was the family name of her mother's mother. Her first book by Lockhart was a novel, "The Boyfriend List", published by Random House Dell Delacorte Press in 2005. There are three sequels, "The Boy Book" (2006), "The Treasure Map of Boys" (2009), and "Real Live Boyfriends" (2010), and the four are also known collectively as the Ruby Oliver novels after their central protagonist. Another novel for teens, "The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks" (2008), was a finalist for both the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Michael L. Printz Award. "We Were Liars" made the shortlist of four books for the 2014 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. The annual prize judged by British children's writers recognizes the year's best U.K.-published book by a writer who has not previously won it.
Pretty Little Liars (season 7)
The seventh and final season of the American mystery drama television series "Pretty Little Liars", based on the books of the same name by Sara Shepard, was renewed on June 10, 2014 for two additional seasons, making the show Freeform's longest running original series.
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The series premiered on June 8, 2010 on Freeform, formerly known as ABC Family, and ended on June 27, 2017. After an initial order of 10 episodes, ABC Family ordered an additional 12 episodes on June 28, 2010. The ratings success of the first 10 episodes prompted the book series to be extended beyond the initial eight novels. Since its debut, the series has received mixed reviews from television critics, but remained a relative success for Freeform, garnering a large fandom, primarily on social media.
Shay Mitchell
In December 2009, Mitchell was cast in the ABC Family (now Freeform) planned adaptation of the book series "Pretty Little Liars". Initially, Mitchell auditioned for the role of Spencer Hastings. On January 2010, "Pretty Little Liars" was picked up by ABC Family. The series centers on four friends up against an anonymous foe who threatens to reveal all their secrets whist unraveling the mystery of the murder of their best friend. Mitchell portrays the role of Emily Fields, the "jock girl" of the group. The program gained quick popularity despite mixed critical reviews. The show ran for seven seasons and the series finale aired 27 June 2017.
Picture book
Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" was published in 1902 to immediate success. "Peter Rabbit" was Potter's first of many "The Tale of...," including "The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin", "The Tale of Benjamin Bunny", "The Tale of Tom Kitten", and "The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck", to name but a few which were published in the years leading up to 1910. Swedish author Elsa Beskow wrote and illustrated some forty children's stories and picture books between 1897–1952. Andrew Lang's twelve Fairy Books published between 1889 and 1910 were illustrated by among others Henry J. Ford and Lancelot Speed.
In the US, illustrated stories for children appeared in magazines like "Ladies Home Journal", "Good Housekeeping", "Cosmopolitan", and "Woman's Home Companion", intended for mothers to read to their children. Some cheap periodicals appealing to the juvenile reader started to appear in the early twentieth century, often with uncredited illustrations.
Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists
Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists is an upcoming American teen drama television series developed by I. Marlene King. The series is a sequel to "Pretty Little Liars" and based on the novel "The Perfectionists" by Sara Shepard. Freeform ordered the series to pilot on September 25, 2017, as the second spin-off series of "Pretty Little Liars" which will include some of the main characters. Freeform picked up the series for a 10-episode first season on May 14, 2018.Freeform ordered the show to pilot on September 25, 2017, as a sequel to "Pretty Little Liars" and the second spin-off series following "Ravenswood". I. Marlene King wrote and Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum directed the first two episodes, which are titled "Pilot" and "Sex, Lies and Alibies".
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In the book, their older brother's name is Jason DiLaurentis and their half-sisters are Melissa and Spencer Hastings.
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"Pretty Little Liars" was called one of the most spectacular new shows of summer 2010 thanks to heavy promotion by ABC Family, including "spicy promos and hot posters". ABC Family encouraged fans to host a "Pretty Little Premiere Party" for the show by sending the first respondents a fan kit, and selected applicants to become part of an interactive "Secret Keeper Game" played with iPhones provided by the network. The show's official Facebook and Twitter accounts also promoted special fan features, including a "Pretty Little Lie Detector". Los Angeles department store Kitson showcased the show in their shop window.
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An Turkish adaptation was titled "Tatlı Küçük Yalancılar" premiered on Star TV on July 6, 2015. The Turkish series served as a remake to the American series. The series ran for one season.
