The Grapes Of Wrath
Set during the Great Depression, the powerful story tells of the Joad family's trek from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the promise of a new life in California.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 115
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: migrant agricultural laborers, rural families, depressions, labor camps, migrant labor, california, oklahoma, great depression, migrant labor fiction, family, agricultural laborers, steinbeck, john, migrant agricultural laborers in literature, labor camps in literature, historical fiction, farm family, poor, audiobooks, california, farm families, great depression 1929 - 1939, migration, internal, great depression, 1929-1939, family life, working class [X], young adult fiction, compact discs
Great Expectations
Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 179
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1230
subjects: young men, england, dickens, charles, orphans, coming of age, man-woman relationship, ex-convicts, benefactors, youth, bildungsromans, great britain, man-woman relationships, revenge, historical fiction, closed caption video recordings, closed captioning, dvds, audiobooks, working class [X], inheritance and succession, literature - adapted, gifts, bildungsromane, audiobooks, bildungsromans, adaptations, graphic novels, love stories, love, cartoons and comics, conduct of life, industrial revolution, social classes, electronic books
Adam Bede
Adam Bede loves Hetty, who is tried and transported for unintentionally killing her child by the local squire, and eventually, Adam finds happiness with Dinah Morris, a Methodist preacher who helps Hetty through her ordeal.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1260
subjects: women clergy, infanticide, carpenters, homicide, england, illegitimate children, triangles (interpersonal relations), england, historical fiction, relationships, man-woman relationships, working class [X], midlands (england), didactic fiction