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Bantam Classics
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Modern Library Paperback Classics
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Modern Library Paperback Classics
Hawthorne, Nathaniel Leroux, Gaston Orczy, Baroness Emmuska Thoreau, Henry David
The Blithedale Romance The Phantom of the Opera The Scarlet Pimpernel Walden & Other Writings
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The House of the Seven Gables Leskov, Nikolai Scott, Sir Walter Tolstoy, Leo
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The Enchanted Wanderer Ivanhoe Anna Karenina
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Lewis, Sinclair Shelley, Mary Twain, Mark
Twice-Told Tales Babbitt Frankenstein Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Hugo, Victor New! Kingsblood Royal The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Sinclair, Upton
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The Jungle 0-375-75681-7 | $8.95/$13.95C | 304 pp
0-375-76132-2 | $12.95/$19.95C | 480 pp
0-375-75950-6 | $9.95/$14.95C | 416 pp A Connecticut Yankee in King
Irving, Washington London, Jack Arthur’s Court
Stevenson, Robert Louis 0-375-75780-5 | $7.95/$10.95C | 496 pp
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Call of the Wild, White Fang,
and To Build a Fire Kidnapped The Prince and the Pauper
and Other Tales
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Klondike Tales Treasure Island Pudd’nhead Wilson
James, Henry 0-375-75682-5 | $5.95/$8.95C | 240 pp 0-812-96622-8 | $9.95/$14.95C | 288 pp
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The Turn of the Screw &
In the Cage The Sea-Wolf Stoker, Bram Wells, H.G.
0-375-75740-6 | $5.95/$8.95C | 256 pp 0-679-78337-7 | $9.95/$14.95C | 320 pp Dracula The War of the Worlds
Washington Square 0-375-75670-1 | $10.95/$16.95C | 432 pp 0-375-75923-9 | $5.95/$8.95C | 224 pp
0-375-76122-5 | $7.95/$10.50C | 288 pp Melville, Herman Stowe, Harriet Beecher Wharton, Edith
Moby-Dick Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Jewett, Sarah Orne Ethan Frome & Summer
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The Country of the Pointed Firs 0-375-75728-7 | $7.95/$10.50C | 304 pp
and Other Stories Merwin, M.S. (trans.) The Age of Innocence
Swift, Jonathan
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The Basic Writings of
0-375-75711-2 | $8.95/NCR | 160 pp Jonathan Swift
Kipling, Rudyard Whitman, Walt
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Wish House And Other Stories Nietzsche, Friedrich Leaves of Grass
0-812-96602-3 | $12.95/$19.95C | 496 pp Basic Writings of Nietzsche 0-679-78342-3 | $13.95/$21.00C | 800 pp
Tarkington, Booth
0-679-78339-3 | $14.95/$22.95C | 896 pp The Magnificent Ambersons
Larsen, Nella
Passing 0-375-75250-1 | $12.95/$19.95C | 228 pp
Norris, Frank
0-375-75813-5 | $8.95/$9.95C | 208 pp McTeague
0-375-76129-2 | $10.95/$16.95C | 544 pp
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Fiction & Literature
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Fiction & Literature
Clarke, Arthur C. Cormier, Robert Bestseller Dickey, James Doyle, Arthur Conan
New!
Childhood’s End The Chocolate War Deliverance The Lost World
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0-345-34795-1 Stunned by his mother’s recent death, A masterpiece of descriptive writing, In this first book in the Professor
MM | $6.99/$8.99C | 224 pp Jerry Renault, a New England high James Dickey’s adventure pitting Challenger series, challenger—con-
From the visionary author of 2001: A school student, ponders the poster in four contemporary urban men sidered by critics to be one of the
Space Odyssey. Childhood’s End pre- his locker—do I dare disturb the universe? against Georgia’s remotest white- most finely drawn characters in sci-
dicts the next stage in mankind’s water river—and a far more fright- ence fiction—and his party embark
Courtenay, Bryce
evolution. ening human enemy—is a work of on an expedition to a remote
The Power of One Amazonian plateau where “the ordi-
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nary laws of nature are suspended.”
Clavell, James TR | $14.95/NCR | 528 pp Divakaruni, Chitra
Shogun Sister of My Heart Dunn, Mark
Craven, Margaret New!
