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2) Manor House
Publisher
PBS DVD Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
PBS's fascinating recreation of life upstairs and downstairs in an Edwardian country home. For three months, ordinary people played the parts of the Lord and Lady and the thirteen servants who worked endlessly for them.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the island utopia of Prospera, a ferryman who gently shepherds people through the retirement process--and, when necessary, enforces it--Proctor Bennet, of the Department of Social Contracts, receives a disturbing and cryptic message from his father, while The Support Staff, who keep Prospera running, organize a revolution that causes Proctor to question everything he once believed.
7) Everless
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In a land where the rich are able to hoard time, Jules Ember returns to the estate where she and her father used to be servants and where the youngest son of an aristocratic family is planning to marry the daughter of the queen.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this powerful new work, Thomas Piketty reminds us that rising inequality is not inevitable. Over the centuries, we have been moving toward greater equality. Piketty guides us with elegance and concision through the great movements that have made the modern world and shows how we can learn from them to make equality a lasting reality"--
10) Belle r©♭volte
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Comtesse Emilie, whose yearning to be a physician is below her station, switches places with Annette, who needs training to develop her magic, as their homeland is threatened by war.
11) The awakening
Author
Series
Nubia volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In a climate-ravaged New York deeply divided by class, Zuberi, Uzochi, and Lencho, three teens of refugees from a fallen African utopia, begin to develop supernatural powers.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Dimkpa dreams of the day his father will be made village head. He will return to school and maybe even go on to university; his mother will no longer have to break her back foraging wild food to sell at market; they will have the money to build a fine tomb for his aunt Okike; and his family’s status as ohu ma, the lowest Igbo caste, won’t matter anymore. But when his father is passed over for a younger man, breaking tradition,...
13) Flatland
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1962 John Hubley came to Harvard University as the first teacher of animation in the new Visual Arts Center. It was his idea to make a film based on Edwin Abbott's famous novel about life in a two-dimensional world, Flatland.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Lala must deal with a chain of events that have terrible consequences when her petty criminal husband is interrupted in his attempt to rob one of the mansions in their "paradise" home of Baxter Beach, Barbados.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. In fact, I would like to have written it myself - if, that is, I had lived Linda Tirado's life and extracted all the hard lessons she has learned. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief...
Author
Series
We set the dark on fire volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Dani must question everything she's worked for as she learns about the corruption of the Median government"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It's the 800-pound gorilla in American life that most Americans don't think about: how do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular social class? Class can be harder to spot than racial or ethnic differences, yet in many ways it's the most important predictor of what kind of financial and educational opportunities someone will have in life. But class is a hard subject...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
For soccer games Sierra rides a bus out of the city to fields that are nicer than the "lot" in her neighborhood, but so her auntie can be at her last game, she asks Coach Marco if the team might play in her neighborhood on a day her aunt does not work.
20) The adventuress
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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