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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Jane Austen's first published novel, sparkling with wit and artistry, captures the inequities of birth, class, and marriage faced by the sisters Dashwood. Published in 1811, Sense and Sensibility has delighted generations of readers with its masterfully crafted portrait of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Forced to leave their home after their father's death, Elinor and Marianne must rely on making good marriages as their means of support....
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Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
Who doesn't love a good mystery novel? Curl up with The Mysterious Affair at Styles, a tale from the pen of Agatha Christie, a writer who is regarded by critics and fans alike as one of the masters of the form. This classic manor-house mystery introduces Christie's much beloved character, the detective Hercule Poirot.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet...
5) East of Eden
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The story of two brothers, Aron is a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father. Cal is a rebellious loner, sternly rejected...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
An "A" for "adultery" marks Hester Prynne as an outcast from the society of colonial Boston. Although forced by the puritanical town fathers to wear a bright red badge of shame, Hester steadfastly resists their efforts to discover the identity of her baby's father. The return of her long-absent spouse brings new pressure on the young mother, as the aggrieved husband undertakes a long-term plot to reveal Hester's partner in...
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Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Jean Louise Finch--Scout--returns home to Maycomb to visit her father. She struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Odyssey Award for Audiobook Recording
Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Description
Young Jim Hawkins and his friends set sail for Treasure Island, hoping to find the buried loot of Captain Flint, fiercest of all the pirates. But, unknown to them, the crew of their own ship is made up of Flint's former crew, led by the evil one-legged pirate Long John Silver. Once on the island, JIm and his friends must find the buried treasure and escape before the pirates capture them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal,and rescue illuminates this book...
10) Pollyanna
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: Chapter Books
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Classics: Chapter Books
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
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Description
When orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, her philosophy of gladness brings happiness to her aunt and other unhappy members of the community.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is the coming-of-age story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet fromative years in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. This poignant and moving classic of American literature is filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and incident.
12) The bell jar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche...
13) Emma
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
14) Frankenstein
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
"Including life of the author, general plot summary, list of characters, critical commentaries, Mary Shelley and Romanticism, the Gothic story, German Expressionism and the American horror film, questions for review, selected bibliography, Frankenstein genealogy."
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Heathcliff, an orphan, is raised by Mr. Earnshaw as one of his own children. Hindley despises him, but wild Cathy becomes his constant companion, and he falls violently in love with her. When she will not marry him, Heathcliff's terrible vengeance ruins them all -- but still his and Cathy's love will not die.
17) Oliver Twist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Born and raised in the appalling deprivation of a Victorian-era London workhouse, the orphan Oliver escapes the drudgery of apprenticeship only to fall into the hands of the notorious Fagin and his gang of child thieves. But Oliver is an innocent at heart and the attempts by Fagin and the impudently witty Artful Dodger to teach the boy the trick of the pick-pocket's trade lead only to his almost immediate capture. Oliver's rescue by the kindly Mr....
19) The jungle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The horrifying conditions of the Chicago stockyards are revealed through this narrative of a young immigrant's struggles in America.
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