0-440-17800-2 0-385-48951-X Ella Minnow Pea
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
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A bold English adventuer. An invincible Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste TR | $12.00/$18.00C | 224 pp
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Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman Calcutta family of distinction. Her “A curiously compelling…satire of
The story of a new generation of Native
torn between two ways of life, two cousin Sudha is the daughter of the human foibles, and a light-stepping
Americans in an ancient village in
ways of love. All brought together in black sheep of that same family. The commentary on censorship and
which the old culture of totems and
a mighty saga of a time and place day on which the two girls were born, totalitarianism.”
potlatch is rapidly being replaced by
aflame with conflict, passion, ambi- the same day their fathers died—mys- —The Philadelphia Inquirer
one of prefab housing and alcoholism.
tion, lust and the struggle for power. teriously and violently—Sudha and
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Cook, Karin Breath, Eyes, Memory Free Discussion Guide available
What Girls Learn 0-375-70504-X New! Ellis, Ella Thorp
0-679-76944-7 Dongala, Emmanuel Swimming with the Whales
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Set in the villages of Haiti and in
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New York’s community of Haitian
girls and their mothers, about sibling TR | $12.00/$18.00C | 256 pp Paolo and his father, a naturalist, live
exiles, Breath, Eyes, Memory is the
rivalry and kinship, about the myste- His nickname is Matapari, which means in a beautiful, isolated village in the
story of Sophie Caco, who was con-
rious tug between love and antagonism “trouble.” He is an African child of Argentinian region of Patagonia. But
ceived in an act of violence, aban-
that lies at the heart of every family. our time—brilliant, mischievous, Paolo's dream of swimming with the
doned by her mother and then, at
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the age of 12, is summoned to join
fire of successive postcolonial regimes year, as his life begins to take some
her in the United States.
Cook, Thomas H. in a central African country. unexpected turns.
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Taken New!
Doyle, Arthur Conan Free Teacher’s Guide available
0-440-24126-X The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Did the phantom dog of Dartmoor, TR | $12.95/$19.95C | 608 pp
out over three generations of encoun- who has haunted the Baskervilles for
ters and unexplained events. Based Free Teacher’s Guide available
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Fiction & Literature
Esquival, Laura Faulkner, William Gaines, Ernest J. Goethe, John Wolfgang von
Like Water for Chocolate Light in August A Gathering of Old Men Goethe’s Faust
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Light in August, a novel about hope- Set on a Louisiana sugarcane planta- 0-553-21348-2
Como agua para chocolate
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tality, features some of Faulkner’s Old Men is a powerful depiction of This edition contains Part One—the
TR | $11.95/$18.00C | 256 pp
most memorable characters. racial tensions arising over the death original, famous story of a man called
Set in turn-of-the-century Mexico,
of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a Faust and the pact he makes with the
this romantic, earthy, and poignant The Sound and the Fury black man.
story, touched with bittersweet 0-679-73224-1 devil to sign over his soul for knowl-
moments of magic and sensuality, TR | $10.00/$14.00C | 336 pp A Lesson Before Dying Bestseller edge, power and pleasure; and selec-
celebrates food and passion. The Sound and the Fury is the 0-375-70270-9 tions from Part Two—the journey of
tragedy of the Compson family. This TR | $12.95/$19.95C | 272 pp Dr. Faust with the northern phan-
Fast, Howard edition follows the text of the novel tom, Mephistopheles, to ancient
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April Morning as corrected in 1984. Greece.
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0-553-27322-1 Free Discussion Guide available A Lesson Before Dying, set in a small Goldman, William
MM | $6.99/$9.99C | 208 pp Cajun community in the late 1940s,
The Princess Bride
is about the bond forged between
Faulkner, William Flagg, Fannie Bestseller 0-345-34803-6
two men—Jefferson, convicted of
Fried Green Tomatoes MM | $6.99/$9.99C | 416 pp
Absalom, Absalom! murder and sentenced to die; and
at the Whistle Stop Cafe What happens when the most beau-
0-679-73218-7 Grant Wiggins, a college graduate
0-449-91135-7 tiful girl in the world marries the
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TR | $14.95/$22.95C | 432 pp handsomest prince in the world—
Thomas Sutpen comes to Jefferson, Free Teacher’s Guide available
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and he turns out to be less than the
Mississippi in the early 1830’s to wrest
with her visitor—the over-stuffed, man of her dreams? This is a hilari-
his mansion out of the muddy bottoms Winner 1993 National Book Critics
overwrought, menopausal Evelyn Circle Award ous parody of traditional fairy tales
of the north Mississippi wilderness. He
Couch—she casts a hypnotic narra- and epic fantasy, and a contempo-
was a man, Faulkner said, “who wanted
tive spell—and even the recipe for Gibbons, Kaye rary cult classic.
