Catalog Search Results
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 20
Formats
Description
"Dickens creates the Victorian city of Coketown in Northern England to critique the industrialist economy he believed exploited the lives of the working class, destroying human creativity and joy in the process. He brilliantly caricatures the monotony of an increasingly practical world where facts are amassed for their own sake at the expense of a more humane and varied existence."--Provided by Publisher.
2) Hard times
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Classics
Pub. Date
2004
Description
" ... A blistering portrait of Victorian England as it struggles with the massive economic turmoil brought on by the Industrial Revolution."--Page [4] 0f cover.
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
Alternative chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.
7) Rumble fish
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Pub. Date
1989, c1975
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Rusty-James wants to be as tough a teen as his older brother, Motorcycle Boy, who has always helped him out of tough spots. But one day, when Rusty-James faces danger, Motorcycle Boy is not around.
Author
Publisher
Image
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
For years Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Argentina-- now Pope Francis-- and Rabbi Abraham Skorka were tenacious promoters of interreligious dialogues on faith and reason. They both sought to build bridges among Catholicism, Judaism, and the world at large. This work, originally published in Argentina in 2010, brings together a series of these conversations where both men talked about various theological and worldly issues, including...
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
Series
Library of America volume 333
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...
Author
Series
Unwanteds volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
As the Wanteds, Unwanteds, and Necessaries struggle to adjust to changes in their society, Mr. Today begins training fourteen-year-old Alex to replace him as Artime's leader one day while Alex's disgraced twin, Aaron, connives to take over Quill.
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2023, 2022.
Description
"Bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang makes challenging economic ideas delicious by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world, using the diverse histories behind familiar food items to explore economic theory. For Chang, chocolate is a lifelong addiction, but more exciting are the insights it offers into postindustrial knowledge economies; and while okra makes Southern gumbo heart-meltingly smooth, it also speaks of...
Author
Series
Unwanteds volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Divided by their society into Wanted and Unwanted at thirteen, estranged twin brothers Aaron and Alex have both run into trouble--as mage of Artime, Alex must defend the island from attack, while Aaron continues to scheme to take over the islands and get rid of the Unwanteds altogether.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Solutions ... not theories. Political progress ... not political posturing. Instead of the constant jockeying for political advantage, in What Works, author and columnist Cal Thomas focuses on what promotes the general welfare, regardless of which party or ideology gets the credit. Thomas probes and provides answers to questions like, Why must we constantly fight the same battles over and over? Why don't we consult the past and use common sense in...
18) Little Ms. Monda
Description
Within the innermost part of Little Ms. Monda's well-being, feelings of doubt and failure set in. But the stakes are raised when Little Ms. Monda is forced to choose between self-love and loyalty to her family and friends, and pursuing her life with self-worth and value, and recognizing the hurts and issues of other people's opinions. --Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Grimscribe Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"We are Happy, We are Doomed collects fifteen stories of the strange and the terrifying and weaves them into a dark tapestry that magnifies and explores the collective madness of our world. In these pages you'll enter into cosmic blob-worshiping cults and "utopian" communities with dark secrets. You'll experience extra-dimensional coming-of-age rites and the disturbingly colorful end of the world. You'll stumble upon factories that manufacture living...
Didn't Find It?
If we don't have what you're looking for, you have 3 options: ask us to bring it in from another library (interlibrary loan), suggest the library purchase it, or call us for assistance.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? You can suggest the library purchase it by submitting a request, or you might find it through our interlibrary loan service. See your options at https://readokaloosa.org/requests. Purchase Suggestion