Shirley Bogart
1) Moby Dick
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002c.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A sea captain becomes obsessed with killing a white whale.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Raised in a raucous family of beggars and thieves, Tom dreams and reads of princely life to escape his miserable 16th-century London existence. After wandering to Westminster and meeting benevolent Prince Edward Tudor (who bears an uncanny resemblance to the ragamuffin Tom), the pair exchange clothes and unwittingly identities.
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Series
Language
English
Description
You and your child will enjoy reading about the AlphaPets--26 charming A-to-Z animal friends whose exciting and humorous adventures teach gentle lessons about friendship, caring, good behavior, and doing one's best. Each lovable AlphaPet has a special personality and character trait that children can relate to and learn from. Delightfully written and beautifully illustrated, each story is filled with words and objects that begin with the letter of...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
You and your child will enjoy reading about the AlphaPets--26 charming A-to-Z animal friends whose exciting and humorous adventures teach gentle lessons about friendship, caring, good behavior, and doing one's best. Each lovable AlphaPet has a special personality and character trait that children can relate to and learn from. Delightfully written and beautifully illustrated, each story is filled with words and objects that begin with the letter of...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
"Published in 1882, The Prince and the Pauper is a delightful piece of historical fiction set in 1547. The young British Prince Edward, son of Henry VIII, switches place with a young pauper boy, Tom Canty, who happens to look exactly like the Prince. Tom takes over royal duties when King Henry dies and enjoys life in the palace. The real Prince is tossed out on the streets of London and learns about the life and misery of the common people of England...
11) The time machine
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Description
In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between the gentle, ineffective Eloi, and the ape-like Morlocks; forward again by a million years or so to glimpse a dying world of blood-red beaches and menacing shapes; and on again to the last days of our planet, a remote twilight where nothing moves but darkness and a cold wind.
12) Moby Dick
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Description
A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fanatical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick is a tale for the ages that sounds the deepest depths of the human soul. Interspersed with graphic sketches of life aboard a whaling vessel,...
13) The time machine
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Series
Language
English
Description
The time? 802,701 A.D. The place? An Earth stranger than you can imagine. The people? Eloi, pretty and childlike; and the Morlocks, hairy creatures who feel on the flesh of... what?