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Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
After writing The Jungle, his scathing indictment of the meatpacking industry, Sinclair turned his sights on the early days of the California oil industry in a highly entertaining story featuring a cavalcade of characters including senators, oil magnates, Hollywood film starlets, and a crusading evangelist. This lively and panoramic book, which was recently cited by David Denby in the New Yorker as being Sinclair's "most readable" novel, is now the...
Author
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Lanny Budd novels volume 5
Pub. Date
1944.
Language
English
Description
A series of novels ranging from World War I through World War II, in which Lanny Budd is the main character. He becomes a latter day questing spirit who becomes intimate with many of the world's most prominent figures and witnesses many of modern history's most important events.
3) The jungle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
"1906 bestseller shockingly reveals intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards as it tells the brutally grim story of a Slavic family that emigrates to America full of optimism but soon descends into numbing poverty, moral degradation, and despair. A fiercely realistic American classic that will haunt readers long after they've finished the last page." --Amazon.com
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