J. D. Salinger
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. The hero-narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex...
3) Nine stories
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nine exceptional stories from one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane, and frequently affecting, Nine Stories sits alongside Salinger's very best work--a treasure that will passed down for many generations to come."--Amazon.com
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Franny came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed in 1957 by Zooey. Both stories are early entries in a narrative series about the Glasses, a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York. In the first story, Franny, a young college girl, arrives in New Haven (Yale) to be with her boyfriend for a football weekend, where they go to a café. The story is essentially an account of their talk. Franny is telling her boyfriend about...
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español
Description
Holden, sabiendo que lo van a expulsar de la escuela, decide irse temprano. Pasa tres días en la ciudad de Nueva York y cuenta la historia de lo que hizo y sufrió allí.
Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.