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1) The adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Twain, Mark

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"Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting in and out of...

2) Little women

Author

Alcott, Louisa May

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Little Women series volume 1
Classic collection)
Barnes and Noble classics
Collector's editions
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...

3) Where the crawdads sing

Author

Owens, Delia

Series

Reese's book club

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NYT - Audio Fiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Mass Market
NYT - Paperback Trade Fiction

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"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...

4) The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Author

Twain, Mark

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Banned & Challenged Books

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Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic...

5) Anne of Green Gables

Author

Montgomery, L. M

Series

Anne of Green Gables volume 1
Great classics for children
Mackin classics
Usborne Illustrated Originals
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"Marilla Cuthbert and her brother, Matthew, wanted to adopt a boy. Matthew needed someone to help him with the chores on their farm, and they sent word to town to have the orphanage send them a boy. What they got instead was a skinny, freckled-faced, eleven-year-old girl with a head full of dreams."--BOOK JACKET.

6) Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets

Author

Rowling, J. K

Series

Harry Potter (MinaLima edition) volume 2
Year ... at Hogwarts volume 2

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"For Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls' bathroom. But then real trouble begins--someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects ... Harry Potter himself?"--Page...

7) To kill a mockingbird

Author

Lee, Harper

Series

To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Perennial classics
Popular library
G.K. Hall large print book

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Banned & Challenged Books
ESL Topics - Civil Rights
pulitzer
Pulitzer Winners Fiction

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The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic that has been translated into more than 40 languages.

8) Because of Winn-Dixie

Author

DiCamillo, Kate

Series

Andy Shane volume 2

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When ten-year-old India Opal Buloni moves to Naomi, Florida, with her preacher father, she doesn't know what to expect, least of all, that she'll adopt Winn-Dixie, a dog she names after the supermarket where they met. Opal is lonely at first, but with such an unusually friendly dog at her side, she makes some unusual friends and discovers she has a whole lot to be thankful for.

9) Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

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Zevin, Gabrielle

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A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry.

10) Great expectations

Author

Dickens, Charles

Series

The Oxford illustrated Dickens
Canterbury classics
Rinehart editions volume 20
Everyman's library volume 56
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ESL Readers - Level 6

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Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860...