The Joy Luck Club

from the back cover: There are so many things that a mother wishes to teach her daughter. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to keep hoping, when hope is your only joy. How to laugh for ever. This is the story of four mothers and their daughters - Chinese-American women, the mothers born in China, and the daughters born in America. Through their eyes we see life in pre-Revolutio…

The Catcher in The Rye

Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll p…

Fahrenheit 451

When Mildred attempts suicide, and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life. First published in 1953, Fahrenheit 451 is a classic novel set in the future when books forbidden by a totalitarian regime are burned. The hero, a book burner, su…

Al Capone Does My Shirt : A Tale from Alcatraz

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ISBN/ISSN

9780142403709

Collation

225p; ill; bw; pbk

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CHO

National Geographic World Atlas

Edition

Fourth Edition

ISBN/ISSN

9781426314032

Collation

207p; ill; col; pbk

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Call Number

912 NAT w

Bloodlines : Control under Fire

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ISBN/ISSN

9781406242232

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88p; ill col; pbk

Series Title

Bloodlines

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F SHE b

Thea Stilton and the Spanish Dance Mission

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ISBN/ISSN

9780545556262

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F STI t

Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Islands (Graphic Novel)

This book a contemporary retelling of a classic story: Treasure Island. The area for review in this novel is content. The magic of this book lies in the way that it is presented to the student. Not only is a classic book broken down to a readable level for young readers, but it also creates interest within students. The classic story is easily broken down to a young reader's ability with th…

The Canterville Ghost

from the back cover : There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville's family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy the new house and the ghost - because of course don't believe in ghosts. The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten the life out of th Otis family.…

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

from the back cover: There were six of them - three Katherines, two Annes, and a Jane. One of them was the King's wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and a half. One died, two were divorced, and two were beheaded. It was a dangerous, uncertain life. After the King's death in 1547, his sixth wife finds a box of old letters - one from each of the first five wives. They are sad, …