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1) The jungle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The Jungle prompted the immediate passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and launched Upton Sinclair's career as a champion of the working class. This quintessential muckraking novel changed the course of history with its gruesomely detailed depiction of Chicago's meat-packing industry. By following Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus's descent through the brutal? bloody hell of "Packingtown" and Chicago's seamy web of graft and corruption? Sinclair...
2) Martin Eden
Author
Language
English
Description
The semiautobiographical story of an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame.
3) Empire falls
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it's Janine, Miles' soon-to-be ex-wife, who's taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. Or perhaps it's the imperious Francine Whiting, who owns everything in...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
Pip is a poor orphan, a boy with "no expectations" being raised by his unkind sister and her husband in a small home on the marshes of Kent. But when Pip meets the bizarre Miss Havisham and her beautiful ward, Estella, he starts to yearn for a life as a gentleman. However, Pip will discover that wealth and honesty do not go hand in hand, and that kindness can be found in the most surprising places. A love story, a mystery, and a sharp critique of...
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Series
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"'Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our family knows and all the stories everyone in our family tells. You write 'em in your books and show everyone who we are.' So begins DéLana R.A. Dameron's stunning novel-in-stories, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Mosby spends much of her time in the care of loved ones, listening to their...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"A best-selling and beloved author, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters who made Nobody's Fool, his third novel, his first great success. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is now staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he only has a year or two left, and he's busy as hell keeping the news from the most important people in...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl arrives in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer"--
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