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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
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë	The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where s…	OL1095427W
Murder in the Cathedral	T. S. Eliot	A dramatization in free verse and with features derived from ancient and medieval theatre of the killing of Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury under King Henry II. Eliot used the device of a c…	OL1142294W
Under the persimmon tree	Suzanne Fisher Staples	During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her huband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at…	OL115620W
How Tía Lola came to visit stay	Julia Alvarez	Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his colorful aunt, Tia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister, and him after his paren…	OL116085W
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
Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood	Meredith Ann Pierce	First, she is Brown Hannah - a healer who lives in the Tanglewood, a drab girl who for reasons unknown to her, unnerves the villagers who come for salves and charms. But when she challenges the magic…	OL119596W
The Help	Kathryn Stockett	Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi…	OL11999891W
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
Night Cry	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor	There are all kinds of fearful night noises on the backwoods farm where Ellen lives, often by herself because her salesman father travels a lot. But more than anything, Ellen is terrified of their ho…	OL13461W
All unquiet things	Anna Jarzab	Carly: She was sweet. Smart. Self-destructive. She knew the secrets of Brighton Day School's most privileged students. Secrets that got her killed.Neily: Dumped by Carly for a notorious bad boy, Neil…	OL13775193W
Companions of the Night	Vivian Vande Velde	When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices. When Kerry's little bro…	OL14849930W
La Nuit	Elie Wiesel	Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie…	OL14856842W
Plays (Othello / Romeo and Juliet)	William Shakespeare	Contains: Othello [Romeo and Juliet](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL362705W/Romeo_and_Juliet)	OL14916803W
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
Infinity	Sherrilyn Kenyon	At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends. . .until the night when his best friends try t…	OL14978473W
Born blue	Han Nolan	Janie was four years old when she nearly drowned due to her mothers neglect. Through an unhappy foster home experience, and years of feeling that she is unwanted, she keeps alive her dream of someda…	OL15128703W
I Am Number Four	Pittacus Lore	NINE of us came here. WE look like you. WE talk like you. WE live among you-but WE are not you. WE have powers you dream of having. WE are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books-…	OL15280980W