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It's Kind of a Funny Story

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Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life-which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself.

Author:

Ned Vizzini

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

700L

Length:

08:35

The Knife of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking, Book 1

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Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. Just a month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd and his dog, Manchee - whose thoughts Todd can hear, too, whether he wants to or not - stumble upon an area of complete silence.

Author:

Patrick Ness

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Lexile:

860L

Length:

11:55

The Knife of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking, Book 1

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

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The best-selling author of The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the 21st century. "What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma.

Author:

Michael Pollan

Grade Level:

High

Length:

15:54

Why Genocide?

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Article from thehumanist.com by Fred Edwords in December 2008.

Hamlet

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In this recording, actor Frank Muller reads Hamlet with all stage directions and speaker indications providing a more complete text to audio experience. This is not a dramatized production, but a more accurate reading of the play itself.

Author:

William Shakespeare

Grade Level:

High

Length:

04:06

ELA

It's Kind of a Funny Story

The Knife of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking, Book 1

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Why Genocide?

Hamlet

Hope, Despair and Memory

How to Write the Great American Indian Novel

From the House of Yemanjá

Address by Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Woman's Rights

Atlanta Compromise Speech

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