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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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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.
4) Silas Marner
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English
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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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English
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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'From that hour we had no further occasion for the exercise of reason, or judgment, or skill, or contrivance. We were henceforth to be hurled along, the playthings of the fierce elements of the deep.' In Verne's science-fiction classic, Professor Lidenbrock chances upon an ancient manuscript and pledges to solve the mysterious coded message that lies within it. Eventually...
6) the Odyssey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. This fresh, authoritative translation captures the beauty of this ancient poem as well as the drama of its narrative. Its characters are unforgettable, none more so than the "complicated"...
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A team of nineteenth-century American engineers builds a rocket to the moon in this visionary novel from the author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days During the Civil War, the members of the Baltimore Gun Club delighted themselves by designing artillery the likes of which the world had never seen. But when the South eventually surrenders, the gun club languishes, until its president, Impey Barbicane, conceives...
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Baronet Books
Pub. Date
[1989?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
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English
Description
An abridged version of the tale 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.
12) Little women
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Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England
13) White Fang
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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The adventures in the northern wilderness of a dog who is part wolf and how he comes to make his peace with man
14) The wizard of Oz
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Baronet Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Dorothy, a farm girl from Kansas, is whisked away by a cyclone to a mysterious and magical land called Oz."--Page 4 of cover.
17) Heidi
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Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
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.
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