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morality and ethics

Books about morality and ethics for readers of all ages.

For money and love

Todd Strasser

Ages 14–18family relationshipsmorality and ethics

Literature--Eighth Edition

X. J. Kennedy, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Emily Brontë, Anthony Burgess, Albert Camus, Lewis Carroll, Антон Павлович Чехов, Kate Chopin, Charles Dickens

Ages 12–18human naturecultural identity

Skullduggery

Kathleen Karr

Ages 10–14morality and ethicsadventure

Citizen Sim

Michael Solana

Ages 13–18invention and innovationinvisibility and secrecy

The grave robber's apprentice

Allan Stratton

Ages 11–15survivalclass and inequality

My crooked family

James Lincoln Collier

Ages 10–14family loyaltymorality and ethics

Perrine's literature, Structure, sound and sense--Eighth edition

Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson, Albert Camus, Антон Павлович Чехов, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Richard Connell

Ages 13–18human naturecultural identity

The American Short Story [59 stories]

Thomas K. Parkes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury

Ages 13–18american identityhuman nature

The Kestrel (Firebird)

Lloyd Alexander

Ages 12–16leadershipcourage

The Boneless Mercies

April Genevieve Tucholke

Ages 14–18mercy and compassionidentity and self-discovery

Monsters of men

Patrick Ness

Ages 14–18war and conflictpower and leadership

The Six of Crows Duology Boxed Set

Leigh Bardugo

Ages 14–18heist and strategyfound family