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Truman Capote’s memoir shows a narrator who is engaged in a struggle to find a place to belong and to be a member—even if that place is only with an elderly cousin who seems not to fit in any place herself. The action takes place in a small Southern town around the time of the Great Depression. Capote uses themes of love, acceptance, and loyalty in this story.
Students explore writing through tone, setting, characterization, and imagery. Students create narrative pieces fashioned after Capote’s style. Many opportunities for creative writing are presented. Supplementary materials include an essay assessment with answer key and additional activities to extend the unit, such as making kites, creating a recipe book, and illustrating a children’s picture book.
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All My Sons
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The Crucible
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Across Five Aprils
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The Martian Chronicles
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Crime and Punishment
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The Chosen
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Chasing Redbird
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The Killer Angels
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My Antonia
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Grendel
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The Odyssey
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Profiles in Courage
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Night
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Spoon River Anthology
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The Prince
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The Iliad
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All Creatures Great and Small
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The Color of Water
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Black Like Me
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Creating a Values-Based Literature Program
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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A Doll’s House
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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Riders to the Sea
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I Remember Mama
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You Can’t Take It with You
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The Lion in Winter
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Galileo
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The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
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“MASTER HAROLD”. . . and the boys
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The Piano Lesson
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Mrs. Warren’s Profession
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Hamlet
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The Taming of the Shrew
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Macbeth
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Othello
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World
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Beowulf
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
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The Divine Comedy
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Le Morte D’Arthur
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Farewell to Manzanar
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A River Runs Through It
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The Glass Menagerie
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All the King’s Men
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A Man for All Seasons
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She Stoops to Conquer
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Medea
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Henry V
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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When I Was Puerto Rican
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The Age of Innocence
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The Miracle Worker
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Hedda Gabler
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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Long Day’s Journey into Night
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Waiting for Godot
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The Matchmaker
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The Merchant of Venice
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Fences
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The Tempest
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Romeo and Juliet
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As You Like It
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King Lear
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Henry IV (Part 1)
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Dubliners
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Having Our Say
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Into Thin Air
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And Then There Were None
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The Awakening
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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Antigone
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Oedipus the King
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Our Town
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Death of a Salesman
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The Playboy of the Western World
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Tartuffe
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Inherit the Wind
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Julius Caesar
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Animal Farm
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Pygmalion
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Richard III
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Arms and the Man
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A Tale of Two Cities
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Saint Joan
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Murder in the Cathedral
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Equus
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Wit
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Major Barbara
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Anna Karenina
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The Assistant
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Pigs in Heaven
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April Morning
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A Gathering of Old Men
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All the Pretty Horses
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Among the Hidden
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As I Lay Dying
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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The Book of the Dun Cow
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Brave New World
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
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Billy Budd
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The Brothers Karamazov
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Black Boy
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Bud, Not Buddy
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A Year Down Yonder
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Where the Red Fern Grows
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The Walking Drum
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The Westing Game
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The Unvanquished
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The Tin Can Tree
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Seven Daughters and Seven Sons
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Sounder
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Among the Imposters
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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The Return of the Native
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Rebecca
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Red Sky at Morning
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The Natural
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A Night to Remember
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Nightjohn
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Moby Dick
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My Louisiana Sky
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The Kite Runner
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A Country of Strangers
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The Christmas Box
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Catherine, Called Birdy
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Counterfeit Legacy
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Catch-22
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The Crystal Cave
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Ethan Frome
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East of Eden
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Ellen Foster
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The Egypt Game
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The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
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Ender’s Game
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
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Izzy, Willy-Nilly
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Ivanhoe
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Jane Eyre
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Belle Prater’s Boy
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The Bean Trees
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The Chronicles of Narnia
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Cold Mountain
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Celebration!
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Incident at Hawk’s Hill
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I Heard the Owl Call My Name
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The Jungle
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Jubal Sackett
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Jude the Obscure
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The Pigman’s Legacy
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Black Elk Speaks
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The Poisonwood Bible
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Paradise Lost
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The Portrait of a Lady
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A Passage to India
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Through the Looking-Glass
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Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Hiroshima
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The Honorable Prison
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Holes
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Howards End
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The House on Mango Street
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Babbitt
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The Hobbit
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Sarum
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The Bronze Bow
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The Great Gatsby
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Friedrich
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From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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Let the Circle Be Unbroken
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Dr. Zhivago
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A Long Way from Chicago
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Durango Street
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The Dollmaker
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Light in August
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
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Davita’s Harp
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Demian
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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Bless Me, Ultima
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Blessings
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A Virtuous Woman
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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The Country of the Pointed Firs
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Ceremony
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Invisible Man
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Father Melancholy’s Daughter
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The Lovely Bones
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A Raisin in the Sun
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Life with Father
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One Writer’s Beginnings
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The Trip to Bountiful
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Anne of Green Gables
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The Pearl
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Charming Billy
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Emma
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The Pigman
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Hard Times
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Much Ado about Nothing
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Burning Up
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The Once and Future King
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The Outsiders
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O Pioneers!
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Of Mice and Men
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Oliver Twist
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Mrs. Mike
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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Robinson Crusoe
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Number the Stars
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Native Son
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Madame Bovary
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Utopia
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The Moviegoer
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The Metamorphosis
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Cold Sassy Tree
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Cry, the Beloved Country
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The Call of the Wild
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Charlotte’s Web
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The Cay
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
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Journey of the Sparrows
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Hatchet
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Soldier’s Heart
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The Lord of the Rings
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Frankenstein
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Dandelion Wine
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Don Quixote, la Mancha
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Julie of the Wolves
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Pride and Prejudice
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The Prince and the Pauper
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The Human Comedy
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Homecoming
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Streams to the River, River to the Sea
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The Light in the Forest
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Fahrenheit 451
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Forbidden City
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Little Hou | |