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A collection of speeches and writings by the Mexican American labor activist and head of the United Farm Workers.
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Everyone
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Andrew Jackson Elementary - Everyone
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A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king.
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James Lawson High - Teen Fiction
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Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking,...
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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
F LEE
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F LEE
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F Lee
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Eight-year-old "Scout" Finch tells of life in a small Alabama town where her father is a lawyer.
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
F Hur
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F Hur
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F Hur
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F Hur
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An African American woman searches for a fulfilling relationship through two loveless marriages and finally finds it in the person of Tea Cake, an itinerant laborer and gambler. Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is a luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern black woman in the 1930s whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to seventy...
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New directions paperbook volume NDP501
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Antioch High - Teen Non-Fiction
812.54 Wil
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812.54 Wil
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812 WIL
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Tennessee Williams' classic drama studies the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.
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Hillsboro High - Teen Fiction
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Nashville School of the Arts - Teen Fiction
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F HEI
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"A deluxe hardcover edition of the most famous science-fiction novel of all time--part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman A human raised on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith has just arrived on planet Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while his own "psi" powers--including...
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
F HAW
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F HAW
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Glencliff High - Teen Fiction
F HAW
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F HAW
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Hillsboro High - Teen Fiction
F HAW
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F HAW
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Antioch High - Teen Comic/Graphic
741.59 SIL
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741.59 SIL
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741.59 SIL
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741.59 SIL
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Independence Academy - Teen Comic/Graphic
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741.5 Sil
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Hillsboro High - Teen Audiobook
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Hillsboro High - Teen Audiobook
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McGavock High - Teen Audiobook
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A dark tale of love, crime, and revenge set in colonial New England, The scarlet letter revolves around a forbidden act of passion that alters the lives of three members of a Puritan community: Hester Prynne, who is forced to wear the letter "A" and bears the punishment of her sin in humble silence; the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, a respected minister who is tormented by hidden guilt; and the malevolent Roger Chillingworth, Hester's vengeful husband....
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
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F Cra
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808.83 Cra
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Granbery Elementary - Kids Fiction
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F CRA
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Before his untimely death at the age of 28, Stephen Crane produced the most innovative writing of his generation. When he was just 21, he began The Red Badge of Courage. This is the powerful story of a young Union soldier under fire for the first time. Each book features an introductory essay by one of a leading writer, as well as a detailed chronology of the author's life and career, an essay on the choice and history of the text, and notes.
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"The gold standard for women's health books, in time for the fortieth anniversary of the book's first publication, featuring new material and a completely updated approach to critical women's health issues. The name "Our Bodies, Ourselves" has become synonymous with women's health and protecting it. This updated edition contains vital new information on such issues as the HPV vaccine, changes in the healthcare system, cosmetic surgery, violence against...
12) Native son
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
F WRI
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F WRI
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Hillsboro High - Teen Fiction
F WRI
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F WRI
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F WRI
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F WRI
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Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what...
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Fiction
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CLA F FIC
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Fiction
F MEL
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F MEL
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Granbery Elementary - Kids Fiction
F MEL
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F MEL
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Hillsboro High - Teen Audiobook
PLY F MEL
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PLY F MEL
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James Lawson High - Teen Audiobook
PLY F MEL
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PLY F MEL
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Pearl-Cohn High - Teen Audiobook
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Looking for adventure and a new life, Ishmael, the story's narrator, decides to find work on a whaling boat. On arriving at the Massachusetts harbour to begin his search, the only bed available is already half occupied by a "cannibal" named Queequeg. Although Queequeg has limited English, a friendship forms and the two men sign up for work together aboard the Pequod under the infamous Captain Ahab.
14) Leaves of grass
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Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Non-Fiction
811.38 WHI
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811.38 WHI
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Meigs Middle Magnet - Teen Non-Fiction
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811.2 WHI
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Presents the major literary works of America's poet of democracy, including "Song of Myself," "Starting from Paumanok," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Song of the Open Road," and "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking."
15) The jungle
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
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F SIN
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A documentary novel portraying industry's conditions at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Sinclair's novel prompted public outrage which led President Theodore Roosevelt to demand an official investigation. This eventually led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws.
16) Invisible man
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
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F ELL
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F Ell
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F Ell
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In the course of his wanderings from a Southern college to New York's Harlem, an American Black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a Black man's journey through contemporary America. Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity -- powerfully imagined and written with a savage, wryly...
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Antioch High - Teen Non-Fiction
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364.15 CAP
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364.15 CAP
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364.15 CAP
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364.15 CAP
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it.
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent...
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent...
18) The great Gatsby
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
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F FIT
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F FIT
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F FIT
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Cora Howe School - Teen Audiobook
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PLA F FIT
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PLA F FIT
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PLA F FIT
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James Lawson High - Teen Audiobook
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PLA F FIT
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An undisputed masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, this stunning, lavishly designed new edition of The Great Gatsby is perfect for Fitzgerald lovers and classics collectors alike. In his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the paradisiacal illusions of the post-World War One generation, only to shatter them. At the heart of this piercing and defining novel of the Jazz Age is the eponymous romantic, holding tight to...
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
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F STE
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Hillsboro High - Teen Fiction
F STE
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F STE
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Hillsboro High - Teen Fiction
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F Ste
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First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into haves and have nots evolves a drama that is intensely human...
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
F MIT
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F MIT
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F MIT
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James Lawson High - Teen Fiction
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CLAS F MIT
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Willful and pampered Scarlett O'Hara's strength of character carries her thought the deprivations of the Civil War, but her infatuation with Ashley Wilkes keeps her from recognizing her true love until it is too late.