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"Awakening unusually early one morning, Phryne Fisher finds herself with a rare stretch of free time to fill. After dropping her daughters off for their school-sponsored charity work at the Blind Institute, she visits a university professor whose acquaintance she'd made--and admired--on a prior case. At lunch, the smitten professor invites Phryne to dine at his home in Williamstown later that week. Bookending her pleasant dinner with her new friend...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
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"This reissue of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera is the first title in The Haunted Library, a new horror classics series presented by the Horror Writers Association and Poisoned Pen Press, an imprint of Sourcebooks. The award-winning musical based on Leroux's work is world-famous, but many people are unaware that the show was inspired by a novel, originally published in a serialized form. The Phantom of the Opera is a timeless piece of gothic...
4) Funny story
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"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry, Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
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"An epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II"--Provided by publisher
Reunited when the elder's husband is sent to fight in World War II, French sisters Vianne and Isabelle find their bond as well as their respective beliefs tested by a world that changes in horrific ways
8) Pollyanna
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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A young orphan changes the lives of the people of a New England town when she goes there to live with her aunt
12) Heidi
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
13) Persuasion
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 19
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Eight years after a young woman is persuaded not to marry a man without means, he returns, rich and successful, while she remains a spinster
16) The women
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"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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An adventurous geology professor mounts an expedition that descends into a subterranean world of luminous rocks, antediluvian forests, and fantastic marine life -- a living past that holds the secrets to the origins of human existence.
18) Allan Quatermain
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Once more Allan Quatermain and his companions travel to Africa where they encounter Masai warriors, discover a lost civilization, and become entangled in a love-triangle that results in civil war
20) 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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A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters
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