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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
Originally published in 1864, this Jules Verne classic has wowed generations of readers with its portrayal of an imaginary odyssey into a subterranean wonderland. When Axel deciphers an old parchment describing a secret passage through a volcano to the center of the earth, nothing will stop his eccentric Uncle Lidenbrock from setting out at once. With silent Hans as guide, the two men encounter natural hazards, prehistoric beasts, and other curiosities...
3) Oliver Twist
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Oliver Twist is a poor orphan boy cruelly treated in the public workhouse. Pennyless and hungry, he runs away to London, only to fall into the clutches of a gang of thieves and pickpockets led by the master criminal, Fagin. Befriended by a man robbed by the gang, Oliver ultimately learns his true identity and gains a home, a fortune, and a family. --Amazon.com
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
n the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral lives Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer. Mocked and shunned for his appearance, he is pitied only by Esmerelda, a beautiful gypsy dancer to whom he becomes completely devoted. Esmerelda, however, has also attracted the attention of the sinister archdeacon Claude Frollo, and when she rejects his lecherous approaches, Frollo hatches a plot to destroy her, that only Quasimodo can prevent. Victor...
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Series
Publisher
Baronet
Pub. Date
1989.
Edition
Large print edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
235 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great Wizard in order to return to Kansas. Includes reading group guide at back of book.
8) The Odyssey
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Magnificent translation of the Odyssey which captures the energy and poetry of Homer's original.
12) White Fang
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) — and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolf dog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush and details White Fang's journey to domestication. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
1952
Physical Desc
417 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
236 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.