Grace Gilliam's Library
Rossview High
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0590431609 | My Side of the Mountain | |||
| 9780791036754 | Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter: Bloom's Notes (Contemporary Literary Views) | Harold Bloom | Examines the plot, characters, setting, themes, symbolism, and structure of The Scarlet Letter and offers guidance on writing term papers and preparing for tests dealing with the novel | Chelsea House Pub (T) |
| 9780753460115 | New York Times Speed Show: How NASCAR Won The Heart Of America | Dave Caldwell | Daytona Beach, Florida, 2001. Sportswriter Dave Caldwell watches from the stands as a black Chevrolet pulls ahead in the final laps of the Daytona 500. In an instant, it's over. The car smashes into a wall at 175 miles an hour, killing one of stock car racing's most loved drivers. The death of Dale Earnhardt inspired an outpouring of grief, drawing new fans to the sport and driving NASCAR to the top of the sporting industry. From its roots during Prohibition to today's die-hard fans, Dave Caldwell weaves together his firsthand observations as a NASCAR reporter with excerpts from The New York Times archives to give readers an inside look at the spectacle that is America's new favorite pastime. | Kingfisher |
| 9780582461468 | Of Mice And Men | John Steinbeck, Susan Shillinglaw | "Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place ...With us it ain't like that.We got a future ...because I got you to look after me and you got me to look after you." George and Lennie are migrant American labourers the one alert and protective and the other strong, stupid and potentially dangerous. This is the powerful story of their relationship and their dreams of finding a more stable and less lonely way of life. This hardback educational edition contains notes to help students' understanding. | Longman |
| Oskar Schindler | ||||
| 9781580493185 | Practice Makes Perfect: Preparation For State Reading Assesments Level 9 | Sondra Y. Abel | Blow Away Standardized Reading Comprehension ExamsPractice selections and activities modeled on the Common Core Standards, CAT6, TAKS, WASL, ITBS, FCAT, and Other Widely Used AssessmentsEach book in the series, contains 35 nonfiction selections with multiple choice and open-ended comprehension questions, which are modeled after those on standardized assessment tests. As an added bonus, each book also provides tips and strategies that work, not only for taking standardized tests, but also for gleaning the important information from any reading material.Note From Publisher: This is a classroom edition for students. Answer Keys are available from the publisher, but are sold only to schools and teachers. | Prestwick House, Inc. |
| Pudd'nhead Wilson | ||||
| R Is For Rocket | ||||
| 9780823928484 | Rescuers Defying The Nazis: Non-Jewish Teens Who Rescued Jews (Teen Witnesses To The Holocaust) | Toby Axelrod | Relates the stories of courageous non-Jewish teenagers who rescued Jews from the Nazis | Rosen Pub Group |
| Riverthunder | ||||
| 9780385333214 | Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1) | Homer Hickam | The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space . . . and who made those dreams come true.With the grace of a natural storyteller, NASA engineer Homer Hickam paints a warm, vivid portrait of the harsh West Virginia mining town of his youth, evoking a time of innocence and promise, when anything was possible, even in a company town that swallowed its men alive. A story of romance and loss, of growing up and getting out, Homer Hickam's lush, lyrical memoir is a chronicle of triumph—at once exquisitely written and marvelously entertaining.Now with 8 pages of photographs.A number-one New York Times bestseller in mass market, brought to the screen in the acclaimed film October Sky, Homer Hickam's memoir, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, comes to trade paperback with an all-new photo insert.One of the most beloved bestsellers in recent years, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir. A powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the end of the 1950s, it is the story of a mother's love and a father's fears, of growing up and getting out. With the grace of a natural storyteller, Homer Hickam looks back after a distinguished NASA career to tell his own true story of growing up in a dying coal town and of how, against the odds, he made his dreams of launching rockets into outer space come true.A story of romance and loss and a keen portrait of life at an extraordinary point in American history, Rocket Boys is a chronicle of triumph. Book Magazine This nostalgic memoir chronicles the rocket launching adventures of Homer Hickam and his friends during their teenage years in Coalwood, West Virginia, in the 1950s. Inspired by the historic Soviet Sputnik launch in 1957, Hickam and his self-proclaimed Big Creek Missile Agency decided to launch a rocket into space. Unbeknowst to them, this seemingly harmless pursuit changes a destiny bound for a life of laboring in Coalwood's bituminous coal mines. Hickam would, in fact, grow up to be a pioneering NASA engineer at the Marshall Space Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Hickam's plain-spoken narrative captures the wide-eyed innocence of the era and draws the reader into a world of boyhood friendships, school-girl crushes and adolescent dreams. Coalwood, an impoverished small town where a promising future consisted of issuing a young boy a mining hat upon high-school graduation, however, is a less than idyllic place for dreams. Instead it serves as a reminder of the author's youthful yearning for a brighter future. In Hickam's teenage world, characters are observed through idle talk or the occasional encounter, emotions are distant curiosities, and glimpses of life in the 1950s are only frames of reference. This is neither a famous astronaut's autobiography nor a dramatic portrayal of life in Cold War America. It's simply a true-life adventure that tickles the imagination while it evokes a more idealistic time.­William Travis | Delta |
| Romeo And Juliet | ||||
| 9781586638450 | Romeo And Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare) | Shakespeare, William | No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Romeo and Juliet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language A complete list of characters with descriptions Plenty of helpful commentary Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character. | SparkNotes |
| Run For Your Life | ||||
| Running On Eggs | ||||
| 9780439135238 | Samir And Yonatan | Carmi, Daniella | Samir, A Palestinian Boy, Is Sent For Surgery To An Israeli Hospital Where He Has Two Otherworldly Experiences, Making Friends With An Israeli Boy, Yonatan, And Traveling With Him To Mars Where Samir Finds Peace Over His Younger Brother's Death In The War | Blue Sky Press |
| 9780134354651 | SCARLET LETTER (HC) C2000 | Savvas Learning Co | The Savvas Learning Company Library Collection offers you over 1200 fiction, nonfiction, classic, adapted classic, illustrated classic, short stories, biographies, special anthologies, atlases, visual dictionaries, history trade, animal, sports titles and more! | Savvas Learning Co |
| 9780465092659 | Shakespeare | Michael Wood | In this absorbing historical detective story, acclaimed broadcaster and historian Michael Wood takes an entirely fresh approach to the Bard's life, vividly re-creating the turbulent times through which he lived and painting a more convincing and complete portrait of the artist than has ever before been thought possible. Drawing on an extensive range of sources, Wood takes us back into the staterooms and back alleys of Elizabethan England. Marked by murderous plots and government-sponsored terror, religious divisions and rebellious movements, the Spanish Armada and the colonization of the Americas, the dramatic world in which Shakespeare moved is here conjured up like never before. We enter the lodgings where he wrote his greatest plays and meet the real-life characters who inspired his work: doctors, landladies, musicians, foreigners, and members of London's contemporary black population. With 130 illustrations, full-color and black-and-white, Shakespeare is a book to enjoy on many levels-as both a world-class work of historical investigation and a fascinating yet informative visual feast. Filled with fresh discoveries, Michael Wood's pathbreaking work gloriously reinstates the image of William Shakespeare as a thinking artist, a man who held up a mirror to his age, but who was also, as his friend Ben Jonson said, "not of an age, but for all time." | Basic Books |
| Short Story Masterpieces | ||||
| Star Trek |