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The Running Dream
Wendelin Van Draanen - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2012 Schneider Family Book AwardJessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. Shes not comforted by the news that shell be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about walking when you live to run?As she struggles to cope with crutches... |
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Red Glass
Laura Resau - Delacorte Press
Format: Book
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"A captivating read. " - School Library Journal, Starred One night Sophie and her parents are called to a hospital where Pedro, a six-year-old Mexican boy, is recovering from dehydration. Crossing the border into Arizona with a group of Mexicans and a coyote, or guide, Pedro and his parents... |
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Red Glass
Laura Resau - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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ONE NIGHT SOPHIE and her parents are called to a hospital where Pedro, 6-year-old Mexican boy, is recovering from dehydration. Crossing the border into Arizona with a group of Mexicans and a coyote, or guide, Pedro and his parents faced such harsh conditions that the boy is the only survivor.... |
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To Kill a Mockingbird, 50th Anniversary Edition
Harper Lee - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes... |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Lee, Harper
Format: electronic resource
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Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most... |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Smith Betty - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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The American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.From the moment she entered the world, Francie needed to be made of stern... |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith - HarperCollins e-books; Reprint edition
Format: Audiobook
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The American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. |
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
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This new edition of Huckleberry Finn, based on the recently discovered original handwritten manuscript, is destined to become the standard of this American classic. The volume inclues a discussion by Professor Victor Doyno, President of the Twain Circle and the author of a definitive book... |
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The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover
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A beautiful and timeless story about friendship, secrets, and the human spirit, The Secret Garden tells the story of orphaned Mary Lennox, who is sent to live in her uncle's house on the Yorkshire moors. Her uncle's wife died tragically ten years earlier, and the house is an unhappy... |
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The Invention of Wings: With Notes
Sue Monk Kidd - Penguin
Format: Audiobook
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Hetty "Handful" Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke's daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world,... |
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The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestseller of hope, daring, and the quest for freedom taken on by two unforgettable American women, from the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees. "A remarkable novel that heightened my sense of what it meant to be a woman - slave or free... |
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The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One)
Collins, Suzanne
Format: electronic resource
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This Special Edition of The Hunger Games includes the most extensive interview Suzanne Collins has given since the publication of The Hunger Games; an absorbing behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the series; and an engaging archival conversation between Suzanne... |
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The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins - Scholastic Inc.
Format: eBook
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Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun. . . . In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts... |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Format: Paperback
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A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who dont know how to live properly. Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their... |
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Great Expectations (Bantam Classics)
Charles Dickens
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In the marshy mists of a village churchyard, atiny orphan boy named Pip is suddenly terrified by ashivering, limping convict on the run. Yearslater, a supremely arrogant young Pip boards the coachto London where, by the grace of a mysteriousbenefactor, he will join the ranks of the idle... |
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The Color Purple
Alice Walker - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize, "The Color Purple" established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. Her unforgettable portrait of Celie and her friends, family, and lovers is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable... |
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The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Format: electronic resource
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused... |
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