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1) Citizen girl
Author
Language
English
Description
Another biting satire from Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Nanny Diaries.
Working in a world where a college degree qualifies her to make photocopies and color-coordinate file folders, twenty-four-year-old Girl is struggling to keep up with the essential trinity of food, shelter, and student loans. So when she finally lands the job of her dreams she ignores her misgivings and concentrates on getting...
2) Animal farm
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, Mr Jones, and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced...
3) Catch - 22
Author
Series
Recorded Books classics library
Catch-22 volume 1
Charnwood library
Dell book volume 1120
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Catch-22 volume 1
Charnwood library
Dell book volume 1120
More Series...
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 30
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll...
4) Smoke screen
Author
Language
English
Description
Trevor Barnett has become the lead spokesman for the tobacco industry just as it's on the verge of extinction, and is forced to announce on national television that no cigarettes will be manufactured or sold until the industry is given ironclad protection from the courts, causing the economy to falter and chaos to take hold of the nation.
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...
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