John Steinbeck
1) East of Eden
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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.
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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
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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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers
To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.
With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads,...
To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.
With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads,...
6) The pearl
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
8) 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.
9) The red pony
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1992, c1938
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Author
Series
Library of America volume 72
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
1994
Author
Series
Library of America volume 86
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
c1996
18) The wayward bus
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006
Description
The ambitions, dreams, failings, and innermost thoughts of a diverse group of passengers are revealed as they travel aboard a bus along the backroads of California. Set in post-World War II, the story transpires in the course of a single day, opening before dawn in the lunchroom at Rebel Corners and ending after dusk as the bus nears its destination, the fictional town of San Juan de la Cruz.