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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"In the early days of the bloody French Revolution, fleeing aristocrats are being captured and sen to the guillotine. Bu the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel - along with his band of English gentlemen - is outwitting the revolutionaries. Known only by his calling card, he arrives in disguise and smuggles the nobles out of danger to the safety of England. But can he guard his true identity forever, or will he give his life for his cause?"--Back cover.
2) Silas Marner
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The classic novel of hope, redemption, and the indomitable human spirit, from beloved novelist George Eliot. In this heartwarming classic by George Eliot, a gentle linen weaver named Silas Marner is wrongly accused of a heinous theft actually committed by his best friend. Exiling himself to the rustic village of Raveloe, he becomes a lonely recluse. Ultimately, Marner finds redemption and spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love for an abandoned...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are looking to adopt a boy to help out on their farm, so when the orphanage delivers a red-haired eleven-year-old girl named Anne instead, they are determined to fix the mistake. However, as Anne's vibrant character and vivid imagination brighten up their home, the Cuthberts soon realise Anne must stay at Green Gables. The inimitable Anne Shirley is fanciful, talkative and dramatic, and this novel describes her joyful...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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"How did the whale get his throat? Why was the lazy camel lumbered with a hump? And how did the elephant’s insatiable curiosity earn him a trunk? Conjuring up distant lands and exotic jungles, these imaginative tales are bewitching for both children and adults. This new edition brings together the complete and unabridged text (including the 13th story, "The Tabu Tale," often excluded from modern publications)." -- Amazon.com
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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The Jungle Book is a collection of Rudyard Kipling's animal stories, wonderfully told and interweaving moral lessons with classic tales. They include the stories of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a brave mongoose, and Toomai of the Elephants, the story of a young elephant handler. The Jungle Book was first published by Macmillan in 1894.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"The Invisible Man (1897) blends comedy and tragedy in its story of a scientist who discovers a way to make himself invisible. His inability to reverse the process leads to a radical disconnection from society - and eventually from his own sanity. Arriving in a town where no one knows him, disguised in bandages and dark glasses, the invisible man is driven to violent and criminal extremes before his secret is revealed. This prescient parable of the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's central character is a dog named Buck, a domesticated dog living at a ranch in the Santa Clara valley of California as the story opens. Stolen from his home and sold into the brutal existence of an Alaskan sled dog, he reverts to atavistic traits. Buck...
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Tom Sawyer Detective is a novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and a prequel to Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn. In 1909, Danish schoolmaster Valdemar Thoresen claimed,...