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Click here: http://www.tumblebookcloud.com/autologin.aspx?U=lakeviewhigh&P=login

eBooks and some audio:
Read in the cloud . . .no downloading.

Click the "AP English" tab across the top.  Then scroll to view the Classics!

Click on a book and start reading!  It's that easy.

"Enhanced eBooks" have audio narration along with the eBook! Listen and view the book all at once!

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Click here: http://lakeviewschoolsoh.oneclickdigital.com/

Audiobooks and eBooks!
Use your school username and password to download or read online!

Click "Explore" then "View by Genre" then "Classics."

"Smart Pass" means there is a handy explanation with each chapter!

Get the FREE app or borrow a Fire Tablet to start listening or reading!

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Check out a book from the public library.
If you have a library card, you can get books delivered directly to the Cortland Branch, or checkout an eBook online through Overdrive!

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Description: These are classics that you actually enjoyed reading. Please try to restrict this list to adult books or children's books that adults would enjoy reading.

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40 Classic Books & Why You Should Read Them

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A list of 40 classic books, both fiction and non-fiction, and why you should read them.

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Welcome to Reading Rants: Summer Reading Edition! I decided to re-read Betty Smith's classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, partially because of this NYC reading challenge When the winning book turned out to be one I had recently devoured, I took a dive into ATGIB instead because a) I found this pretty, pretty paperback edition and b) I read it years ago and I had completely forgotten the plot. (Just wait, kids. Memory loss STINKS.)

ATGIB is in many ways a perfect summer read, that I know for a fact is probably on many of your school summer reading lists. It's a perceptive, immersive examination of the childhood and adolescence of Francie Nolan, a girl growing up in the impoverished neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn from 1912-1918. Based on Smith's own life, Francie is an innocent idealist trying to make sense of a harsh world. The title comes from Francie's fascination with a "Tree of Heaven" that grows outside her fire escape, a hardy species my grandma used to call a "weed tree" that can survive almost anywhere. Even though her father is an alcoholic singing waiter and her mother a stoic washerwoman who together barely make enough money to pay for rent and food, Francie takes great delight in little things in life like the pleasure of a bag of penny candy and a library book. The family endures many hardships, but Smith lightens the tragedy with great scenes of comic relief, like the time Papa decides to take Francie, her brother and a neighbor's child on a doomed fishing expedition off the Carnarsie Pier, or when Aunt Sissy, a serial bigamist, insists on calling each of her husbands "John" even if that's not their name. Even though Francie is made sadder and wiser by cruel classmates, a terrifying encounter with a child molester, the loss of a beloved family member and a young soldier who falsely promises his undying love, she never loses her zest for life or her devotion to her beloved Brooklyn, which takes on an unreal quality as she grows older: "Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?" If you crave a deep, rich historical read that will transport you to another time and place while simultaneously revealing universal human truths, then you'll want to plop yourself right under this TREE.

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Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists!

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Welcome to Reading Rants: Summer Reading Edition! I decided to re-read Betty Smith's classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, partially because of this NYC reading challenge When the winning book turned out to be one I had recently devoured, I took a dive into ATGIB instead because a) I found this pretty, pretty paperback edition and b) I read it years ago and I had completely forgotten the plot.

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http://www.lakeviewlocal.org/RecommendedReads.aspx

Search in iSearch for "classic"

Limit results to include "high school"

Could limit to audiobooks and eBooks under "Item Group" on the left.

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American Classics genre: new releases and popular books, including To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Catc...

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Books shelved as british-classics: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Sense and Sensib...