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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Menagerie was Williams' first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our preeminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and it is studied and performed in classrooms and theaters around the world. A new introduction by prominent Williams...
2) The Notebook
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a Southern nursing home, an 80-year-old man reads from his diary to his wife, suffering from Alzheimer's. It's the story of their teenage romance, followed by years of separation because he was from the wrong class, followed by her decision, on his return from World War II, to be her own woman and marry him. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned...
3) Frankenstein
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Frankenstein discovers how to give life to inanimate matter, and from dead flesh constructs a living being. His Monster possesses superhuman speed and strength, and learns human emotion by studying. But as his mind and thoughts develp, his loneliness and misery build. When the scientist refuses to create a companion for him, the Monster kills Frankenstein's wife and flees to the North Pole. Frankenstein follows, desperate to destroy his rampaging...
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