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Provides access to the printed True Book series in the form of eBooks. There are also accompanying videos and other activities to supplement the books. This is a great resource for elementary students, in grades 3 to 6, doing research on science or social studies topics.
Author
Publisher
Dial Press Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A collection of twenty-five short works by the American author written between 1950 and 1968 and originally printed in a wide range of publications including "The Atlantic Monthly," "Esquire," and "Ladies' Home Journal."
2) Cat's cradle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
One of Vonnegut's major works, a young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb. This is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Dwayne Hoover, a Midwest car dealer, loses his mind when he becomes convinced that Kilgore Trout's fiction is actually reality. As Hoover dives deeper into his madness, he unwittingly makes a satirical commentary on American social issues.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 226
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
This collection of Vonnegut's early work opens with Player Piano (1952), a Metropolis-like parable of breakneck technological innovation and its effect on those it robs of their livelihoods. The Sirens of Titan (1959), the interplanetary adventures of the world's wealthiest and most despised man, is both a pulp-fiction space opera and a satire on the vanity of human striving. The confessions of a German-American double agent well placed among the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great anti-war books. An American classic and one of the world's seminal antiwar books, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is faithfully presented in graphic novel form for the first time from Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler) and Eisner Award-nominated...
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