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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
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The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. But Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing...
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Hunger Games trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"Before there were airplanes and high speed travel, Phileas Fogg, an English gentleman, bets 20,000 pounds that he can travel around the world in only 80 days. En route he meets a beautiful Indian Princess, gets mistaken for a notorious criminal and is pursued by a detective with a warrant for his arrest. Follow his fantastic adventures through four continents in his daring race against time. It's a fast-paced, action-packed, high-spirited journey...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. Includes readers' guide.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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An abridgement of Dickens's beloved tale of a miser who learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
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Great illustrated classics volume G224-53
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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An English astronomer, in company with an artilleryman, a country curate, and others, struggle to survive the invasion of Earth by Martians in 1894.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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"Travel back in time with Benjamin Franklin's teenage reporters as they confront the real and physical dangers of the American Revolution. Trapped in opposite sides of the war - James an American colonist and Sarah a young English reporter are forced to choose between friendship and allegiance to their countries. All while they try to look after mischievous Henri, a French boy whose comical escapades constantly lead to trouble. Journey through history...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
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AR 8 to 10 Childrens and Teen Titles
Children's Classics: Abridged
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"An American frigate tracks down a ship-sinking submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo." *** "The voyage of the 'Nautilus' permitted Verne to describe the wonders of an undersea world almost totally unknown to the general public of the period. Indebted to literary tradition for his Atlantis, he made his major innovation in having the submarine completely powered by electricity, although the interest in electrical forces goes back to Poe...
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...
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David Copperfield is considered to be Charles Dickens's most autobiographical novel. He said of it: "Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield." It is a Bildungsroman, a tale which follows the development into maturity of its narrator, David Copperfield. The Russian greats Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky both greatly admired the novel, as did Kafka, Joyce and James. Freud called it his favourite...
14) Spirited away
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When a young girl gets trapped in a strange new world of spirits, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and rescue her parents. Chihiro and her parents accidentally wander into another world ruled by witches and monsters. When her parents are captured by the ruler of the world, she tricks the witch into hiring her so she can figure out how to free them.
15) The boss baby
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When seven-year-old Tim Templeton's new baby brother strides in the front door wearing a suit and toting a briefcase, it is clear who is in charge and will be receiving all the attention of their parents.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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"With its 'light and bright and sparkling' dialogue, its romantic denouement and its lively heroine, 'Pride and Prejudice' is Jane Austen's most perennially popular novel. The love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, who misjudge, then challenge and change each other, is also a novel about the search for happiness and self-knowledge in a world of strict social rules, where a woman must marry well to survive."--taken from back cover.
17) Smallfoot
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A bright young yeti finds something he thought didn't exist: a human. News of this throws the simple yeti community into an uproar over what else might be out there in the big world beyond their snowy village, in an all-new story about friendship, courage, and the joy of discovery.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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AR 8 to 10 Childrens and Teen Titles
Children's Classics: Abridged
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Children's War Fiction: Civil War
Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's War Fiction: Civil War
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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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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AR 8 to 10 Childrens and Teen Titles
Children's Classics: Abridged
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What a stunning discovery: an old, coded note that actually contains directions for reaching the Earth's very core! And once he finds it, renowned geologist Professor Liedenbrock can't resist setting out with his 16-year-old nephew to go where only one man has gone before. Jules Verne takes young readers on one of the most incredible journeys ever imagined, from Iceland's frozen tundra far down into fantastic underground prehistoric worlds and back...
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Escape from Darth Vader: Trying to keep the Rebels' secret plans from Darth Vader, robots C-3PO and R2D2 crash land on a sandy planet.
At-at attack: Luke Skywalker and the rest of the Rebels face off against the Empire's dreaded mechanical AT-ATs on the ice planet of Hoth.
Ewoks join the fight: Luke, Han, and Princess Leia enlist the help of the furry Ewoks to help fight the Galactic Empire.
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