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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
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A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her developmentally disabled brother gets lost.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
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The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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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
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
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The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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AR 8 to 10 Childrens and Teen Titles
Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
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.
8) Peter Pan
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. "All children, except one, grow up." And so begins the story of one of the most beloved characters in children's literature, Peter Pan. J.M. Barrie's classic tale, completely unabridged, features a boy who refuses to grow up, Tinker Bell the fairy, and the Darling children -- Wendy, John, and Michael. Their great adventure begins on the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
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"Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl. She first comes to England when she is seven, and her father takes her to Miss Minchin's school in London. then he goes back to his work in India. Sara is very sad at first, but she soon makes friends at school. But on her eleventh birthday, something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family, no home, and not a penny in the world..."--P. [4] of cover.
10) Black Beauty
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: Chapter Books
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Classics: Chapter Books
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
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A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.
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Puffin
Pub. Date
1986
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English
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Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
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A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.
13) The Wizard of Oz
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"One day, Dorothy and her dog, Toto, get swept away by a powerful cyclone and find themselves in the Land of Oz. The only way she can return home is by going to the Emerald City to ask the famous Wizard of Oz for his help. As she travels along the yellow brick road, Dorothy makes the acquaintance of some of the curious inhabitants of the Land of Oz."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
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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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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.
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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: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
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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
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Haunting readers since its first publication in 1911, the classic story of the disfigured Erik who haunts the Paris Opera House and secretly trains singer Christine Daa, leading to an obsessive love and pattern of fear and violence, remains a riveting journey into the darkest regions of the human heart. This updated edition features a new introduction to the gothic horror classic.
18) Pollyanna
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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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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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.
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Puffin
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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With the help of a mysterious fairy queen who provides monstrous but gentle creatures to aid him, a miner's son takes on the dangerous task of helping the king and princess confound their enemies and save the kingdom.
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Penguin Group
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 11.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A collection of five stories by American author Washington Irving, including the title work about a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains and wakes to a much-changed world.
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