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2) Oliver Twist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
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Description
The young D'Artagnan travels to Paris determined to join King Louis XIII's elite guards. Hot-headed and raring to prove himself, D'Artagnan challenges three strangers to a duel. These strangers are none other than the daring band of Musketeers - Porthos, Athos and Aramis. D'Artagnan's fearless spirit impresses them.
5) Kim
Author
Language
English
Description
Fraternizing with a horse trader who doubles as an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service, helping a Tibetan lama search for a lost river, touring a mystical, magical land that is the shining jewel in the British crown are all in a day's work for Kimball O'Hara, the sly adventurous waif known as Kim.
The adventures of the orphaned Kim as he goes from living from hand to mouth on the streets of Lahore to becoming the guide and protector of a Tibetan...
10) Little women
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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Description
With their father away fighting in the American Civil War, the four March girls are facing a lean Christmas with their mother. But the sisters' close bond and determination to make the best of things enables them to find happiness despite their poverty. As the years go by we follow their fortunes as they journey into womanhood. Meg the beauty, Jo the tomboy, shy Beth and precocious Amy will encounter adventure, hardship, joys and disappointments,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"Young Pip, an orphan boy, apprenticed to the village blacksmith, yearns to be a gentleman. Suddenly a mysterious person wills him a fortune and he leaves his village to be educated as a rich gentleman. Pip longs to marry Estella, beautiful ward of the eccentric Miss Havisham. But Pip's new life is shattered by the re-appearance of Magwitch, a convict who once forced him to steal. Will Magwitch's demands spell the end of Pip's "great expectations....
13) Kidnapped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.
Author
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
A violent storm at sea destroys Robinson Crusoe's ship. He alone survives and is cast ashore on a deserted island. In this great adventure story of survival and courage, Crusoe must summon all his strength and intelligence to survive and flourish against impossible odds.
17) Hans Brinker
Author
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
A Dutch boy and girl work toward two goals, finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory and winning the competition for the silver skates.
Author
Publisher
Baronet Bks
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; an island of sorcerers; and a country ruled by horses.
20) Moby Dick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Melville's classic story of whaling, romance of unusual adventure and eccentric characters, and a drama of heroic conflict. In New Bedford, Connecticut in the 1800s, a group of seamen board the whaling ship Pequod, captained by Ahab. They know they're out to harpoon whales; what they don't realize is that Ahab once lost a leg to the magnificent white whale Moby Dick, and that he'll risk anything, including himself and every member of his crew, to...
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