John Irving
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County-to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto-pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. A tale that...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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Description
T.S. Garp, a man with high ambitions for an artistic career and with obsessive devotion to his wife and children, and Jenny Fields, his famous feminist mother, find their lives surrounded by an assortment of people, including teachers, whores, and radicals.
"Powerful and political, with unforgettable characters and timeless themes, The World According to Garp is John Irving’s breakout novel. The precursor of Irving’s later protest novels, it...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
A novel narrated by the middle son in a family of five children, one bear, and one dog. Describes the Berry family growing up in three different hotels on two separate continents.