Lloyd James
1) Main Street
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Describes the lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, who is caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness. Her dilemma is intensified by the fact that she lives in a small, self-satisfied, midwestern town.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. As Jay Follet hurries back to his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, he is killed in a car accident - a tragedy that destroys not only a life, but also the domestic happiness and contentment of a young family....
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
With Earth embroiled in a vast interplanetary war with the "Bugs," a young recruit in the Federal Reserves relates his experiences training in boot camp and as a junior officer in the Terran Mobile Infantry.