Social Issues: Politics / Religion
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TITLE & AUTHOR
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SYNOPSIS
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Among The Hidden
HADDIX, M |
In a future where the Population Police
enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all
his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another
"third" convinces him that the government is wrong. |
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Anthem
RAND, A |
One man dares to take a stand against the
paralyzing collectivism of a future the author fears may come to pass.
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Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress
SIJIE, D |
During the Cultural Revolution in China,
two teenagers are sent to the countryside for "re-education".
They are assigned the revolting task of carrying buckets of excrement up a
hillside for the peasant farmers. When they discover a wealth of forbidden
Western books, life on the hillside takes a brighter turn.
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Chamber
GRISHAM, J |
Adam Hall stands on the brink of a
brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer
and an impossible case.
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Cider House Rules
IRVING, J |
The story of Dr. Wilbur Larch -
obstetrician, director of St. Cloud's orphanage, ether addict and
abortionist - and his favorite orphan, Homer Wells.
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Ender's Game
CARD, O |
Ender Wiggin's is the result of a genetic
breeding program and years of harsh, unforgiving training. Thinking he is
only playing computer-simulated war games, Ender is really commanding the
last great fleet on earth.
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Good Courage*
TOLAN, S |
Ty Rainey's mom joins a religious commune
called the Kingdom, but the children of the Kingdom are virtually slaves,
and punishment for defying the rules is harsh. Ty knows that he must find
the courage to rebel, but the price for doing so may include his freedom,
his sanity, even his life. |
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Hermit Thrush Sings*
BUTLER, S |
Orphaned and "defective" Leora
defies the oppressive laws of a tyrannical government and joins a band of
rebels trying to overthrow the government.
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Leaving Fishers*
HADIX, M |
After joining her new friends in the
religious group called Fishers of Men, Dorry finds herself immersed in a
cult from which she must struggle to extricate herself. |
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Lyddie*
PATERSON, K |
When Lyddie’s family is tragically
separated, she decides to take a mill job in Lowell, Massachusetts to earn
money to reunite them. Working in the mill under appalling conditions, she
must decided if she will fight for better working conditions, or stay
quiet until perhaps it is too late.
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Packinghouse Daughter
REGISTER, C |
Compelling story of a small-town,
working-class life, and the violence that rocked the community when strike
breakers were brought in during the meat packing strike of 1959.
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Sarny, A Life Remembered
PAULSEN. G |
In this companion novel to Nightjohn,
the young slave girl Sarny is now a free woman. A widow, she flees the
plantation in search of her children who have been sold away.
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Split
LASKY, K |
In the year 3038 Darci Murlowe dreads the
predictability of her genetically engineered life, until she uncovers an
underground movement to save the human race. A provocative exploration of
the moral and ethical issues of cloning.
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Taste Of Salt: A Story Of Modern
Haiti*
TEMPLE, F |
In the hospital after being beaten by
Macoutes, 17-year-old Djo tells the story of his impoverished life to
Jeremie, a young woman who, like him, has been working with the social
reformer Father Aristide to fight the repression in Haiti.
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Tent*
PAULSEN, G |
Although dismayed and embarrassed when his
father takes him on the road to get rich preaching the word of God,
14-year-old Steven finds he iscaught up in the money and the things it can
buy. |
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What's In A Name?*
WITTLINGER, E |
Set against the conflict of a coastal
Massachusetts town proposing to change its name, Wittlinger addresses the
issues of class, identity and fitting in that many teenagers face.
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