A Booksellers’ Trade Show
September 19, 2011
September 20, 2011
September 21, 2011
What is a Trade Show?
A trade is an exhibition organized so that
companies in a specific industry can showcase
and demonstrate their latest products and
services.
The people who present at a trade show set
up a table or booth (sometimes elaborate
ones) in order to gain attention for their
product.
We are going to have a trade show.
You are going to be the presenters.
• You will be responsible for choosing a book.
You must have your book selected and
approved by Monday, August 20th.
• You will be responsible for “selling” your book
to the class.
• Only one person per book may present. The
books you have to choose from are on the AP
list or are of AP quality. All represent
American literature.
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
An unusual dog, part St. Bernard,
part Scotch shepherd, is forcibly
taken to Alaska where he
eventually becomes leader of a
wolf pack.
Wish You Well
by David Baldacci
The lives of 12-year-old Lou Cardinal
and her eight-year-old brother, Oscar
("Oz"), are forever altered when an
auto accident takes the life of their
writer father and leaves their mother
in a catatonic state. Used to the
hectic bustle of New York City, they
find themselves transplanted to the
mountain cabin home of their greatgrandmother, Louisa Mae Cardinal.
Their new home has no electricity or
running water, and their food comes
not from any grocery store but from
the barn and the land. Their new
neighbors are simple folk, many of
them poor, uneducated, and worked
to the bone. But beneath them all is
The Mountain, with its power to
mesmerize and nurture their minds
and their souls.
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Farenheit 451 is a dystopian
novel by Ray Bradbury which
was first published in a
shorter form as "The Fireman"
(Galaxy Science Fiction, Vol. 1
No. 5, February 1951). The short
novel presents a future
American society in which the
masses are hedonistic and
critical thought through
reading is outlawed..
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
One of the most important works
of twentieth-century American
literature, Zora Neale Hurston's
beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes
Were Watching God, is an
enduring Southern love story
sparkling with wit, beauty, and
heartfelt wisdom. Told in the
captivating voice of a woman
who refuses to live in sorrow,
bitterness, fear, or foolish
romantic dreams, it is the story of
fair-skinned, fiercely independent
Janie Crawford, and her evolving
selfhood through three marriages
and a life marked by poverty,
trials, and purpose.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Meet the March sisters: the
talented and tomboyish Jo,
the beautiful Meg, the frail
Beth, and the spoiled Amy,
as they pass through the
years between girlhood and
womanhood. A lively
portrait of growing up in the
19th century with lasting
vitality and enduring charm.
The Adventures of huckleberry finn
by mark twain
Of all the contenders for the title of The
Great American Novel, none has a
better claim than The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn. Intended at first as a
simple story of a boy's adventures in
the Mississippi Valley-a sequel to Tom
Sawyer-the book grew and matured
under Twain's hand into a work of
immeasurable richness and complexity.
More than a century after its
publication, the critical debate over the
symbolic significance of Huck's and
Jim's voyage is still fresh, and it
remains a major work that can be
enjoyed at many levels: as an
incomparable adventure story and as a
classic of American humor..
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
This 1852 novel provides a
powerful, historical look at
the treatment of slaves in the
pre-Civil War South. It is said
upon meeting Stowe,
Abraham Lincoln said he
was glad to finally meet the
little lady who started a war
(Civil War).
Cold Sassy Tree
by Olive Ann Burns
If the preacher's wife's petticoat
showed, the ladies would make the
talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906,
things took a scandalous turn. That
was the day E. Rucker Blakeslee,
proprietor of the general store and
barely three weeks a widower,
eloped with Miss Love Simpson -- a
woman half his age and, worse yet,
a Yankee! On that day, fourteenyear-old Will Tweedy's adventures
began and an unimpeachably
pious, deliciously irreverent town
came to life.
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
The unforgettable novel of a
childhood in a sleepy Southern
town and the crisis of
conscience that rocked it, To
Kill A Mockingbird became
both an instant bestseller and
a critical success when it was
first published in 1960. It went
on to win the Pulitzer Prize in
1961 and was later made into
an Academy Award-winning
film, also a classic.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
An illustrative tale of what
it was like to be a black
maid during the civil rights
movement of the 1960’s in
racially conflicted
Mississippi.
A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
Knowles' beloved classic has
been a bestseller for more than
30 years and is one of the most
moving and accurate novels
about the trials and confusions
of adolescence ever written.
Set at an elite boarding school
for boys during World War II, A
Separate Peace is the story of
friendship and treachery, and
how a tragic accident involving
two young men forever
tarnishes their innocence.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford
In the opening pages of Jamie Ford's
stunning debut novel, Hotel on the
Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee
comes upon a crowd gathered outside
the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to
Seattle's Japantown. It has been
boarded up for decades, but now the
new owner has made an incredible
discovery: the belongings of Japanese
families, left when they were rounded
up and sent to internment camps during
World War II…
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
Using only 27,000 words, Ernest
Hemingway’s shortest novel
depicts the classic struggle of an
old Cuban fisherman who hasn’t
caught a fish in 84 days. With
courage and determination the
elderly man goes out on his small
boat one more time. Although
simple in its telling, this is a story
of never giving up and living life
to the fullest.
