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 [X], humorous fiction, witnesses, electronic books [X], action and adventure 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, compact discs [X], illinois, didactic fiction, politics, electronic books [X]
The Merchant Of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's comedies. Bassanio, a penniless Venetian noble asks his friend to borrow money to impress a heiress named Portia.
822.3
year: 2012
copies: 117
call number/section: 822.3
lexile: 1380
subjects: shylock (fictitious character), jews, moneylenders, shylock (fictional character), venice (italy), shakespeare, william, greed, man-woman relationships, english literature, drama, comedies, english drama, plays, marriage, merchants, shakespeare, plays, cartoons and comics, children's plays, borrowing and lending, historical drama, loans, humorous plays, audiobooks, compact discs [X], young adult drama, english, comedies, electronic books [X]
The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll invented a drug that would change him into the ominous Mr.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: physicians, supernatural, multiple personality, horror fiction, london (england), horror stories, self-experimentation in medicine, england, science fiction, stevenson, robert louis, horror tales, graphic novels, television movies, horror films, dvds, compact discs [X], audiobooks, psychological fiction, hyde, edward (fictional character), horror fiction, psychological fiction, good and evil, electronic books [X]