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The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption. Winner: 2004 Alex Award, 2004 Boeke Prize
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The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe second child of a scholarly, alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing from the Arizona desert, to Las Vegas, to an Appalachian mining town, during which her siblings and she fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities. Winner: 2006 Alex Award, 2006 Christopher Award
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The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckChronicles the Dust Bowl migration through an Oklahoma farm family driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. Winner: 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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