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12th Grade
02/03/2012

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William Butler Yeats
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"A Fisherman," "The Second Coming," and "Easter 1916;" Irish poet and dramatist;foremost figures of 20th century lierture;British WWI poet
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Countee Cullen
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"Any Human to Another," "Color," and "The Ballad of the Brown Girl;" American Romantic poet;leading African-American poets of his time;associated with generation of poets of the Harlem Renaissance
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Elizabeth Barrett Browing
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"Aurora Leigh," poet of the Victorian era
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Henry David Thoreau
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"Civil Disobedience;" American author,poet,naturalist,tax resister,development critic,surveyor,historian,philosopher,and leading transcendentalist
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Aphra Behn
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"History of a Nun;" prolific dramatist of the Restoration(18th century),one of the first English female writers
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Anne Bradstreet
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"In Reference to her Children;" English-American writer,first notable American poet;first woman to be published in Colonial America
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John Keats
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"On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer," "To Autumn," and "Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast As Thou Art;" English poet in Romantic movement durin early 19th century;motifs include departures and reveries,the five sense and art,and the disappearance of the poet and the speaker;symbols include music and musicians,nature,and the ancient world
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Prometheus Unbound," "Ode to the West Wind," and "To A Skylark'
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Self-Reliance;" Transcendentalist poet,essayist,speaker
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Lord Byron
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"She Walks in Beauty" and "When We Two Parted;" British poet and leading figure in Romanticism
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Nathaniel Hawthorn
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"The Birth-Mark," The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement(specifically dark romanticism)
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Washington Irving
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"The Legend of Sleep Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle;" American author,essayist,biographer,historian
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TS Eliot
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"The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock," "The Waste Land" and "The Hollow Men;" British WWI poet,playwrigth,and literary critic
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Robert Frost
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"The Road Not Taken;" American poet; highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech;won Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry four times
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William Wordsworth
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"We Are Seven," "The Prelude," and "The World is Too Much With Us;" English Romantic poet; joint publication of 'Lyrical Ballads' with Samuel Taylor Coleridge; motifs: wanders vs wandering,memory,vision/sight,light,leech,gatherer;believed that childhood was a "magnificent time of innocence;devotion to nature; use of everyday speech and country characters
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Emily Dickinson
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"Wild Nights--Wild Nights!;" "I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died," and "Because I Could Not Stop For Death--;" 19th century poet; major themes: flowers/gardens,the master poems,morbidity,gospel poems,the undiscovered continent;irregular capitalization,use of dashes & enjambment,took liberty with meter
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George Orwell
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1984,Animal Farm;dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism
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Katherine Patterson
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A Bridge to Terabithia
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Ernest Hemingway
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A Farewell to Arms,The Old Man and the Sea,and The Sun Also Rises;American writer and journalist;veteran of WWI, belongs to literary movement called 'The Lost Generation'
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Madeline L'Engle
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A Wrinkle in Time,A Swiftly Tilting Planet,A Wind in the Door,The Small Rain, 24 Days before Christmas
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Lewis Carroll
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Alice In Wonderland
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Leo Tolstoy
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Anne Karenina, War and Peace;Russian writer,realistic fiction
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Kate Dicamillo
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Because of Winn-Dixie
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Toni Morrison
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Beloved,The Bluest Eye, and Song of Solomon;female,African-American,won Pulitzen Prizen in 1988
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Herman Melville
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Billy Budd,Sailor;Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic;American novelist,short story writer,essayist,and poet
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Christopher Paul Curtis
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Bud Not Buddy,The Watsons Go to Birmingham
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EB White
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Charlotte's Web
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Crome and Punishment;Russian writer,essayist,philosoher
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Avi
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Crispin,Nothing But The Truth
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Charles Dickens
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David Copperfield,Great Expectations;English novelist during Victorian era
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Christopher Marlowe
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Doctor Faustus
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Jane Austen
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Emma;Pride and Prejudice;Mansfield Park,et al.
