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Lolita - Vladimir Naboko
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D.Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger.A controversial novel originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage angst and alienation.It has been translated into almost all of the world's major languages.Around 250,000 copies are sold each year with total sales of more tha...
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Beloved is a novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War (1861–1865), it is inspired by the story of an African-American slave, Margaret Garner, who temporarily escaped slavery during 1856 in Kentucky by fleeing to Ohio, a free state.
The Voyeur - Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet was a French writer and filmmaker. He was, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon, one of the figures most associated with the Nouveau Roman (new novel) trend. Alain Robbe-Grillet was elected a member of the Académie française on 25 March 2004, succeeding Maurice Rheims at seat No. 32. He was married to Cath...
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by novelist Muriel Spark, the best known of her works.It first saw publication in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961. The character of Miss Jean Brodie brought Spark international fame and brought her into the first rank of contemporary Scottish literature.
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend...
Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
Rabbit Is Rich is a 1981 novel by John Updike. It is the third novel of the four-part series which begins with Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux, and concludes with Rabbit At Rest. There is also a related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered. Rabbit Is Rich was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction in 1982, as well as...
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
Nausea is an epistolary novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, which was published in 1938 and written while he was teaching at the lycee of Le Havre. It is Sartre's first novel and, in his opinion, one of his best works.
Word Power - Vocabulary Enrichment Activities - Grades 2-3
This book is one of a series of five vocabulary enrichment texts created to add word power by expanding the working vocabularies of young readers and writers.
Word Power - Vocabulary Enrichment Activities - Grades 6-7
Each book in the Word Power series provides 22 activities which introduce more than 60 challenging new words chosen from popular literature at the designated level.
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