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I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith St. Martin's Griffin

I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle....

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Stonewall's Gold

A Novel of the Civil War

Robert J. Mrazek St. Martin's Griffin

Winner of the Civil War Society's Seal of Approval
Winner of the Michael Shaara Award for Civil War Fiction

"Tailor-made for young adults who enjoy historical adventures."—Booklist

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The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

A Play

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Hill and Wang

A reissue of a now classic American drama. If the law is of such a nature that it requires you to be an agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the...

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Wit

A Play

Margaret Edson Faber and Faber, Inc.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

“Among the finest plays of the decade . . . An original and urgent work of art.”—David Lyons, The Wall Street Journal

Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Drama

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The Odyssey

The Fitzgerald Translation

Homer; Translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Introduction by D. S. Carne-Ross Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

The classic translation of The Odyssey, now in a Noonday paperback. Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern...

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Annie John

A Novel

Jamaica Kincaid Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. A classic coming-of-age story in the tradition of The...

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The Inferno of Dante

Bilingual Edition

Dante; A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Splendid . . . Pinsky's verse translation is fast-paced, idiomatic, and accurate. It moves with the concentrated gait of a lyric poem . . . It maintains the original's episodic and narrative velocity while mirroring its formal shape and character . . . Pinsky succeeds in creating a supple American equivalent for Dante's vernacular music where many others have failed."—Edward Hirsch, The New Yorker

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Brighten the Corner Where You Are

A Novel

Fred Chappell St. Martin's Griffin

This story of a day in the life of Joe Robert Kirkman, a North Carolina mountain schoolteacher, sly prankster, country philosopher, and family man, won the...

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Heads or Tails

Stories from the Sixth Grade

Jack Henry #3

Jack Gantos Sunburst Paperbacks

From the Newbery Medal–winning author of Dead End in Norvelt, eight more hysterical semi-autobiographical Jack Henry stories about a sixth grader’s trials and...

Children's Books: 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, New York Public Library
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The Natural

Bernard Malamud; Introduction by Kevin Baker Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Malamud [holds a] high and honored place among contemporary American writers."—The Washington Post Book World

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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

A Novel

Michael Dorris Picador

Michael Dorris has crafted a fierce saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the...

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Upstate

A Novel

Kalisha Buckhanon St. Martin's Griffin

"Baby, the first thing I need to know from you is do you believe I killed my father?" So begins Upstate, a powerful story told through letters between...

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ALA Alex Awards Winner (Adult for Young Adults)
Audie Award Winner - Literary Fiction

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Sophie's World

A Novel About the History of Philosophy

Jostein Gaarder; Translated by Paulette Møller Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"First, think a beginner's guide to philosophy . . . Next, imagine a fantasy novel—something like a modern-day version of Through the Looking Glass. Meld these disparate genres, and what do you get? Well, what you get is an improbable international bestseller . . . [A] tour de force."—Time

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Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party

Ying Chang Compestine Henry Holt and Co.

Nine-year-old Ling is very comfortable in her life; her parents are both dedicated surgeons in the best hospital in Wuhan. But when Comrade Li, one of Mao’s...

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YALSA Best Book for Young Adults
IRA Notable Books for a Global Society
NCTE Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts
Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
CCBC Choice (Univ. of WI)
Children's Books: 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, New York Public Library
Chinese American Librarians Association Best Book Award
California Children’s Media Award, Silver Medals
California Young Reader Medal Master List
Hawaii Nene Book Award Master List
Texas TAYSHAS High School Reading List

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Keesha's House

Helen Frost Sunburst Paperbacks

An unforgettable narrative collage told in poems Keesha has found a safe place to live, and other kids gravitate to her house when they just can’t make it...

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Michael L. Printz Award - Honor
Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
South Carolina Children's Book Award Master List

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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Joanne Greenberg St. Martin's Paperbacks

“A rare and wonderful insight into the dark kingdom of the mind.”—Chicago Tribune

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LIE

Caroline Bock St. Martin's Griffin

Everybody knows, nobody’s talking. . . . Seventeen-year-old Skylar Thompson is being questioned by the police. Her boyfriend, Jimmy, stands accused of...

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