Spike McClure
1) Shiloh
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Language
English
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This fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 is a stunning work of imaginative history, from Shelby Foote, beloved historian of the Civil War. Shiloh conveys not only the bloody choreography of Union and Confederate troops through the woods near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, but the inner movements of the combatants' hearts and minds. Through the eyes of officers and illiterate foot soldiers, heroes, and cowards, Shiloh creates...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Gene and Phineas, roommates at an exclusive New England prep school, form a complex bond of friendship that leads to envy, violence, and betrayal.
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
Ponyboy can count on his brothers, and on his friends, but not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up "greasers". Then one night, someone takes things too far.
Author
Series
Biggie Weatherford mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Nancy Bell's popular mystery series combines colorful characters, a small-town setting, down-home Texas humor- and one of the most wildly misnamed sleuths in the genre. A diminutive, shrewd grandmother, "Biggie" Weatherford is an amateur detective and professional collector of gossip. In Biggie and the Devil Diet, she investigates a murder at a weight-loss spa for wealthy teenagers.