Big Little Book series
After the first Big Little Book, "The Adventures of Dick Tracy", was published (December 1932), numerous titles were sold through Woolworth's and other retail store systems during the 1930s. With a name change to Better Little Books during 1938, the series continued into the 1960s. Variations such as Dime Action Books were produced by other publishers, as noted by the Collecting Channel's Andy Hooper:
Spencer Hastings
Spencer Hastings is a fictional character, one of the five main characters who appeared in the "Pretty Little Liars" novels and its television adaptation. Created by American author Sara Shepard, she is member of the group known as the Liars, and is best friend to the four other members, who are also protagonists. The character was developed for television by the series' showrunner I. Marlene King, and appeared in each of the show’s 160 episodes during its seven-years-long run, from its premiere on June 8, 2010 to its finale on June 27, 2017. Spencer is known in the fictional town of Rosewood for her sophisticated charm and dedication to life goals. She is part of the extremely rich, powerful, old family Hastings; Spencer's parents, Veronica and Peter, are both linked to politics and her sister, Melissa, is likewise intelligent and uses her sarcasm and success to affect Spencer psychologically whenever possible. Spencer's characteristics and story have the same methodology in both books and television; however, there are some perceptual differences between the versions, since the television series doesn't follow the books' scripts.
Aria Montgomery
Aria is one of four primary protagonists in all fourteen of the "Pretty Little Liars" novels, starting with 2006's "Pretty Little Liars". She is the daughter of Byron and Ella Montgomery and has a younger brother, Mike.
Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder and its sequel, Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, are television films which were presented in two parts, the first in 2000, and the second in 2002, which presented episodes from the later books in the "Little House on the Prairie" series (from "The Long Winter" to "The First Four Years").
Despite the title, the miniseries was criticized for its significant deviations not only from Laura Ingalls Wilder's books, but the known facts of her life. Some incidents portrayed did occur, but not at the time during which the series is set, while others are entirely fictional. The appearance of characters differs from their descriptions in the books. There are also anachronisms in hairstyles, costuming, and the behavior of the characters.
Peter S. Beagle
Beagle wrote his first novel, "A Fine and Private Place", when he was only 19 years old, following it with a memoir, "I See by My Outfit", in 1965. Today he is best known as the author of "The Last Unicorn" and "A Fine and Private Place", as well as his later fantasies following "The Folk of the Air". "The Wind in the Willows", a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, had originally attracted him to the genre of fantasy.
In the 1970s, Beagle turned to screenwriting. After writing an introduction for an American print edition of "The Lord of the Rings", he wrote the screenplay for the 1978 Ralph Bakshi-animated version of "The Lord of the Rings". Two decades later he wrote the teleplay for "", episode 71 of the television series "".
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Per "Kirkus Reviews", the early novels in this series had their American publication later than in the UK, which published the first in 1998, the second in 2000, and the third, "Morality for Beautiful Girls", in 2001. The first three novels appeared in 2002 in the USA. In their review of the first novel in the series, "Kirkus Reviews" notes that "The first American publication of this 1999 debut has been preceded by two special Booker citations and two sequels, "Tears of the Giraffe" (2000) and "Morality for Beautiful Girls" (2001), both forthcoming in the series."
Freeform (TV channel)
On June 8, 2010, ABC Family premiered "Pretty Little Liars" – a teen drama based on the series of young-adult mystery novels by Sara Shepard. "Pretty Little Liars" quickly became ABC Family's flagship program, frequently breaking ratings records; by 2014, "Pretty Little Liars" had ranked among the five most-watched scripted series on basic cable among multiple female age demographics, and the second-highest rated cable series among females 12–34. Throughout the year, ABC Family as a whole experienced its highest year-to-year primetime viewership among viewers in the 12-34 and 18-34 demographics. With 4.9 million viewers across its first broadcast and an encore airing, the 2011 premiere of "Switched at Birth" surpassed "Secret Life" as the most-watched series premiere in network history.
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The novels have appeared on "The New York Times" Best Seller list. A television series adaptation loosely based on the novels debuted on June 8, 2010, on ABC Family. The franchise has been licensed by Amazon.com's Kindle Worlds range of non-canon ebooks.
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Alison DiLaurentis: Alison is the former "Queen Bee" of her clique, consisting of Spencer, Hanna, Aria and Emily. She had supposedly been killed at the beginning of the series however is revealed to have been alive and also their tormentor "A" as she was mistaken for her twin sister Courtney who pretended to be like her and was sent to The Preserve at Addison-Stevens, which she believed was the Liars' fault and has been plotting revenge ever since.
Corset controversy
Laura Ingalls Wilder was an American author who wrote a series of children's books based on her childhood in a pioneer family. "Little Town on the Prairie" is set in 1880 in South Dakota in an area recently settled. Despite being on the frontier, the women and, in particular the girls, were expected to behave according to the norms of the times. Its 1941 publication date takes it out of the "discussion" period, but as it was written as a children's book for girls, its account is unlikely to be spurious or a fantasy, so it serves as a reliable testament of some of the more curious practices such as sleeping in corsets.
