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Below are sixteen (16) novels related to America in the 20th Century.
Read one, complete this ANALYSIS Assignment, and turn it in for BONUS points!
Below are sixteen (16) novels related to America in the 20th Century.
Read one, complete this ANALYSIS Assignment, and turn it in for BONUS points!
Animal Farm
Remember the 1917 Revolution? Enjoy George Orwell's allegory about the Russian Revolution as told from the perspective of animals on a farm.
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Bud, Not Buddy
In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, ten-year-old Bud is a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression. Bud escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned jazz band leader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
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Aces Up
This real account chronicles the WWI adventures of Lieutenant McGee and Buzz Larkin, American pilots for the R.A.F. The book also contains a little dictionary of aeronautical terms, and military terms. Explore the origins of air warfare!
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First on the Moon
First they tried Sputnik, then missiles in Cuba, and maybe even the JFK assassination... but in this Cold War propaganda novel, the Soviet Union battles Uncle Sam for control of space! Cold War sci-fi at its best!
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Losing Laika
Soviet optics technician Petró Kravets believes the USSR will defeat America. From the U2 spy plane to Laika, the first dog in space, this novel covers half a century of the Soviet Space program. Losing Laika is an engaging portrayal of Cold War patriotism and mankind's quest for the stars.
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Maggie: Girl of the Street
The story centers on Maggie, a young girl from the Bowery who is driven to unfortunate circumstances by poverty and solitude. The work was considered risqué by publishers in 1893 because of its literary realism and strong themes.
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Yankee in the Trenches
Derby Holmes wanted to get into the fight before the fight was over. Just like so many young men over the years he thought leaving his home in the USA and joining the British army would be a great adventure. It didn't take long in the trenches for him to wish for the safety and cleanliness of anywhere but where he was. This is the real story, as told by the real soldier.
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The Great Gatsby
Flappers and Speakeasies! Considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby offers a close look at the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age".
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The Outsiders
The rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, only heats up when one gang member kills a member of the other. Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1965.
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Go Ask Alice
Go Ask Alice became a cult classic in the 1970s, revealing the inner thoughts of a teen in turmoil and detailing her attempts to pull herself out of her drug-induced haze.
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Night
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.
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The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. His third book about the war, it is based upon his experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division.
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Anthem
In 1917, the Russian Revolution brought communism into young Ayn Rand's life. In this dystopian, sci-fi critique of communism, Rand questions freedom, society, and the perils of altruism.
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House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street follows Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl, and her experiences growing up among the Chicano and Puerto Rican cultures of an impoverished Chicago neighborhood during the 1980s.
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The Wave
How could people follow a dictator? A high school teacher's lesson about Nazism spins horribly out of control and eerily starts to resemble Germany's past. Who will realize what's happening before the horrors start repeating themselves?
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