Novels for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of 12 to 15 works from various cultures and time periods. Each novel included in this new resource was specially chosen by an advisory panel of teachers and librarians -- experts who have helped us define the information needs of students .

• "Adventures of Augie March" by Saul Bellow
• "Beauty" by Robin McKinley
• "The Lost Lady" by Willa Cather
• "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
• "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor

Novels for Students; vol. 32

Each volume (beginning with volume 32) will include two "Literature to Film" entries. Entries profiling film versions of plays/novels not only diversify the study of plays/novels but support alternate learning styles, media literacy, and film studies curricula as well.

Here are some of the novels they will find:

• "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
• "Joseph Andrews" by Henry Fielding
• "Lit to Film: Last of the Mohicans" by Gordon Parks
• "Wings of the Dove" by Henry James

Novels for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of 12 to 15 works from various cultures and time periods. Each novel included in this new resource was specially chosen by an advisory panel of teachers and librarians, experts who have helped us define the information needs of students ..

 

• "The Bonesetter's Daughter" by Amy Tan
• "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
• "Ivanhoe" by Sir Walter Scott
• "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
• "When Rain Clouds Gather" by Bessie Head

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