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Publisher
Collier
Pub. Date
1902
Physical Desc
237 p.
Language
English
Description
Considered Maupassant's greatest novel, "Pierre and Jean" is vivid, satirical, and emotionally profound. The Roland brothers, Pierre and Jean, have always been driven by competition. When a lawyer arrives at the house of their parents to declare that an old family friend has bestowed his entire fortune to Jean, the envy hastily becomes an ardent force for Pierre. Roaming the seaport of Le Havre alone, Pierre contemplates, desperate to come to terms...
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Language
English
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The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot's second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver growing up on the river Floss near the town of St. Oggs (a fictionalised version of Gainsborough, in Lincolnshire, England) in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, with both as young adults eventually meeting a tragic end by the Mill which the family holds...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Pub. Date
1910
Edition
Fireside ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 499 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this novel Harriet Beecher Stowe commented on society and social ideals in the late 1800s by sheltering herself behind the masculine figure of Harry Henderson.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Winner of Newbery Award, 1995. After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin and Co
Pub. Date
1910
Edition
Fireside ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 446 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this 1869 novel with the intent to describe a New England village's life and characteristics in the years before the Revolutionary War prior to the advent of the industrial revolution.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin and Co
Pub. Date
1910
Edition
Fireside ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 418 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote part two of this 1869 novel with the intent to describe a New England village's life and characteristics in the years before the Revolutionary War prior to the advent of the industrial revolution.
7) Sounder
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Revised Harper Trophy edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
116 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. The book traces the sorrow and abiding faith of a poor African-American boy in the nineteenth-century South.
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Language
English
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An affecting portrait of interracial love in post-war Japan Pearl S. Buck's The Hidden Flower centers on the relationship between a Japanese student and an American soldier stationed in post-war Japan. The Japanese student's father worked in the United States as a doctor, but had to flee to Kyoto to avoid imprisonment in an internment camp. The American soldier has inherited his family's estate in Virginia, where interracial marriage is forbidden....
10) Dicey's song
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
196 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 1983. Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.