Stephanie Rayle's Library
Rossview High
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780809299867 | 101 Best-Loved Poems | Mcgraw-Hill School | This book includes a Prose Supplement, is a revised edition, and compiled by Roy J Cook. | McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. |
| 9780451524935 | 1984 | George Orwell | view Our Feature On George Orwell’s 1984.written In 1948, 1984 Was George Orwell’s Chilling Prophecy About The Future. And While 1984 Has Come And Gone, Orwell’s Narrative Is Timelier Than Ever. 1984 Presents A Startling And Haunting Vision Of The World, So Powerful That It Is Completely Convincing From Start To Finish. No One Can Deny The Power Of This Novel, Its Hold On The Imaginations Of Multiple Generations Of Readers, Or The Resiliency Of Its Admonitions—a Legacy That Seems Only To Grow With The Passage Of Time. examines Different Aspects Of Orwell's Anti-utopian Classic, With A Biographical Sketch Of The Author And Critical Essays On This Work. | Signet Classic |
| 1984 (DVD) | ||||
| 9780385746984 | A Brief Chapter In My Impossible Life | Reinhardt, Dana | Wendy Lamb Books | |
| 9780451529589 | A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court | Mark Twain | Mark Twain moves from broad comedy to biting social satire in this literary classic.Cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur’s England. After using his knoweldge of an upcoming solar eclipse to escape a death sentence, Hank must then navigate his way through a medieval world whose idyllic surface masks fear, injustice, and ignorance.Considered by H. L. Mencken to be “the most bitter critic of American platitude and delusion…that ever lived,” Twain enchants readers with a Camelot that strikes disturbingly contemporary notes in this acclaimed tour de force that encompasses both the pure joy of wild high jinks and deeply probing insights into the nature of man.With an Introduction by Leland KrauthAnd an Afterword by Edmund Reiss | Signet |
| 9780060256739 | A Light in the Attic | Shel Silverstein | Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all night long And sang their same old Whatif song:Whatif I flunk that test?Whatif green hair grows on my chest?Whatif nobody likes me?Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?...Here in the attic of Shel Silverstein you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. You will talk with Broiled Face, and find out what happens when Somebody steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a Mountain snores, and They Put a Brassiere on the Camel.From the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends and Falling Up, here is another wondrous book of poems and drawings.Children's LiteratureMost of us grew up listening to our teachers or our parents reading to us from Shel Silverstein's poetry collections A Light in the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends, or The Giving Tree and loved every humorous moment of them. The only thing better than listening was to hear them and look at the illustrations Silverstein provided for each poem. In this 20th anniversary edition of A Light in the Attic, a new generation of readers is provided the additional joy of listening to Silverstein read—with great enthusiasm—eleven of his personal favorites from the collection. From the woes of homework to the practicalities of the best way to get out of doing the dishes; from the joy of imagining oneself in a rock and roll band to the amazing abilities of the Twistable, Turnable Man; young and young-at-heart readers alike will find themselves laughing at or nodding with the charming characters found in Silverstein's poetry. This collection has been and continues to be a must-use book for teachers working with students of any age to encourage or reinforce a love of poetry. 2001 (orig. 1981), HarperCollins, $22.95 and $17.89. Ages All. Reviewer: Jean Boreen | HarperCollins |
| 9780030957659 | A Midsummer Night's Dream With Connections (Hrw Classics Library) | Shakespeare, William | Holt Rinehart & Winston | |
| A Modern Classic Of The Black Experience | ||||
| 9780743253970 | A Separate Peace | John Knowles | Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II. Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. | Scribner |
| A Separate Peace (DVD) | ||||
| 9780553801279 | A Traitor To Memory | George, Elizabeth | Bantam | |
