Kathleene Synnott's Library
West Creek High
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780439203074 | The Great Fire | Jim Murphy | An account of the Great Chicago Fire combines archival photographs and drawings with personal accounts by its survivors and historical documents. | Scholastic Nonfiction |
| 9780329572440 | The House On Mango Street | Sandra Cisneros | ||
| 9780786830893 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Gina Ingoglia | In medieval Paris, Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed. | Random House Disney |
| The Importance Of Being Ernest | ||||
| 9781594631931 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | The #1 New York Times bestselling novel beloved by millions of readers the world over.“A vivid and engaging story that reminds us how long his people [of Afghanistan] have been struggling to triumph over the forces of violence—forces that continue to threaten them even today." –New York Times Book ReviewThe unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies.Since its publication in 2003 Kite Runner has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic of contemporary literature, touching millions of readers, and launching the career of one of America's most treasured writers. | Riverhead Books |
| The Lost World | ||||
| 9780226568225 | The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version Of The Indian Epic | R. K. Narayan | Growing from an oral tradition of ballads based on historic events in India, the Mahabharata was passed down and extended through the centuries, becoming the longest poem ever written. R. K. Narayan provides a superb rendition in an abbreviated and elegant retelling of this great epic. | University Of Chicago Press |
| 9781433293559 | The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury | Leaving behind a world on the brink of destruction, man came to the red planet, bringing with him his oldest fears and his deepest desires. The strange new world with its ancient, dying race and vast, red-gold deserts cast a spell on him, settled into his dreams, and changed him forever. | Blackstone Pub |
| 9780877798507 | The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Mass-Market Paperback | Find the right word fast with this indispensable guide from America’s Language Experts.The perfect tool for readers and writers, The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus features more than 150,000 word choices, including related words, antonyms, and near antonyms.Each main entry provides the meaning shared by the synonyms listed and abundant usage examples show words used in context.With words alphabetically organized for ease of use, this thesaurus is perfect for home, school, or work and is a great complement to The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, mass-market paperback. | Merriam-Webster, Inc. | |
| 9780765333339 | The Nightmare Affair (Arkwell Academy) | Mindee Arnett | The Nightmare Affair is the first in a gripping new urban fantasy trilogy by Mindee Arnett.Sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she's a criminal. No, she's a Nightmare.Literally.Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother's infamy, is hard enough. But when Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker's house, things get a whole lot more complicated. He's hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his dreams couldn't get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is dreaming of a murder.Then Eli's dream comes true.Now Dusty has to follow the clues―both within Eli's dreams and out of them―to stop the killer before more people turn up dead. And before the killer learns what she's up to and marks her as the next target. | Tor Teen |
| The Pact | ||||
| The Picture Of Dorian Gray | ||||
| OS_644155C3C62A1900B5C5DE9B | The Prince and the Pauper | Disney | ||
| 9781606862193 | The Road (Oprah's Book Club) | Cormac McCarthy | At once brutal and tender, despairing and rashly hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, this work is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery, and the essential, sometimes terrifying power of filial love. | Perfection Learning |
| 9781598951790 | The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young Puritan woman who has violated the laws of Colonial Boston. As punishment she is ordered to wear the Scarlet Letter of an adulterer for the rest of her life. | In Audio |
| 9780525479994 | The Smile | Donna Jo Napoli | Hers is the most famous portrait in the world. Here, in prose as rich as the high Renaissance, is Mona Lisa?s tale?a story of passion, intrigue, loss, and, most of all, love. Elisabetta longs for romance, though she thinks she is too plain. Then, on a fateful visit to glittering Florence, she catches the eye of the great Leonardo da Vinci, and falls for a boy named Giuliano de? Medici. It is a dangerous time to be?or be involved with?a Medici. As tragedy and chaos threaten their happiness, Elisabetta faces the bittersweet truth of love. | Dutton Books for Young Readers |
| The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde | ||||
| The Sun Also Rises | ||||
| 9780767902892 | The Things They Carried | Tim O'Brien | One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the book simply as "a work of fiction," defying the conscientious reader's need to categorize this masterpiece. It is both: a collection of interrelated short pieces which ultimately reads with the dramatic force and tension of a novel. Yet each one of the twenty-two short pieces is written with such care, emotional content, and prosaic precision that it could stand on its own.The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and of course, the character Tim O'Brien who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers (the old man who leads them unscathed through the mine field, the girl who grieves while she dances), and love for each other, because in Vietnam they are the only family they have. We hear the voices of the men and build images upon their dialogue. The way they tell stories about others, we hear them telling stories about themselves.With the creative verve of the greatest fiction and the intimacy of a searing autobiography, The Things They Carried is a testament to the men who risked their lives in America's most controversial war. It is also a mirror held up to the frailty of humanity. Ultimately The Things They Carried and its myriad protagonists call to order the courage, determination, and luck we all need to survive. | Broadway |
| 9781453064603 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Suzi Alexander | After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great Wizard to return to Kansas. |