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Edith Wharton
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Ethan Frome
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Ray Bradbury
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Fahrenheit 451,Dandelion Wine
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Mary Shelley
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Frankenstein;Romantic British novelist,short story writer,dramatist,essayist,biographer,travel writer
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Gray Paulson
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Hatchet
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Louis Sacher
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Holes
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Carl Hiaason
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Hoot
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Maya Angelou
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I know Why the Caged Bird Sings;African-American autobiographer and poet
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Scott O'Dell
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Island of Blue Dolphins
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Charlotte Bronte
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Jane Eyre
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Ester Forbes
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Johnny Tremain
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Jean Craighead George
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Julie of the Wolve
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Walt Whitman
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Leaves of Grass;celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy
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Louisa May Alcott
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Little Women;American novelist
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William Golding
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Lord of the Flies,To the Ends of the Earth;British novelist,poet
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Jerry Spinelli
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Maniac Magee
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Virginia Woolf
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Mrs.Dalloway,Night and Day,The Voyage Out,and Jacob's Room;English novellist and essayist;one of the foremost modernist literary figures of 20th century
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Willa Cather
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My Antonia;prolific during the 1920s,reputation as one of the most important post-Civil War American authors
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Frederick Douglass
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,editor of 'The North Star;abolitionist,was self-educated slave
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Elie Wiesel
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Night
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Karen Hesse
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Out of the Dust
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James Joyce
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Portait of the Artist as a Young Man:20th century Irish author
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Stephen Crane
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Red Badge of Courage;American novelist,short story writer,poet,journalist,raised in NY and NJ;style and technique:naturalism,realism,impressionism;themes:ideals v.realities,spiritual crisis,fears
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Daniel Defore
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Robinson Crusoe;known as the father of the English novel
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Mildred Taylor
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Roll of Thunder
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Mildred Taylor
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Roll of Thunder,Hear my Cry
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Patricia MacLauchlan
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Sarah Plain and Tall
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Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
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Shiloh
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William Shakespeare
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Sonnet 18,Hamlet, and Macbeth;greatest playwright who ever lived,prolific poet,know for sonnets
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William Armstrong
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Sounder
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Mark Twain
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Virgil
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The Aeneid
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Kate Chopin
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The Awakening,The Storm;feminist author of the 20th century;born in st.Louis,Missouri
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Syliva Plath
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The Bell Jar;born during the great depression
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Jack London
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The Call of the Wild,Sea-Wolf,White Fang
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Canterbury Tales
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JD Salinger
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Robert Cormier
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The Chocolate War
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Alice Walker
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The Color Purple;American author,self-declaed reminist and womanist;won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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Anne Frank
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The Diary of a Young Girl(autobiographical literature set betwwen 1942-1944)1st published in 1952,chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
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Nancy Farmer
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The Eye,the Ear,and the Arm
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Edgar Allan Poe
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The Fall of the House of Usher,The Murders in the Rue Morgue,and The Raven;poems: "To Science," "The City and the Sea," ans "Silence;" American writer,poet,editor and literary critic;part of American Romanyic Movement
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Lois Lowry
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The Giver,Number the Stars
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Walter Dean Myers
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The Glory Field
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F.Scott Fitzgerald
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The Great Gatsby
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JRR Tolkein
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The Hobbit
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Sandra Cisneros
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The House on Mango Street
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HG Wells
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The Invisible Mna, The War of the Worlds,The Time Machine
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Amy Tan
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The Joy Luck Club(widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese-American experience of the late 20th century)
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CS Lewis
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The Lion,the Witch,and the Wardrobe
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S.E. Hinton
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The Outsiders
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SE Hinton
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The Outsiders
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Oscar Wilde
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The Picture of Dorian Gray;Irish playwright,poet,and author of numerous short stories and one novel
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Paul Zindel
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The Pigman
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Wendy Towle
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The Real McCoy:The Life of an American Inventor
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Helen Keller
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The Story of My Life and The Frost King;American author,political activist,lecture;first deal dlind person to earn BA
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Johann David Wyss
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The Swiss Family Robinson
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Ruth Avi
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
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Caroline Cooney
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The Voice the Radio
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Langston Hughes
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The Weary Blues,The Ways of White Folks,and Not Without Laughter;American poet,novelist,playwright,short story writer,and columnist;earl innovator for literary art known as jazz poetry;best known for work during Harlem Renaissance
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
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The Yearling
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Their Eyes Were Watching God;20th century African-American writer;folkorist during the Harlem Renaissance;
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Mary Downing Hahn
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Time for Andrew:A Ghost Story
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Harper Lee
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To Kill a Mockingbird;American author
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Ben Mikaelson
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Touching Spirit Bear
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Sharon Creech
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Walk Two Moons
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Richard Adams
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Watership Down
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Elizabeth George Speare
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Witch of Blackbird Pond
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Emily Bronte
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Wuthering Heights
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