| 9780440246312 | A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher) | Lee Child | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • THE BLOCKBUSTER JACK REACHER SERIES THAT INSPIRED TWO MAJOR MOTION PICTURES AND THE STREAMING SERIES REACHER“The indomitable Reacher burns up the pages.”—USA TodayFour people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, another telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And a hitchhiker with a broken nose. An hour behind them, the FBI descends on an old pumping station where a man was stabbed to death—the knife work professional, the killers nowhere to be seen.All Jack Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy, in which nothing is what it seems, and nobody is telling the truth.“Furious action . . . [Lee] Child keeps the pacing swift and the surprises rolling. . . . [A] feverishly thrilling series.”—The Miami Herald“Smart, breathless . . . [with] one of the best female characters in the whole Reacher series.”—The New York Times“Subtle and nuanced [with] seductive writing and irresistible plot twists.”—Newsweek | Dell |
| 9780395771549 | A Wrinkle In Time: And Related Readings (Literature Connections) | Madeline L'Engle | it Was A Dark And Stormy Night; Meg Murry, Her Small Brother Charles Wallace, And Her Mother Had Come Down To The Kitchen For A Midnight Snack When They Were Upset By The Arrival Of A Most Disturbing Stranger.wild Nights Are My Glory, The Unearthly Stranger Told Them. I Just Got Caught In A Downdraft And Blown Off Course. Let Me Sit Down For A Moment, And Then I'll Be On My Way. Speaking Of Ways, By The Way, There Is Such A Thing As A Tesseract.a Tesseract (in Case The Reader Doesn't Know) Is A Wrinkle In Time. To Tell More Would Rob The Reader Of The Enjoyment Of Miss L'engle's Unusual Book. a Wrinkle In Time, Winner Of The Newbery Medal In 1963, Is The Story Of The Adventures In Space And Time Of Meg, Charles Wallace, And Calvin O'keefe (athlete, Student, And One Of The Most Popular Boys In High School). They Are In Search Of Meg's Father, A Scientist Who Disappeared While Engaged In Secret Work For The Government On The Tesseract Problem.barbara L. Talcroft - Children's Literaturewinner Of The Newbery Medal In 1963, L'engle's Work Of Fantasy And Science Fiction Combined With Some Christian Theology Has Now Been Read By Several Generations Of Young Enthusiasts. The Author Went On To Write Three Others, Forming A Quartet Based On The Murry Family, And Including Themes Like The Power Of Love And The Need To Make Responsible Moral Choices. In This Story, Meg Murry, Her Extraordinary Little Brother Charles Wallace, And Schoolmate Calvin O'keefe Make The Acquaintance Of Eccentric Mrs. Whatsit And Friends (who Turn Out To Be Extraterrestrial Beings). Together They Journey Through A Wrinkle In Time, A Tesseract, To Rescue The Murrys' Missing Father From An Evil Presence (likened By Some Interpreters To A Black Hole), And A Sinister Brain Called It. Although This Is Fantasy, The Characters Are Portrayed Realistically And Sympathetically; It Is Meg's Ability To Love That Enables Them To Return Safely To Earth And Make Secure The Right To Individuality. L'engle Herself Claims That She Does Not Know How She Came To Write The Story; I Had No Choice, She Says, It Was Only After It Was Written That I Realized What Some Of It Meant. A Plus With This New Edition Is An Essay By Lisa Sonne That Explores Scientific Concepts Related To The Story—multiple Dimensions, Dark Energy, And String Theory. Each Of These Concepts Were Conceived Since The Book's 1962 Publication But Are Amazingly Applicable To a Wrinkle In Time, And Help To Ensure That This Imaginative Book Will Be Read For A Long Time Into The Future. 2005 (orig. 1962), Laurel Leaf/random House, Ages 9 Up. | McDougal Littell |
| 9780439722148 | Absolutely Normal Chaos | Creech, Sharon | Scholastic | |
| 9780515135824 | Acid Row | Walters, Minette | Jove | |
| Adventures In American Literature | ||||
| 9781423148128 | After (Nineteen Stories Of Apocalypse And Dystopia) | Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling | If the melt-down, flood, plague, the third World War, new Ice Age, Rapture, alien invasion, clamp-down, meteor, or something else entirely hit today, what would tomorrow look like? Some of the biggest names in YA and adult literature answer that very question in this short story anthology, each story exploring the lives of teen protagonists raised in catastrophe's wakewhether set in the days after the change, or decades far in the future.New York Times bestselling authors Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Carrie Ryan, Beth Revis, and Jane Yolen are among the many popular and award-winning storytellers lending their talents to this original and spellbinding anthology. | Hyperion Book CH |
| 9781481463348 | All American Boys | Reynolds, Jason, Kiely, Brendan | When Sixteen-year-old Rashad Is Mistakenly Accused Of Stealing, Classmate Quinn Witnesses His Brutal Beating At The Hands Of A Police Officer Who Happens To Be The Older Brother Of His Best Friend. Told Through Rashad And Quinn's Alternating Viewpoints. | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books |
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| 9780451526342 | Animal Farm | George Orwell | Signet |