A Christmas Carol
The tale begins on Christmas Eve seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 316
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: christmas, ghosts, ghost stories, england, misers, scrooge, ebenezer (fictitious character), cartoons and comics, poverty fiction, ghosts fiction, misers fiction, christmas fiction, great britain, england fiction, christmas stories, poor families, sick children, london (england), scrooge, ebenezer (fictional character), didactic fiction, animated films, closed caption video recordings, dvds, poor, family life, sick, christmas stories, ghost stories, audiobooks [X], scrooge, ebenezer, fiction, juvenile works, holidays, film novelizations, audiobooks, compact discs [X], jewish holidays, fasts and feasts, christmas fiction
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 [X], compact discs [X], illinois, didactic fiction, politics, electronic books
Romeo And Juliet
Two families of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets, have been feuding with each other for years.
822.3
year: 2019
copies: 226
call number/section: 822.3
lexile: 380
subjects: romeo (fictitious character), juliet (fictitious character), vendetta, youth, romeo (fictional character), verona (italy), tragedy, tragedies, love stories, shakespeare, william, conflict of generations, young adult drama, english, man-woman relationships, english drama, plays, english literature, drama, children's plays, english, love, cartoons and comics, audiobooks, man-woman relationship, english drama (tragedy), italy, shakespeare, william, criticism and interpretation, graphic novels, juliet (fictional character), compact discs [X], romeo, juliet, tragedies (drama), audiobooks [X], drama