Grace Gilliam's Library
Rossview High
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780516233567 | Essential Gardening For Teens (High Interest Books: Outdoor Life) | Ruth Chasek | Provides information on planning, preparing, planting, and taking care of a garden plot or container garden. | Childrens Pr |
| 9780789457684 | Eyewitness: Invention | Lionel Bender | Full-color photos. The evolution of human civilization is traced through the tools people have devised to shape and improve the world--from the simple abacus to timekeeping items, telephones, and complex silicon chips. | DK Children |
| 9780789448859 | Eyewitness: Light | David Burnie | A guide to the origins, principles, and historical study of light. | DK CHILDREN |
| 9780789448866 | Eyewitness: Matter | Chris Cooper | Examines the elements that make up the physical world and the properties and behavior of different kinds of matter | DK Children |
| 9780345342966 | Fahrenheit 451. Vokabularien | Ray Bradbury | Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. | Ballantine Books |
| 9780486288598 | Favorite Greek Myths (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) | Bob Blaisdell | The Greek myths have intrigued countless generations of readers with their exciting tales of adventure, calamity, and conquest. This entertaining collection — excellently retold for young audiences by Bob Blaisdell — invites children to relive the memorable experiences of familiar characters from Greek mythology.Taken directly from the writings of Homer, Hesiod, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, and other ancient storytellers, the myths recount the stirring and imaginative tales of Pandora's box, Prometheus, the dreaded Cyclops, the labors of the mighty Hercules, the captivating stories of Narcissus and Echo, Aphrodite and Eros, Daedalus and Icarus, Hades and Persephone, and many more.Set in large, easy-to-read type and enhanced by six full-page black-and-white illustrations, these enduring fables from the fountainhead of Western civilization will thrill and delight new generations of adventure-seekers. | Dover Publications |
| Fifty Great Short Stories | ||||
| Fingerprints And Talking Bones | ||||
| 9780451530226 | Four Major Plays, Volume I (Signet Classics) | Henrik Ibsen | Four Major Plays: Volume IA Doll House • The Wild Duck • Hedda Gabler • The Master BuilderAmong the greatest and best known of Ibsen’s works, these four plays brilliantly exemplify his landmark contributions to the theater: his realistic dialogue, probing of social problems, and depiction of characters’ inner lives as well as their actions. Rich in symbolism and often autobiographical, each of these dramas deals convincingly and provocatively with such universal themes as greed, fear, and sexual hostility, and confronts the eternal conflict between reality and illusion. These Rolf Fjelde translations have been widely acclaimed as the definitive versions of the major works of the father of modern theater.Translated and with a Foreword by Rolf FjeldeAnd an Afterword by Joan Templeton | Signet |
| 9780689711817 | From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | E.L. Konigsburg | A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with E. L. Konigsburg’s beloved classic and Newbery Medal–winning novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler! When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort-she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her money, and she invited her brother Jamie to go, mostly because be was a miser and would have money. Claudia was a good organizer and Jamie bad some ideas, too; so the two took up residence at the museum right on schedule. But once the fun of settling in was over, Claudia had two unexpected problems: She felt just the same, and she wanted to feel different; and she found a statue at the Museum so beautiful she could not go home until she bad discovered its maker, a question that baffled the experts, too. The former owner of the statue was Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Without her—well, without her, Claudia might never have found a way to go home. | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
| 9781416914631 | Go Ask Alice (Anonymous Diaries) | Anonymous | A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale.January 24thAfter you’ve had it, there isn't even life without drugs…It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth—and ultimately her life.Read her diary.Enter her world.You will never forget her.For thirty-five years, the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teenage girl’s harrowing decent into the nightmarish world of drugs has left an indelible mark on generations of teen readers. As powerful—and as timely—today as ever, Go Ask Alice remains the definitive book on the horrors of addiction. | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
| 9780767904421 | Going After Cacciato: A Novel | Tim O'Brien | A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIED"To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales."So wrote The New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked this strangest of wars.In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier who one day lays down his rifle and sets off on a quixotic journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris. In its memorable evocation of men both fleeing from and meeting the demands of battle, Going After Cacciato stands as much more than just a great war novel. Ultimately it's about the forces of fear and heroism that do battle in the hearts of us all.Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content | Crown |
| 9780486445779 | Great Inaugural Addresses (Dover Thrift Editions: Speeches/Quotations) | James Daley | The President's inaugural address reflects the current state of the nation and offers insights into the coming administration. This collection features the voices of twenty Chief Executives, from George Washington's 1789 oration to the 2009 speech by Barack Obama. Highlights include John F. Kennedy's exhortation to "Ask not what your country can do for you," Franklin D. Roosevelt's assertion that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself," and Abraham Lincoln's wartime vision of "a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."An ideal resource for students of political science and American history, this compendium of stirring speeches will inspire readers of every political persuasion. | Dover Publications |
| Great Short Works Of Mark Twain | ||||
| Gulliver's Travels | ||||
| 9780439598033 | HAMLET | SHAKESPEARE | SCHOLASTIC | |
| 9780545318570 | Head Cases | Kristen Azzara | Meet A Man Who Was Stabbed In The Brain-and Lived To Tell The Story! Read About A Boy Who Thinks His Parents Are Really Strangers In Disguise. Learn About A Woman Who Smells Nasty Odors That Are Not Really There. Your Brain Weighs Just Three Pounds. Yet, It Is The Most Powerful And Complex Organ In Your Body. It Can Withstand Major Trauma. And It Can Cause Major Drama! The Case Studies In This Book Are Fascinating And Bizarre. Read On To Learn More.--back Cover. | |
| 9780439523486 | Hope Was Here | Joan Bauer | When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor. | |
| 9780823928446 | In The Camps: Teens Who Survived The Nazi Concentration Camps (Teen Witnesses To The Holocaust) | Toby Axelrod | Relates the stories of Jewish teenagers who were sent to Nazi concentration camps where they survived years of exhausting labor, scarce food, and cruel guards | Rosen Pub Group |
| 9780823928453 | In The Ghettos: Teens Who Survived The Ghettos Of The Holocaust (Teen Witnesses To The Holocaust) | Eleanor H. Ayer | Chronicles the deportation of Jews into ghettos during Hitler's Third Reich and presents the narratives of three individuals who, as teenagers, lived in the ghettos of Lodz, Theresienstadt, and Warsaw and survived physical deprivations, abuse, and deportation to the death camps.Chronicles the deportation of Jews into ghettos during Hitler's Third Reich and presents the narratives of three individuals who lived in the ghettos and survived deportation to the death camps | Rosen Pub Group |