Animal Farm
Unhappy with the poor living conditions they must endure, the animals of Manor Farm gather for a secret meeting to plan a revolt.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 81
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1370
subjects: revolutions, animals, animals fiction, totalitarianism, compact discs [X], audiobooks, allegories, satire, fables, political satire, television movies, film adaptations, closed caption video recordings, domestic animals, allegories, chinese language, political fiction [X], audiobook, dystopias, electronic books [X]
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 [X], political fiction, audiobooks, audiobooks, compact discs [X], illinois, didactic fiction, politics, electronic books [X]