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1) The trial
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Description
Joseph K. is suddenly arrested and must spend the rest of his life fighting a charge against him about which he can get no information.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Golding’s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age.
This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer Buehler.
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision,...
This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer Buehler.
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
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"Considered the greatest satire ever written in English, Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' chronicles the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, principally to four marvelous realms: Lilliput, where the people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land inhabited by giants; Laputa, a wondrous flying island; and a country where the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses, are served by savage humanoid creatures called Yahoos. Beneath the surface of this enchanting...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms...
9) The oath
Author
Publisher
Word Pub
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Description
In the 1880s, a fiery preacher is hanged in a mining town by people who reject God in favor of Reason. The people's sins give birth to a dragon which to this day terrorizes the area. The story is recounted by a wildlife biologist who meets the dragon while investigating killer-bears. By the author of This Present Darkness.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2006
Description
This follow-up to the classic black comedy about the film industry.
In The Player, the Hollywood novel that was adapted into the celebrated movie by Robert Altman, film executive Griffin Mill got away with murder. Now Mill is back, down to his last six million dollars, i.e., broke. His second wife wants to leave him. His first wife still loves him. His children hate him. And, believing that the end of the world is happening, he wants to save them...
11) Ulysses
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Formats
Description
This account of several lower class citizens of Dublin describes their activities and tells what some of them were thinking one day in 1904.
12) The sea wolf
Author
Description
Life of a Norwegian sealing schooner and a grim picture of a sailor who is a combination of savage and superman.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 25
Description
Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man. Light in August is the story od Lena Grove's search for the father of her unborn child, and features one of Faulkner's most memorable characters: Joe Christmas, a desperate drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.
14) El astillero
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Larsen, el conocido Larsen de La vida breve, el hombre que "creyó de una manera y ahora sigue creyendo de otra, que no nació para morir sino para ganar e imponerse", regresa a Santa María cinco años después de que el gobernador decidiera expulsarlo, para consumar su venganza. Nada ha cambiado demasiado en esa pequeña ciudad imaginaria, en la que el astillero se levanta con la convicción de un espejismo, y al que Larsen se acerca para, quizás,...
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