Reading Lists: High School
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The Iliad: Hardcover
USD $6.95 Add to cartThis high interest/low vocabulary retelling of The Iliad introduces young readers to Homer's thrilling epic tale. Set during the siege of Troy, and complete with duels, battles, larger-than-life characters like Achilles, and the famed Greek gods, (read more)
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The Phantom of the Opera: Hardcover
USD $6.95 Add to cartThe long-ago mysteries of the great opera house in Paris have never been explained. Why did so many terrible tragedies happen there? Why did everyone flee from it in fear? This gripping story about the “opera ghost” (read more)
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White Fang: Hardcover
USD $6.95 Add to cartHalf wolf, half dog, White Fang fully understands the cruelty of both nature and humans. After nearly starving to death during the frigid Arctic winter, he’s taken in first by a man who “trains” him through constant whippings, and (read more)
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3 by Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III
USD $6.00 Add to cartComedy, tragedy, and history — this anthology presents a trio of Shakespeare's most frequently studied and performed works. Each represents one of the playwright's primary genres, and together they run the gamut of the Elizabethan theater experience, from lighthearted romance to (read more)
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Bhagavadgita
USD $5.00 Add to cartThe Bhagavadgita is part of the great Indian epic the Mahabharata, and it is one of the major religious documents of the world, occupying in Hinduism a position not unlike the Sermon on the Mount in Christianity. One of the (read more)
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Civil War Stories
USD $4.00 Add to cartNewspaperman, short-story writer, poet, and satirist, Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) is one of the most striking and unusual literary figures America has produced. Dubbed "Bitter Bierce" for his vitriolic wit and biting satire, his fame rests largely on a celebrated compilation of (read more)
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Moby-Dick
USD $7.00 Add to cartA masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fantastical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced (read more)
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Siddhartha
USD $4.00 Add to cartThis classic novel of self-discovery has inspired generations of seekers. With parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, Hesse's Siddharthais the story of a young Brahmin's quest for the ultimate reality. His quest takes him from the (read more)
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The Iliad
USD $5.00 Add to cartProbably composed in the eighth century B.C. and based on an actual historical event of the thirteenth century B.C., Homer's Iliad is one of the great epics of the Western world. The poem unfolds (read more)
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The Odyssey
USD $6.00 Add to cartThis excellent prose translation of Homer's epic poem of the 9th century BC recounts one of Western civilization's most glorious tales, a treasury of Greek folklore and myth that maintains an ageless appeal for modern readers. A cornerstone of Western (read more)
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Book of the Heart
USD $16.95 Add to cartKeats stands as a prophetic precursor behind much in today's radical attempts at cultural and self-transformation. Unfortunately, he is remembered, if at all, mostly as a Romantic poet whose value and standing was magnified by his early death. Eclipsed by (read more)
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
USD $17.00 Add to cartHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important (read more)
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Homer’s Odyssey: A Retelling by Isabel Wyatt
USD $16.25 Add to cartHomer's Odyssey is one of the greatest stories in literature, the epic tale of the return of Odysseus to his home following the Trojan war. After nine years of siege and fighting, the Greeks are finally returning home. But one (read more)
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A Wizard of Earthsea
USD $8.99 Add to cartOriginally published in 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea marks the first of the six now beloved Earthsea titles. Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the (read more)
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Hatchet
USD $8.99 Add to cartThis award-winning contemporary classic is the survival story with which all others are compared—and a page-turning, heart-stopping adventure, recipient of the Newbery Honor. Hatchet has also been nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels (read more)
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Lavinia
USD $15.99 Add to cartIn a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice.
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Tales from Earthsea
USD $8.99 Add to cartThe tales of this book explore and extend the world established by the Earthsea novels--yet each stands on its own. It contains the novella "The Finder," and the short stories "The Bones of the Earth," "Darkrose and Diamond," "On the (read more)
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Tehanu
USD $11.99 Add to cartIn this fourth novel in the Earthsea series, we rejoin the young priestess the Tenar and powerful wizard Ged. Years before, they had helped each other at a time of darkness and danger. Together, they shared an adventure like no (read more)
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The Farthest Shore
USD $9.99 Add to cartDarkness threatens to overtake Earthsea. As the world and its wizards are losing their magic, Ged—powerful Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord—embarks on a sailing journey with highborn young prince, Arren. They travel far beyond the realm of death to (read more)
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The Other Wind
The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. The dead are pulling him to them at night. Through him they may free themselves and invade Earthsea. Alder seeks advice from Ged, once Archmage. Ged tells him to go to Tenar, Tehanu, (read more)USD $9.99 Add to cart
The Tombs of Atuan
USD $9.99 Add to cartIn this second novel in the Earthsea series, Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, and everything is taken from her—home, family, possessions, even her name. She is now known only (read more)
Gilgamesh the Hero: Hardcover
USD $17.50 Read moreThis is one of the oldest stories in the world, and it's about things that still matter to us today: friendship, fame, courage, happiness. Gilgamesh and Enkidu are friends -- best friends. Together they can work wonders, fight monsters, brave (read more)
To Kill a Mockingbird
USD $17.99 Add to cartVoted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read. Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred.
