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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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When Mr. Earnshaw brings a black-haired foundling child into his home on the Yorkshire moors, he little imagines the dramatic events which will follow. The passionate relationship between Cathy Earnshaw and the foundling, Heathcliff, is a story of love, hate, pity and retribution, the effects of which reverberate throughout the succeeding generations.--Container
3) After this
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
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''This Top Five Classics edition of GREAT EXPECTATIONS Includes: • More than 30 black and white and color illustrations • The original ending, included as an addendum at the end of the book • Author biography and bibliography • Introduction GREAT EXPECTATIONS is Charles Dickens's beloved, autobiographical tale of a poor boy haunted by a dark secret and harboring grand hopes for his future as a gentleman. Pip, the story's narrator, takes...
Author
Series
Shiloh legacy volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
6) Dubliners
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"This collection of 15 stories provides an introduction to the style and motifs found in Joyce's writing. The stories stand alone as individual scenes of Dublin society and are intertwined by the use of autobiography and symbolism."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Tales of the South Pacific is the iconic, Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece that inspired a Broadway classic and launched the career of James A. Michener, one of America’s most beloved storytellers. This thrilling work invites the reader to enter the exotic world of the South Pacific and luxuriate in the endless ocean, the coconut palms, the waves breaking into spray against the reefs, the full moon rising behind the volcanoes. And yet here also...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Most Westerners now working in Afghanistan spend their time tucked inside the wall of a military compound or embassy. Deborah Rodriguez is one of the very few who lives life smack in the middle of Kabul. Now, Rodriguez tells the story of the beauty school she founded and the vibrant women who were her students there.
When Rodriguez opened the Kabul Beauty School, she not only empowered her students with a new sense of autonomy—in the
...9) Oliver Twist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
The story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
Set in 1830s London, England. Oliver is born in a workhouse and treated cruelly there as was the norm at the time for pauper children, in particular by Bumble, a parish council official. The story follows Oliver as he escapes the workhouse and runs away to London. Here he receives an education in villainy from the criminal gang of Fagin that...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Named "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around her home, Kimmel's witty memoir takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent post-war period, where people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.
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Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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In 1893 Chicago, after his best friend becomes the latest victim in a long line of murdered Jewish boys, Alter Rosen is plunged into a nightmare where he is thrown back into the arms of a dangerous boy from his past.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 44
Language
English
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A high-spirited American girl, Isabel Archer, arrives at the English manor, Gardencourt, where she attracts the passions of a British aristocrat, a brash American, and the secret adoration of her invalid cousin.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Heathcliff comes to the brooding mansion, "Wuthering Heights," on the isolated moors of England as an orphan child. He and Catherine Earnshaw fall in love. The love and hate between Catherine and Heathcliff is one of the main themes. Not a typical romance novel--it has both dark and brilliant moments.
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Publisher
Blue Earth Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the diary of the sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Quaker family who moved with her family from British-occupied Philadelphia for the safety of the countryside during the Revolutionary War. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era.
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