sons and the sons destroyed him.”
fried green tomatoes. As the past Ellen Foster YALSA Award Winner
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As I Lay Dying Stop Cafe touches the one thing Grahame, Kenneth
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“The story of a redoubtable girl who
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overcomes adversity with humor,
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Gibbons’s first novel is a work of
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Addie, their wife and mother. Told sophistication. A terrific book.” Enter the world of the great river
in multiple first person narratives and meet the marvelous riverbank
—Jonathan Yardley,
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Considered one of the most influen- Mole and the boastful Toad, as they
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tial novels in American fiction in voyage down the river and into the
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structure, style, and drama, As I Lay Wild Wood to great adventures!
Dying is a true 20th-century classic.
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Fiction & Literature Discussion
Guides
We often provide discussion guides
or reading group guides for books
that are ideal for a teen reading
group, Book Talk-style meetings or
for independent readers who want a
challenge. Teachers may also like to
use these questions to generate ideas
when planning lessons.
The guide below is excerpted from
Old Men at Midnight by Chaim Potok.
PLEASE NOTE:
Advanced Placement test prep
titles can be found on page 46.
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World Literature
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World Literature
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Science Fiction & Fantasy
DEL REY™
IMAGINE
The best in classic science fiction and fantasy for ages 12 and up.
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Science Fiction & Fantasy
Mythology
Abrahams, Roger D., ed.
African Folktales
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Bulfinch, Thomas
Bulfinch’s Mythology
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For almost a century and a half,
Bulfinch’s Mythology has been the
definitive text for all mythology.
Campbell, Joseph
The Power of Myth
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Ursula K. Le Guin Anne McCaffrey The Power of Myth is a brilliant
evocation of the noted scholar’s
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea cycle Anne McCaffrey is one of the world’s Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern teachings on mythology.
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world of Earthsea is one of the great- then, she has written dozens of
Nerilka’s Story American Indian Myths and Legends
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frequently compared with J.R.R. twelve million copies in print. Anne TR | $18.00/$24.00C | 544 pp
Tolkien’s Middle Earth or C.S. Lewis’s McCaffrey’s best-selling Pern series MM | $6.99/$10.99C | 208 pp
One-hundred-sixty tales from eighty
Narnia. The magnificent saga begins are a wonder-filled classic of the Dragonsdawn tribal groups, offer a rich and lively
with A Wizard Of Earthsea, continues imagination. She won the Margaret 0-345-36286-1 panorama of the Native American
in The Tombs Of Atuan and The A. Edwards Award for lifetime MM | $6.99/$10.99C | 384 pp mythic heritage.
Farthest Shore, and concludes with achievement in 1999.
Tehanu—each book a treasure of The Chronicles of Pern: Hausman, Gerald and
wisdom, wonder and literary wizardry.
The Dragonriders of Pern First Fall
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The Mythology of Horses: Horse
A Wizard of Earthsea Legend and Lore Throughout
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Dragonquest Dragonseye the Ages
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The Tombs of Atuan
0-553-27331-0 Dragonflight The Renegades of Pern Hearn, Michael Patrick, ed.
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The Farthest Shore 0-375-71455-3
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Tyler, Royall, ed.
Get Off the Unicorn Japanese Tales
All the Weyrs of Pern 0-375-71451-0
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Yeats, William Butler, ed.
The Dolphins of Pern New!
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The Skies of Pern
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Graphic Novels Star Wars®
Allston, Aaron
Star Wars®: The New Jedi Order:
Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand
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Denning, Troy
Star Wars®: Tatooine Ghost
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THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE AMERICAN QUILT ADVENTURES OF Laura Hillenbrand
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ing, a now-classic novel about the group of quilters, this radiant novel A New York Times Notable book. horse that won America’s heart.
