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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Description
This is Mark Twain's first novel about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, and it has become one of the world's best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain's own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. "Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred," he tells us. This is a book one never forgets: Tom whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence, Tom and Huck's dreadful oath, their...
2) Jane Eyre
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
The literary masterpiece, introduced by contemporary novelist-of-manners Diana Johnson, is a quintessential love story where a bright, lonely, and steadfast young woman finds mystery, sorrow, and true love with the inimitable Mr. Rochester.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Orwell's world famous satire on dictatorship told through a story about the happenings of an English country farm and the animal inhabitants who find it their duty to rebel against the sometimes cruel owner and prove themselves every bit mankind's intellectual equal.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Children's Classics: Chapter Books
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit, becomes a thief for a band of dwarves and soon finds himself in the midst of a war with the evil goblins and wargs, and forced to make a decision between the call of duty and the pull of the simple life.
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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Description
England's Downs were once an idyllic rural landscape, but plans for development are afoot. Facing the certain destruction of their homes, a band of very special creatures must plan a flight from the intrusion of man. Led by a stouthearted pair of brothers, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society.
7) Little women
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Series
Language
English
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Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Glennon Doyle's Books for Challenging Times
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Glennon Doyle's Books for Challenging Times
Description
Little Women is the heartwarming story of the March family that has thrilled generations of readers. It is the story of four sisters--Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth-- and of the courage, humor and ingenuity they display to survive poverty and the absence of their father during the Civil War.
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