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"When seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson's widowed father remarries, her life is turned upside down by the arrival of her vain, manipulative stepmother. She also acquires an intriguing new stepsister, Cynthia, glamorous, sophisticated, and irresistible to every man she meets. The two girls begin to confide in one another and Molly soon finds herself a go-between in Cynthia's love affairs--but in doing so risks losing both her own reputation and the man...
4) Black Beauty
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IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 11
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A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters
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Anna Karenina is a beautiful and intelligent woman, whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties--to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. Her love affair with Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance between Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
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The story of an abandoned waif who discovers life and love in an indifferent world, this classic tale of childhood is populated with a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains who number among the author's greatest creation
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22
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"Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss -...
10) 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
11) Moll Flanders
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.1 - AR Pts: 31
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Moll's adventures in eighteenth century England and the American colonies, from her birth in prison, through five marriages, her life as a thief and a harlot, and finally a penitent
15) Northanger Abbey
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Catherine Morland's sentimental illusions about life and love crumble as she enters into adulthood and encounters the politics, pitfalls, and machinations of Bath society
17) The professor
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A young man escapes from a humiliating clerkship in a Yorkshire mill to find work as a teacher in Belgium where he falls in love with an impoverished student-teacher
18) Emma
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Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
20) Silas Marner
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A linen-weaver becomes a recluse and a miser when he is falsely accused of a crime, but he finds happiness after he takes in an abandoned little girl
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