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Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout"--Returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and...
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The hero-narrator of this novel is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he...
4) The notebook
Author
Series
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1996, 2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a Southern nursing home, an 80-year-old man reads from his diary to his wife, suffering from Alzheimer's. It's the story of their teenage romance, followed by years of separation because he was from the wrong class, followed by her decision, on his return from World War II, to be her own woman and marry him. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2006, c1932
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
This classic novel of a perfectly engineered society is “one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century” (The Wall Street Journal).
Half a millennium from now, in the World State, the watchword is that every one belongs to every one else. No matter what class of human you are bred to be—from the intellectual Alphas to the Epsilons who provide the manual labor—you are...
Half a millennium from now, in the World State, the watchword is that every one belongs to every one else. No matter what class of human you are bred to be—from the intellectual Alphas to the Epsilons who provide the manual labor—you are...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
At their holiday home in Cornwall, a distant lighthouse holds a haunting attraction for the members of an Edwardian family as disillusionment, turmoil, and a world on the brink of war plague the family's relationships.
Author
Publisher
C. Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
1953
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"The Great Gatsby," penned by the brilliant F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a timeless masterpiece that weaves a tapestry of opulence, unrequited love, and the elusive pursuit of the American Dream. Set against the glittering backdrop of the Roaring Twenties, Fitzgerald takes readers on a mesmerizing journey into the heart of the Jazz Age, where excess and extravagance reign supreme.
At the center of this literary gem is Jay Gatsby, an enigmatic and...
8) Little men
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.
Author
Series
The lord of the rings volume pt. 2
Lord of the Rings The
(John Ronald Reuel),Lord of the rings volume pt. 2
Lord of the Rings The
(John Ronald Reuel),Lord of the rings volume pt. 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
The second volume of The lord of the rings epic, set in the fantastic world of the Third Age of Middle-earth.
10) O pioneers!
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin company
Pub. Date
1913
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Swedish farmer John Bergson's daughter Alexandra encourages the family members to help keep his dream alive after his death.
11) War and peace
Author
Series
Publisher
Konemann
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 118
Language
English
Description
'War and Peace' has been described as the Illiad and the Odyssey of the Russian people, with just cause. This is a work that speaks to the meaning and hope of life. Tolstoy's realism forced him to strip away much of the glorification of war and show the realities. Yet Tolstoy presents the events of 1812 as a moral crusade, and that the Russians won against the Napoleonic onslaught because of their adherence to simple, good and true virtues (as much...
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Set in the harsh Puritan environment of 17th century Boston, The scarlet letter describes the plight of Hester Prynne, an independent-minded woman who stands alone against society. Having given birth to a child after an illicit affair, she refuses to name the father and is forced to wear the letter "A" for adulteress embroidered on her dress.
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Spirited Elizabeth Bennet copes with the suit of the snobbish Mr. Darcy while trying to sort out the romantic entanglements of two of her sisters, sweet and beautiful Jane and scatterbrained Lydia.
Author
Series
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
An international bestseller that sold more than 300,000 copies when it first appeared in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin was dismissed by some as abolitionist propaganda; yet Tolstoy deemed it a great work of literature "flowing from love of God and man." Today, however, Harriet Beecher Stowe's stirring indictment of slavery is often confused with garish dramatizations that flourished for decades after the Civil War: productions that relied heavily on melodramatic...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Presents Stephen Crane's classic novel about Henry Flemming, a young Civil War Union soldier who experiences his first battle and then has to come to terms with his own fears and feelings of cowardice.
17) My 'Antonia
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1918
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The spirited daughter of Bohemian immigrants, Antonia must adapt to a hard existence on the desolate prairies of the Midwest. Enduring childhood poverty, teenage seduction, andfamily tragedy, she eventually becomes a wife and mother on a Nebraska farm. A fictional record of how women helped forge the communities that formed a nation.
18) Oliver Twist
Author
Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Olvier Twist is a poor orphan boy cruelly treated in the public workhouse. Pennyless and hungry, he runs away to London, only to fall into the clutches of a gang of thieves and pickpockets led by the master crimminal, fagin. Befriended by a man robbed by the gang, Oliver ultimately learns his true identity and gains a home, a fortune, and a family!
Author
Series
Publisher
Buccaneer
Pub. Date
[1984], c1905
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
On title page: With her letters (18871901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan by John Albert Macy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
He was Sam Clemens, steamboat pilot, before he was Mark Twain, famous author. His better-known name originated with the lingo of navigation, and much of his writing was informed by his shipboard adventures on one of the world's great rivers. In this classic of American literature, Twain offers lively recollections ranging from his salad days as a novice pilot to views from the passenger deck in the twilight of the river culture's heyday. Under the...
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