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1) Ramona
Author
Series
Avon volume 25130
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ramona (1884) is a novel by Helen Hunt Jackson. Inspired by her activism for the rights of Native Americans, Ramona is a story of racial discrimination, survival, and history set in California in the aftermath of the Mexican American War. Immensely popular upon publication, Ramona earned favorable comparisons to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and remains an influential sentimental novel to this day. Orphaned after the death of her foster...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Book Co
Pub. Date
c1947
Language
English
Description
This classic collection, first published in 1938, serves as a wonderful introduction to Steinbeck's work. These stories reflect Steinbeck's characteristic interests--the tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present.
5) Ribsy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Separated from his owner, Henry Huggins, in a shopping center parking lot, an ordinary city dog begins a string of bewildering adventures.
6) Go Ask Alice
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
Author
Series
Great sea battles of World War II volume 1
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1981
Language
English
Description
An account of the June, 1942, air battle between American and Japanese forces which proved a decisive defeat for the Japanese and the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
1981, c1980
Language
English
Description
While struggling to adjust to life in middle school, Kate Harris unwittingly sparks an angry controversy when she innocently reads a picture book to some first graders--a book which parents, librarians, and teachers cannot decide is educational or obscene.
18) The Executioner
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Survivors of an automobile crash are threatened by a person who believes they should die.