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Book cover for "The Enchanted April".
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Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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The discreet advertisement in The Times, addressed 'To Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine', offers a small medieval castle for rent, above a bay on the Italian Riviera.
Four very different women - the dishevelled and downtrodden Mrs Wilkins, the sad, sweet-faced Mrs Arbuthnot, the formidable widow Mrs Fisher and the ravishing socialite Lady Caroline Dester - are drawn to the shores of the

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Book cover for "The grapes of wrath".
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Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Points: 25
Lexile measure:
680L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
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IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Points: 4
Lexile measure:
1000L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
"For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems"--Page 4 of cover.
Book cover for "Pride and prejudice".
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IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Points: 27
Lexile measure:
1090L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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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...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Points: 6
Lexile measure:
810L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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The classic story of a boy's journey to manhood under the joys and hardships of ranch life, focused around the life and death of his red pony.
Book cover for "How green was my valley".
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Points: 28
Lexile measure:
1000L
Language:
English
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Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons. Looking back, where difficult days are faced with courage and the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices, it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory.
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Lexile measure:
1140L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2 stars
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"This is a new edition, annotated and with an introduction, of American journalist John Reed's classic eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution of 1917."--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for "Dracula".
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IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Points: 25
Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Overview: The punctured throat, the coffin lid slowly opening, the unholy shriek as the stake pierces the heart-these are just a few of the chilling images Bram Stoker unleashed upon the world with his 1897 masterpiece, Dracula. Inspired by the folk legend of nosferatu, the undead, Stoker created a timeless tale of gothic horror and romance that has enthralled and terrified readers ever since. A true masterwork of storytelling, Dracula has transcended...
Book cover for "The spoils of Poynton, and other stories".
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Lexile measure:
1120L
Language:
English
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Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Henry James, 'The Spoils of Poynton'.   The Spoils of Poynton is a novel by Henry James, first published under the title The Old Things as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1896 and then as a book in 1897. This half-length novel describes the struggle between Mrs. Gereth, a widow of impeccable taste and iron will, and her son Owen over a houseful of precious antique furniture. The story is largely...
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IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Points: 24
Lexile measure:
1130L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
"The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse...
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Lexile measure:
1150L
Language:
English
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Sent by his fiancée to seek her son who has run away with an entrancing Parisian woman, Lambert Strether finds himself nearly as bewitched by the culture and women of Europe as his would-be son-in-law. Strether gets chased or dragged across provincial France by a slew of influences intent either on drawing the pair of bachelors home to Boston or showing him the world, and winds up testing his patience along with his own illusions.
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Lexile measure:
1190L
Language:
English
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Kate Croy and her lover, journalist Merton Densher, scheme to extort money from a naive and trusting American heiress who is terminally ill. This edition includes letters and comments by James, along with criticism of the novel, then and now.
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Lexile measure:
940L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2.9 stars
Description:
Few novels have had as profound an impact as On the Road, and Kerouac's vision continues to inspire: three generations of writers, musicians, artists, and poets cite their discovery of On the Road as the event that "set them free." This hardcover edition commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the original publication of an American classic. On the Road chronicles Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent, from East Coast to West Coast...
Book cover for "Jane Eyre".
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Accelerated Reader:
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 "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
Description:
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,...
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IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Points: 26
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Offers a collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. This book includes tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook.
Book cover for "Anna Karenina".
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Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Points: 69
Lexile measure:
790L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"Tolstoy produced many drafts of Anna Karenina. Crafting and recrafting each sentence with careful intent, he was anything but casual in his use of language. His project, translator Marian Schwartz observes, "was to bend language to his will, as an instrument of his aesthetic and moral convictions." In her magnificent new translation, Schwartz embraces Tolstoy's unusual style - she is the first English language translator ever to do so. Previous translations...
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Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Points: 12
Lexile measure:
980L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
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 "The red badge of courage, and other stories".
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Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Points: 8
Lexile measure:
890L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
In the spring of 1863, as he faces battle for the first time at Chancellorsville, Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.
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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