High School Classics

This adapted edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is designed to make classic literature accessible and engaging for all listeners, especially reluctant learners in high school literature units.

“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.” Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on...

In an age where the sheer volume of information can be overwhelming, the value of distilled knowledge from the literary classics cannot be overstated. “33 Books You Should Have Read in High School” serves as a bridge across time, connecting readers to the foundational texts that have shaped our cultural and intellectual landscapes. This book is designed not just as a recapitulation of essential literature but as a key to unlocking the rich tapestry of human experience and thought encapsulated within these timeless works. For those who breezed through their school years without cracking ...

A clear, reader-friendly edition of The Odyssey for modern readers. Odysseus has won the war at Troy, but the long journey home to Ithaca will test him with storms, monsters, enchantments, shipwrecks, and the anger of the gods. While he struggles across the sea, his wife Penelope and son Telemachus hold their home against suitors who believe he will never return. This Lumos Books edition keeps the force and dignity of the classic story while gently clarifying difficult wording, preserving key names, scenes, and famous moments. It includes inline explanatory footnotes and a glossary to help ...

Chloe Elizabeth Hart despises the conceited antics of the popular crowd, or more importantly, one very annoying self-possessed guy, Taylor Anderson, who seems determined to make her the president of his fan club! Every girl in the whole city of Farmington, New Mexico, is in love with him, but he seems to be only interested in Chloe. This modern high school adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice” is a battle of wits as Chloe desperately tries to remain the only girl who can avoid the inevitable—falling for Taylor.

Else Ury's Nesthäkchen is a Berlin doctor's daughter, Annemarie Braun, a slim, golden blond, quintessential German girl. The ten book Nesthäkchen series follows Annemarie from infancy (Nesthäkchen and Her Dolls) to old age and grandchildren (Nesthäkchen with White Hair). Volume 5, Nesthäkchens Backfischzeit, describes Annemarie's teenage years.

Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City’s East Village. Instead she’s trapped in East Village, Manitoba, a small town whose population is Mennonite: “the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you’re a teenager...

What if you could get inside the head of the boy you love? Hear his every thought? Know his every dream? Listen in on his every fantasy? The narrator of Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn can, and she tells us the story of her beloved Gid, an adorably clueless boy who flukes his way into one of...

What makes a life good? Is pleasure the highest aim? Can virtue alone make us happy? Or does a fulfilled life also depend on health, friendship and the circumstances beyond our control? In On Moral Ends, Cicero brings the great ethical disputes of the ancient world into conversation. Across five books, three speakers defend competing accounts of human happiness. Torquatus presents the philosophy of Epicurus, Cato argues for the Stoic ideal, and Piso explains the teaching of Antiochus and the older Academic and Peripatetic schools. Cicero questions each position, testing its reasoning ...

A clear, reader-friendly edition of The Odyssey for modern readers. Odysseus has won the war at Troy, but the long journey home to Ithaca will test him with storms, monsters, enchantments, shipwrecks, and the anger of the gods. While he struggles across the sea, his wife Penelope and son Telemachus hold their home against suitors who believe he will never return. This edition keeps the force and dignity of the classic story while gently clarifying difficult wording, preserving key names, scenes, and famous moments. It includes explanatory footnotes and a glossary to help readers follow ...

Most people who start the Odyssey never finish it. The problem is not Homer. It is the translation. The free and public domain versions you have already tried were written for Victorian readers. Archaic grammar, Roman god names, and sentences that have to be read twice. The greatest adventure story ever told, made into homework. This edition fixes that. The complete Odyssey, rendered into clear modern English prose you read at natural speed, with 45 classical illustrations placed throughout the voyage. What makes this edition different Easy-to-read modern English. Clean contemporary prose ...

Philosophy Essentials is a chronological introduction to the history of philosophy for serious readers ages 11-19. It begins with the first Greek attempts to explain the world through reason rather than myth and follows the long argument forward through Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, the Stoics, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Locke, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Beauvoir, Arendt, Rawls, Singer, and current debates about consciousness, identity, and artificial intelligence. The book explains the central problems of philosophy in clear language without exaggeration or slogans. Readers move ...

“[A] striking debut. . . funny, heartbreaking, and real.”––SAM LANSKY, author of Broken People Prep meets The Secret History in this searing debut novel about a tragic scandal at an American prep school, told in the form of a literary investigation through a distinctly...

“I am a big fan of Women and Children First . . . Alina Grabowski is an astute and limber narrative artist and I could read her prose all day long and never grow weary.”―Lorrie Moore, author of A Gate at the Stairs A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as...

"The ideal presentation of any book of mine is to have excellent actors perform it in audio-only format." — Orson Scott Card "Card's phenomenal emotional depth comes through in the quiet, carefully paced speech of each performer...This is a wonderful way to experience Card's best-known and...

At an elite Jamaican boarding school, a tight-knit group of friends’ deadly secrets begin to surface when a mysterious teen investigates the disappearance of one of their own, in this YA folk horror for fans of Ace of Spades and They Bloom at Night. Following the disappearance of her best...

Jane Austen's Emma — now refreshed for today's readers, without losing a word of her brilliance. Emma Woodhouse is clever, charming, and utterly convinced she knows what's best for everyone around her. But when her matchmaking schemes spiral out of control in the drawing rooms of Regency England, she's forced to confront the one thing she never saw coming: her own heart. This modern adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved classic brings Emma to life for a new generation. Updated language and clean contemporary formatting make the story flow effortlessly — ideal for readers who want to ...

Most students can now generate an essay in seconds. So what should English teaching look like now? You get: Simple, ready-to-use classroom activities Ways to spark real discussion and thinking Practical strategies that work alongside AI—not against it Built from real classroom needs and designed for immediate use.

Phoebe Wynne's Madam is a riveting, modern gothic debut with shades of The Secret History, The Stepford Wives, and a dash of Circe, set at a secretive all girls’ boarding school perched on a craggy Scottish peninsula. They want our silence… They want our obedience… Let them see our fire...

WINNER OF THE CHIRBY FICTION AWARD From the co-editor of the bestselling anthology Never Whistle at Night, a semi-autobiographical novel that follows a group of teenage gang members as they trek across Chicago to a momentous meeting, inspired by the cult classic The Warriors “Cool and real...