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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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Description
In Chaucer's most ambitious poem, 'The Canterbury Tales' a group of pilgrims assemble in an inn just outside London and agree to entertain each other on the way to Canterbury by telling stories. The pilgrims come from all ranks of society, from the crusading Knight and burly Miller to the worldly Monk and lusty Wife of Bath.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early twentieth-century Catholic Brooklyn.
On a dim winter afternoon in Catholic Brooklyn, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
225 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.
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