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Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451
Simon and Schuster 2012 1451673310 / 9781451673319 Trade Paperback NEW USED copies may be available in store - call or email for availability. ENGLISH III/GRADE 10/AP 12
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel "Fahrenheit 451"is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott Great Gatsby
Simon & Schuster 0743273567 / 9780743273565 Paperback NEW ~ USED copies may be available.
"The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when "The New York Times" noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s. "The Great Gatsby" is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.
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Haddon, Mark Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Random House 1400032717 / 9781400032716 Paperback NEW ~ USED copies may be available. GRADE 9
After stumbling upon his neighbor's dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork and being blamed for the killing, fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone, an autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, decides to track down the real killer and turns to his detective hero to help him with the investigation, which brings him face to face with a family crisis.
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Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Harper Collins 0060850523 / 9780060850524 Trade Paperback NEW ~ USED copies may be available in store. ENGLISH IV
Huxley's story shows a futuristic World State where all emotion, love, art, and human individuality have been replaced by social stability. An ominous warning to the world's population, this literary classic is a must-read.
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Orwell, George 1984
Penguin 0451524934 / 9780451524935 Paperback NEW ~ USED copies may be available. GRADE 10
Satire on the possible horrors of a totalitarian regime in England in 1984
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Schmidt, Gary Trouble
0547331339 / 9780547331331 Paperback NEW GRADE 9-ALL CLASSES MUST READ
"Henry Smith's father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you." But Trouble comes careening down the road one night in the form of a pickup truck that strikes Henry's older brother, Franklin. In the truck is Chay Chouan, a young Cambodian from Franklin's preparatory school, and the accident sparks racial tensions in the school--and in the well-established town where Henry's family has lived for generations. Caught between anger and grief, Henry sets out to do the only thing he can think of: climb Mt. Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine, which he and Franklin were going to climb together. Along with Black Dog, whom Henry has rescued from drowning, and a friend, Henry leaves without his parents' knowledge. The journey, both exhilarating and dangerous, turns into an odyssey of discovery about himself, his older sister, Louisa, his ancestry, and why one can never escape from Trouble.
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Walls, Jeanette Glass Castle
Simon & Schuster 074324754X / 9780743247542 Paperback NEW ~ USED copies may be available. GRADE 11
In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severely misguided family.
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