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Book cover for "Pride and prejudice".
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Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Points: 27
Lexile measure:
1090L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Of all Jane Austen's books, Pride and Prejudice has earned a special place in the hearts of the reading public as her best-loved and most intimately known novel. From its famous opening sentence the story of the Bennet family and of the novel's two protagonists, Elizabeth and Darcy, told with a wit that its author feared might prove 'rather too light and bright, and sparkling', delights its most familiar readers as thoroughly as it does those who...
Book cover for "The call of the wild, White Fang, and other stories".
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IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Points: 7
Lexile measure:
1120L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"Californian family dog Buck is happy spending his days eating and sleeping. That is until he is kidnapped, and is forced to work in the frozen north of Alaska as a sledge dog. Passed from owner to owner, Buck sets out on a remarkable journey to ensure his own survival. Will he make it? And, when tested, how hard will he struggle against returning to the wild? Packed with tension and excitement, Jack London's atmospheric story of adventure and endurance...
Book cover for "The adventures of Huckleberry Finn".
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Points: 18
Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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The tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits,...
Book cover for "The adventures of Tom Sawyer".
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IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Points: 2
Lexile measure:
850L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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"Considered an American classic, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain is a bold coming of age story about a clever school boy who loves to make trouble and goes in search for it much too often. In this boisterous tale, Tom Sawyer finds forever friendships, new love, and a tragic secret that leads him into even more trouble than he could ever imagine for himself. Though it was Twain's first novel written by himself, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer's'...
Book cover for "The secret garden".
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IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Points: 13
Lexile measure:
950L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. What secrets lie behind the doors at Misselthwaite manor? Recently arrived at her uncle's estate, orphaned Mary Lennox is spoiled, sickly, and certain she won't enjoy living there. Then she discovers the arched doorway into an overgrown garden, shut up since the death of her aunt ten years earlier. Mary soon...
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IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Points: 12
Lexile measure:
980L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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A classic tale of ships, pirates, treasure, and-above all else-adventure "We want that treasure, and we'll have it!" Jim Hawkins has discovered a terrible plot. Mutiny is in the air on board the Hispaniola, and the notorious pirate Long John Silver is to blame. Everyone is on the hunt for the cursed gold buried on Treasure Island . . . Treasure Island is a rip-roaring pirate adventure story that has never been out of print since it was first published...
Book cover for "Alice's adventures in wonderland ; and, Through the looking-glass".
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IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Points: 5
Lexile measure:
850L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...
Book cover for "A tale of two cities".
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Points: 2
Lexile measure:
710L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
When the starving French masses rise in hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent government, both the guilty and innocent become victims of their frenzied anger. Soon nothing stands in the way of the chilling figure they enlist for their cause--La Guillotine--the new invention for efficiently chopping off heads. Charles Dickens' compelling portrait of the results of terror and treason, love and supreme sacrifice continues to captivate readers around...
Book cover for "The Wind in the willows".
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IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Points: 11
Lexile measure:
1140L
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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"Meet Mole, Ratty, Toad and Badger in this timeless adventure that has enchanted generations of children. This beloved childhood classic by Kenneth Grahame is now available in a stunning gift book edition with dazzling new art. One spring day, Mole peers out from his underground home to find a marvellous world awaits him. As the seasons pass, he picnics on the riverbank with Ratty, accompanies Toad on a chaotic caravan adventure, and even braves the...
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IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Points: 8
Lexile measure:
920L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in secret with the birds and fairies in the middle of London, but as the children for whom he invented the stories grew older, so too did Peter, reappearing in Neverland, where he was aided in his epic battles with Red Indians and pirates by the motherly and resourceful Wendy Darling. F. D. Bedford's wonderful...
Book cover for "The boy's King Arthur".
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Relates the chivalrous and romantic deeds of King Arthur, Launcelot, Gareth, Tristram, Galahad, and other knights of the Round Table.
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Pub. Date:
[1906]
Edition:
This Atheneum Bks. for Young Readers ed. October 2015
Language:
English
Description:
The adventures in the northern wilderness of a dog who is part wolf and how he comes to make his peace with man.
Book cover for "Smoky, the cow horse".
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IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Points: 13
Lexile measure:
NC: Non-Conforming 1440L
Language:
English
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Written in the vernacular of the cowboy and illustrated with drawings of horses in motion, the story tells about a cowpony named Smoky, his home, his friends and enemies, his jobs, his instincts and his nature.
Book cover for "Jane Eyre".
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IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Points: 33
Lexile measure:
840L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
Description:
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret. Charlotte Bronte's novel about the passionate love between Jane Eyre, a young girl alone in the world, and the rich, brilliant, domineering Rochester has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic, ever since...
Book cover for "Great expectations".
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Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Points: 35
Lexile measure:
1150L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
"Great Expectations" is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.
Book cover for "Aesop's fables".
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Pub. Date:
2010
Lexile measure:
1000L
Language:
English
Description:
Retellings of sixty Aesop's fables.
Book cover for "Michael Strogoff".
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Pub. Date:
[1997]
Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Points: 20
Language:
English
Description:
While in the service of Alexander II, Michael Strogoff faces almost insurmountable obstacles as he carries a message from Moscow to Irkutsk during the time of a Tatar rebellion.

18. Heidi

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Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Points: 16
Lexile measure:
1000L
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city. Heidi, an orphan, builds a strong bond with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. When she is sent into town to attend school and be a friend to a wealthy man's invalid daughter, Heidi becomes homesick for her Grandfather and home in the mountains.
Book cover for "A child's garden of verses".
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English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood, including "The land of Counterpane," "My Shadow," "The Swing," "The Moon," and "Looking Forward."
Book cover for "The scarlet letter".
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Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Points: 14
Lexile measure:
1420L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.2 stars
Description:
A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlett Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private selves, internal passion and external convention, gives us the unforgettable Hester Prynne, who discovers strength in the fate of ostracism and emerges as a heroine ahead of her time.

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