Young Pioneers (novel)
"Let the Hurricane Roar" was first published in 1932 as a serial in "The Saturday Evening Post" while Laura Ingalls Wilder was writing "Farmer Boy", the second-published book in the Little House series. The Longmans edition of "Let the Hurricane Roar" was published in February and reviewed in "The New York Times" on February 26, 1933. Despite book sales being reduced due to the economic situation, the strength over adversity theme of the book sold well to a Depression-weary public and it has remained in print to this day. Its medium length and straightforward style was also well-suited for the young adult market and the book became a mainstay in high school and public library collections.
List of Little House on the Prairie books
The eighth book in the series, "These Happy Golden Years" takes place between 1882 and 1885. As the story begins, Pa is taking Laura 12 miles from home to her first teaching assignment at Brewster settlement. Laura, only 15 and a schoolgirl herself, is apprehensive as this is both the first time she has left home and the first school she has taught. She is determined to complete her assignment and earn $40 to help her sister Mary, who is attending Vinton College for the Blind in Iowa.
Who Could That Be at This Hour?
Who Could That Be at This Hour? is the first novel of the children's novel series "All the Wrong Questions" by Lemony Snicket, a series set before the events of "A Series of Unfortunate Events". The novel tells the story of a young Lemony Snicket, who is apprenticing for the V.F.D. under the worst-ranked agent, S. Theodora Markson. The book was published on October 23, 2012, by Little, Brown and Company and illustrated by Seth.
The Lying Game
While the television series shares many of the same characters as the book series of the same name, there are important differences (chief among them that Sutton is deceased in the books):
ABC Family green-lit a pilot for "The Lying Game", which was written and executive produced by Charles Pratt Jr. and which was based upon the then upcoming novel by "Pretty Little Liars" author Sara Shepard, in October 2010. Alexandra Chando was cast in the dual lead role in November 2010. ABC Family ordered "The Lying Game" to series in February 2011. It premiered on Monday, August 15, 2011, after an episode of "The Secret Life of the American Teenager", drawing 1.4 million viewers. ABC back-ordered an additional 10 episodes of season 1 in September 2011, which premiered in January 2012 drawing a series high 1.8 million viewers.
Rose Wilder Lane
In late 1930, Lane's mother approached her with a rough, first-person narrative manuscript outlining her hardscrabble pioneer childhood, "Pioneer Girl". Lane, using her sense of what was marketable, took notice. She recognized that an American public weary of the Depression would respond warmly to the story of the loving, self-sufficient and determined Ingalls family overcoming obstacles while maintaining their sense of independence, as told through the eyes of the spunky "Laura". Despite Lane's efforts to market "Pioneer Girl" through her publishing connections, the manuscript was rejected time and again. One editor recommended crafting a novel for children out of the beginning. Wilder and Lane worked on the idea, and the result was "Little House in the Big Woods". Accepted for publishing by Harper and Row in late 1931, the book's success resulted in the decision to continue the series, following young Laura into young adulthood.
Spencer Hastings
Spencer is one of four primary protagonists in all sixteen of the "Pretty Little Liars" novels, starting with 2006's "Pretty Little Liars". She is portrayed as a competitive girl who strives for perfection in everything she does. Spencer is willing to do whatever it takes to win, often to the detriment of herself and others. She is known to have a dark side. She appears to suffer from rage-induced black outs, which leads her to question whether she had anything to do with the death of her friend Alison, and also shows signs of OCD. Spencer also suffers from drug addiction, which she began taking to help her improve her grades at a University of Pennsylvania summer school. She is the half-sister of Alison and Courtney DiLaurentis, as her father had an affair with Jessica DiLaurentis around the time of Spencer's conception. Spencer has a permanent rivalry with her older sister, Melissa, who is also competitive. Throughout the series of books, the two discuss the implications of their individual successes of life, such as becoming the valedictorian of their classes and having winning essays. Throughout the story, the sisters make up, and in the later books they share a strong bond.Troian Bellisario was cast as Spencer Hastings for the "Pretty Little Liars" television series adaptation in November 2009.
The Patron Saint of Liars (novel)
The Patron Saint of Liars is a 1992 novel, written by Ann Patchett. This is the first novel published by Patchett, and it was selected as a "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year. Patchett completed the manuscript for "The Patron Saint of Liars" during a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The novel focuses on a young woman named Rose who abandons her life in California as a married woman. She leaves for Kentucky and takes residence at a home for unwed mothers that is owned by the Catholic Church. As she watches girls give birth and disappear from the home, she must think of her own plans and what the future has in store for her.