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
USD $7.99 Add to cartThis is a wonderful story, written out of a true knowledge, of a young newly-ordained vicar who arrives in the village of Kingcome and enters into the Native culture of totems and potlatch. Because he has an open heart, he (read more)
Deer Dance: Yaqui Legends of Life
USD $11.95 Add to cartFrom earliest times, the Yaqui people have had to overcome many oppressive and exploitative conditions to continue their own laws and customs. Many of their tribal stories reflect this struggle and are preserved in this collection of Yaqui legends and (read more)
Native Women of Courage
USD $9.95 Add to cartNative Women of Courage profiles ten outstanding women leaders in the Native community. All of these successful, trailblazing women are stellar role models who have raised the profile of indigenous culture in North America. From heroines of the past to (read more)
Pathfinders Series: Autumn’s Dawn
USD $9.95 Add to cartWe decided to carry the Pathfinder's series of books for our teenage readers because they tell stories of every day Native American teenagers from their own point of view. As part of a curriculum that seeks to embrace diversity and (read more)
Pathfinders Series: Finding Grace
USD $9.95 Add to cartWe decided to carry the Pathfinder's series of books for our teenage readers because they tell stories of every day Native American teenagers from their own point of view. As part of a curriculum that seeks to embrace diversity and (read more)
Pathfinders Series: Found
USD $9.95 Add to cartWe decided to carry the Pathfinder's series of books for our teenage readers because they tell stories of every day Native American teenagers from their own point of view. As part of a curriculum that seeks to embrace diversity and (read more)
Pathfinders Series: Standing Strong
USD $9.95 Add to cartCongratulations to Gary Robinson, 2019 winner of the Moonbeams Children's Book Gold Award for Nature Issues and voted 2019 Best Books for High School by American Indians in Children's Literature. We decided to carry the Pathfinder's series of books for our teenage (read more)
Myths and Legends of Japan
USD $12.95 Add to cartWow. What an amazing collections of stories and delicious cultural/historical tidbits - and retold so very well! Here are the most popular Japanese myths of gods, heroes and warriors; legends of Buddha, and of the goddess Benten and the (read more)
Native Defenders of the Environment
USD $9.95 Add to cartFrom the Native Trailblazers series comes a new book with the stories of twelve brave people who work tirelessly to save our environment. These are stories of courage, determination and resistance to multinational corporations and disastrous government policies that are (read more)
Never Cry Wolf
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Parzival & Gawain: Two Plays
USD $18.95 Add to cartA beautiful way to encounter the archetypal characters of the Grail legends, whether you already know the stories or not. These plays read beautifully and are suitable for high school and community drama performance...
Parzival: The Quest for the Holy Grail: Illustrated by David Newbatt: Hardcover
USD $60.00 Add to cartThis is an absolutely gorgeous and solid book! Stunning! Like a coffee table book but packed with so much beauty and information. Parzival is one of the great classic stories of the last millennium, a colourful tale from the time (read more)
Secrets of the Talking Jaguar
USD $16.95 Add to cartI love this book; so much so that after making three attempts at writing my own review of it, I've decided to let Robert Bly speak from his Foreword instead: "[Prechtel's] father is Swiss, his mother a Native American from (read more)
Splinters of the Sun
USD $18.00 Read moreBetty Staley passionately loves Russian literature and deeply believes that it holds many "splinters of the sun" - many loving pieces of light that illuminate the souls of readers as they speak of a world that is and vastly different (read more)
The Country of the Pointed Firs
USD $20.00 Add to cartThis is one of the finest "young adult" books ever written! First published in 1896, The Country of the Pointed Firs was considered by Willa Cather to be one of the three novels most likely to achieve a permanent (read more)
The Toe Bone and the Tooth: An Ancient Mayan Story Relived in Modern Times: Hardcover
USD $17.95 Add to cartThe Toe Bone and the Tooth: An Ancient Mayan Story Relived in Modern Times: Leaving Home to Come Home
A survivor of the horrors of Guatemalan death (read more)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Hardcover
USD $24.95 Add to cartThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner is one of the great classics of English Literature, considered by many to be the greatest ballad ever written in English. Composed at the end of the eighteenth century by Coleridge, its (read more)