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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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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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Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Featuring a new introduction, this contemporary satire of turn-of-the-century Boston, which was awarded the Pulitizer Prize for Fiction in 1938, traces the life of George Apley, a wealthy businessman who sacrifices his individuality to social custom and tradition.
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Series
Luxe series (Anna Godbersen) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Manhattan's most envied residents appear of have everything they desire: wealth, beauty, happiness. But sometimes the most practiced smiles hide the most scandalous secrets.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1948
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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The novel gives an excellent picture of New York "society" in the 1870's, the age of propriety and inexorable convention and of clan spirit and tribal solidarity in support of prescribed amenities. A woman who has incurred scandal is loved by a man who has sufficient vision to penetrate the crust of conventionality but has not quite the courage to break with the conventions.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back
"Gatsby embodies the naive American notion that it is possible to invent oneself and persuade the world to accept that definition. Gatsby's youthful neighbor, Nick Carraway, fascinated by both the display of enormous wealth and the essential integrity that he perceives in Gatsby's vision,...
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