View Reading GUide

* *

Be the first to rate this book!

Useful Idiots

by Jan Mark

Published: 2005-04-07

Paperback: 416 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

View Reading GUide

* * * * *

Be the first to rate this book!

The Uses of Enchantment: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Heidi Julavits

Published: 2008-01-08

Paperback: 356 pages

2 members reading this now
2 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

One Autumn day in 1985, sixteen-year-old Mary Veal vanishes from her Massachusetts prep school. A few weeks later she reappears unharmed and with little memory of what happened to her--or at least little that she is willing to share.  Was Mary abducted, or did she fake her disappearance?�...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Using Picture Books to Teach Writing With the Traits: K-2: An Annotated Bibliography of More Than 150 Mentor Texts With Teacher-Tested Lessons

by Ruth Culham, Raymond Coutu

Published: 2008-05-01

Paperback: 112 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Good teachers have long recognized the power of using picture books as models of good writing. The short, focused, and tightly woven text mirrors the kind of writing they want their students to be doing. In this essential resource, the authors have organized by trait more than 150 annotations of new...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

The Usual Rules

by Joyce Maynard

Published: 2004

Paperback: 400 pages

2 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Thirteen-year-old Wendy lives in Brooklyn. Her world is transformed one day in September 2001--her mother goes to work that morning and doesn't come back. Through Wendy's eyes, readers follow her slow and terrible realization that her mother has died, and the family's struggle to move forward with their...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Utopia

by Thomas More

Published: 2012-02-27

Paperback: 108 pages

2 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Controversial, contradictory, and mysterious, Utopia by Sir Thomas More has engaged scholars and intrigued readers since its initial publication in the 16th century. More s imagining of Utopia presents a solution to many of the social ills discussed in the first part of the text, yet seems also to embody...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Utopia (Penguin Classics)

by Thomas More

Published: 2003-05-06

Paperback: 176 pages

1 member reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Utterly Charming

by Kristine Grayson

Published: 2011-10-04

Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

"Utterly charming, indeed! A delightful mix of fun and fantasy." ? Kasey Michaels, USA Today bestselling author of How to Wed a Baran"Magical and sweet. . .I was charmed." ? Susan Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of Burning UpHe could be her own personal Prince Charming if only ...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Utterly Monkey: A Novel (P.S.)

by Nick Laird

Published: 2006-01-01

Paperback: 344 pages

1 member reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Danny Williams didn't mean to be a lawyer, but somehow he is -- and for up to eighteen hours a day. He's well paid, home owning, and twenty-seven but is also overworked, lonely, and frequently stoned. The plan was to leave the troubles of a small town in Northern Ireland for the big city ...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

V for Vendetta

by Alan Moore

Published: 2008-10-24

Comic: 0 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

A new trade paperback edition of the graphic novel that inspired the hit movie!A powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality, V FOR VENDETTA takes place in a totalitarian England following a devastating war that changed the face of the planet. In a world without political freedo...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

V is for Vengeance

by Sue Grafton

Published: 2012-10-30

Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages

2 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

Private detective Kinsey Millhone feels a bit out of place in Nordstrom’s lingerie department, but she’s entirely in her element when she puts a stop to a brazen shoplifting spree. For her trouble she nearly gets run over in the parking lot by one of the fleeing thieves—and later learns that the...