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Lord of the Flies Reissue Edition
Contributor(s): Golding, William, Epstein, E. L. (Conductor)

ISBN: 0399501487 ISBN-13: 9780399501487
Publisher: Penguin Group USA

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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 1959
Annotation: The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own natures.

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics

Dewey: 823/.914

LCCN: BL 99753051

Lexile Measure: 770

Academic/Grade Level: General Adult

Book type: Fiction

Physical Information: 7.25" H x 4.25" W x 0.75" (0.25 lbs) 208 pages

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 744
Reading Level: 5.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 9.0

Scholastic Reading Counts Info

Quiz #: Q07082
Reading Level: 8.1 Interest Level: Grades 9-12 Point Value: 11.0

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Publisher Description:
14.5 Million copies sold to date
The classic, startling, and perennially bestselling portrait of human nature-now available as a Premium Edition with a stunning new cover and re-set, easy-to-read text.

Contributor Bio(s): William Golding was born in Cornwall, England, in 1911 and educated at Oxford University. His first book, Poems, was published in 1935. Following a stint in the Royal Navy during World War II, Golding wrote Lord of the Flies while teaching school. It was the first of several works, including the novels Pincher Martin, Free Fall, and The Inheritors and a play, The Brass Butterfly, which led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983.

Lois Lowry is the two-time Newbery Award–winning author of Number the Stars,The Giver Quartet, and numerous other books for young adults.

Jennifer Buehler is an associate professor of educational studies at Saint Louis University and President of The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English.

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