English: This One is Ours

Click on the link to read a short bio on the author's website. You can read about her two published books, Untidy Towns and This One is Ours.

Author Kate O'Donnell discusses the inspiration for the story, what she loves about the main character, Sophie, and her writing experience.

This guide provides a short summary, exploration of themes and writing style, study notes and discussion questions and information about the author.

The 20th Arrondissement was cobbled together with land and villages that were outside the then city limits. Click on the link to learn more and read about significant sights, places and people of Belleville.

At the eastern end of town, the Belleville-Ménilmontant neighborhood is among the most popular and lively in the city. Click on the link to learn about must-see sights, view a map, and read about life in Belleville.

Opened in 1824, the Montparnasse cemetery, which has a surface area of 19 hectares, is the second largest necropolis in Paris, after the Père Lachaise cemetery. Click on the link to learn more.

French Revolution, also called Revolution of 1789, revolutionary movement that shook France between 1787 and 1799 and reached its first climax there in 1789. Click on the link to read about the origins, events and counterrevolution.

French Revolution brought about great changes in the society and government of France. The revolution, which lasted from 1789 to 1799, also had far-reaching effects on the rest of Europe. Click on the link to read more about the background and political actions.

Since 1884, “Les Deux Magots” – referring to two (deux) legendary statues (magots) physically perched on a pillar right in the middle of our literary café... click on the link to learn more.

One thing is easily agreed upon: the posters were beautiful. They carry a simple iconography—the raised fist of the revolutionary, the spiked silhouette of the factory, blocky silhouettes that strive to represent a universal figure. Click on the link to view posters from the Paris riots.

This charming Parisian art museum is one of the best landmarks in the French capital, built in a converted railway station dating back to the 1800s with stunning architecture. Its gigantic glass ceilings wash the impressionist and post-impressionist masterworks that line its walls with light, including those of Cezanne, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Van Gogh and more.

On April 15, 2019, a fire broke out under the eaves of Notre-Dame Cathedral’s roof. Click on the link to learn more.

The black and white images of students lobbing cobblestones over barricades in the Latin Quarter of Paris in May 1968 are still clung to as defining a significant moment in modern French history. View the historical photographs and compare with the scenes today.

The Palace of Versailles, whose origins date back to the seventeenth century, was successively a hunting lodge, a ​seat of power and​,​ from the nineteenth century​,​ a museum.

The wildfires that tore through the Amazon pushed the rainforest ever closer to its “tipping point,” at which the forest could irretrievably degrade into drylands. Click on the link to read more.

The group claimed more than 1,800 Amazon (AMZN) employees in over 25 cities and 14 countries pledged to take part in the action. According to a release, the group estimates that over 3,000 tech workers walked out in Seattle. Click on the link to learn more.

Climate change is the result of changes in Earth’s atmosphere (the layer of gas that surrounds Earth). The climate changes when the atmosphere is affected either by Earth’s natural features or by living things. Click on the link to learn more.

When corals are under stress, they expel the microscopic algae that live in their tissues. Without these algae, corals' tissues become transparent, exposing their white skeleton. Click on the link to learn more.

Greta Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist who works to address the problem of climate change, founding (2018) a movement known as Fridays for Future (also called School Strike for Climate). Click on the link to learn more.

Over the past five years, the 20-year-old has become one of the world's best-known campaigners against climate change. Click on the link to learn more.

The richest 1 percent grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020, almost twice as much money as the bottom 99 percent of the world’s population. Click on the link to read more.

The world’s richest 1% are on course to control as much as two-thirds of the world’s wealth by 2030. Click on the link to read more.

The 2019-20 Australian bushfires were catastrophic in scale and impact - both for people and for nature. Click on the link to learn more.

Situationist International (SI), French Internationale Situationniste (IS), group of artists, writers, and social critics (1957–72) that aimed to eliminate capitalism through the revolutionization of everyday life. Click on the link to read more.

ituationist International (also known as SI), a group of left-wing artists and activists whose practices were designed to unsettle and disrupt the systems of consumerist homogeneity in late 20th century Western society. Click on the link to read about the history, concepts and styles of SI, view exmaples of important works and exlpore the idea of "Spectacle".

Scroll down to "What is Culture Jamming?". You can read a definition of the movement from its historical roots to uses today. View the gallery on "Culture Jam Examples".

A game in which each participant takes turns writing or drawing on a sheet of paper, folding it to conceal his or her contribution, and then passing it to the next player for a further contribution. Click on the link to read more and view examples.