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1) Heroes
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. With their dads stationed at the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii, the boys get to soak up the sunshine while writing and drawing their own comic books. World War II might be raging overseas, but so far America has stayed out of the fight. There's nothing to fear, right? December 7th, 1941: Everything implodes. Frank and Stanley are touring a battleship when Japanese planes zoom overhead,...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
The Metamorphosis is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often, cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. The story begins with a travelling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect.
"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous...
3) Moby-Dick
Author
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young seaman joins the crew of the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
5) Anthem
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Those who want slavery should have the grace to name it by its proper name."
-Ayn Rand
In a dark, terrifying, and backwards future, people have no names and are taught never to think of themselves. Everything is subordinate to the all-powerful World Council. Individualism is illegal; as is love not authorized by the World Council. Just using the word "I" is a transgression punishable by death. Fear of innovation and change has stifled humanity...
6) Ethan Frome
Author
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
Upon encountering the limping Ethan Frome, a visitor becomes curious about the striking man's back story. Using extended flashbacks, author Edith Wharton paints a picture of a man who continually sacrifices his aspirations in order to care for the needy people in his life. After abandoning his goal of higher education to assist his ailing parents on their farm, Ethan's return to Starkfield results in a loveless marriage of service to Zeena, an older...
7) The Honeys
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Ryan La Sala, the wildly popular author of Reverie, comes a twisted and tantalizing horror novel set amidst the bucolic splendor of a secluded summer retreat.
Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is propelled to learn all he can about his once-inseparable sister who'd grown tragically distant.
Mars's genderfluidity means he's
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Series
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
Based on the real-life experiences of two French missionaries in New Mexico, Death Comes for the Archbishop tells the story of the aged, withdrawn bishop Jean Marie Latour and his practical and hopeful vicar, Joseph Vaillant, who struggle together to bring Old World religion to the New World by building a cathedral in the desert Southwest. As always, Cather makes her landscape--the arid New Mexican plains--a palpable character in the story, and she...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
10) The holiday trap
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Greta Russakoff needs some space from her overbearing family. Truman Belvedere needs a place to heal after a devastating heartbreak. The solution is obvious: Truman and Greta decide to swap houses for the month of December. Can a change of scenery be the start of something new?"--
11) Gravity
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
300L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity ... Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book.
12) The Golden Acorn
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Golden Nut Hunt race becomes a team event, will speedy Squirrel's competitive spirit take over, or will she learn how to be a team player?
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1170L
Physical Desc
203 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor. In contrast, he envisioned something different: along with agriculture and small towns, he imagined a multiracial, urbanized, capitalistic America with a strong central government. A poor immigrant, Hamilton believed that such an America would be a land of opportunity for newcomers. His vision put him at odds with Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, and others;...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
442 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Edward Dinnissen leads a charmed life. He's the Crown Prince of Canada, gets the royal treatment at his exclusive private school, and resides in a ritzy mansion. He thrives off being the perfect prince as he prepares for the Investiture Ceremony on his eighteenth birthday, the final step in his role as heir -- and Canada's future king. But this closeted Crown Prince has just one tiny problem: he's unsure how to tell his parents, his beloved country,...
Author
Language
English
Description
An exciting Revolutionary War tale of double agents and counterespionage in New York State in 1780.
A year after his imitative first novel Precaution (1820) enjoyed only modest success, James Fenimore Cooper penned The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground, a Revolutionary War narrative initiating the American historical romance, a novel and a genre that quickly put to rest the British critic Sydney Smith's 1820 quip, "In the four corners of the globe,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Pocket Books pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"A minor seismic disturbance in a remote section of the Pacific causes barely a ripple of concern for Kai Tanaka, acting director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu. But when an airliner en route from L.A. to Sydney vanishes in the same location, Kai is the first to realize that a mysterious explosion has unleashed a series of massive waves destined Hawaii. In just one hour, Kai will lose all he has ever known--including his wife and...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
A 2022 Whiting Award Winner in Fiction
Finalist for the 2022 Reading the West Debut Fiction Award
Finalist for the 2022 Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction
Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Set in the western sagebrush steppe, Site Fidelity is a vivid, intimate, and deeply human exploration of life on the shifting terrain of our changing planet.
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...20) Of a feather
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A baby great horned owl, Second, so called because his sister, First, is already out of the nest, is reluctant to hunt for himself, but when his mother is injured he is forced out into the forest; Maureen is a human girl pulled out of her grandmother's violent home and placed with an aunt--but her Aunt Beatrice is involved in falconry and runs a mews where injured raptors can heal, and it is here Maureen and Second (now called Rufus) meet and learn...