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When seventeen year old Richie Perry realizes he cannot afford to go to college he joins the army. He leaves the US for Vietnam with idealized ideas of war, which are soon shattered upon arrival. He witnesses increasing levels of destruction and…

This book follows the friendship of Jess and Leslie, eleven year-old boy and girl living in the rural south. To escape the hardships of family and school life and the realities of poverty, Jess and Leslie develop a fantasy world in the woods near…

This book is about Meg Murry, a fourteen year-old girl who is transported on an adventure through time and space with her younger brother Charles Wallace and her friend Calvin O'Keefe to rescue her father, a gifted scientist, from the evil forces…

This coming-of-age story is set in 1920s rural Vermont, and focuses on Robert, a teenage boy who is becoming closer with his father, who is a butcher who slaughters hogs. Robert is given a pet pig, Pinky, from his neighbours after helping their cow…