Catalog Search Results
81) The Iliad
Author
Description
Homer's Iliad describes the final year of the Trojan War, a legendary conflict between an alliance of Greek cities and the city of Troy in Anatolia
The greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability"...
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When the three younger Penderwick sisters go to Maine with Aunt Claire and are separated from oldest sister Rosalind for the first time in their lives, an uncertain Skye is left in charge as the OAP--oldest available Penderwick.
83) The last battle
Author
Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When evil comes to Narnia, Jill and Eustace help fight the great last battle and Aslan leads his people to a glorious new paradise.
84) Ulysses
Author
Description
The classic novel tells the story of one day in the life of Leopold Bloom, a half-Jewish advertising canvasser, as he wanders the streets of Dublin in 1904.
85) The color purple
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love...
87) The Pearl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems" -- P. 4 of cover.
Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
This book is an historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To kill a mockingbird. Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go set a watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To kill a mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. Go set a watchman...
89) Cannery row
Author
Series
Description
Set in a seedy California town that once harbored a thriving fishing industry, a marine biologist and young runaway find themselves and romance amid an assortment of hapless characters.
92) Fahrenheit 451
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear.
93) The time machine
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
H.G. Wells's 1894 novel (his first) describes the adventures of his hero, the time-traveler, mostly in the year A.D. 802,701, when he encounters a class-ridden battle between the decadent Eloi and the primitive Morlocks. This multi-voiced presentation works well, especially in the opening and closing scenes when the hero displays his time apparatus to his skeptical friends. Michael York, as the time-traveler, nicely evokes the wonder of encountering...
94) Puss in Boots
Author
Description
A poor young man gains a fortune and meets a beautiful princess when his cat outwits an evil giant.
95) One of ours
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her ardor for missionary work, and dissatisfied with...
97) The jungle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Describes the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young immigrant struggling in America.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 42
Description
The young and headstrong D'Artagnan, having proven his bravery by dueling with each, becomes a friend of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, members of the King's Musketeers. He is in love with Constance Bonancieux and, at her urging, he and his friends head for England to reclaim two diamond studs that the Queen has imprudently given to her lover, the Duke of Buckingham. Richelieu, the chief minister of King Louis XIII, will resort to anything, even murder,...
100) The subtle knife
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Description
As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request