Aesop's Fables
A collection of the brief animal tales with specific morals which are attributed to a wise Greek slave.
398.2
year: 2015
copies: 282
call number/section: 398.2
lexile: 760
subjects: fables, folklore, aesop, a lion and mouse, wind and sun, fables, greek, aesop, mythology, classical, mythology myth myths, folktales folk tales, fairy tales folklore legends, animals, legends and stories of, fables, aesop's fables, fables, picture books for children, storytelling, reading readiness
Little Women
An abridged version of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of four sisters growing up in 1800s New England; and contains over 400 vocabulary words and definitions, synonyms and pronunciation for each word, and discussion questions.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 204
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1300
subjects: sisters, family life, new england, historical fiction, family life- new england, new england- history- 19th century, march family (fictional characters), mother-daughter relationship, young women, march family (fictitious characters), mothers and daughters, family, compact discs, bildungsromans, girls, family - fiction, new england - fiction, united states, families, autobiographical fiction, domestic fiction, bildungsromans, domestic fiction, autobiographical fiction, march, jo, march, amy (fictitious character), march, beth (fictitious character), march, meg (fictitious character), cartoons and comics, manga, comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, graphic novels, confederate states of america, electronic books
The Secret Garden
An illustrated edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's classic about a ten-year-old girl named Mary, orphaned by a cholera outbreak, who comes to live at a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers Colin, her invalid cousin, and the mysteries of a locked garden.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 173
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 970
subjects: gardens, physically handicapped, yorkshire (england), large type books, orphans, england, people with disabilities, great britain, loneliness, closed caption video recordings, orphans -, children, orphans-fiction, gardens-fiction, physically handicapped-fiction, yorkshire (england)-fiction, friendship, people with physical disabilities, children's stories, children with disabilities, children with physical disabilities, yorkshire, cousins, secrecy, secrets
Moby Dick
Herman Melville's classic novel about a young seaman who joins the crew of a whaling ship commanded by the fanatical Captain Ahab, who is in pursuit of a white whale.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 51
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 340
subjects: adventure, classics, whales, ahab, captain (fictitious character), whaling ships, ship captains, whaling, high interest /low vocabulary books, ahab, captain (fictional character), sea stories, mentally ill, audiobooks, adventure fiction, graphic novels, revenge, de ballenas - ficcion, reading materials, comic books, strips, etc, ocean, spanish language, sea stories, donation, adventure stories, adventure and adventurers, psychological fiction, psychological fiction, adventure stories
The War Of The Worlds
Deeply concerned with the welfare of contemporary society, Wells wrote his novel of interplanetary conflict in anticipation of war in Europe, and in it he predicted the technological savagery of twentieth-century warfare.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 119
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 300
subjects: science fiction, war, war stories, imaginary wars and battles, extraterrestrial beings, life on other planets, british literature, cartoons and caricatures, space warfare, graphic novels, comic books, strips, etc, reading materials, science fiction, graphic novels, war stories, mars (planet), war fiction, aliens (fictional characters), martians, human-alien encounters, earth (planet), earth, electronic books
The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
Presents the original text of the Mark Twain story that relates the escapades of Tom Sawyer and his friends in a small, 19th-century town on the Mississippi River, and provides side notes, illustrations, and annotations that contain information on the history, geography, and social customs of the day.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 238
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950
subjects: misouri fiction, mississippi river fiction, sawyer, tom (fictitious character), adventure and adventurers, sawyer, tom (fictional character), mississippi river, missouri, boys, sawyer, tom, clemens, samuel langhorne, adventure fiction, large type books, runaway children, mississippi river valley, fugitive slaves, southern states, adventure stories, humorous fiction, finn, huckleberry (fictitious character), fiction, historical fiction, adventure fiction, child witnesses, bildungsromans, humorous stories, bildungsromans, united states, sawyer, tom, humorous stories, adventure stories, sawyer, tom (fictitious character), adventure, fiction book, quest, mississippi, audiobooks, compact discs, humorous fiction, witnesses, electronic books, action and adventure fiction
Dracula
In Transylvania there once lived a Count. His name and the name of his castle are the same: Dracula.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 98
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 520
subjects: graphic novels, comic books, strips, etc, vampires, reading materials, dracula, count (fictitious character), dracula, count (fictional character), horror fiction, transylvania (romania), whitby (england), horror stories, horror tales, transylvania, monsters, fiction, horror, supernatural, psychological fiction, horror fiction, psychological fiction, audiobooks, compact discs, romanians, british, spanish language, dracula, count (fictional character), horror tales, cartoons and comics, graphic novels, dracula, gothic fiction, paranormal fiction, count dracula (fictional character), gothic novels, electronic books, dracula, count
