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ELA Guide: Advanced Readers

Guide to resources for English language learners

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Novels & Movies

1984 by George Orwell
Call Number: ERA ORWELL
ISBN: 1405862416
Publication Date: 2008
Novel of the future, complete government control, how can you be free? Movies and book
Age of Innocence, Level 5
Call Number: ERA WHARTON
ISBN: 0194792161
Publication Date: 2008
Love triangle in 1870s New York, from the classic novel and movies
A Good Long Way by Jr. Saldaña
Call Number: ERA SALDANA
ISBN: 1558856072
Publication Date: 2010
Three Mexican American teenagers in Texas struggle with school and home problems
Love Actually by Richard Curtis; Pearson Education Staff
Call Number: ERA DEAN
ISBN: 1405882263
Publication Date: 2008
Notting Hill by Richard Curtis
Call Number: ERA HOPKINS
ISBN: 1405879254
Publication Date: 2008
Pirates of the Carribean at World's End
Call Number: ERA HOLMES
ISBN: 1405892056
Publication Date: 2012
The war of the worlds by Wells, H.G.
Call Number: ERA WELLS
ISBN: 1591940753
Publication Date: 2007
Invasion of the Martians. Famous book, radio show, and many movies

Sports

Danger on the Mountain by Andrew Donkin; Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
Call Number: ERA DONKIN
ISBN: 0789473860
Publication Date: 2001
Great moments in sports by Ruth Rouff
Call Number: ERA ROUFF
ISBN: 1591942705
Publication Date: 2012
Michael Jordan, Jackie Robinson, Ali v. Liston, and more
What Is the Super Bowl? by Dina Anastasio; David Groff (Illustrator); Kevin McVeigh (Illustrator)
Call Number: ERA ANASTAS
ISBN: 0448486954
Publication Date: 2015
Story of great superbowls, history, and players
What Is the World Series? by Gail Herman; Scott Anderson (Illustrator)
Call Number: ERA HERMAN
ISBN: 0448484064
Publication Date: 2015
What it is and history for every 10 years.

Fiction

Lost on the Mountain by Mark Thomas
Call Number: ERA THOMAS
ISBN: 1591943051
Publication Date: 2013
Can they, will they, survive - lost on the mountain?

True Stories and People

A Dream Fulfilled by Tanya Savory
Call Number: ERA OBAM/sa
ISBN: 1591941865
Publication Date: 2009
165 pages Advanced Reader
Facing addiction: three true stories by Beth Johnson
Call Number: ERA JOHNSON
ISBN: 1591940583
Descent into addiction and struggles to recover
Girls Think of Everything by Catherine Thimmesh; Melissa Sweet (Illustrator)
Call Number: ERA THIMMES
ISBN: 0618195637
Publication Date: 2002
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai; Patricia McCormick (As told to)
Call Number: ERA YOUSAFZAI
ISBN: 031632793X
Publication Date: 2014
Pakistani girl stood up for education for girls and was shot by the Taliban
Surviving abuse: four true stories by Beth Johnson
Call Number: ERA JOHNSON
ISBN: 1591940575
Publication Date: 2005
Abuse could have destroyed them, but they learned to grow strong and healthy
Tiger Woods by Jeremy Roberts
Call Number: ERA ROBERTS
ISBN: 0822503867
Publication Date: 2001
Voces latinas: Hispanic adults speak to Hispanic young people
Call Number: ERA JOHNSON
ISBN: 159194225X
Publication Date: 2010

Do you know about?

101 American customs by Harry Collis
Call Number: ERA COLLIS
ISBN: 0844224073
What Makes America Tick? Second Edition by Wendy Ashby
Call Number: ERA ASHBY
ISBN: 0472034944
Publication Date: 2012
United States of America by Michael Hurley
Call Number: ERA HURLEY
ISBN: 1432961411
Great Disasters by David Orme
Call Number: ERA THINK G
ISBN: 0789179032
Global Warming
Call Number: ERA THINK G
ISBN: 1599054760
Publication Date: 2009

Where are you from? Countries

Chile by Marion Morrison
Call Number: ERA MORRISO
ISBN: 1432952226
Publication Date: 2011
China by Patrick Catel
Call Number: ERA CATEL
ISBN: 1432961225
Publication Date: 2012
Japan by Patrick Catel
Call Number: ERA CATEL
ISBN: 1432961284
Russia by Jilly Hunt
Call Number: ERA HUNT
ISBN: 1432961365
Publication Date: 2012

Religion

Holy Bible for ESL Readers by Zondervan Staff
Call Number: ERA HOLY BI
ISBN: 0310743842
Publication Date: 2015
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