Bud, Not Buddy
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 620
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950
subjects: runaways, african americans, depressions, historical fiction, runaway children, extreme read-spunk, michigan, depression, great depression, 1929-1939, runaway, large print books, humorous fiction, historical fiction [X], electronic books, electronic books [X], audiobooks, compact discs [X], large type books, children's audiobooks, african american
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 [X], 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 [X], humorous fiction, witnesses, electronic books [X], action and adventure fiction
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 [X], man-woman relationship, war fiction, paris (france) $x history $y 1789-1799, electronic books [X], father-child relationship, compact discs [X], man-woman relationships
A Gathering Of Old Men
After Beau Boutan, a Cajun farmer, is found shot on a Louisiana plantation, the claimants to the killing form a wall of protection around the real murderer.
FIC
year: 1992
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: african american farmers, murder, african americans, homicide, audiobooks, compact discs [X], louisiana, historical fiction [X], electronic books [X], didactic fiction
The Scarlet Letter
This is a book I really enjoyed because of the discriptive words used to explain what is happening are used in a very good way.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 434
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 410
subjects: prynne, hester (fictitious character), puritans, adultery, women, triangles (interpersonal relations), illegitimate children, women immigrants, married women, boston (mass.), adultry, puritans fiction, new england fiction, illegitimacy, wives, united states, hawthorne, nathaniel, prynne, hester (fictional character), massachusetts, clergy, new england, audiobooks, social values, large type books, immigrants, graphic novel graphic novels, puritains, fiction, digital audiotape recorders and recordings, audiobooks, playaway (digital audiobook), revenge, historical fiction [X], large print books, man-woman relationships, man-woman relationship, historical fiction, compact discs [X], electronic books [X], psychological fiction, didactic fiction