Tom Parker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
"A criminal feigns insanity and is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse and tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse Ratched. McMurphy swaggers into...
2) Richie Rich
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A likable but isolated kid has everything money can buy except friends--until he hits it off big with a group of sandlot kids.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
After an aptitude test mix-up, Fred Flintstone trades his job as bronto-crane operator for a vice presidency. But there's trouble brewing in Bedrock: an evil executive and his sinister secretary are now plotting to use Fred as the fall guy in an embezzlement scheme!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 980L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beautiful hardcover repackaging of this timeless classic from the publishers of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and in partnership with the Mark Twain Project. This definitive edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the only version of Mark Twain's masterpiece based on his complete manuscript, including the 663 pages found in a Los Angeles attic in 1990. Prepared by the Mark Twain Papers, the official archive of Sam Clemens's papers at the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Before Shelby Foote under took his epic history of the Civil War, he wrote this fictional chronicle — "a landscape in narrative" — of Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war, and Reconstruction are as tangible as rock formations. The seven stories in Jordan County move backward in time, from 1950 to 1797, and through the lives of characters as diverse as a black horn player doomed by tuberculosis and convulsive...
7) The Magician
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At their big prom, Ed Japhet scares the wits out of the attendees with his fantastic and dangerous feats of magic. Then when the young man and his girlfriend leave, they see four figures sitting inside his father's car, one with a chain around his fist. That's only the beginning of this story of a screwed-up justice system and a high-school student who decides to use his magic tricks to stop a tough gang of extortionists from bothering him and his...
8) Tournament
Author
Language
English
Description
Tournament is the successful first novel by Shelby Foote, a major Southern writer whose masterpiece, The Civil War: A Narrative, has become the modern standard of work for historical narrative. In this novel many of the remarkable characters from Jordan County, Foote's fictional Mississippi Delta county, come upon the literary scene for the first time.
Series
Language
English
Description
The Flintstones: A live-action version of the popular cartoon in which Fred falls for his boss' evil scheme, which ruins his friendship with Barney and makes Fred a hated citizen of Bedrock.
Jetsons: The movie: The movie sends the family to a new planet where madness and mayhem ensue in comical Jetson fashion. This animated classic features unforgettable voice talent from the original George and Jane Jetson.
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island:...