Adamson, Joy. Born Free.
Relates the adventures of a lion cub reared and loved for three years by an American game warden and his wife.
Allende, Isabel. House of the Spirits.
The Trueba family embodies strong feelings from the beginning of the 20th century through the assassination of Allende in 1973.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451.
A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit.
Buck, Pearl. The Good Earth.
Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant, rises from poverty to become a rich landowner with the aid of his patient wife in the 1920s.
Landon, Margaret. Anna and the King of Siam.
Journeying to Siam to serve as governess to the king's royal children, a young widow transforms the life of the proud ruler of the exotic Asian country.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies.
The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.
Portis, Charles. True Grit.
With her papa's pistol tied to her saddlehorn and a supersized ration of audacity, fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross sets out to avenge her father's murder.