John Steinbeck
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Description
Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they are trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California along with thousands of other "Okies" seeking jobs, land, dignity, and a future....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression
They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation.
Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For...
They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation.
Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For...
4) The pearl
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
6) The red pony
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1992, c1938
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
7) Cannery row
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2002, 1945.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Vividly depicts the colorful, sometimes disreputable, inhabitants of a run-down area in Monterey, California.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 72
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
1994
10) East of Eden
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
Description
Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families -- the Trasks and the Hamiltons -- whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
11) East of Eden
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c1954
Description
The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900's in Northern California.