Slumdog Millionaire
After winning India's biggest quiz show, Ram Mohammad Thomas is put in jail as authorities question how a poor orphan who has never gone to school could win such a contest.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: waiters, poor, billionaires, waiters and waitresses, bombay (india), waitresses, rich people, rich [X], mumbai (india)
The Great Gatsby
"An aspiring writer falls under the spell of an aloof millionaire with designs for the young scribe's unhappily married cousin in director Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 832
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1070
subjects: man-woman relationships, upper class, man-woman relationship, love stories, long island (n.y.), wealth, rich [X], traffic accidents, married women, first loves, rich people, mistresses, closed caption video recordings, film adaptations, closed captioning, love, audiobook, compact discs, audiobooks, films for the hearing impaired, fitzgerald, f. scott, gatsby, jay (fictional), english literature, jazz era, 1920s, wives, electronic books, psychological fiction, love stories, electronic books, romance fiction, gatsby, jay, buchanan, daisy, nineteen twenties, revenge
This Side Of Paradise
Presents F. Scott Fitzgerald's bildungsroman about a handsome, wealthy Princeton student named Amory Blaine, whose experiences with love, war, and poverty lead him to self-realization; and includes a contextual introduction, critical excerpts spanning 1919 through 1988, and commentary on the novel by Fitzgerald himself.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 26
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1070
subjects: young men, bildungsromans, fitzgerald, f. scott, american literature, fiction, world war, 1914-1918, children of the rich, college students, advertising, colleges and universities, children, rich [X], romance fiction, bildungsromans, love stories, love stories, school stories, college stories, rich people, classism, rejection (psychology)
Mansfield Park
At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1180
subjects: young women, children of the rich, country homes, adoptees, cousins, england, rich [X], austen, jane, english literature, love stories, love, uncles, domestic fiction, domestic fiction, love stories, poor families, rich people, poor, romance fiction
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 34
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: journalists, missing persons, family secrets, stockholm (sweden), rich [X], mystery fiction, sweden, corruption, rich people, audiobooks, compact discs, secrecy
Saturn Apartments
While the people of Earth live in a stratified society on a ring surrounding the planet, Mitsu's father has disappeared and Mitsu is forced to undertake his father's profession as a window washer shortly after his junior high school graduation, which allows him a view of the higher levels of society through their windows.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: teenagers, window cleaners (persons), rich [X], space colonies, science fiction graphic novels, rich people
Firecracker
After being expelled from her elite private school, spoiled, arrogant rich girl Astrid is forced to attend her local private school.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: rich [X], high schools, school stories, humility, friendship, teenage girls, rich people, public schools, schools
Elliot Allagash
Dubbed a cruel nickname for his plus-sized body, obedient eighth grader Seymour resigns himself to a lonely life before meeting an arrogant heir who uses his considerable resources to transform Seymour's image, with unexpected results.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
After The Fall
An eccentric Upper East Side family loses all their money and their penthouse and seeks refuge in Central park, in a picture book for grown-ups.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: rich [X], family life, eccentrics and eccentricities, rich people, family, new york (n.y.)
Captains Courageous
Bored and lonely, the son of a millionaire is on an ocean voyage.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1020
subjects: children of the rich, saltwater fishing, fishing boats, teenage boys, rescues, grand banks of newfoundland, self-reliance, fishers, sea stories, schooners, boys, deep sea fishing, fishing, new england, sea fiction, large type books, seafaring life, rich [X], large print books, rich people, teenagers, bildungsromans, bildungsromans, sea stories
Little Little
The shenanigans of two dwarfs as they compete for the heart of Little Little, a dwarf heiress who's tired of being treated like a pretty doll.
FIC
year: 1991
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 970
Seeing Red
Tom Hathaway, a wealthy student who relies on his designer clothes to define who he is, meets Sylvia and discovers a dark side of life.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: cutting (self-mutilation), self-destructive behavior in adolescence, self-mutilation in adolescence, self-destructive behavior, teenage boys, rich people, rich [X], teenagers, boys
Washington Square
Catherine Sloper, an heiress favored by neither beauty nor brilliance, finds herself torn between an attractive suitor and her adored father, who believes the young man to be a fortune hunter.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
subjects: inheritance and succession, fathers and daughters, children of the rich, beauty, personal, young women, washington square (new york, n.y.), man-woman relationships, father-daughter relationship, man-woman relationship, new york (n.y.), love stories, human relations, interpersonal relations, fiction, courtship, rich [X], personal appearance, domestic fiction, romance fiction
Ouran High School Host Club
While mourning the loss of the two senior members of the Host Club, who are preparing to graduate and lead separate lives at university, the members of the club are surprised when Mori challenges Hunny to a duel.
741.5
year: 2014
copies: 121
call number/section: 741.5
lexile:
subjects: high school students, sex role, poor, rich people, rich [X], gender role, humorous fiction, graphic novels