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Satan from Seventh grade

About the book Title: “Satan from the seventh grade” Author : Kornel Makuszyński Publication: 1937 Type: youth novel (term ‘young adult’ literature did not exist at the time)

Plot It is a story about a boy named Adam Cisowski who attends seventh grade in primary school. He is endowed with a rarely met cleverness and perceptivity. Once he was asked by his history teacher to help him solve a riddle which decided about the fait of his family and wealth. The teenager agrees to raise to the challenge and go to man’s home town. There he meets Mr. Gąsowski’s family members. He faces many different, unexpected and scary adventures in which he has to be extremely brave and resourceful.

Why we have chosen this book? We had chosen this book, because: it captures the sprit of our generation it is a combination of several types of books: adventurer, youth novel, criminal and custom book it is written by a prominent Polish author it forces us to move off the imagination main character is interesting and we can empathize with him

Some Facts about the author Kornel Makuszynski – Kornel Makuszyński was a Polish writer of children's and youth literature. He was born in 1884 and died 1953. In his early years he lived in Lviv, later he moved to Warsaw. He started writing at the age of 14. His children's books, particularly the series about the goat, Koziołek Matołek, have an enduring popularity in Poland. He is one of most famous Polish writers, his works had been translated into many other languages.

The movie The book ‘Satan from seventh grade’ has been adapted to movie in 1960. Despite some minor changes movie is accurate adaptation and had been warmly welcomed by public.

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Thank you for your attention The end This book is a classic in Poland, as it should be. It's witty, clever, and has an incredibly solid moral backbone. Not really a good vs. evil kind of story (the bad guys are to be sympathized with and well, there is the French guy), but the kind of story that carries a message of friendship, honesty, solidarity and bravery.’ Goodreads user Thank you for your attention Created by 1 MYP, Poland for LIFES ‘

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