Tuck Everlasting
Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and her domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 529
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: fantasy, immortality, aging, secrets, fantasy fiction, audiobooks [X], films for the hearing impaired, feature films, children's films, fantasy films, secrecy, fantasy fiction, children's audiobooks, families, video recordings for the hearing impaired, closed caption video recordings [X], elderly, family life, film adaptations, dvds [X], large type books, large print books
Sounder
His wife and children were starving, so the black sharecropper stole a ham to feed them.
FIC
year: 4519
copies: 272
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
subjects: dogs, poverty, african americans, family life, large type books, families, audiobooks [X], newbery medal, family, children's audiobooks, compact discs, closed caption video recordings [X], great depression, 1929-1939, television adaptations, sharecroppers, dvds [X], pets, animals, animal films, television adaptations, made for tv movies, dvd-video discs
A Christmas Carol
The tale begins on Christmas Eve seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 316
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: christmas, ghosts, ghost stories, england, misers, scrooge, ebenezer (fictitious character), cartoons and comics, poverty fiction, ghosts fiction, misers fiction, christmas fiction, great britain, england fiction, christmas stories, poor families, sick children, london (england), scrooge, ebenezer (fictional character), didactic fiction, animated films, closed caption video recordings [X], dvds [X], poor, family life, sick, christmas stories, ghost stories, audiobooks, scrooge, ebenezer, fiction, juvenile works, holidays, film novelizations, audiobooks [X], compact discs, jewish holidays, fasts and feasts, christmas fiction
Rebecca
A film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel in which the second Mrs.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 31
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
subjects: man-woman relationships, country homes, man-woman relationship, love stories, romantic suspense novels, cornwall (england : county), remarried people, country houses, closed caption video recordings [X], closed captioning, dvds [X], compact discs, audiobooks [X], de winter, maximilian (fictitious character), men-women relationship, wives, remarriage, great britain
A Separate Peace
Based on John Knowles' novel, this involving a young man's first glimpse of adult emotions and motivations is compelling in both plot and perfomrance.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 345
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1110
subjects: preparatory school students, boys, friendship, death, school stories, new hampshire, private schools, closed captioning, dvds [X], closed caption video recordings [X], bildungsromans, audiobooks [X], schools, historical fiction, video recordings for the hearing impaired, ethnics - fiction, preparatory schools - fiction, friendship - fiction, audiobooks, historical fiction, bildungsromane
The Good Earth
Wang Lung, a peasant farmer in China, becomes a prosperous landowner with the help of his humble wife, O'Lan, but the newly accumulated wealth brings its own problems to the family.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 51
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1530
subjects: married women, wives, china, historical fiction, farmers' spouses, farm life, women, closed caption video recordings [X], closed captioning, dvds [X], compact discs, audiobooks [X], bilingual books, peasantry
Great Expectations
Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 179
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1230
subjects: young men, england, dickens, charles, orphans, coming of age, man-woman relationship, ex-convicts, benefactors, youth, bildungsromans, great britain, man-woman relationships, revenge, historical fiction, closed caption video recordings [X], closed captioning, dvds [X], audiobooks [X], working class, inheritance and succession, literature - adapted, gifts, bildungsromane, audiobooks, bildungsromans, adaptations, graphic novels, love stories, love, cartoons and comics, conduct of life, industrial revolution, social classes, electronic books
Lord Of The Flies
"William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 84
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, regression (psychology), islands, boys, golding, william, young men, english literature, audiobooks [X], boys fiction, books that were turned into a movie, audiobook, survival, compact discs, psychological fiction, closed captioning, dvds [X], closed caption video recordings [X], allegories, survivial (after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.), closed captioned video recordings, social problems, shipwreck survival, nuclear warfare, survival skills, castaways, good and evil, leadership, ego (psychology), electronic books, psychological fiction, action and adventure fiction, electronic books, interpersonal relations in children, fiction / classics, fiction / psychological, fiction / action & adventure, adventure fiction
Of Mice And Men
Lenny, a lumbering hulk of a man with the mind of a child, and his caretaker and good friend, George, dream of owning a farm together.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 449
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: mentally handicapped fiction, ranch life fiction, migrant labor fiction, migrant labor, ranch life, mentally handicapped, california, people with mental disabilities, cowboys, men, male friendship, salinas valley (calif.), cowhands, salinas river valley (calif.), physically handicapped, closed caption video recordings [X], closed captioning, dvds [X], great depression, 1929-1939, friendship, audiobooks [X], mentally handicapped, california, steinbeck, john, 1902-1968. of mice & men. 1995, western stories, depressions, video recordings for the hearing impaired, psychological fiction, compact discs, west (united states)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Contains a complete plot summary and analysis of Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God", as well as discussion of the characters, themes, and includes study questions.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 212
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1080
subjects: african american women, man-woman relationships, women, african americans, self-realization, large type books, florida, allegories, closed captioning, dvds [X], love, closed caption video recordings [X], love stories, compact discs, audiobooks [X], psychological fiction, man-woman relationship, hurston, zora neale, psychological fiction
Where The Red Fern Grows
Starring James Whitmore, Beverly Garland, Jack Ging, Stewart Peterson.
FIC
year: 3121
copies: 47
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: closed caption video recordings [X], death, animals, dogs, dvds [X], ozark mountains, audiobooks [X], hounds, pets, farm life, oklahoma, children's audiobooks, , children's audiobooks