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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
One of the most revered works in English literature, Great Expectations traces the coming-of-age of a young orphan, Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations into a man of maturity. From the chilling opening confrontation with an escaped convict to the grand but eerily disheveled estate of bitter old Miss Havisham, all is not what it seems in Dickens' dark tale of false illusions and thwarted desire. Raised by a humble blacksmith, Pip is recruited by...
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.
3) Hamlet
Author
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare's tale. A son, distressed by his father's death and his mother's over-hasty remarriage, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is faced by a spectre from beyond the grave bearing a grim message of murder and revenge.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: Chapter Books
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
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Children's Classics: Chapter Books
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Description
Mark Twain created one of America's best-loved fictional characters in Huckleberry Finn. Recounting the exploits of the imaginative adolescent as he and the runaway slave, Jim, raft down the Mississippi River, Twain ultimately addresses far deeper themes - man's inhumanity to man and the hypocrisy of conventional values.
6) Watchmen
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Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written in graphic novel form, this work is set in 1985, in an alternate history in the United States where costumed adventurers are real and the country is edging closer to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union (the Doomsday Clock is at five minutes to midnight). It tells the story of a group of past and present superheroes and the events surrounding the mysterious murder of one of their own. Watchmen depicts superheroes as real people who must confront...
Author
Series
Black Panther (2016) volume 9
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A Nation under our feet" is a story about dramatic upheaval in Wakanda and the Black Panther's struggle to do right by his people as their ruler. The indomitable will of Wakanda--the famed African nation known for its vast wealth, advanced technology, and warrior traditions--has long been reflected in the will of its monarchs, the Black Panthers. But now the current Black Panther, T'Challa, finds that will tested by a superhuman terrorist group called...
8) Point blank
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"With just five dollars and a knapsack to her name, fifteen-year-old Harleen Quinzel is sent to live in Gotham City. She's not worried, though--she's battled a lot of hard situations as a kid, and knows her determination and outspokenness will carry her through life in the most dangerous city in the world. And when Gotham's finest drag queen, Mama, takes her in, it seems like Harley has finally found a place to grow into her most "true true" with...
Author
Series
Aweto volume 1
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2021-
Language
English
Description
"Xinyue and his brother are seekers, hunting Aweto--a rare, plantlike treasure--along the Silk Road. When Xinyue discovers the child of a deity that creates Aweto, it disrupts his already turbulent life."--
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Helena loves Demetrius, Demetrius loves Hermia, and Hermia and Lysander love each other and want to marry-but her father says no. How true it is that "the course of true love never did run smooth." Four foolish mortals, as well as for a quarreling fairy king and queen, star in Shakespeare's enchanting comedy of misbegotten lovers"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob on a journey to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow--impossible though it...
18) Amulet
Author
Series
Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 9
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
After chasing after the tentacled monster that kidnapped their mother, Emily and Navin find themselves in a magical but dangerous world of man-eating demons and shadowy enemies, where they must learn to control a powerful amulet given to them by their inventor grandfather.
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Asia's greatest heroes unite! By popular demand, the New Agents of Atlas return as Amadeus Cho, Silk, Shang-Chi, Wave, Jimmy Woo and all your favorites defend the cross-Asian portal city of Pan against the science-magic threat of one of Marvel's classic villains! It's classic comic book action as young and old heroes from multiple lands clash with each other, fight monsters -and hopefully save the world along the way! But who is Isaac Ikeda, the...
20) Suicide Squad
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
©2012-2014
Language
English
Description
Suicide Squad members Harley Quinn, King Shark, and Deadshot, supervillains who are secretly working for the government, withstand imprisonment and an intense interrogation by their enemies, who are trying to find out who hired them.
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