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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
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""Pride and Prejudice" is a 1813 romantic novel by seminal English author Jane Austen. The story revolves around Elizabeth Bennet, a 20-year-old English woman who, as she matures, must learn the difference between the superficial and the necessary. Elizabeth, her five sisters, and their father live on Longbourn estate, a large property that will not be inherited by any of his daughters when their father dies. Because of this, it is vital that at least...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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A graphic novel adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, following the escapades of Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger: four animal friends that live along a river in the English countryside.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
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"Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence."--Page 4 of cover.
"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own...
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"A timeless classic, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is both a coming-of-age story and a parody of the Gothic novels of the nineteenth century. Catherine Morland is destined to be the heroine of her own life story as she navigates friendships and romanticrelationships, and as she learns to let go of childish notions of fantasy regarding the lives of others. Held from publication for more than a decade, this story was an instant success when it was...
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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
"One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country....
6) White noise
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"The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, soon to be a major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event," a lethal black chemical cloud...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great DepressionOver seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbecks tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of Americas most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George...
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A stunning clothbound Hardcover Classics edition of Tolstoys great novel, one of the undisputed masterpieces of world literature. Nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American Read. At a glittering society party in St. Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleons army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In an attempt to understand the lives of Americans earning near-minimum wages, Ehrenreich works as a waitress in Florida, a cleaning woman in Maine, and a sales clerk in Minnesota.
"The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich...
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"The Lacuna is the poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as well as an unforgettable portrait of the artist—and of art itself. This Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition features beautiful cover artwork on uncoated stock, French flaps, and deckle-edge pages, making it the perfect gift book. Born in the United States, raised in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd lacks a sense of home in either. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers who...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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C. S. Lewis'the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics'takes readers on a spiritual journey through his early life and eventual embrace of the Christian faith. Lewis begins with his childhood in Belfast, surveys his boarding school years and his youthful atheism in...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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An exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries portray the essential experiences of life. For Mendelson--a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University--these classic novels tell life stories that are valuable to readers who are thinking about the course of their own lives. Looking beyond theories to the individual intentions of the authors and taking into consideration...
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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At once an engrossing murder mystery and an unflinching potrait of racial injustice in the Reconstruction South, Intruder in theDust stands out as a true classic of Southern literature. A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black who has long refused to adopt the black's traditionally servile attitude is wrongfully accused of murdering a white woman.
16) Of human bondage
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time. "It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham," wrote Gore Vidal. "He was always so entirely there." Originally published in 1915, Of Human Bondage is a potent expression of the power of sexual obsession and of modern man's yearning for freedom. This classic bildungsroman tells the story of Philip...
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Macmillan
Pub. Date
1961-
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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A satirical work of Christian fiction in which, through a series of letters, a senior devil advises his nephew on methods for bringing man to a state of eternal damnation.
A classic of Christian literature, this book consists of a series of letters from one of Satan's more experienced tempters to a junior "agent in the field", instructing him in the finer points of capturing souls
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