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Designed to acquaint readers with famous stories, this book, in graphic novel format, retells Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," a story of a boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 263
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 980
subjects: mississippi river, missouri, finn, huckleberry (fictitious character), boys, clemens, samuel langhorne, finn, huckleberry (fictional character), voyages and travels, missouri fiction, missouri fiction, mississippi river fiction, humorous fiction, humorous stories, runaway children, male friendship, fugitive slaves, race relations, large type books, huckleberry finn (fictional character), friendship, slaves, cartoons and comics, mississippi river valley, slavery, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, united states, audiobooks, voyages and travel, large print books, finn, huckleberry, action and adventure fiction, humorous fiction, bildungsromans, adventure stories, humorous stories, bildungsromans, adventure fiction, finn, huckleberry (fictional character), adventure stories, historical fiction, picaresque literature, compact discs, tourism, comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, electronic books, graphic novels, electronic books
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
"[T]hree men embark on an epic journey under the sea with the mysterious Captain Nemo aboard his submarine the Nautilus.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1030
subjects: submarines, sea stories, science fiction, underwater exploration, submarines (ships), fiction in english translations from french, french fiction translations into english, science fiction, sea fiction, nemo, captain (fictitious character), sea stories, action and adventure fiction, nemo, nautilus (imaginary submarine)
A Tale Of Two Cities
Presents Charles Dickens's classic novel set in London and Paris during the French Revolution and includes explanatory notes, an author chronology, a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, contemporary and modern critical analyses, discussion questions, and a list of related books and films.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 309
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1130
subjects: historical fiction, war stories, paris (france), london (england), france history revolution, 1789-1799 fiction, france, war, fiction, friendship, loyalty, revenge, french, executions and executioners, fathers and daughters, lookalikes, audiobooks, french fiction, dickens, charles, cartoons and comics, father-daughter relationship, audiobooks, war stories, historical fiction, man-woman relationship, war fiction, paris (france) $x history $y 1789-1799, electronic books, father-child relationship, compact discs, man-woman relationships
The Jungle
Presents Upton Sinclair's classic novel, which depicts the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young Lithuanian immigrant struggling in early-twentieth-century America, and includes a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, critical analyses, and other study tools.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 173
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1170
subjects: lithuanian americans, working class, stockyards, immigrants, chicago (ill.), meat industry and trade, meat industry, polish americans, meat industry and trade fiction, food and drug laws, meat packing industry, sinclair, upton, american literature, meatpacking industry, working conditions, pure food and drug act, political fiction, political fiction, audiobooks, audiobooks, compact discs, illinois, didactic fiction, politics, electronic books
The Picture Of Dorian Gray
In Victorian England, young aristocrat Dorian Gray meets Sir Harry Wotton and is introduced to London's society circuit and a decadent world of self-indulgience.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 62
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
subjects: conduct of life, supernatural, portraits, great britain, london (england), future life, soul, appearance (philosophy), personal appearance, didactic fiction, youthfulness, ross, tony, ill, dvds, horror, english literature, beauty, personal, england, wilde, oscar, didactic fiction, fables, gray, dorian (fictional character), paranormal fiction, aging, immortality, elderly, gothic fiction, gray, dorian
My ?ntonia
A successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with an immigrant Bohemian girl named Antonia.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 37
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 990
subjects: czechs, frontier and pioneer life, czech americans, nebraska, farmers' spouses, women pioneers, married women, farm life, women immigrants, wives, west (u.s.), west (united states), domestic fiction
The Brothers Karamazov
A translation of nineteenth-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel in which the four sons of Fyodor Karamazov, a man of immoral character, must contend with a criminal investigation and with their own inner questions about justice and the existence of God after they are involved in their father's murder.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1010
subjects: fathers and sons, brothers, father-son relationship, russia, faith, good and evil, didactic fiction, russia
The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde And Other Stories
Since his first literary appearance in 1886, the murderous Mr. Hyde has embodied the evil that even good men-including his alter ego, Henry Jekyll-are capable of when the constraints of civilized life are loosed.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 990
subjects: physicians, multiple personality, self-experimentation in medicine, london (england), stevenson, robert louis, horror fiction, novellas, short stories