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(0)John Steinbeck
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1993
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
Penguin
Pub. Date
1992, 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
Pub. Date
c1945
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
5) The red pony
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1938
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...