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Books and reading
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Great Books for High School KidsContains a teacher's guide to some of the books that appeal to teens including seven essays by teachers about their individual reading experiences. |
028.5 GRE |
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Reading Lolita in TehranFrom 1995-97 in Iran, Azar Nafisi gathered with seven of her former students, all young women, to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. |
CD B Nafisi |
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The Book ThiefTrying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man the |
FIC ZUS |
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InkheartTwelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to forc |
FIC FUN |
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InkspellWhen Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind; but Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back into the enchanted book. |
FIC FUN |
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The Little Guide to your Well-read Life |
028 Lev |
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Why Read?Discusses the uses of the liberal arts for the conduct of life, describing the humanities as a source of truth, and urging teachers to provide students with the type of life-changing education reading |
807 EDM |
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The Jane Austen Book Club |
813 Fow |
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Reading Lolita in TehranThe author presents a memoir of her life in post-revolutionary Iran, focusing on her organization of a group of young women in 1997 who met secretly once a week to read and discuss forbidden works of |
820.9 NAF |
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Fahrenheit 451A book burner in a future fascist state finds out books are a vital part of a culture he never knew. He clandestinely pursues reading, until he is betrayed. |
FIC BRA |
