Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Literature Guide: Grades 4-8)

10 best books like Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Literature Guide: Grades 4-8) (Scholastic Inc.): Walden & Civil Disobedience, The Road Not Taken and Other Poems, Selected Stories, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, Last Words, Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid, Dirty Sexy Politics, Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek, Essays and Poems

Walden & Civil Disobedience

Author	Henry David Thoreau
ISBN	0451529456

A naturalist, a transcendentalist or an individualist?
Thoreau’s principles could be labelled with the previous statutory concepts and yet none of them would suffice to provide a full description of him. He struck me as a man who didn’t want to be restricted by category; he chose experience...

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

Author	Robert Frost
ISBN	0486275507

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

These deceptively simple lines from the title poem of this collection suggest Robert Frost at his most representative: the language is simple, clear and colloquial, yet dense...

Selected Stories

Author	O. Henry
ISBN	1593080425

O. Henry originated the humorous, energetic tale that ends with an ironic, even shocking twist. In "After Twenty Years," for example, two boys agree to meet at a particular spot exactly twenty years later. Both are faithful, but in the intervening years one boy has turned into a criminal, the other into...

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

Author	Charles Dickens
ISBN	0140439056

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'Merry Christmas!...every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding'

Dickens' story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series...

If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor

Author	Bruce Campbell
ISBN	0312291450

Okay, so at least you're interested enough to pick up this book and look inside. I think you and I are going to get along just fine.

Life is full of choices. Right now, yours is whether or not to buy the autobiography of a mid-grade, kind of hammy actor.

Am I supposed to know this guy? you think...

Last Words

Author	George Carlin
ISBN	1439172951

As one of America’s preeminent comedic voices, George Carlin saw it all throughout his extraordinary fifty-year career and made fun of most of it. Last Words is the story of the man behind some of the most seminal comedy of the last half century, blending his signature acerbic humor with never-before-told...

Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid

Author	Denis Leary
ISBN	0670031607

A hilarious blast of scathing irreverence from the award-winning actor and comedian.

"A pissed off Leary is the best Leary," says one critic of the writer and comic. In Why We Suck, Dr. Denis Leary uses his common sense, and his biting and hilarious take on the world, to attack the politically...

Dirty Sexy Politics

Author	Meghan McCain
ISBN	1401323774

Meghan McCain came to prominence as the straight-talking, progressive daughter of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain. And her profile has only risen since the election ended in favor of the other guy.

What makes Meghan so appealing? As a new role model for young,...

Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek

Author	Olivia Munn
ISBN	0312591055

Today's hottest geek and host of G4's Attack Of The Show dishes her unique brand of humor of on everything from Star Wars, gadgets, and her love of banana cream pie. 

Olivia Munn is an actress, comedian and television host, best known for being the face of the G4 network.  She also occasionally...

Essays and Poems

Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays and Poems, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable...

The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction

Author	Stephen Crane
ISBN	1593081197

The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction, by Stephen Crane, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras....

Essential Tales and Poems

Author	Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN	1593080646

The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, by Edgar Allan Poe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.

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