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English
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Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order—all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New...
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Series
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
p2005
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The first novel of Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series, this work introduces the fictional cathedral town of Barchester and many of its clerical inhabitants. Originally published in 1855, the story centers on Mr. Septimus Harding who has been granted the comfortable wardenship of Hiram's Hospital, an almshouse from a medieval charity of the diocese. Mr. Harding, a fundamentally good man and an excellent musician, conscientiously fulfills his...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he hcould rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in the Hobbit. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins trusts the Ring to his...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
1919, 1995
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7.5 hr.)
Language
English
Description
Winesburg, Ohio is a little-known masterpiece that forever changed the course of American storytelling. Bittersweet and richly insightful, it reveals Sherwood Anderson's special talent for taking the small moments of life and transforming them into timeless folk tales-a talent that inspired a generation of writers including William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck. At the center of this collection of stories stands George Willard, an...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Who can outsmart a pack of pirates and the murderous Long John Silver? Who is fearless enough to single-handedly board a ship and steal it back? Who else but the most daring lad of all -- young Jim Hawkins! Get ready for excitement and terror -- from the moment Jim finds a treasure map to the final hunt for buried gold.
6) Fanny Hill
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Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (ca 8 hr.); digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fanny Hill, also known as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, has been a notorious novel since it first appeared in London in 1748-9. Banned for its "obscene" content, this fictional account of a young womans unconventional route to middle-class respectability is, in fact, a lively and engaging comic romp through the boudoirs and brothels of Augustan England, with a heroine whose adventures and setbacks never lessen her humanity or her determination to...
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Series
Publisher
BBC Audio
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
3 CDs (173 min.)
Language
English
Description
The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors have relabeled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances. Some critics consider it to be one of Shakespeare's "problem plays", because the first three acts are filled with intense psychological drama, while the last two acts are comedic and supply a happy ending.
The play has been...
8) King Lear
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
9) Cymbeline
Author
Series
Publisher
BBC Audio
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
3 CDs (199 min.)
Language
English
Description
Performed as early as 1611 and published in the "First Folio" in 1623, Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" weaves an elaborate tale of palatial envy and power in Ancient Britain. Cymbeline, King of Britain, commands that his lovely young daughter Imogen marry Cloten, the violent and callous son of the current Queen by her former husband. With her heart already promised to the poor yet heroic Posthumus, Imogen refuses. Disgusted at the prospect of his daughter...
10) The Outsiders
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society. When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world. Thirty years later, it speaks to teenagers as powerfully as ever.
11) Persuasion
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, Charles Dickens, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Classics-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original classic. These classics...
13) Runaway Ralph
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ralph, a victim of the generation gap, rides his cycle away from his unsympathetic family only to be imprisoned in a summer camp.
14) Stoner
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known.
Yet as the years pass, William Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a "proper" family estranges him from his parents; his career
...15) The notebook
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a testimony to the lasting power of love, a man tells an elderly woman a story from a faded old notebook, his voice relating the heartbreaking tale of two lovers and their fifty-year journey to happiness.
16) Hamlet
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
17) Walk two moons
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Winner of Newbery Award, 1995. After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
18) Tobacco road
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Language
English
Description
Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on them. Debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance and selfishness, the Lesters are preoccupied by their hunger, sexual longings, and fear that they will one day descend to a lower rung on the social ladder than the black families...
19) Heidi
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Heidi is sent from her happy mountain home to a big city where she can go to school and be a companion for Clara, a wealthy, gentle girl who cannot walk. But the goats and the Grandfather are Heidi's only happiness and when she returns home, Clara soon follows to find health in the clean Alpine air.
20) Frankenstein
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young scientist has created a living being out of dead flesh and bone. His creation, however, turns out to be a frightful monster! Now, Victor Frankenstein must stop his creation before the monster's loneliness turns to violence. These reader-favorite tiles are now updated for enhanced Common Core State Standards support, including discussion and writing prompts developed by a Common Core expert, an expanded introduction, bolded glossary words and...