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
James Gatz from North Dakota
reinvents himself as the self assured and
wealthy Jay Gatsby as he tries to win
the love of his childhood sweetheart
Daisy Buchanan. Set in the Jazz Age of
the 1920s, Gatsby and his friends are
blinded by the glitz and glamour of
wealth and learn too late of its inability
to bring them true happiness. Author F.
Scott Fitzgerald’s greatest novel is a
classic study of the Gilded Age and one
man’s corrupted view of the American
dream.
A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
"First produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was
awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle
Award and hailed as a watershed in American
drama. Not only a pioneering work by an
African-American playwright - Lorraine
Hansberry's play was also a radically new
representation of black life, resolutely authentic,
fiercely unsentimental, and unflinching in its
vision of what happens to people whose dreams
are constantly deferred. In her portrait of an
embattled Chicago family, Hansberry anticipated
issues that range from generational clashes to
the civil rights and women's movements. She also
posed the essential questions - about identity,
justice, and moral responsibility - at the heart of
these great struggles.
In The Time of the butterflies
by Julia Alvarez
It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters
have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the
bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the
Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper
reports their deaths as accidental. It does not
mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it
explain that the sisters were among the leading
opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo’s
dictatorship. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows
of Las Mariposas—“The Butterflies.”
In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four
sisters—Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the
survivor, Dedé—speak across the decades to tell
their own stories, from hair ribbons and secret
crushes to gunrunning and prison torture, and to
describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s
rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s
imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in
this novel of courage and love, and the human
cost of political oppression.
We Were the Mulvaneys
by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates has written a
rich, complex saga about a
seemingly ideal family that is
suddenly rocked by the date-rape
of 16-year-old Marianne Mulvaney.
This shattering event touches off
an extraordinary journey into 25
years of shameful secrets and
despair, culminating in the
unforseen miracles that can bring
a family closer together.
Icy Sparks
by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
At the age of ten, Icy, a bright, curious
child orphaned as a baby but raised by
adoring grandparents, begins to have
strange experiences. Try as she might,
her "secrets"—verbal croaks, groans,
and physical spasms—keep afflicting
her. As an adult, she will find out she
has Tourette’s Syndrome, a rare
neurological disorder, but for years her
behavior is the source of mystery,
confusion, and deep humiliation.
A Painted House
By John Grisham
Until that September of 1952,
Luke Chandler had never kept a
secret or told a single lie. But
in the long, hot summer of his
seventh year, two groups of
migrant workers — and two
very dangerous men — came
through the Arkansas Delta to
work the Chandler cotton farm.
And suddenly mysteries are
flooding Luke’s world.
A Tree Grows in Brooklynn
by Betty Smith
The beloved American classic
about a young girl's coming-of-age
at the turn of the century, Betty
Smith's "A Tree Grows in
Brooklyn" is a poignant and
moving tale filled with
compassion and cruelty, laughter
and heartache, crowded with life
and people and incident. The
story of young, sensitive, and
idealistic Francie Nolan and her
bittersweet formative years in
the slums
The Lords of Discipline
By Pat Conroy
This powerful and breathtaking novel is
the story of four cadets who have become
bloodbrothers. Together they will
encounter the hell of hazing and the
rabid, raunchy and dangerously secretive
atmosphere of an arrogant and proud
military institute. They will experience the
violence. The passion. The rage. The
friendship. The loyalty. The betrayal.
Together, they will brace themselves for
the brutal transition to manhood...
The Secret Life of Bees
By Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of
Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped
around the blurred memory of the
afternoon her mother was killed. When
Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother,"
Rosaleen, insults three of the town's
fiercest racists, Lily decides they should
both escape to Tiburon, South Carolina—
a town that holds the secret to her
mother's past.
The Green Mile
by Stephen King
Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary,
home to the Depression-worn men of E
Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his
turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a
date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's
electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe
has seen his share of oddities in his years
working the Mile. But he's never seen
anyone like John Coffey, a man with the
body of a giant and the mind of a child,
condemned for a crime terrifying in its
violence and shocking in its depravity. In
this place of ultimate retribution,
Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible,
wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that
will challenge his most cherished beliefs...
and yours.
A Walk Across America
by Peter Jenkins
Twenty-five years ago, a disillusioned young man set out
on a walk across America. This is the book he wrote
about that journey -- a classic account of the reawakening
of his faith in himself and his country.
"I started out searching for myself and my country,"
Peter Jenkins writes, "and found both." In this timeless
classic, Jenkins describes how disillusionment with
society in the 1970s drove him out onto the road on a
walk across America. His experiences remain as sharp
and telling today as they were twenty-five years ago -from the timeless secrets of life, learned from a
mountain-dwelling hermit, to the stir he caused by
staying with a black family in North Carolina, to his
hours of intense labor in Southern mills. Many, many
miles later, he learned lessons about his country and
himself that resonate to this day -- and will inspire a new
generation to get out, hit the road and explore.