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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood	Benjamin Alire Sáenz	As a Chicano boy living in the unglamorous town of Hollywood, New Mexico, and a member of the graduating class of 1969, Sammy Santos faces the challenges of "gringo" racism, unpopular dress codes, th…	OL106704W
Novels (Agnes Grey / Jane Eyre / Wuthering Heights)	Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Anne Brontë	The three great novels collected here are set in a beautiful by awe-inspiring landscape and they explore the darkest and most extreme emotions. Here are some of the most memorable characters in liter…	OL1095411W
An Acquaintance With Darkness	Ann Rinaldi	Fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush suspects that her uncle is involved in body snatching. Meanwhile, her best friend's family is accused of plotting to kill Abraham Lincoln, and Emily is left unsure of …	OL112464W
Bucking the Sarge	Christopher Paul Curtis	Luther T. Farrell has got to get out of Flint, Michigan.As his best friend Sparky says, "Flint's nothing but the Titanic."And his mother, a.k.a. the Sarge, says, "Take my advice and stay off the suck…	OL115598W
Flatland	Sajad Hussain,Trains of Trains of Thought Publishing,Edward Abbott,Joel Dueck,Edwin Abbott Abbott,Monty	Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884, is still considered useful in thinking about multiple dimensions. It is also seen as a satirical depiction of Victorian society and its…	OL118388W
In the path of falling objects	Andrew Smith	In 1970, after their older brother is shipped off to Vietnam, sixteen-year-old Jonah and his younger brother Simon leave home to find their father, who is being released from a Arizona prison, but so…	OL11921082W
The Battle of Jericho	Sharon M. Draper	When Jericho is invited to pledge for the Warriors of Distinction, he thinks his life can't get any better. As the most exclusive club in school, the Warriors give the best parties, go out with the h…	OL12493W
The zookeeper's wife	Diane Ackerman	The time is 1939 and the place is Poland, homeland of Antonina Zabinski and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski. The Warsaw Zoo flourishes under Jan's stewardship and Antonina's care. When their country is…	OL12898W
Woodsong	Gary Paulsen	For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the au…	OL14850222W
Plays (Othello / Romeo and Juliet)	William Shakespeare	Contains: Othello [Romeo and Juliet](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL362705W/Romeo_and_Juliet)	OL14916803W
Wuthering Heights et autres romans (Agnes Grey / Professor / Wuthering Heights)	Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Anne Brontë	Contains: Agnes Grey Professor [Wuthering Heights](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21177W)	OL14948695W
Acceleration	Graham McNamee	It's a hot, hot summer, and in the depths of the Toronto Transit Authority's Lost and Found, 17-year-old Duncan is cataloging lost things and sifting through accumulated junk. And between Jacob, the …	OL14958026W
Sweetblood	Pete Hautman	After a lifetime of being a model student, sixteen-year-old Lucy Szabo is suddenly in trouble at school, at home, with the "proto-vampires" she has met online and in person, and most of all with her …	OL15060162W
The Wordsworth Collection of Classic Romances	Charlotte Brontë,Thomas Hardy,Jane Austen,Emily Brontë	[Pride & Prejudice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8193418W) Jane Austen constructed Pride & Prejudice, with wit, social precision and an irresistible heroine. Beginning with one of the most famous …	OL15062282W
Who killed Mr. Chippendale?	Mel Glenn	Free verse poems describe the reactions of students, colleagues, and others when a high school teacher is shot to death as the school day begins.	OL15156227W
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition	Edward Rowe Snow,Phyllis McGinley,John N. Morris,Sarah Kemble Knight,J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur,James Russell Lowell,Robert Frost,Edwin Arlington Robinson,T. S. Eliot,Carl Sandburg,Margaret Walker,Elinor Wylie,Sidney Lanier,Jonathan Edwards,Richard Eberhart,William Bradford,William Cullen Bryant,Oliver Wendell Holmes,Ernest Hemingway,Archibald MacLeish,Teresa Palomo Acosta,Katherine Anne Porter,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer,John Greenleaf Whittier,Sara Teasdale,Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson,Mark Twain,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Cotton Mather,Gary Soto,Dorothy Parker,Emily Dickinson,Denise Levertov,Ezra Pound,Henry David Thoreau,Washington Irving,Abraham Lincoln,Anne Bradstreet,Mollie Dorsey Sanford,Kurt Vonnegut,Edith Wharton,Lewis Thomas,James Thurber,Annie Dillard,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Paul Laurence Dunbar,William Faulkner,William Carlos Williams,E. E. Cummings,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Carson McCullers,Adrienne Rich,Willa Cather,Maxine Kumin,Walt Whitman,Bernard Malamud,Arna Wendell Bontemps,Ray Bradbury,Leslie Silko,Gwendolyn Brooks,Randall Jarrell,David Wagoner,Claude McKay,Stephen Crane,Amiri Baraka,Sherwood Anderson,Richard Wilbur,John Steinbeck,N. Scott Momaday,Benjamin Franklin,Frederick Douglass,Langston Hughes,W. E. B. Du Bois,William Least Heat Moon,Robert E. Lee,Louisa May Alcott,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Updike,Wallace Stevens,William Stafford,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Chief Joseph,Tennessee Williams,James E. Miller, Jr.,Edgar Allan Poe,Howard Nemerov,Elizabeth Bishop,Amy Lowell,Francis Wright,Philip Morin Freneau,Jean Toomer,Thomas Paine,Galway Kinnell,Eudora Welty,Robert Hayden,Ralph Ellison,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Richard Wright,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,James Weldon Johnson,Isaac Asimov,Flannery O'Connor,Kate Chopin,James Masao Mitsui,James Baldwin,Margaret Fuller,James Fenimore Cooper,Karl Jay Shapiro,Patrick F. McManus,May Swenson,Edgar Lee Masters,Jim Wayne Miller,Robert Anderson,Countee Cullen,Sylvia Plath,Seattle Chief,Lorraine Hansberry,Louise Bogan,Edna St. Vincent Millay,Thomas Jefferson,Robert Lowell,Sabine R. Ulibarrí,Marianne Moore,Lawson Fusao Inada,Phillis Wheatley,Vern Rutsala,Kerry M. Wood,Eugenia Collier,John Smith,William Byrd II,James W. C. Pennington,Satanta,Lillian Hellman,Mona Van Duyn,Richard Rodriguez,Mari Evans,Theodore Roethke,John Crowe Ransom,Taylor, Edward,Robinson Jeffers	Selections include: ... - [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) by Nathaniel Hawthorne ... - [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibra…	OL15164554W
Stuck in neutral	Terry Trueman	Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition.	OL15392955W
Awakened	P. C. Cast,Kristin Cast	Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess at Tulsa's House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey. Dominion over Kalona is only one of the weapons …	OL15550516W
The spirit window	Joyce Sweeney	A trip to Florida that is meant to heal the rift between her father and her grandmother forces both fifteen-year-old Miranda and her father to face feelings they have long suppressed.	OL15811833W
So B. It	Sarah Weeks	You couldn't really tell about Mama's brain just from looking at her, but it was obvious as soon as she spoke. She had a high voice, like a little girl's, and she only knew 23 words. I know this for …	OL15845203W