High

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.

Roger & Me (1989)

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In 1989, Michael Moore, winner of 2002’s Best Documentary Feature Academy Award* and Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Bowling for Columbine, triumphantly burst upon the American moviemaking scene with Roger & Me, a hilarious, penetrating forerunner of the independent film movement.

Grade Level:

High

Length:

01:30

The Hudsucker Proxy

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Mailroom clerk Norville Barnes is a rube, a schmoe, a grade-A ding-dong - just what Hudsucker Industries wants in a president! With him at the top, the stock will hit bottom… and the fat cats on the board can take over. But Norville (Tim Robbins) has his own spiffy little plan. And if a snoopy reporter (Jennifer Jason Leigh) doesn’t put the kibosh on the Hudsucker flimflam and finagling big cheese Sidney J. Mussburger (Paul Newman) doesn’t squash him, Norville’s idea will put a smile on the hips of all America!

Director:

Joel Coen

Grade Level:

High

Length:

01:51

Inequality for All (2013)

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A passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, INEQUALITY FOR ALL features Robert Reich-professor, best-selling author, and Clinton cabinet member-as he demonstrates how the widening income gap has a devastating impact on the American economy. The film is an intimate portrait of a man whose lifelong goal remains protecting those who are unable to protect themselves.

Grade Level:

High

Length:

01:30

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