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Our Town
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 3.9. Author: Thornton Wilder. Key Award: Pulitzer Prize.
First produced and published in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize–winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners has become an American classic and is Thornton Wider's most renowned and most frequently performed play.
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Tom's Midnight Garden
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 6.1. Author: Philippa Pearce. Key Award: Carnegie Medal.
Tom is furious. His brother, Peter, has measles, so now Tom is being shipped off to stay with Aunt Gwen and Uncle Alan in their boring old apartment. Then one night the landlady's antique grandfather clock strikes thirteen times, leading Tom to a wonderful, magical discovery and marking the beginning of a secret that's almost too amazing to be true. Tom discovers a special friend named Hatty and more than a summer's worth of adventure for both of them!
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 6.5. Author: James Hilton.
The classic story of a much-loved schoolteacher through the long years of his tenure at Brookfield, the fictional boys' public boarding school where he has taught.
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Of Mice and Men
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 4.5. Mature Content. Author: John Steinbeck. Key Award: Nobel Prize for author.
The tragic story of the complex bond between two migrant laborers in Central California. They are George Milton and Lennie Small, itinerant ranch hands who dream of one day owning a small farm. George acts as a father figure to Lennie, who is a very large, simpleminded man, calming him and helping to reign in his immense physical strength.
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Old Man and the Sea, The
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 5.1. Author: Ernest Hemingway. Key Award: Pulitzer Prize.
An old Cuban fisherman triumphs over a giant marlin--only to have his prized catch literally eaten away by circling sharks.
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Red Pony, The
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 6.1. Author: John Steinbeck. Key Award: Nobel Prize for author.
The moving and beautiful story of a boy, a sorrel colt, and the sun-drenched California earth told through four stories.
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Fahrenheit 451
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 7.0. Author: Ray Bradbury. Classic.
"The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden." Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames...never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then Guy met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think. And Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do...
Fahrenheit 451, first published in 1953, is a classic science fiction book about dystopia (where the conditions of life in a society are miserable, and characterized by human misery, poverty, oppression, violence, disease, and/or pollution). This is one of three books considered to be the greatest books written about dystopia (the other two books are "1984" by George Orwell, and "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley).
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Trumpeter of Krakow, The
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 7.1 Author: Eric P. Kelly. Key Award: Newbery Medal.
The Trumpeter of Krakow is a children's historical novel by Eric P. Kelly that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1929. Centered around the historical fire that burned much of Kraków in 1462, The Trumpeter of Krakow tells the fictional story of a family of Ukrainian peasants who flee to Kraków, Poland, in 1461 after their home is burned to the ground by the Cossack-Tartar Bogdan Grozny, commonly known to the Poles as Peter of the Button Face because of the button-shaped pockmark on his cheek.
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Great Gatsby, The
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 7.3. Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Many consider The Great Gatsby the closest thing to the Great American Novel ever written. First published in 1925, it is the timeless story of Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby lives in the New York suburb of West Egg, where those with "new money" reside. Gatsby's mansion is right across the bay from the home of his wartime love, Daisy Buchanan, pictured always in white.
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