Ralph Steadman

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1) Animal farm: a fairy story

Author

Orwell, George

Series

Signet classic volume CT304
Everyman's library volume 150

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5

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Banned & Challenged Books
Caldecott

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Book, CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway

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Orwell's 1945 fable about the power struggles among animals on a farm parallels the situation in Russia at the time as Orwell saw it; the characters include the ruthless pig Stalin, his idealistic Trotsky-like adversary, and the simple, kindly horse who represents the common man. All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated...

2) Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland

Author

Carroll, Lewis

Pub. Date

2009

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On a hot summer day, a little girl sitting by her sister on the bank, having nothing to do, begins to let her imagination grow. Her curiosity and hatred of logic cause her to dream of a nonsensical world filled with amusing characters.

3) Appetites: a cookbook

Author

Bourdain, Anthony

Pub. Date

[2016]

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Drawing on his years as a chef and traveling the world, as well as his experiences as a father, the author offers recipes for favorite home-cooked dishes, including such options as black bean soup, shrimp salad, and sausage gravy and biscuits.

4) Treasure Island

Author

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 12

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Book, CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle, Large Print

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"Young Jim Hawkins and his friends set sail for Treasure Island, hoping to find the buried loot of Captin Flint, fiercest of all the pirates. But, unknown to them, the crew of their own ship is made up of Flint's former crew, led by the evil one-legged pirate Long John Silver. Once on the island Jim and his friends must find the buried treasure and escape before the pirates capture them. Robert Louis Stevenson's timeless tale of greed and gold remains...

5) The Curse of Lono

Author

Thompson, Hunter S

Pub. Date

[2014]

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A wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Hunter S. Thompson's and Ralph Steadman's most eccentric book "The Curse of Lono" is to Hawaii what "Fear and Loathing" was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist's "coverage" of a news event that ends up being a wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Originally published in 1983, "The Curse of Lono" features all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay and feral artwork for which the Hunter S. Thompson/Ralph...