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(0)John Steinbeck
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1994, c1937
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Tells a story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers, who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife. Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. With illustrations from the movie starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.
3) East of Eden
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking/Penguin
Pub. Date
2003, c1952
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900s in Northern California.
4) The Pearl
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1947
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Based on a Mexican folktale, this is the story of a great pearl found by a poor fisherman, the sorrow it brought to his family, and how it was lost again
Author
Language
English
Description
A collection of newspaper articles about Dust Bowl migrants in California's Central Valley by the author of The Grapes of Wrath, accompanied by photos.
Three years before his triumphant novel The Grapes of Wrath-a fictional portrayal of a Depression-era family fleeing Oklahoma during a disastrous period of drought and dust storms-John Steinbeck wrote seven articles for the San Francisco News about these history-making events and the hundreds of thousands...
Author
Language
English
Description
In Conversations with John Steinbeck Thomas Fensch, collects all of Steinbeck's public interviews and allows him to speak in his own behalf in an illuminating expression of his intentions, goals and achievements.
From the beginnings of his career through his last years, the interviews reveal a fascinating, controversial and captivating personality. In the thirties and forties, he made readers socially aware, and in the years following publication...
7) The red pony
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[1959?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Raised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher's life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special connection he will forge with Gabilan, the hot-tempered pony his father gives him. With Billy Buck, the hired hand, Jody tends and trains his horse, restlessly anticipating the moment he will sit high upon Gabilan's saddle. But when Gabilan falls ill, Jody...
8) Cannery Row
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Flood's bordello venture out now and then to enjoy a bit of sunshine. Lee Chong stocks his grocery with almost anything a man could want, and Doc, a young marine biologist
...10) Tortilla flat
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1935
Language
English
Description
Set in Monterey, California, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, and Sweet Thursday, have become classic fare for both students and aficionados of American literature. Inspired by Arthurian legend, Tortilla Flat became popular in its own time as an escape from the daily grind of the Great Depression. Danny and his friends are paisanos, people of mixed breed who claim pure Spanish descent, live by their own rules, and decline
...11) The wayward bus
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The ambitions, dreams, failings, and innermost thoughts of a diverse group of passengers are revealed as they travel aboard a bus along the backroads of California.
13) The moon is down
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1995, c1942
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A beautiful, provincial Norwegian town is invaded by German soldiers. An act of brutality begins an uncontrollable, unalterable chain of events.
14) Sweet Thursday
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1954
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
16) Of mice and men
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003, c1992
Language
English
Description
In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.