Title |
Author |
Description |
Speak |
Laurie Halse Anderson |
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's
freshman year in high school. |
The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
Mitch Albom |
A man who died while trying to save a girl from danger discovers that all will be
explained to him in heaven. |
The Martian Chronicles |
Ray Bradbury |
What begins as a Mars expedition and probe into new frontiers becomes a confrontation
with the past. |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
Mark Twain |
The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi
River town. |
Wuthering Heights |
Emily Bronte |
Classic gothic tale of love, violence and misery, set on the moors of England. |
A Lesson Before Dying |
Ernest J. Gaines |
A tale about the friendship of two black men, one wrongly condemned to die and one who
loses his pride. |
Animal Farm |
George Orwell |
When barnyard animals assume leadership of a farm they learn that some animals are
more equal than others. |
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants |
Ann Brashares |
Four best girlfriends spend the biggest summer of their lives enchanted by a magical
pair of pants. |
Backwater |
Joan Bauer |
Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with
whom she identifies. |
A Day No Pigs Would Die |
Rober Newton Peck |
A Vermont farm boy, with a dying father, needs to find a way to feed his family. |
The Hobbit |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
The adventures of Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit, who is invited to go on epic adventures
with Gandalf the Wizard. |
The Pigman & Me |
Paul Zindel |
An account of Paul Zindel's teenage years on Staten Island when his life was enriched
by finding his own personal pigman, or mentor. |
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