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Independent Readers
From pleasure reading in study hall to book reports and library Book
Talk—all educators recognize the importance of getting students to
read. Finding the right books for advanced readers, intermediate readers
and, especially, reluctant readers can be tough. Independent Readers
is a program that will help educators and students find great books in
their local libraries and bookstores. Below, we've listed great books
that teens will love and that you can recommend!
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Independent Readers Reluctant Readers
Bestsellers
Bestsellers
Brashares, Ann Sachar, Louis
The Sisterhood of the Holes
Traveling Pants 0-440-22859-X
0-385-72933-2 MM | $6.50/$9.99C | 256 pp
HC | $14.95/$22.95C | 320 pp Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A
Trigiani, Adriana White, Ruth curse that began with his no-good-
Big Stone Gap Memories of Summer Christie, Amanda dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-
0-345-43832-9 0-440-22921-9 7th Heaven: Lucy's Angel grandfather and has since followed
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Free Discussion Guide available Newbery Honor Winner Ruth White MM | $4.99/$6.99C | 224 pp Free Teacher’s Guide available
gives readers an unforgettable story of Winner ALA Best Books for Young Adults
Big Cherry Holler David, Peter
one girl’s experience growing up with
0-345-44584-8 Spider-Man Spinelli, Jerry
a sister that develops schizophrenia.
TR | $13.95/$21.00C | 320 pp
Free Discussion Guide available 0-345-45005-1 Stargirl
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Milk Glass Moon: Wilson, Jacqueline TR | $8.95/$13.95C | 208 pp
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A Big Stone Gap Novel Girls Under Pressure Evans, Nicholas From the day she arrives at quiet
0-375-50618-7 0-385-72975-8 The Smoke Jumper Mica High in a burst of color and
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0-440-22958-8 MM | $7.99/$11.99C | 576 pp murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” The
Weisberg, Joseph MM | $4.99/NCR | 224 pp His name is Connor Ford and he students of Mica High are enchanted.
10th Grade falls like an angel of mercy from the At first. Then they turn on her.
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At the behest of his composition not have. For Julia Bishop is the Van Draanen, Wendelin
teacher, Jeremy chronicles everything partner of his closest friend, Ed Tully. Sammy Keyes and the
—a disastrously ungrammatical but Julia loves them both and is forced Search for Snake Eyes
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Sammy’s softball team is in contention
Lawrence, Iain for the Junior Slugger’s Cup. She is
Ghost Boy thrown a wild pitch by a frantic girl
0-440-41668-X in the mall. She begs Sammy to watch
MM | $5.50/$7.99C | 352 pp something for her and then dashes
Harold Kline is an albino—an out- off—and Sammy’s search for her
cast. Folks stare and taunt. It’s been leads her into situations that are just
that way for all of his 14 years. So not covered in a softball playbook.
when the circus comes to town,
Harold runs off to join it.
Free Discussion Guide available
McDaniel, Lurlene
How Do I Love Thee: Three Stories
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MM | $5.50/$7.99C | 272 pp
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Short Stories
Angus, Douglas, ed. Cather, Willa Dubus III, Andre Joyce, James
The Best Short Stories Collected Stories The Cage Keeper and Dubliners
of the Modern Age 0-679-73648-4 Other Stories 0-679-73990-4
0-449-30058-7 TR | $15.00/$21.00C | 512 pp 0-375-72774-4 TR | $10.00/$13.00C | 304 pp
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Chaon, Dan MM | $4.95/$6.95C | 208 pp
Angus, Douglas and Among the Missing Faulks, Sebastian and
Angus, Sylvia, eds. 0-345-44161-3 Hensgen, Jorg, eds. Kafka, Franz
Bestseller
Contemporary American TR | $12.95/$19.95C | 288 pp The Vintage Book of War Fiction The Metamorphosis,
Short Stories 2001 National Book Award Nominee - Fiction 1-4000-3040-4 In the Penal Colony,
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Free Teacher’s Guide available Jen, Gish TR | $12.00/$16.95C | 328 pp
Cisneros, Sandra Who’s Irish?: Stories
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